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Paperback. Condición: Fair.

paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback book in good condition. Light age spots on the fore edge.

Condición: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: second ] Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Pub Date: 2/1/2009 Binding: Paperback Pages: 1238 second edition.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. Owen Clark "The Sun and Moon Trick" / Professor Edgar "An Illusive Pull" / Dr A Lindsay Smith "The 'Piccit' Rice Trick" / Christianer "The Card and Plate" / Frank Staff "The Elusive Orange" / Christianer "Double Reverse" Bruce Hurling "A Candle and Handkerchief Combination" / James Steedman "A Subtle Card Force" (VM7).

Hardcover. First Edition. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Bound in full, light blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Marbled blue endpapers. 259pps., with 10 full-page illustrations and a frontispiece of the subject. There is a very slight splay to the front board, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new. SIGNED and dated by the editor -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. "Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary 'might-have-been.' If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Even in its incomplete state -- nearly fifty thousand words -- Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of 'no social position' who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption. Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of 'Gilded Age' Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. X03-D. SIGNED.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 40 pages. "The Art of the Brontes" by Colin Hynson / "Will Owen (1869-1957) by Anthony James / "A Bookworm At The Golden Gate" by Michael Dawson / "Harold Avery" by William H P Crewdson.

Paperback. near fine digest magazines, two volumes in a very good, slightly sun kissed, slipcase 1st printing. Argosy magazine and a novella by Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow "The Rapture of the Nerds".

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 112 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Ex-library paperback in very nice condition with the usual markings and attachments.

Paperback. near fine digest magazines, two volumes in a near fine slipcase 1st printing. Argosy magazine and a novella by John Grant 'The Dragons of Manhattan'.

Single. Condición: Good. Cover art by Herbert Morton Stoops Ilustrador. First Edition. Dayton / New York: McCall Corporation 1948 First Edition Vintage Pulp magazine. Oversize [about 8.25" x 11.25"] pictorial wrappers, 144 pages, illustrated. With Stories by James Edward Grant, Hubert Coryell, Robert Moore Williams, George Armin Shaftel, Arch Whitehouse, Owen Cameron, Norman A. Fox, Joel Reeve, H. Bedford-Jones, Wilbur S. Peacock, Bertram Atkey, which Include "The Blind Spot" by James Edward Grant, "The Bog" by Hubert Coryell, "The Turtles of Ponce de Leon" by Robert Moore Williams, "Scanal in Eden" by George Armin Shaftel, "Only the Dead Ride Proudly by Norman A. Fox, "Captain Ezra Carries a Secret WEapon" by H. Bedford-Jones, "Aground on Devil's Bank" by Richard Howells Watskins, "The First Bowmen" by Bertram Atkey, etc. A Good copy with chipping to the spine heel, cover creasing, fore-edge tear to the rear cover, lower corner creasing to the last several page and lower corner off the last interior leaf with the loss of one word of a story, text paper tanned. See Photos Mgabx 8.

Paperback. near fine digest magazines, two volumes in a near fine slipcase 1st printing. Argosy magazine and a novella by Michael Moorock "The Mystery of the Texas Twister".

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Ex-library paperback in very nice condition with the usual markings and attachments.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 192 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 32pp, signed by the editor on endpaper, with a gift inscription, text clean and binding sound, quarter-cloth, gilt titles, Very Good condition / no dustwrapper.

1925. (Periodical) Very good. 129-255pp. Light spine wear at top and bottom, edges chipped. February 1925. Contributors include Herbert Asbury (Up from Methodism), James Branch Cabell (Above Paradise (A Story)), Barrett H. Clark (George Moore at Work), Edgar Lee Masters (John Peter Altgeld), Louise Pound (Walt Whitman Neologisms), Charles C. Thach (The Monroe Doctrine), Owen P. White (A Glance at the Mexicans). Edited by George Jean Nathan. Article about George Moore & Walt Whitman. (Essays).

Paperback. Condición: New.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. illustrated edition. 259 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!