William White Compiler (11 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 410pp. Trade paperback, VG, index, footnotes, Democratick Editorials : Essays in Jacksonian Political Economy,

Paperback. Condition: Good+/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator). First Edition. Pittsfield, MA: The Eagle Publishing Group. Good+/NO DUSTJACKET. 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Sm 4to., Unpaginated (text block measures approx. 0.5inches thick), Cover has some shelf wear, creasing, and soiling, tear on back bottom joint corner (see photos); pages clean and unmarked .

Paperback. x, 246p., statement, foreword, introduction, catalog, glossary, b&w and color illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Hemingway, Ernest 1st. ed. Merrill Studies. v.g. wrappers. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

No edition/printing statement provided. 511 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket with large losses to front panel and spine ends; other lesser chips, jagged tears, and creasing; some toning to flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Paper boards; small losses to spine ends with heel also bumped; glue repairs to surface paper tearing along front and rear joints; slender wear to boards' top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with several stains. Personal bookplates of two different owners on front endpapers; toning to pages 100-101 from removed newspaper clipping; paper clip impressions at tops of pages 362-363, 404-405, and 428-429. Binding is firm. Page 511 notes that the publishers of the Looking Glass Library are Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and Edward Gorey with consulting editors being W.H. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, and Edmund Wilson. Book's spine heel notes "LGL | 14" with page 511 listing fifteen books in the series (but citing "The Looking Glass Book of Stories" as twelfth sequentially) which may or may not be an issue point although it seems unlikely that the book would have enjoyed more than one printing. Edward Gorey (Edward St. John Gorey, 1925-2000) is credited as the illustrator of the dust jacket and boards (which share a matching design) as well as the title page and the four section titles on pages 9, 61, 255, and 403. An anthology of short stories compiled by Yale graduate and Phillips Andover Academy English instructor Hart Day Leavitt (1909-2008) which features thirty-three contributions by James Thurber, John Collier, Robert M. Coates, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White [Elwyn Brooks White], Saki [H.H. Munro - Hector Hugh Munro], Oscar Wilde, Stephen Vincent Benet, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Frank R. Stockton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekov, Conrad Aiken, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells], Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, et al.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Copyright is October of 1908. Fore edges of covers are a little creased, and there is a little darkening on covers near edges. Volume is otherwise tight and intact. Glassine covers are heavily chipped.

Later Edition. Octavo (20 cm); cobalt blue publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; viii,564pp. Spine sunned and slightly cocked; dampstaining to boards, with mild soiling and rubbing to extremities; (period) sticker on front pastedown; rear pastedown/endpaper gutter has small horizontal tear; textblock edges toned, interiors clean. Overall Very Good+. A dictionary of quotables from "chiefly the great men among the Anglo Saxon race", from Plato to the Pope, from Cicero to Shakespeare, to Longfellow, Emerson, and Byron, and more. Quotes are arranged by theme in alphabetical order. First published in London in 1852, this is a reprint of the 1853 American edition (Lippincott), which highlights a higher proportion of maxims from distinguished "Anglo Saxon" countrymen.

Condition: fine. First compiled in 1852 featuring Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, etc. "There are few minds but might furnish some instruction and entertainment out of their scraps, their odds and ends of thought. may at least produce a patchwork, which may be useful, and not without a charm of its own." (Compiler, William White). 16mo. 16cm, Sixth Edition, viii,560pp., in contemporary full fine morocco grain brown calf, raised black ruled raised bands jointed over the spine edges, with elaborated black blind-stamped decorations and borders and in the spine panels, gilt title, beveled edges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt goffered, the upper hinge has been expertly restored, in fine condition, sound, a pleasing contemporary copy in fine antique binding.

Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). Akron, OH: ***** Self Published *****. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1909). . Cloth. Sm 4to., 179 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, soiled, page toning & foxing .

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Quarto (11-1/2" x 8"). 3 volumes. xxi, (7), 211, (1); xiii, (1), 184; xiii, (1), 226pp. Each vol. with an index. Original half brown morocco (some rubbing near foot of spines) over beveled cloth. Illustrated throughout with photos (of pottery, architecture, important individuals and historical sites from the Jewish communities in China), drawings, and maps. White's work is the first serious attempt to document the history of the Jewish Chinese community. Also included in the text is a lengthy codex in Hebrew and Chinese. This is an ex-library set but with very minimal markings (each volume has a small rubber stamp on the half-title and what appears to be the shadows or remnants of some other removed labels). William White (1873-1960) was a Canadian Church Minister in Fukien and later became the first Anglican Bishop of Honan, a post he held for 25 years. After being driven out of China by the civil wars, he returned to Toronto in 1935 where he became Professor of Chinese Studies at the University. During his time in China he was an inveterate (and controversial) collector of Chinese artifacts and antiquities for the Royal Ontario Museum and would later become the "Keeper of the Asiatic Collection." Note: Vol. 3, is by White in collaboration with Ronald James Williams and it Includes bibliographical references.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 582. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1868 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1868 Language: English Pages: 582 Volume 1868.