Light Armour : Playful Poems on Practically Everything by Armour, Richard - 1954

McGraw-Hill, 1954. Book. Illus. by Hershfield, Leo. Very Good+. Hardcover. Fourth Printing..

McGraw Hill, 1954. very good condition in a chipped DJ.

McGraw-Hill. 1st printing ?,1954. Good/Fair hard cover. 12mo,boards,119pp,illus Hershfield,Leo. edgewear,rubbing,wrinkles back flap,small tears,chips,foxing,price clipped,dust jacket. shelfwear. text tanning,clean and tight.

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1954. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Green cloth spine with speckled paper boads, gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author in ink on ffep. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine bumped with slight wear, covers have some mild discoloration. Binding tight, text very clean. Poetry. Stax.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. 5th printing. Hardcover. 118p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Bottom of cover and endpapers lightly dampstained. Text unmarked and binding tight. The jacket is quite faded and is more noticeably dampstained, and has some light edgewear. A book of short, humorous poetry. Features cartoon illustrations by Leo Hershfield.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill. 1954. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". First edition / 2nd Printing.. H Hard Cover -. Very Good. First edition / Second printing. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper : "Regards of the author, / Richard Armour". There is also a full-page rhyme about left over food written in pen on the last blank page, this appears to be the same pen that the author inscribed the book with but I cannot tell if he wrote the rhyme. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Leo Hershfield. Very good in good dust jacket. Book : slight darkening along very top edge of cover, small name & address stamp on top of front endpaper. Dust : slight soiling to spine, slight wear at top of spine. 13 x 19. hard cover. 121pp. Signed: I Inscribed & Signed By Author

McGraw-Hill, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, [1], 118, [3] pages. Includes author's prose preface. Signed and inscribed by Armour in blue ink on front free endpaper. Slight sunning to spine; slght rubbing and browning to covers; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers.Hershfield, Leo; Over 50 b/w Illustrations.

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1954. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Leo Hershfield (Illustrator). Text/Bright & sound w/trace fingering evidence to some 6 pages. Green boards/NF w/light rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. PO label remanent to front cover verso; bookshop sticker to rear cover verso. Anthology of light verse by Richard Willard Armour (1906 - 1989). The amiable, humorous rhymes (many first published in the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and Sunday newspaper supplements) graze, but never wound, their subjects, are arranged into 6 parts: 1, Males & Females; 2, Hosts & Hostesses --- Guest & Guestesses; 3, Doctored Up; 4, About the House; 5, I See by the Paper; and, 6, Guided Miscellany. On page 67 is the quatrain "Going to Extremes" (oft erroneously attributed to Ogden Nash): " Shake and shake / the catsup bottle / first none'll come / and then a lot'll." Another popular quatrain of his, also usually attributed… Read More

McGraw Hill, 1954. Signed First Edition. Very Good book in a Fair dust jacket. Sunning to the spine.