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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. pp. 102.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 463 pages. 9.06x6.02x1.22 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.…

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The September issue of The American Magazine. Stories and articles it contains include: The Saint in New York, a shorter version of a novel by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin) that was published in 1935, Love Leaves Town, a story by Pulitzer prize-winner James Gould Cozzens. The Closed Room, part II of a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, One-Man Cat, a story by Courtney Ryley Cooper, We'll Bring the Jubilee, a story by Pulitzer prize-winner MacKinlay Kantor, Here's Your Hat!, a story by Pulitzer prize-winner Margaret Widdemer, There was a Woman, a story by Katherine Haviland-Taylor, Calm Yourself, part IV (conclusion) of a novel by Edward Hope (Edward Hope Coffey, Jr), Editorial: Patience, by Archibald Rutledge, The Man From Space, an article about Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert Einstein by Hubert Kelley, Anything for a Laugh, an article by W C Fields, Juggler - an "Interesting People" profile of Albert Einstein, and numerous other vintage Depression Era articles and ads. Condition issues include light wear & soiling to the front & back covers, A dark strip to the top & fore edge of the front cover, a light vertical crease to the left of the front cover that fades out by page 12, and a light damp stain to the bottom corner of the last 30 pages, The interior is clean and tight. A very good copy of a vintage magazine with stories by notable authors. F Alden Weeks (cover), Saul Tepper (The Saint in New York), O F Schmidt (Love Leaves Town), George Howe (The Closed Room), Matt Clark (One-Man Cat), Edmund F Ward (We'll Bring the Jubilee), John R Holmgren (Here's Your Hat!), Floyd Davis (Calm Yourself), (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 72 pp. ; illustrated ; 27 cm. ISSN: 0140-427X; National Library: 427690-5; 010538609; LCCN: 80-644443 ; LC: GA192; Dewey: 912/.05 ; preceeded by publication: M, the map collector, Issue no. 1-7; Dec. 1977-June 1979 ; issued from 1979-1996 ; Absorbed by: Mercator's world, with v. 1, no. 3 of that title./ No. 1-20, 1977-82. ; OCLC: 6524436 ; pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: The Dallas Pratt Collection of maps at the American Museum, Bath / Rodney W. Shirley -- Ordnance Survey ephemera 1945-1991 / Tim Nicholson -- Churchill Fellowship to examine Drake maps / Bob Ward -- Collector's forum -- Two miniature maps of Boston found / Gunther Buchheim -- Rashi's Legacy: Maps of the Holy Land / Catherine Delano Smith and Mayer I. Gruber -- News -- An unrecorded set of thematic maps by Hondius / Gunter Schilder -- Collectors' barometer -- Collectors' marketplace -- Index to advertisers -- Forthcoming issues. List of Directors -- Mischievous rooks gather up the bargains / Jo French -- Gunter scores half century / Paul van den Brink -- Harley celebration / Valerie G. Scott -- Cartart factsimile / Zsolt Torok ; ex-lib, stamps ; crease to top corner, else VG. Book. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

First Edition. In dark blue cloth with gilt; frontis portrait with tissue guard; B&W illustrations; folding map at rear. A little light foxing; binding tight; slight crushing at head & foot of spine Used - Very Good. VG hardback in blue cloth.

