Witty Frank (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. 226pp. 7.5 x 5 inches approx. Helping the photographer to make better pictures - both still and cine. Fully illustrated in b&w with adverts. Internally fine but yellow covers very grubby.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hard cover book in good- condition with dust jacket in fair condition. Numerous tears and chips to all edges of jacket with large loss to head of spine. Book rolled. Bumps to head and foot of spine. Pages dog-eared. 12mo. 226pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 232 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0026204509; 9780026204507 LCCN: 76-12608 ; LC: PR5906; Dewey: 821/.8; B ; OCLC: 2164947 ; Frank Tuohy's Yeats is a straightforward biography, sensible, well written, and beautifully illustrated; the photographs are superb.--Denis Donaghue, The New York Times Review of Books ; Contents : Nineteenth century Ireland : The Yeats Family -- Schooldays : Theosophy and Nationalism -- London years : Madame Blavatsky and Maude Gonne -- Poets' clubs and secret societies -- Irish theatre and Irish politics -- Theatre business, management of men -- Coole Park and London SOciety -- From the Easter Rebellion to the Irish Free State -- Blue shirts and historical cycles -- An old man's frenzy ; FINE/FINE. B/w (illustrator). Book.…

579 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Original cloth rubbed with light stains; fraying/scuffing at spine ends and board corners; some shelf-wear along boards' bottom edges; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Toning to text block edges. Past owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper with tear at top center; tear at bottom margin of pages 543-544; interior pages are otherwise clean. Front and rear hinges reinforced by old binding tape; text block is firm. Features 23 essays/chapters, the most interesting of which are: "General Stephen D. Lee - His Life, Character and Services" by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb, "The War in Mississippi after the Fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863" by Gen. Stephen D. Lee, "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Hon. Frank Johnston, "The Tupelo Campaign" by Capt. Theodore G. Carter, "Reconstruction in Carroll and Montgomery Counties" by Mr. Fred M. Witty, "Reconstruction in Lee County" by Mr. W.H. Braden, "Reconstruction in Attalla County" by Mr. E.C. Coleman, Jr., The Development of Manufacturing in Mississippi" by Prof. A.M. Muckenfuss, "History of Prohibition in Mississippi" by Col. W.H. Patton, "Beginnings of Presbyterianism in Mississippi" by Rev. T.L. Haman, "A Chapter in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878" by Mrs. W.A. Anderson, "Aaron Burr in Mississippi" by Bishop Charles B. Galloway, "Jefferson Davis at West Point" by Prof. Walter L. Fleming, "Henry Lowndes Muldrow" by Hon. George J. Leftwich, "History of Port Gibson, Mississippi" by Rev. H.G. Hawkins, "Yazoo County's Contribution to Mississippi Literature" by Judge Robt. Bowman, "Diary of a Mississippi Planter" by Prof. Franklin L. Riley.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 268pp, frontis , illustrations, bound in red cloth, gilt title to front cover; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages.

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