Geoffrey c ward editor (67 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket as Issued. BX6 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in yellow wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there is a crease in the back cover towards the bottom left corner plus there is some light overall soiling of the cover plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. The series editor is Robert Atwan. A collection of notable and award winning essays published in 1996. Biographical notes, 370p. Size: 5.5"x8.25".…

Paperback. Condizione: As New.

Paperback. Condizione: As New.

Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Good paperback, some highlighting, text brackets.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New Edition. DJ spine and fornt cover has some sun fading. Front of DJ has some light scuffing.

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. AH 05 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: Whoso Would Learn Wisdom, Let Him Enter Here! (Charles Willson Peales Museum); Unearthing the Mastodon (complete skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon exhumed by C.W. Peale in 180) by Charles Coleman Sellers; A Heritage Preserved: Peter, Paul, and the Museum Business (Museums selling items in their collections) by T. H. Watkins; Frederick Winslow Taylor (Father of Industrial Engineering) by Spencer Klaw; American Characters: Richmond Pearson Hobson by Richard F. Snow; Calm Dwelling (funeral ritual in United States) by David E. Stannard; A Gentlemens Fight (School integration in Prince Edward County Virginia) by John Egerton and illustrations by Ken Boroughs; Buildings for Sale: Unexpected Beauty from a City Archive (portfolio of watercolor paintings of New Orleans architecture) by Mary Cable; Gentleman, This Is Humbug (discovery of surgical anesthesia) by John J. Pullen; A Hessian Visits the Victors: 1783 (excerpt from Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal by Johann Ewald and edited by Joseph P. Tustin); Cartercar (American automobile manufactured from 1905 to 1915) Barnum & Bradys Biggest (Photos of James Murphy and Anna Swan); Good Reading (book reviews of Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control by Madeline Gray; Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum; by Richard Conn; Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria-The Greatest Sea Rescue in History by William Hoffer; Reader's Album: Assault With Battery (Photo from Sioux City, Iowa 1890); Postscripts (cigar memorabilia; Washington Irving suggesting national names for USA; Ulysses Grant; General Paul Sanguinetti at Gettysburg; Standard unit of measurement).…

