editor william brooks (25 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Humor, Adult Humor, American Wit, American humor) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Good hardcover with good minus dust jacket. Pages brown, clean text. Illustrated. Missing front endpaper. Stamp inside front and rear cover. Spine lightly faded. Spine ends bumped. Corners on cover slightly bent. Dustwrapper spine and edges browned. Rubbing to dust jacket. Nicks to the edges of the dust jacket. 2 inch tear on top end of dust jacket spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 257 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First edition. Large hardcover. 573 pages. Text in English. Edited by Patricio Robles Gil. Foreword by Gordon Moore. Contributions by Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, John Pilgrim, Gustavo Fonseca, William R. Konstant, and Thomas Brooks. Illustrated throughout with numerous color images. A tight very good copy with some minor bumping to the bottom of the spine and bumping to the bottom corners as well in a close to near fine dust jacket with the same bumping. Please note extra shipping might be necessary.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 976 pages. 9.75x6.75x2.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 11.25x7.69x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 250 pages. 9.25x7.50x8.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 257 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover with red wraps, black lettering across front cover. A few very faint scuffs to covers, corners gently bumped. Exterior is otherwise clean and neat. Title and copyright pages dated only 1977. 106 pages. All clean and bright. Binding neat and tight. Title page inscribed "To J---, with much affection- Seth R. Brooks, June 7 / 79." Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 3rd edition. 549 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 11.25x7.69x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 323 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 230 pages. French language. 11.25x7.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.25x6.14x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 231 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 57 Pp. Annotated By Ian Ballantine, With Four Page Numbers On Front Endpaper, Directing The Reader To: P. 17, Pearl S. Buck "I Appreciate Very Much Indeed A Beautifully Made And Designed Book. But Even More I Appreciate Books Which Are Cheap Enough For People To Buy. Somehow Or Other We Must Get Books Within The Range Of Low And Average Income, So That Book Reading Is No Longer A Luxury As It Is Now. Whenever I See A Book That Is Both Beautiful In Design And Low In Price, I Am Especially Grateful." The Quotation Has Ballantine's Emphasis Mark In Margin. P. 23, John Dos Passos: . To My Way Of Thinking, The Great Problem Before The Book Designer At Present Is The Design Of Cheap And Pocket Books. In A Period When The Continued Use Of Books On Any Large Scale Is Very Much A Moot Question, It Is To Be Hoped That The Dangers And Hazrds Which Confront The Trade Will Stimulate New Inventiveness In Design As In Other Directions." This Part Of The Quotation Has Ballantine's Emphasis Mark In The Margin. P. 27 ( Through P. 34, "Some Random And Randy Thoughts On Books", Hayashi 1066, Which Is Otherwise Hilarious): ". For Myself, I Like The Whole Theory Of The Twenty-Five Cent Book. For One Thing The Very Cost Of A Trade Edition Encourages A Degree Of Selfishness. Such A Book Must Be Hoarded And Put On The Shelves. It Becomes Property And Property Must Be Protected. With The Cheap Editions The Opposite Is True. You Load Your Friends' Arms With Books.I Don't Know How Many Writers Have The Feeling I Have About Books. I Do Not Love Books For Themselves . I Would For Myself Much Rather Have Thousands Of Cheap, Dog-Eared Volumes Filed In Closed Cabinets Like Phonograph Records." This Section With Ballantine's Emphasis Marks In Margins. P. 37, Thornton Wilder: " I'm Ashamed To Say That I Must Have Been Brought Up Wrong. I Never Took To Noticing The Chassis On Automobile Engines, Clothes On People, Facades On Buildings, Nor The Format Of Books. I Wish That English Books, Like French Ones, Had Plain Covers And Cost 60C." The Whole Piece With Ballantine's Emphasis Mark In Margin.On The Front Cover, Their Are Five Sets Of Pencil Initials, Glb, V, Wp, Sd, And C (?) M, Each Of Which Is Also Crossed Out, Apparently Indicating That It Was Being Distributed To Each And Then Passed On. Ian Ballantine Founded Ballantine Books In 1952 And Then Bantam Books; Bantam Concentrating On Well Made Paperbacks With Covers With Original Art, Ballantine Books Usually Publishing Original Works In Both Small Runs Of Hardcover Editions With Simultaneous Large Runs Of Softcover Editions, Or, In The First Few Years, Simultaneous Or Early Softcover Versions Of Original Hardcover Editions By Other Publishers. Ballantine Soon Began Publishing Original Sf, Becoming The First Mainstream Publisher To Concentrate On This Genre, With Fine (And Now Exceptionally Valuable) Cover Art By Now-Classic Sf Illustrators, And Also Began Publishing Sf Paperback Originals Which Are The True Firsts Of Some Classic Works, There Being No Simultaneous Hardcover Version. Fahrenheit 451 Was First Published In Several Hardcover Versions, Including One Bound In Asbestos, But The Ballantine 1953 Softcover Is The True First Of That Classic Work.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 312 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in Very good little edge-chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Contains work by: Countee Cullen, Joaquin Miller, George Santayana, Sir Walter Scott, Longfellow, Browning, Kipling, Landor, and many many soldiers and sailors from the Revolutionary War to WWI. * rm.

