Cranston Claudia (13 results)

Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Some wear at edges, spine weak; Columnist's travels around Japan, China and the Far East. Illustrated by Black and White Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book has very mild tanning to inside cover, a very small sticker to back inside cover, and very mild tanning to pages.otherwise book is in very good condition with a bright cover, clean pages, and a solid binding. Dust jacket has mild rubbing to top and bottom edge of spine, mild rubbing to top and bottom edges of cover, two tiny tears to bottom edge of front cover, two tiny tears to top edge of back cover, tiny clips to all four corners, mild rubbing to hinges of cover, and mild rubbing to cover.otherwise dust jacket is in good condition with a bright cover and mylar laminated.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clarice bring her car on the voyage to Europe, and all the strange shipboard events, including murder, seem to center on the car. Ex-library with a sticker shadow on the spine and stamps to the front end paper and upper edge of the text block. Bumped and rubbed, spine darkened and scuffed with a 1/2" chip. Front hinge beginning to crack. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 281pp., ills., modest shelf wear, otherwise vgc, blue cloth, gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first edition. 6 x 9 in. Blue cloth boards. Frontis and plates ina blue tone photogravure. Condition is GOOD ; frontis is detached but present, all other plates fine. Covers toned at edges, spine toned and mottled. Corners and spine ends worn. Binding tight and text clean. Mem. Stax.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation no dj blue cloth/gold letters previous owner's signature.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The first Clarice Claremont mystery. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the extremeties. Spine darkened, hinges a bit loose. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. None. 320 pages, gray cloth with red design, lettering. Light edgewear to edges, corners of covers, fraying to bottom of spine. Clean internally. Record # 405737.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Publisher's printed paper wraps, stapled. Paper toned, staples rusted, covers a little marked and worn, some nibbling to top outer corner of the last few pages. A rare survival. Very good. A. A. Milne provides his version of this classic tale with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. :: On the S. S. Atlantic, during the voyage from New York to Bremerhaven, there is a murder and the dead man is found in Clarice Claremont's car! :: Bound in publisher's mustard-yellow cloth, front board bears title and author in black. Title, author, and publisher lettered upon spine in black. Top edge textblock black. Duodecimo (7 3/4 x 5 3/16 inches; 196 x 133 millimeters). 303 pages. Condition: Very Good+, in a Very Good dust jacket. Book in really nice shape, maybe some light age-toning, small spots. Dust jacket is age-toned, with stains and small holes. Splits and chips along the edges, notable at the top and bottom of spine and at the hinges. Please see our photographs. James McKell (Dust Jacket) (illustrator).…

First edition, first printing, a lovely copy in the scarce dust jacket. Claudia Cranston (1886-1947) was an editor at Good Housekeeping and the author of short stories. She 'spent most of the years between 1922 and the late Nineteen Thirties abroad, gathering material for magazine pieces and books. She spent several years in Europe. and toured the Pacific and South America' (New York Times obituary). First edition, first printing; 8vo; frontispiece and 23 plates from black and white photos, contents faintly toned; original buff cloth, titles and ship design to spine and upper board in blue, cloth a little rubbed and faded at the extremities, an excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with some creasing and a few small chips; 336 pp. …

Claudia Cranston (1886-1947) was a writer and frequent traveler. She was an editor of Good Housekeeping Magazine, Vogue, and Atlantic Monthly. She also wrote novels often inspired by what she saw and experienced in her travels. Her mystery novels include Murder Maritime about eerie sea voyage and The Murder on Fifth Avenue about the murder of a disliked stylist. Cranston was also a writer of nonfictionÑIÕve Been Around was Òa book on her travel jauntÓ according to the writerÕs NY Times Obituary. This was her second book on travel, Sky Gypsy being her first. Octavo, 325 pp. Aquatone frontispiece, 29 aquatone photo plates, 3 aquatone pictorial maps. Original blue-gray cloth. Original dust jacket in blue, features reproduced photograph of author standing near the engine of Pan Am Clipper Ship. Designed by Georges Schreiber. Minor edgewear. Minor chipping to spine and sunning to spine. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. First edition. Sky Gypsy was written after Cranston completed a 25,000 mile trip, making her the woman with the second-most flier miles over Latin America in the 1930s. According to the dust jacket description, CranstonÕs youthful and enthusiastic tone make for a celebratory narration of her trip: ÒThe reader will enjoy her vivid, colorful descriptions and her delightfully feminine reactions.Ó She recounts the customs of each country as well as including topographical descriptions. ÒClaudia Cranston. Author and Editor.Ó The New York Times. June 28, 1947.…

(etwas berieben). Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: dieser beschädigt. 8 (etwas berieben) en 281 pp. Schutzumschlag: dieser beschädigt.