mardi gras masks old new de tinker frances edward larocque (3 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 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 : 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.