Gene Dudley (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bull No 16, 19 pp., Photos, White Paperback, Fine, 1st ed.

Paperback. Condition: New. "Tell 'em I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice," Bill Monroe said. Known as the Father of Bluegrass Music, Monroe pioneered a whole new category of music and inspired generations of musicians and fans. Yet from his founding of the original bluegrass band through six decades of performing, he remained an enigmatic figure, a compelling mixture of fierce intensity, homespun modesty, and musical integrity. Determined to play the mandolin in a way it had never been played before, Monroe distinguished himself in the mid-1930s with the Monroe Brothers then began forming his own band, the Blue Grass Boys, in 1938. By the mid-1940s other bands were copying his sound, and a new style, bluegrass music, was born. While country music moved toward electrification, Monroe maintained his acoustic ensemble and developed his "high, lonesome sound," performing nearly up to his death in 1996. In this eclectic, richly illustrated reader, former Blue Grass Boy Tom Ewing gathers the most significant and illuminating of the many articles that have been written about Monroe. Through the writings of nearly sixty observers, interviewers, admirers, folklorists, and other scholars, along with Ewing's astute commentary, The Bill Monroe Reader offers a multifaceted view of one of the most influential country musicians of the twentieth century. Lively, heartfelt, and informative, The Bill Monroe Reader is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Attractive Depression-era Grosset & Dunlap reprint of Gene Stratton-Porter's Her Father's Daughter, originally published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1921. Set principally in Southern California, the novel follows the independent Linda Strong through education, writing, romance, family conflict, and her intense engagement with California's natural world. This edition preserves the striking full-color frontispiece by Dudley Gloyne Summers, captioned "Because I am a woman to-day, I shall set my seal upon you," together with illustrated chapter headpieces. The dedication is to James Sweetser Lawshe, whom Stratton-Porter credits with teaching her about California flowers. Although the copyright page states "Copyright, 1921, by Gene Stratton-Porter" and retains the Country Life Press printing statement, the Grosset & Dunlap title page establishes this as a later reprint rather than the 1921 Doubleday, Page first edition. Importantly, the terminal publisher advertisements allow this particular copy to be dated much more closely. The Lida Larrimore advertisement includes True by the Sun (1934), establishing 1934 as a terminus post quem; Larrimore's next novel, No Lovelier Spring (1935), is absent. Her bibliography confirms that sequence, while a demonstrably later state of the same Grosset & Dunlap advertisement adds both No Lovelier Spring and Two Keys to a Cabin (1936). The Louise Platt Hauck advertisement provides independent corroboration by including Family Matters, published in 1934. The evidence therefore supports a publication range of approximately 1934-1935, with circa 1934 the most likely date. Condition: Very Good. Strong, secure spine and binding with clean pages. Original textured cloth remains sound, with general age-related toning and discoloration, particularly to the spine; scattered small spots and surface marks; light rubbing and minor fraying at spine ends and extremities; and several small marks to the otherwise plain rear board. Interior is notably clean for the period, with moderate natural age toning but no significant foxing or staining evident in the photographs. Color frontispiece remains complete, bright and attractive. No dust jacket present. Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American novelist, naturalist, photographer, conservationist and one of the most commercially successful women writers of her era. Her best-known books include Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, The Harvester, and Laddie. Her fiction frequently intertwined romantic and domestic narratives with unusually detailed observations of plants, wildlife and landscape. Her Father's Daughter belongs to the final period of her career and is especially interesting because Stratton-Porter had moved from Indiana to California. The novel's California setting and botanical interests consequently have a strong autobiographical dimension. The book also contains material that requires historical context. It incorporates explicit anti-Japanese and nativist language and attitudes, strikingly visible from the opening page, where a Japanese student at a Los Angeles high school is portrayed through derogatory racial language. For today's collector, the novel can therefore be approached not only as popular fiction by a major American woman writer, but also as a primary-source artifact documenting attitudes toward Japanese Americans, immigration and California nativism during the early 1920s. The title page explicitly credits Dudley Gloyne Summers (1892-1975) with the frontispiece. His color illustration depicts Linda Strong and Donald Whiting against an idealized California landscape and is an important surviving visual element from the book's original production. Dudley Gloyne Summers (illustrator).…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A vintage novel set in California in decorated boards, with illustrated endpapers and a color frontis. Book is barely worn - exterior boards have a couple of miniscule tears at spine ends, one page has a small archival tape repair, otherwise very crisp and clean, and book is covered in a colorful Grosset & Dunlap facsimile jacket. Dudley Cloyne Summers (frontispiece) (illustrator). …

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1921, 486pp, frontis, illus. eps & pgs up to pg 3, soiling to cover, crease tp spine, wear to spine ends, bottom corners slightly bumped, rear inner hinge starting, binding is still tight, waterstain to pg edges, affects the margin of a few pgs, a couple pgs w/ light smudges, no dj, contents unmarked. Dudley Gloyne Summer (illustrator). …

