Charles Johnson Introduction (102 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

paperback. Condition: Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Paperback Edition. 1st printing of paperback edition, from a private collection. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; exterior looks great. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ~ New Inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. (E-mail for more info./pics).

Paperback. Condition: As New. Still in original wrapper.

Review copy with publisher's promotional sheet laid-in. xiv, 126 pages. Paperback; H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Stiff paper covers with minor wear at corners. Faint soiling to fore-edge. Interior pages are clean and binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy. With Preface, Introduction by Charles Wolfe, Discography (pages 99-108), Radio Transcriptions, and Index. ISBN 1578060044.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.

xxiv, 112 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 14cm. Yellow paper covers, 2cm tear to surface paper near spine heel, faint creasing to rear cover's fore-edge corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good copy. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by Thad Cochran, Foreword by Porter L. Fortune, Jr., "Preface: Why Study the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, "Appendix: Aphorisms About the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, and Notes on Contributors. PART I: VIEWS FROM HISTORY. "Modernization in the Deep South" by C. Thompson Wacaster, "The Ultimate Legacy" by William Winter, "The Future of Representative Government" by Vagn K. Hansen. PART II: INVENTING THE FUTURE. "Inventing the Future" by Mary Maury Harding, "Digging Up the Future" by Lucy C. Turnbull. PART III: SCENARIOS OF THE FUTURE. "'Everything That Rises Must Converge'" by Gerald Blessey, "Economic and Political Power" by Aaron E. Henry, "Which Way Mississippi?" by Gilbert E. Carmichael. PART IV: EDUCATION. "Coping with Semiliteracy in Mississippi Education" by Roger Johnson, Jr., "Will Liberal Arts Education Be Flourishing?" by Robert E. Bergmark, "Graduation Day: May 31, 1990" by Charles Granville Hamilton. ISBN 0878051473.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1901 edition. Navy blue cloth boards are moderately rubbed and scuffed, with title worn off on spine. Spine ends and corners are frayed. Binding is good. One page has notations in pencil, otherwise clean. Small handwritten note relevant to subject matter is included. 531 pages. LO (S.U.).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 576 pages. 7.25x4.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Huge collection of folklore & fairy tales from all over North America, arranged by topic (world origin stories), character (the foo, princes & princesses, ghosts & goblins), or subject (love stories, life lessons). In 380 pages, illustrated throughout with blue-toned pen-and-ink drawings by Rosemary Fox. A special creation of Book of the Month Club from 1998, the oversized hardcover book is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean, binding straight & strong, pages white & unmarked save for very light white spots along top edge of both front & rear board. The unclipped DJ is truly Fine: colorful & bright with virtually NO edgewear, nicely protected in new mylar cover free!Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day. Fox, Rosemary (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 457 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Amazing reading copy. Lightly stained back-end pages at bottom left corner. Light tear on back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 1st Printing February 1994. 297 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very minor shelf wear on front and back flap of dj. Crisp pages and clean text. Jean Seal (Jacket Design); Ruth Kolbert (Text Design); Jan B. Quackenbush (Author Photo) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln , NE. 1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a remainder mark on the textblock bottom. Book Condition: As New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 340 pp 8vo. This book is a stirring, funny, brave, sympathetic piece of Americana, the memoir of a foot soldier in the Spanish-American War who happened also to be a first-rate artist, carrying a sketchbook along with his gun. It is a GI's view of the invasion of Cuba in June 1898, from the moment that Charles Johnson Post passed the jumping test, the coughing test, and the eyesight test, and became a soldier, to the day he returned to New York, gaunt and fever-ridden, the first man back from San Juan Hill. A clean very presentable copy. Charles Johnson Post (illustrator).…

Fine and bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Lovely copy and beautifully illustrated throughout.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 576 pages. 7.25x4.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED; Good trade paperback with creasing, pin mark on front cover, nicked, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust jacket is protected by removable Brodart cover. Book has light bump to bottom corner of back board. Signed by Editor, Stewart O'Na.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st. Cloth, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "A look at the diversity of the photographic medium. The volume showcases works by such photographers as Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman, Margaret Bourke-White, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the International Center of Photography." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Preface, by Willis E. Hartshorn; The anatomy, philosophy, and history of a collection of photographs, by Ellen Handy; About seeing; Still life, by Ann Lauterbach; Fashion and style, by Anne Hollander; Interiors, by Diane Johnson; Cities and urban encounters; Landscapes; War and disaster; Everyday life; Verbal image, by Charles Simic; Portraits; Biographies of photographers. Size: Folio. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition with full number line. Binding tight and sturdy, text very good+, boards lightly bumped, remainder mark bottom edge. DJ with a few chips, tears, and creases, now protected in Mylar wraps. NOT ex-lib. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st printing. 302pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition w/slight crinkling to bottom front cover's edge, o/w unmarked. "Gathered posthumously from The New York Times Book Review and other publications, this compilation of essays and reviews solidifies John Gardner's legacy as a consummate teacher and controversial critic with a provocative sense of humor. Writing about his fellow craftsmen, John Gardner offers piercing insights into those whose works he admired and those whose works he didn t. In exacting unapologetic evaluations upon writers such as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, John Cheever, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike, Gardner separates genuine fiction from fakery, careful not to spare his own writings in the process, and in doing so, he displays his influences and wide-reaching observations of the literary life. [] Refreshingly unpredictable and self-aware, this collection lays bare the core qualities of lasting fiction and is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature." [publisher copy] In addition to Charles Johnson's introductory memoir/elegy & Gardner's nonfiction, included are a late unpublished short story "Julius Caesar and the Werewolf" & his notebook's "General Plan for The Sunlight Dialogues," his early masterpiece, offering great insight into his writing drafts. "For Gardner, fiction is real and earnest. The reader who takes it equally seriously will get much from this book."--New York Times. "Popular novelist, critic, teacher and classics scholar, Gardner, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1982, insisted that fiction should be moral and life-affirming. These 29 essays and reviews, gathered from the New York Times Book Review, Antaeus, Saturday Review and elsewhere, are sprinkled with sharp put-downs. For example, Gardner calls John Updike's characters 'hypersensitive whiners,' deems Walker Percy's novel Lancelot 'typical bad art . . . pompous' and labels Graham Greene's The Comedians as entertainment that 'makes a casual pass at art.' Gardner is refreshingly unpredictable, admiring such writers as William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Fowles, William Gass and Lewis Carroll. His high critical standards and gimlet insights shine through. Included are a prickly autobiographical sketch ("Cartoons"), the marvelous essay 'What Writers Do' and a short story 'Julius Caesar and the Werewolf.'"--Publishers Weekly. Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (mostly), a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed by Stewart O'Nan and Charles Johnson, few faint smudges to page edges, otherwise a Near Fine copy in like dustjacket. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Book in plastic protective cover enclosed in a slipcase. 798 pages. Clean, good binding, slipcase has some scuffing, nameplate on endpaper. Red cloth, title in gilt on the spine.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 6.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

mass market paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDgood mass market paperback; tips bumped; tanned pages and inside covers; crease to cover and spint; slight nicks top edge front cover; 16mo; 456 pages; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. (1966) 342 pp. Original dark green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Top of spine bumped. Contents nice.