John Erving (25 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 436 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear to the original blue covers; tape covering the spine. The pages are yellowed with age; a good reading copy overall. Illustrator: Adams, John Wolcott. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Inventory No: 221599. Adams, John Wolcott (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. General Hall, 1994. Hard cover, first edition. Has some underlining and highlighting; not perfect but a solid reading copy.

Condition: Very Good. First edition copy. . (illustration of books, private collections, catalogs).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Book cover is slightly darkened at spine and has minor edge wear. Frontispiece is foxed. Illustrated by Adams, John Wolcott (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Fresh blue covers with silver lettering to spine, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Illustrator: John Wolcott Adams. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0843200081. ISBN/EAN: 9780843200089. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 75112080039. All our books are sent by tracked mail. John Wolcott Adams (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, crisp hardcover in very good condition; mild shelf wear. No DJ. Adams, John (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Navy blue cover with title, author and illustrator and figure of a steamboat in gold, spine is covered with blue tape. This has been a library book and has been repaired. Also the first few pages are missing (which would include the title page, information about the publisher, etc.) There are none online to compare. 85 illustrations, 1 in color, 23 chapters which seem to be comprehensive of many steamboats. back cover has also been repaired, repaired spine has the title, author and library number, pages are rough cut and moderately to lightly soiled. psges are sewm. some are water stained and few have the library number and are stamped. I found 1 crack at the front of the book. Except as noted the pages are tight and clean. No damage to reading pages except light water damage as noted. This would be great for research. The book contains a wealth of information. John Wolcott Adams (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. reprint. B&W & Color Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 436 pages; Stout HC in pictorial DJ. Snug, solid and neat; text clean and unmarked. Light shelf rub along the bottom edge. Jacket rubbed at spine ends and corners with a few closed nicks. Mild fading to DJ spine panel. Illustrated w/ color frontis and numerous plates and in text views from drawings by Adams. VG+/VG+ . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. Illustrated by John Wolcatt Adams (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Art, Art Exhibit, Art Catalog, Illustrated Books art) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A multi-regional survey and history of the steamboat era on major American rivers and Waterways. Profusely illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 436 pages, 9 3/4" x 6 1/4", blue cloth covers with gilt printing. The spine is sunned and the spine ends and corners are slightly rubbed and scuffed. Former owner notes in ink on the front free endpaper- otherwise this is a bright, complete copy. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A history of American steamboats from its earliest days to the twentieth century. Covers the steamboat vessels on all of America's major waterways and regions with a focus on the eastern seaboard. Many illustrations. Some foxing on endpapers and title page otherwise clean.…

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDSome tape residue endpapers else very good bright copy in poor torn chipped age-toned dust jacket. Most often found without the dust jacket.*.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 436 pages. A history of American steamboats from its earliest days to the twentieth century. Covers the steamboat vessels on all of America's major waterways and regions with a focus on the eastern seaboard. Many illustrations. Record # 371203. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A history of American steamboats from its earliest days to the twentieth century. Covers the steamboat vessels on all of America's major waterways and regions with a focus on the eastern seaboard. Many illustrations. Some foxing on endpapers and title page otherwise clean. John Wolcott Adams (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925. First edition, 1925. Color frontis, many additional illustrations in black and white. Focuses on New England steamboat travel and commerce, much devoted to Connecticut River, with some chapters on the Midatlantic, Western states, Great Lakes and Atlantic coast. Dark blue textured cloth printed in gilt, 426 pages, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Very good with some mild frays to the corners of the spine, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with a name and 1925 date on the front free endpaper, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Excellent survey of American steamboats includes many B/W drawings and color frontispiece. Starts with the development of steamboats, covers the beginnings of steamboat commerce, historical evens and famous people who rode the boats, including Mark Twain.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG/NO DUSTJACKET. First Edition. NY: Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1925. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 436 pp., Former owners inscription . Black & White/Color Illus. (illustrator).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good in boards. Hinge is starting. Ex-Library with the usual markings. Tear to exterior at spine.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. **Presentation copy from the Author to fellow writer of note, Bud Kelland, (undated).** Hard cover, 8vo., in blue publisher's cloth, embossed with border and with the title and ship vignette to the front board in gilt, and upon spine, 436 pp. Condition: Very Good, with a couple of repairs attempted at two final pages, due to a manufacturing error with the page trim. Minor rubbing to exterior corners and edges. First published in 1925, Steamboat Days is a heavily list-centric compendium of details of the industry, beginning in England, and early America. Broken down by geographic region, it includes details on every part of America's riverine commerce, especially as it blossomed in the nineteenth century. (Of particular interest to this bookseller is the mention of steamboats on the Merrimack River, ferrying passengers to a day of relaxation at Plum Island from Haverhill, or goods and materials from Newburyport to Salem or Boston.) Numerous pen and ink illustrations of individual steamboats are provided by John Wolcott Adams (1874-1925), a descendant of the famed Presidents of the same last name, as well as a successful magazine and book illustrator, who once worked with Howard Pyle teaching art at the latter's art school in Delaware. **The presentation inscription is from the Author to Bud Kelland. Kelland wrote many popular novels in the thirties and forties, his character Scattergood Baines being serialized into a run of six popular Hollywood movies. Illustrated by John Walcott Adams (illustrator). Inscribed by Author to Bud Kelland. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover, no dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the same date on the copyright and title pages, excellent condition with mild rubbing to the cloth at the tips of the corners and a name written on the first blank end-paper are the only remarkable flaws, this attractive copy features a warm presentation inscription by the author and is signed and dated in the year of publication by the author, the presentation begins "To dear old Bill MacKay" and is dated "12/17/25," the blue cloth binding with bright gold titles is clean and bright as new and the contents are fine, with many illustrations and a color frontis of the Clermont, the first commercial steamboat with the original protective tissue-guard ; 436 pages; Signed by Author.…

Removed Document. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. House, 15th Congress, 1st session, No. 67; 8vo; 35, (1) pages; Removed document, disbound from larger volume. Scattered foxxing and faint tidemark at right side. OCLC 886823786 ; Shaw & Shoemaker 46440 ; Sabin 47235 Transmittal letters signed (in print) by James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, George W. Erving; Louis De Onis. Testimony and entreaties collected to solicit support from Congress and the President to encourage the government of Spain to release Richard W. Meade from prison. Richard Worsam Meade (1778 â" 1828) was an American merchant and art collector who achieved wealth and success in the Americanâ"Spanish trade. Meade lived in Cadiz, Spain, from 1803 to 1820, and was the U.S. naval agent there. He became quite wealthy and was one of the first American collectors of European art. During the siege of Cadiz in the Peninsular War, Meade provided the Spanish monarchy with "supplies of all kinds" against the French invasion. While Meade spent much of his money, the Spanish government ran up a large debt. On a pretext to avoid paying the government's huge debt, Meade was imprisoned in the Castle of Santa Catalina on May 2, 1816. He called on Philadelphia connections like Congressman John Sergeant, and addressed a memorial to President James Monroe and Congress. The anti-Spanish faction seized the political opportunity: Speaker Henry Clay led the House of Representatives in resolving that "the imprisonment of Richard W. Meade is an act of cruel and unjustifiable oppression", and was joined by the Senate. With Spanishâ"U.S. tensions running high, the king ordered him released on June 26, 1818. The Meade family had already returned to Philadelphia, while Richard moved to Madrid to collect his money. To thank the government for negotiating his release, Meade gifted the U.S. legation in Madrid a copy of the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington. it hung at the embassy until 1951, when Congressman James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania saw the painting and had it transported to America to be placed in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.…