William Chenery (177 results)

Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1955 The University Club, New York. Hardcover has brown paper-covered boards with white illustration and black spine with gold spine lettering. Monochrome frontispiece. Monochrome illustrations by Robert Ball. Back hinge cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped. Corners rubbed. Name and date in ink on first and last pages. Pages clean and unmarked. 92 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Owner's Name Inside; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Sharp and clean. ; 8vo; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. NEAR FINE exceptionally tight hard cover copy with crisp corners; flawed only by very faint, isolated bits of soiling at text block edges and covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Single issue (Vol. 102, No. 10) of the staple-bound, folio magazine, 'Collier's: The National Weekly'. Cocked spine/issue. Aside from a few margin soiling spots, however, the 58-page contents appear clean, complete and securely bound. The front cover, which features an illustration by Douglas H. Hilliker of a reluctant woman handling a fishing worm, has a couple of pen marks near the spine head, light handling and soiling smudges, and a bit of top edge wear. The rear cover has fore and bottom edge wear including a couple of short tears. No ex-library markings! We ship most order within one business day!

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 92 pages, 14 b/w drawings; 8vo, brown boards/black cloth, white drawing front cover. Very good, cover edge rubbed and faded, corner tips worn; contents near fine; in fair glassine cover, pieces missing.

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

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

Softcover. Condition: Good. Front cover has foxing to the upper margin, less to the adjacent spine and outer edges. Lower portion of the pages in the rear have slight wrinkling. Small damp stain to upper spine corner of first few pages. Address label on front cover. ; Contents include a complete short story by Sax Rohmer - A Heart in Her Hands - The surprising mystery of Ragstaff Hill. Baseball illustration art cover.

First Edition; 8vo; cloth backed pictorial boards with gilt lettering on the spine; hardcover; sepia and black and white illustrations; lightly edgeworn covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.

Hardcover. First Edition. Very Good with no dust jacket; Fep removed, Exlibrary with markings. Edgewear, ; Ex-Lib.

Hardcover. 256p., first edition, bookstore label on free front endpaper, else very good condition in a price-clipped and shelfworn dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harcourt, Brace January 1955 Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

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

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

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

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original publisher's light beige paper wrappers with staple binding. Front cover features a humorous color illustration of golfer carefully cutting a flower blocking the path of his golf ball to the hole. 11" x 13 1/2." Fifty-four pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Advertisements interspersed throughout, many of which have black-and-white illustrations. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages have light to moderate age toning and slight edge wear. Covers have moderate age toning, slight darkening, and slight edge wear. A Very Good copy. Collier's was a general-interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Collier. The last issue of Collier's was published for the week of January 4, 1957. The following are the features in this issue, most of which are fictional short stories: "The Man Who Saved the World, Part I" by E. Phillips Oppenheim [short fiction about a spy], "Houses! Houses!" by John T. Flynn [about National Housing Act], " The Binding Precedent" by Edward L. McKenna, "Under Sentence" by Walter Duranty, "Summer Foliage" by Phyllis Duganne," "Musical Comedy Express" by Patterson McNutt," "Woman in Love, Part V" by Kathleen Norris, "A Nice, Quiet Place" by Teresa Hyde Phillips, "Cutting a Fine Figure" by Marie Beynon Ray [about the benefits of Pilates and other exercises that correct posture], "All Expenses Paid" by Quentin Reynolds, "Keeping Up with the World" by Freling Foster, and "Editorial: Keep to the Record" [about current politics]. The ads promote a variety of businesses, products, and services including Chevrolet, Camel cigarettes, Goodyear tires, Burroughs typewriters, Vaseline, Colegate toothpaste, General Electric All-Steel Refrigerators, Etyhyl Gasoline, and Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original publisher's light beige paper wrappers with staple binding. Front cover features a color illustration by Alan Foster of a man and woman in a viewing box in a theater. 11" x 13 1/2." Seventy pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Advertisements interspersed throughout, many of which have black-and-white or color illustrations. Former owner's address label tipped in on lower-right corner on front ("Mrs. E. A. Ruckdashel"). Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages have slight age toning and edge wear. Covers have moderate age toning, slight darkening, edge wear, and splitting along spine. A Very Good copy. Collier's was a general-interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Collier. The last issue of Collier's was published for the week of January 4, 1957. The following are the features in this issue, most of which are fictional short stories. Short stories: "The Winds of Freedom Blow" by Margaret Craven, "The Hard Way" by Frederick Nebel, "Second Marriage" by Octavus Roy Cohen, "The Iron Touch" by Albert Richard Wetjen, and "Devotedly, Sylvia" by Quentin Reynolds. Serial stories: "Man in the Saddle, Part I" by Ernest Haycox, "Sunset Voyage, Part VI" by Lawrence G. Blochman." Articles: "What Do You Eat?" by Victor G. Heiser [a doctor's recommended eating regimen], "Something to Fight About" by Kyle Crichton [about Una Merkel; lauds her as a comedic actress and denounces the movie industry's typecasting of her as a "glam girl"], "City at War" by Martha Gellhorn [about Spanish Civil War], "Goon Squads--Halt!" by Richard L. Neuberger [about labor union disputes and Oregon's AFL and CIO], "First Ten in Contract" by Shepard Barclay [about professional contract bridge players], "Keep Up with the World" by Freling Foster [miscellaneous news], and "Editorial: Fighting Words" by Bruce Barton [about Abner J. Hootz]. The ads promote a variety of businesses, products, and services including Ipana toothpaste, Dodge trucks, Calvert Whiskies, Oldsmobile, Time magazine, Plymouth, Goodyear tires with LifeGuards [extra air reserve], Comptometer, Kelvinator, Bromo-Seltzer [marketed as hangover cure], Hotpoint Refrigerators, Norge, Gilbey's Gin, and Glenmore whiskey.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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

