Clarke Frances E Compiler (5 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Owner's name on front endpage. (Horses, Legends, Stories).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1958. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine w/trace corner rubs. DJ/G; sound; white w/discoloration. A literary anthology. Cats, those enigmatic domesticated (?!) felines, presented in a wide range of essays, stories and verse. 250 pgs, archival illustrations & sketches from Steinlen's "Des Chats: Images sans paroles". A delight for both 'proud cat owners', as well as those who find themselves being 'proud to be owned by cats'. Thoughts from T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Lafcadio Hearn, W. B. Yeats,Samuel L. Clemens, Paul Gallico among others, on having known these fing cats as family members or core of an incident, as friend or dictator in history, theater, art, and, life and death.…

1957 1st edition with B&W illustrations; binding tight with a little discolouration and light damage to base of spine. Dust jacket price-clipped but US price still there; slightly discoloured, especially tanned spine; small losses to edges and corners. Page fore-edges and endpapers slightly yellowed; otherwise, a good, clean copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 16 plates; 27 illustrations in text by Steinlen. Dust jacket (unclipped; small nicks) designed by Ursula Suess. Very good. 250 pages. Bookplate. Contributors include Hilaire Belloc, Lafcadio Hearn, Samuel Clemens, T.S. Eliot, etc. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Collection of 25 horse stories written by American and British authors. Polo pony, cavalry horse, race horse, riding, show horse, draught horse, mustang, stallion, mare, even a phantom horse - all are here. C: 1938, 1938 Edition, Published date of October, 1938 -no other date listed, The Macmillan Company. 6" x 8-5/8", 348 pgs. VG- hardcover, Fair to Good clipped DJ. Inside of covers have browning and some on first blank endpages tiny foxing spots on page edges, spine slightly sun faded; interior of book is clean. Personal library sticker. DJ has chips, small closed tears along edges which have been taped on the inside; see scans.…