Verlag: The American Mercury Magazine, Inc., New York, 1960
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 160 pages. Features: Movies Are Getting Redder Than Ever; Let's Give America Back to the Schoolkids - How to Resurrect History - And Freedom; Red Invasion of the Church; Khrushchev and the Flight to Sverdlovsk - Why is One U-2 Spy Plane A Shock to the World but not 35 years of intense world-wife Soviet Espionage?; Christian Herter Must Resign; five Day Picnic; Our "Hard Luck" Presidents; Witchweed - this parasitic Asiatic plants threatens corn-on-the-cob; Your Health - Insomnia?; The Scrupulous Sculptress - Vinnie Ream; Thanks to Mr. Dewey's Decimals; Living Rooms Into Learning Rooms; MEP - A People-to-People Plan - the biggest anti-Communist weapon in the world is the Soviet population; "Very Strange Bedfellows"; The Federal Reserve Board - take out of private hands the right to expand or contract money supply; What Inflation Is; The Children's Crusades - 1960; The Balfour Declaration; The Wolf Peach; The Great Stone facing; South African Sideshow; Typhoid Mary's Secret; Your Psychosomatic Opportunity - empathy, rather than pills, may be the solution; The Sobering Sixties; Dog's Best Friend; The Shadows Before; An Open Letter to Mr. John J. McCloy; The Printed Record of the NCC (National Council of Churches); The Pastry War; Religion and Status Quo. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; American Mercury Magazine, "To Bear Witness To The Truth", August (Aug.) 1960, Volume XCI No. 439 - Khruschchev and the Flight to Sverdlovsk / Movies Are Redder Than Ever Canadian Intelligence Service Let's Give America Back to the Schoolkids - How to R.
Verlag: Foulis Archive Press, Glasgow, 1979
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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EUR 350,45
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
In den WarenkorbCloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. John O'Connor (illustrator). First edition. A beautifully illustrated collection of Francis Kilvert's diary passages, being a limited edition copy signed by the artist, John O'Connor. Number 44 of 50 copies signed by the artist, John O'Connor.In the original cloth binding.A series of extracts selected from the diaries of Francis Kilvert, an English clergyman whose dairies reflected rural life in the 1870s, and were published over fifty years after his death.With ten distinct illustrations in colour that bring the diary's descriptions to life, completed in watercolour. Artist John O'Connor, today best known for his woodcuts, was educated between the wars at the Royal College of Art in London under John Nash and Edward Bawden. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. With light shelf wear and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the author's inscribed name to the colophon. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.
Verlag: S. Dominic's Press [n.d.], Ditchling, Sussex
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
Octavo (18cm); black leatherette boards, with blind ruling to front cover; deckled edges; [viii],182,[2]pp. Bookplate on front pastedown: "From the Books of Margot and H. Richard Archer". Artist's name stamped to front endpaper, inked to p.62 and p.162, and initials stamped to p.123. Shelf-soil to covers and interior, with rubbing to spine ends and board edges, occasional creases to text, and pencilled notes to title page and rear pastedown; Good. Explores philosophy and religion of art. Ownership booklate belongs to Richard and Margot Archer of Williamstown, Massachusetts. Richard Archer (1911-1978) was the long time Custodian of the Chapin Library at Williams College; prior to this he was a curator and cataloguer of rare books at the Clark Library, Los Angeles. Both Archers were prolific letterpress printers, deeply involved in the California fine press renaissance of the 1940s and 50s, where they were closely associated with Lewis and Dorothy Allen, the Grabhorns, and William Everson. [84686].