herbert john white (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. with 8 plates in colur and 19 illustratiions in black & white (illustrator). Firmly bound, purple card boards. Small handling wear on cover and spine. Scuffing, small tears and dust spotting on jacket.

Zustand: Good. 1937. Fifth Edition. 277 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends, with fraying cloth and small splits. Gilt lettering has become dull. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Second Edition. Very good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked tan buckram, edges very slightly toned and rubbed. Slight discolouration to endpapers. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 150 pages; Description: 3 p. L. , 51 p. Diagrs. 22 cm. "30 chapters, with 13 diagrams, and new tables for calculating weights of oil and water. Subjects: Tankers. 3 Kg.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Lucian Freud and John Craxton [Paintings] (illustrator). First Edition. 1947 Vol. XVI, No. 95 - November MCMXLVII. With monochrome reproductions of paintings by Lucian Freud and John Craxton. ***Very good in brown printed cream wrappers. Covers somewhat discoloured with age and handling, with a couple of small stains on the front cover. Fragile spine intact. Contents very good. 215mm x 140mm. 70 pages [pp.227-297], plus four pages of period adverts. ***A post-war issue of this literary journal, published by Cyril Connolly as editor, and Stephen Spender as associate editor. This issue includes the following contributions: 'After the Atom' by Franz Borkenau, 'The Fate of Modern Painting' by Herbert Read, 'Mother's Sense of Fun' by Angus Wilson, 'Studies in Genius - III: Swinburne and 'Le Vice Anglais'' by Humphrey Hare and 'Stravinsky - Latter-day Symphonist' by Eric Walter White. ***'Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published every four weeks in London, between December 1939 and January 1950. The magazine was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues. The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war.' [Wiki] ***A post-war issue of this magazine in nice condition. Includes first publication of 'Mother's Sense of Fun', a short story by Angus Wilson, two years before the publication of his first collection of short stories 'The Wrong Set', which was published by Secker & Warburg in 1949. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly aged paper. Ouless regrets that he has 'nothing available' for 'the Aberdeen Exhibition this year', 'unless it be Marks' portrait [Henry Stacy Marks, artist] which is my property & now at Manchester, but as it was painted 12 years ago I do not think you will consider it suitable'. He suggest asking the Highland Railway Company whether they might lend the 'half length by me of Sir A. Matheson'. The letter ends: 'I wish I had something more recent which I could propose. I hope another year you will ask me again.'.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Verpilleux, E; Robinson, T.H.; Bates, Leo; Holloway, C.; Somerfield, T.; Wood, Stanley L.; Gillett, F.; Holmes, Fred; Hodgson, E.S.; Dewar, W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 1-88, plus 16 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: Vendettas; The Luck of the Game; The Secret of the Well; The Tragedies of Niagara; Running the Gauntlet - part 1; The Witch-Doctor's Vengeance; The Cruise of the Dream-Ship - part 5; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - part 3; Marooned in the Arctic; Our Adventures Among the Berbers - part 5; The Captain's Ordeal; The Swinging Log; The Lone Sea-Rover; Mind vs. Matter. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Vol. IV, No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil, a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's *American Daughter*, an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota, later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro," the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding (the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America) and the latter by activist and author of *Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer* Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW *Negro Digest* in full color, as well as the articles "Who is a Negro? The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury (condensed from *Collier's*); "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter (condensed from *The New York Times*); "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce (condensed from *Today's Woman*); "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon (condensed from *Glamour*); and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero," this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby, who was a war correspondent for the *Baltimore Afro-American*. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon.