Theodore hecht (27 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Stanley Publications Inc., New York 1968
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Oversized Soft Cover. Zustand: Fair. 67 pgs. Many photos--News and Personal; Edgeworn; Tanning.
Verlag: Stanley Publications 1969
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 66 pages; Signed by Not signed; Paperback cover, stapled binding. No creases or tears. Clean inside and out. Pages are lightly browning.
Verlag: Stanley Pub., NY 1969
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. 1st ed. Oversize, Lg softbound, , very sl wear, minor crease Magazine format, filled with photos. Memorial volume, with one photo of lying in state. Date on front cover. ; 66 pages.
Verlag: Stanley Publications Inc., New York, NY 1962
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Soft cover with pictorial on cover; red, blackand yellow cover print.Lower corner tip has been bent. Light wear. Tear at top spine cornere. Sound and unmarked. Fiction and nonfiction articles, photos and cheesecake. 66 pages. Illustrated (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: QRL Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey 1969
- Softcover
- Zeitschrift
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. About 60 poets, each with about 1 - 4 poems (12 by David Ignatow). Includes Wallace Stevens short play "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick" with a lengthy introductory note by A.W. Litz; and a conversation with Marianne Moore. Book covers are lightly soiled with age, edges and folds along spine are a…bit worn and vertical crease along spine. Interior pages are clean, undamaged. 267 pages.
Verlag: New York: , 1969 1969
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Center Stapled, Softcover. In Good Condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Four inch crease to front cover. 66 pages, magazine format, a largely photographic tribute to Ike.
Verlag: Morse 1968
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Stapled, magazine format, light tanning. Front cover deeply chipped along lower right fore-edge, else a very good copy, still bright.
Verlag: Stanley Publications, New York 1969
- Softcover
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good in wrappers; some slight rubbing/bumping.
Verlag: Life With Style 1997
- Softcover
- Signiert
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 408+pp. Pictorial wraps. Inscribed By Author. Book.
Verlag: The Hudson Review, Inc, New York 1966
- Softcover
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 185-352pp. Wrappers age-toned and wrinkled, very good in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author and contributor Daniel Hoffman. Poetry, stories, articles and reviews by W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Burke, Philip Levine, Harold Witt, Daniel Hoffman, Mary Louise…Willey, Theodore Roethke, Irving Howe, Neal J. Osborn, B.H. Haggin, John Simon, Vernon Young, Mary Evans, Marvin Mudrick, Robert Martin Adams, Roger Sale, Anthony Hecht, Sigurd Burckhardt, J. Mitchell Morse, and Jack Behar.
Verlag: The Hudson Review, Inc, New York 1966
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 185-352pp. Spine and edges age-toned, very good. Poetry, stories, articles and reviews by W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Burke, Philip Levine, Harold Witt, Daniel Hoffman, Mary Louise Willey, Theodore Roethke, Irving Howe, Neal J. Osborn, B.H. Haggin, John Simon, Vernon Young, Mar…y Evans, Marvin Mudrick, Robert Martin Adams, Roger Sale, Anthony Hecht, Sigurd Burckhardt, J. Mitchell Morse, and Jack Behar.
Verlag: Stanley Publications, New York 1969
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
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Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 66pp, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial wraps- magazine format. Tiny corner crease at top right front cover, some very light rubbing. A tribute to Eisenhower published on the occasion of his death in 1969. In exceptional condition. Contents include: His Early Life; WWII- America's Leader i…n Battle; Korea-His Promise to the American People; The President of the United States; His Travels; The Family Man; The Sportsman and The Last Illnesses. Size: 4to.
Verlag: Portman
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Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Tanned, but a tidy example of th…is comic.
Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
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Weitere BilderReal Men Volume 8, Number 6 August 1964
Hecht, Theodore S.(Editor); DiCrespis, Michael; Ballenger, Dean; Hager, Jack; Forbes, James; Boardman, George T.; Malone, Brenda; Jackson, "Dynamite" and Others
Verlag: Stanley Publications, Inc., New York 1964
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Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Includes 'Deadly Dolls of Tienpsi Island' by Jack Hager (Their beautiful flesh masked an urge to torture), 'Break up the Commie Love-Bait Ring' by Dean Ballenger and 'Nympho Housewives of Super-Sex Villa' by Brandon Malone. Light edge rubbing and browning to covers. Pages browned but…otherwise clean and unmarked.
Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
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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 cen…turies ; 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.
Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
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Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
- Softcover
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Weitere BilderSprache: Englisch
Verlag: Stanley Publications, Inc., New York 1963
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. New York: Stanley Publications, Inc., 1963. First Edition of the April, 1963 issue, Volume 7, Number 8. Quarto, illustrated wraps, 74 pp. At least Very Good, by pulp standards; some small crease, mild rubbing, a 1.5 cm closed tear at front cover, 5% spine roughening at ends. See scans…. Classic American Men's pulp cheesecake, in a type of periodical which, just a bit later in the sixties, went to photo covers - instead of the quickly-becoming-iconic titillating painted covers of men's pulps (such as the kitsch classic form here, "blond in bondage terrorized as the 9" spikes in the closing wall near her, already drawing blood" - which Real Man rescues her?) which lasted, as art rather than photos, mainly only to the early sixties. The article titles are an art form in themselves: "The Horror Harem of Dave Worley" (prob not your neighbor), "Traveling Sex Circus", and a period anti-commie piece, "I Escaped From the Red Hell of Bucharest", etc., all by pseudonymic authors.Americana! l-g3.
Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
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Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
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Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
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Development or Destruction : The Conversion of Tropical Forest to Pasture in Latin America
Downing, Theodore E. (EDT); Hecht, Susanna B. (EDT); Pearson, Henry A. (EDT); Garcia-Downing, Carmen (EDT)
- Hardcover
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Verlag: Stanley Publications 1958
- Softcover
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Front cover detached Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. The binding ha…s separated on one side of the leaves. Large crease(s) in the cover. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Verlag: The Poetry Center, YM-YWHA New York, NY 1960
- Softcover
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[12] pp.; 20.7 x 13.9 cm.; staple bound; duotone; edition size unknown; unsigned and numbered; offset-printed Catalogue published in conjunction with the twenty-second season of readings and lectures presented by The Poetry Center, New York City, October 1960 - May 1961. Readings by Brendan Behan, Marianne Moore, William Staffor…d, Reed Whittemore, Angus Wilson, Archibald MacLeish, W.H. Auden, Richard Hugo, Joseph Langland, Claire McAllister, Anthony Hecht, W.S. Merwin, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Margaret Avison, Edward Dorn, Theodore Enslin, e.e. cummings, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hazel, David Ignatow, Diane Wakoski, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz and others. Includes author biographies. Very Good. Mailed catalogue with mailing marks and wear, rusted staples and yellowed covers, otherwise Fine.
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dj. Hecht, Selig. Explaining the Atom, signed and inscribed by Theodore Van Kirk, framing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima within a longer intellectual history of atomic theory and modern physics. As navigator of the Enola Gay during the August 6, 1945 mission, Van Kirk contributed directly to the operational execution of nuclear… warfare, and his inscription frames that event as the culmination of developments beginning with ancient atomism and extending through 20th-century scientific breakthroughs. By referencing figures such as Democritus and Einstein alongside the Manhattan Project, the inscription integrates scientific theory with wartime application, offering a condensed narrative linking philosophical origins of atomic thought to its realization in military technology. Hecht, Selig. Explaining the Atom. New York: Viking Press, 1947. 205 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Signed and extensively inscribed on the inside title page by Theodore Van Kirk. The inscription reads: "'Page 9; In 400 B.C., Deocritus theoryed the existence of atoms. In 1905 Einstein theorized E=MC squared. In 1943 Oppenheimer heads the Manhattan Project. In 1945 our 'Enola Gay' crew drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk Navigator - Enola Gay August 6, 1945." The text presents a chronological sequence of scientific and historical developments, culminating in Van Kirk's own role in the Hiroshima mission. Published in the immediate postwar period, Explaining the Atom aimed to make atomic science accessible to a broad audience at a time when nuclear technology had reshaped global politics and warfare. Van Kirk's inscription reflects how participants in the atomic mission interpreted their actions within a broader scientific and historical continuum, linking abstract theory to its most consequential application. The juxtaposition of popular scientific exposition with firsthand annotation from a mission participant offers a layered artifact for the study of nuclear history, scientific communication, and the integration of intellectual and military developments in the mid-20th century. Dust jacket shows moderate wear; volume itself remains clean and well-preserved with strong, legible inscription. Overall very good. Signed.
