Aiken william a (34 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good -. Subtitle: "Being a Continuation By Several Hands of Mt. Archdeacon Echard's History of England; from the Time of the Establishment of King William and Queen Mary Upon the Throne in the Year 1688, Until the Death of Her Majesty Some Five Years Later. To Which are Added Some Remarks Upon the Previous and Succeeding Reigns By the Rt. Hon. Daniel, Earl of Nottingham." Very Good-/ Good+ in boards over cloth spine. Light wear to wraps and to lightly cocked spine, rear board corners slightly exposed; light wear, light chipping, some small dampstains, and short tears to jacket, pencil note on rear flap. 182pp.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Spine faded. Light wear on boards. Owner's name in ink. Staining on both endpapers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. FAIR/WITH NO JACKET, 248 pp. Text clean with usual library treatments. This is a library rebound edition. Green boards with black text. Binding stitched and firm.

SpiralBound. Zustand: vg-. unpaginated; recipes in individual cook's hand; contents unmarked; red plastic spiral comb binding; lightly soiled cover. Mrs. William A. Aiken (illustrator). SpiralBound.

Paperback. First edition (NAP) . Softcover, in original covers, xii (introduction) , 54 pp, including a 2 page note on the illustrator, Einar Larrsen. Very good. Ex-college library. Spine moderately faded, covers a bit rubbed along edges, with a few 1/4 inch nicks and chips; text is tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Drama; Yale. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. ** SCARCE ** 1ST EDITION. 1950 ** Sturdy cloth-bound hardcover, bright gilt lettering on the spine, in a Poor dustjacket with much chipping at its edges (jacket artwork by Aubrey Beardsley). Published by E. P. Dutton & Co.,1950, with 248 pages, frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley. TEXT IN ENGLISH. The book itself has no notable flaws, approaches Near Fine condition, with only occasional micro signs of wear to the cloth at the board edges. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, folded, creased, or missing. The hinges are sound and undamaged, the corners are sharp and unbumped. All pages are clean and stain free, bright and white, and all text is sharp and legible. There is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings in the book. The dustjacket, though badly chipped at the edges, has all jacket lettering and graphics untouched and intact, including the Beardsley artwork on the front. The dustjacket is clean and stain-free. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B15. …

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT. Gold titles on textured "leatherette" spine strip.similar marbled "leatherette" hard covers under a clear vinyl dust jacket. ; Green endpapers show children cartoon characters & finely painted PHEASANT IN FLIGHT. An especially attractive copy. ; 338pg pages; This appears to be a "special " binding of some sort,It has no ISBN, and no explanation for the "leatherette" cover.but it is not the more commonly offered copy in the blue/Green paper covered boards. I do not know if the clear vinyl dj was original, or if it was added later.or if it had any other DJ. Illustrated by Burris,burman Etc Illust (illustrator).…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Corners bumped and torn.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 281pp., xiii. '2' in number line. Taupe cloth with Navy cloth spine and brilliant gilt-stamped lettering. Notes at ends of essays. Index, pp. 273-281. (No previous owner names.).

248pp. First Edition. Translated into English by Various Hands, Assembled, Arranged and Edited in Commemoration of the Two Thousandth Anniversary of the Poet's Death by William A. Aiken Spine and cover extremities sunned: VG/no dj.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Missing. First Edition. New York, 1950; red cloth covered boards; tide mark at top corners with fading; corners and spine edges scuffed; no dust jacket; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; Previous owner's name on front paste-down; Interior is clean and unmarked; 248 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, with an additional plate within the text. Original blue paper-covered boards over a tan cloth spine, with a blue paper spine label and gilt stamping. Bookplate to the front pastedown. The spine is very lightly sunned; otherwise a crisp, very good copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First Printing as confirmed by McBride. The book would be fine save for shelf wear along bottom of boards and text block, slight translucent spotting of front lower text block. Else book is free of internal marking, spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. While the jacket has its price on the back flap, it has general wear all over, loss and small chipping at most edges, especially along spine and at top and bottom of spine. Actually looks quite smart in its shiny new plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus. Light shelf wear, else very good in brown paper covered boards. No dust jacket.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Great Britain, History) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

