Herb Roth Illus (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illus. by Herb Roth (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 120 pp., Foreword by Paul Dickson.

Condition: Fair. 1921. No Edition Remarks. 230 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1921. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in dark blue and green; xiii,[14]-230pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips affecting text of publisher's ads printed on jacket verso but not affecting external text, spine panel and flap folds toned, corners bumped, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed and signed by the Civil War historian Bruce Catton to journalist and writer [though *not* the McTeague author] Frank Norris, "on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his birth." The inscription continues with a long poem that incorporates the words from the book's title and concludes with the line "An 'Outline'? Pregnant indeed for liminal chirascuro [sic]! / Fulfill thy Destiny oh friend. / Bruce Catton / 3/3/57 / By the way. How's *your* stuff selling?" This Frank Norris is most likely Frank Callan Norris (1907-1967), a writer and editor for Time and Newsweek and later author of three novels [Nutro 29 (1950), Tower in the West (1957), and At Last to Kiss Amanda (1961)] who, according to his obituary, coined the phrase "World War II.".

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue of 600 "presentation" copies, none of which were for sale. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in peach pictorial dust jacket printed in blue, black, and gilt, blue-green topstain; [2],246pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit sunned with some minor chipping to ends, else Near Fine. Signed (not called for) by the author on front free endpaper. Comic novel about a man and his inherited insane asylum, authored by the screenwriter who would later win an Academy Award for his adaptation of The Philadelphia Story. A very fresh copy in the evocative Herb Roth dustwrapper. SMITH S-926. Signed.