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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 5th printing.

xxiv, 112 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 14cm. Yellow paper covers, 2cm tear to surface paper near spine heel, faint creasing to rear cover's fore-edge corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good copy. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by Thad Cochran, Foreword by Porter L. Fortune, Jr., "Preface: Why Study the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, "Appendix: Aphorisms About the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, and Notes on Contributors. PART I: VIEWS FROM HISTORY. "Modernization in the Deep South" by C. Thompson Wacaster, "The Ultimate Legacy" by William Winter, "The Future of Representative Government" by Vagn K. Hansen. PART II: INVENTING THE FUTURE. "Inventing the Future" by Mary Maury Harding, "Digging Up the Future" by Lucy C. Turnbull. PART III: SCENARIOS OF THE FUTURE. "'Everything That Rises Must Converge'" by Gerald Blessey, "Economic and Political Power" by Aaron E. Henry, "Which Way Mississippi?" by Gilbert E. Carmichael. PART IV: EDUCATION. "Coping with Semiliteracy in Mississippi Education" by Roger Johnson, Jr., "Will Liberal Arts Education Be Flourishing?" by Robert E. Bergmark, "Graduation Day: May 31, 1990" by Charles Granville Hamilton. ISBN 0878051473.…

xii, 212 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with minor soiling. Slender abrasion and soiling to text block's bottom edge. Shallow crease at top corner of pages 165-166; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Acknowledgements, b/w illustrations (including frontispiece), Contributors. and Index. Features thirteen chapters among three sections - PART I. SETTING THE STAGE: THE ORIGINAL MISSISSIPPIANS. "Introduction" by John H. Peterson, Jr.; "Prehistoric Mississippi" by Jay K. Johnson; "The Emergence of Historic Indian Tribes in the Southeast" by Patricia Galloway; "Trail of Treaties: The Choctaws from the American Revolution to Removal" by Samuel J. Wells; "The Mississippi Choctaws in the Nineteenth Century" by Clara Sue Kidwell. PART II. ENCOUNTERS: NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AFRICANS. "Introduction" by Charles D. Lowery; "The European Background in the Late Fifteenth Century" by Paul E. Hoffman; "European Interest in the Gulf Coast, 1500- 1699" by Robert S. Weddle; "European Colonization of Mississippi" by William Cash; "Africans in Colonial and Territorial Mississippi" by Robert L. Jenkins. PART III. THE CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC SCENE: A PHOTO ESSAY. "Ethnic Mississippi 1992" by D.C. Young and Stephen Young. {MS-Shelf#2|CMS-00700} ISBN 0878055789. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Edition/5th Printing, Volume C. 683 pp. 2nd Edition/5th Printing, Volume C only! Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Skouras Design/Brenda McManus (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Edition/1st Printing, Volume E. 920 pp. 2nd Edition/ 1st Printing, Volume E only! Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Skouras Design/Brenda McManus (Cover Design); Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY (Photo) (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Edition/1st Printing, Volume D. 648 pp. 2nd Edition/ 1st Printing, Volume D only! Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Skouras Design/Brenda McManus (Cover Design); Suzuki Harunobu (Cover Image) (illustrator).

Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. Includes stories by Thom Jones, Andrea Lee, Charles Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Lorrie Moore, Antonya Nelson, C. E. Poverman, Kate Wheeler, Stephen Dixon, Alice Adams and more. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Poverman at his story "The Man Who Died" and by Charles Johnson at "Kwoon." Introduction by Abrahams. Biographical notes and comments by the authors. 432 pp. Very good (crease to lower corner of front cover, usual toning to the pages).…

