david buffington (23 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Literary journal, with stories about "Unhappy Families"; tributes to John Updike; reviews; essays on John Conrad and Franz Kafka. 502 pages. Interior pages clean and tight, light blue wraps very faintly faded at spine, otherwise fine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, glossy white stapled wraps, 24 pp. (but see notes below). Near Fine; fine but for toning at cover perimeter. See scan. This is, however, an "error" copy, misprinted such that it starts at the front and the back - both with the front cover, inverted (relative to each other); from each cover the pages then proceed until they meet, which is after page 16 in one direction and after page 8 in the other. Prices and of course thorough bibliographic descriptions, as always, but the number of intended lots is not determinable here because of the misprinting. Certainly, a scarcity within the bibliographic genre. L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2000. Quarto, buff wraps with brown imprinting, 64 pp. Very Good; would be fine but for unidentified staining to last few pages and back cover, which does not affect text readability. Prices and of course thorough descriptions of 296 lots, general antiquarian (miscellany). L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, glossy white stapled wraps, 24 pp. Near Fine; fine but for faint toning at cover perimeter and heavier toning at rear cover bottom. See scan. Prices and of course thorough bibliographic descriptions, as always, for in this case 78 lots from the New York ABAA Book Fair 2001. Scarce. L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Octavo glossy white stapled wraps, unpaginated but 24 pp. Fine. Prices and of course thorough descriptions of thirty-odd unnumbered lots, "Books Broadsides & Manuscripts of Interest & Rarity in the Stock of PRB&M". See scan. L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, glossy white stapled wraps, 24 pp. Near Fine; fine but for faint toning at cover perimeter. See scan. Prices and of course thorough bibliographic descriptions, as always, for in this case 78 rare volumes, including three incunables. Scarce. L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2000. Quarto, buff wraps with brown imprinting, 84 pp. Fine. Prices and of course thorough descriptions of 375 lots on the title area of interest: Anglo / Irish /Scots American Miscellany. LBBC.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very good paperback. No date. Catalog 15. Pages clean. Staple binding. Spine faded.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, buff wraps with brown imprinting, 104 pp. Fine. Prices and of course thorough descriptions of 438 lots, general antiquarian (miscellany). L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, glossy white stapled wraps, 44 pp. Near Fine; fine but for faint toning at cover perimeter. See scan. Prices and of course thorough bibliographic descriptions, as always, for in this case 258 lots by woman authors from 1600 - 1971. Scarce. L-G1.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reynolds; Laura (illustratore). 1st Edition. This book has no rips or stains. The sine is tight and intact. There is some wear on the back cover at the top corner. There is also some wear at the edges of the spine. The back cover corner has a crease. This book is signed by the author. Placitas Community Library is a small rural library located in an unincorporated area. All proceeds help pay for the operating expenses of the library. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company. No Date; circa 2001. Quarto, glossy white stapled wraps, 76 pp. Near Fine; fine but for faint toning at cover perimeter. See scan. Prices and of course thorough bibliographic descriptions, as always, for in this case 336 lots of Americana from 1538 to 1965. Scarce. L-G1.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Soft cover published by Historic Preservation League in 1986. Covers have slight edge wear and scuffing, and corners are bumped some. Back cover has slight darkening along side edge. Book is in very good condition. 4to, 95 pages, 1.3 lb.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 95 pages.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. xcii, 345-499pp. Small ink spot on front wrapper, near fine. Essays by Robert Buffington, David Mason, Fred Chappell. Poetry by Jim Barnes, Morri Creech, George Keithley, David Mason, Edward Pols, Peter Robinson, Gladys Swan, Grace Schulman. Fiction by John Robinson. The State of Letters by X.J. Kennedy, Phyllis F. Dorset, Mike Pride, B.H. Fairchild. Arts and Letters by Sam Pickering, Robert Hahn, and David Middleton.

Softcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Blue wrappers. Octavo. xxii, 169pp. Fine. Fiction by Ernest J. Finney, Andrew Plattner, K.K. Roeder. Essays by Geoffrey Tillotson and Denis Donoghue. Poetry by Joseph Harrison, Daniel Hoffman, David Middleton, Galdys Swan, Charles Wyatt. Essays by Robert Buffington, Eugene Goodheart. The State of Letters by David Heddendorf, Francis Blessington, Michael Gorra, George Garrett, Bruce Allen. Arts and Letters by Casey Clabough, Mark Harman, John McCormick, Donald Stone, Cushing Strout, and Ed Minus.