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

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

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good, or Better. Volume 101, No. 5. Single issue of Collier's magazine for January 29, 1938. Cover features an illustration of an burly policeman with a snowball. Art by Jay Irving. Authors include Octavus Roy Cohen, Jonathan Latimer, Michael Foster, Luke Short, John T. Flynn & others. Interview with William O. Douglas. 58pp. Front cover has no marks or labels and is bright and clean. Minor spotting to edges. Rear panel is similar. Sound stapled binding, staples only very slightly rusty. Interior is clean. Above average copy. Weight, 200g. Size: 10.5" by 14". Magazine.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Volume 100, No. 26. Single issue of Collier's magazine for December 25, 1937. Cover features an illustration of an attractive young woman under mistletoe. Art by William Timmins. Authors include William martin, Hamlen Hunt, Quentin Reynolds, Octavus Roy Cohen, George F. Worts, Jonathan Latimer & others. Spectacular color auto ads. 58pp. Front cover has no marks or labels and is bright and clean. Minor spotting to edges. Rear panel is similar. Sound stapled binding, staples only very slightly rusty. Interior is clean. Above average copy. Weight, 200g. Size: 10.5" by 14". Magazine.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Volume 100, No. 17. Single issue of Collier's magazine for October 23, 1937. Cover features an illustration of two male theater-goers eyeing an attractive woman through opera glasses. Art by Eric Godal. Authors include Thomas Walsh, Ben Ames Williams, Agatha Christie, Ernest Haycox, Jim Marshall, Selma Robinson & others. Spectacular center-pages ad for Hudson autos and a lovely color ad for International Trucks. 74pp. Front cover has no marks or labels and is bright and clean. Minor spotting to edges. Rear panel is similar. Sound stapled binding, staples only slightly rusty. Interior is clean. Above average copy. Weight, 250g. Size: 10.5" by 14". Magazine.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Volume 100, No. 4. Single issue of Collier's magazine for July 24, 1937. Cover features an illustration of an attractive young woman in a canoe. Art by Howard Butler. Authors include Richard Hoffman, Zona Gale, Hamlen Hunt, James Hilton [Mr. Chips], George F. Worts, John T. Flynn, Henry F. Pringle, Quentin Reynolds & others. 62pp. Front cover has no marks or labels and is very bright and clean. Rear panel is similar. Sound stapled binding, staples only slightly rusty. Interior is clean. Above average copy. Weight, 210g. Size: 10.5" by 14". Magazine.