Archon press (104 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. 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.

Hard Back. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Winning battles but wars lost. Interesting and entertaining. From the Second Punic War to the Vietnam War.

Softbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, 185 pp.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Library of Congress duplicate stamp on front flyleaf. Dustjacket sunned at spine. Book itself very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Large hardcover (29x22cm), discarded from a library with typical marks. 441 unmarked pages of text. Light cover wear. [3 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover. 268 pages. This is an ex-library copy with the usual markings, but it is otherwise quite clean. Dust jacket has a light sticker scar on spine where library sticker was removed. ; Ex-Library; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4" Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 303 pages, a very good hardback in a good dust-jacket, from a local library with the ffep having been removed [0208016112].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Hardcover in excellent condition (slight handling), blemished only by white-outs in the upper corner of the front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. The dust jacket is fair with a few edge chips and tears, slight soiling and age-yellowing, price-clipped, and is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 389 pages, with 5034 members alphabetically and briefly listed. [1.6 lbs]. Book. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. 138 pages. Black imitation leather binding.

Zustand: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Published Without Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 248 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. Published January 1, 1977 with no later printing history offered. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. 1978 Hardcover 1st edition, 1st printing. Published in the U.S. by Archon / Shoe String Pr. and similtaneously in the U.K. by Dawson. The book is an ex-library book, otherwise it is in Very Good condition with a nice, crisp dust jacket well protected by Mylar and fixed to the pastedowns. The covers are in great shape. The binding is tight. The interior pages are unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine condition. Near Fine jacket (price clip). First Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / The Shoe String Press, 1975. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (price clipped). NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1975. First Edition. Contains 16 essays on medieval manuscripts and incunabula on topics such as "A 14th Century Argument for an International Dateline" and Aldus Manutius. Illustrated with 10 plates. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine jacket (price clip). 8vo. 177pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. First Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / The Shoe String Press, 1976. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp - obviously never read. 1976. First Edition. The standard Harriet Beecher Stowe bibliography. From the dust jacket: "This first comprehensive bibliography of her published writings includes references to all her novels, giving English, foreign language and abridged editions, and dramatic adaptations; sketches; stories; letters; and poems; as well as a compilation of the writings about her -- critical studies, biographies, reviews, plays, songs, poems - including the books, pamphlets, periodical and newspaper articles, and those writings inspired by or in rebuttal to her works." Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Complete with pristine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xiv, 257pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with mild toning to spine and mild edge wear, else fine.

Hardcover. viii+409p., contributors' notes, introduction, notes, index, very good first US edition in dust jacket. Includes discussion of anti-labour sentiment from liberals, conservatives, and libertarians.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: n/a. First published 1980 as an Archon Book. Covers show light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the edges. The spine is uncreased and the binding is firm. Internal pages are clean and bright without markings, highlights, or inscriptions.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Ex-library, orange heavy wrappers with color-illustration of Delta passenger jet on front and back wrappers, also the tail fins of a PanAm jet, 32 pages in color with many illustrations to identify non-military planes. Very Good, considering. Hunt, Geoffrey (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good condition. No jacket, as issued. Second Edition, Revised. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / The Shoe String Press, 1971. Very Good condition. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Clean and unmarked. 1971. Second Edition, Revised. 570 entries, with collations of first and early editions of ROBINSON CRUSOE and Defoe's other works. Most entries have useful and informative annotations. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the Foreword: "This new edition reproduces the revised text of the second printing [1962], with additional corrections and supplements, an updated list of printers and booksellers, and much new material. Two attributions (Nos. 11 and 364a) have been cancelled." A standard, if controversial reference. Although none of the major novels is challenged, Furbank and Owens call into question 252 items from this checklist which they do not believe were written by Defoe. See DEFOE DE-ATTRIBUTIONS (The Hambleton Press, London, 1994). Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xviii, 281pp. [299 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 108pp. illustrated with B/W reproductions, 8vo. Bright unmarked copy, spine lightly cocked. Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. No jacket, as issued. Second Edition, Revised. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books / The Shoe String Press, 1971. Brand New in perfect condition (thanks to a lucky warehouse find!). NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1971. Second Edition, Revised. 570 entries, with collations of first and early editions of ROBINSON CRUSOE and Defoe's other works. Most entries have useful and informative annotations. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the Foreword: "This new edition reproduces the revised text of the second printing [1962], with additional corrections and supplements, an updated list of printers and booksellers, and much new material. Two attributions (Nos. 11 and 364a) have been cancelled." A standard, if controversial reference. Although none of the major novels is challenged, Furbank and Owens call into question 252 items from this checklist which they do not believe were written by Defoe. See DEFOE DE-ATTRIBUTIONS (The Hambleton Press, London, 1994). Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xviii, 281pp. [299 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Hardcover. Archon Press, 1967, 1967. Hardcover. reprint edition. Pages xiv + 288,octavo, hardcover, reprint edition. Ex-library with stamps on endpapers, else Very Good. Blue cloth covers; without a dust jacket. 091704A.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. 32pp. Outstanding copy. No inscriptions. Immaculate. Size: 16mo - over 53/4" - 63/4" tall. Peter Hutton & Ben Simons (illustrator). Book.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. 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:0208016139.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Decent- damage in places- view pictures.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Clean text, sound binding. Some shelf wear, gold embossing on spine is faded. Previous owner's name on FFEP 157 pp.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. 32pp. Outstanding copy. No inscriptions. Immaculate. Size: 16mo - over 53/4" - 63/4" tall. John Francis (illustrator). Book.

8vo. decorated cloth-covered boards, printed vinyl dust jacket. xii, 65 pages. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Provides the first detailed, accurate bibliography of a prolific family of writers in England in the 18th and 19th centuries. They knew such famous people as Goldsmith, Barton, Richardson and others. decorated cloth-covered boards, printed vinyl dust jacket. Taylors (illustrator). …