Eric W White Ed (14 results)

1st ed. A tidy copy in tight binding. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, stapled wrappers, [16]pp. 2 copies for our asking price. Both VG: clean, solid, unmarked.

First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by W.H. Auden, George Barker, Jack Clemo, Harry Fainlight, David Jones, Richard Murphy, Norman Nicholson, Brian Patten, Tom Picard, Edgell Rickword, Vernon Watkins, and Sheila Wingfield. Issued for members at Christmas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Top edge of back jacket has been bumped resulting in two small tears, otherwise near fine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good + in Good DJ. First edition. Creasing to dj edges, some tears to dj on top edge and bottom near spine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. [16] pp., small 8vo, stapled self-wrapper. Published in memory of the long-time editor of The Book Collector, bibliophile, and Swift scholar John Hayward (1905-1965). All poems are newly published here, except with parts of David Jones's work. Fine copy.

First edition. 71 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Rust cloth with gold lettering to spine. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition BUTa bit dust marked.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good DJ. First edition. Dj rubbed; several tiny tears along edges.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xii, 386, (2). Original publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards. A volume in the series 'New Perspectives on the History of the South', edited by John David Smith. ISBN: 9780813036847 Very slightly shelfworn, boards very lightly marked in places, else content clean. Very good indeed.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. An acceptable condition vintage book. Second reprint. Rubbing and chipping to the book edges and creasing to the spine. The binding is fairly secure. The textblock is notably tanned and shows signs of thumbing and previous ownership, but the book is still fine for use as a reading and reference copy.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 14 x 22cm. 71 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective archival wrapper. Text and boards clean and bright, binding firm. Mild wear to dustjacket, including minor paper loss to edges. This collection features an edited selection of contributions to the Poetry Book Society's Bulletin. The Society listed a poet of choice, along with a number of recommendations in each Bulletin. This volume includes introductions to poetry collections, written by the poets themselves, including T.S. Eliot, Robert Graves, George Barker, Philip Larkin, Louis MacNiece, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Stephen Spender.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ Edges slightly frayed, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by Milton Luros, illustrating "Defender of the Faith". Interior artwork by Kiemle, Luros, Murphy & Orban.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.