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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail. Joan Walsh Anglund (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Joan Walsh Anglund (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Good/no dust jacket. Blue cloth hardcover copy. Moderate soiling and edgewear. Browning to pages. 508 pages. Nice solid copy.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Text clean and tight; American Wars And Popular Culture; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. Illustrated. Contributors include: George Johnstone / Arthur Setterington / John Wade / D F Parker / Ian Adair / David Britland / John Yeager / Harry Carnegie / Howard Gower / I Rowland / Reginald Boncey / George Blake / John Blackham (Hofner) / Stanton Carlisle / Sinclair / Jack Bridwell / John Novak / Mark S Farrar / Lewis Ganson /Keith Nicholson / Len Belcher / Someeran of India. (VM9).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. dj. xxvi, 832 pp. Dustjacket. LCC: 9144272.

372pp. illus. Stereotyped by T. H. Carter & Co., Boston. Not in American Imprints, which lists a Concord imprint Front cover detached, general rubbing and wear, plates crudely hand-colored, rear endpaper mostly missing, owner's name in pen on fore edges.

Library Pamphlet Binding. Condition: Good. Reprint. Library Bound Booklet In Grey Stiff Wraps Pamphlet Binding. In Good Condition. Tight Clean Copy. Size 4To. 28 Pages. Original 1941 Edition Reprinted From The Yale Journal Of Biology And Medicine, 1941. Includes One Black And White Plate Illustration. Program Includes: Introduction By Wilmarth S. Lewis, Presentation Of A Gift For The Rotunda From The Class Of 1891 In Memory Of Harvey Cushing By Starling W. Childs, Acceptance Of The Gift For The University And Presentation Of The Keys Of The Building By Charles Seymour, Acceptance For The School Of Medicine By Francis G. Blake, Address By John Homans, And Benediction; The Blessing Of The Books By Reverend George Stewart. This Book Is Part Of The Archibald Church Library Pamphlet Collection, Northwestern University Medical School. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. None. First Edition. Leather worn, pages delicate. But tight, with all plates. In Mylar cover. A rare early 19th century school reader, with material on slavery in the U.S. Illustrated with wood engravings. Binding is leather.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Medium size 4to in textured stiff card covers, unpaginated, approx. 72pp text plus 56pp b/w plates on glossy art paper . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in not far from new condition (slight sunning to spine). An excellent copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. Illustrated. Ralph Fox: A Tribute / Dona Torr "Ralph Fox & Our Cultural Heritage" / John Lehmann "Letter from Tiflis" / C Day Lewis "An Expensive Education" / Stephen Spencer "Tangier's & Gibraltar NOW" / Randall Swingler "William Blake - The Imputation of Madness" / Maurice Carpenter"We ask for LIFE" (poem) / "Charles Madge "Magic & Materialism" / George Geraint "Red Coal" / Herbert Read & Hugh Sykes Davies "Surrealism - reply to A.L.Lloyd" (SL#84).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Sonderausg. ; 207 S. zahlr. Ill. 29 cm ; ISBN: 3572007755; 9783572007752; National Library: 945157924; 945157924 ; OCLC: 75613567 ; German translation of the English London Conran Octopus edition of 1989 ; Contents: Einleitung / Christopher Payne -- Frühe Möbel / Peter Philip -- Die Renaissance / Geoffrey Beard, Victor Chinnery -- Der Barock / Megan Aldrich, Victor Chinnery, Leslie Keno, William Stahl -- Das Rokoko / Leslie Keno, Noel Riley, William Stahl -- Der Klassizismus / Leslie Keno, William Stahl, John Taylor -- Der Eklektizismus / Christopher Payne, Gillian Walkling -- Kunsthandwerk und Design / Patricia Bayer, Malcolm Haslam -- Das Maschinenzeitalter / Peter Dormer -- Die Moderne / Robert Bowman -- Bibliographie -- Glossar -- Der Aufbau der Möbel -- Ubersicht über Stuhltypen -- Register -- Bildnachweis. ; color pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; FINE. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart collection of thrilling crime novels from the Collins Crime Club. Seven volumes. The Crime Club. This set includes: Mystery at Olympia, 1935. First edition. Scarce. A novel featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who is quick to take up the case when a spectator falls dead with no clear reason at an annual motor show held at London's Olympia. Written by Cecil Street, under the pen name of John Rhode, an British crime fiction novelist and a major in the British Army. Fourfingers, 1939. First edition. Very Scarce. The second in the trilogy of Detective Sergeant Venn and Constable Kither novels. When the body of celebrated author Carla Waterlow is found in a car on Marton Common, it is clear she has been shot through the heart. Before long, two more bodies are discovered and the investigation grows more complex. Written by Alister McAllister, under the pen name of Lynn Brock, an Irish writer known for his mystery novels. Come and Be Killed!, 1946. First edition. Florence Brown was a shy women living close to her sister Phoebe, a confident and attractive actress. Suffering badly from depression, her doctor instructs her to take a "holiday" at a nursing home where she finds herself in the company of Mrs. Jolly. Weeks go by with no trace of Florence, so it is left to Phoebe, with the help of Inspector Johnson, to decipher who the mysterious woman her sister befriended really is. Written by Nancy Hermione Courlander Bodington, under the pen name of Shelley Smith, a British crime novelist. The Megstone Plot, 1956. First edition. Scarce. A gripping suspense novel following a man and his mistress as they weave an intricate plot to make a fortune. Later adapted for film and titled 'A Touch of Larceny.' Written by Paul Winterton, under the pen name Andrew Garve, an English journalist and crime novelist. End of Chapter, 1957. First edition. The twelfth in a series of novels featuring private detective Nigel Strangeways. Called in by a publishing house to investigate a retired general's wartime memoirs which controversially criticize public figures, Strangeways needs to work out which member of staff has tampered with the manuscripts. Written by Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name of Nicholas Blake, an Anglo-Irish poet who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972. He also wrote mystery stories many of which feature fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. Woman of Straw, 1957. When playboy Tony Richmond schemes to acquire the fortune of his tyrannical tycoon uncle with the help of his new maid, she becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigations. Adapted for film in 1964, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. Written by Pierrette Henriette Denise Marthe Pernot better known professionally as Catherine Arley, a French novelist and actress. Translated by Mervyn Savill, a British translator, writer, and editor. Kill or Cure, 1968. First edition. When a private detective and a health specialist accidentally solve a murder during their time at a charming resort, the last thing they expect is for there to be another murder. Written by Joan Fleming, a British author of crime and thriller novels who won the Gold Dagger award twice. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with further discolouration of the cloth to Mystery at Olympia, Four-Fingers, and Come and Be Killed. The odd mark to the boards with light fraying to the extremities of Mystery at Olympia and minor loss of the cloth to the extremities of Fourfingers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper or pastedown. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown of Mystery at Olympia. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2026, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1828. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume 47, Pages:- 15, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 47 15.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2026, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1796. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume 14, Pages:- 138, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume 14 138.…