A N S Strode Jackson (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Grey hardcover shows tanning at edges with a small water stain at bottom of spine. FFE has a 1.25"x .5 " white out spot. 387 pages are lightly tanned at edges. A couple of pages have small food stains. DJ has chips with loss of top edge on back cover. Back cover has staining with a line of water stain at bottom near spine. SEE PHOTOS. Biographical novel about Matthew Harris Jouett, Kentucky's first and most distinguished portrait painter.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. This book comes with a typed and signed letter from Arnold Strode-Jackson which you can see in the photos. Arnold Strode-Jackson was a 'British Army officer (Brigadier-General), a barrister, and an Olympic Medalist. He was the winner of the 1500m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as 'the greatest race ever run.' At age 21, Strode-Jackson remains the youngest ever Olympic 1500m gold medalist. He also won the mile race for Oxford against Cambridge three times and was President of the Oxford University Athletic Club. He was the youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, as well as being amongst the most highly decorated British World War I officers. He emigrated to the United States in 1921. He directed the first Kentucky Derby Festival in 1935. During World War II, he was a Colonel on the staff of the Governor of Kentucky. A play about his life (Strode-Jackson) premiered at the King's Head Theater in London in 1979. You can see the gray covers of the book in the photos. They are exceptionally clean and pretty much free of wear. The edges and corners are very solid. The bottom edge of the spine has one tiny spot of color loss. The red lettering on the spine is very bright. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages and nicely tight covers as well. There is a flaw: the book opens up onto the title page, meaning that the front end paper is gone. Also, most of the paper at the inside edge of the front inside cover is missing so you are looking directly at the webbing (tho tight) that was underneath it. There's also some surface erosion of the paper on the front inside cover, and there is light foxing/spotting on both the front inside cover and title page. The only other foxing/spotting in the book is limited to both the margins of the glossy illustrations and text pages facing the glossy illustrations. The pages are in fact in excellent condition, exceptionally clean (I don't think I saw any soiling) and free of creasing. The only page imperfection I found were tan shadows of something (probably newspaper clipping) left between two facing pages. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the photos. It's in very solid shape. I've had it in a protective cover for all the years that I've owned the book. There's a tiny bit of spotting off the front top edge, a little scuffing at the spine ends. The flaps have foxing/spotting, but no other wear. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. From the dust jacket: 'This is a biographical novel from a fascinating period of American history. His hero, Matthew Harris Jouett, Kentucky's first and most distinguished portrait-painter, also Jefferson of Monticello, Jackson of the Hermitage, George Rogers Clark of Mulberry Hill, Henry Clay, Arron Burr, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, Lafayette, and a host of others. In a highly charged atmosphere, Aaron Burr and his fellow dreams-of-empire conspirators, Wilkinson and Blennerhassett, cut a swath through the center of the story, ending in duels on the field of honor and in the courthouse. The author has achieved a literary feat in introducing the roster of colorful personalities who sat for their portraits-- without permitting them to overshadow Matt Jouett. Mr. Strode-Jackson has a feeling for the times that only a novelist of perception and deeply communicative capacity could express. Kentucky Heyday is no wooden procession of historic figures. It is a flesh-and-bones re-creation--and a thrilling reading experience.'.

A biographical novel reconstructing characters and events from a fascinating period of American history in telling the story of the artist Matthew Harris Jouett, with photographic plates. The author won the 1500m Gold Medal at the 1912 Olympics and was a highly decorated British Army officer. 8vo. 387pp. Cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to wrapper. Protected by a plastic sleeve. A very good copy. First edition. Signed by the author to flyleaf with a dedication to the antiquarian J. Stevens Cox and a quotation from George de Wilde.