Bartlett Lanier Virginia Stivers (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book size about 5 1/2 by 8 inches with some 309 pages. Bound in decorated yellow cloth. Top edge with a publisher applied red stain. Illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). In the original dust wrapper with a front flap price of $2.50. A historical romance based loosely on the feats of the notorious California outlaw Joaquin Murrieta. Apparently made into a movie of the period. Book with light wear. Wrapper heavily tape repaired and with much damage. VERY GOOD/FAIR.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED by booth authors. Slipcase has excessive wear and tear. There is an inscription inside the front free end page. Pages are tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [worn at extremities with exposure of boards at tips, light external soiling, a bit of fraying to cloth at both ends of spine, front hinge cracked]. (frontispiece map) One of a series of such city guidebooks -- "The Seven Days Series" -- issued by this publisher in the 1920s and 1930s (there had also been volumes on New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Rome, and London, by different authors, and later books covered Berlin, Vienna, and Brussels), each blurbed as "A Guide for People in a Hurry." I don't know if this applies uniformly across the series, but the format of this one, at least, is utterly engaging: rather than being couched in a more-or-less-encyclopedic "reference" idiom, the whole thing is presented as a kind of running monologue by the authors (a husband and wife), delivered as they play hosts and tour guides to "a big Eastern publisher" who's visiting the city with his wife and young daughter. They take the little family -- "Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Jones" (of which we eventually learn the first name only of the latter, Annabelle) -- around the city on a week-long whirlwind tour in seven chapters ("Monday," etc.). Our authors style themselves within the narrative as "Mr. and Mrs. Guia" -- which the clever Mr. Jones figures out, right away, is Spanish for "Guide" -- and the conceit of the book is that they're trying to "get [the publisher] interested in the books we're trying to write!" It begins, appropriately, with a problem that plagues Angelenos to this day: parking. As the authors pull up across the street from the Biltmore Hotel, where they are to collect their tourists, "the missus" warns Mr. G that there's "only forty-five minutes' parking here" and suggests a nearby parking lot -- but he brushes her off, stating that "finding room at the curb right in the downtown block where we wanted to stop was too rare an opportunity to be slighted and I insisted on enjoying the thrill of it." If you're wondering (as I initially was) what caused the publishers to consider Los Angeles of the early 1930s to be on a touristic par with the other cities in this series (New York, London, Paris, et al.), the answer is right there in the year of publication: 1932, the year the Olympics came to town. (The book was published in March, and sure enough there are several pages devoted to the Olympic Village and other preparations for the upcoming Games.) NOTE that there were two variant printings of this book: one with a folding map of the city contained in a pocket affixed to the rear pastedown, the other without. This copy is WITHOUT the map.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. Photoplay edition. A VG copy in a good dust jacket. Basis for the film starring Richard Barthelmess. Scarce in dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good in orange cloth with black titles. 1st Printing. A nice firm copy with light rubbing to boards. 298pp 12mo.

Authors' Limited Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition.

Authors' Limited Edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Subjects; California - fiction. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Vg in black-stamped orange boards, no dust jacket; light rubbing to board corners, faint staining to pageblock edges, red erasable pencil underlining within the first 8 pages else a tight square unmarked copy; states First Published March 1932; 298 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Authors' Edition (of 1500 copies), signed by both authors. 8vo, 309 pp. Light wear to head of spine, minor soiling to top edge, page edges tanned. In original slipcase, which is sunned, stained, worn, and spitting at folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photoplay Edition. Photoplay edition of "Adios". Illustrated with scenes from photoplay starring Richard Barthelmess. Beautiful illustrated dust jacket. Chipping to head and heel of spine and corners. special sale 20% off regular price of 100.00. now.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photoplay edition. Penciled gift inscription else near fine in very good dust jacket with a paper shelf label and a small tear on the front panel. The 1930 film *The Lash* was directed by Frank Lloyd and featured Richard Barthelmess and Mary Astor. Illustrated with stills from the film, and a jacket painting of Barthelmess. A scarce photoplay edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xii, 298pp, map showing plaza and landmarks, index. Decorative cloth boards with some rubbing by the spine and light wear at the corners and at the spine head and foot. The authors show a publisher, his wife and his daughter the city of Los Angeles, covering the historical background as well as Hollywood Boulevard and the smart shops. Size: Small 8vo.

8vo. [8], 309, [1] pp. Yellow cloth, illust. w/ Californio hat on frnt cvr, red lettrng, illust. endpapers (vry slght bmpng to couple crnrs, mnr shlfwr), w/d.j. (mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, mnr scuffng), still a VG/VG copy. First edition, 1st printing of this historical novel based on the life and exploits of Joaquin Murrieta and the semi-legendary bandit, known as the Robin Hood of El Dorado, during California's gold rush, and considered the inspiration for the character Zorro. This was the basis for the 1930 Frank Lloyd Film, the Lash, which starred Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, and Marian Nixon.