Conrad Norman Charles (8 results)

Condition: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xviii, 197 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff teal blue wraps, lettered in black. 71 pp. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Frances Steloff ordered multiple copies of this title in 1948 for her Gotham Book Mart, New York City, from the inventory of which this copy emerged. Through her antiquarian shop and many literary connections, Steloff attempted to gain sympathy for Pound after his arrest and trial for treason and during his 12-year incarceration at St. Elizabeths, 1945-58; despite the poet's apparent anti-Semitism and a story circulating that Pound would not enter her "stinking" shop, Steloff vehemently defended him, as do, though not without qualifications, the writers' statements presented here. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff light blue-gray wraps, lettered in black. 71 pp. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Frances Steloff ordered multiple copies of this title in 1948 for her Gotham Book Mart, New York City, from the inventory of which this copy emerged. Through her antiquarian shop and many literary connections, Steloff attempted to gain sympathy for Pound after his arrest and trial for treason and during his 12-year incarceration at St. Elizabeths, 1945-58; despite the poet's apparent anti-Semitism and a story circulating that Pound would not enter her "stinking" shop, Steloff vehemently defended him, as do, though not without qualifications, the writers' statements presented here. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff light blue wraps, lettered in black. 71 pp. A few hints of shelf wear, nearly as issued. Frances Steloff ordered multiple copies of this title in 1948 for her Gotham Book Mart, New York City, from the inventory of which this copy emerged, still thus as issued, other than slight toning due to age. Through her antiquarian shop and many literary connections, Steloff attempted to gain sympathy for Pound after his arrest and trial for treason and during his 12-year incarceration at St. Elizabeths, 1945-58; despite the poet's apparent anti-Semitism and a story circulating that Pound would not enter her "stinking" shop, Steloff vehemently defended him, as do, though not without qualifications, the writers' statements presented here. Scarce. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Book.…

Stapled. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The January 25, 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes Early Americans by Conrad Richter, part 5 of 6 of The Hurricane, a novel by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, and part 2 of 5 of The Iron Will, a novel by Margret Culkin Banning. Cover art by Norman Rockwell (Puppy in the Pocket or The Gift). Light soiling to the front cover. Slight folds & wrinkling to the corners. A good or better copy. (cover), Rico Tomaso, W H D Koerner, Henry Raleigh, and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Paymaster's Dillemma - A story of American Army life in Manila; The "Place of the Evil Spirit" - The history of Strathcona National Park on Vancouver Island, with photos; The Blind Seer - A curious story of native "magic" in Egypt showing how a blind "wizard" undertook to discover a thief; Fighting the Dingo - The greatest menace to the prosperity of Australian sheep-farmers - with intersting photos; The Saving of Montague Smith - A West African, condemned to death, evades the death-penalty and turns his 'execution' into a roaring farce; On Patrol in Cannibal Papua - interesting leaves from the log of a Patrol Officer in primitive Papua - with fascinating photos; "Poppy" - A strange story from the wild Bushveld country of South Africa; An Australian Robinson Crusoe - Part III - Jack McLaren spent years settling on the little-known western coast of Cape York Peninsula; At the End of a Rope - A tale from the oilfields of Venezuela; Two Men on a Raft - Two railroad workers try to navigate a swift stream in the Canadian Rockies on a raft; What Happened to Murphy - A young officer of the Burma Military Police sets out to find a Chinese gambling den in the jungle; Schearer's Man-Hunt - A vivid story about the dogged devotion to duty of a young "Wild Cat" (i.e. Pennsylvania State Policeman); In the Shadow of the Gallows - A timber-cruiser for the Conrad Martin Timber and Exporting Company, of San Francisco, wakes up to find his bed-fellow lying dead, stabbed in the heart with his knife; Some African Snake Stories - Patrick Bowen has been an explorer and hunter in Africa for thirty years. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Leigh, Conrad; Inns, Kenneth; Sutcliffe, Norman; Gillett, F.; Forestier, A.; Peddie, Tom; De Walton, John; Carruthers, G.P.; Board, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Cowes, Dudley S.; Carruthers, G.P.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). …