Smith Thorne Roese Herbert (57 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. MAGAZINE. NICE COPY. stapled binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dark red boards with cover decorated in black and spine lettered in black. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press (1939), 306 pps. A reading copy of this great book. Sun faded spine panel is torn and coming loose. Boards faded and spine cracked. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. Reprint. Grey Board Covers with Dark Grey Lettering to spine and dark grey decoration on front cover; covers are lightly soiled with age and lower right front and left rear corners are lightly rubbed and lightly bumped; book edges have tanned and right book edge is stained at lower end affecting the edge of some pages; White endpapers have tanned around edges and gutters and free front endpaper has the top right corner torn off; book interior is clean and tight but pages have aged; 8vo; 311 pages; illustrated. Roese, Herbert (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Faint reading creases to covers, clean and unmarked; a nice sound and bright copy. Pocket Book #409, printed in Sept. 1946. Cover states "Pocket Book No. 154, 935,723". Herbert Roese (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light wear to edge of lower spine, creases to back cover, clean and unmarked. Bright and colorful cover art. PB#546, printed April, 1949 (first paperback printing). Herbert Roese (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. ***1955, 11th PRINTING of the "POCKET BOOKS" EDITION*** CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An 18th print from the early 1960s of Pocket Books edition, # 6189, of a mid 1930s humorous novel. "The frankly naughty, hilarious story about a modern fountain of youth." GGA cover. Light edge wear to the covers. Tight binding. Mild spine lean. Moderate browning to the pages - mostly the edges. A very good copy. Herbert Roese (cover & interior illustrations) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. An 19th print from the early 1960s of Pocket Books edition, # 6207, of an early 1940s humorous novel. "The ribald story of a shy millionaire who married a witch." One of the inspirations, along with Bell, Book and Candle, for the TV series Bewitched. GGA cover. Light edge wear to the covers with a small closed tear at the center of the fore edge of the back cover. Tight binding. Mild spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy. Herbert Roese (cover & interior illustrations) (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing Thus. First Pocket Book printing, mass market paperback, has a tiny skew to the binding, very slight bumps to spine ends and corners with a small crease to upper corner of front cover and first 50 pages, a thin reading crease to spine, and a touch of spotting to fore edge of first few pages, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy. Roese, Herbert (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint. Hard cover 8vo in gray cloth w/blue dec and titles. About Fine book in Very Good DJ w/several small tears, minute chip, red pencil squiggle at heel. 292pp. Roese, Herbert (illustrator). Book.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 685 Pages. A 1945 Edition of the 1934 Copyright. Brown boards, black spine lettering with decorations. Some wear to cover edges and corners and binding is slightly loose but still relatively tight. No marks or stamps and pages are white. Contents in 15 Short Stories: Congratulations, Nockashima and the Bloodhound, Baggage Checks Out, Just a Dip at Twilight, Alarms and Incursions, The Major's Old And Rare, Exit on Hook and Ladder, The Lower Half's a Lady, Crown's Cosmopoolitan, A Walk Through Town, The House Beautilful, Sue Turns, Man Into Child, Of Human Bondage, and All in a Night's Work. Roese, Herbert (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1934. Sun Dial. hardcover no jacket. wear along edges of boards. pages toning. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. HARDCOVER. FAIR Cond.DIRTY. SOILED COVERS AND TEXT PAGES, Sturdy binding will not come apart.but it has been abused.all text is clearly readable, pages are not dog eared, nor generally tattered, mostly just has been little more than teastained. Cover shows wear near spine folds. ; Black titles with 2 character drawings to spine strip.all on light red cloth hard covers.White endpapers. BLACK SPINE TITLES ON RED CLOTH HARD COVERS. COVER ART SHOWS SCENES FROM STORIES.; 685pg heavy pages; Humorous Stories.RIBALD TALES.NOT A COMMON TITLE . Illustrated by Roese, Herbert Drawings (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. handsome copy with loose lamination removed. Herbert Roese (illustrator).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVERS. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright, but it was an inexpensive reprint to begin with. Has name ep "Marilyn Goggin 40" ; black spine titles with 2x2" cover ilustration, Man & woman & fireman at window.all on deep blue hard covers. ; 292ps pages; Ribald good story humor. Illustrated by Roese, herbert Ilust (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Like new in aqua green boards, covered with a jacket chipped at spine ends, basically intact elsewhere. Contains "Topper", "The Glorious Pootl" & "Skin and Bones" in one great volume. Very crisp and clean. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Jacket has most of the wear on the spine - a small chip at top of spine (not affecting lettering) and closed and repaired tears. Jacket has light soiling overall, due to it's cheap wartime quality. It depicts a nurse carrying the three titles of the book in a baby carriage: Topper Takes A Trip, The Night Life of the Gods, & The Bishop's Jaegers. The book itself is crisp and clean with a blank bookplate. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Boards are soiled. Previous owner's name on front fixed end page, otherwise in very good condition. Roese, Herbert (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. A crisp, lightly worn, clean unmarked copy. Herbert Roese (illustrator).

Pictorial Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The cover has red cloth with yellow lettering and an illustration. 21 chapters; b/w illustrations. The front endpaper has an owner's name and a pasted down sheet of reviews of this title. DJ: About a third of the top margin of the back panel is missing; this section also has a large stain. Eight chips elsewhere are 1/8 in. to a linear 1 1/4 in. Eight closed tears are 1/8 in. to 1 in. There is color loss adjacent to several of the chips and tears. Scans e-mailed upon request. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE RUBBED AND FADED. THERE ARE STAINS TO BOTH BOARDS. THE CORNERS ARE SCUFFED. THE SPINE IS FADED. THERE IS SOME FOXING TO THE BOARDS. THE BINDING IS FAIRLY TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK. HERBERT ROESE (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Has DJ (DJ has edge wear & no spine cover & no back on DJ -- DJ has a naked girl at pool with a Dog) EMAIL for Pictures & **FG 568**. Herbert Roese (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Light brown boards decorated and lettered on spine in black, fore edge uncut, illustrated by Herbert Roese. Three books bound together; Skin and Bones, Topper, and The Glorious Pool. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press (1945), 685 pps. VG copy with lightly faded spine and faded top 1/2" of cover, bumped corners and cracked spine. No Jacket. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Solid green volume with small sketch on cover. White one inch round mark on lower back cover.Shelf wear commiserate with age and use. Pages 193 to 199 one inch by three inch smudging upper edge of each page. Penciled initials and year FEP. Charming illustrations throughout the book. Roese, Herbert (illustrator).…

HARD BACK PINK. Condition: . JACKET: GOOD DJ. general wear, rubbed extremities, clean, no markings, tight binding, bookplate front inner cover, tanned, good dust jacket, gold gilt lettering on cover and spine, black & white illustrations DATE PUBLISHED: 1933 EDITION: 304. HERBERT ROESE (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: FR/No Dustjacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. FR/No Dustjacket. 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Sm 8vo., 292 pp., cover faded, rubbed, frayedm page toning, foldovers pasted inside cover, lending library stamps . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A solid book, previous owner's signature on ffep and vendors stamp on bottom of ffep otherwise unmarked. Despite its age pages are bright. A lot of humorous illustrations by Herbert Roese.Grey cloth covered boards with illustration on front board.DJ is completewith adverts for other books on the inner cover. DJ shos naked lkady with a dog by a pool. Chipping to all edges and rubbing to folds. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Smith, Thorne. Skin and Bones. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-306 [307-308: blank]. Original black pictorial cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red. Illustrated by Herbert Roese with line drawings at head of each chapter. A very good copy. #3406. $25. An X-ray accident causes the hero to sometimes look like a skeleton. "Pure slapstick without the serious undercurrents which enliven Smith's best works." -- Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-326. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1500. Reginald 13390. The illustrations are lively. Herbert Roese (illustrator).…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Author's last book, crisp and clean in green illustrated boards, covered with a bright, barely worn dust jacket with minor nicking at top of spine (not affecting lettering). Basis for the film "I Married A Witch" starring Veronica Lake and Frederick March and was the inspiration for the TV show "Bewitched". A terrific copy. Herbert Roese (illustrator). …