Hoag John Edwin (3 results)

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). [6], 115 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. White dust jacket soiled with some foxing, toning along spine, a few nicks at edges. Light blue cloth with vibrant silver stamped lettering to spine. Some foxing to edges and endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. With an Introduction by editor Edwin T. Arnold, Notes on Contributors, and Index. Features the following: "Tribute to Erskine Caldwell" by John Hersey, "Caldwell's Women" by Harvey L. Klevar, "Caldwell at Dartmouth" by Henry Terrie, "Caldwell in Japan" by Fujisato Kitajima, "Caldwell's Fiction: Growing Towards Trash?" by Sylvia J. Cook, "Caldwell on Stage and Screen" by William J. Howard, "Canonize Caldwell's 'Georgia Boy;' A Case for Resurrection" by Ronald Wesley Hoag, "Interview with Helen Caldwell Cushman," and "Interview with Virginia Caldwell" by Edwin T. Arnold. Although without any indentifying marks as such, this book was from the personal library of Noel Polk (1943-2012), Professor Emeritus of English at Mississippi State University, who edited the school's THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY and earned renown for his scholarship regarding Southern literature, particularly the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. ISBN 0878054324. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. Cover creased, edges discolored. L. S. SHAPLEY-U. S. NAVY AT GUAM, BW PHOTO ILL." BOB" MACKAY, WALTER HAGEN GOLF, G. B. SHAW PICTURE WITH HIS WIFE. CUBAN HOMES. HAIFA-GATE OF THE HOLLY LAND. BON (illustrator).

12mo. [12 pp (unpaginated).], printed in red & black, in leporello accordion style format. With photo illustrations, rubricated initials, map. Self-printed softcovers (slight shelfwear, very slight toning), still VG bright copy. First edition of this scarce promotional souvenir touting the achievement of Hoag and Wilton piloting their 18-foot boat, powered by two 4-horsepower Evinrude outboard engines named Lewis & Clark, 5680 miles along the Columbia, Missouri, Illinois, & Hudson Rivers in 137 days. When setting out from Astoria, OR in a cheap canvas tent, the intrepid travelers quickly discovered that it offered not protection from either rain, or mosquito's so they ordered a Peerless Auto Tent in Portland, and the durable canvas tent proved essential, including surviving golf ball sized hail stones in South Dakota. John Edwin Hoag and partner Ford were photographers for the Automobile Club of Southern California in Los Angeles. No copies in Worldcat; See: John Edwin Hoag, Transcontinentalists Reach New York, Motorboating, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5 (1925); Across America by Motor Boat, Motorboating, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6 (1925).…