Snoot by Beebe Lucius (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. 2 small chips and a small dampstain to the unclipped dj, unmarked copy. owner's bookplate. REA IRVIN (illustrator).

HC. First Edition xvi, 296 pp., Drawings With Foreword, Extensive Index of Personalities. Dark blue cloth over board, gilt spine title. Gift inscription on ffly "with gratitude to the MMa of "Reich Raiders" January /44 Hutch." .Turner. Spine title dulled. Lightly soiled , dust jacket laid in in fragments. Price as is. Rea Irwin, Dawings, (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No dust jacket. 2nd Printing. 296 pages. 2nd printing. INSCRIBED TO Otto Swanson who is mentioned on page 15, "first citizen and local patriot, named Otto Swanson". Fine in blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine. (A-14). Rea Irvin (illustrator).

Hard cover. Condition: Good. First edition. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4''. 296pp. with index. With typed letter Signed by Lucius Beebe. Toned endpapers , Stain from paper clip to book and letter. General wear to covers. Drawings by Rea Irvin. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by D. Appleton-Century Company, New York. 1943. 296 pgs. Illustrated with line drawings. First Edition/First Printing (#1 present to the last page). DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The text consists of feature columns appearing originally in The American Mercury, Cosmopolitan and the New York Herald Tribune. If you really want the skinny on Cafe Society between the wars, Beebe is the ultimate source. Not to be missed are his all too brief scathing "reviews" of a Gertrude Stein play and Salvador Dali's later works. Beebe admits he didn't coin the phrase, but he was Cafe Society personified, and don't be fooled by wannabe wankers such as Walter Winchell. Lucius Morris Beebe (December 9, 1902 February 4, 1966) was an American author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BEEBE, Lucius [196] pp. Appleton Century Company 1943 8" x 6" *chipping to head of jacket spine* Drawings by Rea Irvin of The New Yorker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the author, Lucius Beebe [196] pp. 1943 8" x 6" x 1" Appleton Century Company Drawings by Rea Irvin of The New Yorker. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 296pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with the (1) on the last page of text as called for by this publisher. Beebe's anthology of anecdotes of whatever caught his attention in the then pop culture of the time. A reporter for the New York Tribune, Beebe is remembered most notably for "The Stork Club Bar Book". Bound in blue cloth with lettering in gilt on spine. Humorous illustrations throughout by Rea Irvin. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Perhaps a hint of page toning but barely. Some off-setting to gutters of the paste downs. Bookseller ticket on rear paste-down. Remarkably well-preserved. Very pretty Art Deco clipped dust-jacket has chipping to the crown and front tips. But is still incredibly fresh and bright with no creases, toning or tears. Signed by the author on a affixed presentation bookplate on the front paste-down. A gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon title in any condition. Signed by Author(s). …