First Edition. SHORT STORIES OF TODAY, Macmillan, 1934, first edition, some light soiling to the cloth and dulling of the spine, else just about a vg copy with contributions (many of which appear here for the first time in book form) by: Conrad Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, A. E. Coppard, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, D. H. Lawrence, William March, J. P. Marquand, Melville Davisson Post, P.G. Wodeouse, et.al. …

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0208010297. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1941. Previous owner's name. Light corner wear. Clean, square, tight copy. Engraved frontispiece, and one other portrait, each with tissue-guard. Subtitled: "From the Time of the Establishment of King William and Queen Mary upon the Throne in the Year 1688, until the Death of Her Majesty Some Five Years Later, To Which are Added Some Remarks upon the Previous and Succeeding Reigns by the Rt. Hon. Daniel, Earl of Nottingham; Methodiz'd, Connected, and Edited from Hitherto Unpublished Manuscripts by William A. Aiken, M.Litt., Ph.D." Yale Historical Publications, Leonard Woods Labaree, Editor. Manuscripts and Edited Texts, XVII. The 27th volume published under the direction of the Department of History on the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by The Scroll and Key Society of Yale College. Textual (chapter) notes. Table of Documents. Index. Original tan cloth spine and blue-paper covered boards. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. Tall 8vo. 182pp .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. liv, 1076 pages ; 23 cm ; ISBN 9780195020588, 0195020588 ; OCLC 2513358 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; An anthology of poems by American poets from Taylor and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, and Ashbery, reflecting the traditions and achievements of three centuries ; Contents: The prologue ; The flesh and the spirit ; The author to her book ; Before the birth of one of her children ; To my dear and loving husband ; Some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1666 / Anne Bradstreet Meditation 8 ; Meditation 9 ; Meditation 10 ; Meditation 29 ;Meditation 62 / Philip Pain 8. Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the living bread ; 38. Meditation. 1 Joh. 2.1. An advocate with the father ; 112. Meditation. 2 Cor. 5.14. If one died for all then are all dead ; The preface [to God's Determinations] ; Upon a spider catching a fly ; Huswifery ; Let by rain ; Upon a wasp child with cold / Edward Taylor George the Third's soliloquy ; The wild honey suckle ; To an author ; The Indian burying ground / Philip Freneau On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley The Hasty-Pudding: Canto I ; Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow Thanatopsis ; To a waterfowl ; Green River ; The prairies / William Cullen Bryant Each and all /; The problem ; The visit ;r Uriel ; The sphinx ; Alphonso of Castile ; Mithridates ; Guy ; Hamatreya ; The rhodora ; The humble-bee ; The snow-storm ; Woodnotes I ; Woodnotes II ; Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing ; Give all to love ; Thine eyes still shined ; Merlin I ; Merlin II ; Bacchus ; Xenophanes ; Blight ; Concord hymn ; Brahma ; Nemesis ; Two Rivers ; Waldeinsamkeit ; Terminus ; Compensation ; Song of Seyd Nimetollah of Kuhistan ; Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson Hymn to the night ; The day is done ; The fire of drift-wood ; from The Song of Hiawatha: introduction ; The Jewish Cemetery at Newport ; My lost youth ; Snow-flakes ; Aftermath ; Chaucer ; The tide rises, the tide falls ; The cross of snow / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ichabod ; To my old schoolmaster ; Skipper Ireson's ride ; Telling the bees ; My playmate ; Barbara Frietchie ; Snow-bound ; What the birds said ; My triumph ; The lost occasion / John Greenleaf Whittier The deacon's masterpiece ; The chambered nautilus ; Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes A dream within a dream ; Song from Al Aaraaf ; Introduction [to Poems, 1831] ; To Helen ; Israfel ; The city in the sea ; The sleeper ; The haunted palace ; The Coliseum ; Sonnet-Silence ; The conqueror worm ; Dream-land ; The raven ; Ulalume-A ballad ; Eldorado ; For Annie ; Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe The columbine ; The new birth; The dead ; The grave-yard ; Thy brother's blood ; The new man; The clouded morning ; The trees of life ; I was sick and in prison ; Yourself ; The lost ; The fair morning ; The day of denial ; The lament of the flowers ; The sumach leaves / Jones Very I am a parcel of vain strivings tied ; Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird ; Inspiration ; Within the circuit of this plodding life ; The river swelleth more and more ; Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf / Henry David Thoreau The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe from A fable for critics ; Emerson ; Bryant ; Whittier ; Hawthorne ; Cooper ; Poe and Longfellow ; Holmes ; Lowell ; from The biglow Papers: the courtin' ; Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration / James Russell Lowell Come, said my soul ; Song of myself ; A woman waits for me ; Song of the open road ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; On the beach at night ; Me imperturbe ; From pent-up aching rivers ; In paths untrodden ; I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking ; As I ebb'd with the ocean of life ; Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice ; O living always, always dying ; Shut not your doors ; Vigil strange I kept on the field one night ; The wound-dresser ; Give me the splendid silent sun ; When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd ; One's self I sing ; To a stranger ; Aboard at a sh; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* FAST SHIPPING!! Clean text, no markings, tight binding. Dust jacket in FAIR condition.

