Shields Edward J (12 results)

hardcover, Condition: Very Good, Cahners Publishing Co., Des Plaines, no date, ca.1980s., revised & expanded second edition., 8vo., glossy boards, 206pp., VG $.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1947 PUBLICATION; paper wrappers; staple-bound; ex-corporate library; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE. hardcover in illustrated boards, no DJ, compiled by Edward J. Shields, Cahners Publishing, no date given, second printing, ISBN 0934165029, 206 pp., illustrated with tables. NEAR FINE (a very small amount of light spotting to boards).

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). First Collected Edition, PBO thus!. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler >> Cover creasing; indent to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). First Collected Edition, PBO thus!. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). First Collected Edition, PBO thus!. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good condition. A couple pages have highlighting.

Condition: (fair). 1907 299 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: FINE. Large hardcover, 204pp + appendix. As new. **We are a small family business and will give immediate personal attention to your order.