Edited George Simpson (26 results)

1982, Natural History, Evolution, Washington Square Press, 219 p., good paperback with crease in corner of back cover and last 20 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. X-Lib in library binding.

Berkeley & LA: University of California Press, copyright 1987. (First printing). x,340 pages. Few illustrations. 10x7", cloth, dj. VG/VG.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xix, 491-729pp. Small pen notation on front wrapper and in the contents pages, spine cocked, very good. Reviews: "Edgarpoe and Danhoffman" by Charlotte Kretzoi, "Thom Gunn's Cornucopia" by Raymond Oliver, "Sewall's Life of Emily Dickinson" by John Cody, and more. Poetry: "In Memory of W.H. Auden" by George W. Nitchie, and others. Essays: "Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: A Meeting of Minds" by Thomas Parkinson, "Milton in Old Age" by Frank Kermode, and more. Reviews of "Delusion and Her Daughters: John Berryman's *Recovery*" by William Heyen, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 127pp. Perfectbound. Art editor is Gail Howell-Jones. Black and white illustrations. Light rubbing else fine. Ian Robinson founded Oasis in 1969 and continued to publish the magazine while Robinson founded Oasis Books in 1970. This magazine is devoted to the translation and review of well known poets and authors such as: Bruno Jasienski, Florence Chia Ying Yeh Chao, and Max Jacob. Well known poets and author's include George Bowering, a well known poet and historian and Martin Booth, a British novelist and poet who founded the Sceptre Press. Three chapters of Lotte Bullock's *The Lost Tiger* are printed in this issue. Also includes Illustrations by Carol Chapman, Jean Demelier, Patrick O'Keeffe, Stanley Engel, and John Mitchinson. Additional contributors include Anthony Hodge, Philip Weeks, David H W Grubb, Reginald Levy, John Rice, Donato Cinicolo III, Sally Tylecote, Paul Matthews, William Oxley, Paul Gogarty, Colin Nixon, Thea Clark, Ervin Gaspar, Michael Gold, Richard Austin, Paul Green, Robin Lee, William Bedford, Bruton Connors, Andrew Darlington, Valerie Owen, Charles Black, Craig Anderson, Matt Simpson, Simon McNulty, Cecily Lambert, John Mitchinson, David Jaffin, Roger Bonner, Rachel Blake, Mark Young, and Francesca de Masi.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 252pp. Wrappers. Slightly bowed, else near fine. Containing "Sir: I Have the Honor" by Cowley, "The Importance of Robert Lowell" by Nitchie, with reviews on Borges and Strand, Weak Henry, Philip Levine, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. lvii+212+[lvii members list] pages with frontispiece, maps and plans (2 folding), appendices and index. preview of volume xxix from the society laid-in. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and Hudson Bay Coat of Arms to cover in original jacket. Introduction by John S Galbraith. Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXIX. Copy 1839 of a limited edition. First edition. Under Simpson s leadership, HBC enjoyed stability and profitability. Despite the yearly Departmental Councils, where senior officers gathered allegedly to discuss business strategy, in reality Simpson ran the show with the authority of a viceroy. His strong connections to the London Committee, as well as their complete confidence in him, allowed the Council of the Northern Department to become the dominant governing body within HBC in Canada. The Council established the regulations for the fur trade, determined furloughs, applied discipline, and recommended promotions and retirements to the Committee in London. The meetings were little more than an opportunity for Simpson to give instructions to his men face to face. Simpson s view of HBC s business was much broader than that of other Company men, who viewed any commercial activity other than the fur trade as somehow suspect. Simpson was interested in pursuing any and all opportunities that would result in increased profits. Simpson s vision of a ship-based trade along the northwest coast, designed to drive away American traders, resulted in the commissioning of S.S. Beaver, the first steamship in the Pacific northwest. Alongside other senior officers and members of the Company s London Committee, Simpson set up the subsidiary Puget Sound Agricultural Company to focus on the local production of foodstuffs, which would supply HBC s needs and reduce operating costs. In 1838, Simpson travelled to St. Petersburg, Russia, along with HBC Governor Sir John Henry Pelly to negotiate a deal with the Russian American Company. The contract saw the Russians lease the Alaskan Panhandle (southeastern Alaska that runs along the Pacific) to HBC in return for the provision of fresh foodstuffs to the Russians headquarters at Sitka. Condition: Head corners bumped else better than very good in a near fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Adam Simpson (illustrator). Revised Edition. Green slip-case is a little faded at edges. First Edition with these illustrations. Clean sound slip-case, fresh illustrated covers, tight binding, clean pages and end-papers. Slip case as opposed to dust-jacket. Illustrator: Adam Simpson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08423081038. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume 6, Number 4. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Modest rubbing with a slightly sunned spine, near fine. Contains contributions by: David Ignatow, George P. Elliott, James Dickey, Lewis Simpson, Hanson Kellogg, Sheridan Baker, Daniel Abse, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Printed yellow wrappers. Contains pages 137-256pp. Spine and edges age-toned, yapped edges with short tears, very good. Contributions of poetry, stories, reviews and more by Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, Laurence Sears, Marcia Lee Anderson, Saul K. Padover, Louis Simpson, Julian P. Boyd, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Mary Ormsbee Whitton, Reinhard H. Luthin, Horace E. Hamilton, Edgar Levy, Wolf Franck, Peter Viereck, William Barrett, Kenneth Burke, Robert Gorham Davis, Hiram Haydn, Irwin Edman, Melville J. Herskovitz, Dudley Fitts, and George Biddle.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Faint water wrinkle on page edges, corners rubbed, very good. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