Zustand: Good Clean Cond. No Dust Jacket. previous owner name plate, some moisture stains at spine. Otherwise in good clean condition. Paperback : soft cover edition in good condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Some minor bumping or creases. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make an ideal gift for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. NO. First. 1941 1st Ed. Ex Library With the usual stamps/stickers. Heavy rubbing to corners, With the usual stamps/stickers. Content clean. Discolouration to covers. U5B40.

Near good Stapled Paperback. Covers well worn and creased, pages tanned, owner's name on front cover, some corners creased. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A fine copy in 1/4 beige cloth over blue boards in a near fine dust jacket, which, remarkably, has no chips and only a few very tiny edgetears. Not price-clipped. Some dust soiling. Jacket is NOT price-clipped. 182 pages, indexed. Bookstore rubber stamp on rear pastedown. An exceptional copy of this finely printed book. Book.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1892. Fair condition with no wrapper. Embracing the General Management of Hounds. A New Edition Revised, Corrected and Enlarged by William C.A. Blew. With 12 hand coloured plates. Large format. Red cloth with gilt titles. There is a library label to the front cover, no other library marks. Spine is worn and faded. Some scuffing to covers. Bumping and wear to edges. Name in ink to front endpaper. Hand coloured plates - 1 is MISSING and 4 are detached, but still present. Foxing throughout. Some weakness to binding/stitching (including cracked joints). A working copy. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Aiken, Henry & et al., (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing ; xv, 352 pp. ; illustrated ; (portraits) ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 37-20307 ; LC: PS558.G4; Dewey: 810.822 ; OCLC: 2553812 ; "Biographical sketches and notes": p. 321-348. ; pictorial green cloth ; authors featured are Conrad Potter Aiken, Clara Lundie Askew, Bill Arp, Myrta Lockett Avary, Maude Barragan, J M Barron, Charles J Bayne, Daniel Garnett Bickers, Logan Edwin Bleckley, John T Boifeuillet, Agnes Cochran Branblett, Hennie I. Burke, Warren A Candler, Margaret Davis Cate, Joseph Ha rris Chappell, Thomas Holley Chivers, Betty Reynolds Cobb, Ellis Merton Coulter, Francis Potter Daniels, Will Allen Dromgoole, William T Dumas, Harry Stillwell Edwads, Lawton B Evans, Herbert M Franklin, John B Gordon, Francis Robert Goulding, Henry Woodfin Grady, John Temple Graves, Agnes Kendrick Gray, James A hall, Betsy Hamilton, Christine Park Hankinson, Will N Harben, Corra Harris, Joel Chandler Harris, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Hamilton Hayne, Clarence L Haynie, Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Benjamin H Hhill, Nelle Womack Hines, Clark Howell, Charles W Huner, Louise Prudden Hunt, Henry Rootes Jackson, Thornwell Jacobs, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Charles Colcock Jones, Sara Singleton King, Lucian Lamar Knight, Marie de La Coste, John Basil Lamar, Sidney Lanier, Octavia Walton Le Vert, Constance Deming Lewis, Robert Loveman, Margaret McGarvey, Carlyle McKinley, Wightman Fletcher Melton, Olin Miller, Abby Crawford Milton, Margaret Mitchell, Roselle Mercier Montgomery, Minnie Hite Moody, Will D. Muse, Ernest Neal, Louie D Newton, Marie Conway Oemler, Thaddeus Oliver, George F Pierce, James Henry Reddick, Thomas W Reed, Loula Kendall Rogers, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Abram Joseph Ryan, Anderson M Scruggs, Nelson M Shipp, Carrie Bell Sinclair, Johnny Spencer, Frank Lebby Stanton, Alexander H Stephens, Margaret Price Stillman, Jessie Gertrude Thomas, Ralph Methven Thomson, Ella May Thornton, William Tappan Thompson, Francis Orray Ticknor, Lida Wilson Turner, Thomas E Watson, Ouida C Wells, Charles Wesley, Gertrude Capen Whitney, Francis P Wightman, Richard Henry Wilde, and Augusta Evans Wilson ; portraits of Frank Stanton, General James Oglethorpe, Margaret Mitchell, Corra Harris, Henry W Grady, and Harry Stillwell Edwards ; intended for use by female college students in Georgia, this literary collection contains a large number of contributions from women authors in Georgia, making it a rather desirable book for women's studies collections ; "Free School Book Record" for Hart County, Georgia's Goldmine School, shows race of student required to be filled in; included on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Red cloth with gold lettering ; 31 black & white photographs of glasswork ; poems by thirty-one contemporary American poets ; 86 pp. ; Contents: Harvest morning / Conrad Aiken -- This season / Sara Van Alstyne Allen -- The maker / W.H. Auden -- The dragon fly / Louise Bogan -- A maze / Witter Bynner -- To build a fire / Melville Cane -- Strong as death / Gustav Davidson -- Horn of flowers / Thomas Hornsby Ferril -- Threnos / Jean Garrigue -- Off Capri / Horace Gregory -- Stories / Donald Hall -- Orpheus / Cecil Hemley -- Voyage to the island / Robert Hillyer -- The certainty / John Holmes -- Birds and fishes / Robinson Jeffers -- The breathing / Denise Levertov -- To a giraffe / Marianne Moore -- The aim / Louise Townsend Nicholl -- Pacific Beach / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Victorians / Theodore Roethke -- Aria / Delmore Schwartz -- Tornado warning / Karl Shapiro -- Partial eclipse / W.D. Snodgrass -- Who hath seen the wind? / A.M. Sullivan -- Trip / Hollis Summers -- Models of the universe / May Swenson -- Standstill / Joseph Tusiani -- April burial / Mark Van Doren -- Telos / John Hall Wheelock -- Leaving / Richard Wilbur -- Bird song / William Carlos Williams. ; biographical paragraphs on each poet at back ; scuffs on covers, else VG. Book.…

