knowles william henry (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Herbert Paus (cover June), J Knowles Hare (cover July), William Trench (Thirteen at Dinner), William Oberhardt (Good Listeners are Always in Demand) (illustrator). First Edition. The June & July 1933 issues of The American Magazine. Contains, most notably, parts 4 & 5 of 6 of Thirteen at Dinner (Lord Edgware Dies), an Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. Includes an article by General John J Pershing, Shall We Have a Dictator? (6/33), asserting America's democracy will persist as apposed to European tendencies of the time to adopt dictatorships. An interesting proposition when considered against recent events. Additional articles include What! - No Chorus Girls? (7/33), an article by Henry F Pringle on the career of composer Jerome Kern, and Good Listeners are Always in Demand (7/33), and article by poet Archibald Rutledge on the power of silence, and others, Numerous vintage ads. Condition issues include: 6/33 - light edge wear to the front cover with a small loss at the top of the spine; a light crease to the top corner of the pages from page 47 through the end; light edge wear to the back cover with small soil strips along the top, bottom and spine; and 7/33 - light soil and edge wear to the front cover, soiling to the spine with small loss at the bottom; soiling to page 74; a couple of closed tears to the back cover; and a small chip at the bottom that carries through to the last couple of pages. Otherwise the interiors are clean with no missing pages or cutouts. Overall, very good copies of a vintage magazine with installments of a Hercule Poirot mystery. A heavy, oversize set that may require additional postage.

Zustand: New.

12mo, 2 pp. In poor condition, creased and with frayed edges and a closed tear to the second leaf of the bifolium, to which there is also slight loss. Text clear and entire, apart from one word. Addressed to 'Dear old Boy' and 'old fellow', from 'Your Brother'. Knowles had become editor of the Contemporary Review in 1870, and he starts the letter by asking for Pedder's 'letter & address': 'the article on Famine & debt I value exceedingly & must run no risk of losing [Pedder, of the India Office, published an article on 'Famine and Debt in India' in an 1877 issue of the Nineteenth Century] - besides he was introduced to me by Sir Lewis Mallet & spoken highly of by Lord Salisbury'. 'Will you also tell me as nearly as you recollect what you said to him - did you say I was away or what? I ask that I amy "be in the same Sale" with you -'. The last page relates to 'the folks'.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. 3 periodicals bound in one. Bound in contemporary half-vellum over marbled boards with red leather spine label. light wear and rubbing, otherwise very good indeed. Original wraps bound in. Articles include: Scottish Influence upon English Theological Thought; Cardinal Mannings True Story of the Vatican Council; The Religious Future of the World; The Silver Streak and the Channel Tunnel; Middle-Class Education; Village Life in Norfolk 600 Years Ago.