Johnston Edgar G (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Minor underlining o/w Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Franklin Memorial Lectures, Volume IX. Red hardcover, no dust jacket, 132 pages, very good condition. "There was danger that, in our absorption in science, we might lose sight of those enduring values for which and by which men live.".

Ex-library copy. Reprint (first published 1964). xii, 191 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth rubbed with light spotting, library shelf sticker affixed near spine heel. Foxing and toning to edges; library stamp on bottom edge. Library stamp upon title page; pencil notation on copyright page; top corner of pages 189-190 creased from past fold-down; library pocket on rear free endpaper. No other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal. Three ink check marks on Table of Contents page; foxing at top corners of pages 187-191. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: Foreword by R.C. Simonini, Jr.; THE WRITER AS PARIAH IN THE OLD SOUTH by Willard Thorp; POE IN RICHMOND; THE DOUBLE IMAGE by Robert D. Jacobs; THE IMAGE OF AN ARMY; THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN FICTION, by Lewis D. Rubin, Jr; MARY JOHNSTON AND THE HISTORIC IMAGINATION by Lawrence G. Nelson; ELLEN GLASGOW AND THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRADITION by C. Hugh Holman; JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND SOUTHERN ROMANTICISM by Dorothy B. Schlegel; FAULKNER AND THE SOUTH by James B. Meriwether; THE YOUNGEST GENERATION OF SOUTHERN FICTION WRITERS by Richard K. Meeker.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Name inside front cover. Corners rubbed. Edges of spine bumped. Dustwrapper flap corners clipped. Shelf rubbing to dust jacket Minor tears on edges of dust jacket spine. Sticker on rear dust jacket.…

Condition: gut. XV, 160 S., 20 cm, Bibliotheksexemplar, Einband leicht fleckig. Sprache: Englisch.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. (American Literature / Periodicals / Edgar Allan Poe) The Pioneer: A Literary and Critical Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan. 1843) - Vol. 1, No. 3 (Mar. 1843) [Complete Run]. Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1843. FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo - 10-1/4" x 7". 1-48 pp., [49]-96 pp., and [97]-144 pp. Complete three-issue run of this short-lived but seminal 19th-century literary journal, spanning January to March of 1843. Bound in the original publisher's salmon-colored paper wrappers printed in black. All three issues are illustrated with mechanical reproductions consisting of original etchings and woodcuts printed in black. The complete set is housed in a custom protective collector's brown cloth chemise and matching slipcase. The physical condition of the periodical is graded VERY GOOD (utilizing the standard antiquarian book grading scale for works on paper). The delicate original paper wrappers exhibit general light handling wear and age-toning to the extremities across all three issues, with a single notable irregular paper loss along the lower edge of the front wrapper of Vol. I, No. 1. Internally, all three issues remain exceptionally clean, bright, and securely attached to their original stitching, free of any significant foxing or other defects. Founded by James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter, The Pioneer was launched as an avant-garde vehicle to challenge the commercialism of contemporary literary magazines and foster a high-minded national literature. Though the venture abruptly ceased after only three months due to severe financial collapse and an eye infection that temporarily blinded Lowell, its brief run remains one of the most legendary triumphs in American publishing history. Most notably, Vol. I, No. 1 contains the true first printing of Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of Gothic fiction, "The Tell-Tale Heart," which Lowell eagerly accepted for publication. Nos. 2 and 3 similarly contain foundational first printings by Poe, including the definitive publication of his landmark poem "Lenore." This complete run also features early critical works, essays, and poetry by iconic literary contemporary figures including Elizabeth Barrett [Browning], Nathaniel Hawthorne, and John Greenleaf Whittier, capturing the peak of the mid-19th-century American Renaissance as it was originally presented to the public. Because 19th-century paper-wrapped periodicals were inherently fragile and intended for casual consumption rather than preservation, complete three-issue runs of The Pioneer are incredibly scarce, particularly when preserved in their original publisher's printed salmon wrappers. While a current global sweep of the OCLC/WorldCat database locates approximately 18 holdings of The Pioneer preserved in institutional special collections worldwide: the vast majority of these surviving copies have been structurally altered—permanently bound together into hardcover volumes, typically stripped of their original exterior paper covers, with some recorded institutional examples even suffering from excised interior illustrations. Notably, only a single landmark institution, The Morgan Library & Museum, explicitly records a complete three-issue run surviving entirely unbound and intact in the original publisher's wrappers as issued. The extreme fragility of these survival factors makes an intact, unsophisticated set in its original state an absolute paramount scarcity for the 19th-century researcher. THIS EXTRAORDINARY 19th-CENTURY PERIODICAL RUN, BRIDGING THE TRAGIC REIGN OF EDGAR ALLAN POE'S GREATEST GOTHIC FICTION WITH THE GENESIS OF AMERICAN LITERARY JOURNALISM, REPRESENTS A CRITICAL ACQUISITION FOR INSTITUTIONAL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OR EXTRAORDINARY PRIVATE COLLECTIONS DEVOTED TO THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, 19th-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE, OR RARE LITERARY PERIODICALS. Andrews, J.; Chandler, J. G.; Cheney, J.; Johnston, D. C. (illustrator).…