Burns ruby (18 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardbound. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Description: Includes illustrations, with a few in color. Josephine Marsalis Clardy was born in 1881 in Missouri, and moved to the small frontier town of El Paso at the age of one year. She spent the remainder of her life there, married a railroad executive and was widowed about eighteen years later. From her home on Montana Street, the widow Josephine Clardy Fox became a legend until her death in 1970. Throughout these years, she remained a distinctly private person, one whose wealth increased as El Paso grew, one who bequeathed the University of Texas as El Paso over three million dollars. The real story behind her legendary life and bygone days in El Paso have been carefully researched and interestingly narrated by Ruby Burns. The book is designed by Carl Hertzog. BINDNG/CONDITION: two color cloth: turquoise with mauve at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. index. Small 4to (about 10.5 inches tall). 143 pages.…

Hard Bound Volume. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Chipped d/j Presentation inscription from author.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good - Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. None Stated. A biography of the notable benefactor of the Univeristy of Texas at El Paso. Mild edge wear with some light rubbing. A very good or better copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Good - Cash. Etat de la jaquette : Good. **Inscribed by the author to the previous owner.** General use wear to the surface, edges, corners and ends. Text appears to be unmarked. Crisp clean pages. P/O name inside. Slight discoloration on back cover. General shelf, use and age wear to the dust jacket. The dust jacket's in a mylar cover. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. Inscribed By Author.…

Hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 143 pages. Color frontispiece with other B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has edge wear and short closed tear along spine edge.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardback in near fine condition with very good + condition dust jacket. Dust jacket is in mylar sleeve.

Hardbound. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Description: This copy is Signed by the author. Includes illustrations, with a few in color. Josephine Marsalis Clardy was born in 1881 in Missouri, and moved to the small frontier town of El Paso at the age of one year. She spent the remainder of her life there, married a railroad executive and was widowed about eighteen years later. From her home on Montana Street, the widow Josephine Clardy Fox became a legend until her death in 1970. Throughout these years, she remained a distinctly private person, one whose wealth increased as El Paso grew, one who bequeathed the University of Texas as El Paso over three million dollars. The real story behind her legendary life and bygone days in El Paso have been carefully researched and interestingly narrated by Ruby Burns. The book is designed by Carl Hertzog. BINDNG/CONDITION: two color cloth: turquoise with mauve at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. index. Small 4to (about 10.5 inches tall). 143 pages. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Book in good condition, mild wear.

Etat : FINE. First printing. A carefully researched story of this woman who lived very privately for most of her life in El Paso, Texas. She was born in 1881 in Missouri, and moved to the small frontier town of El Paso with her parents at the age of one year, and other than her music studies at Berkeley and touring as a singer, she spent the rest of her life there. She married a railroad executive, whom she had first met when touring and was widowed eighteen years later. There were some difficult years, but as El Paso grew, her wealth from real estate ventures also increased. Thoughout her life she was generous in donating to the city and at her death she bequeathed the University of Texas as El Paso over three million dollars. Color frontispiece, photographs, including some in color. An attractive volume, a small quarto,designed by Carl Hertzog and bound in turquoise cloth boards, with a gilt fan on the front cover, over a lavender cloth spine. Index. xvi, 143 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the 1/2 title page. Illustrated. Upper frayed edge of dj fixed with clear tape. About this Item 1st Edition. Hardbound Small 4to (about 10.5 inches tall) 143 pages. Index. Description: This copy is Signed by the author. Includes illustrations, with a few in color. Josephine Marsalis Clardy was born in 1881 in Missouri, and moved to the small frontier town of El Paso at the age of one year. She spent the remainder of her life there, married a railroad executive and was widowed about eighteen years later. From her home on Montana Street, the widow Josephine Clardy Fox became a legend until her death in 1970. Throughout these years, she remained a distinctly private person, one whose wealth increased as El Paso grew, one who bequeathed the University of Texas as El Paso over three million dollars. The real story behind her legendary life and bygone days in El Paso have been carefully researched and interestingly narrated by Ruby Burns. The book is designed by Carl Hertzog. BINDING/CONDITION: two color cloth: turquoise with mauve at the spine; a Fine book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. 10ISBN: 0-87404-042-6. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : fine. Designed by Carl Hertzog with a presentation signed by him on the half title page. Bound in the publisher's original quarter grey and blue cloth with the spine stamped in black and the front cover stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. Signed.

Etat : New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. El Paso, Texas Western Press, 1973. Designed by Carl Hertzog. Near fine copy in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. First edition. Topedge lightly foxed, else fine. Complimentary copy with publisher's (lightly soiled) letter laid in. Contributions by Barbara Gibbs, Karla Andersdatter, Ruby Stone Burns, Mary Fields, Cesar A. Gonzalez, Barbara Goldowsky, Magda Herzberger, George W. Williams Jr. and many more.…

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

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. Valerie Grosvenor Myer's copy of this book which she has signed and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. The book has also been signed by an astonishing additional 33 out of over 50 contributors: Holloway, Waller, Target, Evans, Gohorry, Meadowcroft, Harpley, Williams, Watson, Robinson, Evans, Abbott, Burns, Overhill, Jondorf, Booth, Avison, Cann, Cavaliero, Pollentine, Davies, Holbrook, Barker, Scott, Kramer, Edwards, Anderson, Beck, Worman, Juby, Meadows, Wilson and McMahon as well as on the rear free endpaper by children's author Althea Braithwaite who doesn't have a piece in the book. Bumping to the corners of the boards. Light browning to the edges of the pages. Browning to the endpapers but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little light chipping at the base of the spine and some light surface and edge wear. First printing. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1-4, Winter to Autumn, 1950. HC, Orig. Red cloth and gilt stamping to spine. B/W photography, ads, illustrations and collected writings from celebrated authors. 4to. 4 page Index to all 4 quarters + 429pp. Fine, Clean, with no markings or writings, never read. Mint Interior with near fine exterior; spine is sunned. Includes stories, poems and other writings by authors such as J. Frank Dobie, Virgie Bernhardt, John Rosenfield, Aubrey Burns, Leonard Casper, Fannie Cook, Elizabeth Coatsworth, David Cornell DeJong, Clyde Eagleton, Dick Johnson, Sidney Sulkin, William Goyen, O. W. Pierce, Amos Taub, James Pipes, Mary Poole, Vernon Young, Thomas Hal Philips, Albert Guerard, Ernest Kroll, Charles Allen, Ruth Morgan, Inez Thrift, Everett A. Gillis, Robert Ramsey, Fred Gibson, Ruby Pickens Tartt and many more. Hard to find in such nice condition. RARE. Collectible. BR Box 152.…