Herbert parker (168 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Hardcover in overall good shape with light general wear. Binding firm and square. Clean throughout.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the eighth issue of "Espionage Magazine". Featured are 16 short stories Takeo Yoshikawa: Success at Pearl Harbor by Jules Archer, The Magic Pebble by Matt Curtis Waldroop, Sabotage by P.E. Halycon, Seaman Jack's by Percy Spurlark Parker, Incident in Cuba by Herbert Harris, Sense of Justice by Robert Cittadino, Backup by Edward Wellen, The Spy Who Came in with a Cold by J.F. Peirce, Evensong by Francis Nevins, Jr., The Best Laid Plans. by Ben Luckhardt, Searching for the Edelweiss by Walter Dean Myers, The Inspector's Small Frustration by C.K. Chandler, The Perfect Shot by A.W. Whitworth, The Defenestration of Prague by Josh Pachter, On File. by Richard Walton, Spying Through Time by Joe Lewis. Light age toning to the pages. In near fine condition.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff boards, 81pp. History and ethos of celebrated private school.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. A beautiful 2-volume set covering the history of music with extended biographical sections on most of the notable western classical composers including Edvard Grieg, Antonin Dvorak, Camille Saint-Saens, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Carl Maria Von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hector Berlioz, Paganini, Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky, Anton Rubenstein, Max Reger, Bruckner, Mahler, Richard Straus, Cesar Franck, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Edward MacDowell, and Ernest Bloch. Some of the chapters were actually written by some of the more modern composers, themselves! All over a very nice gift-quality reference set. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good, ex-library book with associated ex-library flaws, and light soiling and edgewear to brown cloth; text is unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NOT FROM A LIBRARY! 272 pages, a near-fine hardback (light-brown imitation leather, no dust-jacket issued) [0898593239].

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. **Please note: book is oversized and heavy, and can not be shipped to international addresses.** Hardbound book in very good condition, crisp and immaculate throughout but for a small area of soil at lower leading edge corner. Peacock blue boards have bright gilt lettering on front and spine. Pale blue illustrated dust jacket in mylar bears a thin scratch down the center front and a medium dogear to front flap, but is otherwise glossy and crisp. …

Condizione: New.

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

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Fine/Fine DJ in Mylar, Hardcover with dustjacket, only very minor shelfwear, a very attractive copy. Clean text, no markings of any kind. 1986.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. VG. Light edgewear, light creaing to spine, moderate age-toning to pages, otherwise clean throughout. Wrap-around cover art by Jan Parker.

Condizione: Very Good. Very Good condition. (Massachusetts, Lancaster, Religious History).

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

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 5-1/2 x8-1/2 , wraps, 62pp. VG $.

Softcover. Condizione: Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Edge wear and corner wear to pages, wraps. Wraps have general shelf wear, soiling. Bottom of spine area is worn. Contents: Fiedler, "Toward an Amateur Criticism." Read, "The Critic as Man of Feeling." Chase, "Art, Nature, Politics." Empson, "The Verbal Analysis." Mitchner, "Invitation to Lunch (a story)." Ellmann, "Joyce and Yeats." Poetry by Anthony Hecht, Hayden Carruth, Richard Lyons. Murphy, "American Philosophy at Mid-Century." Blackmur, "The Politics of Human Power." Coffin, "A Tribute." Pasinetti, "The Italian Vogue." Tyler, "Movie Letter." Book reviews, communication, index to Volume XII (1950). 9.0" tall; 168 pages.…

