Clarke Covington (170 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good cloth cover without dust jacket. The lettering has faded, but the wear is fairly evenly distributed along the edges. A story for the young reader with an aviation theme. 271 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. pages age toned, bumping to edges of boards, paper covering front hinge cracked.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Blue cloth, gold lettering, no dj, edges rubbed. Air / WWI; 21395.

Condition: New.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original cloth with yellowed paper. Inner hinges glued but a decent copy of a fragile book. Book.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. 290 pages. Hardcover bound in b lack cloth with lettering in yellow. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. Corners are a bit bumped. Secure inner hinges. Map endpapers. Text is clean. Covington Clarke was the pseudonym of Homer Clark Covington (1891-1953), who wrote some boy's adventure (and some science fiction) books. Born in Missouri, he lived in Virginia for about 20 years, during which he wrote this book. This is one of his adventure novels set in the Civil War.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. very light amount of wear along the edges of the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. illustrated endpapers (illustrator). Bound in blue cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Clean and bright. Hinges tight. Illustrated endpapers demonstrating the aircraft manoevers for 'The Nose Spin' and "Looping The Loup'. Early reprint which still contains the rear aviation glossary, which was omitted from later books. Thank you for looking!

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Black cover with yellow lettering shows light edge wear. Map end papers. Gift presentation and previous owner info on first blank page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. In blue cloth.

Hardcover--cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Without dust jacket. First Edition. Duodecimo, 7 3/4" tall, 262 + ix pages, illustrated end papers, gilt titles on blue cloth. A good, clean, neat hard cover over all with moderate shelf wear, small nick to the cover cloth on front panel; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, but with light soiling to the fore-edges. Without dust jacket. A nice reading copy.

Very Good maroon cloth with black lettering & pictorial endpapers. Light wear with binding slightly skewed & some modest soil & foxing at pagination edges. Interior clean & bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pictorial DJ, edge wear, text solid. Novel.

Condition: New.

hardcover. VG+, 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General shelf/age wear. Spine faded. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. none (illustrator). Reprint. Bound in navy cloth with titles and rules stamped in gilt. Although the book states that the illustrator is Harry W. Armstrong, R& L stopped using a frontipiece in 1926 and subsequently removed the from earlier titles as they were reprinted. This copy has no frontispiece (and ne ver did), so we know it a later printing, probably from 1926, as the Roy J. Snell titles listed as advbertisement list his boks through the titles published that year. The cloth shows no wear, the hinges are solid and binding is square. A clean, tight, unmarked copy of Venable's first book as Clarke, a juvenile western.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bound in navy cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Early copy with an inscription from Christmas 1927. Book once belonged to Henry Cabell Maddux Jr., whose daughter was murdered by her estranged husband in 1971. The cloth shows only a trace of edgewear; the spine lettering is rubbed but still quite legible. Hinges solid (the front one has a small spot of insect damage); binding square. A clean, tight copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Reilly & Lee Co [1931] January 1931 Binding: Hardcover Jacket in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gretter, Clemens (dust jacket art) (illustrator). Reprint. Volume 1 in this series. Bound in green cloth with titles and rules stamped in black. No illustrations. Reprint circa 1930 listing 4 titles on the rear flap of the dust wrapper. This copy lacks the requisite illustrated endpapers and 8 pages of aerial acrobatics found at the rear of the first edition, which also has blue cloth and cover lettering stamped in gilt. There are no ads at the rear. The cloth shows only a hint of edgewear; the dust jacket has moderate edgewear with shallow chipping at the head and heel, and a 1" chip to the lower front panel at the spine. Former owner's info in ink to the front pastedown, with later pencil inscription to the ffe. Hinges solid; binding square. A clean, tight copy, with the wrapper now in mylar. The jacket art is not signed, but it is clearly Gretter's work. He became established at R&L in 1927 and worked there until moving to NY in 1932, when he began signing his work as "J. Clemens Gretta". Mattson & Davis 01625.

Good plus or better, light general wear Cloth Top front edge dented. Clean, bright and tight. Pages deeply browned and brittle, sm chips bottom frontismatter through title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. In black cloth with yellow titling, 8vo, 290pp. Minor light shelfwear, vintage gift inscription to half-title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

A Hard Back. Condition: Fair. maybe good, no marks, the flaw is both covers are pullin a little. Grandma's Growing Up Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Hardcover. ; Hardcover: Blue cloth binding. With title on frontboard and on spine in black. Boards are damp spotted in hinge areas. Endpapers and foredges are foxed. For Valor is a story of remarkable youths who acquit themselves in the adult aviation world. Desert Wings is about a hunt for a lost emerald mine and encountering treachery during the expedition. Nice tight binding. Jacket. Edgewear and chipping. Bumped and worn spine edges. Covers are lightly soiled. Wrap-around illustration. Attractive copy in protective mylar. ; 8VO; 552 pages.

Hardcover. Good+ with no dust jacket; Edgewearcover has some spotting. Previous owner's name. No frontispiece. ; 269 pages.