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réf. 1406775908.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1924réf. 00009049New York: The Century Co. 1924 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 12 3-349 3 pp. Green cloth with a pictorial front board and spine with decorations stamped in black and orange lettered in black on the front board and spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece and 31 additional plates black and white drawings by Christopher Murphy. Hervey's record of his travels to China Japan Indonesia Singapore Hong Kong Manila and Hawaii. Here he records the costume the art and entertainment the food and the flora and fauna of these destinations. Hervey spends time in Shinto temples in Japan in the city of Nagasaki at a luau and spent time boating in the Philippines. A roguish travel narrative from the early twentieth century brilliantly illustrated and difficult to find in-jacket. A Near Fine book with a tiny nick to the bottom edge of the rear board; dust jacket is Very Good with a trace or two of edge wear and moderate fading to the spine panel. The Century Co. [1924] hardcover
1924réf. 56360New York: Grosset & Dunlap c. 1924. Thick 8vo. 8 349 1 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates illust. endpapers. Green tweed cloth red lettering slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art of Chinese Junk sailing into the sunset minor chipping head of spine wear to corners still NF/VG copy. Reprint edition of this mystery/adventure authors memoir of his voyage from Hawaii through Japan China Singapore Java and Burma. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
1924réf. 10093New York & London: The Century Co. 1924. First edition. A near fine copy front hinge starting in a very good dust jacket shelfwear to edges minor loss to spine ends and corners spine age darkened with a damp stain. 10093. Octavo cloth. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries. The Century Co. unknown
réf. 93131201New York 1924 Grosset. Green cloth very good 349p. end paper maps 7 b.w. photos. FIRST EDITION . . . THE FASCINATING WORLD OF HARRY HERVEY IN S.E. ASIA . . . WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF WM. SOMERSET MAUGHAM . The fascinating primary work of a trip to the Far East and S.E. Asia. The author went to Hawaii Japan where he made a serious attempt to fathom the Japanese woman. On to China Zamboanga in the Philippines Thailand Java Malaysia Rangoon in search of truth humanity and to learn about people of all lands. Very lucid absorbing narrative. . Written by an author whose works led to such famous films as SHANGHAI EXPRESS and his memorable ROAD TO SINGAPORE. Based on the author's primary travels in Southeast Asia Indo-China and that area. . Exquisitely written flamboyant vocabulary distinct and elaborate descriptions in much detail and color. . REFERENCES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS: . THE EUROPEAN INDIA 1913 . THE BLACK PARROT: A Tale of the Golden Chersonese 1923 . WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL: Pages Out of the East 1924 . ETHAN QUEST: HIS SAGA 1925 . KING COBRA: An Autobiography of Travel in French Indo-China 1927. The same contents published in the UK under title: TRAVELS IN FRENCH INDO-CHINA 1928 . CONGAI. Mistress of Indochine 1927 . RED ENDING 1928 . THE DAMNED DON'T CRY 1939 . THE IRON WIDOW 1931 . BARRACOON 1950 . And others. WHO WAS HARRY HERVEY 1900-1951: . Harry Hervey was born in Beaumont Texas on November 5th 1900 but was educated in Savannah Georgia and Tennessee. He started writing at about age eight and sold his first work to H. L. Mencken at the age of sixteen. He spent much of his life at Savannah's old Desoto Hotel as his mother was in charge of housekeeping from 1923 to 1957. . Mr. Hervey has traveled widely in Asia Africa and the South Pacific. He authored twelve noels and numerous short stories and screenplays. Harry Hervey was a life-long bachelor and died at the age of fifty in New York on August 13th 1951. He is buried next to his mother Jane Louise Davis in Bonaventure Cemetery. harryhervey-org/ . . unknown
1924réf. 337918New York: The Century Company 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplate else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. Author's account of his search for romantic adventure mostly in the Orient. Many of the author's stories were made into successful movies including Shanghai Express. Lengthily Inscribed by the author in 1925. The Century Company hardcover
réf. 0332889238.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1331239311.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1901réf. 145590Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1901. First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo original pictorial cloth slip tipped in on the front free endpaper "With the Compliments of the Author." Signed by Gilman on the front free endpaper above the tipped in note. Additionally inscribed by Gilman on the rear pastedown in pencil with her 225 Riverside Drive address and a note to her publisher which she shared with Hervey White possibly in reference to her book 'Concerning Children' "About this size & quality but with paper cover gilt boards from mss. 5000 Charlotte Perkins Gilman." Gilman was an American humanist novelist writer lecturer advocate and eugenicist who served as a role model for future generations of utopian feminists. Best known for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis Gilman has written works on gender and male domination that continue to maintain their relevance in today's society. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the spine and some toning to the rear panel front and rear pastedown front and rear free endpaper. A unique example. Hervey White was an American novelist poet and community-builder who was one of the original founders of the Byrdcliffe Colony in Woodstock New York and the radical artists' colony the Maverick known together as the Woodstock Art Colony. In 1915 White planned the first of the Maverick Festivals which included music and theatrical performances and which would inevitably become an annual celebration of wildness and unity until 1931. In popular press and local culture his long hair beard baggy white linens and purple silks are celebrated as the hallmarks of Woodstock's cultural identity. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover
réf. 1163600792.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. ria9789354046278_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Step into the annals of history with "West Stow Parish Registers 1558 To 1850. Wordwell Parish Registers 1580 To 1850. With Sundry Notes" by Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey. This meticulously curated parish register collection is a vit hardcover
réf. 9354046274.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. B9789354046278Hardback. New. hardcover
1887réf. 008860Troy New York: Nim and Knight 1887. FIRST EDITION first printing. Full green cloth with elaborate stamped flower design on to cover with dark green red and gilt. Beveled edges lettering in gilt. Front board weak. Collated and complete with all 10 chromolithograph plates but two of them have come loose as is not uncommon. Gilt on all edges. Some wear on edges of the cover. From Original water-Color Drawings by Isaac Sprague. Overall in GOOD condition. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Good. Illus. by Sprague I. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hardcover. Nim and Knight Hardcover
réf. Bo2L.C. Page and Company 1899. Hbk 4to unpaginated lacks dj boards sun-faded at spine and edges titles on front board are still bright and legible the spine is slightly rubbed at top and bottom now in custom acetate jacket pages beginning to tone evenly more pronounced in the front than in the back slight loosening at the center but otherwise clean and unmarked Sprague colored illustrations with tissue-guiards are The Arethusa The Shortia The Arrow-head Hay Scented Fern Blue Stemmed Golden Rod The Fringe Gentian The Mountain Fringe The Arrow Leaved Violet The Calapogon Spinulose or Common Wood Fern altogether a very good solid clean unmarked copy L.C. Page and Company, 1899 hardcover
réf. 46363157like new. unknown
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1921réf. 79027New Haven CT.: Yale University Press. Very Good. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is bound in stiff boards with dust jacket like blue paper covers attached at the spine. The covers show sunning to the edges and spine and light wear/chipping to the edges. There is some wear to the hinges but with the binding solid. The contnets are bright and clean. . Yale University Press hardcover
réf. 1020486511.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 116888070X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1330655710.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0404538096.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. B9781168880703New. unknown
réf. 0331009773.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1971réf. 71793Yale University Press. 1971. Hardcover. 0404538096 . very good condition xlibrary with usual markings; xlibrary with usual markings; LIB2958012274 . Yale University Press hardcover