Wright Austin Tappan (64 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In 'read once' condition, clean, tight and square, slight shelf wear and signs of ownership. No marks or inscriptions. ; 136 X 46 X 203 millimeters; 1024 pages.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Nuevo.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Stated first printing, April 1966. Off white covers have some shelf wear/edge wear and light mottling. Pages moderately age toned. Binding secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Decorated cloth-covered boards are well-bound, though front fly-leaf & half-title page are loose, all else, firm. Sunning at spine, light soil & rubbing from handling, a bit of dust at textbox edge. Pages clean throughout.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Brown cloth, no DJ. brief gift inscription and previous owner's name label. Some toning of the cloth, other wise a VG unmarked copy.

Condition: good. Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and minimal wear. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

viii, 1013 p., unbeschnitten (uncut), Einband gering berieben und leicht fleckig, Rücken vergilbt, einige Seiten mit Bleistiftanstreichungen, ansonsten gutes Exemplar (binding slightly worn, yellowed and a bit stained, some pencil notes, all in all in good condition), Englisch. ****An unsere Kunden in Deutschland: Versand nach Deutschland einmal in der Woche ab Freilassing mit der Deutschen Post.*** - Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 8° Orig.-Ganzleinen, Rücken- und Deckelgoldprägung,farbiger Kopfschnitt (bookbinders cloth, top-edge colored).

hardcover. Condition: Fair. binding is a bit detached. cover detached from pages but still in tact, just noticeably flimsy while reading. otherwise covers are in good shape with some minor wear. unmarked - rw.

paperback. Condition: Good. 3rd printing of this edition. Dust staining to edges, interior not written in but with faint tanning. Binding intact but has external creasing.

Soft cover. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. DJ- Chipped corners, edges of spine heavily chipped. Edges worn. Covered in mylar wrap. Split to FFEP binding. Residue from previous owner bookplate on FFEP. Otherwise good condition with clean unmarked pages. BP/Fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light soiling to cream colored boards. Endpapers depicting maps in as new condition. Pages clean and bright. Green text block intact. Dust jacket has some wear to spine top and to bottom lower right. Tight binding. A very nice copy. First edition, first printing with priced dust jacket. Also has the "Reward" card that was issued with this book that is usually missing. A highly detailed Utopian fantasy that Wright labored over for years, only to have it posthumously published. The introduction is by Leonard Bacon, the afterward by Sylvia Wright, the author's editor & daughter. Generally considered a "utopian" novel, Islandia describes the journey and adventures of John Lang, a once very proper American college student. Austin Tappan Wright did not just write a novel of adventures in a strange land and civilization; Islandia is a country with a history, towns, cities and streets, its own geography, language, people (and demographics), politics, law and customs, even its virtues and faults.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. After his untimely death in 1931 at age 48 in a New Mexico auto accident, legal scholar and attorney Austin Tappan Wright left behind lengthy manuscripts of this novel and related writings. The novel was organized and edited by his widow Margaret and daughter Sylvia and eventually published in 1942 by Farrar & Rinehart. --- This is the story of an intricately-organized society in the imagined nation of Islandia, situated somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. The people of Islandia, per Wright, had established a rule (among many others), limiting outside visitors to one hundred at any one time, so as to preserve the unique ethos of the country. A life-long project for the author, he also concocted an elaborate history of Islandia, with genealogies, glossary of the Islandian language and other well-organized data. This classic, often compared to J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, is an entry in publishers' 'Utopian Literature' series. Includes a fold-out 30 cm. x 24 cm. map of Islandia by Robert Graves, and an introduction by Leonard Bacon. --- A 1971 reprint edition of the original 1942 issuance. In full mustard cloth-covered boards with simple cover and spine titling in brown. Volume lacks a dust jacket, likely as issued. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound and unmarked copy, though with retailer's sticker to front paste-down, dampstains to last few leaves and small creases to corners of some leaves. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, [2], 1013, [5] pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Signet Paperback, Fourth Printing. This is a VG Signer E4621 paperback, fourth printing copy, white spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 3rd printing. Soiling to cloth. Name stamp to title page. Edge wear to jacket. $3.00 price on jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. A great utopian fantasy novel, comparable in conception and complexity to Tolkien's "Middle Earth." Wright, a law professor and legal scholar, created "Islandia" over many years in his free time after his academic duties at various U.S. universities, including Stanford, Michigan and Pennsylvania. When he died in an auto accident in New Mexico in 1931, he left a manuscript of over 2,300 pages plus appendices on a country called "Islandia," The appendices and a book-length general history of Islandia described language, culture, customs, population, historic peerage, and geography. His wife and daughter edited the work and trimmed it to the 1,013 pages published in the first edition in 1942. This copy is an early printing of the 1942 First Edition, lacking the publisher's colophon on the copyright page signifying the first printing. The original light tan buckram-covered boards are age and sun-darkened, particulary on the spine and along the edges, with some minor fraying of the cloth at the corners. The previous owner's bookplate is pasted to the front free endpage, concealing part of the Robert Graves-designed map on the pastedown. The front endpapers and first two dozen pages of text show a mild lower corner crease on the thin, WWII-era pages; text edges are lightly soiled and stained. Sorry, the dustjacket is missing. All that said, the book remains the 1942 first edition, complete and with the Leonard Bacon introduction. It is basically clean and unmarked, still tight and square. A great novel at a decent price.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Very crisp and clean in illustrated map boards and endpapers. Covered in a bright jacket that has minimal nicking to the top of the spine. and some creasing to the front flap. Author's brilliant fantasy novel set in the mythical kingdom of Islandia. An attractive copy.

