Search Results: The Twenties and Thirties from Catron Grant Books

Dorset Press, 1990 192 pp with color and B&W illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Grey paper bpoards with silver stamped titles are clean and undamage save for very light bumping to corners. Dust jacket is clean, bright, undamaged. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Berlin, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937 Berlin, Germany: Ernst Wasmuth Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937 120 pp with 68 plates on coated stock. Text in German A sumptuous compendium of decorative design from all around the world, with an emphasis on Asia. A clear picture of what types of ethnographic art were considered acceptable at the height of the Third Reich. Many plates in color. . Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards with black leather spine have some bumping to corners, rubbing to spine ends but overall clean except for some small white spots on rear board. Large and heavy book, extra postage applies. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Presumed First. Cloth with Leather Spine. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.. Presumed First.. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.

Worcestor, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1959 110 pp with B&W illustrations in text, one tipped-in color print of "Boy" by Picasso frontis. An collection of art, poetry and articles from "THe Dial," 1840 - 1929. a monthly magazine devoted to 'the best in all the arts.' Includes Picasso, e.e.cummings, gaston Lachaise Schiele, Klimt, Munch, Chagall, Braque and Matisse. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are clean save for previous owner's name on front, slightly sunned.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937 New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937 Stamped on flyleaf, title page, and within,"Property of Selznick International Pictures Story Department" Except as noted, text is clean, tight unmarked. Red boards with gold-stamped title and vaguely Art Deco device, are bumped at corners. Spine is frayed and faded. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950 315 pp with index. Editor Maxwell Perkins" correspondence with his writers including F.Scott Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Will James, Thomas Wolfe, and Ernest Hemingway. With frontpiece portrait. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Red cloth boards are bumped at extremities, faded at spine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

NYC: William Edwin Rudge, 1931 Unpaginated One color and xxxx B&W drawings following the construction of the Empire State Building. Introduction by Colonel W.A. Starrett. William Aiken Starrett, Jr. (1877 -1932) was the builder of the Empire State Building He is remembered as building the tallest steel and concrete structures of his time as a new art form - the American skyscraper. He was once nicknamed the "father of the skyscraper." Text is tight and unmarked. Blue paper boards with a cream paper spine and embossed cream-colored outline of the Empire State Building on the front board have light soil, are rubbed at extremities.with small loss of material.. 584. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bailey, William Howe. 12 3/4" x 17".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940 446 pp. Sardonic essays on the British and American theatre by the critic, George Jean Nathan. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Black cloth boards with GJN monogram embossed on front are bumped at extremities, lightly faded at spine.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Fort Collins, CO: FirstLight Publishing, 1996 8, 232 pps. with b/w period photographs in text.. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Glossy black DJ with white type and b/w photograph very clean; inor wear on back cover. Thomas Walsh discovered fabulous golden wealth in the historic Camp Bird Mine near Ouray, Colorado. This is a paperback of the 1936 original.. 1st Paperback Ed.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5.5" x 8.5".

1970 xvi, 267 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue cloth boards are clean, bumped at extremities. DJ is clean,slightly yellowed.,Twenty-two pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere plus letters to to Helen Hayes, Russel Crouse, Thornton Wilder, Bennett Cerf and Groucho Marx among others.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slender Octavo.

New York: Brentano's, 1920 New York: Brentano's, 1920 177 pp. Subtitled "A treatise on Comic Journalism, " with introductory essays by Don Marquis, Christopher Morley, Franklin P. Adams and George Horace Lorimer. A how-to for topical humorists. Includes a chapter on the early use of emoticons, with various figures - mostly animals, designed from type.Text is clean, tight and unmarked, yellowed. The paper boards are fair to poor, with much of the spine missing and the front cover spotted and yellowed. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1979 127 pp with B&W photos on every page. A photographic record of a now long-gone gracious,elegant lifestyle in the country houses of England, Hollywood, London, New York,and aboard the great ocean liners between the two World Wars. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Black cloth boards are undamaged, DJ is clean, bright, a little bumped at top of spine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1st Edition.. Cloth. As New/Near Fine.

London: Cayme Press Ltd., 1931 46 pp. Charles Duff (1894-1966) was a writer from Northern Ireland whose works were largely about language. Text is clean but coffee (?) splash on title page. Blue soft paper covers are faded, curled along front edge.. Softcover. Fair.

NYC: Privately Published 84 pp.The rules, officers and membership lists of the India House, a New York mens' club on Hanover Square.. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 7". Privately Printed.

London: The Studio, 1946 London: The Studio, 1946 vi, 95 pp. A view of London society in the years leading up to WW II with color and B&W drawings throughout, by the staff of British Vogue. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Blue cloth boards are faded, rubbed at extremities. Second Printing. Good/No Jacket.. Second Printing.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1928 Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1928 151 pp. "Love Sonnets of a Caveman" plus "Ballads of Prohibition" and other poems. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, lightly yellowed. previous owner's name on flyleaf. Another Marquis poem, "Mother's Home Again," is clipped from the New Yorker and pasted after the final page. B&W line drawings in text and cartoons on endpapers. Blue cloth boards with orange pastedown title are "good." Spine is faded and has the start of a split, corners bumped and it looks like a cocktail glass may have sat briefly on the front board. This title is hard to find. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hay, Stuart.. Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hay, Stuart.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968 Two volumes slipcased .Vol 1, "The Unknown Years 1880 - 1910" , xvii, 475 pp with a frontpiece color portrait of Strachey in Volume I plus twenty-four plates, a chart of the Strachey family tree and an index. In Vol ll, ,"The Years of Achievement 1910 - 1932", xii, 720 pp plus bibliography and index to both volumes. the frontpiece is a portrait of Strachey by Vanessa Bell plus 28 additional plates Text is immaculate, apparently unread. Black cloth boards with a silver cartouche are clean, bright, undamaged. Spine shows very light rubbing.Pictorial slipcase has some rubbing and soil top and bottom but is undamaged. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Published.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1933 159 pps. with b/w llithographic illustrations on every page. Russet-colored top edge of book shows some wear. Russet brown endpapers show minimal wear. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Black textured cloth-covered boards clean and unmarked with some wear on corners. Cream and russet titles and graphic embellishments Near Fine. Charming, illustrated book regarding the major American and Canadian cities were viewed circa 1933... 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by By Author. 7 5/8" X 10 1/8".

Vantage Press, 1987 Vantage Press, 1987 175 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Dark Blue cloth boards are immaculate. Dust jacket is clean and intact with slight wear to spine ends. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.. First Edition.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1935 Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1935 (Association copy, Nunnally Johnson) Dedication to Nunnally Johnson and his second wife, Marion. A collection of short stories, many originally published in the New Yorker. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Green cloth boards are faded and bumped at spine, show signs of a drink having been set on back board. Signed by Author. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Signed by Author(s). Stated First Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Knopf, 1971 147 pp. "The title of this book is meant to be 'arresting' only in the literal sense ... it means that the book will have little interest to those under forty years of age. The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts, and the persons and prejudices recalled in these sketchesslid back into yesterdays's seven thousand years." Text is clean, tight and unmarked, green cloth boards are bright and undamaged. DJ is clean and intact. Now in protective mylar.. 8th Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9".