Robert spencer introduction (13 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Fine and bright with no wear or markings in a fine jacket - looks new. Well-illustrated in full color. Lots of history. Bibliography and index.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Oversize hardcover in dust jacket. Deaccessioned from the Provincetown (Mass.) Public Library; tight, interior clean. 176 p., well illustrated. Published in 2002 at $35.00 [o f ifo mnqns].

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Midway Reprint. lvii, 241 pp.

First edition Very fine and bright black boards in fine pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Beautiful showcase in full color, many in full-size page. Showing art work and graphicsf.

Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No dust jacket as issued. Reprint Edition . Reprint of the 1877 publication with a new introduction by Robert F. Spencer. Orange linen boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front panel. The binding is tight, a trace of rubbing to the corners. Text is clean and unmarked. Sticker damage on the front pastedown.…

Hard Cover. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. HBDJ, Oversized Brown cloth Titled in Silver Gilt on Spine, Fifth edition Revised,1970, minor rub wear FOX DJ with Tiny Chips Tear Wear Edges Extremities DJ, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox, Spine DJ Darkened Fox with small chip Top Spine DJ end but Titles Intact, 256 pgs, Index, Quarto, DJ protected in Clear Mylar, 9 x 11 1/4 inches. .Book takes its name from the famous Slogan of the Pacific Electric, whose comfortable & Speedy interurbans linked So. Californias Mountains, Beaches , Orange Groves & Cities for more than half a Century. P. E. at its peak had 1,164 miles of track & operated 6,000 scheduled cars Daily. Including Maps, Charts,Historic Photos,Engineering Data Details of Major Lines including Exact Routes and When They Operated, The book is a narrative history of the interurbans and also of the men and cities which were part of them. It recalls the battles between the rail tycoons when Henry Huntington planned to use electric interurbans for a system spanning California & possibly the nation. It analyzes the factors which ended the interurban car.…

Original Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 8 of the 13 stories in the US edition which was published in 1950 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1950' by Frederick Fell. Boards have a little bumping to the spine and corners. Page edges are browned with quite heavy spotting. Endpapers are browned with previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has one small closed edge tear and chipping to the top and bottom of the spine and the corners. The rear panel has some discolouration and light staining. First printing. …

Etat : Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. Landscape. 9½'' x 10¼''. Contains 176 pp with monochrome archive and colour photographs throughout. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, £24.99. Member of the P.B.F.A. SUBMARINES.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 534 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Printing Stated. Very Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks. Dust Jacket Priced $7.50, Light Usage, Shallow Chipping Across Top Edge Of Spine With No Effect On The Lettering. An Excellent Selection. We Await A More Recent Similar Study Of The Best Modern Thinking About Men And Women In Their Social Relationships, Their Governmental Flail In The Wind, And Their Attempts To Self-Interestedly Influence The Thought And Culture Of Others (Although, Now, Of Course, Doing So Without Personal Or General Criticism Of Any Specific Primitive Bureaucrats And Autocrats, Media And Academic Or Corporate Clans, Or Their Grotesque Celebrities).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Copy #S of 26 lettered copies. Fine in full gray calf, in folding cloth box, with original silkscreen art signed by Lou Stovall and numbered 19/250. A collection of essays based on talks delivered at the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Gala on the subject of obsession. Signed by each author at his or her contribution: Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Ann Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer, and Scott Spencer. A gorgeous item and, obviously, an uncommon one. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Etat : Fine. A pleasing copy of this uncommon facsimile collection of music for theatres originally published by Henry Playford and Robert Carr. Facsimile collection, being Series A, Volume I of six. A collection of reproductions of original sheet music for plays and theatre, originally published by Henry Playford, an English music publisher, the younger son and only known surviving child of John Playford, and Robert Carr, an English politician, and favourite of King James VI and I. This volume contains The Theatre of Music, volumes I to IV, first published between 1685 and 1687. With an introduction from Robert Spencer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. None (illustrateur). book.…

Hardcover with slipcase. Limited Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. A frontispiece, of sorts, which is a limited print by Lou Stovall, signed and numbered in pencil, is bound by elastic to the inside of the front board, under a tissue guard. Bound in gray cloth with black lettering stamped on front board along with the blindstamp of the PEN emblem, black lettering on spine. In the matching gray cloth slipcase. Light stains on cloth, light loss to lettering on spine. Laid in is a "PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction" notecard on which is written "Lot of Love / Kay". Each author has signed his or her contribution. Of 44 deluxe copies, this is one of 18 that are numbered (this being number 16). The book is composed of short pieces addressing the subject of "obsession" that were read by prominent authors at the annual PEN gala in Washington, DC in 1993. Lou Stovall (signed print, laid in) (illustrateur). Signed.…