And Shepard Willard (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Red Cloth Covers; covers are very lightly rubbed along edges and corners; book edges are lightly soiled; White Endpapers have tanned mostly in gutters; book interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 474 pages; No Dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Book of the Month Club Edition. Description: Dust jacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Historical fiction based on The War of Jenkins' Ear -- a name given to a conflict between England and Spain, the name coming from Robert Jenkins, a British sea captain who allegedly had his ear severed by Spanish coast guards. He used that ear, wrinkled and bleached from pickling, to drum up support for a war -- ''Come back with Spanish gold!'' was the cry, and the effects were felt as far away as Georgia and Mississippi in the New World. Includes the Book of the Month Club insert, with a review by Clifton Fadiman. BINDING/CONDITION: dark wine colored cloth with gilt on the spine; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is very good but for being faded at the spine. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 474 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET. First Printing. First Printing. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Hard Cover CLOTH. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: D/J VERY GOOD. Second PRINTING 1951. ****PICTURE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. 474 pages; burgandy cloth with gold lettering on spine. D/J is tan pictorial.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Large chips to jacket.

Hardcover. F. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". xiv, 474 pgs; 1st printing; hb.; partly truth & partly fiction, this unusual historical novel; an English shipmaster has his chopped off & there was the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) & makes good backdrop to this rather unusual novel; very minimal shelf wear; v.g. cond. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".

Hardcover. Condition: VG/no dj; very light soil. 474.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, brown cloth. The spine is slightly darkened & the covers are very lightly bumped. viii & 647 pages. Illustrated with endpaper maps. Very good. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1ST PRINTING! THE TALE IS ABOUT THE ROLE THESE CHARACTERS PLAY IN THE STRUGGLE OF A YOUNG AMERICAN.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. FINE IN VERY GOOD DJ WITH LIGHT EDGEWEAR AND SMALL CHIPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition, Book Club Edition. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 474p.,21 cm.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/P. Endpaper Maps (illustrator). First Printing. New York NY: Macmillan Company. G/P. 1946. First Printing. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., viii, 647pp., Dj torn with loose front flap, waterstains; some corners gently turned, browing of second half of text and margins with occas. watermarks along bottom edges/corners .

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. VERY GOOD+ IN VERY GOOD+ DJ WITH LIGHT EDGEWEAR.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First American. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by both authors, Signed by Author(s).

46 pp. 12mo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Fine in a jacket with a few light tan spots. Inscribed by the authors, April 12, 1967, on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1ST PRINTING, BOOKS ARE MOSTLY GOOD. BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB SELECTION. THE MOST INFLUENTIAL EAR IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY SET OFF A SERIES OF EVENTS ON LAND AND SEA AROUND THE GLOBE.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Price-clipped. Bookplate. Very Good book in a Fair to Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good hardcover with similar dust jacket. First edition. Name on front endpaper. Text clean. Clean cloth cover. Spine ends lightly bumped. Dustwrapper browning on spine and edges. Small nicks to dust jacket spine ends.

Condition: Fair. 1951. No Edition Stated. 473 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. cracking to hinges, with exposed netting and a loose binding. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Prominent forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.Water marks to edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Cover Has Come Loose On The First Page. There Are No Marks Or Tears Inside The Book. The Binding Is Tight.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Book condition is good. Front and back tail edges has a few small nicks with very slight fraying. Tail spine edge very lightly rubbed. Dust jacket condition is poor. Front flap is torn, but present. 2" piece missing from front tail corner. Hinge torn from top to bottom. Front fore edge chipped with pieces missing. Tears to front head edge and spine edge with pieces missing. Back head and tail corners torn with pieces missing. Wrapped in mylar. 647 pages.

Third printing. 8vo, pp. 647, a very good copy in little worn dj. Inscribed by Odell Shephard to poet William Jay Smith. An historical novel.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 474pp. Illustrated dustjacket with a couple of closed tears and some loss to the top of the spine. Internally very clean. Set in the mid Eighteenth century - Horace Walpole recounts the events and aventures of the 'War of Jenkins Ear'.

Cloth. Condition: Near-Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Cloth. 647 p. Signed on ffep by both authors. This is a fictionalized account of Sleeping Bear of the Mohegan tribe, better known by his English name, Holdfast Gaines, who worked for the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. Maps on endpapers show Long Island Sound at New London, the Mississippi River and Creek Nation, along with an inset map of the final phase of the Battle of New Orleans. Owner's stamp. Near fine signed copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Slight foxing, and corners a trifle bumped, else fine in price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 1224 in this important series, a historical novel set in the first generation of America's independence, "slightly condensed," illustrated with two maps, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Some splitting up front hinge by title page, but still holding firm.