William Walter Shaw (106 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 384 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by J. K. Potter. This anthology contains: Imposter by Philip K. Dick; The Liberation of Earth by William Tenn; Asylum - a novella by A. E. van Vogt; Exposure by Eric Frank Russell; Invasion of Privacy- a novelette by Bob Shaw; What Have I Done? by Mark Clifton; The Soul Empty Ones - a novelette by Walter M. Miller Jr.; The Cloud Men by Owen Oliver; The Stone Man - a novelette by Fred Saberhagen; For I Am a Jealous People - a novella by Lester del Rey; Don't Look Now by Henry Kuttner; The Certificate by Avram Davidson; The Alien Rulers - a novelette by Piers Anthony; Squeeze Box by Philip E. High; and Living Space by Isaac Asimov. J. K. Potter; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 249 pages, lots of b/w photos. A little rough around the edges.

Condition: Very Good. : Sumérgete en una colección imprescindible de la literatura estadounidense con 'Fifty Best American Short Stories'. Esta antología reúne obras maestras de cincuenta de los autores más destacados de Estados Unidos, ofreciendo una visión panorámica de la narrativa corta americana. Desde relatos conmovedores hasta historias llenas de ingenio, este volumen es un tesoro literario que celebra la diversidad y el talento de la escritura en Estados Unidos. EAN: 9780517603543 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Fifty Best American Short Stories Autor: Martha Foley| Robert M. Coates| Wilbur Daniel Steele| Lawrence Sargent Hall| Ernest Hemingway| Elsie Singmaster| William Saroyan| Augusta Wallace Lyons| James Thurber| William Faulkner| John Stewart Carter| Jesse Stuart| Willa Cather| George P. Garrett| Bernard Malamud| John Cheever| Ray Bradbury| Philip A. Roth| Sherwood Anderson| John Steinbeck| Thomas Wolfe| John Updike| F. Scott Fitzgerald| Tennessee Williams| William Eastlake| James Agee| Theodore Dreiser| Joyce Carol Oates| Richard Wright| H. W. Blattner| Frank Butler| Hortense Calisher| James Baldwin| Lionel Trilling| Ring Lardner| Shirley Jackson| William March| Paul Horgan| Tillie Olsen| Irwin Shaw| Kay Boyle| Walter Van Tilburg Clark| Jean Stafford| Elliott, George P.| Pietro Di Donato| Tess Slesinger| Nancy Hale Editorial: Random House Value Publishing Idioma: en Páginas: 814 Formato: tapa dura.…

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xx, 251 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Pale green cloth. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. With b/w illustrations, Foreword by Peter H. Raven, Foreword by Robert R. Archibald, Acknowledgements, Introduction "From a garden looking out: public culture in Henry Shaw's St. Louis" by editor Eric Sandweiss, Contributors, and Index. Features eight chapters titled as: "Gods in Ruins: St. Louis Politicians and American Destiny, 1764-1875" by Kenneth H. Winn; "African Americans in Henry Shaw's St. Louis" by Antonio F. Holland; "Learning from the 'Majority-Minority' City: Immigration in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis" by Walter D. Kamphoefner; "The Economy of Nineteenth-Century St. Louis" by James Neal Primm; "Enterprise and Exchange: The Growth of Research in Henry Shaw's St. Louis" by Michael Long; "Public Education in Nineteenth-Century St. Louis" by William J. Reese; "Shaping the Authentic: St. Louis Theater Culture and the Construction of American Social Types, 1815-1860" by Louis Gerteis; "Themes and Schemes: The Literary Life of Nineteenth-Century St. Louis" by Lee Ann Sandweiss. ISBN 0826214398.…

