Vogues First Reader by Crowninshield Frank (14 results)
More imagesPublished by Julian Messner
- Hardcover
Seller: MPBookstore, New Ulm, MN, U.S.A.MPBookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. There is some wear to the cove…r. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Publisher: Julian Messner. Author: Frank Crowninshield. Binding: Hardcover.
Published by Julian Messner, Incoirporated, New York, NY, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookworm Books, Tifton, GA, U.S.A.Bookworm Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 557pp, 1942. Cloth hardcover, no dustjacket. Former owner's bookplate on inside front coverCovers, yellowed with minimum wear. No marks or tears, rear hinge lightly cracked. An anthology of essays thar first appeared in Vogue Magazine. Size: 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Book.
Language: English
Published by Julian Messner, 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.Callaghan Books South
Contact seller4-star sellerCloth. Condition: Good. Very large, heavy book, gray cloth with red bar-design along front left, spine very slightly faded and lightly browned, 557 pages. Very slight wear between final end papers along spine. Light wear to bottom front tip, light brown stain at top back edge and nearby final end papers' tips. Good.

Published by Halcyon House, New York, 1944
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.Bookshelf of Maine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Slight fading to lettering to spine. Front endpaper missing. ; "Vogue's First Reader," edited by Frank Crowninshield, is a collection of writings originally published in Vogue magazine, with a foreword by Crowninshield himself. It features a diverse range of pieces, including essa…ys, humorous sketches, and articles on various topics, showcasing the work of over seventy different authors. It includes works that had not previously appeared in any other anthology. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 557 pages.
VOGUE'S FIRST READER (1st)
CROWNINSHIELD, FRANK ED introduction.includes VOGUE MAGAZINE.bemelmans, ludwig; porter, katherine anne; saroyan, william; maurois, andre; brush, katharine; gallico, paul; west, rebexxa; paul, elliot; bourke white, margaret; eastman, max; MANY OTHERS
Published by JULIAN MESSNER PUB.;.conde nast 1942 verso, NY, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, U.S.A.WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.. Page 37/38 missing, else bright, very nice, clean covers & text paperback; black spine titles on dar orange heavy cloth hard covers.showing many 2" hoizontal bars to left side cover & spine.attractive design. ; 557pg THICK pages; originaly published in Vogue, this is 1st anthlogy…appearance ever for any of them.Many by major authors.Most are short and characteristic of their author's larger work. Illustrated by OGG, OSCAR TYPOGRAPHY & DESIGN (illustrator).

Published by Julian Messner, Incorporated, New York, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 557pp. Cloth toned along the edges and spine, a touch of soiling on the page edges, spine ends and corners gently rubbed, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Contributors include Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Wolfe, and others.
Published by Messner, New York, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Water stain and wrinkle on boards. Pages brown. Corners bent. Edges of spine bumped.

