The american boy (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Cover nearly detached. Address label on front cover. (notre dame, young adult, literature).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [6], 215pp, [3]. Beige hardcover, cloth spine, title stamped in gilt along the spine. Stated "First Edition 1993" on the copyright page. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $19.95 on the front flap, bright illustrations. This work was first published in London by Picador in 1992. The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. The novel was adapted into the 1997 film directed by Neil Jordan. The first American edition of The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [6], 215pp, [3]. Beige hardcover, cloth spine, title stamped in gilt along the spine. Stated "First Edition 1993" on the copyright page. In the publisher's near fine dust jacket, $19.95 on the front flap, bright illustrations. This work was first published in London by Picador in 1992. Signed by Patrick McCabe on the title page. The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. The novel was adapted into the 1997 film directed by Neil Jordan. The first American edition of The Butcher Boy, signed by Patrick McCabe. (illustrator). Signed.…

Zustand: Good. - Over 88 words typed on buff 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide "The Dan Beard Outdoor School" stationery with the names of the school's officers and its motto printed in green at the top and its eagle logo at the center. In his letter addressed to "Dear Scout Halpern", Daniel Carter Beard apologizes that while Seymour Halpern's letter has been found, the picture he'd included hasn't: "Your letter of June 23d was mislaid during the transfer of the office from here to camp and also the picture you sent was lost. The Chief hopes the enclosed print [Not here present] taken at the Jamboree will take its place." Beard goes on to describe the accomplishments of Scouting. Signed "Daniel C. Beard / Chief". The edges of the page are slightly darkened and there are a few tiny chips to the edges with some minor creases and a couple of tiny chips out from the bottom corners and edge. Good. The son of the artist James Henry Beard, Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard [1850-1941] was an American illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer. He founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which he later merged with the Boy Scouts of America. He wrote a series of articles for St. Nicholas magazine, which later became the basis of his book "The American Boy's Handy Book". A member of the Art Students League, he was a friend of Ernest Thompson Seton. As an artist, he illustrated several books for Mark Twain.The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.…

Very good. Manuscript pen and watercolors on blindstamped Bristol Board. Exhibits toning, else excellent for this kind. Size 16 x 21 Inches. A very attractive c. 1865 patriotic manuscript schoolboy map of the world executed by George A. Knight, in or about 1865. The map covers the world on a double-hemisphere projection, with geographical features corresponding very closely to the separate maps of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres printed in Mitchell's Intermediate Atlas , specifically, the 1865 editions. An Extraordinary Example of a 'Schoolgirl' map The map is meticulously drawn, inked, and colored. The border is \\finely executed with a clear, fine-lined botanical motif embellished with four cornucopias and naming three of the cardinal directions. In place of 'north,' above map's title is a variation on the theme of the Great Seal of the United States: a Bald Eagle, with olive branches and arrows astride a shield with the Stars and Stripes, and the 'E Pluribus Unum' motto on a banner held in its beak. The Mapmaker The creator of this map, George A. Knight, gives neither his age nor his home state, but the combination of the choice of iconography, the evidence of some affluence indicated by the quality Reynold's Bristol Board paper (Imported from Great Britain) and the access to printed maps all point to young Mr. Knight being a citizen of one of the New England or Mid-Atlantic states. While the map itself does not contain place names, geographical features are clearly and elegantly delineated. The 'ripple' coastline effects, minimally hachured mountains, and stippled desert areas are clear, communicative, and show the map's connection to its Mitchell source. Several distinctive geographical features also tie it to the specific Mitchell maps, and help date the piece. The Appalachian Mountains Among the finely-rendered mountain ranges on this map are the Appalachians, (which here extend well into Maine). While these mountains do not appear on the 1851 Mitchell Western Hemisphere , the 1865 edition does include them, in a form consistent with what we see here. Antarctica: Enderby Land and Kemp Land The map shows only portions of the Antarctic coastline as does the Mitchell. The 1851 edition of the Mitchell Eastern Hemisphere shows Enderby Land on the Antarctic Circle, but the Kemp Land to the east of Enderby Land is not there: we see it on the 1865, and both of these pieces of coastline appear on this manuscript map. Australia: Lake Torrens A feature on this map - shared on Mitchell's Eastern Hemisphere, but not the Mitchell double-hemisphere world - is a curious crescent-shaped body of water in Southern Australia. This is Lake Torrens, an ephemeral endorheic salt lake in central South Australia. Its first sighting by a European was only 1839, and while it appeared on a number of maps its depiction on them is inconsistent, a problem not aided by Lake Torrens' tendency to change in extent, shape, and even existence. The distinctive, upside-down 'U' shape appearing here is one of the visual elements that ties this map to Mitchell's cartography in general, and his two separate hemisphere maps in particular. Africa: Lakes Nyasa, Nyanza, and Tanganyika Just south of the equator in Eastern Africa are shown three lakes. These correspond to Nyasa, Nyanza, and Tanganyika as they are presented in the 1865 Mitchell Eastern Hemisphere. This is at odds with the contemporaneous Mitchell world map, which shows only one large lake in that position. The 1851 edition of the Eastern Hemisphere does not show these, only one 'Lake Maravi,' likely an early iteration of what David Livingstone would name Lake Nyasa in 1859. Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyanza - that is to say, Lake Victoria - had first been encountered by European explorers, the British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke, in 1858, and could not have appeared on the earlier iteration of the Mitchell. 'Schoolgirl' and 'Schoolboy' Maps While the use of mapmaking in teaching is first.…