Falstaff Jake (43 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Aroux, Guy - Illustrator (illustrator). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. Doubleday, Doran, and Company Garden City, NY 1928 hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Guy Arnoux (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black cloth, paper title label mounted on upper front cover, deckled text block edges with top edge stained red. Modestly toned title label, former owner's signature inked on front flyleaf; volume is otherwise as issued. xi,246 pp., illus. Stated 1st edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Green Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Raymond Bishop (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. (x) 93pp. From Fridolf Johnson's library with his self-designed bookplate on front pastedown. Protected dust jacket split at spine with tail segment of spine missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Guy Arnoux (illustrator). First Edition. black binding, tan lable on front with red and black lettering and a yellow and black border. b&w fronticepiece, the book presents 3 books about Francis Rabelais, a famous, person that had many capabilities as a doctor, smithy, friar and of telling great tales,all together they contain 23 chapters,the author was trying to cover all of these capabilities with the words of Rabelais to create a better biography.of this man, xi and 246 pages.,

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Arnoux, Guy (illustrator). First Edition. G3 - Book has rubbing and wear on the sides, edges and corners, bumped cover corners, title plates on the front and spine are worn, previous owner's library plate on the front fixed endpaper, foxing, discoloration, and normal shelf wear otherwise good. Book is signed by the author on the front loose endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Hardcover bound in black cloth covered boards with a pastedown title plate on the front cover. A Very Good copy. Rubs to the corners. Minor shelf wear to the bottom of the boards. Former owner's book plate is pasted at the front endpaper's upper left corner. Small name plate affixed to the front fly leaf. No dust jacket. Illustrated by Guy Arnoux.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good (No Dust Jacket). First edition. 8vo, 283 pp. Covers worn at extremities, handled, lightly dustsoiled; page edges tanned and a bit dusty.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in light brown cloth with brown letters. LIghtly soiled. Spine is darkened. Side edges deckled.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Guy Arnoux (illustrator). First Edition. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions to pages. Black boards with front paste down title block. Decorative endpapers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 247 pp.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st edition. Inscribed by Author. Black cloth. Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio literature; Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13503.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 246pp. Illustrated by Guy Arnoux. Black cloth with paper label mounted on front board. Owner's name on front fly, near fine lacking the dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Original black cloth with title label. Beautiful period bookplate. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 283p. A tan cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Red speckles on front cover. Edges lightly rubbed. Otherwise, interior clean and binding secure for reading. A scarce novel by the Ohio humorist.

Condition: Very Good. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York 1937 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good. Guy Arnoux, illus. No DJ. Worn copy. Wear to edges/corners. Spine paste-on dam. Prev. owner's name on front endpaper, and much writing on another endpaper. Pencil marked.

1st ed. Paper title label on spine browned, with short tear. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dustjacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Foxing to spine else minor wear.

First Edition Stated. Octavo, original brown cloth over boards, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated end papers. Novel about the life of a German folk hero. Near Fine in Good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends and flap corners, closed tears at lower spine end, a few small nicks at edges, fading to spine, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Gutter cracked before title page, offsetting on a few pages, spine darkened with ends chipped, boards a bit soiled, thus a good only copy with a small number label on front fly indicative of being from the Shahn collection. The aptly-named Falstaff's take on the Rabelaisian Teutonic folk hero.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Falstaff, Jake. 1937. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Dust jacket is missing. Spine is very faded as well as the label. Pages 50 and 51 stained by old receipt. Top of pages darkened by sun exposure. Corners of cover are slightly bent. First few pages are slightly shaken. A few pages have small stains, but all text is readable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1929, First Edition Stated, 283 pages, color decorated endpapers (brown and green Art Deco style pattern), 5.5"x 8.25", hardcover, light brown cloth with dark brown titles, top page edges tinted green (now slightly faded), corners slightly bumped and rubbed, spine ends slightly bumped and worn with a very few tiny closed splits at ends, dust jacket is in 3 pieces (front flap, front panel & spine, rear panel & rear flap) with a closed split across spine, jacket shows considerable overall bumping and wear and chipping, dust jacket protected in new archival plastic cover, contents clean and tight, newspaper column about author's death laid in at front, book: very good, dust jacket: poor {The jacket, while certainly exhibiting its age, still shows nicely in its new archival cover.} (VG/P) 5258 [Sss0221EC].

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st edition. Regional novel by this Ohio writer. Fine in near fine dust jacket, tiny tear at spine top else nice & bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by person(s) connected with book. Signed and dated in 1969 by Hazel Fetzer, wife of Herman Fetzer aka Jake Falstaff. Writer Evan Lodge's copy. Wraps a bit rubbed. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ohio; Literature & Literary. Signed by person(s) connected with book. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23072.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair-Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). None Stated. The third of the author's posthumously published novels about life in rural Ohio. Decorated end papers that reproduce and slightly expand on the DJ illustration. Rubbing and wear at the edges & folds with loss in a few small spots of the front panel, The DJ is still presentable. Light damp stains to the spine. The book & internals are clean and tight. Overall a good to very good copy.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. David Hendrickson (dust jacket illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 242. Color frontis. illustration. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bound in taupe cloth with green lettering stamped on front board, green lettering on spine. Slight age-toning to cloth. In the dust jacket separated along front panel-front flap fold. Dust jacket illustration by David Hendrickson. Subtitle on dust jacket: "Memories of Cheese and Cider Days on an American Farm." First edition, review copy with the signature of Los Angeles Times critic Paul Jordan Smith. Dust jacket illustrator David Hendrickson, San Francisco painter, studied under Dean Cornwell. "Jake Falstaff" was the pen name of Herman Fetzer (1899-1935), the novelist, poet and newspaper columnist. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 ½ x 8 ½". 93 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Minor to moderate rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket with creases, chipping and short closed tears to the extremities. Vintage bookstore sticker label and star stamp on the rear pastedown. The text appears unmarked. The binding is solid.