See the two men's entries, with that of Helena Faucit, in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded for postage. Addressed to 'Shirley Brooks Esq' and signed 'Theodore Martin'. Brooks has evidently asked for autographs and photographs of Martin and his wife, the celebrated actres Helena Faucit (1817-1898). The letter begins: 'My dear Brooks / Here are the autographs you wish. There is not in all The Lady of Lyons one line to which any reasonable being could wish to attach his name. It is only the situations which are good for anything. Mrs Martin has therefore written a Sentence of Portia's, the Lady of Belmont.' He next discusses photographs of himself and his wife. He criticises Watkins's images of him, and asks to accept instead 'one of Disderi's which my friends say is characteristic. All the photographs of Mrs. Martin, published & unpublsihed, are simply execrable. Some day I hope to get Silvy to do something better, but she has such an aversion to sitting for her portrait, that this is by no means certain.' He praises Brooks's 'Elysian Fields' before referring (perhaps sarcastically) to the 'magniicent programme Dyson & Co. have settled for the 23d of April'. He is surprised 'they have omitted to secure the co-operation of the proprietors of Punch & Judy!'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 72 pages ; 22 cm ; LCCN: 84-70969 ; LC: PS3562.O899; Dewey: 081; OCLC: 12438221 ; textured brown cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; "Limited edition, number 445" ; "Dust-devils is a collection of poetry, both traditional and free verse, from a poet of note. Robert S Lowrance, Jr. had previously published a fine volume. The author's unique background (both he and his wife are fine musicians) should prepare us for the music which is in this collection of poems.There are pleasing surprises at the end of many of the poems, building up to a nice climax with the final explanation or challenge and the concluding choice of words.Some of the poems are particularly touching reminiscences of childhood.Readers of the present volume will be greeted by an even more polished and varied group of poems which goes with the further developememt of this poet."--John Ransonm Lewis ; Contents: A bestiary -- A cloudy day -- Alenda lux ubi orta libertas -- A new birth -- A perturbation -- Arachne -- Art catalogue -- Autobiography -- Cat nap -- Chauvinism-- Did you ever -- Dust-devils -- Echoes -- Fish bait -- Flight 007 -- Hospital -- How groes my love -- It takes us all -- Japanese cherry -- Leaves -- Love's hold -- Mirages for sail -- My old home -- Nostalgia -- One day -- Ontogeny recapitulated -- Peggy Mitchell and Boys' High Class of 1924 -- Phoenix -- Please pass the baby -- Polyphemus -- Remembered -- Resurgens -- Ships and seas -- Superstitions -- The ceramic cherry-picker lamp -- The digs -- The flight of the arrow -- The landing -- The least I could do -- The making of a champion -- The quest of a writer -- The relentless tide -- The search -- The seasons -- The Weavers of Weaverville -- Times and tides -- To a very special friend -- To the sixth graders of Montgomery Elementary -- Travels -- Treblinka revisited -- Tricolor -- What did she say -- What is a poet -- Where does love end -- Whisperings of the rain forest ; SIGNED presentation by author on endpaper ; paper defect in front endpaper ; FINE/FINE. Book.

One page, 12mo, bifolium, pink paper, fold marks, good condition. Text: "My dear David Roberts, | Gin a body don't [underlined] meet a body coming to the Club [cf. Burns' poem], a body must write. | Have you got a note of any kin of Edwin Landseer's [name underlined] - any acceptance of a dinner, any thing, that you would give me? | Why? | Because I want to oblige a Scotswoman, in the North, when I would do a deal to oblige. And she wants this autograph. Else, do ye think I'd fash ye wi'such sma' matters. | Ever yours | Shirley Brooks." Burns' "Comin' thro' the Rye" borrowed.

