William L Chenery (97 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. G+, slight damage to lower corner of front cover sketch by Jorj Harris, girl in rollers talking on phone with man in top hat, articles by Frank Condon, Quentin reynolds, Ernest Haycox, F. H. Brennan, ads, features, etc.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG, 1st edn, ill, frp.

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

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Industry and Human Welfare. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

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!

Cloth. First edition. 92 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. A very good copy, edges rubbed, faint sunning on boards.

Hardcover. Faint stain on rear cover; bottom edge of front cover and cover corners slightly worn; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 92p. Illus.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Price clipped. Brodart added.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (United States, Freedom of Information) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by The University Club, 1955. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and tears.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Harcourt Brace and Co., 1955. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with the previous owner's stamp on the flyleaf page, and light spotting tot he top page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light spotting to the back cover, a tear at the bottom of the spine and some light edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition soft-cover magazine (an Ex-Lib from Claremont Colleges Library) is in G+ condition, having the only library marking being a small stamp on top right of front cover; a 3 inch tear at top front cover; some light surface, edge, and handling wear to volume. Cover features a color painting by Gilbert Darling illustrating the article "How to Catch a Trout" by Edmund Gilligan. This article is non-fiction, illustrated with color photos. Other items included in the issue is the short fiction story "Thunder Road" by Sidney Herschel Small, the ninth part of Pearl Buck's story "China Gold," the second part of Agatha Christie's "Moving Finger," and a profile of Gen. Wladyslaw Anders of Poland (for complete contents, see our photo section). Vintage advertisements. Journalism. Fiction. American periodicals from the 1940s. Because the item is a magazine, extra shipping cost may apply. DB.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper worn on top and bottom edges.

Condition: New. In.

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