Waldo Frank Editor (22 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Covers with moderate wear and chip taken from top edge; edges worn; light soiling; pages thumbed. Illustrated.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for previous owner's name top fep and small check marks on contents page; binding is tight, but pages and edges show some wear. The covers are also VG: intact, including color and design, but sunning and creasing on spine, sigms of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.…

x, 180 pages. Paperback; H 20.25cm x L 13.25cm. Stiff paper covers rubbed and mildly curled. Interior pages are clean and binding is firm. A very good copy. With Editor's Introduction, Introduction, and Selective Bibliography. Features the following essays: "New England Reformers" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The Northern Attack on Slavery" by Avery Craven; "The Abolitionists and Psychology" by Martin B. Duberman; "The Psychology of Commitment: the Constructive Role of Violence and Suffering for the Individual and for His Society" by Silvan S. Tomkins; "The Anglo-American World of Humanitarian Endeavor" by Frank Thistlethwaite; "Religious Benevolence as Social Control, 1815-1860" by Clifford S. Griffin; "Charles Grandison Finney" by William G. McLoughlin; "Religious Groups and Political Parties" by Lee Benson; "Temperance, Status Control, and Mobility, 1826-1860" by Joseph R. Gusfield; "The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought" by David Brion Davis; and "Romantic Reform in America, 1815-1865" by John L. Thomas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book (179 pages) with frontispiece illustration by David Alfaro Siqueiros. Boards show scuffing/rubbing with fraying top of spine with title faded. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-16-Middle-L) rareviewbooks. David Alfaro Siqueiros (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding & edges of text block. Tanning on pastedowns & edges of text block. Pages toning with age, otherwise Text and images unmarked. Dj quite shelf worn with large chips missing from top edge, scuffs, creases, toning, abrasions & small tears in a mylar cover. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1958 softcover printing of the 1933 first edition in near fine condition with very light shelf wear on the covers. pages are lightly age-toned, clean, smooth and unmarked. Includes an appendix of early poems and an essay by Waldo Frank. 4.25" x 7".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This book is a collective portrait of the central figure of the modern art movement in America. 25 contributors. Stated First Edition, but is not a First. 120 illustrations. Black cloth with silver spine label. No writing in the book. viii, 339pp., index. Mylar cover. Solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. As new, first edition / first printing, faux brown leather over boards with authors name gilt stamped on cover and gilt font on spine, xxxv + 268 pps. + illustrations. Copy appears unread, without any marks, writing, etc. Publisher's flaw in binding causing puckers on edges of covers. Dust jacket is not price clipped and under protective mylar, near fine with minimal shelf wear and small chip at spine top. Waldo Frank, a prolific American write, novelist, historian, social critic served as a cultural bridge between USA and Latin America. He lived in a time in which writers were socially active (in the political sense) very focused on social change. …

hardcover. No Jacket. First Edition. New York. 1930. Farrar & Rinehart. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Green Boards. No Dustjacket. Illustrations by Mordecai Gorelik. Translated from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. 268 pages. hardcover. Cover: Mordecai Gorelik. keywords: Latin America Argentina Literature Translated Anthology. DESCRIPTION - A robust, virile picture of the Argentine in all its picaresque and languorous detail. There are ribald love stories, quaint pictures of Buenos Aires, the twanging guitars of happy gauchos, wild fighting in the hills, man-eating tigers in the wilderness, the story of the great Anaconda lifting her coiled body in the jungle. A fascinating panorama. TALES FROM THE ARGENTINE is the first of many books from South America to be published by Farrar & Rinehart under the general editorship of Mr. Frank, who is an authority on things Latin-American. He is a shrewd editor. This fascinating volume is not only emotionally exciting but informative and in his Introduction and notes, Mr. Frank gives us a colorful picture of the Argentine and a background of its history and politics as well as its writing. Includes the stories: LAUCHA'S MARRIAGE by Roberto J. Payro; DEATH OF A GAUCHO by Leopoldo Lugones; HOLIDAY IN BUENOS AIRES by Lucia V. Lopez; THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FACUNDO by Domingo F. Sarmiento; THE DEVIL IN PAGO CHICO by Roberto J. Payrol ROSAURA by Ricardo Güiraldes; THE RETURN OF ANACONDA by Horacio Quiroga. inventory #27555 Very Good in Green Boards. No Dustjacket.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. 8vo. Frontis., xvi, 268 pp., illus. No jacket as issued. Edited and with a Foreword by Waldo Frank. Translated by Anita Brenner. Contributions from Roberto J. Payro, Leopoldo Lugones, Lucio V. Lopez, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Ricardo Guiraldes, Horacio Quiroga. Previous owner's bookplate. Boards are a bit worn, with a couple of small discreet inkstains. Pages are slightly age toned. Still a nice copy. Gorelik, Mordecai (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Hardback. 179pp. Frontis. Bookplate of Hart Crane to front pastedown. Binding faded and marked. Private ownership. (p21).

