Search Results: Literature from Madden Books

Good+ softcover. Clean, square covers and spine; lightly scuffed; faintly creased across front cover lower fore corner; tightly bound; light, clean interior. 8vo, 189 pp; index.

1st printing. Fine hardcover in Very Good DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; very faint dust spotting on text block top edge; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; faintly scuffed; 1/4 inch closed tear at rear cover/spine head joint. 8vo, 203 pp.

Good- hardcover, no DJ. The King's Classics series. Light blue boards; top edge gilt; laid paper; tissue covered frontis. Spine missing; front hinge weakened, rest of book remains tight, title section of spine laid in; top fore corners bumped; minor foxing on eps; interior very clean - many leaves unopened at fore edge. Kings Classics advert section with title list at back - 16 pp. Intro by Alice Kemp-Welch; 'ballads rendered into the original mettres by Laurence Binyon & Eric R.D. Maclagan.' 16mo, 137 pp.

PB 8vo G+/-- 222 pages. Light scuffing to wraps; faint crease on spine; tight; clean interior.

HB 8vo G/-- Illustrated. 259 pages. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Black cloth boards with pictorial paper label. Rubbing wear on top of pictorial label; damp-staining on rear cover, does not carry through to eps. Interior clean and VG.

1st printing. Fine hardcover, no DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. 8vo, 309 pp; indexes, biblio, glossary. Speeches in Latin followed by extensive notes/commentary in English.

HB 8vo NF/G- 1st Ed. Illustrated. Index. 365 pages. Stated 1st ed. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt letters. Bright, crisp, tight, clean - no defects noted. DJ is lightly scuffed; wrinkles at lower front; 4" tape-repaired tear on spine; few small closed tears.

PB 8vo G/-- Illustrated. 160 pages. Scuffed wraps; light edge wear; tight; clean interior.

1st ed/1st printing; signed by Waters on half title. Pictorial wraps; laid paper. Bright, clean front cover; 4 inch thin scratch on lower front cover near spine; rear cover and spine somewhat age darkened; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 90 pp; illustrated.

1st edition. Good HC, no DJ. Orange cloth over boards, green letters. Scuffed/lightly soiled covers & spine; sunned on spine and at cover edges; rubbed at spine tail w/ small splits; lightly rubbed at spine head and at fore corners; tightly bound, but front hinge somewhat weakened and back hinge apparently (neatly) repaired; owner name (Sam Kamensky, May 7, 1925) on front end paper; bookplate on front end paper, Harry M. Justiz (attorney and victim of HUAC witchhunts). Author's second novel. Bodenheim was a very influential realist writer, considered the quintessential American Bohemian. His third novel was suppressed as pornography resulting in a successful major legal battle by publisher Horace Liveright that helped finish the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and similar censorship groups. 12mo, 238 pp.

Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Clean, square covers and spine; spotty fading on spine; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. 8vo, 411 pp; index.

PB 8vo G/-- Bibliography. 182 pages. Moderatley scuffed wraps; tight; clean interior.

Pamphlet 8vo G/-- Index. 54 pages. Slight sunning at wraps edges; price label on front wrap; tight clean interior.

PB 12mo VG/-- 1536 pages. Slight age darkening of wraps, especially white portions; all numbers tight; all clean interiors. "A reprint magazine of high literary standards, decribing itself as a 'continuing anthology' with 'nothing condensed or synopsized'". "Short stories, articles, humor, satire, essays, belles lettres." Includes many contemporary authors as well as classics, including: Perelman, Sitwell, Morley, Benet, Whitman, Thurber, Byron, Darrow, Steinbeck, Dunne, Paine, Lawrence, Beecher, hemingway, Von Clausewtiz, Selassie, Muir, Wilde, Hitler, Churchill, Bierce, Twain, etc. May 1945 issue entirely edited by staff of Yank, The Army Weekly.

PB 12mo G/-- 246 pages. Apparent 1st printing. Green & off-white wraps backed with grey cloth; side-stapled. Some age darkening to wraps; foxing on cloth spine; pencil name on front wrap; some edge wear; tight; clean interior. 229 numbered pp + append.

PB 12mo G/-- Index. Bibliography. 247 pages. Light scuffing to wraps; crease at front wrap/spine hinge; front fore corners slightly chipped; tight; clean nterior.

Good HC, no DJ. Green cloth over boards, gilt stamped titles on front cover and spine; top edge gilt; watermarked, laid paper. Clean, lightly scuffed, square covers and spine; age darkened along cover edges and on spine; some insect grazing on rear cover; 3/4 inch crack at front cover/spine head joint; gift inscription and date (1918) on front free end paper; tightly bound; light, clean interior. 12mo, 267 pp. Printed at Chiswick Press, London. Author was poet, essayist, suffragist, anti-colonialist, Catholic intellectual; mother of Francis Meynell of Nonesuch Press.

1st printing, signed by author. Fine hardcover in Fine DJ. Black and white boards, gilt titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; inscribed on half title '28 July 1993 | Signed for - | Jed Mattes | With my very best to you! | Mary Bray Wheeler'; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete. Inscription was to Jed Mattes a New York literary agent. This is a new, unread book. 8vo, 204 pp; index, biblio; illustrated.

HB 12mo G/-- 1st Ed. Illustrated. ExLib. 169 pages. Brown boards with quarter beige buckram, paper label. Scuffing to covers; some darkening of spine label; library numbers at lower spine; library matter on feps & reps; tight; clean interior.

HB 8vo VG/G 1st Ed. 310 pages. Stated 1st ed. Black cloth boards with gilt letters. Light scuffing to covers; minor indentations on rear cover; light foxing to eps; tight; clean interior. DJ is scuffed; small chips at spine ends; few indents on rear.