Zustand: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated period science fiction super art work paper covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very small rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 2/- to the front cover. We currently hold 11 other Science Fiction Story Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

First Edition. nd c. 1940. VG/G+. 4to. original grey coarseweave cloth (prize bookplate & bookseller's small label to front endpapers, endpapers tanned, cloth edges a little browned) in dustwrapper (extremities worn with some loss); unpaginated, with illustrations. A good copy. Various tales of Polar, Himalayan, South American and Oceanic travel, including pieces on Gino Watkins and Colonel Fawcett.…

Stapled. Zustand: Good - Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. The April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, May 26 & July 7, 1934 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 1 - 5 & 11 of 12 The Trail of Fu ManChu, a novel by Sax Rohmer, Whiskey Ships (5/12), an article about bootlegging by air from the Grand Bahamas by Quentin Reynolds, When California Builds a Bridge (5/12), an article about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge by George Creel, How Ryan Got Out of Russia (5/19), a Jorkens short story by Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany), Ride to the River 5/26), a short story by Ernest Haycox, The Dixie Menace (5/26), a short story by Leona Dalrymple, Jail Breaker (7/7), a short story by W R Burnett, Don't Send Flowers (7/7), a short story by Philip Wylie, Fortune's Toy (7/7), an ethnic themed short story by Roark Bradford, The Court of Last Guess (7/7), an article by Ray Tucker anticipating the Supreme Court's consideration of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, and others. Cover art by Van Doorn Morgan (4/28), George de Zayas (5/5), Howard Butler (5/12), Louis Fancher (5/19), George C Delano (5/26) & Ronald McLeod (7/7). Condition issues include: 4/28 - mild darkening along the top edge of the front cover; small loss at the top of the spine, short closed tear at the middle of the fore edge of pages 36 - 66; 5/5 - nothing significant; light soiling to the bottom corner of the front cover at the spine; 5/19 - nothing significant; 5/26 - Light edge wear to the front cover with a 1" x 7.75" "Kentucky" shaped chip to the fore edge, small chip to the bottom corner of the front cover with roughness following through page 19, light wear to the bottom edge of the back cover; & 7/7 - light soiling to the front cover with a Drury College Library Springfield, Missouri stamp at the top center, a 1" x 2.5" chip to the top right corner, some light edge wear, and a 1" closed tear at the bottom left, dog ears to the top (pages 3 - 22) & bottom (pages 3 - 38) corners, and a very small closed tear to the fore edge through page 14. A good to very to good set with serial installments by a prominent & collectible author. A heavy, oversize lot that will require additional postage. Van Doorn Morgan, George de Zayas, Howard Butler, Louis Fancher, George C Delano & Ronald McLeod (covers), John Richard Flanagan (The Trail of Fu Manchu), Elmore Brown (Jail Breaker), Irving Nurick (Don't Send Flowers), Harry Burne (Fortune's Toy) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 168 pages. 10.40x9.40x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 314 pages ; OCLC 927145016 (online version); art nouveau design with sunflowers and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Selections include: The American Boy -- The Light That Is Felt -- The Tiger The Brahman, And The Jackal -- A Kind Word -- Little Brown Hands -- The Lame Man And The Blind Man -- The Owl And The Pussy-cat -- September -- The Arab And His Camel -- The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf -- Needless Pain -- Because He Loves Us -- Marjorie's Almanac -- The Brown Thrush -- Truth -- God Bless Our Flag -- The Quails -- The Discontented Stonecutter -- The Cloud -- All Things Beautiful -- Labor -- The Matsuyama Mirror -- Work While You Work -- The Pen -- The Quest -- God Bless The Commonplace -- A Bright Chinese Boy -- The Grapevine Swing -- Beautiful Joe -- Forget-me-not -- October's Bright Blue Weather -- Daisies -- So Much Of Goodness -- The Breaking In Of Black Beauty -- The Children's Hour -- The Magic Mill -- The Corn Song -- Daniel Webster's First Case -- The Day Is Done -- The Image And The Treasure -- Somebody's Mother -- Look For Goodness -- The Code Barbarian -- The Discontented Pendulum -- True Success -- Which Loved Best? -- Hope -- The Story Of King Midas -- T Is The Last Rose Of Summer -- Home, Sweet Home -- The Fight -- A Simple Recipe -- The Angels Song -- A Visit From St, Nicholas -- Ring Out, Wild Bells! -- Beauty In Common Things -- Letters Of