William Dudley Introduction (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket; previous owners personal bookplate and her inscription, offsetting from clipping to pages 112-13. First printing, no others noted. William Dudley Foulke (November 20, 1848 May 30, 1935) was an American literary critic, journalist, poet and reformer. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, probably as issued. First Naval Institute Press Edition. Annapolis, Maryland:: Naval Institute Press, 1989. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- probably never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. This edition is a reprint of the 1843 original newly enhanced with a introduction & fascinating notes by William S. Dudley, plus an index. This is the true story of sailor Ned Myers as told to James Fenimore Cooper. Best known for his many novels, Cooper could write with great authenticity about the sea having spent a year as a common seaman on the merchant ship Sterling in 1806-07. A volume from the Naval Institute Press CLASSICS OF NAVAL LITERATURE series. Handsomely bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold over dark blue panels on the spine and front cover. Complete with the blue silk ribbon marker sewn into the headband. A sample from the lively text: "I walked over the ground where the explosion took place. It was a dreadful sight; the dead being so mutilated that it was scarcely possible to tell their colour. I saw gun-barrels bent nearly double. I think we saw Sir Roger Sheafe, the British General, galloping across the field, by himself, a few minutes before the explosion. At all events, we saw a mounted officer, and fired at him. He galloped up to the government-house, dismounted, went in, remained a short time, and then galloped out of town.". First Naval Institute Press Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition./No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xix, 290pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Slipcase. Illustrated Edition. The Heritage Press, New York, New York, USA, Copyright 1959, no printing information specified. Illustrated Edition in upside-down, turn-around format, with illustrations by Marian Parry (The Birds) and John Austen (The Frogs). Dudley Fitts, Introduction and Translator from the Greek (The Birds); William James Hickie, Translator and Gilbert Seldes, Introduction (The Frogs). Fine condition. No slipcase. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, heavy white paper, tight, straight and square, with no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth with bright gilt design each side to cream patterned boards, all colors uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked off-white endpapers and all corners square and sharp. No slipcase. See the accompanying photos. xiii, 52 (The Birds); Xviii, 62 (The Frogs) pages. 8" x 11 1/4". Two famous Greek comedies. Marian Parry (The Birds) and John Austen (The Frogs) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, Gently read if at all. Clean and Unmarked. Usual Easton Press quality features: High quality genuine leather; 22kt gold inlaid design on both back and front covers, spine with four raised bands and accented in 22kt gold -- gilt page edges; archival acid-neutral paper; Smyth-sewn; and sewn in satin ribbon book mark. . . . . . This volume brings together what are probably the two most atypical Greek comedies by Aristophanes. *The Birds* is one play where for once Aristophanes does not seem to be attacking some specific abuse in Athens, while "The Frogs" is actually the first "serious" attempt at dramatic criticism. This is not to suggest that *The Birds* (*Ornithes*) is nothing more than escapist entertainment. Certainly there are those who see it as a political satire about the imperialistic dreams that resulted in the disastrous invasion of Sicily (which happened the year before his play was produced in 414 B.C.). Then again, this could just be Aristophanes bemoaning the decline of Athens. -- Lawrance Bernabo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2ND IMPRESSION, PREVIOUS OWNER NAME ON FRONT ENDPAPER OTHERWISE UNMARKED, NO DUST JACKET, BLUE BOARDS SILVER LETTERING AND DESIGNS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Red grained cloth with gilt titles. Nice bright and crisp copy with no bumping. Copyright pages 500 copies, 100 numbered and signed. Number underneath is whited out and there is no signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with slight rubbing to gilt title on front cover. No markings. Red cloth. Not issued in jacket. Limited to 500 copies though this copy has a white sticker affixed where limitation number would be.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 228 pp. Wraps are rubbed and yellowed, edgewear. Leaves a little yellowed, bookseller sticker and brief notes inside back wrap. Spine straight and uncreased. beco.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Garden City, New York:Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1931. xv+(4)+333pp. Illustrated with photographs. 1st edition. Hardcover.  Orange boards lightly soiled and sun-faded on spine and edges. Spine and cover label still intact.  Internally, illustrated end-pages still bright. No previous owners marks or signatures. A very good, clean copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited edition, 1000 copies. Quarto, 39 pages + 28 leaves of plates. white morocco spine, raised bands, leather label, marbled boards. Fine condition. Color plates are excellent.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "Elmhurst [has] assembled and produced the data in a readable story, which [shows] irrefutably that Communism [is] not merely a crackpot program for undermining the Christian governments of the world with unworkable socialistic theories carried into practice. The young man [has] scoured up the data in enthralling biographical form, attesting that communism [is] world Jewry in action! I pride myself that I know something about Jews and Communism. In 1918 I found myself in Siberian Russia. I traveled 7,00 versts in that stricken country while Communism was 'coming in'. After coming home from Russia I spent five years in the fleshpots of Hollywood, making moving pictures shoulder to shoulder with Jews. I served a stiff apprenticeship in Jewish psychology and temperament. I read the complete manuscript of [this book] in one evening - at one sitting - because it held my interest, convincingly, unflaggingly, till the last page had been reached. [The author] and his co-helper, Miss Theresa Holm scoured the libraries of the world and compiled therefrom the devasting (sic) data out of the mouths of the Sons of Jacob themselves. Good Christians seem to forget that Christ was the world's outstanding Jew-Baiter and that the sons of Jacob slew him for His Naziism!" - Introduction. "A major American work on the Jewish inspiration and support of communism." - Singerman 0476. [4], 230 pp. Index of individuals. General index and bibliography. Errata slip bound in at page 202. Bright gilt lettering upon original red cloth. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. A rare and very well-preserved first edition example. 7 x 5.75" ; 12mo.…

New York: Random House, 1939. Folio, xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original marbled boards backed in cream leather, red leather backstrip label lettered in gilt. Backstrip somewhat worn and flaking, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. § Limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox, U.S.N. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Meyers was a gunner on the first USS Dale during the War with Mexico. His drawings of the American conquest of California and gold mining activities are of great historical importance. The color plates were reproduced from the original drawings in the collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt.…