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 486pp Decorated endpapers Light bluish grey cover with dark blue lettering Color frontispiece Tiny tears at base of spine Front hinge is cracking. Summers, Dudley Gloyne (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Original grey cloth on boards. Inscription and previous owner's name. Linda, age 17, has been brought up to understand and appreciate the beauty of her surroundings. When her father dies, she must face a difficult situation. 486 pp. Set near Los Angeles, it reveals the author's position on prejudice toward other races during WWI. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontispiece By Dudley Gloyne Summers (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Front+; First Edition, with date on copyright page matching the date on the title page. The book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have noticeable bumping, rubbing and bits of fraying. The top spine end of the book cover has some tearing to the cloth. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are occasional spots of foxing throughout. There is a full color frontispiece by Dudley G loyne Summers, and the endpapers, previous books pages, title page and double copyright pages, along with the next several introductory pages all have illustrations in green ink. Illustrated by Dudley Gloyne Summers (illustrator).…

Condition: New. Known as the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe pioneered a whole genre of music and inspired generations of musicians and fans. This title gathers many articles that have been written about Monroe. It offers a view of one of the most influential musicians of.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This first edition has some light corner bumping, edge wear. No board showing, cloth worn at head and tail of darkened spine. Some light spotting of the covers, hinges and gutters are solid. Owner's name inked {dated 1921} on center of fep, very neatly. Small bookseller's stamp bottom of front paste-down. Text has yellowed with age, clean and solid in binding. A good copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Summers, Dudley Gloyne {Frontispiece} (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. CD, case, and liner all in very nice condition.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NO DJ, 1921, 1st edition, 1st printing, with title page & copyright page dAtes Matching, Rubbed Chipped pictorial gray gReen Yellow Floral Decorated Cloth Cover with few small stains & edge Wear, Discolored on Edge & Spine with few nicks tears, Former owner's Name, VG-/GOOD, AS-IS, NOJACKET, Interior light rub,wear FoX & stiffness due to Repair, edge pages light staine Outeredges, with dark Green Cover Titles, Interior nice Tight cLean FOX, Light Wear, light stain outer pages edges, Spine cover small edge tears & some Darkening, BacK Cover brown stains.…

Paperback. Condition: New. "Tell 'em I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice," Bill Monroe said. Known as the Father of Bluegrass Music, Monroe pioneered a whole new category of music and inspired generations of musicians and fans. Yet from his founding of the original bluegrass band through six decades of performing, he remained an enigmatic figure, a compelling mixture of fierce intensity, homespun modesty, and musical integrity. Determined to play the mandolin in a way it had never been played before, Monroe distinguished himself in the mid-1930s with the Monroe Brothers then began forming his own band, the Blue Grass Boys, in 1938. By the mid-1940s other bands were copying his sound, and a new style, bluegrass music, was born. While country music moved toward electrification, Monroe maintained his acoustic ensemble and developed his "high, lonesome sound," performing nearly up to his death in 1996. In this eclectic, richly illustrated reader, former Blue Grass Boy Tom Ewing gathers the most significant and illuminating of the many articles that have been written about Monroe. Through the writings of nearly sixty observers, interviewers, admirers, folklorists, and other scholars, along with Ewing's astute commentary, The Bill Monroe Reader offers a multifaceted view of one of the most influential country musicians of the twentieth century. Lively, heartfelt, and informative, The Bill Monroe Reader is a fitting tribute to the man and the musician who transformed the traditional music of western Kentucky into an international sensation.…

First edition (not stated) DATED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. viii, 144 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket with color pictorial front panel; strong rubbing to panels with creasing, short tears, small chips, and edge-nicks; toning and staining to white spine and white rear panel; front flap completely missing. Green boards; spine ends lightly bumped; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to front board and spine. Foxing/toning to text block edges and endpapers; author's four-line blue ink inscription "I certify this to be an authentic | copy of my book, First Edition. | Gene Nunnery | 12-12-80" at bottom of front free endpaper; a few foxing spots to interior leaves which are otherwise clean. Page ii features large sticker affixed atop original printed copyright statement amending publisher information to Gene Nunnery of Meridian, Mississippi (the original obscured text notes the book's publication by Portal Press of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; presumably Nunnery bought out Portal's inventory to sell the book himself which technically would make this book a second issue of the first edition). Binding is firm. A very good copy in just a fair dust jacket. Features Foreword by Jack L. Dudley and Ben Rodgers Lee as well as thirty b/w illustrations by Norman C. Miller, Jr. {HuntingShelf#5} ISBN 0916620484.…

First edition (not stated). viii, 144 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket with color pictorial front panel; light rubbing to panels, some soiling to white spine and rear panel; 4.5cm tear ascending from heel of rear flap fold; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Green boards; vibrant gilt stamped lettering to front board and spine. Touch of foxing to endpapers; interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Features Foreword by Jack Dudley and Ben Rodgers Lee as well as thirty b/w illustrations by Norman C. Miller, Jr. {HuntingShelf#3|CMS-01050} ISBN 0916620484.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Octavo gray pictorial cloth stamped in yellow and dark green. With a color frontispiece and preliminary page decorations by Dudley Gloyne Summers. A fine copy in a Near-fine dust jacket which has only light wear at the spine tips. Dudley Gloyne (illustrator).…