Benson Ivan (52 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Fair Paperback. Text unmarked. Page corner bumps. Smudges on page edges. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and creases.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. paperback very good condition.

Stiff Blue Wraps. Condition: Good Plus. Appears to be the First Edition. Some fading to pamphlet. Sepia toned illustratons. Scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. This 218 pp. indexed book discusses the western years of the greatest quintessential American author, together with hitherto unreprinted Clemens Western Items. Includes some photographs interspersed. Clean other than a prior owner's penned name atop the title page, and his name and bookplate just inside the front board. Light edge foxing just inside the front and rear boards, but nowhere else. The dust jacket shows edge wear and slight chipping, but presents quite well in a clear archival protector, and 79 year old jackets are SCARCE in any condition. Photos upon request.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 231pp. Small hardback with brown cloth spine and corner tips and tan paper covers, DJ has light rubbing along edges and a couple tiny tears and chips, Second Printing, illustrated end pages, PAUL BUNYAN AND HIS MEN : Being Exploits of the Men in the Logging Camps of Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack Hero of the North. D. H. Herring (illustrator).…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Ex-Library with Markins; 218 pages.

Condition: GOOD. First printing in wrappers, a slim pamphlet. A "bulletin prepared for the public schools in the hope that a brief story of his life and travels here and in Western Nevada will add interest to his books." Illustrated with photographs, chronology, calendar of his travels in the West, books about Mark Twain. vii, 30 pp. Good only (some dampstaining and bleeding to upper edges of several pages). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Dustjacket. Reading Copy Only. Ex-Library with the usual faults, card pocket, ink stamps, etc. Tight sound copy with heavy wear. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author. First edition. No DJ. Spine faded, paoer coverd boards lightly soiled. Fables/folklore ; 231 pages; Signed by Author.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Bound Volume. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First edition, SIGNED by Tuttle on title page, dated 1955. Previous owner's name on end paper, pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Dust Jacket is worn on edges and creased.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Dampstain to spine. Else good. Signed by the author on the title page, with a presentation on the half title "To Editor Al Nelson, Fellow Contriver for the great potentials of "Minnesota, Land of Paul Bunyan and Big Opportunities, Confidently yours, Helner (?)E. Olson Hibbing 11/28/56" Benson was, as he tells in his preface, a long time collector of Bunyan folklore. His retelling renders disparate tales into something like a folk-biography of our lumberjack hero, adding the spark of imagination. Benson was in Japan at the time he was writing his book on Paul Bunyan. There is a story here, that I do not have time to tell.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This is a copy of a nonfiction biographical account of Samuel Clemens writting in the west called Mark Twain's Western Years, copyright 1938, first edition, hard cover, dust jacket, written by Ivan Benson. The books dust jacket has some chips and tears, some browning due to aging, otherwise in good condition in a protective mylar wrap. The book itself has pages browning due to aging, otherwise in good condition with tight binding, some nice black and white photographs and 218 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Present. 1st Edition. (1938). 218 pages. Index. Illustrated with photos. Dust jacket is present in parts which have been laid in. Book is very good. (061).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition stated. Signed by Ivan Benson on Okinawa, October 17, 1955 on the title page. Light wear to the covers. No spine creasing from opening. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Some staining and light soiling to the covers. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. A number of small stains along the edges of the text block. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. D.H. Herring (illustrator). Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo; x, 218 pages, brown cloth "At twenty-five Samuel Clemens had written nothing of literary distinction, and, as Paine says, had shown no signs of an ambition to become a writer. The development whereby he was to dopt writing as a life career was to come during his five and one-half years in the frontier West." - p1. Illustrated. Includes a List of References, Periodical bibliography, and an Appendix of selected Mark Twain western items.…

Hardcover. Second printing. Very good in a very good (shallow chip at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Illustrated by D. H. Herring (illustrator).

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author on his business card, taped to half-title page. Binding clean. 1" opaque stain on a page 179; has bled through a bit to adjacent pages. Else pages clean. Light rubbing on DJ spine extremities and fold corners. Bit of smudging along DJ spine and folds. Else DJ clean. ; B&W Illustrations; MYHC18; 7.5 x 5.25"; 231 pages; Signed by Author.…

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good+. B&W Illustrations; This is an ex school library copy - the only library marking is an ink stamp from the school on the title page. This is a trade sized booklet. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The front top corner of the booklet has a light crease and there is fading to the spine joints and top edges. The text pages are clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 231 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. A wonderful copy in a wonderful jacket. Signed "Ivan Benson, Tokyo, Japan December 10, 1955". A possible misprint on the title page, which reads ".and his men" without "Paul Bunyan". The verso of the title page notes "Printed in Japan by Toppan Printing Company, Tokyo". Signed by Author(s).…

Hardback. No Dustjacket. Second Printing. Tight square unmarked copy in Good to Very Good Condition with some slight edge soiling. Signed and dated by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Review copy with slip tipped in. Khaki cloth. x, 218 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Jacket has a couple of tiny chips and tears. Contents clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. REVIEW COPY Hardcover clean tight unmarked, "Review Copy" label affixed to front pastedown; dust jacket has light edge chipping, now protected in plastic jacket cover.