Full morocco. Zustand: Good+. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 297, [1, 2 titles 'Published by J. Aiken']. Full green morocco, spine ruled in gilt and stamped in blind, double gilt ruling to boards, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins. AEG. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned, joints and edges rubbed, corners bruised. Armorial ex libris of Abel John Ram Esqr. to front pastedown, POIs of William St. Clair (pencil to verso of ffep) and Frances Anne Ram at Clifton (faded brown ink to half-title, and trimmed at leading edge). Ink spots to leading edge. A few marks, small losses to top corners of final gathering, else, clean and bright. Good+ A pleasing copy of John Aiken's epistolary introduction to English poetry, addressed to "Dear Mary," and owned, first, by Frances Anne Ram and later re-bound and incorporated into the library of her barrister brother, Abel John Ram Esqr., with his armorial bookplate (featuring numerous rams heads), before finally joining the shelves of the historian William St Clair, a renowned collector of the Romantics. Poets included by Aiken: Pope, Dryden, Waller, Addison, Swift, Milton, Gray, Spenser, Cowley, Butler, Green, Shenstone, Goldsmith and others. Frances Anne Ram (1836-1922; later Miller) and Abel John Ram (1842 - 1920) were the children of Rev. Canon Ram and Lady Jane Ram (formerly Stopford); Abel became a KC, practised at the parliamentary bar and specialised in local government matters. His son was Sir Granville Ram, the Anglo-Irish lawyer and parliamentary draftsman. Also from the collection of William St Clair (1937-2021) historian and author of important biographical studies relating to Romanticism and the creation of modern Greece, whose "collection of Romantic-era first editions was so immense that it spilled out into the homes of his friends" (Wilson, 2021). Frances Wilson (2021) 'William St Clair,' Obituary via Royal Society of Literature website.…