Franck Harry Frank (4 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Star Books Ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid,bright.Gift name ep "To Fred from Bess and Bob'35".else nice copy. Green Clothbnd; Black spine & cover titles on bright green hard covers.Color map to both front endpapers is in 4 colors & notes "CARIBBEAN SEA" to the North of Venezuela. BOOK HAS SEVRAL PAGES AFTER ITS TEXT WITH SAMLES FROM OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR & HALIBURTON ; 612ps+ adverts pages; Honest Walker, describes people, places.Very opinionated and with precise observations without over romanticizing. Known for foot walking travel by his many books, but did get to some island destinations by conveyance. This is perhaps his best travel book.:To-day Cuzco is the Florence of Quitchua." Frank was an expert in native languages.Keshua (with the most guteral of sounds), hsa survived to a greater extent than any other American dialect.". Illustrated by Unusual Photos & Map Eps (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. Square, tight copy. NOT a library copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Six consecutive monthly issues, bound together in sturdy brown cloth. Contains Vol. CXXXIX (5 issues, July-Nov 1919) + Vol. CXL (1 issue, Dec 1919). Includes: THROUGH GERMANY ON FOOT [parts I, II, III, IV] by Harry A. Franck; QUINCUNX, A POEM by Amy Lowell; SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF THE ARCTIC [parts IV, V, VI] by Vilhjalmur Stefansson; MY CAPTURE AND ESCAPE by Lieut. John O.W. Gilchrist; EASTERN NIGHTS AND FLIGHTS by Captain Alan Bott [parts I, II, III, IV]; BEULAH, A STORY by Alice Hegan Rice; I KNOW THE STARS by Sara Teasdale; THE REAL CONQUEST OF THE AIR by Buckner Speed; HOSTS AND GUESTS by Max Beerbohm; MARSHAL FOCH: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT by Baron Andre De Maricourt; THE SECRET DOVE by Zona Gale; EIGHTY YEARS AND AFTER by W. D. Howells; WAR INVENTIONS THAT CAME TOO LATE by Frank Parker Stockbridge; Richard Le Gallienne; etc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket. 8vo. 936pp. + 144pp. . …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Complete Magazine, August 1921, Almost No Wear But1 1/2" Split To Top Front Spine Edge And 1/4" Chip At Base Of Spine. Full Page Color Ad On Rear Cover For Raybestos Brake Linings, Which May Be Assumed To Have The Wrong Kind Of Asbestos Because, Why Not.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Groll, Albert; Shields, Gertrude M.; Avison, George; Salg, B.N.; Johnston, Robert E. (illustrator).…