Introduction Ben Ames Williams (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Blue covers with gold printing; rubbed on top and bottom of spine and corner. Only back cover and flap of dust jacket are present--chipped and torn; back flap has photo of author. Deckle-edged pages are clean, yellowing a bit. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stated First Edition. Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Navy cloth covers with lettering on spine. 429 pages. Former owner's address sticker inside cover. Clean copy - no writing noted. Pages are tanned. 5 5/8" x 8 1/4".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. "The Kenneth Roberts Reader" is a generous helping selected from his novels and essays. Filled with drama, action, humor, satire, and intimate conversation pieces, it is a anthology to delight the most cosmopolitan tastes. Included in these twenty-six excerpts are vivid scenes and episodes from those great novels "Northwest Passage", "Oliver Wiswell", and "Arundel". There are also amusing, biting essays from "Trending into Maine" and "For Authors Only", as well as a chapter on tonsillectomy warranted to bring tears to the eyes of anyone - doctor, nurse, or patient, who has ever been in a hospital anywhere. The study of divining rods - "Experiments with a Forked Twig" - is here published for the first time in book form. A collection of superlative reading, this is a book for all who enjoy good, absorbing writing, as well as for the many fans of Kenneth Roberts.  (From the dust-jacket blurb) TITLE : The Kenneth Roberts Reader AUTHOR : Kenneth Roberts (1885 - 1957) INTRODUCTION : Ben Ames Williams (1889 - 1953) IMPRINT : Doubleday PLACE : Garden City DATE : No date ( © 1945) EDITION : Issued through the Book Club STATUS : This edition Out of Print - OP PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover issued through a book club; contains an Introduction; [xii]+ 429 pages plus 5 pages of promotional material for books by Roberts; approximately 5 1/2" x 8"; dark blue cloth with title , etc. and decorative embellishments in gilt on spine; top edge dyed dull yellow; decorated dust-jacket. photo-portrait of Roberts on back flap. CONDITION - BOOK : VERY GOOD - JACKET : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Soft bumps to bottom fore-edge tips of boards; slight compression and mild abrasion to spine extremities, else clean and presentable. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Paper is mildly toned, else clean and presentable with negligible signs of use DUST-JACKET : Mild wear around edges which includes small nick and chipping - mild surface rub - basically a beautifully preserved jacket which displays very nicely under protective archival mylar cover. Probably the nicest specimen of this edition I have seen.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in Very Good+ Condition. Spine ends and corners are bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Churchill Ettinger (illustrator). Limited Edition. Number 490 of a printing of 1250 copes, numbered on copyright page. Introduction by Kenneth Roberts, Illustrations by Churchill Ettinger. Bound in green cloth boards with tan buckram spine, gilt stamped title on cover; gilt-stamped title on green leather spine-label. It is my understanding that this title was published with a slipcase, lacking here, though a clear plastic wrapper has protected this copy very well, with some toning to the wrapper, and a small chip missing from top edge of front panel though the book (especially the leather spine-label) is in excellent condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages.