Ellen Raskin Dust Jacket (7 results)

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page and at bottom of dj front flap). 379 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket foxed/toned with nicks and short tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Black cloth spine with blue and metallic red stamping; mauve boards; front board's top fore-edge corner lightly bumped. Toning/foxing to text block edges and endpapers; past owner's ink inscription at top of front free endpaper; slight foxing at page margins of text leaves which are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. New Orleans-born author Paige Mitchell was a civil rights activist who, during the early 1960s, resided in Jackson, Mississippi, an in-state connection that links her portrait photo on dj's rear panel being credited to Greenville, Mississippi photographer Franke Keating [Marian Frances West Keating] renowned for her work with National Geographic magazine. A WILDERNESS OF MONKEYS was Mitchell's first novel (of six) but she eventually shifted to Hollywood work after moving to Los Angeles in 1965 cumulating in producing and co-writing the 1995-1996 television series adaptation of Mississippi author John Grisham's "The Client." {LitShelf#1}.…

First edition, first printing (with requisite statement for former upon copyright page). 379 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed and lightly soiled; three small stains to mildly toned spine; nicks, bumping, and several short tears to edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Black cloth spine with blue and metallic red stamping; mauve boards. Past owner's personal bookplate affixed to front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. New Orleans-born author Paige Mitchell was a civil rights activist who, during the early 1960s, resided in Jackson, Mississippi, an in-state connection that links her portrait photo on dj's rear panel being credited to Greenville, Mississippi photographer Franke Keating [Marian Frances West Keating] renowned for her work with National Geographic magazine. A WILDERNESS OF MONKEYS was Mitchell's first novel (of six) but she eventually shifted to Hollywood work after moving to Los Angeles in 1965 cumulating in producing and co-writing the 1995-1996 television series adaptation of Mississippi author John Grisham's "The Client." {LitShelf#2}.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The 31st printing of the first edition, which was published in 1962, and won the 1963 Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Blue cloth w/yellow spine lettering, 211 pages. Moderately cocked w/a bit of wear to corners/spine ends, some faint staining to front cover/spine, gift inscription to top right corner of front end paper, in price-clipped dust jacket w/edgewear, 3/4" strip missing from top spine, 1" and 1/2" tears to bottom spine edges, chipping/tears to corners, gold Newbery Medal to top right corner of front panel, short/multi-coloured scribbles to top right corner of front flap. Ellen Raskin (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. dj w/some chipping, tear, in mylar (price unclipped); 282 clean, unmarked pages. Ellen Raskin Dust Jacket (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. dj w/lite wear only, price clipped, in mylar; 282 clean, unmarked pages; Stated First. Ellen Raskin Dust Jacket (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A giant among writers of suspense stories for teens and younger readers, this is one of Duncan's few novels for adults, and it's a damn tough hardcover to find in a dust jacket (actually, it's tough to find at all). When a young woman's husband dies in a water-skiing accident she suspects foul play, and with her two children relocates to a remote location where, soon enough, she is stalked and her children placed in danger. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 190 pages. Gently bumped spine ends, a hint of wear to corners, in lightly rubbed dust jacket w/mild wear to corners/spine ends, a hint of sunning to spine. 1/2" tear to top left corner of front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ellen Raskin (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Boston / Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, red topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [10],67pp. Very light wear and dust-soil to dust jacket margins, else a Very Good or better copy in the dust jacket featuring a blurb by Robert Lowell and the haunting artwork of Ellen Raskin, future Newbery Award-winning author of The Westing Game. Anne Sexton's first poetry collection, inscribed and signed on half title page, "with my best wishes, Anne Sexton / Nov. 1962." Sexton was eventually awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection "Live or Die.". Signed.…