horace simpson (20 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Nice bright copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover, 96pp. Includes "A Little Girl Named I" by e.e. cummings, a very early appearance by Robert Creeley (two poems), four poems by William Carlos Williams, "Death of a Maiden" by John Hawkes, "Page from a Tale" by Wallace Stevens, "Plain Song" by Conrad Aiken, and more. Very good, with faint creasing to upper right, very light rubbing to cover; nice copy.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Single issue. Printed yellow wrappers. Contains pages 137-256pp. Spine and edges age-toned, yapped edges with short tears, very good. Contributions of poetry, stories, reviews and more by Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, Laurence Sears, Marcia Lee Anderson, Saul K. Padover, Louis Simpson, Julian P. Boyd, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Mary Ormsbee Whitton, Reinhard H. Luthin, Horace E. Hamilton, Edgar Levy, Wolf Franck, Peter Viereck, William Barrett, Kenneth Burke, Robert Gorham Davis, Hiram Haydn, Irwin Edman, Melville J. Herskovitz, Dudley Fitts, and George Biddle.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, trade paperback, has a slight lean to the binding, minor bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild wear with a few shallow dings to the edges of the text block, a small, pale orange smudge to the fore edge of the text block, a touch of sunning to the spine, and rubbing with a few smudges to the covers. Overall, a solid, Near Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. ILLUSTRATED (illustratore). THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK AND POSTAGE MAY WELL BE MORE THAN THAT QUOTED BY ABE BOOKS WHICH IS FOR A SMALL LIGHT BOOK, ESPECIALLY IF ORDERING FROM OUTSIDE THE UK. PLEASE ASK FOR A POSTAGE QUOTATION BEFORE ORDERING TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT AT EXTRA CHARGES BEING REQUESTED. 251pp, very well-illustrated, hardcover, 8vo, bound in brown cloth boards, gilt lettered, dust jacket clipped and with small portions lacking but fair, gift inscription within o/w book in very good condition, Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1931.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Very good fresh tight copy, light wear to wrapper edges, small tear to top edge of front panel alongside spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hodge, Thomas; Furness, Harry (illustratore). Hardback copy in pictorial brown cloth boards with gold gilt lettering, no dustjacket. 480pp. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Patterned endpapers. Not library copy, ink inscription and bookplate to front endpapers, scuff to front boards and spine. (77/4).

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. This work was written by five experts on the game of golf and presents a most authoritative and valuable instruction book. The book contains photographs, illustrations, and an index. With fold-outs. Dust jacket is in fresh mylar. Some notes are on the FFEP: otherwise, this copy is clean and solid.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

HARDCOVER. 1990, First edition. A near fine copy only by very minor bumping of the edges of the illustrated boards. Scans available if required.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. An Oversize Soft Cover, Linen Paper Cover, Now Limp With Age. . The Cover Is Complete But Detached From The Main Body Of The Book. Ffep Has Childish Scribble And The First Signature Is Detached But Present. The Map Of The Broads Is Present And In Good Condition. B/W Photos Throughout And Adverts. Published By Bright's Store In Bournemouth In Conjunction With Great Eastern Railways ( Ger) And The Words 'By Authority' On The Front Red Cover. A Second Edition, Rare Find Still Very Legible .

Condizione: Fine. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine condition (no dust jacket-as issued?). Binding completely clean, with gilt spine lettering and cover decoration quite bright. Former owner's signature in ink on the front inner cover. Internally unmarked. A very nice copy of an underrated book.

Condizione: Good. 1931, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp251, black and white illustrations, original beige cloth.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered gilt at the spine. Stroke play by Joyce amd Roger Wethered; Match and medal play, practice, middle-aged golf, watching for profit and Famous courses by Bernard Darwin; History and literature, by Horace Hutchinson; Golf architecture and green-keeping, by T.C. Simpson; with one hundred illustrations. Neat initials on front endpaper, otherwise very good indeed in somewhat tanned and used good only d/w chipped at edges with loss. Front panel of jacket in fairlygood order showing golfer teeing off (onset photo).

Softcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Some foxing. Staples removed. Protected in mylar sleeve with acid free backing board. ; Single issue [#554] of weekly The Pluck Library. 28 pages + covers. Front cover has page numbering [1]-ii; rear cover has page numbering iii-iv. Page dimensions: 276 x 193mm (11 7/8" x 7 1/2"). Illustrated. The cover story is "The Mystery of the Hindu Temple - A Thrilling Story of Detective Work, introducing Dective Will Spearing and Sexton Blake's Assistants, Tinker and Pedro". Author of this story is anonymous. Front cover illustration by H. M. Lewis. " After questioning Sir Michael he learns that the diamond dealer had sent a valuable item a carved model of an Indian temple by rail to London and was due there to sell it to a millionaire named Hiram Clench this afternoon. Spearing realises that the recent events were all designed to prevent Carruthers from making that afternoon meeting." - mark-hodder blakiana mini_bibliography, accessed August 2021. Other stories in this issue include "Cap'n Tibbs - Coastguard" by Horace J. Simpson; "Andy and the Redskins" by Edgar West; and "The Black Peril" by Cecil Hayter. NB: Content of "The Black Peril" story is offensive by today's standards, and includes lynching. "In this Stirring Story of Adventure, written by one of 'Pluck's' most popular authors, we have a picture of the great racial bitterness which the whites of the Southern States feel for the black men. However, this feeling is not shared by all the American people, because in many cities in the United States some of the most enlightened and energetic citizens are negroes, living in peace and friendship with the whites. Your Editor." - page 18.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 251. Original publisher's brown buckram, lettered gilt at the spine. Stroke play by Joyce amd Roger Wethered; Match and medal play, practice, middle-aged golf, watching for profit and Famous courses by Bernard Darwin; History and literature, by Horace Hutchinson; Golf architecture and green-keeping, by T.C. Simpson; with one hundred illustrations. Neat initials on front endpaper, otherwise very good in somewhat tanned and used, yet complete, close very good dust jacket.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original russet cloth covers, gilt lettering and golfer to the spine, black background illustration and navy and white lettering to the upper panel, publishers end papers. 8vo 8'' x 6'' xiv, 463 [pp]. Full and part-page monochrome illustrations and engravings throughout. Very light foxing sporadically throughout, corners sharp and pointed, light dust soiling to top edge and in Very Good clean, square and neat condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPORT [Golf].

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 161, xxv pp. ; green and red cloth with designs ; no dustjacket ; Contents: The progress of the American Rose Society / S S Pennock -- The use of the rose in the landscape / Wilhelm Miller -- The literature of the rose -- The rose in the "Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture" / L H Bailey -- Francis Parkman on roses / M N Baker -- The practical book of outdoor rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- The oldest rose-garden in the United States -- The American rose advance / J Horace McFarland -- Roses worth while for everybody / George C Thomas, Jr -- Selections from recent garden roses / Aaron Ward -- Rose bloom records at Egandale / W C Egan -- E G Hill's forthcoming roses / Sarah A Hill -- The new American roses of 1917 / J Horace McFarland -- The basis of merit in roses / Jesse A Currey -- Methods of rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- Propagation by budding / Robert Huey -- The trenching method of rose propagation / C D Beadle -- Springfield roses / John M Good -- Rose importations / j Horace McFarland -- How to conduct an amateur rose show / J Horace McFarland -- Details and classification for amateur shows / Jesse A Currey --The rose all over America / J Horace McFarland -- A great rose-garden and its message / G A Parker -- The garden clubs and the rose / Mrs. Francis King -- Work and play in a Texas rose-garden / WIlliam A Anderson -- The Minneapolis Municipal Rose Garden at Lyndale Park / Theodore Wirth -- In my rose-garden / E M Mills -- The national rose test-garden / F L Mulford -- The Cornell Rose Test-Garden / A C Beal -- The Portland National Rose Test Garden / J Horace McFarland -- Roses in the Arnold Arboretum / J Horace McFarland -- Rose-growing in a Northern Latitude / W B Burgoyne -- The enemies of the rose / J Horace McFarland -- Rose diseases / L M Massey -- An entomologist and his rose-garden / A D Hopkins -- Greeting from abroad / J Horace McFarland -- Cut-flower rose-growing / J Horace McFarland -- The cut-rose production of America / J Horace McFarland --Cut-flower rose-growing in America in 1916 / Wallace R Pierson -- Cut-flower rose-growing in Canada / John R. Dunlop -- In Memoriam -- A partial list of roses introduced in America / Charles E F Gersdorff, J Horace McFarland -- The work of the American Rose Society : Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, with Presiden't Address and reports of the Secretary and Treasurer -- The Washington and Cornell Meetings -- Meetings of the Executive Committee -- Awards at Philadelphia Show of 1916 -- The story of rose black-spot -- new roses registered in 1916 -- Rules for registration of new roses -- Regulations for judging and scale of points -- American Rose Society medals for novelties -- Committees governing rose test-gardens -- At the Hartford Test Gardens --Local societies affiliated -- The eighteenth Annual Meeting of the American Rose Society -- Medals awarded in 1916 -- Lest of members -- Index -- Index to advertisers -- List of Plates -- John Cook's unnamed American seeding (colored plate) -- Benjamin Hammond, Secretary American Rose Society -- New hybrid tea rose, Mrs. Henry Winnett -- Fred H Howard's new American rose, Los Angeles (colored plate) -- New hybrid Wichuriana rose, Alida Lovett -- New Hardy Climbing rose, Seedling No. 48 -- Acres of American-grown roses -- The important rose test-gardens -- Native roses for roadside adornment in the Arnold Arboretum -- The oldest rose-garden in the United States [Van Courtlandt Manor, Croton, NY] ; stamp of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum on front endpaper ; with 25 pages of illustrated adverisments ; ; slight foxing, else FINE ; extremely scarce 2nd year of the series which began in 1916. Book.

First edition, deluxe issue of the author's classic work. Octavo, original half green morocco over cloth. Inscribed by Roger Wethered in the year of publication, "Hope this will help you to beat Harry! Roger Wethered 1931." Illustrated with plates, which some folding from 100 photographs. In near fine condition.   "The Game of Golf Lonsdale Library, Vol. IX is an outstanding symposium on the game" (Murdoch 843).