Inge m thomas 1936 2021 (3 Ergebnisse)

First edition (not stated) - publisher's permission copy. x, 331 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.5cm. Blue dust jacket rubbed; minor chip to spine head with other nicks, scuffs, and some creasing; front flap retains publisher's printed price at bottom right. Green boards; bright gilt stamping to spine; small indentation at front board's center right. Light foxing to text block's top edge. Laid-in at front endpapers is publisher's slightly toned paper slip noting the book as a complimentary "permissions copy." Light toning to endpapers; interior leaves are clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface and Introduction by M. Thomas Inge plus concluding Index. Features five numbered parts with unnumbered subchapters: I - GENERAL OVERVIEWS. "Tall tales of the Southwest" by Franklin J. Meine; "Southern humor" by John Donald Wade; "Humor of the old Southwest" by Walter Blair II - AUTHORS AND WORKS. "Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870): Georgia scenes" by Edgar Allan Poe ; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: a Southern cultural type" by John Donald Wade; "William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882): "The big bear of Arkansas," T.B. Thorpe and his masterpiece" by Walter Blair; "George Washington Harris (1814-1869): The humorous works of George W. Harris" by Donald Day ; Sut Lovingood" by Brom Weber ; Sut Lovingood" by Edmund Wilson ; The imagery of George Washington Harris" by Milton Rickels; "Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864): Joseph Glover Baldwin: humorist or moralist?" by Eugene Current-Garcia; "Harden E. Taliaferro (1818-1875): Harden Taliaferro, folk humorist of North Carolina" by James H. Penrod. III - FOLK FIGURES: Mike Hooter -the making of a myth" by John Q. Anderson; "David Crockett, the legend and the symbol" by James Atkins Shackkford; "Who wrote 'The harp of a thousand strings?'" by George Kummer. IV - IMPACT ON AMERICAN LITERATURE. "Mark Twain and the humor of the old Southwest" by Pascal Covici, Jr.; "Faulkner and certain earlier Southern fiction" by Carvel Collins; "William Faulkner and George Washington Harris: in the tradition of Southwestern humor" by M. Thomas Inge; "Tidewater and frontier" by Randall Stewart; "Suggs and Sut in modern dress: the latest chapter in Southern humor" by Willard Thorp. V - BIBLIOGRAPHY. "Humor of the old Southwest: a checklist of criticism" by Charles E. Davis and Martha B. Hudson. ISBN 0208015094.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages). [12], 118 pages. Hardcover: H 22.5cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket well rubbed; jagged tear near spine head; light soiling/staining to white rear panel; nicks at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Black cloth spine; dark brown cloth boards. Brownish-orange top edge; foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Light foxing at margins but interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Foldout present between pages 44-45. …

First Edition. [Bibliography/American history] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.viii; [4]; 217; [3]. Pp.viii; [4]; 187; [1]. Publisher's black paper over boards, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, volumes priced individually at £12 and together at £20 to front flap. Light pencil mark to front jacket panel of vol I. Gentle edgewear to both. Near fine. A crucial work of literary history; throughout the two volumes, the editors not only highlight the lives of eminent African American authors, but also give all the relevant bibliographies, biographies, letters, and surviving manuscripts that pertain to each. Volume I starts with pre-19th century writings and slave narratives, ending with an entry on Langston Hughes. Volume II covers Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka.…