Hardcover, 1013 pages. Condition: Good. First edition, missing dust jacket. Minor wear and soiling to cloth boards, corners lightly bumped and frayed. Owner's inscription to half title page. Minor soiling to text block fore edge, bleeds slightly into last few pages. Rest of interior clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. 1st. Author's first book. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt. Very minor stains to front cover, else a clean copy.

Condition: Very Good. Rinehart & Company 1958 white cloth illustrated boards. top and bottom edges of boards slightly age toned. previous owner small stamp to half title page. binding tight. dust jacket age toned with tape repairs to corners. overall, a handsome copy.

First edition First of the 1958 edition. Near fine illustrated white boards with green title to spine. Map boards. Inside front and rear flyleaf with blue map of the Karain Continent, where Islandia resides on its northern part. Crisp and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The classic Utopian novel. The author's first and only book. First printing thus. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in a good (long closed tear at the base of the front spine edge, age toning) dust jacket. ; 1013 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Scarce. Boards are tanned, minor edge wear. No jacket, but it also includes "A Study Guide to Islandia"- staplebound, folded. Pages of both books are clean, NO foxing or markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Third Printing. Original gilt-titled cloth, map endsheets. Third large printing as stated on DJ flap. Cloth lightly toned, slightly soiled, worn to spine ends; gilt dulled. Lower points gently bumped. The DJ is chipped to edges, torn along spine joints with interior tape repairs. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1013 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. First Edition. 1st prtg, pub colophon on copyright pg. White fabric covered boards, with black title-block. title in gilt, front & spine, very clean, bright copy w/minimal soiling of any kind; b/w map eps, 1013 pp. + endnote by Sylvia Wright. Size: 6" - 9".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The classic Utopian novel. The author's first and only book. Third printing of the first edition. Previous owner's name on half-title page, else very good in a very good (moderate edge wear) dust jacket. ; 1013 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Originally published in 1942, this is the Second Edition of 1958. A Fine copy in white cloth, blue map endpapers, in a Near Fine dustwrapper of similar design, not price-clipped, one short closed tear to top rear spine-fold. 1018pp. Fantasy novel. Q18657.