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hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 378 pages. Some wear to the covers; pages yellowed; broken hinges; some pencil marks; a reading/reference book still. 1924 edition. Title page says "comprising dry, chemical or French cleaning; purification of benzine, removal of stains or spotting, wet cleaning, including the cleaning of Palm Beach suits and other summer fabrics, finished cleaned fabrics, cleaning and dyeing furs, skin rugs and mats, cleaning and dying feathers, cleaning and renovating felt, straw and Panama hats, cleaning and dyeing gloves, garment dyeing, stripping colors from garments and fabrics, analysis of textile fabrics, practical chemistry for the cleaner and dyer." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 146625.

Stapled. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 88 pp. The top 4" of the spine fold of the cover has split. The binding is tight and the text is clean. Cover story: "Europe's Kings and Queens.".

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. VG+ / VG+. 1st Printing of the 1977 Oxford Standard Authors Edition thus, edited, with preface and introduction, byRoger Lonsdale.Book is straight, square, faintly and uniformly age toned, securely bound (despite some glue showing along gutter of TP), and free of markings and blemishes. Cover and Dust Jacket (clipped at bottom of front flap and encased in protective mylar) are clean and bright, with small chip at top of DJ backstrip, very gently bumped corners and heads, sharp joints, straight tails, spine / backstrip, hinges and edges, boldly legible lettering and crisply distinct design and artwork. (Please see Seller images.) ISBN 0192541706. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping; please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING or for more information, details or photos.

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. Illustrated by Jack Potter (Coca Cola ad on back o (illustrator). Square, tight binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Kane and Stewart, "Rome: Eternal City with a Modern Air"; Grosvenor, G. & Marden, "Hydrofoil Ferry 'Flies' the Strait of Messina"; Mann, Sisson & McBain, "The Wild Animals in My Life"; Platt, "A Visit to the Living Ice Age"; Gray, "Three Roads to Rainbow"; Bumstead, "Rockets Explore the Air Above Us." Back of wraps displays a Coca-Cola ad, "When you come to Hawaii.," with art in color by Jack Potter (1927-2008). 10.0" tall. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

hardcover, Condition: poor, T.O.H.P. Burnham, at the Antiquarian Bookstore, Boston, 1860, 8vo., cloth, 380pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, spine & covers detached from text, cracked between some signatures, poor $.

Condition: Good. 1917. No Edition Remarks. 324 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates to page 206. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good hardcover. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks to cover but otherwise in good condition. Age tanning to pages. Corners slightly scuffed. No d/w brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Gilding to page edges.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: Good. [4] pp., single sheet folded once to 9 x 5.75 in. Includes a poem by Whigham. Good copy only, with two later horizontal folds and a bit of dustiness.

hardcover, Condition: fair, Garrett & Massie, Richmond, 1956, 8vo., cloth, 229pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, frayed spine caps, peel-marked ep, ow G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. VOL1: ED FROM ORIGINAL BY WILLIAM BRAY. BIOGRAPHICAL INTRO BY EDITOR. INTRO BY RICHARD GARNETT. UNIVERAL CLASSICS LIBRARY. ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAVURES ON JAPAN VELLUM, ETCHING HAND PAINTED INDIA PLATE REPRODUCTIONS , AND FULL PAGE PORTRAITS OF AUTHORS. GREEN CLOTH, 380 PAGES, UNTRIMMED PAGE SIDES, GILT ON TOP EDGE. CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, SOME MARKS ON CLOTH, SECTION OF BINDING FROM UNIVERSAL CLASSICS LIBRARY PAGE TO TITLE PAGE IS DETACHED AT BOTTOM, PAGES AT FRONT ARE TANNED, FOXING ON PAGE 1 OF TEXT AND FACING PAGE, SMALL TEARS ON SIDE OF AGES FROM 104 TO 166, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1000 GRAMS. VOL 2: CLOTH TORN AT TOP OF SPINE, SOME MARKS ON CLOTH, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, PAGES TANNED AT FRONT, PAGE SIDES TANNED, OTHERWISE GOOD. 1000 GRAMS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tiny if any signs of wear, book in great condition. Please refer to photos.

Soft Cover. Stapled binding is holding pages tightly. Pages clean but age-darkened. Wrappers are brittle, fragile at staples with edge wear, shelf wear, tanning around edges. Contents: Swan, Amour among animals. Troy, The new Parnassianism and recent poetry. Moore, Interlude with a pu-pu bird. Brinnin, The acrobats. Baff, Script. Burr, Harbor impression. Newton, Major catastrophe. Howes, Carpe diem. Moss, The robbery. Neruda, Return of autumn. Bromley, Watch. Eberhart, White lily and hail. Wahl, On poetry. Buchanan, Annunciation. Kees, Girl at midnight. Honig, Ballads for Janus. Book reviews. 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 48 pages. Fair in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: Oxford University Press 1959. (Oxford Standard Authors). Sixth printing of the Third Edition of 1937; first published in this series in 1919. 328p. 5 black & white plates including facsimiles and portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in a similar unclipped dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 409 pages. There is a hint of foxing to reverse of cover, front endpaper and outer edges of textblock, and light age-toning to page margins, o/w a lovely copy in very good, clean condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair.