Illustrated by John Gincano (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 423 pages. Illustrated by John Gincano (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. first edition. 10 x 9 in. Cloth spine with paper boards. Color plates. Condition is GOOD ; covers foxed with some surface creases, corners worn, rear lower corner partly gone. Wear to spine head. Binding tight. Gift message inside front cover, spot on title pg, text clean. Raer inner board has some crayon marks. Chil. Stax.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 277pp, b/w illustrations, prize bookplate on endpaper, pages browning, text clean and binding sound, green cloth, Good condition in browned and frayed dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Good dj. 1st (U.S.) edition. [moderate wear at all corners, very slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, very light foxing to page edges; jacket worn and soiled, with a few small tears, and a very amateurish tape-repair along the top edge (including a shallow chip at top of rear panel replaced with a piece of white paper, like nobody'd ever notice THAT)]. A sequel to the author's 1929 novel "Duchess Laura, Certain Days of Her Life" (published in the U.S. as "The Duchess Intervenes"), recounting more "episodes and adventures of the Duchess of Richborough, affectionately known as Duchess Laura." Contemporary rather than historical fiction, its protagonist is, in the author's words, "not the highly coloured romanticized type familiar to sensational fiction," but rather "a real human being, in a sense a typical woman of her class and way of life in that section of the English world first called by Disraeli 'high society.'" In the observation of a reviewer of the day, the Duchess "carries off her fifty-eight years with a nonchalance and aplomb of a heroine of romance. She has, we are assured, lost none of her old vivacity and time has done nothing worse to her than mellow and make perfect an already delightful personality.". Illustrated by (dj design) John Gincano (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ,1933, Stated 1st EDITION. 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, VG-/VG. Hardback Blue Cloth BOOK IS VERY NICE AND CLEAN inside light Fox, Wear, BUT Cvr HAS BEEN A BIT COLORED FADED AT THE SPINE AND EDGES extremities, D.J. IS WORN AT THE CORNERS AND WITH A 1 1/4" TEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FRONT PANEL, SOME SCATTERED SHORT EDGE TEARS AND TINY SURFACE NICKS AND SHORT SCRATCHES & small chipping Folds of DJ. A VERY NICE COPY. . Spine Ends DJ tiny Chips Wear Creases, 268 pgs , NO ADS in Back .A Canadian Family with a seafaring background & an Unproved Claim on the Proceeds of Ship, Sea Hawk, goes West in 1850's. Story is filled with dramatic Incidents, the burning at sea of a ship transporting a Menagerie, Race between two Mississippi River Steamboats, Prairie Fire & Escapes from Wolves & Indians. Journey from Nova Scotia by way of NY, Detroit & Chicago, by Sailing Ship, Erie Railroad, Lake Boat & River Steamer, gives a graphic picture of Travel in the days when trains were more or less of a Novelty & Steamers None too Dependable. Hannah, the Oldest Daughter, who at 16 wishes that she had been a Boy so that she could have followed in the footsteps of her seafaring Ancestors, is a vivid & Delightful Personality. They buy up a claim on the Prairie, In a 3-sided Floorless Shelter Hannah & her Sister, Mary Ellen make a Home for her Father & Cousin, Jim, until with the Help of their Neighbors they Build a Log Cabin & are Ready for the Arrival of the Mother & Sisters who have been left in NY. SCARCE, especially with dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE WILL TO WIN and Other Stories, by Stephen W. Meader; Illustrated by John Gincano- 1936- Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York- ORIGINAL 1936 FIRST EDITION (this IS a LIGHTLY marked EX-LIBRARY copy)- BINDING is ORIGINAL light BLUE CLOTH HARDCOVER with titles in black on spine; binding and text are generally neat, interior clean and solid with some cover soiling. There is NO dust jacket. Overall, a SOLID COPY of a fairly UNCOMMON STEPHEN W. MEADER TITLE. 300 pages. BK17091980.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. HBDJ, 1942. VG/VG-, AS-IS, Binding is brownMaroon Cloth Hardback with Paste-On LABEL WITH RED DECORATION Of BOY Hardcover bk with Light Rub, Wear. Book Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: in VG- dj. 216 pages, Endpapers have slightly browned areas caused by binder's glue. Dj is browned Slightly on the spine, lightly worn at top of spine & with Edge Tears wears & Tiny Chips Extremities. D.J. i in a mylar protector, Interior nicd tight clean Light Wear Fox, 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 in. Approx ,Humorous look at the life of a preacher's son in a Presbyterian parsonage in a little lumber and mining town in the Pacific Northwest back before WWI some name changes but mostly autobiographical. Wholly Delightful Bk. Signed by Author.…