First Edition. 212pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. A few small pieces of tape on the reverse of the jacket. Publications of Hudson's Bay Record Society Volume XXIX. All fold-outs present. "The volume prints in full the letters (but not the enclosures) Simpson sent, during his journey, to the Governor and Committee in their corprorate capacity as the London Committee, to Sir John Henry Pelly in his individual capacity as Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and to Pelly and Andrew Colvile in their role as Agents of the Puget's Sound Agricultural Company. It contains, in short, all Simpson's general correspondence with London." - from the Preface (p.xi).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single issue. Quarto wrappers. 769-1,069pp. Bottom page edges bumped, thin crease on front wrapper foredge, near fine with tear on edge of wrapper. Wallace Stevens Centennial Issue. Contributions by Donald E. Stanford, Roy Harvey Pearce, Grosvenor E. Powell, Milton J. Bates, Herbert J. Stern, William H. Pritchard, George S. Lensing, Samuel French Morse, Price Caldwell, Buchsbaum, Lynette Carpenter, Ann Hayes, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Hoffman, Elizabeth Daryush, Timothy Steele, R.L. Barth, Suzanne Doyle, Alison A. Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton, Paul West, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, James Ballowe, and Sydney Lea.

Hardcover. Condition: with no dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board, and a label and a black bar on the spine tail. Wear at spine extremities and corners. Surface rubbing. Spine and front board sunned; gilt lettering on spine still readable. Small stain in spine. Hinges reinforced with tape. Pages age-toned. Pencilled note on front flyleaf. Else pages clean, but for library markings. No dustjacket. ; AHH17A; 370 pages; Ex-Library.

