simpson robert w editor (8 résultats)

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good. Softcovers; ex-corporate library; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition.

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY EDITOR GARY. W. GALLAGHER. xviii, 283 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; short surface scratch at rear panel's lower right; slight curling/bumping at top of front panel; no printed price on dj's front flap. Black cloth with bold white stamped lettering to spine. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with Gallagher's ink signature upon the title page. Features eight essays examining different aspects of the Battle of the Wilderness which lead to General Robert E. Lee's surrender and the end of the American Civil War: "Great Expectations: Ulysses S. Grant, the Northern Press, and the Opening of the Wilderness Campaign" by Brooks D. Simpson; "Our Hearts Are Full of Hope: The Army of Northern Virginia in the Spring of 1864" by Gary W. Gallagher; "I Dread the Spring: The Army of the Potomac Prepares for the Overland Campaign" by John J. Hennessy; "Union Cavalry in the Wilderness: The Education of Philip H. Sheridan and James H. Wilson" by Gordon C. Rhea; "Escaping the Shadow of Gettysburg: Richard S. Ewell and Ambrose Powell Hill at the Wilderness" by Peter S. Carmichael; "'Lee to the Rear,' the Texans Cried" by Robert K. Krick; "The Other Grant: Lewis A. Grant and the Vermont Brigade in the Battle of the Wilderness" by Carol Reardon; and "Like a Duck on a June Bug: James Longstreet's Flank Attack, May 6, 1864" by Robert E.L. Krick. Also with Introduction, b/w illustrations including several maps; Bibliographical Essay, Contributors, and Index. ISBN 0807823341.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardcover, full blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine, 446 pages. Clean and square copy, text unmarked. PO's inscription on ffep, light discoloration to front cover and spine. 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Gretchen Dow Simpson "snowy field" cover art; also, drawings by W.D. Park, Warren Miller, Willliam Steig, Dana Fradon, Ed Arno, Stan Hunt, George Booth, Roz Chast, etc (illustrateur). 1st. stapled wraps; 124 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: Poetry (Joseph Brodsky, Elizabeth Macklin); Charles Dickinson ("Child in the Leaves"); Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr. (Reporter at Large: Soviet Space Program); Alex Shoumatoff (Far-Flung Correspondents: Madagascar); Elizabeth Dre (Letter fro Washington); Arlene Croce (Dancing); Bourke-White retrospective full page ad w/photo; Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Reviews, Etc.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 94. Publisher's green cloth titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s. to front flap. A little dustiness to edges, dust-jacket lightly handled, toned to spine. Near fine.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 8 pages. Published for Christmas 1961. Features poems by Michael Benedikt, Ann Sexton, Jerome Rothenberg, Robert Kelly, Barbara Guest, Armand Schwerner, David Ignatow, William Stafford, James Wright, Robert Creeley, and Louis Simpson. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Signed by Merwin on the front cover and uncommon as such. Signed.

Leather. Etat : Very Good. None (illustrateur). A smartly bound copy of this collection of poetry from seventeenth century English writer Robert Herrick. With a portrait frontispiece. The collected poetry of Robert Herrick, a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. With chapters containing the full book of Hesperides, his Nobel Numbers, and additional poems. With a full index of titles and first lines. Edited by Frederic William Moorman, an English poet and playwright. With a prefatory note by Percy Simpson, an English literary scholar. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Full Morocco. Etat : Very Good. 446 pp. Full black morocco with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Endpapers marbled and all edges gilt. With a frontispeice. Thin paper edition. With a ribbon bookmark, loosely enclosed. Rubbing to the spine and edges. Binding firm. With a bookplate belonging to American scholar and poet Wilmon Brewer and his wife Katharine to the front pastedown. Internally clean. 8vo.