Alexander James Oliver (24 results)

Small Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Crease on rear board causing beginning of split to paper, 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom margin of one page, rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1937 Small Hard Cover. 53 pp. 4 5/8 x 3 1/4. Pink decorative paper over boards. A collection of verse and excerpts of works by various authors, including Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J.M. Barrie, Mark Twain, and Lewis Carroll.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Mountford, Karl James (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1.

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New. Mountford, Karl James (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear. The pages are clean with no highlighting or writing detected. 30-day returns. Shipments destined outside Canada may be subject to duties in the customer's country of residence but shipments to the United States should be exempt since the book was published there. ; 5.76 X 0.46 X 9 inches; 208 pages.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Mountford, Karl James (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Boards rubbed, corners exposed, ink gift note from husband to wife dated 1859 on front endpaper. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations with elaborate green and gold oval labels on front and rear board, all edges gilt. A collection of poems by numerous authors, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and plates.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 196 pp. ; illustrated ; green cloth with gold lettering and embossed designs ; no dustjacket ; "Produced by the Publications Committee of the National Rose Society of Great Britain" ; numerous articles on various subjects pertaining to the rose and its culture ; Contents: Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1956 -- The President's Page, By Oliver Mee -- Roses At Buckingham Palace And Harewood House -- Roses At Eayfordeury, By Gordon Rowley -- Roses And Rosarians, By Sam Mcgredy -- How Roses Live And Grow, By G. J. Von Abrams -- Multiflora Shock Absorber, By N. P. Harvey -- Two Pennsylvania Rose Gardens, By Catherine E. Meikle -- Miscellany, By A. Norman -- The Parc Dr La Grange Rose Garden At Geneva, By Brie Bois -- Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, By James Alexander Gamble -- Paris-Geneva-Baden-London, By Louise Bechtel -- "Old Garden Roses", By Sacheverell Sitwell And James Russell, Reviewed By W. H. Sumpster -- =Strains Produced In Rose Hybridizing, By E. B. Le Grice -- Roses To Be, By Mr. And Mrs. Walter D. Brownnell -- "Poulsen On The Rose", By Svend Poulsen, Reviewed By W. J. W. Sanday -- Research On Black Spot Disease, By Freeman A. Weiss -- From The Annals Of Penicuik -- "My Masterpiece", By Math. Tantau -- Are We Getting Too Many New Roses1 By N. P. Harvey -- Observations On The Shafter Stock (Dr. Huey), By André Leroy -- A Rose By Any Other Name, By G. D. Rowley -- How I Grow My Roses, By R. F. B. Naylor, C.B., D.S.O., B. R. C. Tizard, B. W. W. Sampson, A. A. Norton, Nigel Raban, Sam Carson -- Rose Notes From Queensland, By Fred Armbrust -- Roses In Regent's Park, By Leonard Hollis -- "The Old Shrub Roses", By C. S. Thomas, Reviewed By A. J. Huxley -- Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh -- Warm Or Cold? By Fred J. Nesbit -- The Summer Rose Show, By A. C. L. Hellyer -- Orthocide And Karathane, By F. Fairbrother -- The Decorative Classes At The Summer Show, By Arbel M. Aldous -- The Bristol Group Of Tile National Rose Society, By A. B. Griffith -- The Prov1ncial Rose Show, Leeds, By J. C. Watson -- The Autumn Show, By Roy Hay -- The Trial Ground In 1955, By H. Edland -- The Rose Analysis, By H. Edland -- Dean Hole Medallists, Accounts And Reports Of Council -- Monochrome Plates -- 'Peace'-- H.R.H. The Princess Royal, C.I., G.C.Y.O., G.E.E., E.E.C., T.D. -- Forms Of The Japanese Rosa Multiflora, Bayfordbury -- Hybrid Musks And Wichueaianas, Bayfordbury -- Rosa Jundzillii, Bayfordbury -- Rose Stock Trials, Bayfordbury -- Moss And French Roses In The Old Rose Garden, Bayfordbury -- Bourbon Roses, Bayfordbury -- View Of The Hershey Rose Garden -- Early Hybrid Tea Roses, Bayfordbury -- The Hershey Rose Garden -- Frau Karl Druschki" Hedge At Breeze Hill -- Central Terrace At Parc La Grange, Geneva -- View From The Upper Terrace At Parc La Grange, Geneva -- Colour Plates -- Sir Winston Churchill -- King Midas -- Red Wonder -- Beaute -- Message -- La Jolla -- Belle Blonde -- Sweet Repose -- Soraya -- Poulsen's Supreme And Salmon Perfection -- Yellowhammer -- Firecracker -- Cleopatra -- Lilac Time -- Sandringham -- People ; foxing, else VG. Book. …

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (VG+), 1959, First Edition, 36 pages, brief historical note on copyright page plus an introductory page, illustrated with b&w photo of church on title page, softcover, 6 in. x 9 in., booklet bound with two center staples, textured dark green card stock covers with gilt titles, corners very mildly rubbed, slight rubbing along spine and at spine ends, gilt of titles slightly darkened, small minor rust marks from staples at center, otherwise contents clean and tight, item protected in new clear plastic sleeve, book: Very Good Plus (VG+) 5583 [Oss1022RB].…

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. 66 pages. Engraving of church. 9 x 5.75", printed wrapper. 'President Eliot with regards of Alexander McKenzie' on titlepage. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: New. 1.

Condition: Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. 8vo. Clean text. Original cloth in need of rebacking. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. 8vo. Clean text. Original cloth in need of rebacking. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. Original letterpress text in 4 columns pasted to a suppport sheet.Edmond Quincy (1808-1877), author and reformer was the second son of Josiah Quincy III and Eliza Susan Morton Quincy. He was an abolitionist editor and also the author of a biography of his father, a romance, Wensley (1854), and The Haunted Adjutant and Other Stories (1885). .John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814 - May 29, 1877) was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian, he is best known for his works on the Netherlands, the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration, Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom (Court of St. James) during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley, daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley (1814 -1877) , on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member, Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1892 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 440 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 440 Paul Leicester Ford , James Winthrop , Elbridge Gerry , Oliver Ellsworth , William Williams , Roger Sherman , George Clinton , Alexander Hamilton , Robert Yates, Hugh Henry Brackenridge , Samuel Chase, Daniel Carroll, Luther Martin , Spencer Roane, Hugh Williamson, Charles Pinckney, James Sullivan.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1892. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 440, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 440 440.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1892. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 441, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 441 441.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1892. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 445, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 445 445.…