Stiff Card Wraps. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). First Edition. One of 100 copies. The author "tells of growing up in Montreal, his time in the Canadian and American Navies and retirement in Seattle, Wa." Simpson died in 1998, a year before this publication. 155 pages (including index of names), illustrated. An unread copy. Very scarce. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to good. Original yellow cloth binding, somewhat soiled, with gilt titles and decoration. Binding shaken, front hinge tender, with webbing etc exposed. Illustrations as called for. Sporadically annotated by previous owner, including a photo pasted in. Also tipped in is a 6-page, handwritten, poignant letter, dated 1854, from a soldier near Sebastopol, to his friend in England, describing his situation and conditions in the field.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition, first impression - translated from the French by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson. Originally published in French as "Le Suicide" in 1897. ***Near fine in dark-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and publisher's device to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Slight marks to the fore-edge of the page block. Internally also near fine, with two ownership names on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no creases or tears. ***In a very good typographically printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped but has an additional publisher's 30/- net price sticker on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just slivers of loss at the head and tail of the spine and corner tips. Some slight creasing to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. No tears or chips. Dustwrapper nice and clean (please see scans). ***223mm x150mm. 404 pages including a detailed Index, plus a 16pp publisher's catalogue for The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction at the back of the book. ***'David Émile Durkheim (15 Apr 1858 - 15 Nov 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Durkheim's conception of the scientific study of society laid the groundwork for modern sociology, and he used such scientific tools as statistics, surveys, and historical observation in his analysis of suicides in Catholic and Protestant groups. Durkheim's first major sociological work was "De la division du travail social" (The Division of Labour in Society) (1893); followed in 1895 by "Les Règles de la méthode sociologique" (The Rules of Sociological Method). Also in 1895 Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology and became France's first professor of sociology. Durkheim's seminal monograph, "Le Suicide" (1897), a study of suicide rates in Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research, serving to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.' (Wiki) ***'How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? It was always possible to explain the incidence of suicide--why one person rather than another committed it--but the problem of why one country has a higher rate of suicide per thousand of the population than another, why one social class or religious group has a higher rate than another, was never adequately explained before Durkheim wrote his book. It was perhaps his most important work, serving for successive generations as a model in social theory. Its influence on the social sciences has increased with years.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition - extremely hard to find now in the original dustwrapper. A scarce title in first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

1973, a numbered copy from a limited edition of no specified number. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 212, xvii pp. Black cloth with gilt crest of HBC on the front. Appendices, index, 2 folding maps and one folding plan. Edited by Glyndwr Williams. Introduction by John S. Galbraith. Series: Hudson's Bay Record Society 29. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Indians of N.A., Voyages and Travels--Western Canada).

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.vii,444, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further b/w plate; a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xiv,354, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and five further b/w plates; a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping and several closed tears to extremities, most notably to ear upper margin.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xix,479, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges, with light surface soil to the pale paper, and a couple of small closed tears to the upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1964. A Very Good copy lacking dust jacket. 8vo., 480 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Spine is tanned, gilt dulled. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover, otherwise appears unmarked. A SCARCE title. "Not often does an intellectual with no footing in politics and active leadership in a social movement project as clearly as did Howard W. Odum the course of history - "as history as it were without a county of its own." Prologue.

Condition: very good. limited edition. lii,277,xpp. Octavo with blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge of textblock, untrimmed pages. Boards bowed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. very good The Hudson's Bay Company governor's account of his second journey of inspection from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. Simpson was governor during the height of the Company's power, and was known for his attention to detail. Due to his administrative skills many consider his work to be a precondition for the confederation of Western and Eastern Canada.

Condition: very good. limited edition. lii,277,xpp. Octavo with blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Limited edition numbered 18166. very good The Hudson's Bay Company governor's account of his second journey of inspection from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. Simpson was governor during the height of the Company's power, and was known for his attention to detail. Due to his administrative skills many consider his work to be a precondition for the confederation of Western and Eastern Canada.

1938, a numbered copy from a limited edition. (Hardcover) Very good. lix, 498pp. Blue cloth with the HBC crest on the spine. Frontispiece, appendices, index, lacking the 4 maps in rear pocket. The inner hinges are cracked and some spotting on the front cover. Journals of George Simpson. Edited by E.E. Rich. Introduction by Chester Martin. Locale: ; Alberta; Athabasca; Canadian North-West; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. Series: Hudson's Bay Record Society 1. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company).