Rawlins Winifred (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Two-tone cover lightly soiled, owner name sticker, light foxing to end papers, library pocket inside back cover, binding tight, pages very good. Paper dust jacket browned, sticker on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Two-tone cover very lightly soiled, pages very good. Paper dust jacket browned, lightly edge worn.

Pamphlet (Soft cover). Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear and darkening to covers, internally very good. PHP #73.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine hardcover in very near fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. Just a touch of surface wear to dust jacket. An attractive copy. 72pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near fine softcover. Clean and unmarked throughout. Appears unread. Stated first printing. 41pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover in very near fine dust jacket. Clean and unmarked throughout except for pencilled titles added to the list of other poetry books by the same author. Appears unread. Just some light age toning to dust jacket from spine about 1/3 of the way across the panel. An attractive copy. 78pp.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 41 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96 Pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Collectible-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This book has a tan cloth spine with pale blue boards and dark blue lettering. Fading/discoloration to top half of boards, wear and soil. Very tight copy, binding is crisp. Stated first edition of this collection of poems. 36 pages; approx. 5"x8". None (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Back cover slightly wrinkled, else paperback in very good+ condition.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good +. Paper overwraps somewhat worn and soiled, meeting library stamp on cover and title page, pocket at back, light wrinkling to pages.

Softcover. Condition: VG, stapled. Cover title. [12] p.; 21.5 cm.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. An early collection by this Quaker poet and activist, whose beliefs and interests are reflected in her poems. Born in London in 1907, she came to the U.S. in 1957. From 1952 to 1966, she was the head resident at Pendle Hill, the Quaker Study Center, and she also served as director for several Friends' homes for the aged. She was a dedicated pacifist and environmentalist. 75 pp, Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name, short poem handwritten on rear free endpaper, some rubbing to the folds of the dj).…

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

Condition: Used: Like New. Fine book/near fine jacket.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. Circa 1940s. Original binding. Blue cloth hardcover with decorative black stamping. Dust jacket now in clear plastic BRODART protector. Colour frontispiece. 96pp. VERY GOOD. In FAIR jacket. Jacket bright but has several tiny tears. Textblock appears clean. Binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Short gift inscription in pencil to front endpage. Laid in at front is a prospectus and order form for the book mailed from the publisher in original mailing envelope. NF/NF.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ownr's insc on flyleaf; 96 clean, unmarked pages; dj w/unclipped price, in mylar. Colored Frontis (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good Hardcover, 1/4 Lite Brown Spine Over Brown Cloth. With A Very Good Dust Jacket, With A Short Closed Tear And Now In A Protective Mylar Cover, 88 Pages With 44 Poems And Verse. Inscribed With A Gift Inscription And Signed By Winifred Rawlins On First Free End Paper. This Would Have Been One Of Winifred Rawlins Publications. Yellow Dust Jacket With A Sun Darkened Spine. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Decorative Paper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Island, 1952. First edition. 8vo. Red and white decorative self-wrapper over boards, black lettering, 42 pp. A collection of poems, including: "Winter Afternoon", "A Traveler Speaks to the Sun", "From a Factory Bench", "The Secret Fountain", "Love Cannot Lose" and "We Who Have Died". Self-wrapper torn at spine and upper right-hand corner on front board, two pages creased where they had been bent-over, owner name on endpaper. Clean, crisp text block. Very good in a good self-wrapper. Protected in a mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good; owner's name; no dust jacket. Hard Cover Golden Quill Press 1966 Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 55 pages; [SIGNED] 1955 Exposition Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket with just superficial shelf evidence to edges. Short gift inscription to front endpage. Laid in at front is a long single page typed letter from the author dated Nov 1953. VG++/VG+; Signed by Author. …

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Red clean dustjacket, Inscribed by Author 1959. 75 pgs. Metaphysical poetry. Signed by Author. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. [1st edition] ; 78 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0823301354; 9780823301355 LCCN: 77-95849 ; LC: PS3535.A846; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; OCLC: 52776 ; blue grey and brown textured faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; sunned ; Contents : Man is a tender plant -- Poem for a Spring in times of crisis -- To my hippie friends on May Day -- Waiting for the summer of '68 -- The poor people -- The view ahead is closed -- How to sink the bucket deep? -- Pure happiness is -- When I touched the flower of your life -- The knowledge-tree -- Old woman in a rest home -- On seeing a jet plane ascending in sunlight -- For Larry and Laurie -- Portrait of an Englishwoman -- For Boris Pasternak -- For Aldous Huxley -- For Kathy -- The Cosmic m an -- For you, my brother -- Brother plantsman -- For Dan -- He was himself the sound he heard -- For Dean, a brown study -- Pre-Copernican wonder -- Are things what they seem? -- Full moon, invitation to a dance -- The sky-blue pleasure -- Hymn -- The world swims in a sea of pure happiness -- The frog pond ---- Blueberry patch in July -- September equinox -- Fall is the human season -- December the twenty-first -- Come snow once more -- Walking through Winter woods -- The cry -- The children rush to unite with the curling waves -- The contraries -- Evening in Connemara -- Boys burnig trash ona rainy night -- Palm thoughts in St. Petersburg -- Mitchel Gardens (an abandoned Air Force Base in Westbury, NY). ; Winifred Rawlins, member of [Quaker] Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, peace and justice activist, and poet, died in February, 1997 at age 90. From 1952 until 1966, she was head resident at Pendle Hill. In October 1949, Rawlins spent 30 days in prison for her part in a demonstration at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. ; FINE/G. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 1st Printing. First edition / First printing. Inscribed & signed by author on title-page "Best wishes to Bill Cousins / from Winifred Rawlins / 7/22/52". Good, Spine mostly split but holding on at 3 staples, very slight wear along edges. 13.5 x 20. soft cover. 42pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Inscribed & Signed By Author. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rawlins, Winifred. BEFORE NO HIGH ALTARS. New York: Exposition Press (1955). FIRST EDITION. Poetry. TED SHAWN ASSOCIATIONCOPY. Lengthy dated (July 1958) and inscribed presentation to Ted Shawn, Father of American Dance, on front free endpaper, signed by friends ofTed Shawn; "It can be said, - of Ted Shawn, Knight of Dannebrog [Shawn was knighted by the King of Denmark] Lair of Jacobs Pillow." Quotesthe last stanza of Winifred Rawlin's poem "The Stairway" [p29] and finishes with "Thoughts from over a half Century of friendship." Signed by HelenRowell Snyder and Harold ________ Snyder. Early poetry volume by Rawlins who was prone to metaphsical poetry and was a member of theSociety of Friends. 55pp, thin 8vo, red lettering on spine, gray cloth (hardcover). Cloth discoloring at bottom edge; endpapers toned; unmarked,clean, tightly bound; generally in very good condition. (Scarce.).…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1953 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 40 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. vi, 68 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with illustated paper titling pasted to front board. Title labels indicates that it was torn at one point, but was repaired; light scuffing to covers. Previous owner's small name and address stamp on upper left corner of first free endpaper, clean within.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to. in blue cloth with printed paper label to front cover (as issued), 68pp, numerous illustrations in text . [CONDITION: An unusually well preserved near FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (covers and pages slightly tanned). Scarce in any condition ] . __To see more of our Poetry books type DbbPOETRY in the Keywords search box . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…