Harriss Robert (8 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 69, No 5, pp. 1318-1340, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, then Recased in Orig Journal Covers, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Good first edition, second printing hardcover in green cloth covered boards showing wear at tips and spine ends. No names, tears or soil in the 240pp text, just some light foxing on endpapers with rep removed. Original, illustrated, un-clipped dj shows a darkened spine w/a repaired chip at head and light handling soil on panels. Jacket now in new mylar and displays well. A tumble-down southern American plantation is falling to ruin, but there are still horses in the stables and hounds in the kennels. All around is the teeming life of the forest swamp. The summer wanes, fox-cubs grow up, and then early one morning the clear air resounds with the baying of hounds and the sweet-toned noise of the horn. The changing scenes are memorable - the beauty of the pack, whose very names are music: the glorious danger of the gallop over rough country; the Negros and their illegal cock-fighting; Proctor the surley 'Ketch-dog" and its domain. As Dr. Somerville says in her Appreciation,: 'There is something fresh and original here, although the theme is one with which all of use are familiar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection -.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 1936 printed to the title page, $2.50 to the jacket's flap. Harriss, who grew up in North Carolina, and wrote researched columns and articles on the area draws on his experiences and knowledge for this, his only novel, that is set in the Carolinas, and in and around an old mansion going to ruin, swathed with animal-rich forests and swamps, and dealing with people--Blacks and Whites nicely co-existing, dogs, horses, wild-life, foxes, fox hunting, and more. Many of the animals and foxes are named. Harriss was a highly lauded veteran newspaper writer, columnist, editor, cultural writer, and arts critic in Baltimore, with a decade in Paris, and a time as H.L. Mencken's assistant. A decent vintage collectible in dust jacket. Fine in cream-salmon linen with silver embossed fox heads and titles to the ribbed front cover and with silver embossed titles to a ribbed spine; in a very good dust jacket with nicks and some darkened blue to the upper spine end, some darkened blue to the upper and lower shelf-edges of the front panel, and to the spine folds and front flap fold, minor creases to the rear panel, and some paper-tape reinforcing to the verso; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, protective sleeve, after scanning for this entry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. [solid copy with almost no actual wear, but some unfortunate spotting/staining to top page edges (interior of book is completely unaffected, however); jacket lightly scuffed, closed tears and associated horizontal crease across top of front panel, small chip at top rear joint]. "A unique and beautiful novel built around the life -- animal and human -- of a Southern plantation." Ostensibly about fox-hunting -- the jacket copy lauds the hunting scenes as "thrilling beyond description," and touts the book's qualities as a "sporting book" -- but in fact it's much more about the animals themselves, and the passage of the seasons on the decaying plantation. Although both the hounds and the foxes are personalized (the latter in particular followed from the time they are cubs), and numerous other animal "characters" are given names (Gutch, Nip, Blaze, Gyp, etc.), they are not anthropomorphized in some cutesy quasi-Disney manner. Less important in the overall narrative, but still of note, is the depiction of the relationship between the plantation's African-American residents and the white owner, called only "the Captain." The only novel by this author, a longtime Baltimore newspaper columnist and editorial writer, and quite scarce.

First edition, first printing Vinyl LP Box Set. The first printing of the one LP box set with highly illustrated and decorative booklet with all poets contributions included. Work by Allen Ginsberg whose name is misspelled as "Alan", Robert Bly, David Gitin, George Hitchcock, Nanos Valaoritis, Don Cushman, John Logan and many others. The record is mint, and the box is in good shape with some age tone. Edited by Dennis Koran.

