Best American Humorous Short by Robert N Linscott (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Dorothy Parker, Damon Ru nyon. James Thurber, Robert Benchley. Hardback with dust jacket. Clean te xt, firm binding. Dust jacket, light edge wear, light fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Surface crease to rear cover and light cover wear. 436 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite wear, clipped price; 436 clean, unmarked pages; Grey Blumenthal binding w/gilt titles on red; Rockwell Kent end papers;(# 87 in series, lists to 370 on dj reverse).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dj w/lite wear, clipped price,in mylar; 436 clean, unmarked Pages; Solid Green W/Gilt Titles; Sadamitsu Neil Fujita end papers;(# 87 In Series).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Thus. 43 stories by 31 authors. In color pictorial jacket, 8vo, 434pp. (shelfwear, rubbing and nicks at jacket tips and corners, jacket splitting from spine at upper hinge - now in new mylar.). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Slightly smaller book, maroon cloth with embossed logo, bright gilt lettering on spine, 436 lightly browned pages of short stories: Twain, Thurber, Benchley and more. DJ glossy yellow with color-illustration of humorists at front left. DJ worn and torn to edges. Fair DJ/Very Good book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Notes written on half-title page, corner scuffs, bumps, edge and shelf wear. Protected by Brodart.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback book in near fine condition,dust jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 436 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. The publication date on the copyright page is 1945 with no later printing history offered. Bound in green cloth. The price on the dust jacket flap is $1.95. Book size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". "Modern Library" 87. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1945. 436 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. First free end page torn in half. Light foxing on page edges.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 43 short stories by 31 authors. Smaller book, gray cloth, maroon and gilt very fine on front, bright on spine, 436 lightly browned pages. (Inside DJ it states 408 Outstanding Books.) Tiny creases at bottom front tip. Owner's name inside back cover and at top of Dust Jacket. DJ has yellow background with five color-illustrations of Parker, Twain, Benchley, Thurber and Perelman on front, white back very slightly and uniformly browned. DJ has very slight wear to bottom tips, two microtears at spine top edge, microtears at spine bottom edge and next to bottom back tip. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

Condition: Good. 1945. No Edition Stated. 436 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 436p. A hardcover book in very good condition with dustjacket. Closed tear at bottom of half-title page, which is also lightly spotted with stains. A section of pages is bent down the side. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is edgeworn and lightly chipped, but still largely intact. Modern Library edition with Rockwell Kent endpapers. Includes "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning" by Mark Twain, "Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff" by Bret Harte, several selections by James Thurber, a few Brer Rabbit stories by Joel Chandler Harris, and many more.

Ny. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Random House; 1945. Dust jacket good in mylar wrapper. chipping to edges, small tear to head of spine. # 87 in The Modern Library Series. Grey cloth with claret & gilt trim, Very good, light bumping to spine & corners. 436 pgs ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Random House; 1945.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full light gray cloth boards. Previous owner's name inside. Dust jacket is in tatters and in two pieces. 436 pages. Stories by Artemus Ward, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Damon Runyon, James M. Cain , Ellis Parker Butler, Booth Tarkington, Sinclair Lewis and many others Keywords: Artemus Ward, Joel Chandler Harris, Bret Harte, Damon Runyon, James M. Cain, Ellis Parker Butler, Booth Tarkington, Sinclair Lewis, Modern Library, Short stories, Fiction, Anthology.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not indicated as a Modern Library First Edition. ML-87. Introduction by Robert N. Linscott. Ex Library, but very lightly marked. DJ intact; initial sales price ($1.95) provided; DJ design not attributed; DJ indicates 388 titles outstanding. Prior owner's stamp on the title page and on the edges; otherwise, unmarked pages. Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good+ DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Modern Library Edition. Text is clean. Cover shows normal wear with gentle bump to head/base of spine. Previous owner address sticker on front free endpaper. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping along edges of front/rear panels. States First Modern Library Edition, 1945. ; Toledano binding style '8', Kent Endpapers, Dust Jacket style 'h1', listing 306 titles. 7th of 8 dust jacket artwork styles. ; Modern Library; Vol. 87.2; 436 pages.

Hardcover. Modern Library Edition. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Small owner stamp on FEP. Small closed tear on spine crown. Light foxing on top text block edge.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!