Paperback. Condition: UsedGood. Paperback; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; mark at top of spine wh ere label was removed; crease at bottom back edge; fade spots to page edges; in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 239 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Patterned Boards. First Printing. Near Fine In Near Fine Dj Priced $15.00. Small Name Label On Front Free Endpaper. Tipped In Color Plates, B/W Illustrations (illustrator).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Edition/1st Printing, Volume F. 1571 pp. 2nd Edition/ 1st Printing, Volume F only! Over-Sized/Over-Weight Book. Please note that large or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Volume F only. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Skouras Design/Brenda McManus (Cover Design) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 189 pp. Contents: 13 Essays divided into two sections [footnotes within Essays]: I. IN MODERN LITERATURE (1) Robert Bierstedt, "The Tergiversation of Herman Wouk" (The Caine Mutiny); (2) Charles Frankel, "Efficient Power and Inefficient Virtue" (Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara); (3) George N. Schuster, "Art at War with the Good" (Thomas Mann: Death in Venice); (4) Lionel Trilling, "The Morality of Inertia" (Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome); (5) John E. Smith, "When Should We Not Tell the Truth?" (Henrik Ibsen: The Wild Duck); (6) Edward Davison, "The Line of Caponsacchi" (Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book); (7) William York Tindall, "The Ceremony of Innocence" (Herman Melville: Billy Budd); II. IN EARLIER LITERATURE (8) Henry Hatfield, "Can One Sell One's Soul?" (The Faust Legend); (9) Edgar Johnson, "The Dilemma of Hamlet" (William Shakespeare: Hamlet); (10) Richard McKeon, "The Choice of Socrates" (Plato: Crito); (11) Whitney J. Oates, "Happiness as the Goal" (Euripides: The Bacchae); (12) John F.C. Richards, "The Choice of Antigone" (Sophocles: Antigone); (13) Robert Gordis, "The Conflict of Tradition and Experience" (The Book of Job); Contributors, pp. 179-180; Index, pp. 181-189. Orange dustwrapper not price-clipped ($3.00) with superimposed white lettering on front cover; white band across top front cover for smaller lettering for Editor name. Spine sunned from orange to tan (All lettering remains sharp and distinct, eminently readable) and rear cover white area lightly sunned/soiled, as with age; spine edges and parts of cover edges are worn from holding book; small chips and wear at spine ends and book corners (now backed with Archival tape): describes worse than it is but there you have it: NOW in Brodart mylar, which graciously forgives transgressions. Classic collection in Philosophy of Literature, edited by prolific and distinguished Author, published in Politics, Government, Sociology, Social Science, Government and Human Happiness.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good, clean text, hardcover binding with no dust jacket, light to moderate wear to corners and edges, may have other minor aesthetic flaws. Satisfaction guaranteed. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.…

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

hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition. Northwestern University Press, 1997. Hard cover, first edition. Fine condition with no dust jacket, as issued.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 384 pages. 9.53x6.77x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th Edition. 1324 + xxxiii + pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on bright pages. Some shelf wear and edge wear. Random scribble on top, bottom and fore-edge. No dust jacket. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Cheri Plasse (Art/Design Specialist) (illustrator). …

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

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 475 pages. 8.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 152 pages. Illustrated. William Phillips "The Problem Defined - Portrait Of The Artist As An American" / Clement Greenberg "The Present Prospects Of American Painting And Sculpture" /William Barrett "Notes On Being An American" / W H Auden "Intimations Of Yes - Music Is International (poem)" /James Thrall Soby "Ben Shahn And Morris Graves" / Philip C Johnson And Edgar Kaufmann,Jr "American Architecture: Four New Buildings" / e e cummings "poem" (poem)" / Joe Alsop "Circles And Stresses - American Foreign Policy" / William Abrahams "The disappearing Centre: Notes On Boston And Cambridge" / Donald Windham "Single Harvest" / Jacques Barzun "The Higher Learning In America" / Raplh Ellison "The Invisible Man" / Philip Lamantia "Letter From San Francisco" / John Berryman "The Imaginary Jew" / Herbert Marshall McLuhan "American Advertising" / Christopher Isherwood "Los Angeles". …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 373 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1920. First Edition. Vol XI, No. 1, for January, 1920. Original printed wrappers, 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", 115 pp. + numerous unpaginated photographic plates and ads. This example is the buff shaded form; there was also a gray variant. The inevitable slight cover edge overlap curl, caused by the Yapp binding (covers being a bit larger than the textblock); short cut tag at spine bottom, else Near Fine. See scans. Binding sturdy, bright, tight, contents fine. See scan of contents page for the lineup of stellar club writers and their always engaging and adventurous topics. The always amazing panoply of photos are, in this issue, contributed by: Herbert W. Gleason, Rodney L. Glisan, William E. Colby, Philip S. Carlton, Walter L. Huber, F.E. Matthes, Willard D. Johnson, F.R. Parker, Francis P. Farquhar, F.M. Fultz, and G.R. Bunn, with several uncredited. SC2. Herbert W. Gleason, Rodney L. Glisan, William E. Colby, Philip S. Carlton, Walter L. Huber, F.E. Matthes, Willard D. Johnson, F.R. Parker, Francis P. Farquhar, F.M. Fultz, G.R. Bunn (illustrator).…

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

[Classic Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET, first impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 23cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Elegantly hand-bound in blue quarter morocco, over marbled paper-covered sides, salmon-coloured endpapers, gilt to spine, t.e.g. Contents clean, exteriors unmarked. Presented in an attractive recent leather binding. An attractive illustrated complete set of Austen's finished novels. …

[Classic Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET, first impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 23cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Elegantly hand-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt and others untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Presented in an attractive recent leather binding. Very good. An attractive illustrated complete set of Austen's finished novels.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. 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 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1790. 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 v.1 pt.1, Pages:- 524, 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 v.1 pt.1 524 524.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1790 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 646 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 646 Volume 6 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1790 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 590 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 590 Volume 4 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1790 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 654 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 654 Volume 3 Language: English.…