Robert Osborn Drawings (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Very good gray cloth, clean & unmarked, hardcover in very good price clipped dust jacket. Size 5x8 with 208 pages, illustrated by Robert Osborn. 2nd printing 1968. Robert Osborn Drawings (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Very good gray cloth hardcover in very good dust jacket with a few chips/tears, else clean & tight. Size approx 6x8 with 238 pages. Illustrated by Robert C Osborn drawings. 1st printing 1962. Robert Osborn Drawings (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Lippincott, Phila., 1955, 6th.prtg., 8vo., cloth, 278pp., darkened cloth, G+ $.

Hardback. First Printing. No dust jacket. Very Good condition, with some br owning to edges of interior pages, slight dustsoiling. Tight, sound, unmark ed copy, except for inscription by previous owner on inside cover page.

Pamphlet. 39p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, illus., wraps lightly edgeworn, small stain on fore-edge, else very good condition. An Occasional Paper on the Role of Mass Media in the Free Society.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Quarter black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, endpapers age-toned in the gutter. Jacket has been price-clipped, it is ate toned at the top two inches, and there is a half inch closed tear at the bottom of the front panel. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a GOOD PLUS dust jacket. Robert Chesley Osborn (1904-1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author. According to Osborn's New York Times obituary, over his 50 year career, Osborn's "sardonic and often savage drawings in books and magazines have arrested readers with their images of bloated power, violence and death. At the same time, he could be wittily ironic about society's pretensions, spoofing subjects like psychiatry, suburbanites and social climbing." Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in price clipped jacket. Book and jacket in VG condition with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 112 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: poetry (Elizabeth Macklin, W.S. Merwin); Mary rimm ("/We"); Susan Sheehan (Reporter at Large: A German Family); Robert Cullen (Letter from Moscow); John Updike (Books); Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Reviews, Etc. Kathy Osborn Young "Subway Reader" cover art; also, drawings by Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Mischa Richter, Geoge Price, Roz Chast, George Booth, etc (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. stapled wraps; 132 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: poetry (Mona Van Duuyn, Eamon Grennan, Franz Wright); Garrison Keillor ("How the Savings and Loans Were Saved"); Elizabeth Tallent ("Prowler"); Frances FitzGerald (Annals of Justice: The Oliver North Trail); Herbert Warren Wind (Sports: Tenis); Alma Guillermoprieto (Letter fro Bogata); Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book reviews, Etc. Kathy Osborn Young "#2 Pencil"" cover art: also, drawings by William Steig, Roz Chast, James Stevenson, Ed Fisher, Dana Fradon, George Booth, Stan Hunt, etc. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition USA (1981) , unstated in accordance with St. Martin's Press' customary practice before 1982. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ: The Book shows faint but pervasive foxing to the outside edges and the very faintest musty odor (though we can find no evidence of exposure to dampness or any overt dampstaining) ; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a couple of minor cosmetic flaws. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.65 x 5.65 x 0.8 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 12.5 ounces. Black boards with gilt titles at the backstrip. First published in the UK by Macdonald and Jane's in 1979. Hardback with DJ. Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957) , in which he advanced his epnoymous 'law', stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", an insight which led him - much to his own bemusement - to be regarded as an important scholar in public administration and management. He wrote two biographies of fictional characters, The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, first published in 1970, and this one, a fictional biography of Bertie Wooster's loyal, omniscient valet. In it, Parkinson not only ties together a fairly complex narrative (based on the snippets we are given in the canon stories of Jeeves' career prior to encountering the young preux chevalier to whom he becomes both an indispensable right-hand man and - despite the barriers of the master/ servant relationship - his best friend) but draws to a satisfying close the story of these two lovable characters. Parkinson's style is that of a very assured, but now sadly rarely encountered creature - the exceptionally erudite narrator of leisurely but well-constructed tales, offering a proliferation of offhand references to literature and mythology - that is evocative of the very best writers of centuries earlier than the twentieth century. I am a fan of Parkinson's based on his other works, but this I personally believe to be his crowning achievement. The book consists of a masterful synthesis of his own inimitable style and that of the estimable P. G. Wodehouse; the combination is a pure and exquisite joy to read. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 191 pages. Illustrated by Illustrated with Drawings in Black & White by Robert C.Osborn. (illustrator).…

Loose Pages / Plastic Folder. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Were These One of Your Ancestors.Their Address was The Gum Tragasol Supply Co. Ltd , Hooton , Chester.It Contains 3 Pages of Text.Please Email For Further Details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Black & White Line Drawings (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed. Loose Pages.…