Seldes Gilbert Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. New York The Library of America 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 1931082928 Black boards with black lettering/decoration, 720+ pages, sources, and acknowledgments. A near fine copy with a remainder mark to the lower pages edge in Near Fine Dust Jacket with light edge wear. clph.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Small Hardcover, no dustjacket, Some wear to spine, previous owner's signature.

Condition: near fine in dust jacket with sunfading & small holes to spine. Illustrated by no illustrations. 1st edn thus. Binding is cloth.

Hard covers. Book is complete, spine cap missing, pages loose, corners bumped, tape repairs. Ideal for a reading or research copy, not so pretty if you need it to adorn a shelf.

Magazine. 48p., 5.5x7.5 inches, articles, reviews, stills, photos, letters, 10 cents in black marker on cover else good digest magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Also: Exploring Motives Of Movie Going. The History of Animated Cartoons. Regaining the Audience Over 35.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 16mo. Orig. yellow cloth. All edges green. vii, 756 pp. Spine tilted. Sticker ghots to rear pastedown. Dust jacket price clipped, worn to extremities. In Lardner, as Seldes points out, we had our most effective instance of the popular writer who had genius. During his lifetime he was thoroughly enjoyed by a wide audience, most of which read him primarily for entertainment. Seeing the best of his work as gathered together in this volume, we now realize how major his contribution to our literature.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 252 Pp. First Edition, Trade Issue: Covers Printed With Red And Yellow Background [Limited Edition Is Black And Yellow, Later Issues Are All Red]; Title Page Black Printing Slightly Higher Than Later Printings, With Text "Painting By Siqueros" On Title Page Touching The Illustration Above [ Alignment Corrected In Most Copies Of The Trade Edition And Later Printings]; Lacking The Colophon Page At End, Which Is Represented Only By A Stub Which Does Not Appear To Have Been Trimmed [A Defect Also Found In Some Copies In The Limited Edition Binding]. Merle Armitage's Well-Designed And Edited Collection Of Tributes To George Gershwin From Luminaries Including His Brother Ira, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Paul Whiteman, Walter Damrosch, Dubose Heyward, Irving Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg, Serge Koussevitzky, And Jerome Kern. Near Fine, Rubbing Along Bottom Edge. Dj With Moderate Wear, A Few Very Small Chips, Light Soiling To Front And Rear Panels With Browning To Spine Panel. Not Price-Clipped. The Book Is Not Uncommon, But Usually Found Only In The Later All-Red Binding (With Corrected Title Page Alignment). 16 Reproductions Of Paintings By George Gershwin, Sixteen Portraits, Painting By Alfaro Siqueiros, Caricatures By Peggy Bacon And Miguel Covarrubias, Endpapers By Carlos Dyer, Hand Lettered Title Page By William Stutz (illustrator).…