Charles Wallis Markham (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. The book is bound in brown cloth with titling in gilt on the spine. Very light shelf wear on the covers. Rough-cut fore-edgesL. ight tan off-setting/ soiling on the fore-edges of the endpapers. Otherwise, pages are age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked. THe Author wan an American Poet and Poet Laureate of Oregon. His best known poem was " Man with a Hoe" and he was selected to read his poem"Lincoln, Man of the People" at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Both poems are included in this book. 19 pp including an Index of First Lines.

Hardcover. Near fine coloured illustrated paper covered boards, 10.00 x 7.5 inches approx. , front board shows a racing car moving towards the reader at speed, Tiltes in orange block leters with white edges, light blue rear board, spine illustated with small images of a sea-plane and two ships, no obvious wear, very good matching coloured dust jacket, faded to spine, chipped to top of spines some edge wear, clean and bright, not clipped, no inscriptions, front paste-down and two thirds of the endpaper have darkened over time, the fold in has kept the remaing third of the front endpaper much lighter, coloured frontispiece, 'Trumpeter Albert Twiggs entered the room and saluted. ' black and white drawing on the title page of the Sphinx, stories in chapters not paginated, four full page coloured plates, 2 full page black and white plates and numerous black and white drawings in the text, no rear endpaper. Internally clean with a few minute traces of foxing, easy to read with clean bright pictures,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.