From contemporary documents and narratives.  The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. LXXXI. Reprint. Maps and plates, some folding. 8vo. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt title on spine. lxix, 228pp. Nendeln, Kraus,

ONE: Brooks's letter to Leitch Ritchie: 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. He thanks him for his 'kind and courteous communication', and is pleased that 'the article I sent seems to you adapted to the purpose'. Brooks has, he explains, 'availed myself of your suggestions in reference to the additions'. He continues with references to Vauxhall and 'The Highland Lamp'. 'I need hardly say, however, that I trust you will, by excision or any other process, render this, or any other article of mine you may accept, what is most desirable in a business point of view - a few years of managing and being managed teaches one that, after all, that is the point, though before attaining that piece of prosaic wisdom ones vanity gets fearfully scraped.' TWO: 'No. 1' of Brooks's novel 'Sooner or Later'. 48pp., 8vo. Frontispiece by George Du Maurier. In original pink printed wraps. Advertisement leaf, with specimen pages, for 'Thorley's Illustrated Farmers Almanack' tipped in at rear. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, in chipped and worn wraps with spine repaired with tape. THREE: Two Autograph Notes Signed by G. E. S. Chambers. 1p., 8vo. On letterhead of W. & R. Chambers, Limited, Publishers, Edinburgh and London. The first note, dated from Edinburgh in July 1923, reads 'This copy of Shirley Brooks' Sooner or Later, in original parts, came from the library of the late Mr R. Y. Naismith, Edinburgh, & was acquired by me, with others of his books, from his executors. This is the only copy in parts that I have ever met with, and is of extreme rarity. | G. E. S. Chambers'. Beneath this, on the same page, is the second note, dated 25 March 1932. It reads: 'The enclosed letter from Shirley Brooks to Leitch Ritchie was written in 1849, and refers to certain contributions to Chambers's Journal. It was found by me among papers & M.S.S. belonging to the above year, & must have been written some time before Shirley Brooks became a regular contributor to Punch. | G.E.S.C.'.

Two Autograph Letters Signed, bifoliums, good condition. A. Three pages, 12mo, asking the MP, Tite, at length, to intervene with the London Institution on behalf of F.H. Evans ("one of the two proprietors of 'Punch') [and] one of the original starters & shareholders of the London Institution"). Evans apparently has forfeited his "share" without being informed of the forfeiture; B. Four pages, 12mo, bifolium. Brooks reveals that his father was the architect of the London Institution. Hence a personal and strong interest. He is concerned that the building is threatened with demolition ('vandalism') (project before Parliament) to make way for a railway. He asks to be kept informed "as to the position of the parties". Note: "The London Institution was an educational institution founded in London in 1806 (not to be confused with the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom founded the previous year, with which it shared some founders). It preceded the University of London in making scientific education widely available in the capital to people such as the Dissenters who adhered to non-orthodox religious beliefs and were consequently barred from attending Oxford University or Cambridge University.The Institution moved into premises at Finsbury Circus in 1815 and was particularly noted for the teaching of chemistry. It closed in 1912 and the buildings were used for the University of London until their demolition in 1936." See sample image.

4pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He considers the cut excellent, and is grateful to Brooks for having 'managed so well' with his article. 'Many such an article of mine has been sacrificed, though absolutely a pretty good one, and comparatively to that which stood in its place, superexcellent. But such is my luck. By the by, don't measure the quantity of all that I do by what appeareth.' He reports that 'Fred is much amused with the verses on the Queen's first baby. I said that there are two men here besides himself who understand a joke. To be intelligible to anybody except himself a joke must be imbued with the fuliginous element.' Of his Hampshire surroundings he writes: This atmosphere is not favourable to the cultivation of literature. It is intensely local, and entirely so except in as far as it is domestic, and its domesticity is not of an aesthetic character.' Leigh misses 'the influences that suggest ideas to me in Richmond Park, and even in the thick of London. At Winchester and St. Cross there are undeniable ghosts about one, but they are all asleep.' The rest of the letter deals with 'Miss Bateman's photograph', the suitability of Winchester School, and a letter in The Times concerning the 'Phallus Impudicus'.