Atkinson Brooks Foreword (27 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Description: This is book number 258 in the Modern Library series. The only printed date is a 1955 copyright. Dating by the ML guide, this shows to be from Spring 1967. The list of Giant titles printed at the rear include Balzac, Lost Illusions; but do not include Hersey, The Wall. The dust jacket rear panel style is o; binding style:13. Plays include A Streetcar Name Desire; Death of a Salesman; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Seven Year Itch; Tea and Sympathy; and The Cane Mutiny Court-Martial. BINDNG/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with 'ml' and a ruled border blind stamped on the front cover; silver spine text; owner's name and date written in, and a circled 'H' stamped on the front endpaper; otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. Endpaper design (ml) by Sadamitsu Neil Fujita. 12mo (7.25 inches tall). 559 pages + ads. …

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Description: This is book number 258 in the Modern Library series. The only printed date is a 1955 copyright. Dating by the ML guide, this shows to be from Fall, 1959. The list of 388 titles printed on the verso of the jacket includes Salinger, Nine Stories; but does not include Colette, Six Novels; the dust jacket rear panel style is i; binding style: 8. Plays include A Streetcar Name Desire; Death of a Salesman; Come Back, Little Sheba; The Seven Year Itch; Tea and Sympathy; and The Cane Mutiny Court-Martial. BINDNG/CONDITION: green cloth with black and gilt; the top edge tint is a dark shade; a Good book, with a Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. Rockwell Kent endpapers. 12mo (7.25 inches tall). 559 pages + ads.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. spine #. GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S2.??) DUST JACKET.quite nice copy, but text paper is toing a bit.OW clean, solid bright.NICE BOOK COVER & DUST JACKET. jacket has no advert text to its "verso" inside. ; Black running man top spine.modern golden cloth binding.blind embossed ML cover. White endpapers. 1970s?(has isbn); 559pg pages. Illustrated by BLUE TITLE BAR DJ COVER ART (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/clipped price, in mylar; (#258 in series); foreword by Brooks Atkinson; 559 clean, unmarked pages; solid blue c wq/gilt spine titles.

Hardcover. First Edition (1955), so stated. First Edition (1955), so stated. Very Good: shows very light wear to the extremities; faint generalized soiling to the cloth-covered boards; a former owner's personalized bookplate at the front pastedown endpaper; the very slightest spine lean; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound; showing mild wear and minor imperfections. An attractive copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.25 x 5 x 1 inches). xi, 559 pages. Foreward by Brooks Atkinson. Language: English. Weight: 14 ounces. Green cloth over boards with Gilt titles and designs on black fields at front panel and backstrip. Modern Library, 258.3. Hardback: Lacks DJ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/unclipped price, in mylar (#258 in series); foreword by Brooks Atkinson; solid red c a/gilt spine titles; Rockwell Kent end papers; 559 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; Modern Library, 258; includes "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Te nnessee Williams, "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Come Back, Li ttle Sheba" by William Inge, "The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod, " Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson, and "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial " by Herman Wouk. Light fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows f ading, scuffing, and edge wear, with price clipped.…

hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near Fine. reprint. Originally published in 1940. Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, xxv + 930 pages, gilt spine titles on brown boards. A near fine, clean, neat hardcover with little shelf wear; binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with the price clipped.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Contains: Tennessee Williams A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Arthur Miller DEATH OF A SALESMAN, William Inge COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA, George Axelrod THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, Robert Anderson TEA AND SYMPATHY, and Herman Wouk THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL. Dj scuffed with lightly worn edges, sunned, torn. Text clean & tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Copyright Renewed 1968. 930 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. R.D. Scudellari (Jacket Design) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ faded at spine with overall heavy edge wear, shelf wear, foxing. Contents: Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. Miller, Death of a Salesman. Inge, Come Back, Little Sheba. Axelrod, The Seven Year Itch. Anderson, Tea and Sympathy. Wouk, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Modern Library; 258; 7.5" tall; 559 pages; Re#.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Works by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, George Axelrod, Robert Anderson, Herman Wouk. Smaller book, dark blue cloth with embossed border and logo, silver lettering very bright on spine, purple and yellow decorations inside covers and adjacent end papers, 559 pages and catalog. DJ very slight browned, very lightly soiled, very slight wear to all four spine edges. Good DJ/Very Fine book.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. 1955. Green cloth hardcover with black labels and gilt lettering. Dust jacket now protected in clear plastic Brodart protector. Decorative endpapers. Publisher's stain to top edges. 559pp. List of titles. VERY GOOD in jacket. Binding sound. Text-block appears clean. Jacket has sunning to spine. Price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #258.3. --- With soiling and foxing to textblock fore-edge, otherwise a clean, firmly-bound copy. Price-clipped dust jacket with a 2-inch tear near head of spine, some rubbing and other tears and creases to edges, else intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 559 pages.…

Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xi, 559pp, (2pp ads). Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed. A tight and nice later printing of this anthology containing "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Willams, "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, "Come Back, Little Sheba" by William Inge, "The Seven Year Itch" by George Axelrod, "Tea and Sympathy" by Robert Anderson and "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" by Herman Wouk.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Modern Library edition offering six plays which debuted in the late 1940s-early 1950s and which gained widespread popularity. The collection includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by Herman Wouk. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Volume wrapped in blue, red and white jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 14 / blue cloth / silver spine titling / blindstamped front cover ml logo / yellow & gold Fujita endpapers / jacket style o, verso is blank. Likely published c.1969-70 (though 1955 date appears in book). ML #258.3. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly bound and bright, though with prior owner's signature to front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket with slightly sunned spine, a chip and a couple of small tears along edges but remaining bright and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xi, 559 pages.…

Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Includes: Streetcar Named Desire/Williams, Death of a Salesman/Miller, Come Back Little Sheba/Inge, Seven Year Itch/Axelrod, Tea and Sypmpathy/ Anderson, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial/Wouk. Brighjt tight clean HB copy w jacket. #258 w jacket price $1.95. 5 x 7-1/4, 559 pp, illus endpapers. Fine unmarked, in VG unclipped jacket. Hardback in navy cloth boards w gilt spine titling, in white/red jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Hardcover with dustjacket. Blue boards, title and author in red background box, gilt text, sharp, bright and clean. Pictorial protected, unclipped, dustjacket is bright, clean, nicks and chips to edges. Book is firm in binding, clean interior. Previous owner's name is penned to book plate on front endpaper. Edited with an introduction by Brooks Atkinson; includes numerous essays and poems. Else - Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; No. 91; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 930 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Green linen boards w/embossed gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/NF w/small loss to upper front corner by spine, and faint creasing to rear inner flap; under mylar. An excursion into the pristine wilderness of New England's White Mountains, part of the Appalachian range. Superb photography with narratives from Brooks Atkinson and W. Kent Olson. PhilIp Evans; Amory Lovins; & George DeWolf (Photographers) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. SOFTCOVER. Undated: circa 1960. 930 pages. SPINE HAS LIGHT CREASING. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref P55.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 63 p. : illustrations (some in color) ; 29 cm. ; LCCN: 99-480069 ; LC: ML31 ; OCLC: 26457004 ; "A Lehmann book." ; illustrated boards ; collection of back-scene elements in the film production of South Pacific (1958), includes costume designs by Dorothy Jeakins, commentary by all the principal writers, producers and other technicians, choreography of Leroy Prinz, and others ; back pocket missing ; wear to covers, else FAIR. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1910. Frontispiece portrait has a tissue guard. SPINE IS COMPLETE & INTACT BUT HAS A MARK. Clean & tight. PENCIL LINES IN A FEW MARGINS. Front end paper has a written name & date. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 42.3. The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First and Second Series; Representative Men; Society and Solitude; English Traits; the Conduct of Life; Letters and Social Aims; Poems; Miscellanies Embracing Nature Addresses and Lectures. Introduction by Brooks Atkinson. Foreword by Tremaine McDowell. Published by Routledge, London.…

Hardcover. dj. First Thus Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 274 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine off-white with black and green lettering. Exterior has slight plus wear including slight age toning and few minor to the head/tail edges. Boards have slight wear including mild soiling. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges and head edge colored red. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. First thus edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1417470. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Copyright 1950. 930 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased cover corners. Creased spine. Pen marks on front cover. Pencil marks on Table of Contents.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book square and solid. Jacket shows some medium/large chips along edges and toning to spine and extremities. Text unmarked. First Printing. 322 pages. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 Pounds. Category: History::New York; Inventory No: 030297. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dustjacket included. ISBN 0394405641. Hardbacks. 20 copies of the same book, ideal for classroom use, ex-library copies with minimal markings, just two ink stamps to front and back endpapers and a 5 digit number on the bottom edge. Otherwise the 20 books are tight sound unmarked copies with minimal wear in dustjacket. No Signature.…