gertrude orr (8 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Top of spine and four corners lightly bumped. Board just starting to show on bottom two corners. Boards themselves are nice and clean. Text clean, binding sound.

Unknown Binding. Condición: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. SCARCE. Ex-College Library with usual markings. DIS[card] written on inside covers/end papers. Text unmarked. Some page-turn soiling marks. A couple pages have a tear on bottom corner (does not go into text). Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and foxing. Binding still fairly tight. Heavily worn but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. "Here Come The Elephants" by Gertrude Orr 1944 - First Edition, 2nd Printing Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" 208 Pages The jacket is in fair minus condition with rips, tears, tape and overall wear. The jacket is now protected with a removal Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition free from rips, tears, bends, & writing. Pages are mildly toned, there is a pink mark on the bottom page edge, and there is a newspaper clipping attached to the front end page. The boards are in fair to good minus condition with stains and edge wear. The binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Orange boards with image and titles to front cover and spine in black. Illustrated dustjcket. 248pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Previous owner's circus bookplate to front free endpaper. Jacket has some wear to edges but is now protected by a clear plastic cover. Otherwise this is a very good bright copy in a very good- dj. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Bound in orange cloth with brown decorations in black and yellow jacket, 248 pp. illustrated with photos. This is the life story of the first woman tiger trainer. She worked with the big cats from 1911 well into the 1960s, was mauled several times and lived a life considered 'wild' and 'eccentric'. She was married four or five times, worked for the main circuses at various times. A pioneer liberated woman. Jacket is chipped at spine extremities with nicks and some rubbing.

Tall 8vo. 208 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Gray cloth, gray lettering & illustrations of elephants on front cover, w/ d.j. photo cover art of circus elephants, NF/NF. First edition of this fascinating work on the nature and lives of elephants, focusing on the famed circus elephants Snyder and Princess Alice who had the first surviving elephant offspring in captivity. Scarce in original dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Review copy with printed label (typed publication date - July 1, 1938) pasted to the upper right corner of the front inside cover. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Decorative cover. The dust jacket has minor chipping at the top of the spine panel. The front fly-leaf and the half-title have a light crease slanting down the length of the page. Near fine condition in very good dust jacket. Two page advertisement/bookmark for Caxton Printers laid in. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white photographs; 8vo.; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Third Printing. Mabel Stark (1889-1968) was a well-known tiger trainer who was orphaned at age 17 and in her early 20's began working with the Al G. Barnes Circus. In a field dominated by men, she soon began working with the tigers and lions and went on to become one of the most celebrated animal training circus acts (she was mauled by the big cats many times during her career). Her autobiography was "written with Gertruce Orr." Original publisher's orange cloth covers with black spine and cover lettering and a black illustration of a tiger. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket has marginal chips and tears yet is still quite striking. The dust jacket is now in a protective, removable, acetate cover. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 248 pages.