Thomas H Craven (9 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL Articles, disbound from journal; no covers; in very good condition. Journal.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. First Edition.. GOOD CONDITION.Clean, solid, bright text block Hardcovers have old foxing spots along spine & 1" onto covers.OW nice copy with no distractions, no defects. ; lite red spine titles on tan cloth hardcovers. ; 456pg pages; AMERICAN Cartoons from 1883 UNTILL 1943. 18 PAGE INTRODUCTION PUTS CARTOONS INTO CULTURAL HISTORICAL & ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE. This collection has a very wide selection.It is not just about 1 5 or 50 artists.there is every kind & type of cartoon illustrated here.Many famous, many more left in past ages.Some political, This not a comic book heros retrospective. Illustrated by Many Full Page Cartoons (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Hard rubbing over cover, discoloration. Shelfwear on extremities. Some fading on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Smudges to front cover. Worn down top and bottom of spine. Bottom left of spine has worn down with threads.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. pp.385-510 literary text, clean and unmarked, as are the 84 p. of period advertising, often with intriguing ill. and photos. Textblock firm but detached from wrapper, which is clean and unmarked but with edge wear--it's missing lower corner of front panel as well as portion near crown of spine; crease at lower corner of back panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. X, 159 Pp Including Short Bibliography At End. Orange Cloth, Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition 1843 hardcover in boards re-bound in beige buckram cloth with an illustration of Wiley Fox with a quill pen in hand jotting out his memoir in a window frame border with title at foot of image. This is an embellished copy of the frontispiece. Spine has new brown buckram with bright gilt title and author. Book tips were built up under the beige covers when rebound, boards show a few light soil marks, a few light indentations at fore edges of covers, spine ends straight, board tips are sharp. 150pp text has new beige linen endpapers and white paper 2nd endpaper. An occasional small finger print or soil mark does not obscure any of the story. Includes a black and white frontispiece and four other full page b/w plates. No tears, no names, just the number 50019 written in blue ball point at foot of last page. Contents include: Advert/ Dedication (To the Right Hon, Charles Earl of Hardwicke)/ The Life of a Fox/ Wily's Story/ Cock-Tail's Story/ Craven's Story/ Pytchley's Story/ Dorset's Story/ Warwick's Story/ Chester's Story/ Devonian's Story/ Berkshire's Story/ Sandy's Story/ Conclusion.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 90 pages plus 16 pages of nice ads. Features: Our Hunting Trip in Brazil - dealing with giant snakes and jaguars; Photo of Sulphur Bottom Whale leaping out of water to avoid swordfish; Stalked by a Mountain Lion (cougar) - while mining in the Selkirk Mountains near Golden, British Columbia; The Leaf-Wearers of Orissa - great photo-illustrated article on these native people's of India; My Adventure in Sing Sing; Silk Mask Jim - this amazing Chicago criminal, James J. Harrigan, was head of a great thieves trust responsible for over seven hundred robberies in a single year; My Strangest Experience; A Fight on a Mountain Top - the Philippine Constabulary seeks out remnants of Aguinaldo's forces - article with photo; Into the Unknown (part 1) - chasing mountain outlaws in New Guinea ; The "Pinto" of Great Black Pine Mountain - the life and death of a wonderful wild horse in Southern Idaho; The Lifted Veil - part 5 of the story of two British officer POWs in Turkey who apply Spiritualism to escape; Where No Writ Runs - photo-illustrated article on life in the highlands of Kurdistan; The Ghost of the "Lycaon" - a steamship of the Blue Funnel Line; Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - when policement become criminals; The Rector's Story - a South African clergyman's story; Odds and Ends - photo of Arizona Gila Monster listening to phonograph. Covers beginning to detach from textblock. Average wear. A nice vintage copy. Reynolds, Warwick; Small, A.G.; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; De Walton, J.; Hodgson, E.S.; Holmes, Fred; Bates, Leo; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; Elcock, Howard; Somerfield, T.; Hodgson, E.S.; Ferrier, A.; Soper, G. (illustrator).…