Basford Emory (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. This is a nonfiction autobiography called Lanes of Memory, copyright 1964, written by Eliot A. Carter, edited by Emory S. Basford. The books dust jacket is in fair condition with some chips and tears but wrapped in a plastic protective mylar, otherwise the book itself is in good condition with gilt lettering on cover and spine, tight binding, nice black and white photographs and 344 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Printing. A Treasury of Teaching.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Printing. 678 pp. Burgundy cloth boards are lightly scuffed, spinecover is sunned. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Printing. Slight fading at book cover spine. Foxing on top edge of book. Spine is slightly twisted. Name of previous owner written in pencil on front endpage. Page edges are lightly browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 678 pp., Red Hardback, Gilt title, sm owners namestamp T edgepapers else VG, no DJ, 1st ed (Stated).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hi. Welcome to our small, family-owned bookstore. Copyright 1947 by the MacMillan Company. Edited by Claude M. Fuess and Emory S. Basford. A collection of literary pieces about education, in Hardcover with dust Jacket. The dust jacket is Good: there are chips large and small along the top edge, including a missing piece 2 7/16" long and 5/16" deep. The whole dust jacket, though, is enclosed in a clear plastic cover, which itself is in very good condition. It has been taped at the bottom, front and back, I suppose to keep it from slipping off.The book itself is like new. No marks, very clean and bright, no shelf wear evident. The binding is tight. 673 pages plus index. Packaged using bubble wrap and a sturdy cardboard box. Tracking number provided for no extra cost. Thanks for checking out this book from our small town brick-and-mortar and supporting a small business.

hardcover. first edition. 8vo. 678pp. from front flap: "In Unseen Harvests, modern educators like Mark Van Doren and Jacques Barzun have their say, and famous teachers like William Lyon Phelps, Bliss Perry, and Mary Ellen Chase. There are vivid excerpts from the memoirs of such men as Edward Gibbon, Sean O'Casey, Clarence Darrow, Arthur Machen, and W.B. Yeats. Then there are the essayists and philosophers who have written wisely about education, men like Lamb, Emerson, Edman, Santayana, and Newman. There are humorists and satirists, such as James Thurber, Stephen Leacock, and Max Beerbohm, who have made fun of it. All are to be found in Unseen Harvests." #04524h. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning/offset to paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight. DJ Poor: missing large portions of spine, corner and edge wear, chipping with loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 678 pages. "A collection of miscellaneous writings clustered around the focal magnet of education." Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2".

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. ASIN: B0006D85BW Hardcover; fading and edge wear to exterior; corners bumped; fading to pages; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Ptg. (1st ptg.) Large, heavy book, fine dark red cloth, gilt lettering fine on spine, 678 pages. Writings on teaching by Maugham, Kipling, Thurber, Phelps, Darrow, O'Casey, Whitehead, Boswell, Lamb, Jonson, Johnson, Waugh, Whitman, St. Augustine, Dante, Joyce, Barzun, and many more. DJ price-clipped, colorfully designed on front and spine, white back lightly browned and very slightly soiled. DJ worn, torn and chipped. Fair DJ/Very Fine book.

Red cloth. A very good hardcover book. Tight pages throughout the book. A good dustjacket with small chips along the edges. 678p. This book contains various works of classic literature from memoirs and biography to fiction and poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner's name and a few small stains on front endpaper, page edges lightly browned, cloth rubbed, spine ends bumped, very good lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. 678pp. Near fine with corners slightly worn in a fair only dust jacket with extremities chipped and worn. Contributions by: W. Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Sean O'Casey, Booth Tarkington, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whittier, Charles Lamb, Evelyn Waugh, and more.