Shippey Lee (127 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good orange w/black lettering, design. Jacket tattered, newly Brodart-covered. FFepp missing, Title page intact with date on face and back reading 1939. Story of what happens to a young family when they suddenly come into money. 277 pages. Fiction 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A. L. Ewing (illustrator). 9" tall lilac and purple hardcover. Fading to spine and boards. Light bumping and rubbing along edges and corners. A little looseness to pages but all are attached. Pages are clean/unmarked. 96 pages. Only print info stated is "1930" on bottom of title page. Author signature on title page. "Being the second of the series which began with "PERSONAL GLIMPSES" the four books of which will form a sort of Who's Who of Southern California's more famous residents." Very Good or better condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Mild wear. "California State Textbook" stamp on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. G/none, used hc, 292 pages. Blue/grey colored cloth over boards with a yellow illustration on upper and yellow text on spine, 292 pages. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. Shelf wear to exterior at corners, no dj.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Illustrated (illustrator). Contemporary illust. Third in the series. It'a an old CA custom to search for gold, to tell tall tales, to believe what isn't true & etc. 292 pp., rough cut edges, dj soiled and raggedy around edges. int. good.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. (1948), 292pp, illus., staint o frnt cover, some soiling & edgewear to dj.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed on edges, fading on spinecover. Pages clean with no markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ewing, A.L. (illustrator). Inscribed & dated by the author on the front fly-leaf.Paper-covered boards w/blue cloth spine cover are well-bound, sunned at spine & upper 1/2 of boards, some soil from handling. Endpapers tanning. Pages clean & sharp. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Second printing stated. Pictorial jacket is fully split with spine almost entirely missing. Heavy shelfwear to edges with several 1"+ vertical tears and small chips. Jacket is age-toned and somewhat soiled. Blue cloth boards are mostly clean with some shelfwear to edges. A ding to top edge of front board and indentation to spine at title. Yellow cover illustration is sharp and bright, and yellow spine titling is just a bit rubbed. Interior is age-toned with some discoloration to endpapers and foxing to foreedge. Otherwise interior clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Good in Good dust jacket with chip at head. Clean pages, cloth foxed, front hinge going.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed and signed by author to recipient on flyleaf. Above inscription is an old pen price. No other markings. Very good in good dust jacket with several edge chips and some toning. Not price-clipped. Book paper has some toning. 292 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: New. Ewing, A L (illustrator).

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Ewing, A.L. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1930. 1st Edition. Good - Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. Square, tight and clean, and inscribed by the author. Corners bumped and two frayed. Blue cloth spine. 96pp. Sm 4to. (HW).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, a bit of fading to spine cloth, tiny stain at edge of rear fep]. INSCRIBED with a somewhat hokey gift inscription punning on the recipient's name and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally dated 10/10/39 in his hand. Shippey was a popular Los Angeles newspaper columnist for many years, and also turned out a handful of novels (this was the third of four), set mostly in the fictional Southern California community of "Ourville," probably modeled after Sierra Madre, where he lived for several years. Like this one, the novels generally featured good-hearted but impoverished writers as their protagonists. A dramatization of this novel was presented at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1939, where it ran for 41 performances and set an attendance record. Signed by Author.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Decorative cover. As issued without dust jacket. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings and maps. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Stamped on the inside front cover and front fly-leaf - "Teacher's Library El Dorado County, Cal. " There are no other markings. Evidently this was a California text book in the 1930's but appears to be unread. Near fine condition. ; Black-and-white illustrations; 12mo.; iii, 92 pages.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 96 Pp. Blue Cloth (Gilt), Violet Boards. No Indication Of Printing, But Apparently First Printing. Near Fine, Slight Fading To Edges Of Boards, 3/16" Split At Tip Of Upper Rear Tip. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. First ed. SIGNED by author on front pastedown. Boards tanned. No jacket, if issued. Pages clean.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the aughor on the front free endpaper. Cover shows minor wear, soiling, and staining. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by A.L. Ewing (illustrator). First Edition. (no dust jacket) [modest shelfwear, slight exposure of boards at lower tips, a little age-browning around edges of boards, some puckering of cloth along rear binding]. (pen & ink portrait drawings) SIGNED by the author on the title page. A collection of brief profiles of notables, by this long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and sometime novelist; described on the title page as the second in a proposed series of four books "which will form a sort of Who's Who of Southern California's more famous residents." The subjects are: Carrie Jacobs Bond; Lawrence Tibbett; Zane Grey; Gloria Swanson; Ramon Novarro; Frederick Russell Burnham; Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Montague Glass; Ellen Beach Yaw; Hamlin Garland; Ruth Chatterton; Frank Hamilton Spearman; Cecil B. DeMille; Kathryn Leighton; David Wark Griffith; Frederick Warde; Jesse L. Lasky; Irene Rich; Ronald Colman; Ralph Waldo Trine; Bessie Love; James W. Foley; and John Steven McGroarty. The profiles are almost all a uniform three pages in length, with the one-page "interspersions" being examples of Shippey's poetry. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A.L. Ewing (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Paper covered boards over cloth spine, printed title on cover, some wear to edges, overall very good. Lee shippey profiles famous people living in the Los Angeles area including John Barrymore, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Earl Derr Biggers, Jack Dempsey, Clara Bow, William S. Hart, Will Rogers, and others. Printed in Sierra Madre. Quite scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. 1st Edition. First Edition. Flat-signed by author in ink on ffep. Light blue full-cloth boards with yellow imprinting on cover and spine. Near Fine cond. Flaws: moderate toning to front and rear pastedowns and facing pages with attached bookplate to ffep. Otherwise, exceptionally clean, square and solid with NO other markings throughout. DJ is moderately toned-Not faded, slightly chipped and has two closed tears. Price intact: $3.00. Signed by Author(s).