Schoolcraft John Frederick Faust (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 295 pages. First edition, with initials "GHD" to verso of title page. Binding sturdy, light wear to corners, wear to head and foot of spine, black lettering to front board and to spine distinct, a small (5/8") binding imperfection to fore-edge of front panel; a small spot to fore-edge of textblock; bookplate of Aubrey Drury, California historian, to front pastedown, inscribed "For Aubrey Drury / / Knowing that he / will judge the / performance by / the intention / / John" at front free endpaper, contents age-toned but clean. 530 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Limited Edition: #390/750. Octavo, 138 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good minus slip case. Quarter bound in dark blue cloth and blue paper boards with gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Light fading to gilt. Top edge of textblock dyed blue. Interior pages clean. Sunning and some chipping to edges of slip case. Shelved in Poetry - F. 1376836. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 164 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, type on recto only. Pages 124 and 131 with corrections, clear-taped to blank page, inserted. First edition (first printing) of corrected proofs. A near fine copy in unlabeled brown folder bound with metal clasps.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Limited Edition of 750 copies. Hard cover, demy octavo, (measuring 5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches) in blue paper covered boards, the spine in darker blue cloth with gilt titles, First Edition, 138 pp. Protected by the original glassine wrapper (Very Good)and slipcase (Very Good Minus), the book itself is Very Good Plus overall. This has no copy number indicted on the limitation page. Includes frontispiece portrait,title page, diary entries and much of his poetry. ** Author Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) aka "Max Brand," wrote more than 400 full length pulp novels , excelling at western fiction, poetry, humor and journalism. He was also the creator of the character Dr. Kildare, removing o Italy in his later years to write screenplays for MGM. His life story reads like one of his titles. Orphaned at the age of 13, he attended college at the University of California and embarked on a most prolific writing career, using a variety of pseudonyms. He was killed in action in Italy during WW. II while working as a war correspondent. Some of the many pseudonyms of the author are: Evan Evans, George Challis, Owen Baxter and David Manning. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition; First Printing. New York: George H. Doran Company 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This copy has been inscribed ["For / Leonard Bacon - / Scholar (underscored) and Critic (underscored) -"] and signed ["John Schoolcraft"] by the author on the front free endpaper. NB: Signed copies of Frederick Faust's books [regardless of which name/s he signed them with] are scarce. Apparently a romantic novel involving tramps/hobos. Green cloth with black lettering/decoration, 295 pages. [With the in-joke that the dedication page reads "DEDICATED TO / FREDERICK FAUST / 'May God love me as I love a / straightforward man.'---Jack Wilton"]. Foxing-like spotting to the edges of the text block [heavily to the top edge], front hinge badly cracked; else would be a lightly spine end bumped VG or better copy. Lacking the jacket. .LR2/4E.