Uncle Sam In the Eyes of His Family by Erskine, John - 1930

The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Poor dust jacket. Bookplate inside.

IN: Bobbs, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good hardcover. Name plate inside front cover. Pages light brown. Corners slightly rubbed and bent. Small tears on edges of spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. First printing. Black cloth with red decoration and lettering. Light shelfwear. Corners lightly bumped. Four pages are mildly foxed from newspaper clippings. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, with frayed spine ends. The spine is very slightly darkened. The price, $2.50, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archval dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardbound. Mylar on dustjacket .

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Collectible - Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New.Black boards w/red lettering/VG; Strong & sound w/corner tip & surface. DJ/None. In early 19th century Uncle Sam began became the symbol/personification of the American government. To novelist, dramatist, critic, and professor of English at Columbia Univ, John Erskine (1879 - 1951), "The cartoon figure of Uncle Sam, the lanky gentleman with top-hat, long coat and boots, seems ... almost the portrait of a personality we have met. For some of us the face of this personality wears a benign expression; for others the features are mean." This novel fleshes out the caricature into a complete character, and in so doing, supplies the symbol of "the national termperament" with a biography. Erskine tells us that "He was the youngest of the family. All his life the others called his attention to the fact, as though he ought to do something about it, or at… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edition. Hardcover in black cloth lettered and decorated in red. 351 pp. A fine, bright copy (light offsetting to the front free endpaper. In near fine dust jacket, touch of toning to the folds and spine strip, tiny chip to one upper tip. Novel of a (then) modern American family using the personification of the traditional bearded, top-hatted American symbol.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 351 pages. First edition (first printing). Black cloth with purple lettering on cover and spine. Near fine in a dust jacket with a short, creased snag along the bottom edge.

Bobbs-Merill, 1930. Hardcover. SIGNED / VG-. SIGNED BY JOHN ERSKINE. Limited 311/356. includes original manuscript page corrected by Erskine. used slipcased hardcover copy, lacking a dust jacket (as issued). slipcase and spine slightly sunfaded. light shelfwear, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight, and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Indianapolis:Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, (1930). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Signed by authors. Indianapolis:The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers. (1930). 1st edition. 351pp. Signed, inscribed and dated by the Author on the 1st free end-page. Hardcover. Black boards with print in red, lightly soiled, with light wear to edges. .  Internally, end pages slightly age toned but aside from inscription, clean.The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Inscribed to Ernest Hutcheson, a friend and fellow musican.  Ernest was President of Julliard from 1937-1945.

Bobbs-Merrill. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph edition. Signed by author on edition page (second page) and number 151 out of 356 copies. Hard cover published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1930. No dust jacket. Comes in a slipcase, which has an indentation and tear on side edge near bottom, and is faded around the edges. Slipcase is in good condition. Spine of book is faded some and has gilt lettering. Also, spine is loose from the binding. Front cover has an embossed design. Top edges of pages are gilt-covered, and a bookmark ribbon is attached to the headband. A bookplate from a previous owner is attached to the inside front cover. Book is in good plus condition. A page of the original manuscript with correction marks is attached to the gutter of the foreword page. Book is in good plus condition. 351 pages, 2.1 lb. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; Signed by Author .