Wraps. Condizione: Fair. n.p.: n.p., (1916). First Edition. Original wraps. 31 pages. Frontispiece. Fair.Some wear; a few notes and stains; worn. Scarce sketches of the life of an important jurist by important members of the bar. Lemuel Shaw (January 9, 1781 March 30, 1861) was an American jurist who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (18301860). Prior to his appointment he also served for several years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a state senator. In 1847, Shaw became the father-in-law of author Herman Melville. He ruled on prominent cases involving slavery, segregation, and religion. Admitted to the bar in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in September 1804, and in Plymouth County, Massachusetts that November, Shaw began practice in Boston. When his associate left Boston after being acquitted of murder in a political quarrel, he practiced alone for fifteen years. In about 1822, Shaw took Sidney Bartlett, an able trial lawyer, as his junior partner. His practice gradually became large, but he was less known as an advocate than as the adviser of important commercial enterprises. Portrait photograph In politics, Shaw was first a Federalist and later a Webster Whig, but remained all his life a free-trader. He attended Unitarian services, though he was never a communicant. Fond of entertaining and dining out, he was simple and affectionate in his home life, his interest in the social events of his household extending to the minutest details. Shaw was prepared for his judicial career by numerous public positions. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving in 181114, 1820 and 1829, and as a state senator in 182122. He served as a member of the constitutional convention of 1820. He also held many offices in Boston. Shaw was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1823. In 1822, with few precedents to guide him, he drafted the first charter of the city, which lasted until 1913. On the death of Chief Justice Isaac Parker, Governor Levi Lincoln offered Shaw an appointment as chief justice. Daniel Webster successfully urged Shaw to accept, though it meant giving up a practice of $15,000 to $20,000 a year for a salary of $3,500. And for this, if nothing else, Webster later thought the public owed him a debt of gratitude. Shaw's commission was issued on August 30, 1830. He served for almost exactly 30 years, resigning on August 21, 1860. During his tenure as Chief Justice, Shaw is reported to have heard between 2,000 and 2,200 cases[by whom?]. Many would help shape American law and jurisprudence. His exceptionally long judicial career coincided with the development of many important industries and, coincidentally, Shaw made law on such matters as water power, railroads, and other public utilities. Some commentators have argued that Shaw had more influence on the development of American law than any other state court judge in the country's history.[2] Shaw's opinions were not often readily quotable and are instead recognized for solid reasoning. "His words had weight rather than brilliancy or eloquence."[3] His reputation as a jurist lies mostly in the substance of his work, as opposed to the literary quality of his writings for the court. In Shaw's time on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the chief justice often sat at trials. In the role of a trial judge, he was considered to be thorough, systematic, and patient. He was also renowned for his ability to clearly instruct juries. Slavery and civil rights Because of Boston's strong abolitionist movement, Shaw oversaw numerous cases related to slave law and race. In 1836, Shaw's opinion in Commonwealth v. Aves held that a slave brought voluntarily into Massachusetts, a free state, was a "sojourner," or a journeyer, and not taking domicile in that state. Therefore, slaves could be brought into the state only for a limited time. Abolitionists, who had brought the habeas corpus suit, want.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Very good clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, contains numerous lovely illustrations-within-text, good clean firm boards showing only very slight usage, all tight; d/jacket dulled to rear and a few stains as shown, closed tear to top front, but decent/acceptable appearance over all with no large loss, price-clipped neatly to inner flap. AGNES MILLER PARKER (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. VG+ Cover art by Jan Parker.

Condizione: VG, NO dj. 1st. 12mo. 48pp. Very slight bow to covers. (.Descendants of the Colonial Clergy).

Hardcover. Condition: very good (edges lightly foxed; writing on blank endsheet, no jacket). ISBN 0898593239.

Stapled. Condizione: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The February 1936 issue of the American Magazine. It contains The Stolen God, part 1 of 6 of a novel by Edison Marshall, Keep the Change, part 2 of 4 of a novel by Richard Connell, The Captive Bride, part 5 of 6 of a novel by Barrett Willoughby, Out of the Dragon's Jaw, a story by Rafael Sabatini, All Aboard for Shanghai!, a Saint story by Leslie Charteris (Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin), Scattergood Ties a Knot, a story by Clarence Budington Kelland, Spoils of War, a story by Pulitzer Prize winner MacKinlay Kantor, Miles From the Church an article by Archibald Rutledge, and others. Light rubbing to the front cover with mild soiling along the bottom edge. Spine roll. Celo tape at the top & bottom of the spine. Light edge wear to the back cover. A good to very good copy. Barker Devin (cover), Pruett Carter (The Stolen God), A Parker (Keep the Change), Mead Schaffer (Out of the Dragon's Jaw), Donald Teague (All Aboard for Shanghai!), Paul Meylan (Scattergood Ties a Knot), Herbert M Stoops (Spoils of War) (illustratore).…