Adams Henry E Edited By (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Offprint. Octavo. 216-347pp. Stapled card covers. Front cover with a brief gift inscription and very light splashmarks, page edges foxed, very good. "Prepared by a number of scholars for The Hispanic Foundation in The Library of Congress.".

i-vi, 7-330, [2], 331-428 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.75cm. Re-backed in relatively modern black buckram with gilt stamping; original brown cloth boards with rubbing and staining but reinforced by black buckram corners. Some age toning to replaced front and rear endpapers and flyleaves. Toning/foxing prevalent throughout along with some moisture staining; old ownership inscription in pencil on first original flyleaf; some edge-tears and nicks to leaves. Engraved title page present but usually these books also had a formal text title page - as the latter is not present it seems likely that it was excised when re-bound. Binding is firm. B/w engraved plates opposite the book's primary hand-colored botanical plates which are: "The China Flower" on page 7 (missing tissue guard sheet) [no attributed artist]; "The Heart's Ease" by S. Weekes on page 43 with guard sheet; "Isabella Grapes" [no artist] on page 79 with guard sheet; "Century Plant" by S. Weekes on page 115 with guard sheet; "Crown Imperial" by S. Weekes on page 151 with guard sheet; "Prairie-Flower" [no artist] on page 187 with guard sheet; "Brothers and Sisters" (non-botanical plate w/o tissue guard) [no artist] on page 223; "East India Althea" [no artist] on page 259 with guard sheet; "The Bouquet" by S. Weekes on page 295 with guard sheet; "The Barberry" by S. Weekes opposite page 330 with guard sheet; "Bell Flower and Pink" by S. Weekes on page 365 with guard sheet; "Frost Gage" [no artist] on pages 401 with guard sheet. "The Widow and Her Son" (pages 192-195) and "The Grave" (pages 216-217) both by Washington Irving; "Eternity" (poem; page 219) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; "The Hour-Glass" (poem; page 353) by John Quincy Adams. B/w engravings include a Lake George, New York landscape (page 79) and a Manhattan streetscape "The Park and City Hall, N-Y." (page 114). …

Pasta dura en tela editorial. Condition: Bueno. Blatt, A. H (Edited by, Secretary to the Board Queens College, Flushing, N. Y.) Editorial Board: Roger Adams, Homer Adkins, C. F. H. Allen, W. E. Bachmann, W. H. Carothers, H. T. Clarke, J. B. Conant, N. L. drake, Louis F. Fieser, Reynold C. Fuson, henry Gilman, W. W. Hartman, John R. Johnson, C. S. Marvel, C. R. Noller, R. L. Shriner, Lee Irvin Smith, Frank C. Whitmore. Organic Syntheses. Collective volume 2. A revised Edition of Annual Volumen X ? XIX. Second Printing. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited. Características: Pasta dura en tela editorial en muy buen estado. 654 págs. ( 23.5 x 16 cms.). Peso: 1.700 grs. (176 NUEV). …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 3rd reprint edition. 970 pages. 10.00x7.00x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. P.167-239. Printed cream wrappers. Wrappers age-toned, bottom corners bumped, very good. "A Visit with E.M. Forster" by William Van O'Connor. *Voice as Vision* by W.D. Snodgrass. "Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style and the Scope of Sensibility" by Ihab H. Hassan. Poetry by William Belvin, Edgar Bowers, Charles Aufderheide, James Wright, Brewster Ghiselin, Henry Ayling, Howard Levant. Stories by Richard G. Stern, James B. Hall. Books by Ralph Freedman and Hazard Adams. Scarce.…