selector and editor (47 Ergebnisse)

Sperling, Thomas (illustrator). soft cover, 126 pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches, special collector's edition! 1st edition, fine book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile fiction,

Stapled Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. very good clean copy. clean flat covers. pages clean and unmarked. 10 pages.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Ed., 1st Printing. 309 pages. John F. Kennedy--Memos.

Stapled Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. good copy with some very light wear present. some rubbing on covers. faint date written on front cover near top. pages clean and unmarked. 31 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. The interior is in good condition with a couple of pages with margin notes and a couple of pages with small smudges. The cover has some light soiling, some fading and the spine is tore from the bottom up about 1/3rd.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Edition. The book and contents are clean and tight. Front cover is very lightly scuffed.

Hardback. Zustand: VG-. No Jacket. 422 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, the covers are lightly scuffed and have light corner rubbing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

soft cover, name inside front cover, 64 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 inches, very good book condition, fine dust jacket condition, juvenile easy reader,

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Later Printing. if you haven't read any damon runyon , truly you are missing out on one of the great plays in american literature. and since you are reading this buy the book and read the the idyll of miss sarah brown. and if you are not hooked, please to send me back the book and i will refund you double. course if you like it, curl up and have fun.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Jane Human (Cover Painting) (illustrator). 1st Publ. by Everyman Ppbk 1993. 104 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Oliver Ditson Co. 1934 Good/ Pos penned on front cover, fading and light soil to cover, small mended tear to back cover, 62 pages. Brief notations here-or-there in musical scores. pen notes inside back cover.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Used-Acceptable. Special Members Edition. 377 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Creased spine. Pages slightly detached from spine. Light foxing on page edges. Tear on top of back cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Edition. Light blue linen binding with dark blue print on spine and design on front cover. Slightly crushing at spine ends. Blue tinted headedge, Foredge and bottom rough-cut. Previous owner name at top of front flyleaf and small bookstore label at bottom. Slight sun fade on spine and at edges of rear cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gray cloth binding with black print on spine. Green and black decorative, floral border on top and bottom edge of front cover and spine. Rubwear at tips and spine ends. Rough cut pages. Foxing in hinges of endpapers. Contents otherwise sound and unmarked. 218 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Traditional ballads, or 'stories that are sung' are gathered in this deluxe edition in slipcase. With woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Ballads selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. --- In striped green paper-covered boards backed in green cloth; gilt-stamped balladeer image and titling on spine. Slipcase covered in matching striped green paper. Sandglass flyer not present. --- A nice copy: clean and tightly bound but with prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down and mild spine sunning. Structurally sound slipcase with quite a bit of rubbing to extremities.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); xxiv, 215 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: G. No Jacket. First American Edition. 288 pp, the book and contents are tight, the second front free endpaper has a Christmas gift inscription from 1917, several pages in the middle have been creased by a paper clip having been there in the past, the endpapers are decorated in color, the front inside hinge has been reglued and the rear hinge has been scotch-taped, the covers are tight and have some wear on the corners and spine, the corners have been bumped and lightly worn.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. [1893]. Decorative pictorial cloth-covered boards with gilt and black lettering on front panel, titles in gilt relief on spine. Waxed endpapers. 12mo. Cloth is worn and faded, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, slight lean. Gift inscription inked on front paste down. Pages browned.

