Search Results: a parody outline of history wherein by stewart donald ogden

NY. George H. Doran. 1921. Blue cloth, paper labels on front cover & spine.. Lacks front endpaper, back endpaper foxed, covers & text clean/tight: VG/no dj. 8vo Drawings by Herb Roth.

New York: George H. Doran Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. General wear to cover, binding broken, previous owner's name and address on front free end page, mild browning to page edges throughout, brown stain on title page of chapter four .

NY: Doran. G. 1921. Blue binding mottled, yellow paper titles, spine sunned & paper title worn at edges. .

George H. Doran Company New York, 1921-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 3.2995 cent in x 20.8122 cent in x 14.4670 cent in. First US edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable

GARDEN CITY, NY.: GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING. G IN GREEN CLOTH WITH PASTE-DOWN LABEL AT FRONT. NO DJ. Pages: 230. . 1921. HARDCOVER.. BOARDS LIGHTLY STAINED AT FRONT, LIGHTLY EDGEWORN. LIGHT TONING TO PAGES. TEXT CLEAN, BINDING INTACT. .

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

New York: George H. Doran, 1921. Attractive volume in three quarter maroon leather. Early printing dated 1921 (the first year of publication) but without the Doran symbol on the title or copyright page. Includes a series of American historical events described as they would be by early twentieth century popular authors, such as: Introduction in the manner of William Lyon Phelps; Main Street: Plymouth, Mass. in the manner of Sinclair Lewis; The Courtship of Miles Standish in the manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Whisky Rebellion in the bedtime story manner of Thornton W. Burgess; How Love Came to General Grant in the manner of Harold Bell Wright; Custer's Last Stand in the manner of Edith Wharton; more. Illustrated with line drawings. Three quarter maroon morocco over green cloth, slightly raised spine bands, gilt lettering and spine decoration, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers, 230 pages. Edges a bit rubbed, spine slightly darkened with some minor surface flecks, front… Read More

George H. Doran Company, New York, 1921. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 230 pages; Description: [2], xiii, [14]-230 p. (first 2 p. Blank) : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Parodies. United States --History --Fiction.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1921. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in dark blue and green; xiii,[14]-230pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips affecting text of publisher's ads printed on jacket verso but not affecting external text, spine panel and flap folds toned, corners bumped, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed and signed by the Civil War historian Bruce Catton to journalist and writer [though *not* the McTeague author] Frank Norris, "on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his birth." The inscription continues with a long poem that incorporates the words from the book's title and concludes with the line "An 'Outline'? Pregnant indeed for liminal chirascuro [sic]! / Fulfill thy Destiny oh friend. / Bruce Catton / 3/3/57 / By the way. How's *your* stuff selling?" This… Read More