Hardbound. First. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering; xxiv,179 pp. with bw illustration of Crane; Includes an introduction by Frank. Very clean and tight interior with minor cover wear, including one scratch to back; generally a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Black and Gold edition. Black octavo, gilt to spine and front board, xxxiv, 179 pages, b&w frontispiece (portrait), 23 cm. Contents: 1. The Bridge -- 2. White buildings -- 3. Key West: an island sheaf -- 4. Uncollected poems. A narrative account of the eighteenthcentury struggle of England and France in the Iroquois territory for dominance. Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Poetry. Very gentle rubbing to spine foot, extremely mild to spine head, very gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling to boards and fore-edges, else very good(+) to near fine(-).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 315 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PB/pub.1979/Gd. condition/148 pages- Expresses the nature of the career of Alfred Stieglitz by being, itself, in spirit and form, a communal work, a work oragnic with its subject. (A44191). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 432 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rusty orange cloth on boards with stamped black lettering to front and spine. Book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out, other than the SIGNATURE of the illustrator on the half-title page, and a slightly faded spine. Rear board also has a strip of fading to top. Fantastic illustrations by Gorelick, including Endpapers in Green with serpent and jungle and a frontispiece of Gauchos. Alas, no DJ. Gorelick was a Russian-born American theatrical set designer, Gorelik (1899-1990) was best known for his scenic designs for such productions as "Golden Boy," "Tortilla Flat," and "All My Sons." He adapted Swiss playwright Max Frisch's "The Firebugs." He also designed costumes, was a lighting director, and, later in life, a teacher of theatre. Authors of the tales include: Roberto J. Payro, Leopoldo Lugones, Lucio V. Lopez, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Ricardo Guiraldes, and Horacio Quiroga. Edited with a foreword by Waldo Frank, Translated from the Spanish by Anita Brenner, and Illustrations by Mordecai Gorelik. 268pp. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Some tearing and toning to jacket. Some fraying to spine edges, age toning to board edges. Slight toning to interior.

Full Cloth. Condition: Good. Full brick red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Modest wear with slight spotting. Bottom front corner lightly bumped. Gift inscription on the age-toned endpapers. Overall in GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. variorum ed edition. 450 pages. 9.25x6.14x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Literary magazine featuring early writings of some of America's most influential literati, critics and philosophers. This issue contabins Burke's "Metamorphoses of Venus"; Crane's "Voyages', Ezra Pound's "Varia"; Cowley's "Tennessee Blues", etc. Printed covers, slightly toned, yapped edges, stapled spine, 108-146pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., green cloth lettered in gilt, lightly soiled. First edition, with illustrations by Mordecai Gorelik. A presentation copy, inscribed by Gorelik to Cecil Maud Boulton, mother of Agnes Boulton, second wife of playwright Eugene O'Neill: "To my friend Cecil Boulton, Mordecai Gorelik, April 1932." An intriguing association. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).…