John wheelock et al (4 risultati)

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780415170932.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. ISSN 0896-8942.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Presumed first edition (SD; NAP) . Hardcover, 4x6 inches, original full tan leather, leather spine label, 306 pp. Good+. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, open cracks along length of front and rear joints, 1/4 inch chip off lower corner of spine label. Internally, foxed throughout, a bit of a wave to textblock, light tan stain on half the rear endpaper which affects approximately 20 to 30 adjoining leaves, otherwise tight, clean and unmarked. Consists of biographical preface in which it is noted that Mrs Patten was daughter of Rev Eleazer Wheelock, founder and president of Dartmouth College and was taught by sisters of Jonathan Edwards, followed by the letters, by Mrs Patten and others, which, sadly seem to be in no particular order, and extend from ca. 1764 through 1844. Most deal with religious and family matters, and are an interesting glimpse into conservative New England religious thought. A few concern other events, such as an account of the Battle of Lexington-Concord and shelling of Roxbury, Massachusetts, a storm at sea, in which items purchsed in England for Dartmouth are lost, a major fire in Hartford, notices of people moving west, and an undated essay, "The Grave Yard" about a funeral. History; Americana; biography; American Revolution.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. A trifle bumped at the crown else fine in very good dustwrapper with chip at the bottomof the front panel. A small poetry anthology that is particularly noteworthy as Sylvia Plath's first book appearance, preceding the rare offprint *Sculptor* by two years. After contributions from a host of already-established poets there is a small "Undergraduate" section which contains two Plath entries: "Aubade" and "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea." Also includes an entry from James Wright, his first book was published this year was well. Other contributors include Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, John Ciardi, Donald Hall, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Louis Macneice, W.S. Merwin, Howard Moss, Louise Townsend Nicholl, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, May Sarton, Louis Simpson, Robert Penn Warren, John Hall Wheelock, Richard Wilbur, James Wright, Dannie Abse, Eric Barker (First Prize), Thomas Blackburn, J.R. Brownfield, Jean Burden, Kenneth M. Cameron, Grace Carnot, Charles Causley, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Barbara D. Cooper, Allan Donaldson, Leah Bodein Drake, Carleton Drewry, Evelyn Eaton, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, David Ferry, Robert Francis, Frances Frost, Jed Garrick, Kenneth O. Hanson, John Heath-Stubbs, Elizabeth Henley, Robert Horan, Elizabeth Jennings, Dilys Laing, Joseph Langland, Fred Lape, Norman MacCraig, Harold Grier McCurdy, Jackson Morris, David Morton, Thomas Moult, Hubert Nicholson, Gloria Rawlinson, Alastair Reid, Dorothy Roberts, James L. Rosenbert, Arthur M. Sampley, Ernest Sandeen, Marcia Masters Schmid, Burns Singer, Radclive Squires, Jean Sewell Standish, Margaret Stanley-Wrench, A.M. Sullivan, Robert A. Wallace, Peter B. Walsh, Lynne Lawner, Donald Lehmkuhl, Henry D.M. Sherrerd, Jr., Richard Roe, and Barbara Stewart. A nicer than usual copy - the thin paper jacket is very prone to tearing.…