Macneil Robert 1931 (6 results)

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 230 pages; Description: vii, 230 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects: MacNeil, Robert, 1931- --Childhood and youth. Philologists--United States--Biography. Journalists--United States--Biography. Nova Scotia--Social life and customs. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 230 pages; Description: vii, 230 p. : ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects: MacNeil, Robert, 1931- --Childhood and youth. Philologists--United States--Biography. Journalists--United States--Biography. Nova Scotia--Social life and customs. 1 Kg.…

First printing (per publisher's number line at rear colophon on page 16). 16 pages plus covers. Staple-bound booklet: H 20.25cm x L 14cm. Black dust jacket lightly rubbed with slight scuffing at edges as well as along spine fold and flap folds. Black paper covers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Uncommon publication in which Robert MacNeil (best known as co-founder of PBS' The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour) comments on Eudora Welty's talents as a photographer and links her visual art with her eloquent prose. The text was originally delivered as MacNeil's keynote speech at the 1989 book release celebration of Welty's monograph PHOTOGRAPHS held at the State Historical Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. {WeltyShelf#1} ISBN 0878054715.…

First printing (per publisher's number line at rear colophon on page 16). 16 pages plus covers. Staple-bound booklet: H 20.25cm x L 14cm. Black dust jacket. Black paper covers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon publication in which Robert MacNeil (best known as co-founder of PBS' The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour) comments on Eudora Welty's talents as a photographer and links her visual art with her eloquent prose. The text was originally delivered as MacNeil's keynote speech at the 1989 book release celebration of Welty's monograph PHOTOGRAPHS held at the State Historical Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. {WeltyShelf#2} ISBN 0878054715.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st American Ed., 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. ; ISBN 9780670804672, 0670804673 ; OCLC 13455507 ; LOC No PE1075 .M58 1986 ; Dewey 420/.9 ; blue cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Library Journal: A tie-in for a nine-part television series to be broadcast over PBS beginning in September, this is a wide-ranging account of the travels and changes of the English tongue from its beginnings to tomorrow, from England to America to Australia to Africa and India and the Pacific. Despite an occasionally perceptible British bias, the authors have tried hard to paint a colorful, vivid picture of the many faces and varieties of English. The text is never dull, but is enlivened by innumerable examples and by interviews with representative individuals: a minister in Scotland, a couple from the Appalachians, a storekeeper in Newfoundland, a Philadelphia shoeshine man, a cockney fruitseller, an Australian farm family, the president of Sierra Leone, a writing professor in India. ; "Elisabeth Sifton books." ; Contents: Introduction: Speaking of English -- An English-speaking world -- The mother tongue -- A muse of fire -- The guid Scots tongue -- The Irish question -- Black on white -- Pioneers! O pioneers! -- The new Englishes -- Next year's words ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

First printing (per publisher's number line at rear colophon on page 16) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 16 pages plus covers. Staple-bound booklet: H 20.25cm x L 14cm. Black dust jacket rubbed with slender scuffing at edges and along folds. Black paper covers. Author's blue ink isgnature "Robert Macneil" upon page 3; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Uncommon publication in which Robert MacNeil (best known as co-founder of PBS' The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour) comments on Eudora Welty's talents as a photographer and links her visual art with her eloquent prose. The text was originally delivered as MacNeil's keynote speech at the 1989 book release celebration of Welty's monograph PHOTOGRAPHS held at the State Historical Museum in Jackson, Mississippi. {WeltyShelf#3|CMS-00977} ISBN 0878054715. …