Miles Charles P (46 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 48pps. No markings, tears or chips. Fresh Fine copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Original ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION HARDCOVER, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT; GOLD SPINE & COVER TITLES ON VERY DARK RED, TEXTURED CLOTH HARD COVERS. ; 786pg pages; FOUNDING OF ENGLISH TRADITION; RENAISSANCE;REACTION AGAINST ROMANTICISM;RETURN TO TRADITION; 20TH CENTURY; .MANY ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.(AUTHOR'S PORTRAITS). Illustrated by Frontis color england literary MAP (illustrator).…

reading copy, stains, creases.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First Printing as confirmed by McBride. The book would be fine save for shelf wear along bottom of boards and text block, slight translucent spotting of front lower text block. Else book is free of internal marking, spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. While the jacket has its price on the back flap, it has general wear all over, loss and small chipping at most edges, especially along spine and at top and bottom of spine. Actually looks quite smart in its shiny new plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. As new spine stiff, boards square and tips sharp. Pages lay flat as when unread. Jacket mint w/o flaws looks spectacular in protective plastic cover.

Wraps. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. XLIX, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Charles Durant. Includes "Chico" (complete novel) by Walter J. Coburn; "Star-shine Bill's Curtained Trail" (complete novel) by Reginald C. Barker; "Beyond teh outposts" (pt. 3 of 6) by Peter Henry Morland [aka Max Brand, Frederick Faust]; "Trouble Range" (pt. 7 of 7) by Charles Wesley Sanders; "Prints in the Sand" by Hugh F. Grinstead; "In Wolves' Clothes" by Harley P. Lathrop; "Pick 'Em Green!" by Miles Overholt; "Lightning Helped" by Robert Ormond Case; "The Little Cayuse" (poem) by Agnes Pearson; "Pure Cussedness" (porm) by James Edward Hungerfoot. Article: "Lost Mines (The Lost Cabin)" by Roderick O'Hargan. Miscellaneous: "Marines Fight Forest Fires"; "The Californiw Quail"; "Their Bite Is Not Fatal"; "Woman Kills Wolf"; "Two Western Women Governors"; "Coyote a Poor Mascot"; "Deer Attacks Car"; "Too Many Deer in Kaibab Forest"; "Stopped by an Eagle"; "Bees Attack a Cannery"; "Giant Salmon"; "Freak Apple Trees". Departments: "The Round-up"; "The Hollow Tree" by Louise Rice; "Where to Go and How to Get There" by John North; "Missing". Illustrations are uncredited. Wraps partially reglued with some small tears, stress and losses; minor scars; mild wet stain at upper spien corners with loss to same at rear. Magazine.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Wraps. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 2, No. 2. Bedsheet-sized pulp. Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Cover art by Paul for "The Flight of the Mercury" by Charles P. Tanner. Includes "Editorial: Wonders of the Unknown" by Hugo Gernsback; "The Time Valve" by Miles J. Breuer; "The Bat-Men of Mars" (pt. 2 of 2) by Wood Jackson; "After 5,000 Years" by Victor A. Endersby; "The War of the Great Ants" by Jim Vanny; "A Subterranean Adventure" (pt. 2) by George Paul Bauer; "The Red Plague"(1st story) by P. Schuyler Miller; "Whose Flight Was the More Hazardous? - Prize letters"; "Science Questions and Answers"; "The Reader Speaks"; "Science News". Illustrated by Paul and Leonard. Letters from C. P. Mason and others. Creasing; stress; dusty; tanning; minor tears;date in pencil on front. Magazine. …

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, trade issue. Square 16mo. 19pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Stapled French-folded wrappers. Modest wear, spine lightly sunned, and a tiny stain on the unprinted lower wrap, very good. One of 300 copies of the trade edition (of 350 total). Prints contributions by Charles Tomlinson, Elaine Feinstein, Omar S. Pound, Miles Burrows, Daniel Weissbort, John James, Anthony Rudolf, and Richard Burns.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good inn original wrappers. 267 + xxvi pages. Wrappers soiled, dampstain, some edgewear. Uncommon in any condition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.…

almost near fine.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Red Decorated Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Undated Circa 1895. This is a 5 volume set.The title continued is The Practice of Sheep Farming and The Diseases of Cattle , Sheep and Pigs. Browned endpapers , grubby boards.POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Black & White & Tissue Guarded Colour Plates (illustrator). Not Inscribed or Signed. …

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original black and white antique engraving from Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales and Scotland. This fine engraving was drawn and published by J.P. Neale 1818-1829. Ilustration comes with separate page of descriptive text. This illustration being a fine exterior view of Belsay Castle in the County of Northumberland, titled and dated. Size approx 6 x 5" (16.5 x 13cm). Ready for framing. J.P. Neale (illustrator).…