Recommendation -- A Song For Flag Day -- The Stone In The Road -- Answer To A Child's Question -- Paul Revere's Ride -- The Dream Of Home -- The Choice Of Hercules -- Thomas Jefferson's Ten Rules -- After The Shipwreck -- The Lost Camel -- The Planting Of The Apple Tree -- We Should Smile -- The Humbug -- Sky-born Music -- The Pebble And The Acorn -- The Tree -- Service -- The Sleeping Beauty -- A Wholesome Tongue -- The Village Blacksmith -- Genuine Heroism -- The Legend Of Indian Corn -- Robert E. Lee -- The City Mouse And The Country Mouse -- Our Birth--The First Roses -- A Little Sermon -- Four-leaf Clover -- Love's Nobility -- A Prayer -- Casabianca -- Be What Thou Seemest -- Thor And The Giants -- The Spider And The Fly -- The Mouse And The Moonbeam -- The Schoolhouse And The Flag -- The Snow-image -- Index Of Authors ; Numerous Biblical references appear in Searson's Studies in Reading (1923), but the movement is toward secular stories with a moral emphasizing social values. This reader, published after World War I, begins with a poem, "The American Boy." It is a dialogue between a father and son about patriotism. According to the author of this reader, the influence of the story "The Poor Little Match Girl" "founded many an orphan home and organized hundreds of societies for relief of the worthy poor," which indicates an emphasis on philanthropy and social work during the era of the Social Gospel.80% of selections taught traditional values."-- Sharon Vincz Andrews ; signature of a youthful Gerald Grout, later a Kansas Ophthalmologist ; GOOD. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. x, 110pp. With several illustrations in black and white. Moderately worn at the edges and spine ends, watered silk endpapers with two tiny chips, very good and sound. Contains the first appearance of Julia Ward Howe's two-page poem "Henry Ward Beecher: Preacher, Patriot, Philanthropist," Lucy Larcom's two-page poem, "Henry Ward Beecher: A Memory of a Sermon," and contributions by many noted contributors including John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joaquin Miller, Laura Bridgman, James Branch Cable, and Dion Boucicault. Printed at the De Vinne Press.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Pages 117-176 plus several pages of vintage ads. Features: Forty-Eight Days Adrift! - after being torpedoed, nine Norwegian seamen spent weeks adrift; Three Mean Killers; Revenge! - in 1916 North Bay, Ontario Pole Leo Leopold vows to get Detective Fred Fefbyre when he gets out of prison; The Fatal Watch; Lost Mines; Cowboys Adrift - two youngsters from a Cariboo, British Columbia ranch make their first trip to Vancouver; Deck Passage; The Ming Jar - what happened after the author purchased a choice piece of porcelain; "Prickly Pete"; The Relapinawa Buffalo - an outlaw buffalo terrorizes an entire Ceylonese district; The Yellow Box; The Amateurs; The Finger of Fate; The Interlopers - an Australian cattle drover story; Adventures with Polar Bears; and more. Above-average wear to front cover and back strip so front cover holding loosely. Small bit of sticker remnant on front cover. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Cuneo, T.T.; Holloway, Cyril; Osmond, Edward; Brock, H.M.; Treslian, S. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 526 pp. ; ill. ; 24 cm ; LCCN: sf 83-3063 ; LC: SB21; Dewey: 630.62774 ; OCLC: 8464264 ; Pages 1-83 have been used as a period scrapbook [!], into which are pasted various poems from the 1870's-90's clipped from newspapers such as The Detroit Commercial, The Detroit Post & Ledger, and The Berrien County Journal (April 10, 1880) ; Included are A pasted illustration, "St. Louis High School", poems include Eventide / Julia C. R. Dore -- Always mine -- Fatherly Advice -- If I Could Know -- In the Old Church Tower / T. B. Aldrich -- At Last / J G Whittier -- Woman Gossip -- Making the Best of It -- Bob of the Golden City / Will S. Hayes -- Beautiful Things / Ella P Allerton -- Growing Old -- The Kaiser and the Little Maid -- Reward of Endeavor / Julia Ward Howe -- We Must All Scratch / Frank S Bondy -- The Countersign / Margaret Eytinge -- Which one? -- The Honest Farmer -- Our Frank / M. S. A. -- The Love of Long Ago / Ella Wheeler -- Fathers Growing Old, John -- Somebody's Mother -- Comparison / Annie E Fisher -- To My Mother -- Falsely Accused -- Dear John -- Taking the End of the Seat -- It May Be Your Turn Next -- Pomp's Defense -- Cliff Roses / F. W. B. -- Little Mabel / Alice Van Orden -- The Printer's Toil / Scott -- A Pintin' To-day? -- Heartless / Medora Clark -- The Dead Child and the Mocking-Bird / Paul H Hayne -- Mother's Way -- Buddha and the Hindoo Mother / Edwin Arnold -- I Have Drunk My Last Glass / Louisa S Upham -- Brevities and Oddities A Temperance Curiosity -- Of All -- Dr. Holland's Last Poem -- The