Smith E W L Et Al (21 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Binding a bit shaken, corners a bit rubbed, text clean and unmarked. 1924 Hard Cover. 152, [1] pp. Black-and-white diagrams and illustrations throughout. A guide to the construction of numerous vehicles and mechanisms, including kites, electric cars, sleds, and canoes.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781572306622.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. half-leather cover shows heavy wear and rubbing, top board detached. pages tanned and clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Hubert Rogers (cover) ; Schneeman, Wesso (interior illustrations) (illustrator). 1st Edition. November 1939 issue in Fair condition only - both covers taped fully around edges and loose, held to binding with tape; otherwise, relatively tight and complete. Besides the Lensman story, contains "Misfit" by Heinlein. Tough shape but an iconic old SF pulp!

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE. NO DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Near Fine in Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Signed by six of the authors on the Title page. 437pp 4to. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. - Second Edition - Clean bright tight book w/ minor shelf wear only - xvi/326 pages.

paperback, Condition: poor, Surgical Publishing Co., Chic., 1916, 7-1/2 x10-1/2 wraps, variously paginated, color frontis., ca.200pp.+ ca.100pp. ads, color frontis., many illusts., covers tearing along hinges, contents G $.

Condition: NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 438 pages (complete). In good strong, sturdy condition. The cover has mild corner wear. The spine has mild user creasing along the seams. The binding is muscular and firm. The papertrims have user wear. The frontispage has a previous owner stamp. The contents are bright, clean, clear, sure, very confident and very assured. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Octavo, grey light card covers, brown lettering to front cover, folding map to front, folding frontispiece, 191pp, illus, scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping to cover edges, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep).

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 688 pages. 9.53x6.22x2.20 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First edition. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8"). xvi, 384pp (Vol. 1); xvi, 384pp (Vol. 2). Original 3/4 crushed morocco over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Etched frontispiece in each volume. Splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous full-page and in-text wood-engravings, this 2-volume set contains a selection of old and new British ballads illustrated by some of the best illustrators of the their times. Moderate rubbing along joints. Covers slightly darkened / soiled. Some foxing to very first pages of both volumes. Bindings in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