rilegatura. Condition: Very Good. I ed.: July 2005. Testo in inglese. IV piccolo / 544/ rilegatura cartonata rifinita in carta satinata con grafica in n/b/rosso ed illustrata a colori ai piatti e al dorso. Illustrazioni in b/n e a colori nel testo e f.t. (700 illustrations, including 120 plates infull color, and 9 maps). Sguardie in cartoncino liscio rosso mattone. Stato buono-ottimo. Contents: Preface; Rowland Abiodun - Africa, art, and history: an introduction; Suzanne Blier - From the Nile to the Niger (The Sahara and the Maghreb; Monica Blackmun Visoną (Central Saharan Rock Art - The Maghreb and the Ancient Mediterranean - The Coming of Islam - Regional Berber Arts - Contemporary Art of North Africa - Aspects of African Culture: Personal Adornment) - Lands of the Nile: Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia; Monica Blackmun Visoną (Early Nile Cultures - Kemet - Kush - Axum and Its Time - Early Christian Arts of Nubia and Ethiopia - Islamic Art of Egypt - Later Christian Art of Ethiopia - Lower Nubia Before the Aswan Dam - Contemporary Artists of Sudan and Ethiopia) - The Central Sudan; Monica Blackmun Visoną (Ancient Art in Fired Clay - Living Arts of Small Communities - The Imperial Arts of the Kanuri and Hausa - The Fulani) - Mande Worlds and the Upper Niger; Monica Blackmun Visoną (In the Sphere of Ancient Empires - Recent Mande Arts: Nyamakalaw and Their Work - Arts of the Home - Art for the International Market) - The Western Sudan; Herbert M. Cole (The Tellem - The Dogon - The Senufo - Related Peoples of Burkina Faso)) - Western Africa (West Atlantic Forests; Monica Blackmun Visoną (Early Arts - Masking and Related Arts - Cross-Currents and Hybrid Forms - Contemporary International Art) - Akan Worlds; Herbert M. Cole (The Visual-Verbal Nexus - Regalia and Arts of Statecraft - Metal Arts: The Culture of Gold - Textiles - Terracotta Funerary Sculpture - Wood Sculpture and Shrines - Royal Festivals in Ghana - Baule Masks and Masquerades - Age-Grade Arts of Lagoons Peolples - Arts of Fante Military Companies - Lives Well Lived: Contemporary Funerary Arts - International Art - Aspects of African Culture: Art and Leadership) - The Yoruba and the Fon; Robert poynor (Early Ife - Early Owo - Esie - Recent Yoruba - Dahomey - Modern Arts - Aspect of African Culture: Lost-Wax Casting) - The Lower Niger; Herbert M. Cole (Igbo Ukwu - Recent and Contemporary Igbo Arts - Shared Themes in Lower Niger Arts - Ibibio Memorial Arts - Oron Ancestral Figures - Kalabari Ijaw Festivals and Memorial Arts - Benin: Six Centuries of Royal Arts - Mamy Wata - Aspects of African Culture: Shrines and Altars)) - Central Africa (Cross River, Cameroon Grasslands, and Gabon; Robert Poynor (Cross River - Cameroon Grasslands - Maritime Arts: The Duala - Gabon - Contemporary International Arts - Aspects of African Culture: Masquerades) - The Western Congo Basin; Robert Poynor (Early Art - The Congo Kingdom - The Teke - In the Sphere of the Lunda Empire - The Salampasu - The Kuba - In the Shadow of the Kuba: The Ndngese, the Binji, and the Wongo - The Lulua - Contemporary Urban and International Art) - The EasternCongo Basin; Robert Poynor (Early Art from the Upemba Depression - In the Sphere of the Luba Empire - Socities of the Lega, the Bembe, the Mbole, and the Azande - Court Art of the Azande and the Mangbetu - The Mbuti - Contemporary Arts - Aspects of African Culture: Rites of Passage)) - Eastern and Southern Africa (Eastern Africa; Monica Blackmun Visoną (The Swahili Coast - Other Coastal Bantu Cultures - Prestige Arts of the Interlacustrine Region - Masquerades ant Other Arts of the Maravi, the Makonde, the Makua, and the Yao - Madagascar - Cushitic and Nilo-Saharan Speakers of the Interior - Contemporary Artists of Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya - Aspects of African Culture) - Souther Africa; Monica Blackmun Visoną (Rock Art of Southern and Eatern Africa - Early Art of Bantu Speakers - Recent Art of the Shona and Their Neighbors - Arts of the Sotho and the Nguni - Art and Contemporary Issues)). Book.

8 vols. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (some light wear at heads of spines - otherwise near Fine). Pp. various, illus with b&w plates and maps (no inscriptions). England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000) Plantagenet England 1225-1360 (2005) Shaping the Nation England 1360-1461 (2005), A Land of Liberty? England 1689-1727 (2002), A Polite and Commercial People England 1727-1783 (1989), A Mad Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 (2006), The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886 (1998) A New England? Peace and War 1886-1918 (2004).