Edward Brooks Introduction (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. David McKay, Publisher, Philadelphia, PA. 1896. Hardcover. This book was one of the Pocket Literal Translations of the Classics published by David McKay. Literally translated edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name stamp on the front and rear free fly pages and note written on the front board. Book Condition: Good; splash stains and soiling to front and rear boards; bumping and light wear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Khaki cloth boards and spine with bright green lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 351 pp 16mo. The Commentaries on the Gallic War treat principally of his career of conquest among the Gauls and are written in the purest Latin characterized by simplicity, ease and elegance. This format is best studies by young Latin students as a masterpiece of literary composition. In spite of losses in translation, this book retains a great deal of the author's beauty and elegance of diction and his force and clearness of expression. A clean presentable copy for reading/study.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ruben Vardzigulyants (illustrator). 1st Printing 1975. 373 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj.

Hardcover. xviii, 90p., chronology, introduction, preface, original RSC cast, lyric and notation of song sung in play, very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. ```.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shifted spine with the first free endpaper torn out and paper wear at front inner gutter top corner. About 6 x 4 with 95 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 230 pp. Pages slightly brittle and detached from spine, but still a good reading/work/study copy. No dj. Slanted spine. Book slightly skewed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nancy Tausek (Jacket Design); Reg Wilson (Photo on Front of Jacket) (illustrator). 90 pp. Nearly flawless copy with tight binding and clean text. Previous owner's name written on first front end page. Dj shows minimal wear and tear around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 170 pages; Signed by Not signed; Brown hardcovers with black design and lettering on front and spine. Covers are very lightly soiled. Spine is straight, binding tight. Interior pages are clean and lightly browning. Appears unmarked. No dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1898 printing. Tan cloth boards, navy stamped cover design and spine titles, lt. shelf wear, rub. Pages very good; couple w/notation. Include an eight-page biographical introduction to Goethe. Very solid printing approaching 120 years. College Tutoring Bureau, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass. stamp at frt. endp. 213 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Hard cover. Condition: Good. Printed at University Press, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Hardcover, 8vo, in grey cloth with illustration in black to front board, spine with titles in gilt, 283 pp. T.e.g. tinted ochre. Condition: Good. Shelf-wear to head and tail of spine, gently rubbed corners. A few small bubbles in the cloth application to the boards. The interior is uniformly age-toned and generally clean, with a few speckles to endpapers. Small closed tear to half title page. Hinges intact. ** Presumably the seventh of the "Olden-Time" series of publications begun in the Spring of 1886 by the publisher, with materials taken chiefly from from Boston and Salem newspapers. In his introduction, Edward S. Morse describes how the author presents "a quaint collection of facts of interest to the antiquary and the ethnologist." Of particular interest to those interested in New England social life and culture. Author Henry Mason Brooks (1822-1898) would continue this series with books on other topics, including The Old Lottery, Days of the Spinning Wheel, New England Sundays, Quaint and Curious Advertisements, Some Strange and Curious Punishments, and Literary Curiosities. OCLC 457160760.