Porter Introduction (137 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Light reading wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This collection of the German writer's most important prose includes the complete text of the title play. Borchert's death at 26, in 1947, preceded the play's premier by one day. The play caused an immediate furor throughout the immediate post-WWII Germany. The rest of the volume comprises thirty-nine stories and assorted pieces - most of the author's output during the twoshort fever (malaria-like)-ridden years in which he wrote. 270p.

Condition: As New. Massoudy, Hassan (illustrator). Unread copy in mint condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean Copy, May have light wear on cover/edges, otherwise very good! Established Seller, We Ship Daily!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original price of $8.95 printed on dust jacket front flap. Book has minute rubs at lower edge and tail with no writing or marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The first collection of Welty's short stories to be published (1941) won her immediate recognition as one of the most gifted of American writers. Contents include, among others, 'Why I Live at the P.O.,' 'Powerhouse,' 'Petrified Man,' and 'Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden.' With Porter's original, historic introduction. 289p.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (in mylar). Beautiful, gift quality copy, textblock bright and tight; All page edges straight and sound; Green cloth binding; Unclipped dust jacket. 152p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

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.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 225 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased front cover. Occassional pen markings on text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good+. Nice bright trade paperback. Light wear to spine and light browning to pages. 490 pages. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moderate wear including scuffs and foxing. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Tenth Printing. DJ has some edge chips and scuffs; light normal book wear. A collection of sonnets in the Half Hour Classics Series by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 58 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Missing. Copyright © 1971. 214 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket missing. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. The former chief constable of the CID (criminal investigation department) off New Scotland Yard reflects on his long career & most infamous & memorable cases. In 312 pages with Index in rear, + black-and-white photos throughout, photographic endpapers. A has matte black cloth-covered boards , lettered in black with bright red background to front & spine. Condition is VG- (minus): generally quite clean, with the occasional spot or smudge. Binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy off-white with moderate tanning, but completely unmarked. Rubbing to extremities & bumping/pushing to all corners & spine tips. No DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Quarto. Color photographs. Fine in fine DJ. 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Clean in unread condition. First Edition. Clean in unread conditionPlease contact us about shipping costs for international orders of over-sized books or multi-book sets. We are happy to provide accurate quote prior to purchase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December, 1989. First Edition Thus. Number 87 in the Lakeside Classics Series. The Applegate memoir was originally published as "A Day with the Cow Column in 1843" in The Overland Monthly, 1868 and later published in 1900 Oregon Historical Quarterly 1. The Honeyman Porter memoir was originally published as "By ox team to California; a narrative of crossing the plains in 1860" Oakland, Calif., Oakland Enquirer Pub. Co., 1910. Fine condition. No Dust Jacket, as issued. Gently read. The Text Block is clean (handling visible on fore-edges), bright white, tight, straight and square with bright gilt topedge and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full brown cloth, color uniform throughout, with bright gilt logo of the publisher on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. No Dust Jacket, as issued. See photos. lxiii, 416 pages. 4 1/2" x 6 7/8". The Lakeside Classics Series, vol. 87, containing numerous photos, illustrations and a map. The Overland Trail refers both to the Oregon Trail (taken by Applegate) and the California Trail (taken by Honeyman Porter). Historical Introduction by Martin Ridge who also edited the work.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White/Color Illus. & Photos (illustrator). London, UK: Museum of London. Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1998. . Paperback. Square Sm. 4to., 112pp., cover light shelf wear to edges and corners, otherwise very good; pages clean and unmarked. .

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 384 pages. 7.70x5.10x1.00 inches. In Stock.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 102pp, square octavo. slight fading to boards, cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good- moderate chipping, toning to spine, in mylar cover, Good-.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. An excellent hardcover copy of a Modern Library early reprint, with dustjacket: book near fine and dustjacket very good. There is no First Modern Library Edition 1954 statement on the copyright page. The last date on the copyright page is 1943, but it is an early reprint of the Modern Library first edition (which was in 1954). Green boards, gilt front board and spine lettering and decoration, 7 1/4 x 5 inches, top edge black, decorated endpapers, 214 pp. Book near fine (faint sticker residue, top fore-edge of front board; some pencil check marks on the contents pages; otherwise pages unmarked and binding strong and square). Dustjacket very good (modest chipping and wear, top edge; not price-clipped ($1.95); 415 titles listed on the inner aspect). The first two of Eudora Welty's published books of stories ?- A Curtain of Green and The Wide Net ?- are presented in their entirety in this volume of twenty-five stories. (K051).

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Rare with dust jacket. Dust jacket is tattered and torn, and laid in folded rather than on book exterior. Book is worn with soils, foxing, scuffs, etc. An adequate readable copy. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0904017729. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with top right corner of front free endpaper clipped, owners name on top edge, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. Exhibition catalog. No statement of later printing on copyright page. No Signature.