Roberts kenneth 1885 (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Book Club Edition. "The Kenneth Roberts Reader" is a generous helping selected from his novels and essays. Filled with drama, action, humor, satire, and intimate conversation pieces, it is a anthology to delight the most cosmopolitan tastes. Included in these twenty-six excerpts are vivid scenes and episodes from those great novels "Northwest Passage", "Oliver Wiswell", and "Arundel". There are also amusing, biting essays from "Trending into Maine" and "For Authors Only", as well as a chapter on tonsillectomy warranted to bring tears to the eyes of anyone - doctor, nurse, or patient, who has ever been in a hospital anywhere. The study of divining rods - "Experiments with a Forked Twig" - is here published for the first time in book form. A collection of superlative reading, this is a book for all who enjoy good, absorbing writing, as well as for the many fans of Kenneth Roberts.  (From the dust-jacket blurb) TITLE : The Kenneth Roberts Reader AUTHOR : Kenneth Roberts (1885 - 1957) INTRODUCTION : Ben Ames Williams (1889 - 1953) IMPRINT : Doubleday PLACE : Garden City DATE : No date ( © 1945) EDITION : Issued through the Book Club STATUS : This edition Out of Print - OP PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade Hardcover issued through a book club; contains an Introduction; [xii]+ 429 pages plus 5 pages of promotional material for books by Roberts; approximately 5 1/2" x 8"; dark blue cloth with title , etc. and decorative embellishments in gilt on spine; top edge dyed dull yellow; decorated dust-jacket. photo-portrait of Roberts on back flap. CONDITION - BOOK : VERY GOOD - JACKET : VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : Soft bumps to bottom fore-edge tips of boards; slight compression and mild abrasion to spine extremities, else clean and presentable. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Paper is mildly toned, else clean and presentable with negligible signs of use DUST-JACKET : Mild wear around edges which includes small nick and chipping - mild surface rub - basically a beautifully preserved jacket which displays very nicely under protective archival mylar cover. Probably the nicest specimen of this edition I have seen.…

*** [HERBSTVERKAUF bis Montag, den 16.11.2026 / AUTUMN-SALE until Monday, November 16, 2026: um 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of 30%; vorheriger Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- 1. DEUTSCHE AUFLAGE, GEBUNDENE ALAUSGABE; gilt als ausgezeichnete Geschichtsquelle für die frühe Phase des Nordamerikanischen Bürgerkrieges (Civil War) im nordöstlichen Territorium. - Der lichtbedingt leicht nachgedunkelte Leinenbezug des Buchrückens fachgerecht neu aufgesetzt; GUTES EXEMPLAR. - Weitere Bücher von Kenneth Roberts - auch in amerikanischer Sprache, tlw. signiert - im Bestand. . .…

unbound. Written in brown fountain pen on a 3 x 5-inch card: "Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" with his full signature below. No place, no date, circa 1950. Evenly toned and in fine condition. American author best known for his works on historical fiction including the novel "Northwest Passage.".…

LeatheBound. Condición: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1928 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 16 Language: English Pages: 16.…

LeatheBound. Condición: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1928 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 290 Language: English Pages: 290.…

No Binding. Condición: Good. Two letters, 12mo and octavo, respectively, two pages, some tape residue to edges of each letter, where formerly affixed to an album, else in good, legible condition. Roberts thanks Pleasants for the gift of a book, and comments on his travels in England in the 1934 letter. In the 1937 letter he writes Pleasants commenting on points in his finest novel Northwest Passage, published in 1937: "Dear Dr. Pleasants: It was a pleasure to hear from you again, and I greatly appreciate the kind things you say. I get your point about Carleton, but he just didn't fit into my narrative. My story was practically ended as soon as Rogers was disappointed in his attempt to find the Northwest Passage. Everything beyond that was extraneous and had to be told with the greatest possible speed. Thus I found it impossible to use some of the things that I would have liked to use - such as Rogers' courtmartial, for example. It will be a great pleasure to see a copy of your book when it's published. Have you tried your manuscript with Little Brown? They and Knopf seem to me to be unusually able publishers. The trouble with books in general is that no publisher, as a rule, is able to sell more than two or three thousand copies, and such a sale is dreadfully disappointing to any author … Kenneth Roberts" Kenneth Lewis Roberts (December 8, 1885 - July 21, 1957) was an American writer of historical novels. He worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the Saturday Evening Post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction, often writing about his native state and its terrain and also about other upper New England states and scenes. For example, the main characters in Arundel and Rabble in Arms are from Kennebunkport (then called Arundel), the main character in Northwest Passage is from Kittery, Maine and has friends in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the main character in Oliver Wiswell is from Milton, Massachusetts. American National Biography, vol. 18, pp., 606-607.…