Bates George Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. 256 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a small nick on the lower edge of the front panel; previous owner's name inside. The dustjacket features Portrait of Ellen Terry by George Fredric Watts, circa 1964. This anthology contains: Miss Geraldine Parkington by Catherine Cookson; The Chairmender by Guy de Maupassant; A Constellation of Events by John Updike; The Kepi by Colette; The Square Peg by Jilly Cooper; First Love - A Confession by Frank Harris; Kiss Me Again, Stranger by Daphne du Maurier; When Love Isn't Enough by Stella Whitelaw; A Girl I Used to Know by Rosamunde Pilcher; Joe Johnson by H. E. Bates; Snow Storm by Jean Stubbs; The Letters by Edith Wharton; Ethel Crowther by Audrie Manley-Tucker; The Curious Courtship of Mrs Blishen by Judy Gardiner; Comrades in Arms by George Gissing; The Needlecase by Elizabeth Bowen; The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev; and Lalla by Rosamunde Pilcher. Size: 8vo. George Fredric Watts; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardcover in good condition: thin cracks over the external hinges, boards exposed at upper corners, pages unmarked with age-yellowing. Includes "The Harbor of Lost Ships", "Garafelia's Husband", "The Scales and the Sword", The Four-Flushers". The dust jacket is fair with edge chips and tears, yellowing, and is protected by a clear, removeable cover. 100 pages. Book. …

Hardcover w dj. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED: VERY good or Better hardcover with good dust jacket.

viii, 304 pages. Hardcover: H 17.25cm x L 11.25m. No dust jacket. Green cloth soiled with some staining; wear along board edges particularly at corners; spine slightly cocked; some cloth loss at frayed spine ends with small surface chip and discolored patch near head; mostly black decoration to spine and front board with some dulling/flaking to gilt lettering. Toning to text block edges; mild toning and soiling to endpapers; scarce Mississippi bookseller blue ink stamp "Will B. Kelly, Druggist & Stationer . . . Winona, - - Miss." on front pastedown; past owner's ink signature on front free endpaper; soiling and a few stains to interior leaves. Various stress point to text block binding but all holding. Only nine of ten b/w plates on unpaged leaves present (missing plate opposite page 1). Contents: "An Introduction," "The Making of the World," "Gods and Men," "Odin's Search for Wisdom," "How Odin Brought the Mead to Asgard," "The Wooing of Gerd," "The Making of the Hammer," "Odin in Geirrod's Palace," "The Apples of Idun," "Thor Goes a Fishing," "How Thor Found His Hammer," "How Thor Fought the Giant Hrungner," "The Binding of the Wolf," "Thor's Wonderful Journey," "The Death of Balder," "How Loke was Punished," "The Twilight of the Gods," "The New Earth," "Norse Mythology," "To Teachers," "Notes," "Pronouncing and Defining Index," and "Reference Books." Only a good copy at best.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Red cloth, gilt-decorated spine, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, 105 clean pp., 2 pp. publisher's catalogue of Universalist books. Rev. Thomas Barnes (1749-1816), b. Merrimack, New Hampshire. He was known as "Father Barnes" and was called the "Father of Universalism in Maine," being the first ordained Universalist minister in that province. He had been raised in the Congregational faith, had joined a Baptist church in 1771, and became a Universalist in 1783. As a member of the Maine legislature (1897-1814) he led the successful effort to end taxation in support of the Congregational church to the detriment of all others. He was President of the Universalist General Convention (1809-1812).…

Second Printing. Collection of four plays from George Pierce Baker of Harvard University's "47 Workshop". "They will recall that both here and in the 'Harvard Dramatic Club' there have been presented, with great artistic merit". Near Fine, contemporary inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, 'Walter H. Baker Co. Theatrical Publishers' sticker at lower front panel.…