Shields Joseph (214 results)

paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition.VERY GOOD but front board separated. Hardcover book (no DJ) .Pages bright clean. Pages shaken.Shelf 313.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joseph W. Shields, Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Age toning, chips, & wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Blechman, R.O. (illustrator). 1st Edition. ISSN: 1045-0831. An original copy of the legendary literary journal founded in 1931. May have some minor wear/minor markings. For international shipping, we may ask for additional charges, if actual costs are above quoted costs.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. a nice, clean copy, octavo, 220 pages, full maroon bonded leather with 22 karat gold titles and decorations, all edges gilt, mauve moire end papers, reprint of 1954 edition.

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.

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

Good plus or better, light general wear. hardbound Quarto Corners bumped and worn to boards. Pages browned. Pencil notation on front fly. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine Leather 8vo Issued w/o DJ 220 pp. Firearms Classics Library, Full Leather Saturday, August 8, 2020.

First edition. 27 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Shields. His first poetry chapbook. Laid in is a brief als from Shields presenting this book for review.

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

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

Single issue. Paged as [2], 87-152 plus covers (pagination in succession to preceding issue). Paperback: H 25.25cm x L 17cm. Tan paper covers toned/foxed with some soiling and light staining; tearing and chipping to surface paper at spine heel; some edge-wear to covers with creasing/curling at corners with a few leaves affected likewise. Toning to text block edges. Past owner's personal blind-stamp to unpaged initial title leaf; some minor soiling but overall interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: "Repair of and Changes in the Old Capitol" by A.S. Cody; "Census of Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory, 1805" edited by Madel Jacobs Morgan; "The Joseph Dunbar Shields Letters" edited by Charles L. Salley; "Claudius Wistar Sears, Soldier and Educator" by Karlem Riess; "Alfred W. Garner: An Autobiographical Sketch; Introduction by Glover Moore.".

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Joseph W. Shields, Jr. (illustrator). Redish colored cover shows light edge wear and discoloration at edges. No markings. Light musty odor. Illustrated throughout. Dust jacket has pieces missing from edges and discoloration. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: VG/VG. 1st. small 4to. 220pp. A little transfer from old-style mylar to bottom edge of book. Several. 1/4" tears to DJ. In new mylar.

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

Condition: Good. xx, 158 pp., rebound in cloth (hardcover) with covers removed, minor library markings else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of this biography of a Mississippi congressman who was a dynamic orator and compelling personality in the early 19th century whose career was cut short by an early death. 442 pages, brown cloth. Has tearing the cloth at front edge of both ends of the spine. Interior pages Very Good.

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

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

hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. No markings on text. Dent to front cover. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Friday.

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

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