Hoopes clement (10 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. Novel. Yellow cloth, bumped all around, author inscription on first blank. Dust jacket rubbed, edge wear, general soil, spine faded. Signed by Author(s).

Etat : Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on front endpage. Adhesive staining on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Signed by author on flyleaf. Only light book wear, including slightly cocked binding. Dust jacket is worn with scuffs, edge chips, and significant uneven fading. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Novel. First edition assumed, no other printings stated. Blue cloth, clean. Author inscription on first blank. Dust jacket slight edgewear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Novel. First edition assumed, no other printings stated. Blue cloth, spine ends bumped. Author flat signed on first blank. Dust jacket rubbed, some edgewear. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover in taupe cloth boards, spine ends and corners still sharp, gift dedication on fep from author to Lily & Erskine with happy recollections of Upperville and the hope they may see the film. DJ in new mylar unclipped, sunned spine but displays well. 275 pp. "Clem Hoopes knows his Amish. He knows the traumas of the Amish youth who embarks upon 'a frolic of his own.'. He spins a story and weaves a pattern of truth." (from the rear cover). Story of young Amos Stolzfux, who had just escaped from the closed-in world of 1930s Pennsylvania's Amish people. As Amos maneuvered his way through the crowded city streets he wondered what awaited him in the austere low offices of a man he had met only once, when he sold him a pig at a farm show. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition. (1969) 278 pp. Original brown cloth covers, very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends bumped. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear and few short tears to edges. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Trace foxing on top edge, else near fine in a very good (minor edge wear, sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.

Cloth. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Slightly smaller book, yellow cloth, dark red lettering on spine very fine, on first front end paper in blue ink: "For Mrs. Dorcas Anderson--the best bookseller I know--Clement Hoopes." DJ front and spine has gray background with horrifying illustration of horse and rider tumbling off cliff toward bulldozer and rocks below on front, b/w photo of Hoopes on back--his first novel. DJ has microtears and crease at spine top edge, very lightly soiled at bottom back. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [8], 246, [2] pages. Illustration. Inscribed by the author's son on the title page. The inscription reads For Susan Green, with great affections and warmest regards. David Hoopes 7 November 1992. The dust jacket is in a plastic sleeve and is price clipped. An espionage novel set in French Canada at the beginning of World War II. Clement R. Hoopes was an author and former State Department administrator. Mr. Hoopes's works included three novels. One, "Angry Dust," published by Devin Adair in 1967, was a blood and thunder tale of politics and espionage. He also wrote magazine articles and television scripts. Mr. Hoopes was director of national development for the American Shakespeare Festival Theater and Academy at Stratford, Conn., in the 1960's, and helped organize the Shakespeare 400th birthday committee for the 1964 celebration. A former member of the United States Information Agency, he was also associated with Time Inc., the Washington Historical Waxworks Museum, the publishing concerns of Harper & Brothers and Devin Adair, and the Marshall Plan mission to Ireland. From the author of Angry Dust and Frolic of His Own comes the suspenseful tale of David Blackburn, diplomat for Canadian External Affairs, who becomes involved in a dangerous mission as courier for P. M. Mackenzie King.…