Language: English
Published by Julian Messner, Incorporated / Conde Nast Publications, Inc., New York, 1942
- Hardcover
Seller: The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.The Librarian's Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Good copy in a Good dust wrapper of a title which is "A brilliant, entertaining, witty, moving and surprising Collection on almost everything of importance by almost everybody of importance." Dust wrapper is wrapped in a Mylar cover. Dust wrapper flaps have corners cut.…Wear to dust wrapper with sunning on the spine and closed tears on either end of spine. Wear creasing on both sides of spine on the dust wrapper. Small chipping along top edge of dust wrapper. Tan boards have crisp black lettering and red squares. Sunning to pages. Previous seller's price in pencil on front flyleaf. From Dedication page:"All of these pieces were originally published in "Vogue." None of them has ever appeared in any other anthology." Contents:"Conversational kleptomania / G.B. Stein; Rather late for Christmas / Mary Ellen Chase; A prologue to America / Thomas Wolfe; My life is an open book / Clifton Fadiman; Home to Truro / Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming / Ernest Hemingway; The world within us / Andre Maurois; The weather of our soul / Irwin Edman; Four painters / Hendrik Willem Van Loon; You're on the air now / Ilka Chase; Souvenir / Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn is my neighborhood / Carson McCullers; Happy Land / Katherine Anne Porter; The China you don't know / Helena Kuo; The old town / William Saroyan; The Mrs. Astor I remember / Frank Crowninshield; Churchill's favourite aunt / Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner with Turbot / Ford Madox Ford; Landscape, with figures / Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India / Krishnalal Shridharani; The passing of the blops / M.F. Agha; I remember Christmas in Holland / Pierre Van Paassen; I remember Christmas in Austria / Leo Lania; I remember Christmas in France / Andre Maurois; I remember Christmas in Belgium / Robert Goffin; Humour, the bomb-proof kind / Virginia Cowles; "We have with us this evening ." / Frank Crowninshield; They're human after all / Katharine Brush; Chungking's broadway / Clare Boothe; Ten answers on Japan / Wilfrid Fleisher; This never got into my column / Major George Fielding Eliot; But where is Picasso? / Andre Gery; I love you, I love you, I love you / Ludwig Bemelmans; Something to remember you by / Sylvia Thompson; I like the circus / Paul Gallico; Embroidery / Ivy Low; The impossible glory / Rebecca West; The scars of London / Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein in France / Therese Bonney; Here we stand / Mary Ellen Chase; Five pretty little fables / William Saroyan; Chile can amore / Ludwig Bemelmans; Me and the French / Margaret Case Harriman; Murder in the music-room / Samuel Chotzinoff; Art and camouflage / Elliot Paul; Off stage noises / Aline Bernstein; "Sarah Bernhardt left them kneeling" / Laurette Taylor; File No.113 / Robert Simon; Do men like witty women? / Stephen Leacock; Clare Boothe, in a velvet glove / Allene Talmey; Now at last a house of my own / Katherine Anne Porter; Dry Tortugas / Archibald MacLeish; Red mountain / Irwin Edman; Southern exposure / Ralph McGill; "Waiter, bring me anything" / Edward R. Bosley, Junior; A wit with a whim of iron / Frank Crowninshield; "Fanny you fool!" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The lady is an engineer / Patricia Strauss; I saw the Moscow blitz / Margaret Bourke-White; The wine-diver / V. Shishkov; Now . twenty centuries later / James Hilton; The voice of Africa / Stuart Cloete; "There was no more sea" / Mary Ellen Chase; Bucks county auction / Josephine Herbst; Perennial immortality / Lee Simonson; No bed of roses / Isabel Paterson; Orson, the wizard, Welles / J.P McEvoy; Anything for a laugh / Max Eastman; Thanks to Casey Jones / John Mason Brown; Decor and the morons / Ilka Chase; American women . so pretty / Jules Romains; Fashions in painting / Frank Crowninshield; Renaissance profiles / Leo Lerman; No trouble at all / Ludwig Bemelmans; The infant gourmet / Sheila Hibben; etc." "Description:"xvi, 557 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 27 cm.".

Published by Julian Messner, Inc., New York, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.Bookshelf of Maine
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Light blotching (ageing? ) on rear outside cover. ; Book is in Very Good condition. -tight binding and clean, unmarked interior and text. Excellent anthology of reknowned authors whose particular stories first appeared in this publication. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 557 pages.
More imagesPublished by Julian Messner, Inc, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.Chamblin Bookmine
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Add to basket8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 557p. Previous owner's name penned on upper corner of front fly with an ex-libris bookplate on ffep. Endpages are toned, but text is unmarked with a warm patina. Binding is tight with hinges fully attached. Light brown cloth boards are clean and point…ed with red lines, black lettering, and a green marker line on top edge of text-block. Dust jacket is protected in mylar with toning, closed tears along the extremities, clipped dj flaps, and a stain on spine. Assumed first edition, no other dates listed.

Published by Julian Messner, Incorporated, New York, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. One page was misfolded and shows some creasing (page…547 / 548). There is a previous owner's inked name, and date (and sorority name) on the front pastedown page (neatly). The dust jacket has several nicks, beginning edge tears and edge wear / rubbing along with some sunning, especially to the spine. This book contains numerous writings from the pages of Vogue magazine: all of the works included in this volume have never been printed in any other anthology, making this a First Hardback Edition for a number of the works. Included are A Prologue to America by Thomas Wolfe, The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming by Ernest Hemingway (on fishing), Brooklyn is My Neighborhood by Carson McCullers, The Scars of London by Cecil Beaton, Five Pretty Little Fables by William Saroyan, Fanny - You Fool! by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, I Saw the Moscow Blitz by Margaret Bourke-White, These Grapes need Sugar by Rex Stout, and many more.
More imagesPublished by Julian Messner, New York, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.MLC Books
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. A compilation of stories first published in Vogue. Includes contributions by Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, Ford Madox Ford, Clare Booth, Paul Gallico, Rex Stout, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, among many others. 557 pages. Gently bumped. Jacket rub…bed with chips and tears, including a 4" tear at the upper rear panel. Price clipped, in new Brodart. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by N.Y:Julian Messner. 1942. Hardcover., 1942
- First Edition
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.Frederick Bayoff Literary Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHemingway, Ernest 1st. ed. Story by Hemingway.Also Thomas Wolfe,Robert Nathan,Carson McCullers and others. v.g.-fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized b…ooks require additional postage.
Published by MY, MESSNER, 1942, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. HEMINGWAY CONTRIBUTION FIRST EDITION FINE.