Ralph Alexander Smith a Smith Ralph (3 results)

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 288 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Ralph A. Smith provides a theory of aesthetic education that addresses the need to revitalize the capacity for genuine judgment in society, reaffirm the ideal of excellence in culture, and reorder our thoughts about teaching the arts in schools. The book presents an image of the curriculum as itinerary, preparing the young to traverse the world of art with adroitness and sensitivity.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 248, xvi pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (4 color), 1 fold-out ; portrait ; 21 cm. ; green and orange cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; OCLC: 9504907 ; LC: SB411 ; Dewey: 583.305 ; Contents: The early rose / Frank W Halliday -- The rose on the air / J Horace McFarland -- The Allentown rose-garden / C Chester Yost -- More municipal rose-gardens / Robert Pyle -- The garden value of rose species / E H M Cox -- The committee on old roses / Mrs. Francis King -- The duties of the old-rose committee / Stephen F Hamblin -- The old roses of California -- Francis E Lester -- Breeding new roses / George C Thomas -- Rose-breeding in Rhode Island / Josephine Brownell, Walter D Brownell -- A rose foundation / William Crocker -- Breeding better roses / Rev George A Schoener -- Roses from your ice-box / Persis Smallwood Crocker -- The wax treatment for dormant plants / James A Neilson -- The canker scare / R Marion Hatton -- Rose-disease investigations / L M Massey, Bruce Parsons -- The Central East, a symposium -- Roses along Lake Erie: Mentor, Sandusky, Toledo / Melvin E Wyant, Harry B Neumeyer, Paul Fakehany, Charles G Smith -- Roses in and around Detroit / E Genevieve Gillette -- Southeastern Ohio / Mrs. John B Wagner -- Along the Ohio River / Marie Bauer -- Roses in Cincinnati / R J Conners -- Roses in the Blue Grass /. C S Crouse, Maude M Crouse -- Roses in Eastern Indiana / Alexander McGalliard -- No roses without work / Mrs W D Bostick -- Protecting roses in Indiana / Mrs Berenice M Harrison -- Roses in Northern Indiana / A L Hubbard -- Time of planting and winter protection in Michigan / Charles M Greenway -- Roses can be grown in Illinois / E I Lanter -- Roses near the Mississippi / Dr. Ralph Graham -- Roses in industrial Illinois / Perry Wilson -- Roses in "Egypt" / Hon. Kent E Keller -- The rose-mindedness of Ontario / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Rocky Mountains / Maud Chegwidden -- Rugosa roses on a Kansas farm / Carol L Martin -- Why I prefer Spring planting / Agnes Fules Huntington -- Caring for a small rose-garden / Mrs Louis Hurd -- The modern way of feeding roses / Dr G J Raleigh -- Abolishing rose-bugs / Ruth O Ericson -- Failure and success in rose-growing / G F Middleton -- My lifetime with roses / E Gurney Hill -- Tributes to Ernest Henry Wilson -- Wilson, the explorer and teacher / Richardson Wright -- Wilson, the lover of plants / E H M Cox -- Frederick Loveless Atkins / Leonard Barron -- Three fine rose men pass on -- J C N Forestier / J H Nicolas -- John Hickman Dunlop / A J Webster -- Sing Sing's rose man / Lewis E Lawes -- Abyssinia as a land of roses / Franklin P Adams -- Roses in Brazil / Eudoro Ramos Costa -- The 1920 rose summer in Europe / J H Nicolas -- The American Rose Society in Europe / Robert Pyle -- The international rose test-gardens / Dr SPencer S Sulliger -- Roses abroad -- Name, names, names / E S Trott -- Proof of the pudding, 1931 -- Radio rose talks -- Rose notes -- New roses of the world ; wear to covers, else G. Book.…