Altick R D (19 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780393962406.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 374 pages ; 24 cm. NotesIncludes index. "Bibliography of the writings of Richard D. Altick": pages 349-359. Contents; "Agglomerating dollars with prodigious rapidity" : British pioneers on the American lecture circuit / Philip Collins -- Writing and copying in the age of steam / Alexander Welsh -- "Rational amusement" : fiction vs. useful knowledge / Robert A. Colby -- Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome and the publication of nineteenth-century British poetry / Donald Gray -- Genre and the integration of gender : from Wordsworth to George Eliot to Virginia Woolf / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Carlyle as epic historian / John Clubbe -- "A great poetical boa-constrictor," Alfred Tennyson : an educated Victorian mind / George H. Ford -- Jane Eyre at Gateshead : mixed signals in text and context / Jerome Beaty -- Arnold and Goethe : the one on the intellectual throne / David J. DeLaura -- The identity of David Copperfield / Jerome H. Buckley -- Language abuse in Bleak House : the first monthly installment / John J. Fenstermaker -- "All the wickedness in the world is print" : Dickens and subversive interpretation / James R. Kincaid -- "Why was I ever a father!" : Charles Dickens as father / Arthur A. Adrian -- Of muscles and manliness : some reflections on Thomas Hughes / George J. Worth -- Trollope transformed, or the disguises of Mr. Harding and others / Andrew Wright -- An anatomy of aestheticism / Wendell V. Harris. Subjects: Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008. Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-Altick, Richard D, (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008-Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008.Altick, Richard Daniel 1915-Altick, Richard Daniel.Altick, Richard Daniel 1915-Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008.Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008. 1800-1899 Geschichte 1837-1901. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Littérature et société. Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Littérature et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.English literature.Literature and society. 3 Kg.

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 374 pages ; 24 cm. NotesIncludes index. "Bibliography of the writings of Richard D. Altick": pages 349-359. Contents; "Agglomerating dollars with prodigious rapidity" : British pioneers on the American lecture circuit / Philip Collins -- Writing and copying in the age of steam / Alexander Welsh -- "Rational amusement" : fiction vs. useful knowledge / Robert A. Colby -- Macaulay's Lays of ancient Rome and the publication of nineteenth-century British poetry / Donald Gray -- Genre and the integration of gender : from Wordsworth to George Eliot to Virginia Woolf / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Carlyle as epic historian / John Clubbe -- "A great poetical boa-constrictor," Alfred Tennyson : an educated Victorian mind / George H. Ford -- Jane Eyre at Gateshead : mixed signals in text and context / Jerome Beaty -- Arnold and Goethe : the one on the intellectual throne / David J. DeLaura -- The identity of David Copperfield / Jerome H. Buckley -- Language abuse in Bleak House : the first monthly installment / John J. Fenstermaker -- "All the wickedness in the world is print" : Dickens and subversive interpretation / James R. Kincaid -- "Why was I ever a father!" : Charles Dickens as father / Arthur A. Adrian -- Of muscles and manliness : some reflections on Thomas Hughes / George J. Worth -- Trollope transformed, or the disguises of Mr. Harding and others / Andrew Wright -- An anatomy of aestheticism / Wendell V. Harris. Subjects: Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008. Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-Altick, Richard D, (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008-Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008.Altick, Richard Daniel 1915-Altick, Richard Daniel.Altick, Richard Daniel 1915-Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008.Altick, Richard D. (Richard Daniel) 1915-2008. 1800-1899 Geschichte 1837-1901. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 19th century. Littérature et société. Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique. Littérature et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.English literature.Literature and society. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. 1960. First Edition. Paperback. "8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Paperback. A Very good, clean Copy. First Edition". First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1960. First Edition. Paperback. "8vo - over 7" - 9" tall Paperback. A Very good, clean Copy. First Edition". First edition copy. . . .

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-Library.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Front hinge split. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:081420435X.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:9780814252796.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780814207932.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

854pp. edge sl. spotted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Etats-Unis, Edited by Vincent Starrett 1956. In-8 broché, de 248 pages au format 21,5 x 14 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé et illustration en noir. Plats et intérieur frais. Dos carré muet. Retirage d'un des ouvrages les plus célèbres de l'érudition Holmesienne, dont l'édition originale de 1940 est ardemment recherché. Ce recueil contient des textes de Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Morley, R.K. Leavitt, Elmer Davis, Jane Nightwork, Earle F. Walbridge, H.W. Bell, James Keddie, Harvey Officer, P.M Stone, Vincent Starrett, Richard D. Altick, Frederic Dorr Steele, Henry James Forman, Edgar W. Smith et F.V Morley. Nombreuses illustrations et documents en noir, hors texte. Indispensable ouvrage et un must pour tous les Sherlockiens. Exemplaire ayant appartenu à Robert B. Frier en tirage limité à 350 exemplaires numérotés ( n° 232 ) avec ex-libris d'appartenance. Signé par Robert B. Frier au verso de la couverture. Edition originale broché en état proche du neuf et en tirage limité. Rare et totalement épuisé.