(no dust jacket, likely as issued) [faint diagonal scrape across front cover (more distinctive in scanned image than it appears to the naked eye), otherwise no significant wear]. (line drawings, glued-in original calligraphy pg.) A history of printing, with special focus on the process of producing newspapers, compiled as a school project by a group of New Jersey students -- junior high-schoolers, to judge by the general tone and quality of the prose. The history itself is basic term-paper stuff (illustrated with crude drawings and maps), but the most interesting reading is the 7-page preface... View More...
(half-bound, black cloth and black textured boards, with gilt spine and front cover lettering; no dust jacket) [some wear evident at all corners, including slight exposure of boards at several corners, some modest loss of binding material at spine ends; front hinge a little weak but still intact]. (one halftone plate with tissue guard) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the ffep by the honoree of the commemorated event, Dr. Gurdon W. Russell, dated "Hartford, March 24, 1888." The rather lengthy inscription covers about half the page, and conveys the author's "kind regards & pleasant remembrances of the... View More...
(bound with a single staple in the center of the spine) [age-browned and somewhat fragile due to cheap pulp paper, but otherwise in quite nice shape, with just one little tear at the rear hinge, and a diagonal section across the top corner of the front cover that's a little extra-browned]. (advertisements) 12-page advertising handout, touting the many excellent (and duty-free) bargains to be had by "Mr. Tourist" in the fine shopping emporia just over the border in Tijuana. Issued with "the approval of the Tijuana National Chamber of Commerce," the array of goods advertised in ... View More...
(no dust jacket, probably as issued) [mild shelfwear, some discoloration at edges of endpapers, a little white smudging on front cover]. "An Ancient Theme Brought Up to Date," it sez; near as I can make out, the play takes place in modern-day Persia, and has something to do with choosing a bride for the King. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown, "To ------- / A confirmation gift / and God's blessing / upon you." Signed by Author View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean book, very slight crimp to cloth at head of spine; jacket has several creases in front flap, slight fading to the spine]. (B&W photographs, drawings) The front of the jacket terms the book "an indulgence," and the blurb doesn't clarify things very much: "A new literary form (the anthological novel)? A lighthearted satire of the American scene? An adventure-filled history of the quest for the World's Largest Cheese? A twentieth century mythology? A report on the standpipe situation? Pure nonsense? [This book] might be any, all, or none of the above... View More...
[nice clean book, no discernible wear aside from one itsy-bitsy dent in bottom edge of front cover; jacket shows a tiny bit of edgewear, minor rubbing to rear panel]. (handwriting samples) The author collected handwriting samples (usually in the form of short personal notes to him) from several dozen British celebrities in various fields; each is reproduced in facsimile, followed by the author's analysis of the handwriting itself and of the personality of the individual (as derived from the handwriting). In each case, the concluding remarks come from the subjects themselves, who tend to say ... View More...
(blue embossed cloth w/gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt; no dust jacket) [nice-looking book despite some visible wear at the bottom corners; gilt lettering on spine and front cover still bright, as is the gilt topstain; a bit of foxing/staining to ffep and tissue covering frontispiece]. (frontispiece, 41 B&W drawings/plates) The autobiography of a young child, from infancy to approximately age two-and-a-half -- written in a consciously "adult" narrative voice. More than a little unnerving at times, given the apparent agony that the child's arrival has brought to this kid'... View More...
[light wear to book at extremities; jacket rubbed/scuffed, with tiny tears at several corners and related (very slight) paper loss; NOT an ex-library book]. "What is it like to be a young, light-hearted visitor to Russia?" The author found out on her holiday behind the Iron Curtain (remember that?), where she "sang Beatles songs with Russian boys in Red Square on May Day, toasted a bridal couple at their wedding reception, went swimming in a crowded public pool, and joined a group of girls shopping for clothes." She apparently got along pretty well except for those pesky "... View More...
(stiff card covers) [binding intact, with only modest external wear, mostly in the form of the bumped and worn corners that BLBs are prone to; unfortunately the front cover has been somewhat blemished by some misguided, pencil-wielding child (I assume) who has inserted a single line inside each of the letters on the cover]. (The Better Little Book, No. 1472) Series Better Little Book adaptation of "the Famous Detective Strip," which had the distinction of being created (in 1934) by Dashiell Hammett, and originally drawn by Alex Raymond. Both departed the strip early on, however, and a... View More...
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