Search Results: adventures in understanding by grayson david

Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. Blue cloth board. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Flaps are detached but present. Heavy loss and tape repairs to spine. Heavy tanning to jacket.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed.

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover without DJ, spine faded.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. 273pp. Signature on endpaper dated 1925. Light general wear, spine top slightly frayed, bottom front edge well worn. Ideal Book Shop, NYC label on back endpaper. Photos on request. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946. 341pp. Brown cloth binding with black stamping on spine. Owner's signature on front flyleaf dated 1924. Photos on request. . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Dloubleday, Page & Co., 1925. Blue paper boards, green cloth spine and panels.with paper spine label. 273pp. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Slight general wear, top front tip bumped. Photos on request.. First Edition So Stated. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1925. Hardcover. Good +. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Green cloth spine with green paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners quite worn, covers toned at sides. Spine label chipped and quite toned. Binding tight and text clean, unmarked. Fiction. Stax.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1933. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6_ - 7_" tall. First edition, eighth printing. In orange cloth boards, with black image of trees on front, black titles to spine, good, tight covers and spine. The "Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative Bindery Team" have cleaned the covers.Lightly tanned end papers and cut edges, the "Bindery Team" have replaced paste down end paper. Good text block, tight and lightly tanned and with some foxing. Scarce edition.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946. 341pp. Dates on title page and copyright page match. Dust jacket not price-clipped. Photos on request.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925. Pale blue paper boards, green cloth spine and panels, paper spine label. 273pp. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Light edgewear, back panel a bit color faded, paper spine label lightly dulled. Photos on request.. First Edition So Staed, Comp. # String. Hardcover. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Garden City 1925. Gosset 8vo/273pp B&W&C illus, illus eps VG/VG slight discoloring on front cover. .

Doubleday Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hodder & Stoughton. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Decorated by Charles Robinson. Publication date unknown - No Dust Jacket - Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Half green cloth with paper label, pale green pictorial papercovered boards, bright yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Spine and edges tanned, spine cocked a bit, corners worn and bumped, a very good copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper.

New York: Doubleday Page, 1925. 2nd Printing Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Thomas Fogarty. Same format and quality as first printing. Binding is cloth boards.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Book. Illus. by Thomas Fogarty. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue paper boards. DJ nearly complete, but chipped and torn along head.. This was my first meeting with Ray Stannard Baker, writing as David Grayson. Baker was a successful news writer who wanted to get away from deadlines and other pressures. His "Adventures" series sold very well, he was involved in starting American Magazine, and he received the Nobel Prize for his biography of President Woodrow Wilson. After skimming the first 50 pp., I had trouble getting my teeth into it due to certain dated expressions and "airy-fairy" situations with which I couldn't identify. Just a litle too airy-fairy for me. 273 pp..

Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1925. Blue paper boards, green cloth spine and panels with paper spine label. 273pp. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Photos on request.. First Editon so Stated. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good copy with clean pages. Name in ink on front free end paper. 8vo. Published in New York, 1930. 272 pages.

London, UK.: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Reprint edition. Mild browned free endpages in places. Slight small brown spots in places on the fore'edges. Slight foxing (brown marks) to the front free endpages in places, can be on the odd page in the book perhaps. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS.. Signed By a Previous Owner. Orange Decorated Cloth. Very Good (AVERAGE)/Fair (some loss). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 273 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Top textblock edge dyed green. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.