Meagher joseph william (14 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Good. 1961. First Edition Thus. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine.…

Zustand: Good. 1961. First Published in Great Britain. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and free endpapers. Mild creasing to gutters. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DEMONS TO DOUGHNUTS joins two novellas as different as a cold December moon and strawberry pudding. THE TIPTOP JELLY DOUGHNUT, all warm sunshine and good eats, will delight dreamers and lovers of jelly doughnuts from eight to 108. It is set in a lovely land called the Kids' Republic where nobody over ten is allowed. Here the government is run (quite well) by babies. At the helm is President Baby Bumkey, seventeen months old and a born leader. For diplomatic reasons it is urgent that the baker of certain sublime jelly doughnuts be found so he can supply them for a vital state banquet. But the baker of these glorious doughnuts, having reached the age of ten, has been obliged to leave the comfort and safety of the Kids' Republic. Three children and a Six O'Clock Cat are chosen to make the perilous journey Somewhere Out There to find him. Will they succeed In contrast, THE LUCIFER GYPSIES is a haunting chiller set in nineteenth-century New England. In this dark and fascinating tale a casket-maker inadvertently insults a band of gypsies who happen to be wards of the Devil. In their fury they inflict on the poor shopkeeper a fiendishly cunning curse which he must somehow overcome to survive.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1922, at the age of four, Joseph William Meagher contracted polio, leaving him with a back shaped like the harp of his Irish ancestors. Only all-night massaging by the family doctor saved him from a wheelchair life. After a barbaric (and fruitless) treatment to straighten his spine, Joe returned home to the shelter of a loving family. But little by little, the cold eye of the outside world made clear to him how different he was. His parents took medical advice and sent Joe off to Port Jefferson, Long Island, to spend the next four years at a hospital/school for crippled children. Though many there were severely disabled, they had the same unquenchable zest for life as any other kids, and with great innocence and gusto went about the business of being kids in the best way they could. In addition to presenting a picture of the very beginnings of rehabilitative therapy, Broken Yesterdays is the unswervingly candid and often amusing memoir of a boy who learned early that tears did no good, and that he faced a choice: Either surrender to the bitterness of being different or, through strength of will, make the best of what he had in him. Fortunately for his readers, Joseph William Meagher made the right choice.…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave II; [10],299pp. Some light wear to jacket extremities, including a few short closed tears; rear panel dust-soiled, as is top textblock edge. Still, a Very Good, attractive copy. Novel of two down-at-the-heel chaps, set among the "hustlers, hangers-on, street fighters, beached sailors, lost souls and minor hoodlums" (front jacket flap) who populate the Brooklyn waterfront of Fulton Landing (the neighborhood known today as "Dumbo").…