Later printing of a 1935 title; 8vo., 304 pages, cloth; illustrated by Lois Lenski; writers include: Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Frederic Remington, Owen Wister, Jack London, and Rex Beach, stained page edges else very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. [1926]. 64pp, with elegant page decorations. Orange cloth boards with illustrated title label on upper panel, title label on spine. 12mo. Covers a little worn and soiled, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine tips. Previous owner's name small and neat on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and bright. A little shaken. A collection of traditional London rhymes and verses including London Bridge, Westminster Scholar, London Bells, Sir Richard Whittington's Advancement.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by the editior to the late Dr Richard Pring. Cover edges and corners are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Signed and Dedicated By Editor. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. General editor, Sir Henry Newbolt (illustrator). Good condition hardcover royal blue boards with the capital N in gilt in the centre of the front board, no DJ. Title etc clearly shown on spine in gilt lettering. 240 pages good and clean with clear print. A few spots of foxing on edge of pages, previous owner written on fly sheet: With best wishes the Westboro Staff July 1930.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. x, 108pp, dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Spine sun-faded, ends lightly rubbed. Corners lightly rubbed and moderately rounded. Text block edges tanning, top edge dusty. Cocked. Free endpapers moderately tanned. Volume appears to have been rebound; two just jackets now included within binding; newspaper clipping pasted in on final page. Internally very neat, clean and tight. Short stories that provide interesting material of literary merit written in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. x, 298pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Lightly rubbed and bumped spine ends, corners lightly rounded. Slight foxing to top text block edge; Corporation lender's stamp on title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. This volume puts before us many ideas, expresses many opinions, covering many topics and deals authoritatively with many problems of today.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Louie, Lorraine (jacket design); Metzger, Michael (cover art) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition white boards, red cloth spine, and blue spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Paul M. Zall; Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr., Preface by Paul M. Zall; Appendix: Sources and Resources; and About the Editor. "George Washington laughing? That the venerable Father of Our Country, the austere and unfailingly honest leader of historical record and legend, had a penchant for tall tales and crafty quips seems unthinkable to most Americans, even today. In The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, historian and scholar Paul Zall shatters the sober image of American icons George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin to reveal - and celebrate - their natural bent for incisive, spirited humor. With ample quotes from personal correspondence and private mnemoirs, Zall peers behind the staid and serious facade of our first three presidents and demonstrates how each strove to suppress his sense of mirth to maintain a dignified public reputation. By lifting the curtain on our Founding Fathers as they engage in practical jokes and regale friends with humorous stories, Zall opens a window on their personalities otherwise obscured by our preconceptions of them as larger-than-life historical figures. While Franklin's humor and wisdom is legendary thanks to his authorship of Poor Richard's Almanac, readers will be surprised to learn that Washington had a penchant for biting sarcasm; that Adams engaged in direct, colloquial, even vulgar, humor; and that Jefferson, our most cerebral president, enjoyed laughing at the absurdity of his own situation as leader of the nation. With an introduction by noted humorist Roy Blount Jr., The Wit & Wisdom of the Founding Fathers is bound to raise some eyebrows around the Supreme Court when it comes to arguments about the Original Intent of our forebears, while offering all of us a welcome break from the divisive inanity of today's political squabbling." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "The Founding Fathers on Politics: On Campaigning: *** Half the truth is often a great lie. *** The first mistake in public business, is the going into it. On Congress: *** A bill can be easily corrected by making every word a 'said' or 'aforesaid,' and saying everything over two or three times, so that nobody but we of the craft can untwist the diction, and find out what it means. ***That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. On the Electorate: ***He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. ***Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment. *** No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear - excerpt from the rear outer dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boland, Bridget (illustrator). First printing thus [stated]. xxvi, 436 p. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Index. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ has slight wear and soiling with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. x, 128pp. Peach cloth-covered boards; brown border and design on front, brown design on rear, brown titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed spine head. Soiling to boards, ink stain on front top. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper and a few marks on pages. General Editor A. Guthkelch.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 418pp, numerous black and white illustrations in text. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Extremities very lightly rubbed. Text block edge moderately tanned and foxed. Front endpapers very lightly foxed. Internally pages margins are moderately tanned, otherwise neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to top edge, price not clipped.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. John Toolan (Cover Photograph) (illustrator). Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8.25 inches. 285, [3] pages. Sources. Introduction by John Dear. This is one of the Modern Spiritual Masters Series. Complimentary Review Copy card laid in. Through this selection from his many books, journals, poems, and homilies, a chronicle of Fr. Berrigan's life and work unfolds from the early steps in his vocation, to his decision to cross the line and go to prison, his ongoing witness for peace, and his extraordinary commentaries on scripture and the life of radical discipleship. Daniel Joseph Berrigan SJ (May 9, 1921 - April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's active protest against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiration, especially regarding his association with the Catonsville Nine. It also landed him on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted list" (the first-ever priest on the list), on the cover of Time magazine, and in prison. For the rest of his life, Berrigan remained one of the United States' leading anti-war activists. In 1980, he co-founded the Plowshares movement, an anti-nuclear protest group, that put him back into the national spotlight. He was also an award-winning and prolific author of some 50 books, a teacher, and a university educator. Daniel Berrigan is a Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker, whose words and actions over the past 50 years have offered a powerful witness to the God of Life. Fr. Berrigan, along with his brother Philip, was one of the Catonsville 9, arrested and imprisoned in 1968 for destroying draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War. But this was only one step along a journey of faith. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

First Edition. F/VG+, DJ faint mark on front panel where a sticker had been, front flap top corner clipped but price is still present. Overall a tight solid sound copy with DJ protected in mylar. ; Elongated 8vo, DJ, 288pp. , index. Fully illustrated, some in color. This is indeed a treasury of Caldecott's artwork. Includes an appreciation by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xxxi, [1], 344, [6] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Index. Letters written to Thomas Jefferson while he was president, as well as his replies, offer insight into life in early nineteenth-century America. These letters, written to one of our most revered presidents and published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of his birth, provide a window into the life of a new nation and its people, offering vivid sketches of the writers, their families and the often precarious circumstances of their existence. Jefferson's careful filing of the letters that he received as President made possible this collection, which reveals something of the diverse beliefs and yearnings of his America. Jack McLaughlin is an Emeritus Professor of English at Clemson University, where he was head of the Humanities Division. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello, about the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his fifty-year love affair with Monticello, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1988. McLaughlin also wrote To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President, and has contributed to such scholarly journals as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Drama. This collection of correspondence is a fascinating dialogue between one of the nation's most admired presidents, Thomas Jefferson, and the laboring-class Americans who elected him. The writers--most of whom would otherwise be unknown to history--provide us with striking sketches of themselves and their families, and the early America they were part of. In language sometimes crude, sometimes eloquent, these men and women pour out their needs and demands, praise and vituperation, with an urgency and immediacy not diminished by nearly 200 years. The letters--most of them never before published--are adoring, threatening, funny, passionately political, and begging. Jefferson, who was noted for being accessible to nearly every visitor who wanted to see him, answered as many of them as he could. His responses==sometimes by silence, by a single-word note, or by long, thoughtful letters--reveal his civility, graciousness, and generosity, but also at times his irritation and callousness. Most of the letters are from citizens who want something from the president: money, a job, release from debtor's prison, educational help. There are letters from Yankee tinkerers and craftsmen, from religious zealots, and from informers with secret information about assassination plots. Some writers sent gifts, pamphlets, or books; others offered honest advice about such issues as the settlement of western lands or the problem of slavery. All the letters are suffused with strong feeling. These letters are a valuable addition to the social social of the Jefferson era, providing new insights into the intellectual, technological, and cultural lives of a class of Americans forgotten by traditional political history. But above all they are a pleasure to read. They give us a portrait of Jefferson quite different from the public figure at Washington or the private Sage of Monticello. Here we find him alone at his writing desk, casting and retrieving lines of communications, weaving the myth that was to become Jeffersonian America. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].