Fjeril Hess (88 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard Cover -- Good -- Tight with light wear -- Orange cloth over boards, no dust jacket if issued -- 280 pages with illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B005BXUJUC Hardback. Later printing from 1943. No dustjacket; bound in gray boards with dark blue lettering. Previous owner's name/address on front endpaper front and back. Minor wear to corners and edges; minor browning and dustsoiling throughout; otherwise tight, sound and unnmarked in Good condition. No Signature.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fjeril Hess (illustrator). This charming book tells of life among the Slavic people, both in the Old Country and in the United States, during one of the great waves of migration that brought Europeans to the U.S. The volume is bound in pale blue soft covers with a brown spine. The cover, with illustration by the author, shows a young boy aboard a ship gazing out to sea. Cover is somewhat faded at top and spine edges, but inner pages are clean and unmarked, and binding is tight. The author writes with feeling about the culture and customs of the Slavs, as well as the history of their people and their land. Black-and-white illustrations by the author appear throughout. Book measures 5 X 7.5 inches and has 158 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Lee Townsend (illustrator). First Edition. First Printing. In tan cloth covers with black lettering on front cover and tan lettering on black on spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine and corners. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Fred C. Rodewald (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown clothbound without dustjacket is ex-library copy with extensive wear to exterior and some light marks to interior. Yet readable and good candidate for re-binding. Exterior is taped at spine and ripped on front cover, badly bumped at corners. Interior has library marks and occasional marks.

First Edition. First Edition. Illustrated by Margaret Ayer. Good condition. Owner name label.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward C. Caswell (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, rubbing, in mylar; illustrated end papers; 247 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 9th Printing. 9th printing 1954 (originally published 1936), a fine condition hardcover in rust paper covered boards showing sharp tips and spine ends. No names, tears or soil in the 214pp text. Hinges fine, Illustrated with chapter heading vignettes throughout. Unclipped dust wrapper is complete and a professional reproduction that displays well in new mylar, although spine is sunned, title remains 'just' legible. Brenda Coleman goes to spend a vacation at her uncle's ranch in northern Colorado. Though a tenderfoot from the city, she soon learns to love Sugar Loaf Butte and to manage a horse with a master hand. Camping out overnight on the prairie, shooting a prowling mountain lion, and killing a rattlesnake, riding in a rodeo parade, driving a mowing machine, are just a few of the exciting experiences of an eventful summer. But Brenda has a 'real' job to do. Her uncle knew her tact and understanding of people would help to smooth out family friction on the ranch. Adventure, romance, interesting personalities and mystery filled her life that summer.

First edition; small 8vo.; brown cloth covered boards, hardcover; 214 pages; black and white illustrations; dusty page edges else very good in an edgeworn, sunned and soiled dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Caswell, Edward (illustrator). A couple names inside. Pages toned; tight book; very good shape. The jacket is chipped and torn along the edges; discoloring; price clipped. Illustrator: Caswell, Edward. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 167915.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Poor dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. (juvenile fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Good hardcover. Pages very light brown. Bottom corners of pages have very light crease. Corners slightly bent. Edges of spine lightly bumped.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1938 The Macmillan Company. First Edition. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with red spine and cover panels with green lettering. Top page edges are maroon. Light green endpapers with black illustration. Black and white illustrations by Edward Caswell. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing; back cover has numerous tan stains. Spine is lightly sunned. Page edges lightly soiled. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Bookplate with name in ink on half-title page. Name and date of 1938 in ink in top margin of first page of the first chapter; pages clean and otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fjeril Hess (illustrator). 1st Edition. High Adventure, A Story of Slavic Pioneers in America was written and illustrated by Fjeril Hess. The book was published by the Council of Women for Home Missions in 1925 and appears to be a First Edition though it's not specifically stated as such. It IS a soft cover trade paperback edition. The book is NOT an ex-library copy and is in good + condition with no dust jacket. The book is 5" by 7 3/8" and has 160 pages with a Table of Contents, a Supplementary Reading List at the end of the book, and black-and-white sketches throughout the book . . . with a List of the Illustrations the page after the Table of Contents. "Since her return to this country, Miss Hess has been managing editor of The Women's Press, the official magazine of the National Y. W. C. A., and through her writing, singing, and drawing has been an ambassador at large, interpreting the life of the Slavic newcomers to their American neighbors." Thank you!

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Later Edition. 183pp Illus "The Story of the Three B's of the AAF.".

Condition: Very Good. NY MacMillan 1941. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in no dj tan c wlite rubbing; sm spots of foxing in lower margins 278. Illustrated by Rodewald, Fred C. 1st edition. 8vo.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects: Colorado; Colorado Juvenile fiction; Colorado Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Fiction; Juvenile works; Ranch life; Ranch life Juvenile fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Brown, Neva Kanaga (illustrator). 1st Edition. Yellow hardcover cloth binding square and tight but soiled with lightly rubbed corners. Illustrated endpapers, hinges good. Inscribed on half-title page by author. Tiny closed tear bottom of color frontispiece. 74 pages with a few smudges - b/w illustrations throughout plus three full color glossy plates (in addition to frontispiece). Marenka is a young girl who is bored tending geese all day until she finds a magic switch. 1st Printing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark yellow cloth with green and red decorations, 7 1/4 X 8 3/4 inches,74 pages. 4 full page color illustrations on glossy paper, plus black and white drawings throughout. Illustrated end papers. Closed tear to title page taped at the back, Light wear to cover. Very good. Features Peter and Marenka.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Neva Kanaga Brown (illustrator). First Edition. A clean, crisp book that is lightly worn at spine ends, internally unmarked. In orange boards with illustrated endpapers. Fairy tales of Middle Europe, illustrated with adorably nostalgic folk-art glossy plates.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Slightly Faded DJ. First Edition. 247pp A warm, understanding story of foreigners becoming Americans. (Loc 538/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Toffee cloth hardcover, 247 pages. Dust jacket with some rubbing, bumps at edges, corners, crown and foot of spine. Pages inside are clean, text is unmarked, binding is sound. A nice copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 278 Pp. Brown Cloth. First Printing Stated. Near Fine, No Marks.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good. Former owner's name plate on endpaper. Corners slightly rubbed and bent. Edges of spine bumped.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. "More social service work in Prague" - A sequel to 'The Mounted Falcon' which told of the adventures of a "vivacious, adventurous, friendly American girl who finds herself in golden-towered Prague in the days after the war, during the shaping of the new republic of Czechoslovakia." In this novel, she and her friends establish a youth hostel for students from many countries who are attending the University of Prague - but the lightheartedness is offset somewhat by hints of the coming of World War II. Quite a bit harder to find than "The Mounted Falcon." Illustated with drawings at the head of each chapter by Edward Cassell. 228 pp. Good condition in red cloth with black lettering - sunning to the spine, a few splotches to the covers, binding is tight and straight, contents are very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. NAP. 183p. Photos. Blue cloth. Very Good Copy.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects: Colorado; Colorado Juvenile fiction; Colorado Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse; Fiction; Juvenile works; Ranch life; Ranch life Juvenile fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG-. Neva Kanaga Brown, illus. No DJ. Light wear. Several child finger smudges on pages. No writing inside. 4 color plates. Covers slightly bowed.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Poor dust jacket. Reprint, 1935. Inscribed by author on half title page. (Conduct of Life, Ranch Life, Westerns, Juvenile Fiction).