Roberts Kenneth Author (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has tiny smudges and light toning to textblocks, light wear to edges with a couple of bumps, some toning to endpapers, a slight inward bend to front cover outer bottom corner, a 6 inch black smudge across spine partially obscuring title. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked pages; an overall sturdy copy with sharp text. Dust jacket has light rubbing and smudges, light wear to edges. in very good condition, now in archival cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Doubleday and Company, 1961. Book has a slightly cocked and shaken spine, mild aging and smudging to covers with scuffs and water damage to back cover top edge, mild wear to edges and corners. in good condition due to moderate cosmetic/aging wear including water damage, otherwise a decent copy with unmarked text and fairly strong binding. Dust jacket has rubbing/aging to front and back, water damage to top area of back side, scuffs to edges and corners. in good condition, now in archival cover.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear, tear, rubbing, and edgewear. Loose hinges. Pages are tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 280 pages. 9.01x6.01x9.00 inches. In Stock.

(8) 709 pages, 1 p. Publisher's adverts; foreedge untrimmed. - Publisher's gilt-titled darkgreen cloth binding with colour-illustrated dustjacket and map-wise illustr. endpapers, topedge black; 8vo.(ca. 20 x 15 x 4 cm). ~~~ FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING; CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL WITH DUSTJACKET, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLEPAGE. - Dustjacket used and protected by loose mylar-cover, foretitle with private gift inscription ''Best wishes for better Times to come . . .'' dated 1941; else in best condition. --- Few other signed or inscribed Books by Roberts in stock. . .…

°°° FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING; CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the titlepage; (8) 310 (2) pages, 3 p. Publisher's adverts; foreedge untrimmed. - Both panels towards the foreedge with slight humidity-stain, minimally offsetting to the opposite interior of the panels; els in best condition, protected by loose mylar cover. --- Few other signed or inscribed Books by Roberts in stock. . . …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Two letters, 12mo and octavo, respectively, two pages, some tape residue to edges of each letter, where formerly affixed to an album, else in good, legible condition. Roberts thanks Pleasants for the gift of a book, and comments on his travels in England in the 1934 letter. In the 1937 letter he writes Pleasants commenting on points in his finest novel Northwest Passage, published in 1937: "Dear Dr. Pleasants: It was a pleasure to hear from you again, and I greatly appreciate the kind things you say. I get your point about Carleton, but he just didn't fit into my narrative. My story was practically ended as soon as Rogers was disappointed in his attempt to find the Northwest Passage. Everything beyond that was extraneous and had to be told with the greatest possible speed. Thus I found it impossible to use some of the things that I would have liked to use - such as Rogers' courtmartial, for example. It will be a great pleasure to see a copy of your book when it's published. Have you tried your manuscript with Little Brown? They and Knopf seem to me to be unusually able publishers. The trouble with books in general is that no publisher, as a rule, is able to sell more than two or three thousand copies, and such a sale is dreadfully disappointing to any author … Kenneth Roberts" Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 - July 21, 1957) was an American writer of historical novels. He worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction, often writing about his native state and its terrain and also about other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters in Arundel and Rabble in Arms are from Kennebunkport (then called Arundel), the main character in Northwest Passage is from Kittery, Maine and has friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in Oliver Wiswell is from Milton, Massachusetts. American National Biography, vol. 18, pp., 606-607.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 280 pages. 9.01x6.01x9.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.