Robert John Percy (66 results)

Condition: Very Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use, wear and minor cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 7 short stories. Featured are Peat by Susan Fry, Snake by the Sweetgrass by Robert Lopresti, Stacked Deack by Percy Spurlark Parker, Death By Devil's Turnips by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Ah, rash Deceiver! by John H. Dirckx, Aces and Eights by David Edgerley Gates. The Mystery Classic reprint: Walk With a Wizard by Edward D. Hoch. SIGNED by Emerson above her story. Light rubbing to the surface of the front cover. In near fine condition. Signed by Author. …

Limp bound. Condition: Very Good. LIMP COVER EDITION (leatherette). VERY GOOD CONDITION,date writtne in pen top of title page "Dec 2015" ; gold title with gold & silver decorative trim, all on rich brown, wraparound leatherette limp covers.An attractive volume, easy to the touch.Decorated endpapeers show many small leaves. ; 115+pg pages; Most poets are represented with one of their most imortant & popular poems.Index by author at back of book.…

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

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1937 and 1909 blue hardcover with gold letters and design; hv.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 383 + pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Damage near top of spine. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); Octave Percy Tarrant (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Small Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Crease on rear board causing beginning of split to paper, 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom margin of one page, rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1937 Small Hard Cover. 53 pp. 4 5/8 x 3 1/4. Pink decorative paper over boards. A collection of verse and excerpts of works by various authors, including Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, J.M. Barrie, Mark Twain, and Lewis Carroll.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs of England's Lake District accompany classic poets - William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Goerge Gordon, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Robert Southey, 112 semi-glossy pages. Color photography, a few in page spreads, accompany the poems. Marble design endpapers. Binding is glossy with a photograph, like the dust jacket. 6-1/2" x 9-1/4." Very good condition. Little wear except slight at dj extremities. Rob Talbot (illustrator). Book.…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of mystery and supernatural short stories by Canadian authors. INSCRIBED by Colombo on the half title page - "Columbo - To Elway - who is to be taken at night -Saturday Night!" Light edgewear. Light bump to the bottom edge of the book. In near fine / near fine condition. Signed by Author.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 16pp catalogue for Blond Fine Art exhibition staged from 8th November to 1st December 1979 at their Sackville Street gallery in London. Staple bound. Total of 213 exhibits, 25 of which are illustrated with b/w plates in this catalogue. Numerous artists' work on view including Douglas Percy Bliss; John Buckland-Wright; John Farleigh; Robert Gibbings; Gertrude Hermes; Blair Hughes-Stanton; Clare Leighton; Gwen Raverat and Clifford Webb. Slightly dusty margins of front cover with tiny crease to top right hand corner. No inscriptions. In VG+ condition. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight and size of this booklet. Douglas Percy Bliss; John Buckland-Wright; John Farleigh; Robert Gibbings; Gertrude Hermes; Blair Hughes-Stanton; Clare Leighton; Gwen Raverat; Clifford Webb (and others) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 2 pp. + 1 page., iii-xxiii, 749 pp. ; 18 cm. ; LCCN: 99-5812 ; OCLC: 1387029 ; LC: PR1175; Dewey: 353.08 ; "selected and edited by Henry S. Pancoast" ; "Not only is poetry one of the noblest and most uplifting of the arts; it is peculiarly fitted, from some aspect at least, to be the art most universally enjoyed. Few can hope to own--even to see--the greatest pictures or statues; their beauty must of necessity be monopolized by a country, or a class, while the elaborate requirements of performance keep much of the greatest music from the multitude; but the beauty of the greatest poems is spread for men's delight almost as liberally as the wonders of dawn and sunset; it is almost as free as sunlight or the stars."--preface ; red cloth with gold lettering and design ; well-worn, reading copy only, with front ep and flyleaf missing ; bookplate at front ; marks at back ep ; detailed notes and explanations at back ; POOR. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unpaginated; 4to; original printed boards; small tape residue on front board, minor soiling to rear board, spine a little age-toned; interior fine. A very good copy overall. Ten articles on various bookish subjects, produced by various presses on different papers, type, etc. (The Southworth Press; The Hollenbeck Press; Carl Purington Rollins at Yale University Press; The Walpole Printing Office; University Press, Oxford). …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **NOVELS AND NOVELETTES (1) The Adventure of the Oval Window by John H. Dirckx (2) The Dog Who Hated Jazz by William Bankier (3) Double Cross by Christianna Brand (4) Case Blue by Robert Twohy (5) The Black Cliffs by Joan Aiken (6) The Exoneration of Phones Droogan by Stephen Wasylyk (7) Lady with a Knife by Percy Spurlark Parker (8) Lasting Impression by Louis Weinstein (9) Just Eighteen Months by Seicho Matsumoto (10) On Consignment by Donald Olson (11) You Could Have Done Better by Tonita S. Gardner (12) Sniped At by Jay Francis (13) Back on My Feet Again by Ron Goulart (14) A Bite of the Pie by Jean Darling (15) Five-Day Forecast by Edward D. Hoch (16) The Holly Wreath by Patricia Moyes>> Minor cover scuffing; indent to front cover Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. PHOTO Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition horizontal qurto, printed card covers, illustrated, 52 pages. Includes American Marine Painting Overview; Penobscot Bay: The Historical Background; Lists of paintings. [QP]. STUBBS, William P.; BABBIDGE, James G.; SANDBORN, Percy A. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st thus. Fine condition, octavo, quarter brown leather, brown cloth boards, gilt decorated front and rear, four raised bands and gilt title and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, silk ribbon marker, decorated end paper, xxv plus 461 pages including index of first lines. [QP]. KARLIN, Eugene (illustrator).…

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Vintage catalog for an exhibition held from June 6 through July 13, 1980, at Otis/Parsons Gallery in Los Angeles. Illustrated in black-and-white. Faint rubbing near the binding, else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 495 pp. Very Good, Red Cloth, Dust Jacket, some shelf-wear.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Chipper Murphy and his friends have built a secret treehouse located deep in the orange groves that surround their small town. During an overnight trip, they discover that they aren't the only ones drawn to the deep solitude of the grove and its many mysteries. Over the course of one summer, the friends learn that many things are not what they appear to be.Chipper, who struggles with the secret burden of his mother's increasing dependence on alcohol, faces danger, real and perceived, while grappling with the meaning of trust and true friendship. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Spine & corners bumped, Wear on cover & spine, Browning & foxing on front eps, light partial browning on rear pd, page edges browned, ; 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.15; 63, 64, 64, 64, 62 & 62 pages.

Condition: New.