Booth franklin illustrations (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 513 pages, a good plus (vg) hardback, having been rebound by a library in brown buckram. This is the 1st English edition.

8vo.; decorative cloth covered boards with gilt and pictorial label paste-on, hardcover; 243 pages; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard and color illustrated plates; front hinge is cracked and boards are lightly edgeworn else very good.

Flex Binding. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket As Issued. First Edition. red flex leather binding, scuffed along the gutter and the fore edge, wear at the head and tail of the spine, gilt title on the front wrap and the spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition; First State (p. 173). Olive green cloth hardcover with gilt and maroon lettering and design. Contents clean, tight, complete, odor-free, unmarked. No library markings. No ownership name or writing. No bookplate; no highlighting. 513pp; illustrated endpapers. Gilded top edges of pages, with untrimmed other edges. …

Reissue. One of 699 sets of first printing sheets bound in a Boni & Liveright binding, ca.1925 (see Ahearn APG 008c - the sheets used for this reissue are second state, with p.173-174 inserted). Thick octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 513, [1]pp. Text edges slightly dusty, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $5.00), slightly dusty overall, with light wear to extremities, a few nicks and tears, and 1.25" of erosion along upper front flap; Very Good+. "By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with teh idea of driving from New York to Indiana, Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route, Dreiser recorded his impressions f the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale, Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his one year at Indiana University" (Indiana University Press). Uncommon.…