tinker frances edward larocque (9 résultats)

Cloth. Etat : Good. First Edition. First edition. Green cloth. No jacket. 149 pp. A work of fiction set in New Orleans in the 1890s, using the city and its unique culture as a backdrop. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, rubbing and edgewear. Text block toned.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. ***Please Read***name inside cover - cover is a little wrinkled on the back panel - No marks on text - My shelf location bn9-d-5*.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. Caswell, Edward C. (illustrateur). First Edition. Medium green cloth with tan cover and spine labels, printed in green. Image of dancers dressed for Mardi Gras. Spine label is half missing. Ex-library with embossed stamp on title page and small rubber stamp on copyright page, and partial book plate on ffep. First printing with a '1' on the last page of text. This is book four of a series of four novels about old New Orleans by the last four decades of the 19th century. 148 numbered pp. Fiction, New Orleans.

Etat : Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (historical fiction, juvenile fiction) 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.

Etat : Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Former Library book. Owner's name on front endpage. (New Orleans, Fiction).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good condition. Etat de la jaquette : No jackets. Pennell, Joseph; & Edward C. Caswell (illustrateur). First Printing of the First Edition. New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Very Good condition. 4 volumes, complete -- each is a FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST EDITION. All volumes have a (1) at the bottom of the last text page, which is this publisher's method for identifying a First Printing. The set is uniformly bound in original green cloth with a white paper label on each spine and front cover. Light cover soil. Several small brown spots on the front cover of CLOSED SHUTTERS. No owner's name or bookplate. There is a frontispiece by Joseph Pennell in each volume. Endpaper and cover label art is by Edward C. Caswell. "This tetralogy of romances picturing life in Old New Orleans is patterned after Edith Wharton's OLD NEW YORK. WIDOWS ONLY has for its background Creole life in the sixties. STRIFE pictures the carpet-baggers of the seventies. CLOSED SHUTTERS, set in the eighties, is a drama dealing with the life of two proud but improvident aristocrats. MARDI GRAS MASKS is a comedy romance of the nineties that reaches its climax during the fetes of Mardi Gras week." -- McVoy & Campbell 70. Shipping for this 4-vol set is most economical when sent by MEDIA MAIL. Priority and International shipment are also available, but ONLY by special arrangement, and at significantly greater cost. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jackets. Illus. by Pennell, Joseph; & Edward C. Caswell. 4 vols: 165pp. +186pp. +104pp. +149pp.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo, original cloth with pictorial onlay and title label to spine; front board slightly marked at foot; pictorial endpapers; fine internally and warmly inscribed by the authors, dated May 1931. 165pp plus prelims. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good-VG. Joseph Pennell (frontis.), Edward C. Caswell (decorations) (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Complete in four (4) volumes, uniformly bound in light green cloth with paper title labels mounted on upper front cover and upper spine panel. Volumes lightly rubbed along bottom edges, with dulled top text block edges, otherwise nearly as issued. Scarce color illus. dust jackets show rubbed edges with minor chips and a few closed tears, 1" loss to head of spine panel of one volume, tanned spine panels, ranging G to VG, now in mylar. All are 1st editions. One novel set in each decade from 1860s-1890s. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First editions of all 4 of the Old New Orleans series by Appeleton. All of them have the (1) on the final pages indicating first printings. All of the books are near fine with tight bindings, clean green bindings and sharp pasted labels. The DJs are very good with some spine darkening and minor chips to each volume. Does not include original slipcase. All titles are included: "Widows Only", "Strife", "Closed Shutters" and "Mardi Gras Masks. See photos. All books are in my possession and packed securely in cardboard boxes. #106.