James H Dormon (37 results)

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Quarter Time. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Front and back hinge well connected. Dust jacket torn and edge wear. Interior Text Body has no inscription in fine condition.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Quarter Time is a love letter to the French Quarter. Its seven linked short stories recount the friendships and love affairs of the young and vulnerable Jake Devlin, the author's avatar, as he encounters the denizens of the French Quarter: petty thieves, barflies, and artists. A semi-fictional narrative based on firsthand experience, this book captures with heartbreaking candor the human landscape of a unique time and place: the Big Easy of the late 1950s and early '60s. The names of the main characters have been changed, but the events--bizarre and poignant--are factual. Seven linked semi-fictional short stories of life in New Orleans's French Quarter in the late 1950s and early '60s Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Usual library markings; light bumping to top spine edges; tape marks/remnants on endpapers and DJ flaps; pocket on verso last page; "Withdrawn" stamped on title page; sticker neatly removed from DJ spine; DJ in mylar protector. ; Ex-Library; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4"; 322 pages. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. Brown hardcover, no jacket. Text is free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Used hardback, no edition stated, in good, almost very good condition. An EX-LIBRARY BOOK with all the usual library stamps, marks, etc. The pocket and due date paper have been torn away from the inside of the back board and the back endpaper (leaving behind torn places). Red boards with gold gilt lettering on the spine are in very good condition with only minimal edgewear. The dust jacket has been well protected with a plastic cover over it. 322 pages are clean and tight.…

Brown Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Brown Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. No Additional Printings. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-940984-09-1. 98 pages; 4 p. index; illustrated with two photos and two maps; the author emphasizes in his Preface that he has "undertaken to delineate the broad contours--an "introduction" as the title suggests--to a Cajun ethnohistory.The primary concern of this study is with the process of group format ion and maintenance, processes occurring over time as a group responds to specific historical and cultural forces.".…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 5.92x0.40x8.91 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xii+322 pages with illustrations, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. James Dormon traces in detail the development of the vast province south of the Mason-Dixon Line and the Ohio River and establishes the nature of southern theatrical activity as reflected in programming, production and audience composition and behavior. Audiences of the period represented a cross section of southern society, from lordly planter to plantation slave. Of interest to historians and to students of the theater, this volume is also of value to scholars in the field of American Studies. Condition: Some foxing to page ends. price clipped else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. 322 pages, illustrated. "This study describes the development of theater, amateur and professional, in the South during the forty-five year period preceding the Civil War." FINE HARDCOVER, FINE- DUST JACKET. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 322 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Bottom corner of front cover has very light soiling. DJ has chipping to spine ends. All corners clipped. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No D/J. First Edition. No D/J.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Quarter Time is a love letter to the French Quarter. Its seven linked short stories recount the friendships and love affairs of the young and vulnerable Jake Devlin, the author's avatar, as he encounters the denizens of the French Quarter: petty thieves, barflies, and artists. A semi-fictional narrative based on firsthand experience, this book captures with heartbreaking candor the human landscape of a unique time and place: the Big Easy of the late 1950s and early '60s. The names of the main characters have been changed, but the events--bizarre and poignant--are factual. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Quarter Time is a love letter to the French Quarter. Its seven linked short stories recount the friendships and love affairs of the young and vulnerable Jake Devlin, the author's avatar, as he encounters the denizens of the French Quarter: petty thieves, barflies, and artists. A semi-fictional narrative based on firsthand experience, this book captures with heartbreaking candor the human landscape of a unique time and place: the Big Easy of the late 1950s and early '60s. The names of the main characters have been changed, but the events--bizarre and poignant--are factual. Seven linked semi-fictional short stories of life in New Orleans's French Quarter in the late 1950s and early '60s Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Quarter Time is a love letter to the French Quarter. Its seven linked short stories recount the friendships and love affairs of the young and vulnerable Jake Devlin, the author's avatar, as he encounters the denizens of the French Quarter: petty thieves, barflies, and artists. A semi-fictional narrative based on firsthand experience, this book captures with heartbreaking candor the human landscape of a unique time and place: the Big Easy of the late 1950s and early '60s. The names of the main characters have been changed, but the events--bizarre and poignant--are factual. Seven linked semi-fictional short stories of life in New Orleans's French Quarter in the late 1950s and early '60s Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG-VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. 98 pages, book is brown with gold titling on spine and on front cover, corners and spine edges are all bumped and there is creasing on bottom corners of numerous pages, the book is still very tight and overall condition is VG-VG+. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1967, with clipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket slightly darkened, russet cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text, illustrations and illustrated end-papersbright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. …

DORMON, James H. Theater in the Ante Bellum South, 1815-1861. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1967]. Illus. xvi, 322pp. Fine in d/j.

HC no DJ. Condition: VG. First edition. VG. Brown boards, gilt titling, edgewear, tips rubbed, black ink strikethrough to FFEP, B/W photo frontis, leaves bright, unmarked, tight. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.