Pargellis Stanley Editor (9 results)

Good plus or better, light general wear. Cloth Corners lightly bumped. Pages browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. book has light wear to corners and ends of spine, moderate toning to spine- light shelf wear to otherw parts of cover, slight shakey spine- w start of cracking to back hinge, otherwise clean bright shape.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover Good GPO 1944 hardcover Cover shows minor edgewear, with slightly bumped corners Contents unmarked Binding tight Issued without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. A clean, unmarked copy with price clipped and light rubbing to jacket corners. jacket remains bright and clean, and quite attractive in its Mylar plastic cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. No dust jacket. First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. Near Fine condition. Corners are NOT bumped. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1953. First Edition. Includes MAJOR READJUSTMENTS IN THE RETAIL BOOK TRADE: THEIR CAUSES AND SIGNIFICANCE by Wright Howes (of U.S.iana fame) which presciently forecast the transition of brick-and-mortar booksellers to home offices. Other contributors include Lawrence S. Thompson, Stanley Pargellis; Louis Gottschalk; Pierce Butler, etc. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. viii, 107pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. First Edition. 386pp. This is Volume III of The Annual Report of The American Historical Association For the Year 1942. Good Plus. Front hinge starting to open. Backstrip slightly faded. (loc 910).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. Washington: United States Government Printing Office (GPO), 1944. Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Volume III of the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1942. Includes: THE POSSIBILITY OF UNION AMONG THE ARAB STATES by Philip K. Hitti; TRENDS IN FEDERAL POLICY TOWARD THE NEGRO by A. A. Taylor; WHAT WAS A WHIG? by Wilbur Cortez Abbott; etc. Footnotes. Index. Original blue cloth. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. xiv, 386pp. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Small 8vo. Frontispiece facsimile; initials and headpieces. Original 1/2 red cloth over black and silver sparkled boards. Very good. 34 pages. Bookplate of Helen S. Dexter on the front pastedown. Number 202 of 477 numbered copies, signed by the printer on the limitation page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.75 inches. Unpaginated. Illustrated endpapers. Frontis illustration. Profusely illustrated. Name of previous owner in ink on fep. DJ worn. Lloyd Lewis was a journalist, historian, and major figure in a remarkable world of arts and letters that flourished in Chicago following World War I. In 1930 he joined the Chicago Daily News as drama critic, becoming subsequently sports editor, managing editor, and columnist. Lewis was an ardent Chicagoan and Midwesterner with a voracious interest in the Civil War. His published work included Chicago: The History of Its Reputation (1929, with Henry Justin Smith); Jayhawkers, a three-act Broadway play coauthored with Sinclair Lewis (1935); and highly regarded biographies of Generals Sherman and Grant. Chicago's Newberry Library was his second home; he established the library's superb collection of modern (chiefly Midwestern) manuscripts. The Burlington Northern Railroad was a United States-based railroad company. Its historical lineage begins in the earliest days of railroading with the chartering in 1848 of the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, a direct ancestor line of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which lends Burlington to the names of various merger-produced successors. For this work, the compilers had the full cooperation of the Burlington Railroad which made available the photographs in its archives. The records of the Burlington Railroad had been deposited in the Newberry Library for the use of qualified scholars. Based upon this 'treasure trove' it was determined to present in pictorial form the outstanding importance of railroads, especially those of the Mississippi Valley and Great Plains sections, in promoting the development and growth of the country. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…