Softcover. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 216 pages. In Very Good condition. Paperback binding. Spine pictorial black and blue with white lettering. Covers show minimal shelf wear, minor wear to the edges and light crease to the spine. Text block has has very slight wear to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QA (ND-QA). 1373220. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reynolds; Laura (illustratore). Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

publisher's cloth. 8vo. publisher's cloth. ix, 135, (4) pages. Edited by Cynthia Davis Buffington. Limited to 250 numbered copies. As-new condition. Printing in North America began not in 1640 in Massachusetts, but in 1539, in Mexico, at a point in printing history when technique, typography, and aesthetic norms were widely first-rate. The European printers who came to the New World to produce the "incunables" and other "early printed" works of Mexico and Peru maintained the high standards of their homelands in a degree that astonishes those whoe understanding of early American printing has been based purely on familiarity with the works produced a hundred and more years later in what is now the U.S. Thirty-nine Books and Broadsides describes works that well represent the earliest Mexican printing, the rarities including 14 New World incunabula, 9 the only known surviving copies (3 described for the first time), several second known and several more earliest known copies, and a number of works with woodcut illustrations - all from a major private collection. All entries are illustrated and provide exact collations; notably, the bibliography provides the very first accurate system of description for 16-century New World broadsides. Each item fully described bibliographicaly and illustrated as well. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

Paperback. Condizione: VG/No Dustjacket. Black & White/Color Illus. (illustratore). First Edition. Nurnberg, Germany: Ernest Paul Lehmann Patentwerk. VG/No Dustjacket. 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Sm 4to., 216 pp., shelfwear .

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ships Out Tomorrow!

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 16 pages; Very good condition in original self wrappers; pages unopened, small stain at upper right corner of front wrapper. OCLC 43906948 This Minority Report of the Select Committee of Fifteen on the Kansas Question, particularly their opinion on the Lecompton Constitution which would admit Kansas as a slave-holding state and President Buchanan's aggressive support of it. The report presents the historical context of the Kansas Question along with the evidence undermining the validity of the Lecompton Constitution, based on the voter fraud afflicting its initial ratification in late 1857 and its clear defeat by more than 10,000 votes in the second referendum held in January 1858. "That the President has been misinformed and badly afvided 'in relation to the condition of parties in Kansas.' Thou he says 'a great delusion seems to pervade the public mind,' it is quite apparent that the public might with greater justice say,' thou theyself beholdest not the beam that is thine own eye.'" KANSAS QUESTION - Kansas Territory was officially established in 1854 with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act provided that each territory would decide the issue through the constitution under which it would enter the union. Kansas Territory, because of its proximity to Missouri, a slave state, became a political and literal battleground for pro- and anti-slavery forces. Contested elections, armed conflict, and recruitment of and support for settlers from both the North and the South contributed to the label of "Bleeding Kansas." The battle for Kansas was waged also in the halls of Congress, the national press, and anywhere people gathered to discuss or debate the issues of the day. All of this increased the tensions between the North and the South, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Kansas conflict further polarized the nation and weakened the American two-party political system, which was already unravelling under the pressures of sectionalism and westward expansion. The Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, with its pro-Southern, state rights bent, was well entrenched, but the Whig Party of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster lost its sway during the late 1840s and early 1850s. Dissidents from both parties ultimately organized as the Free Soil Party in 1848, and the new party united around the Wilmot Proviso (a ban on slavery in the territory acquired as a result of the Mexican War). Although their candidate, former Democratic president Martin Van Buren, ran a distant third, the introduction of a significant third party was a harbinger of political things to come. In less than six years, despite the efforts of Clay, Webster, and others who fashioned the Compromise of 1850, the two party system reached its breaking point with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. During the months surrounding the 1856 election, several incidents in Kansas Territory and in Washington, D.C. drastically altered the national discourse. Civil war broke out in Kansas with the sacking of Lawrence and the subsequent Pottawatomie Massacre of May 1856; while in Congress, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner denounced the slave power and its "rape of Kansas" in his famous "Crime Against Kansas" speech. Throughout 1856 much congressional time and attention was given to the Kansas Question, especially as it pertained to the proposed free-state Topeka Constitution. Although the violence in Kansas subsided, sectional strife had risen to a new level. Immediately after the inauguration of President James Buchanan, the U.S. Supreme Court entered the fray. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney rendered the decision of the high court in Dred Scott v Sanford, which in effect held that slaves were not citizens of the U.S., residency in a "free" state did not alter their status, and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in the territories. The decision made the Missouri Comprise unconstitutional. Drawing on the dissenting opinions of two Northern jurists, opposition to the decision was vehement. In 1857 the Lecompton Constitutional Convention eventually resulted in the ratification of a proslave constitution for Kansas, which badly split the national Democratic Party. Subsequently, anti-slavery Kansans were in the majority by January 1858 when they defeated the Lecompton Constitution in a second referendum. Despite this fact, President Buchanan submitted the Lecompton document to Congress and recommended that Kansas be admitted as a slave state. Many Northern Democrats, including the influential Senator Douglas, who recognized the violation of the principal of popular sovereignty in the Lecompton action, split with their party's president on this issue. Subsequently, the Senate voted for admission and the House for resubmission; a compromisethe English bill, providing for an up or down vote by territorial residents on the constitution passed both houses on April 30, and Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected the Lecompton Constitution on August 2, 1858. Technically, because of Dred Scott, slavery remained legal in the territory of Kansas until admission; in reality, however, the free-state victory in the fall 1857 legislative elections and the defeat of the pro-slave constitution in 1858 settled the issue for Kansas. As Senator Douglas had indicated during one of his debates with Abraham Lincoln, slavery could not survive, no matter what the courts might say, in a territory where the majority was hostile to its continued existence. (Excerpted from "Territorial Kansas Online").

Condizione: new.