Ruark Robert Taylor (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. R. Taylor (illustrator). tan cloth with green lettering page browning ow near fine no internal writing. Unclipped DJ ($2.50) chipping mostly back of jacket and spine damp stain at bottom other minor soiling looks very good in mylar wrapper This is most probably a second printing as First Edition not stated on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Line drawings by R. Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. 233pp. Stated 1st edition. Lacking DJ but now protected in clear glassine wrapper. Spine ends lightly bumped and corners slightly worn. Pages lightly tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Doubleday & Company, 1949; very good hardcover copy, missing dust jacket; 253pp. Illustrated by Robert Taylor. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; corners of beige cloth boards bumped; maroon titling remains bright and bold, though cloth of spine strip is slightly sunned. Text block evenly age-toned. Small spot of adhesive residue to front free endpaper, likely from previous sale sticker. Interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. R. Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition , first printing copy, tan cloth binding, no DJ unless you consider the rear flap, which is now a bookmark. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. R. Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. Beige cover; 26 chapters; a few b/w illustrations. The front board and spine strip have moderate foxing. The back board has a small, gray stain on a corner and an intermittent long gray stain along the back edge. The free endpapers are tanned. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. MAGAZINE in Clear Plastic , Minor Rub, Wear Scuff Cvr, NF+/VG+, AS-IS, NO JACKET, MAGAZINE, Interior Nice tight light Wear Fox, Miss March Foldout Intact Inside, Light Scuff Soil Back Cover. Color 2 Page Vargas Girl in Black Negligee Illustration inside, Leroy Neiman Portrays Beauteous Bunnies of NY in Their Glamorous Habitat, Silverstein in Mexico.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. MAGAZINE in Clear Plastic , Minor Rub, Wear Scuff Cvr, NF+/VG+, AS-IS, NO JACKET, MAGAZINE, Interior Nice tight light Wear Fox, Miss March Foldout Intact Inside, Light Scuff Soil Back Cover , Color 2 Page Vargas Girl in Black Negligee Illustration inside, Leroy Neiman Portrays Beauteous Bunnies of NY in Their Glamorous Habitat, Silverstein in Mexico.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. MAGAZINE in Clear Plastic , Minor Rub, Wear Scuff Cvr, NF+/NF-, AS-IS, NO JACKET, MAGAZINE, Interior Nice tight light Wear Fox, Miss March Foldout Intact Inside, Light Scuff Soil Back Cover ,Conclusion The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov, Color 2 Page Vargas Girl in Black Negligee Illustration inside, Leroy Neiman Portrays Beauteous Bunnies of NY in Their Glamorous Habitat, Silverstein in Mexico.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. R. Taylor (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good, clean, tight condition - cover . First edition. Inscribed by Ruark to previous owner. No jacket Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover, 255 pages. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Taylor, R. (illustrator). Stated first edition. Minor edge wear and soiling to dust jacket. Slight chipping and creasing to corners. $2.50 flap price unclipped in mylar protector. Light wear and minor soiling to brown cloth boards. Light soiling intermittent throughout interior.

Illustrations by R. Taylor (illustrator). Stated First Edition. Writing in the same colorful, biting prose avid readers of Ruark's syndicated column know so well, he provides a hilarious commentary on the droll attempts to beautify the American male, an enlightening chapter on Mae West and Dr. Kinsey, and still another section dealing richly with summer madness and the absurdities of banks and vacations. In other chapters Ruark tells how to achieve fame on the stage or break into the movies - obviously by shooting people or by smoking marijuana. A fugitive professor from Yale who fell among snakes gets a brisk going over and such people as Tallulah Bankhead, Leo Durocher, Charles Luckman, Frank Costello, and a man who lives off other folks' ulcer pass under the amused scrutiny of the gentleman from North Carolina. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Otherwise book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has shallow tears and fraying along top and bottom edges. One inch closed tear at top edge of back panel. But still a sturdy attractive jacket. 8vo. 8-18" x 5-1/2". Beige cloth covered boards stamped in brown. 253 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York. 1948. 255 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light chipping, shelf-wear and rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine nad the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Preivous owner's name presenr to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The irreverent, thumb to nose columnist again collected and having his say on this, that and many another thing. Ruark can really go to town, whether it be on food or drink, burlesque, sports writing, whether it is life in the country, or women or politics, barrooms or weddings, personalities or gadgets, and he manages to swing a mean, as well as a funny line. His newspaper following is sizable, and in assembling these columns, several on similar subjects have been grouped under one heading, which makes for a more continuous, coherent flow of ideas. There's a definite bite to his ideas, a rowdy corrective quality to his opinions, and a happy exaggeration in his style. The combination of illustrations by R. Taylor is quite in tone with the off center, often zany quality of this type of writing. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition Stated. Octavo (20 cm); 255pp; illus. throughout. Boards in beige cloth with green stamping to spine, wrapped in intact publisher's illustrated dust jacket ($2.50). Jacket rubbed, scuffed, and lightly soiled with minor tears and creases to extremities; verso toned. Board corners and spine ends nudged and binding slightly cocked but firm. A couple brief pencil markings but otherwise interior clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Very Good jacket of Ruark's second published work.