Two Gates, Only! -- The Country Schoolmaster -- Leap Year -- A Nibble -- A Swarm of Bees -- Do Your Best / M. Ella Cornell -- Annie and Willie's Prayer, A Christmas Story / Sophia P. Snow -- How the Conductor Took the Fare -- Laugh and Grow Fat -- I am So Tired of Being Me -- A Laugh is Worth a Hundred Groans / Josephine Pollard -- A happy New Year / Spirit May -- Just Here -- Coming Home / M. T. Shelhamer -- He Loveth When He Chasteneth / Lizzie Fenner Baker -- They Shall Revive As the Corn / Annie Mills -- True Courage -- Better than Gold / Father Ryan -- Lift Up the Temperance Banner / Rev. Charles Garrett -- Little By Little / J. Albert Wilson -- No Time Like the Present / Phoebe Cary ; articles in the report include: Discussions of the Peninsula Farmers' Club--Fungus not the Cause of Disease, the advantages of top grafting -- Insects injurious to strawberries / A J Cook -- Garden and Wild FLowers / Mrs. Jeremiah Brown -- New Varieties of Fruit (Peaches: Hill's Chill, The Barnard, Honest John, Keyport White, Foster; Paw Paw Apple, Romanite Apple) / T T Lyon -- Fruit Growing at South Haven / J E Bidwell -- Fruit Culture at Grand Traverse / Stanford Howard -- Birds / L H Bailey -- The Necessity of a State Entomologist / H A Shaw -- Orchard Drainage / A T Linderman -- Of One Hundred, How Many? / T T Lyon, James D Husted, A J Cook, Edward Bradfield, R F Hathaway, H E Bidwell -- Pear Blight / P J Berckman, Josiah Hoopes -- The State Fair 1873 -- Orchards and Vineyards of Michigan / S Q Lent -- A Grand Traverse Fruit Farm / T T Lyon -- A Kent County Peach Orchard and Grapery / Albert Baxter -- Flowers at the Michigan State Fair / James Vick -- Old Mission Orchards / WHC Lyon -- Early History of Horticulture in Michigan / JC Holmes -- The Importance to the Fruit Culturist of Shelter or Protection / TT Lyon -- Western New York Horticultural Society / PC Reynolds -- Lecture on Entomology / CV Riley -- The Bird Question / Wm. LeBaron -- Agressive Parasitism of Fungi / TJ Burrill -- Peaches of the Michigan Peach Belt / AS Dyckman -- Horticulture for the People / JJ Thomas -- Insects Injurious to House Plants and Shubbery / AJ Cook -- The Apple Tree / WJ Beal -- Grape Culture / Artimus Sigler -- The Honey Locust as a Hedge Plant / JW Helme ; 14 black and white illustrations ; page 203/204 creased ; because of the scrapbooking, condition is FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 22 volumes, 2640 pp. : illustrated, mostly in color ; 31 cm. ; LC: TL9; Dewey: 629.2 ; OCLC: 2307672 ; "Rather than change any of the encyclopedia's authoritative international automotive text, we have included a glossary of terms that will give you immediate American equivalents, a conversion table for the international metric system, and a conversion table for equivalent monetary values" ; comprehensive history of the automobile features thousands of photographs, mostly in color, with rare makes and marques ; cut-away and exploded views of parts, equipment and whole vehicles, advertisements, charts, graphs, tables, details of racing stats, photos of drivers, biographies, manufacturing, car works and factories, explanations of how various elements work, and more ; FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, viii, 110pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt on front cover. Silk endpapers. Frontispiece portrait and an illustrated plate by William H. Beard. Rubbing to spine and along edges, solid text block. Letter to the editor written on Lucretia Garfield's mourning stationery. Full text reads: "Mentor, O. / June 26th 1887 / Mr. Edward Bok / Dear Sir / Pray accept my thanks for a copy of the Beecher Memorial just received, and allow me to say that you have honored the contributors in making the book so worthy. As a tribute to the memory of Mr. Beecher, I trust it may be acceptable to his family. Very Truly Yours / Lucretia R. Garfield." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, and influential clergyman. His sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, achieved worldwide acclaim for her abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. During Beecher's lifetime, his sermons focused on God's love, a notable departure from his Calvinist upbringing. He was a religious guide to multiple Republican presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who said that no one in history had "so productive a mind." A recent work on his life by Debby Applegate, titled "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher," won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2007. Beecher Memorial: Contemporaneous Tributes to the Memory of Henry Ward Beecher, the "most famous preacher in the nation," published shortly after his death in 1887. Includes a laid-in letter from First Lady Lucretia Garfield, thanking the editor for (illustrator). Signed.…