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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 228 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 368 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 338 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 416 p. : illustrated (many in color) ; 32 cm. ; LC: CB351; Q914.031 H; Dewey: 914/.03/1 ; LCCN: 68-27730 ; OCLC: 272326 ; decorative brown cloth, in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; wear to dustjacket ; price-clipped ; all illustrations fully referenced to their original sources ; Contents : The long dark.--The High Middle Ages.--Knights in battle.--The noble's life.--An age of faith.--Towns and trade.--The life of labor.--The life of thought.--The artist's legacy.--End of an era. ; Bishop was a Cornell University graduate who remained as Kappa Alpha Professor of Romance Literature. He was the author of several biographies, wrote a popular survey of French literature, and was known for his limericks and didactic verse, one of which, "How to Treat Elves", has the final quatrain: "It gives me sharp and shooting pains / To listen to such drool / I lifted up my foot and squashed / The God damn little fool." Here, Bishop brings a lucid and knowledgeable commentary on the Middle Ages ; large, heavy volume ; VG/G. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. Photography by Leonard K. Clevenger and Roderick Dixon (illustrator). Binding heavily shaken. Blue cloth boards with title in rope-like font in gilt to front board. Two photographs of aircraft adhered to front board. Mildew and soiling to front board. Pictorial endpapers illustrated with the "Cruise of the Marcus Maru." Small loss to fore-edge of front fly, closed tear to fore-edge of rear fly. Moisture marks, foxing, toning and soiling to pages throughout. Filled with yearbook style plates of squadron, life in the service, illustrations and accompanying texts.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. The scarce hardcover edition (also published in a slightly more common softcover variant). Photo illustrated throughout. Folklorist and noted musician John Fahey's brilliant, loving analysis of his hero Charley Patton's catalogue. One of the most important books on American blues published in the twentieth century. Part of the series of books on the blues edited by Paul Oliver and published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed at a couple of corners.