Language: English
Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1940
Seller: Yesterday's Book Shop, CORVALLIS, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front end page. The original price of $3.00 is still present on the front flap of the jacket. DJ is in rough shape toning and soiling, the front cover has a large chip missing and there are also numerous tears and smaller chips present. Green cloth boards underneath are bright with only light edge toning present. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight. Paper is toned due to age but pages are clean. No other handwriting other than the author's inscription (the ink from his handwriting has left marks on the front pastedown in front flap). No bookplates, no library markings, no remainder marks. The copyright page states second printing of February, 1940. Signed by Author(s).
Published by WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC, 1940
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
Published by WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC, 1940
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.
Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFirst American Edition. Very good in edge-chipped dust jacket.
Published by Cobden-Sanderson, 1939
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, corners bumped and surface marks and a scuff to spine. Content is clean with a light toning - gift message to ffep. Stable binding but a little movement to the front board. No DJ.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Book measures 22.5x15.cm. viii,246pp. Bound in original publishers black cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket rubbed, with loss, faded on spine, price clipped, repaired. Jacket in good condition. Internally, pages clean. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this scarce narrative of a young English portrait painter, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. Very scarce work. The narrative of a young English portrait painter who, finding that the economic depression in Europe and America was depriving the arts of most of their patrons, went to India in search of others. A sincere record of a creative mind which had previously only been known to those who has seen his work, which has now developed far beyond the studios of London and Rome. Written by Philip Steegman, a portrait painter, sculptor, writer and illustrator who travelled India in the late 1930s. With a foreword by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, an English novelist. In the original black cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear to the rear panel. Sunning to the spine and panel edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.