4to. 162 pp. Text illustrations by Kramer, Ley, Orban, Schneeman & Wesso. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art by Hubert Rogers, (uniform light interior toning as usual, slight shelfwear, ever so slight chipping head & foot of spine, faint crease front cover), still VG bright copy. First edition of this installment in Astounding Stories considered Campbell's "Golden Age," and which here included Smith's "Gray Lensman" debut, Jameston's "A Question of Salvage," Ley's "Earth's Second Moon," and others.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Treidler, Adolph (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. 66 pages. Features: Nice color Stark Bros. ad inside front cover features their red radiance rose; Planting for Christmas joy; Transplanting a house and building a garden; Houses must have good walls; William Allen White in his garden; Delphinium goes to college; Those friendly winter birds; How to achieve homelikeness - tables, lamps desk and Davenport are as necessary as the chairs; Beauty in vegetable gardens; Radio has come a long way - technical jargon no longer one of the essentials; A home speeks good English; Planting a Perennial Picture; Some tales about trees; The Art of Book Giving - an original 'Alice in Wonderland' with original pictures; General Electric one-page ad shows woman hand-wringing clothes; Toys that teach; One-page two-color ad for laundry-washed clothes; Christmas cakes from abroad; Try a Christmas picnic; Nice one-page ad for Hoosier kitchen working centers; For better housekeeping; Recipes; Vintage 2/3-page ad for True Temper sidewalk cleaners; Lawn hints from golf greens; Nice Maytag Christmas-themed ad for their aluminum washer; Christmas song at the door -an old holiday custom; 2/3-page Grebe Radio ad; 2/3-page Everett piano ad; Better bungalows for birds; 2/3-page Stanley Tools ad shows set No. 904 which consists of 12 tools and oak cabinet; Nice 2/3-page ad for the Whizzard Sled made by the Pollack Roller Runner Sled Co., Inc.; Make your Merry Christmas cards; Among Ourselves - readers' letters and ideas; Two Graceful Iron Standards - bird cage support and aquarium base; Great color ad for McKinney forged iron hardware inside back cover; Nice art deco color ad for Rogers brushing lacquer on back cover. Average wear and soiling. Page 39 loose but present. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, December 1927 - William Allen White in His Garden - Article with Photos Stark Bros. ad inside front cover features their red radiance rose; Planting for Christmas joy; Transplanting a house and building a garden; Houses.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Thorne, Diana; Clymer, John F.; Garland, C. George; Holmgren, John; Smith, Ralph C. (illustrator). First Edition. 76 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy peeking through hole in fence; Nice one-page ad for Willys cars for 1940; News Digest touches on congress of revolt in Washington, counting our blessings, a lesson from France, why French Cabinets are so short-lived, Japan's "New Order", and denouncing a new treaty; Lovely one-page colour-photo ad for Singer sewing machines; The Yearling (part 1); The Little Mystery; Cave Men of the Kalahari - great photo-illustrated article; One of the Family (short story); Science to the Rescue - National dividends from new experiments in many fields of empire industry; If I Die Before I Wake (short story); Anyone Can Shoot - photo-illustrated article on target shooting, with photos of Lieutenant Desmond Burke and members of the Calgary Rifle Club, including Lieutenant S. Johnson, a member of Canada's 1939 Bisley Team; Ponds ad includes photos of Mrs. John Roosevelt (the former Anne Clark), and Muriel Wright; Wonderful colour two-page ad for the 1940 Dodge Kingsway (orange); Nice half-page ad for Stewart-Warner radios shows the models 4565, 4471 and 4541; Great colour centrefold ad for the new 1940 Plymouth (blue); Movie news and photos; Brief write-up and photo of Linda Darnell; Hollywood Juveniles - article with photos of Shirley Temple, Jane Withers, Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Rooney; Fashion illustrations; Kellog's All-Bran cereal ad includes half-page Mutt and Jeff comic; Nice two-colour half-page RCA Victor radio ad shows their models A-6, A-1 and Victrola attachment; Let's Turn Back the Clock and See the Girl Your Husband Married; Walking on Air - shoe article; Are You a Blind Shopper? - article on how housewives make buying decisions; Quotes of the World; Nice colour Coke ad inside back cover shows lady in yellow dress reclining in chair after vacuuming; Colour Old Dutch cleanser ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Smith, Hal (cover); Karsh; Scott, John; Sweeney, Dan; Moulton, Conrad; Louthian Ashe, Edd Jr.; Reed, E.C. (illustrator). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of fashionable lady in black hat by Hal Smith; Blue Top Brewing Co. ad inside front cover features neighbourly home design; Nice colour Maxwell House ad features smooching morning couple; One-page colour ad for Waterman's Taperite pens; The Problem of the Peace Treaties; The Black God (short story); Club for 'Fraid Cats - photo-illustrated article on New York's Society of Timid Sould; And Let the Credit Go (short story); Your Great-Great-Great-Grandmother and the Atom Bomb; Fuehrer of the Pampas - photo-illustrated article on Colonel Juan D. Peron; One Single Reason (short story); Country Air is Rich in Vitamins; Man of the Month - John McClary Pritchard, President of the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company Limited; Jergens Lotion ad with photo of Louise Allbritton; Science developments; Tangee ad features illustration of Mrs. Charles Boyer; Woodbury Powder ad features colour illustration of beautiful Ella Raines; Nice one-page colour ad for Heinz Soups; Nice back cover colour ad for Jordan Grape Juice; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Smith, Hall (cover); Holmgren, John; Humphries, W.B.;Leake, Gerald Franklin; Burchill, C.S.; Greene, Hamilton (illustrator). First Edition. 48 pages. Features: Cover illustration of saluting Canadian female service member; Trans-Canada Telephone System ad inside front cover features illustration of operator; News digest touches on Hitler "Playing for a Draw", Russia's great offensive, and more; Hollywood news and photos; They Bring Down the Barracks - great photo-illustrated article documents the many Canadian entertainers who entertain our troops, including photos of the London Little Theatre Concert Party including Teresa Chandler, Pearl McCullough, Nora Rooney, Gerry Farquharson, Gloria Hamlyn and Monica McGarrell, plus the cast of the Lifebuoy Follies - Jimmy Devon, Sasha Dener, Harold Rich, Pat Rafferty, Helen, Bruce, Mildred Moray, Irene Hughes and Dorothy Merrall, and the Montreal Masquers; The Country of the Young (short story); A Use for a Decent Pay-Day; My Grandma's No Saint; Selectiver Service; Booze - The Saboteur - scientific research throws a startling light on an old problem and upsets some long-held beliefs; Mad Flight (short story); Canadian General Electric ad entitled "Victory Diet"; R.C.A.F. recruiting ad aimed at women; Woodbury Soap ad features lovely photos of Margaret Knight, of Toronto, who serves as private secretary to the Wing Commander of the R.A.F. Delegation in Washington; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Paulette Goddard; Photo-illustrated articl on Nursery Nutrition - on the Kitchen Front; Nutrition Goes to Sea; Fashion Illustrations; Angels in Nurseries; Small illustration shows smiling beaver in soldier gear saying "Eat Right to Fight"; Quotes from Around the World; Fantastic colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features sailors; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, February (Feb.) 1943 - Selective Service / Entertainment for the Troops / Booze - The Saboteur saluting Canadian female service member; Trans-Canada Telephone System ad inside front cover features illustration of operator;

[Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate wear to cloth, including some wrinkling to spine of volume 15, and a crack to the binding of volume 16, manifesting at p.595. An attractive, practical pair. Very good. A significant collection, including all seven parts of Doyle's 'Round the Fire' stories, and all ten parts of both Meade / Eustace's 'The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings' and Allen's 'Miss Cayley's Adventures' - a pair of detective novels featuring strong female lead-characters. Also including numerous interesting short pieces by other authors, including H.G. Wells.

[Literary Magazine] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST APPEARANCES. Three volumes. Octavo (24 x 27cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 724; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations, including Paget's famous illustrations for the Holmes stories. Handsomely bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, twin green title labels lettered in gilt, matching cloth over boards, t.e.g., other edges speckled. Contents a little toned as expected else clean, covers unmarked. Attractively presented in a recent leather binding. A significant collection, containing all thirteen parts of Doyle's 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' and all twelve parts of Nesbit's 'The Phoenix and the Carpet.' Also featuring a selection of short pieces by Jacobs, Mason, Meade, Pemberton, Pain, Nesbit, Maugham, Marsh, and Morrison, and a vision of the tank from Wells more than ten years before it was deployed on the battlefields of France.

First Edition. SECOND STAGE LENSMEN in Astounding SCIENCE FICTION from November 1941 to February, 1942, first edition, four volumes complete, Street & Smith, first edition, some light wear to the spines of the first 2 volumes, (the November 1941 issue with a store stamp on the front cover and a half inch square chip missing from the lower left corner of the front cover); the 1942 issues, both with the same store stamp on the front covers, somewhat more spine wear then the earlier 2 issues and some soiling to the rear covers. All in all, good to very good copies. The true first appearance in print of this novel. Also contains original contributions by Eric Frank Russell (SEAT OF OBLIVION & MECHANISTRIA), L. Ron Hubbard (THE INVADERS & THE REBELS), John W. Campbell, C. L. Moore (THERE SHALL BE DARKNESS), Leigh Brackett (THE SWORD OF RHIANNON), Jack Williamson (BREAKDOWN), Theodore Sturgeon (MEDUSA), Malcolm Jameson, et.al.