George henry starr (4 Ergebnisse)

Loose Leaf. Zustand: Very Good. Platt & Peck January 1913 Binding: Unknown.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "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. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.…

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of this delightful Edwardian novelty featuring the New York Ritz-Carlton Restaurant and Hotel - with an anthology of verse and prose on drinking, smoking, and conversation, housed in the publisher's original "suitcase" box. "Fellowship is heaven, and the lack of fellowship is hell," says William Morris in the epigraph to these LITTLE JOURNEYS. The chief elements of good fellowship are shown through selective quotation to be wine and tobacco, with ale and good conversation in third and distant fourth place respectively. In the a place where all the joys of fellowship may be purchased and enjoyed. 6.75'' x 4.5''. Original cream pictorial wrappers tied with red silk ribbon. 94 pages. In publisher's original novelty box with leather handle and stickers from the Hotel de la Grande Bretagne, Athens, and the New York Ritz Carlton (as issued). Minor edgewear and faint vertical creasing to wrappers. Light scuffing to suitcase extremities, some splitting to corner joints. Overall firm and intact. Near fine in very good plus box.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Gilbert, A.; Wood, Starr; Prater, Ernest; Wigfull, W.E.; Leist, Fred; Evison, Henry; Lunt, W.; Evison, Henry; Cottrell, Tom; Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator).…