Ward Robert Spencer (5 results)

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in an equally very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 435 pages; Tear (neat cut) to head/top corner of front-free endpaper and half-title page. Description: 435 p. Illus. 24 cm. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in an equally very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 435 pages; Tear (neat cut) to head/top corner of front-free endpaper and half-title page. Description: 435 p. Illus. 24 cm. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.

Condition: good, ex-lib. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 204, index, usual library markings, part of DJ pasted to front endpeper. Introduction by Laurence Salisbury. The author was a Foreign Service officer in Hong Kong in 1941.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn;Hardcover 8vo bk cloth spine red bds pclipt dust jacket;chinchars on dj cover read Li Min Zhi Er Nu, appears unread NF/vgdj: 435pp. Fiction, Revolution, love story of 1927-28 in Chinese province of Shansi ShanXi/ Novel set against the backdrop of China in the 1930's by translator of "Rickshaw Boy" Robert Spencer Ward (Evan King was his pseudonym) who spent 19 years as an American diplomat in China.