Panama patchwork par gilbert james (86 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Spine edge wear. Binding cracked but still intact. Previous owner's inscription (fake dr. livingstone) on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Decorative Cloth. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. Dark blue cover shows edgewear. Gilt lettering and design bright. TEG. Front hinge cracked but tight. No foxing.

Etat : Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Memorial edition. (Panama, Travel, Poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Minor fading to spine, light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. WSmall smudge of paint on cloth edge.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 8vo, hardcover, no dj, green cloth. Vg condition. Prev. owner's inscription, dated 1920; paper yellowed, 166 pages, several photographs; Exterior lightly rubbed, contents clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1908 Third Edition, Fifth Thousand. Hardcover. Text is clean, binding is strong. Text is in very good condition, dark red cloth cover is worn on the corners, darkened spine. Dedication on first pages dated 1908.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition. No writing inside of the book, some wear and tear, but all in all in very good condition.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Gilbert, James Stanley. PANAMA PATCHWORK. Republic of Panama: The Star & Herald Co. 1937. Memorial Edition - first thus. Poeticdescriptions of life in Panama. Memorial edition published 30 years after the death of the author. Foreword by W. C. Haskins. Many Panamanianphotos on calendered (glossy, slick) paper, vii, 174pp, 8vo (5 1/2" wide x 8" tall) yellow lettering and illustration on black cloth engraved anddesigned by Reinaldo de Pool expressly for this Memorial Edition. Notes on Gilbert and his time together with the description of The Gilbert Housealso by W. C. Haskins. As published without dust jacket. Owner's name inked out on endpaper, title-leaf gutter cracked. Complete, unmarked, cleanand tightly bound. Looks good. In good condition.…

Etat : New.

Cloth. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Hard cover 8vo in maroon cloth w/gold dec and titles. Good/No DJ. Cloth scuffed, owner info front pastedown, stamp rear endpaper, front hinge loose w/stained gutter. 170pp. Book.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No jacket. Black stain on front board. Rubbing and edge wear on boards. Spotting on rear board. Inscription on first blank page. Clean text. Pages are somewhat brittle with toning. Musty odor. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.…

Etat : New.

PF. Etat : New.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HB-VG/ no DJ; maroon with gold lettering & dec., top & bottom spine worn through, corners worn through, top edge gilt, frontispiece, uncut, previous owner inscription on endpapers, yellowing pages.

HRD. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Near FNE, 2nd edition, maroon hard cover with bright gilt embossed palm tree decoration and font on cover and gilt font on spine, 170 pps. Portrait of Gilbert with tissue protected frontispiece. Unmarked, clean and tight. Beautiful cover and contents very well preserved for a copy this old. Cover corners gently bumped. Gilbert was one of the few poets to write extensively about Panama. His poetry does paint a picture of what life was like (for him) in Panama at this time - era of construction of Canal. "Gilbert had begun to write poetry about Panama while employed as shipping agent, and he continued to so so for the rest of his life. From "Away down south in the Torrid Zone,' the first line of his first poem, readers were captivated by Gilbert's vision of the tropical pre-canal Panama. His poems in Panama Patchwork, the book in which "Beyond the Chagres" appeared, were called 'documents of life on the Isthmus' by a New York Times reviewer in 1906. His fans called him the 'poet laurete of the . " GIFT quality, a book which through it's beautiful binding, also pays homage to an era in which binding was a most appreciated art.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Most probably a pirated edition. Octavo; pp. x, 166; Frontispiece portrait of the author, twenty additional black and white photographs, illustrating characters and locations from the poems; terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge, gilt; This book is great fun. Some of the worst rhymes ever contrived with an occasional flash of brilliance. Reflects life in the Canal Zone at the time of construction. The excitement of the challenge, the circumstances of the life there. Other editions are often dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, this one is not. Also contains an obituary of the author who died at Colon in 1906. The late author was an official for the Panamanian Railway. …

Etat : New. In English.

Etat : Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (literature, poetry, poems) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. No Dust Jacket. 170 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine sunned w/ light fraying at ends. Top edge gilt. Edges of leaves a bit age toned, otherwise, contents nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 172 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Previous owner's name/address on front paste-down. Natural toning to blank endpapers. Otherwise, contents nice. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of Columbus Statue, at the Atlantic End of the Panama Canal.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Green cloth boards are well-bound, sunned at spine, light soil & rubbing from handling. Interesting previous owner's inscription on front endpapers. Title page is loose from binding. Fully illustrated with multiple black & white photographs/lithographs. Pages are tanning at edges, all print is highly readable, illustration clean. illustrated (illustrateur).…

HARDCOVER. Etat : VG. 1909. Binding solid, pages toned but crisp and clean, no markings found, a few creased page corners. Burgundy and gold gilt boards still bright and shiny with light scuffs and rubs. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Maroon cloth cover with gilt stamping has light wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Modest soiling to front end sheets and an antiquated poetic inscription on half title page (unsigned). Pages are lightly toned otherwise clean and near pristine. .…