Brien Lowell Thomas (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Original classic in the blue cloth with thunder bird and cowboy with lasso design on front cover. Very good minus light wear and some fade to spine. No markings.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. . c 1935. Edition not stated. No indication of later printings. Turquoise-blue cloth with black pictorial stamping & titles. Boards clean and bright, .no writing no tearing no water marks no foxing. see picture.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good blue w/black lettering, drawing front cover. No dj. Frontis of Rogers. POI ffep dated 1935, penciled notations rear. 288 pages, unmarked, tight. B/w photos. Bio. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some starting between ffep and next page o/w Very Good, tight, clean.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. . c 1935. Edition not stated. No indication of later printings. Turquoise-blue cloth with black pictorial stamping & titles. Boards clean and bright, n. DJ not clipped ($1.00) d, minor chipping .no writing no tearing no water marks no foxing. see picture.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 288 pp. Numerous photo illus. Covers very mildly worn. Text is clean and tight. Jacket is rubbed and worn with chips missing from the top and bottom edges.

GD. GD.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. Lightly aged endpapers, else textblock clean and tight, b&w photographs; Sunned spine, frayed and bumped at the head and foot of the spine, bumped corners, lightly surface-rubbed binding. Lacks dust jacket; 288p. Size: 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Pictures included in the book. Pages are clean. Book is tight. Edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing (No Additional Printing Indicated). The Book Is Bound In Blue Cloth Over Boards With Black Lettering On The Front And Spine. The Spine Is Lightly Darkened And There Are Two Page Darkened Due To A News Paper Article. 25 Cents Is Written Near The Upper Corner Of The Ffep, Else No Ownership Information Present. Hinges Sound. Page Edges Tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Some staining on book cover. Foxing by illustration plates and back endpage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. There is some rubbing to the covers. The binding is cracked near the front and the back. The instruction sheet is chipped around the edges. ; This is a salesman's sample of the book. It contains a 4 page fold out with instructions and hints for selling the book. ; Pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. This salesman's dummy of P.J. O'Brien's Will Rogers: Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom features a sampling of the binding, contents, text, and illustrations of the book, with the salesman's order form at rear. A fun and out-of-the-ordinary look at what the pre-publication form of this popular book for boys looked like. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". Bound in blue cloth over boards with decorative covers stamped in black. Wear to boards with toning, rubbing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Age-toning to pages. First couple pages are creased and separated from spine at top 1/2", though the pages remain firmly attached. Pencil mark to second page. Pages are otherwise free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this saleman's dummy for the biography of humorist, philanthropist, cowboy, newspaper columnist, movie- and vaudeville-star, Will Rogers.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with dust wrapper in mylar. Uncommon in dust wrapper. 6" x 8 3/8." 288 pages, complete. Twenty-three pages of reprinted black and white photographs, complete. Advertisement for another book on the back panel of the dust wrapper. "By P. J. O'Brien . with an Appreciation by Lowell Thomas." Dust wrapper and pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper has light edge wear and one closed tear. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust wrapper. A biography on Will Rogers (1879-1935), an American Renaissance man known for his roles as an entertainer, actor, humorist, and social commentator. Rogers was born to a Cherokee family in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and began his career in the show business as a trick roper. He eventually made his way to the Hollywood big screen and also had positions as a newspaper columnist and a radio personality. Rogers's humor and wit made him very popular in his time. This book can also be considered a eulogy for Rogers as it was published shortly after his and Wiley Post's fatal plane crash in Point Barrow, Alaska.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with dark titling and designs to front and spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out, other than general but minor wear to boards and name of prior owner to ffep in script.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First Edition. very good hardcover. some wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original blue cloth covers, modestly rubbed. Corners bumped. Publisher's stamp, "George W. Noble", at bottom of title page. Includes the index, about 22 pp. of b/w glossy photos, about 50 pp. of sample text, and 8 lined pp. for taking orders for the book (none of which are filled in). "This Prospectus contains but a few sample pages of the complete book and represents the text, the illustrations, and the binding of the complete book." Contents very nice.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). No place, no publisher, 1935. 12mo. Decorative blue cloth binding, 288 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. vg+/vg/dj. has a few mends,chipp. bck. bott. edge stain. average. Life & times of the famous humorist. 23 pgs. of photos. Usually seen without a dj. Illustrated by light wear. 1st edition. Binding is cl.w.dj. Book.

P.J. O'Brien, Lowell Thomas (with an appreciation) Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom 1935, no publisher noted, Very Good condition. Humor. $35.00.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. 8vo., 288 pp. Illustrated with twenty-three [23] full pages of black and white captioned photographs. Blue cloth with an elaborate design on the front cover of a mask with wings, a lariat and a man on horseback riding along a ridge set against a large cloud. Very Good with age-appropriate handling, tight and square lacking the dust jacket.

Condition: New.