Herbert Merchant (3 results)

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Bradshaw Crandell (cover), August Bleser, Jr (Merchant Princess), Robert C Gellert (Foreign Matter), Walter Biggs (Three Men and Diana), Herbert Paus (Big Businessmen of Tomorrow) (illustrator). First Edition. The April issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include: Merchant Princess, part I of a novel by Ursula Parrott, Foreign Matter, a Scattergood story by Charles Budington Kelland, Three Men and Diana, part VII (conclusion) of a novel by Kathleen Norris, Twirler - an "Interesting People" profile of baseball HOF pitcher Carl Owen Hubbell, Genius - an "Interesting People" profile of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, How the Wild Things Play, a short feature by Archibald Rutledge, Big Businessmen of Tomorrow, an article by Walter Lippmann, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include light soiling & wear to the front & back covers, occasional small dark streaks to the fore edge of the pages, and a light damp stain to the top corner of the pages that gradually fades out. The interior is clean and tight. A very good copy of a vintage magazine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published in Wem in 1907, this is the First Edition of this seemingly very scarce book on the Shropshire town of Wem, bound in cloth, 7.25 inches tall approx., 76 pages plus short four page town trade directory at rear, not illustrated. The book also covers some of the surrounding villages and places including Grinshill, Hawkstone Park, Tilley, Aston, Butler's Green, Lacon, Cotton, Newtown, Wolverley, Horton, etc. CONDITION Light marking to covers, internally title page browned, some noticeable foxing marks to a few pages, the last page of the rear directory is browned and worn at edges lacking two page corner tips but not affecting the text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 80pp, library rebind in green cloth, a lib stamp verson title page Scarce ; Octavo.