Frank Waldo David Editor (4 results)

x, 180 pages. Paperback; H 20.25cm x L 13.25cm. Stiff paper covers rubbed and mildly curled. Interior pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good copy. With Editor's Introduction, Introduction, and Selective Bibliography. Features the following essays: "New England Reformers" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The Northern Attack on Slavery" by Avery Craven; "The Abolitionists and Psychology" by Martin B. Duberman; "The Psychology of Commitment: the Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society" by Silvan S. Tomkins; "The Anglo-American World of Humanitarian Endeavor" by Frank Thistlethwaite; "Religious Benevolence as Social Control, 1815-1860" by Clifford S. Griffin; "Charles Grandison Finney" by William G. McLoughlin; "Religious Groups and Political Parties" by Lee Benson; "Temperance, Status Control, and Mobility, 1826-1860" by Joseph R. Gusfield; "The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought" by David Brion Davis; and "Romantic Reform in America, 1815-1865" by John L. Thomas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book (179 pages) with frontispiece illustration by David Alfaro Siqueiros. Boards show scuffing/rubbing with fraying top of spine with title faded. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-16-Middle-L) rareviewbooks. David Alfaro Siqueiros (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. As new, first edition / first printing, faux brown leather over boards with authors name gilt stamped on cover and gilt font on spine, xxxv + 268 pps. + illustrations. Copy appears unread, without any marks, writing, etc. Publisher's flaw in binding causing puckers on edges of covers. Dust jacket is not price clipped and under protective mylar, near fine with minimal shelf wear and small chip at spine top. Waldo Frank, a prolific American write, novelist, historian, social critic served as a cultural bridge between USA and Latin America. He lived in a time in which writers were socially active (in the political sense) very focused on social change. …

Hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Black and Gold edition. Black octavo, gilt to spine and front board, xxxiv, 179 pages, b&w frontispiece (portrait), 23 cm. Contents: 1. The Bridge -- 2. White buildings -- 3. Key West: an island sheaf -- 4. Uncollected poems. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance. Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Poetry. Very gentle rubbing to spine foot, extremely mild to spine head, very gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling to boards and fore-edges, else very good(+) to near fine(-).…