Williams Ruth Editors (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Slightly bumped corners. Clean text. This edited volume of personal experiences of depression has been written by mental health workers, and is the most comprehensive collection of phenomenological accounts of depression in the English language. The book, which takes a positive view of depressive experience, is aimed at a wide range of readers, both professional - doctors, nurses, clinical psychologists - and lay persons such as members of self-help groups for depressed patients and their families. The editors conclude that an episode or episodes of depression does not necessarily mean the end of a productive mental health career and that benefits in personal and professional life can result from the experience of depression. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With the charm, intelligence, humor, and honesty which have endeared him to his many fans, Cal Ripken, Jr., tells the story of his life, from a childhood spent literally in the chalk dust with a father who was a baseball manager through 15 years of his power-hitting, all-star career with the Baltimore Orioles. Ripken also dissects the dedication to craft it takes to be a shortstop, stands up for what's good--and looks square in the eye what's not so good--about baseball today. of color photos. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. First edition stated. Number line beginning with 1. Publishers bookplate with "Limited, signed and numbered printing, September 23. 1989 First Edition Number 3711 of 4000" stated and signed by Charles Cross is glued to verso of front free endpaper across from half-title page. Near fine plus if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jaacket ($24.95). Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.78. Publisher's plain card wraps with integral dust-jacket with printed price of one shilling net to upper. Signed by the editor and contributor Gertrude Ford to the half title. Annotation to title page and to some poem titles. Dust-jacket a little worn to spine with some loss at the ends and the titles mostly faded, some marking and toning. Near fine. A scarce collection of patriotic verse, later expanded and republished in 1917, only eight copies listed as held by British institutions and not traced by Reilly. Contains Poems by Binyon and Plowman amongst others. Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War 63 p.20. Signed by Author.…