Shaw henry wheeler (45 risultati)

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.…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. A bright, tight paperback edition w/ introduction by Paul Metcalf. Clean & sharp throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine condition hardcover book, Very Good condition dust jacket. First Edition. Slightest bumping to spine ends and cover corners. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has slight smudging, very slight shelf wear, and bumping to edges. Few tears to edges, none larger than 1/4 inch. Dust jacket protected by mylar. All books are individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically described as such. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Blue paper-covered boards with grey backstrip and gilt lettering. Hint of bump to head of spine. Text is clean and white, no marks. DJ shows minor edgewear and light soil. "Josh Billings was not only the most popular writer of humor for his day, he was one of the most respected and sought after standup comedians of that time. Abraham Lincoln is said to have remarked: "Next to William Shakespeare, Josh Billings is the best judge of human nature the world has ever seen." (from the jacket).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First thus. Dillingham Co., 1902; same date on title and copyright pages, no later printings indicated; unpaginated. Tan cloth publisher's binding, with red/black/green stamped titling and illustration on spine and front board. Reproductions of Billings' Allminax entries for 1870-1879. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of boards; faint, small red smudges on rear board; illustrations and text very good; previous owner inscription, dated 1902, on front end page. A very presentable copy of this collection, first published as Old Probability in 1879. BAL 17481. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited. Size 10¼" x 7", "Five Hundred copies hand-set & printed by John and Barbara Beecher" Brown paper with blue titles on front cover over cream cloth. Condition near fine, corners slightly rubbed, else fine. Collected poems by Henry Birnbaum, William Newberry, John R. Reed, Olga Cabral, Jerry M. Wheeler, Jack Anderson, Mo Tien Teng, Charles Shaw, John Beecher and Peter Jones. With woodcut by Barbara Beecher. Barbara Beecher (illustratore).…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In.

PF. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket [as issued]. Limited Edition. Inscribed by the editor and poet on front endpaper "For John & LaRee Caughey/John Beecher/Los Angeles/November 23, 1962." John Walton Caughey, an author and educator who was considered the dean of California historians and a leading intellectual civil libertarian. Also signed by Barbara Beecher at her illustration of "Our Press". Limited edition of 500 copies, does not specify how many were bound into hardcovers. Barbara Beecher (illustratore). Signed By Artist and Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition. Carleton, 1866; no additional printings indicated; xii, [13]-232pp., [1]-8 (publisher's catalog) + 11 illustrations on yellow paper. Brown cloth binding with blind-stamped publisher's logo and border on both boards, gilt titling on spine (publisher's name in upright Roman type). Blue fly-leafs, with penciled inscription on front end page. 2 1/2" tear in front hinge, webbing peeking through, binding remains fully intact with a few tugged signatures; cloth worn at edges/corners of boards, gilt titling faded but legible; damp-spot on front edge of page block, illustrations and text very good throughout. BAL 17439. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. 1st Edition. 263 pages. Corners bumped and rubbed; small rubbed area at bottom of spine near gutter; light foxing throughout; several small spots on front and back covers. Very good in green cloth. (041).

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In.

illustrated.wrappers, 128pp., 18x12, pages darkened, spine has been clear taped, general wear, couple of small corner chips, adverts. Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-85) was an American humorist, who attained great popularity as 'Josh Billings', writer of comic essays, burlesques, and aphorisms. Odd Coles publication.…

Octavo, illustrated tan cloth (hardcover) by the Decorative Designers. Frontis portrait, illustrations throughout. Fine. Literature, Humor, Americana mslic.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No DJ. 1866 Edition bound in green leather. End papers and pages are heavily foxed, browned and soiled. First free end paper has some pencilled notes. Binding is tight, spine has slight lean. Boards are soiled, scuffed and rubbed. Wear to edges - scuffing and rubbing, spine ends are frayed, corners are bumped and scuffed exposing boards. Text block is soiled. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST. …

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

23.2x15 cm. Printed wrappers with discoloration of part of back wrapper. Very good condition. 32 pp. This is a parody of traditional almanacs. Folksy intentional misspellings are used throughout. Published by G. W. Carleton, Fifth Avenue, Broadway and Madison Square, New York. AAS 189534, Blanck (Bibliography of American Literature) 17448.…

23.2x15 cm. Printed wrappers with light damage at sides of the front wrapper. Adhesion damage to the back wrapper with loss of text in a strip down the center. Overall good condition only. 32 pp. This is the second state, with a stylized bird next to the imprint on the front cover, of this almanac which is in many ways a parody of traditional almanacs. Folksy intentional misspellings are used throughout. Published by one G. W. Carleton, Fifth Avenue, Broadway and Madison Square, New York. AAS 189532.…

Melbourne: E.W.Cole, n.d. Sm.8vo.Or.illust.wrappers (128pp.). With title-page illust. NOTE: Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-85) was an American humorist, who attained great popularity as 'Josh Billings', writer of comic essays, burlesques, and aphorisms.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: Poor. NO JACKET. Hard board/spine has some bumps, wear, marks, scratches and fading at parts. Fading at text blocks. Foxing/occasional marks/waving effect at pages. Text legible.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Edition. 617 pp + ads, with illustrations by Thomas Nast and others. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, with marbled edges and endpapers. Some scuffing to leather, small split starting at lower front joint; interals sound and clean. Handwritten note on verso of front free endpaper reads "#186, From the Library of Thos. Nast." (We have no independent knowledge of this reported provenance). Josh Billings was the pseudonym of American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818-1885), "whose philosophical comments in plain language were widely popular after the American Civil War through his newspaper pieces, books, and comic lectures. He employed the misspellings, fractured grammar, and hopeless logic then current among comic writers who assumed the role of cracker-barrel philosophers. His special contributions were his rustic aphorisms.and his droll delineations of animal life (Britannica). This volume includes the first printing in book form of Mark Twain's letter poking fun at Billings' use of phonetic spelling (see p. 573). BAL 17455.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red cloth stamped and lettered in black and gold. Covers lightly and evenly soiled. Hinges strong and text block very clean. Internally clean and tight with no marks or inscriptions. Hard to find title.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. Purple cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Blindstamped decorations on the boards. This copy has a bit of scruff at the crown of the spine, a short tear to the cloth at the top 2 inches of the rear hinge, and some freckles on the boards. Overall good condition, but showing age. Blue endpaper. Binding tight. Text block clean throughout. Title page dated 1868. Copyright page dated 1865. 232 pages + catalogue for Carleton's other books, dated 1869 (including Victor Hugo and Charlotte Bronte). Illustrated by Waggoner, Gunn, and others. This copy has two items affixed to the inside front cover with archival mylar corners. Cabinet card photograph of Billings above. Below, a card with Billings' signature beneath handwritten "There is cheats in all things - even poison is adulterated." No date on the card or the photograph. Billings was the pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw. He was a successful lecturer, humorist, and writer in the decade after the Civil War. Like Mark Twain, he created a folksy American persona and often wrote in dialect. It was a formula that Twain would use as well. The two men followed similar career paths (Billings was 17 years older) and even collaborated on a book of collected humor. This reprint of "The Sayings" was published just a few months before their careers diverged for good. Twain's Innocence Abroad was published in 1869 - it was his first full length book - and with it Twain achieved a level of success that Billings never reached. Billings died in 1885. The cabinet card photograph in this volume is blank on the back. The image shows Billings with long hair, pointed mustache and beard, looking to the right wearing a dark suit with velvet collar, collared vest buttoned all the way up, and white shirt beneath, only the collar of which is visible. As was his trademark, he is not wearing a tie. It looks to be same outfit as the 1876 series of photographs by Gurney, but this angle is not as commonly found. Books signed by Billings are quite scarce - as are books with signature set into them (while admittedly not quite the same thing). Although Billings was surpassed and eventually all but eclipsed by Twain (and Harte), he helped to blaze the trail as lecturer, entertainer, folk hero and self-made man, creating an American trope that survives to this day. Please email with questions or to request photos.…

Ads on e.ps. 'Yellowback', orig. printed boards; sl. worn but bright. Topp volume I, p.242. Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818-1885, was the scion of a political family who worked as a farmer, coal miner, explorer, and auctioneer. His death (at Monterey, California) forms the basis of an episode of Steinbeck's Cannery Row.…

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.