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. AH05 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: A Summers Wait by Mark Van Doren; Presidents Emeritus by John Whiteclay Chambers II; The Sinister Corps of William O. Bourne (Newspaper The Soldiers Friend penmanship contest for Civil War veterans learning to write with their left hand, 1865); Mirror of Zion (George Edward Anderson photographs of Mormon Utah from The Utah Photographs of George Edward Anderson) by Rell G. Francis; A Heritage Preserved: The Death House (John McCaffary was the only person ever to be executed by the State of Wisconsin. He was executed by hanging for the murder of his wife, August 21, 1851.) by T. H. Watkins; The Green Flag in America (Irish-Americans and The Northern Ireland Conflict) by Thomas Fleming; To a Distant and Perilous Service (Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson, commanding officer of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Mexican-American War in California.) by Richard Reinhardt; Shades of Rebellion (Images of Frederick Chapman who was a silhouette artist who specialized in profiles of Revolutionary War soldiers); When Does This Place Get to New York (RMS Queen Mary) by Geoffrey Bocca; American Characters: William Cowper Brann by Richard F. Snow; Neon (Photographs of neon lighting advertising signs) by Rudi Stern; Head Lines (Hat Comformator, the most reliable way to translate the fit of a custom hat into the exact shape of your head); Good Reading (book reviews: Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack; Where She Danced: American Dancing, 1880-1930 by Elizabeth Kendall; Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Womens Medicine by Sarah Stage) by Barbara Klaw; Readers Album: Kiddie Cat (1905 photograph of child sitting on a stuffed lion, Henry Augustus Ward); Postscripts (fabricated story of the Declaration of Independence published in Germany 1777; Mormon black priests; Japanese Prison Camp Holmes; Taps, Colonel Daniel Butterfield, 19th Amendment, Suffragettes).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Paperback book in good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features President Theodore Roosevelt steering the Shi p of State through troubled waters on the cover of Puck, January 1, 1902; a rticles include "Theodore Roosevelt, President" by Edmund Morris, "The M osher Report" by Kathryn Allamong Jacob, and "A Demonstration at Shipping port" by Richard Rhodes.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a detail of George Caleb Bingham's painting " "Stump Speaking"; articles include "Democracy Delineated" by Marshall B. Davidson, "She Had to Die" by Ann Jones, and "Turn Back the Universe an d Give Me Yesterday" by William Saroyan.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Charles Schreyvogel's 1899 painting "My Bunk ie, " showing a trooper rescuing his bunkmate; articles include "God Pity a One-Dream Man" by Richard Rhodes, "Truman at Potsdam" by Robert H. Fer rell, and "Ocean to Ocean in an Automobile Car" by Stephen W. Sears.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a Gallic portrayal of America as an Indian ma iden, from a French wallpaper screen made between 1810 and 1830; articles i nclude "Remembering Mrs. Roosevelt" by Edna P. Gurewitsch, "Decking Colu mbia's Walls" by Catherine Lynn, and "Tribute to a Feathered Tempest" by Aldo Leopold.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Covers feature the celebrated Athenaeum portraits of George and Martha Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart; articles include "George Washington and The Guilty, Dangerous and Vulgar Honor" by Garry Wills, " Hollywood Cleans Up Its Act" by Ben Yagoda, and "Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die" by Elton Mackin.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Thomas Nast's painting of St. Nicholas; artic les include "Lady Bird Johnson Remembers" by Barbara Klaw, "The Connecti cut Water Machine Versus the Royal Navy" by Robert M. Speck, and "Culpabl e Negligence" by Edward L. Beach.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Howard Pyle's 1906 painting "The Nation Make rs"; articles include "The First Hurrah" by Louis W. Koenig, "American Art Really Exists" by Marshall B. Davidson, and "Sigmund Freud's Sortie t o America" by Ronald W. Clark.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a detail of Stanislav Rembski's 1945 oil port rait of Franklin D. Roosevelt; articles include "The FDR Tapes" by R.J.C. Butow, "The Amorous Art of Esther Howland" by Joan P. Kerr, and "Openin g China" by Oscar V. Armstrong.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; crease to top back corner; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a 1934 Vanity Fair advertisement for a Cadillac La Salle; articles include "Electra Webb and Her American Past" by Walter Karp, "Shut the Goddam Plant! " by Stephen W. Sears, and "The Plot to Steal Lincoln's Body" by Deane and Peggy Rober tson. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features French artist J.F. Boucher's painting of his allies celebrating Bastille Day; articles include "I Think Hiss Is Lying" by Fawn M. Brodie, "Sergeant York" by Nat Brandt, and "The Tennis Racke t" by Peter Andrews.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Peter Hurd's painting of Flying Fortresses on a dawn mission in 1942; articles include "Memories of Peace and War" by Robert S. Gallagher, "After the Air Raids" by John Kenneth Galbraith, and "The Central Park" by Walter Karp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a detail of Grant Wood's painting "Parson We ems' Fable"; articles include "The Cost of Living in America, 1800-1980" by John A. Garraty, "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste" by Ormonde de Kay, and "The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels" by Marie St. John.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; boards slightly bowed; in good condition with clean t ext, firm binding; no dust jacket. The cover shows William Louis Sonntag, J r. 's 1895 painting of the Brooklyn Bridge; articles include "The Air Age W as Now" by Harry Combs, "Johnny Appleseed" by Edward Hoagland, and "The View from Fourth and Olive" by Carla Davidson. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Julius L. Stewart's 1890 painting of the 247-foot schooner Namouna; articles include "Do We Really Care If Johnny Can R ead? " by Anthony Brandt, "The Conumdrum of Corn" by Joseph Kastner, and "Barataria" by Frederick Turner.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover show s Louis Comfort Tiffany's 1870's painting of autumn harvesters in New York; articles include "Sorry, No Gas" by Stephen W. Sears, "Songs from the Y ard: Sing Sing's Lost Poet" by David Weiss, and "The Unexpected Art of Lo uis Comfort Tiffany.".…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover feat ures Arnold Genthe's photograph "The Morning Market"; articles include " From Atlanta to the Sea" by James Royal Ladd, "Countdown in Tennessee, 19 20" by Carol Lynne Yellin, and "The Burden of the Ballot" by Catherine C ole Mambretti.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover lith ograph shows a 1891 view of Seattle, Washington; articles include "America 's Cities Are (Mostly) Better Than Ever" by Richard C. Wade, "The Cyclone Assemblyman" by Edmund Morris, and "Working with Bruce Catton" by Olive r Jensen. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover show s an architectural painting used in real estate advertising, owned by the New Orleans Notarial Archives; articles include "Unearthing the Mastodon" by Charles Coleman Sellers, "Frederick Winslow Taylor" by Spencer Klaw, and "Buildings for Sale: Unexpected Beauty from a City Archive" by Mary C able.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover show s doughboys in a detail from the cover of a 1918 Ladies' Home Journal; arti cles include "The Longest Walk: David Ingram's Amazing Journey" by Charle ton Ogburn, "How Mother Got Her Day" by James P. Johnson, and "A Heritag e Preserved" by T.H. Watkins.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; former owner's bookplat e inside front board; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding; no dust jacket, but book has been wrapped in clear plastic. The cover show s the mirrored gaze of a beautiful young woman, photographed by George Edwa rd Anderson; articles include "A Summer's Wait" by Mark Van Doren, "A He ritage Preserved" by T.H. Watkins, and "The Green Flag in America" by Th omas Fleming.…