Roberts William Culver Bobs (9 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards have scuffing and shelf rubbing with minor staining and bumping. Binding is sound, with slight cracking to front and back hinges. Front end paper has writing from the previous owner; some interior pages have minor smudging and slight tearing but text is overall clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st editon. 1st edition, 1909. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 70 pp., with black & white images. Bound in publishers green cloth with paste down image of author on front cover. SIGNED by author on first end page and dedication page. Slight rubbing to tips, edges and spine; gilt is clean and bright; interior clean. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED by the author on the frontis. Moderate wear to the cover. Inside front hinge has started to crack but remains mostly intact. Flaking has occurred on the top golden gilt edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Signed Copy. 71 Pages. Signed by the author in dark blue ink below his picture on the page opposite tot the title page. This is an account of the author's trip, while a boy, with his father on a ship, The Arabic, into many countries around the world. The book comes in green boards with gold lettering on the front cover and on the spine. The book's exterior has four corners with variably worn areas, worn areas at the top and bottom of the spine along the left edge of the spine, and light wearing on the bottom edge. The interior book, other than having some foxing and/or stains on some of its pages and having a few loose pages from the binding, has no further visible detriments, distractions, or extraneous markings throughout it and thus has all of its printing and black and white photos in a very well-preserved and enjoyable condition. The bindings of the book, other than the aforementioned loose pages, appear to be still sound overall and thus quite tight. If you order this neat little book from us, it will be carefully wrapped up, padded, boxed, and then sent right away to you, and will come with our total appreciation for your interest and your order.…

Edition not stated. Octavo ( 18cm); green cloth, stamped in gilt, photo-illustration of author tipped on front; TEG; 70pp, frontis, 16 plates. Smudging, rubbing and wear to boards; front illustration has small chip. Textblock foxed, with smudges and handling wear; bindings slightly shaken; author signature on frontispiece. Overall, just about Very Good. William "Bobs" Culver Roberts Jr. was the son of a succesful businessman, William Culver Roberts, then-owner and president of the Brooklyn-based Roberts Numbering Machine Company. As gleaned from the title, this book contains his own account (with b/w photographs) of a family vacation to the Mediterranean, including Portugal (where he made a little girlfriend), the Rock of Gibraltar, Cairo, Rome, and Monte Carlo. Sadly, the father to whom Bobs so tenderly dedicated his book passed away two years after its publication. Bobs himself graduated from Princeton in 1922 and married in 1936 (Spoilers: He did not marry his Portuguese girlfriend). Signed.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1909 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 119 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 119.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have. …