Shafer Chet (10 results)

Condition: New.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This first edition has little corner bumping or edge wear. There is some light foxing of textblock edges and endpapers. Interior text has yellowed somewhat with age, clean and tight in binding. Black and white illustrations. Onion-skin dust wrapper also has light spotting. No ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beronius, Dale (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Edition not Stated. This SCARCE small 70 pp. book relates memories of the obsolete (even in1926) but honorable profession of Pipe Organ Pumpers. The author was the founder of The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. Includes a foreword by Will H. Hays (a former pumper). Clean other than a full page inscription and an address label on the first blank flyleaf. The dust jacket corners show very slight wear, but it is otherwise in Very Good ++ condition (amazingly so for being 91 years old). Photos upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good with a faded spine, a little fraying down the rear edge of the spine, corners worn. Inscribed by the author to noted philatelist Harry L. Lindquist, founder and president of the National Federation of Stamp Clubs, publisher and editor of *The Stamp Specialist*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Very light soiling else near fine. From the Lancaster PA library of the novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman inscribed to him by the author; "To Reginald Wright Kauffman of the Sebasco Estate who sent in the goddamdest longest back-breaking questionnaire I ever saw on July 17 1939 Chet Shafer.".…

Softcover. A blue softcover book with yellow text on the front cover. The spine and back wrap are tan. 126 pages; profusely illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. VG-: Wear to the wraps, with tears and creases; the largest tear is about an inch by an inche in the lower left corner of the front cover. Fading to the wraps. Cracks to the spine. Crack between the front free end page and the first page. Clean, bright body pages and photos. Solid binding.…

Condition: fair. Auxiliary Edition. 126, wraps, illus., covers worn and soiled, some dampness. On the ninth anniversary of the formation of the American Legion, the annual convention of that powerful group of former soldiers of the World War was held in Paris--the city of its birth.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. Fair / with Protective Cover. Signed. This copy has very little corner bumping, some light damage near bottom of front cover and at foot of spine. Otherwise very good. Faint spotting and rubbing of the covers. Hinges and gutters are solid, some shadowing of endpapers. Interior text has yellowed with age, clean and tight in binding. 70 pages of text with black and white line drawings throughout. Unclipped DJ has darkening of the spine section and flap hinges. There is edge chipping and some small tears. Author has signed {bold} in red pencil the fep has follows: "To Frank W. Thomas {?} who has some neat tricks of his own {signature}". This copy also includes a small cloth backed "business card" avowing membership in "The Guild Of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers" issued to Frank Willard Thomas and signed by Chet Shafer. A truely unique copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Beronius, Dale (illustrator). Signed & Inscribed By Author.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good Plus. First Edition. Foreword by Will H. Hays. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage "To Will H. Hays- Whose foreword makes its debut a few pages to the rear and shows a commendable familiarity with lofts and handles and the technique of a high-grade pumper- In appreciation- Sincerely Chet Shafer". Laid in is Hays' membership card for "The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers" SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Will H. Hays managed Warren G. Hardings successful campaign for the Presidency of the U.S. and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. After a year in that position, he resigned to become most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire, inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts, and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. When the Catholic Church formed its Legion of Decency and threatened nationwide boycotts of movies, Hays installed a more formal production code, called the Hays Code( later simply "The Code"), which became the virtual law of Hollywood until the 1960s. Near Fine, spine lettering faded and not legible, in a Very Good Plus dustjacket, shallow chips along top edge front panel and at spine tips, spine lettering faded and not legible, jacket a bit soiled. The best copy imaginable of this amusing piece of Americana . Dale Beronius (illustrator). SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Book.…