Condition: New.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fair. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original grey-green paperback with custom printed label on the spine, clear tape reinforcement at the spine. Lacking back cover and the map that was in the envelope attached to the back cover. But otherwise complete. Overall in FAIR condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Black cloth, gold lettering, nice shape. Map in back pocket. Washington State.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green trade size paperback Map of Mount Ranier National Parks in a pocket inside back cover. Book has light edge wear with a short tear at top of spine and discoloration on the spine. Interior has some foxing; otherwise is clean, tight and unmarked. Black and white photos of scenes, mammals and birds. 249 pages with Index. William and Irene Finley and others (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. This is a terrific condition poetry collection of a travelling salesman, "REVERIES OF A DRUMMER" - A Book of Verse by William Walter Shaw. 1926 1st edition; Sixth Avenue Publishing Company; Los Angeles. Faux leather binding. The book is richly illustrated with drawings and photographs throughout. Decorative end papers. From the Dedication page: "These verses are respectfully dedicated to that band of cheerful workers who form the advance guard of commerce, carrying optimism and gladness into every corner of our great land, making bright the dark spots in life, and spreading sunshine and happiness wherever they go, the commercial travellers of America." Shaw was a retired advertising professional and traveling salesman from Ohio, and this poetry collection reflects the musings and observations from his career and personal history. Condition: Clean covers and spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the pages are clean and appear unread with no issues found. Some light foxing to the first few and last few pages. Overall the book is in Near Fine condition. NOTE - the book was manufactured with the half title page upside-down. Addison Johnson (illustrator).…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book is in good condition, showing tiny chips to tips of corners and edges, light foxing to text block, a tiny chip to top of front board near spine, light rubbing to surfaces, a slight crack between two pages, moderate general wear; otherwise in good shape with sturdy binding and clean pages. A nice copy for reading or reference.…

no dustjacket, hardcover. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 550 pages; good hardcover no dustjacket; tanning pages lightly; faint tan to board and scuff; fade spine; spine starting to slant; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Brown embossed cloth boards. Light wear to covers. Lacking front free endpaper, else very good. Erased penciled price in upper corner of flyleaf, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Typeset by the author. 68 illustrations (from photographs and drawings), including 15 illustrations by Addison Johnson, additional vignette line drawings, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. xxi, (22)-200 pages. A book of verse by William Walter Shaw (1861-1951), a retired advertising-man and traveling salesman. He was the son of the Coshocton, Ohio, pioneer Barzilla Shaw. William lived and worked in Coshocton until about 1916, when he moved to New York City and became involved in the printing business. After a decade in NYC, he retired to Los Angeles and published Reveries of a Drummer in December 1926. A handful of the poems are written from the perspective of a traveling salesman or commercial traveler, who were at the time known as ''drummers,'' out to ''drum-up'' business. Includes one poem-tale about a Coshocton baseball game played by the Coshocton Braves (perhaps modeled after the Coshocton High School Redskins). There is also a short ode to Paul Laurence Dunbar. Includes 15 illustrations by the Southern California artist Addison Johnson (1892-1986), drawn by him in the period 1917-1918.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket. First Printing. Very Good Condition, with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, some browning to edges of interior pages and along cover spine, slight bow to covers. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for inscription written on front endpaper, previous owner's name and address written on inside front cover. Map included in sleeve affixed to inside back cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 32pp incl papers cited; SC, pictorial white wraps with black on face; edges sl dark, 1" closed tear spine bot, lt wear; clean; from the occasional papers pub by the museum at the State College of WA, second in a series on birds and mammals of the Northwest.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Map in rear pocket. Softcover, light shelfwear to covers. Very small tears at head and foot of spine. Contents clean and tight. 249 pages, index, b&w photos.

Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good +. First Ediition. faux brown leather, gold embossed titles on front and spine, rubbing along front spine edge, tips of corners, mild scratching, numerous b/w drawings throughout, book body clean and tight, 1928 gift inscription, father to son, on front flyleaf.

Condition: Good. With loose foldable map in pocket in rear; No dust jacket.

Condition: New. In English.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Soiled and rubbed wraps attached with cloth book repair tape, in mylar sleeve, nice fold-out map of outstanding modern buildings by living architects in America, introductory note on issue two and insert laid in.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Oversized, Heavy, Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Good condition book with brown-spotting to edges, tape ghosting to interior front and back pastedown endpapers, musty odor, small owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Book is still tight and sound. Fair condition, price-clipped dustjacket with white, 1.5 inch wide labels adhered to white side top and bottom edges as reinforcement, tears, creases rubs to edges and spine and covers. No map.…