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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Light edgewear to dust jacket, binding sound and pages unmarked. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 82 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.21 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 103pp., xii. NAP. Medium gray cloth with dulled gilt lettering on spine (poorly stamped on spine during book manufacture). Glossy white dustwrapper not price-clipped ($10.00) with title lettering in black on upper two-thirds front cover, author names in small orange letters at bottom center front cover; spine lightly toned, with author names in orange dulled but redable, black title lettering still sharp and distinct; two 1/4" closed tears at lower edge near bottom right corner and at 1 1/4" away toward spine; 1/2" closed tear at top edge, left rear cover at 1" to right of top corner, where a bump to dw corner (NOT book itself) caused the tear and a 2" curved wrinkle (has been flattened for a while): these are nugatory flaws, describing much worse than they are: now backed by archival tape). Book itself looks UNREAD: Tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good dust jacket. Bookplate front paste-down.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Local One, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. Paperback. Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Green title on white illustrated soft cover, 192 pages including notes, bibliography and introduction. Light soiling to cover.

Soft Cover. Condizione: vg-. 440pp; b/w illustrations; interior clean; 11" tall; shelf wear to edges of lightly soiled cover. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Typical page browning , 1 " chip upper right corner, light crease else very good.

Condizione: New. In.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition faux red leather boards with elaborately decorated gold front cover, rear cover and spine decorations. The volume contains a a traditional six- hubbed spine. Includes an Introduction by Ellery Queen. Illustrated with black-and-white author photographs at the beginning of each story plus matching red front and rear endpapers. A former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the inner front board. First edition thus. "Dear Reader: Annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Four Freedoms proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Atlantic Chaarter announced by Churchill and Roosevelt . Pearl Harbor attacked December 7, 1941. first nuclear chain reaction. race riots in Detroit and Harlem . Yalta Conference . death of President Roosevelt . suicide of Hitler . United Nations . first atomic bomb . Philipine indepedence. Nuremberg trial . Truman Doctrine . Marshall Plan . India and Pakistan independence . Gandhi assassination .Berlin blockade and airlift . Free State of Israel . Alger Hiss trials . North Atlantic Treaty . Tokyo Rose sentenced . The Forties -- the War Years and Post - war Years for the United States, and against this background of momentous events and of struggle for survival, life went on and the detective-crime-mystery story continued to be written - in its own fashion. At the start of the decade in 1941, Philip Van Doren Stern published an article cleverly titled "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley." In it Mr. Stern wrote: "The great need of the mystery story today is not novelty of apparatus but novelty of approach. The whole genre needs overhauling, a return to first principles, a realization that murder has to do with human emotion and deserves serious treatment. Mystery story writers need to know more about life and less about death -- more about the way people think and feel and act, and less about how they die." Mystery story writers listened, and if they didn't actually read Mr. Stern's warning, the strong hint of danger and its consequences was in the air for them to think about and feel and react to. So they turned away from some of the characteristics of The Golden Age -- rather, they modified and changed them, and adopted a new approach, taking Mr. Stern's words to heart. And in the 19 stories in this volume you will see clear evidence of these modifications and changes -- the beginning of a new Golden Age, or perhaps, more accurately, of a Renaissance. Happy reading!" - from the Introduction by Ellery Queen.

Condizione: New. In.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Ward, John (panel art and color frontispiece) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition faux navy blue leather boards with a color illustrated front cover paste-down, with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page Note by The Editors; Acknowledgments; and About the Authors. The volume also features gilt page edges on all three sides, a traditional 3-hubbed spine, and acid-free paper for permanence and durability. Illustrated with a double-page color frontispiece painting and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Great American Mystery Stories of the Twentieth Century presents an impressive array of writers. These literary sleuths - American writers who hail from all over the United States and even abroad - offer stories that reflect the varied experiences of a vast and culturally diverse country. The authors in this collection have garnered innumerable honors, from myriad awards conferred by their own mystery-writing colleagues to the Nobel Prize in Literature; they all share the writer's greatest reward, however, the broad readership and popular acclaim that can only come from creating superb, entertaining tales. Some of these mystery masters have left an indelible mark on the reading public by creating characters that have entered the national consciousness. The Saint, Lew Archer, Travis McGee, Uncle Abner - these names are real to mystery aficionados who know them well and have learned much about life from them. Other writers have given birth to characters who live only in one brief tale, making readers regret that they won't meet them again. Although the modern American mystery story has only recently gained respectability as the subject of academic study, the genre is an integral part of this country's literature. In fact, it stands at the very center of a markedly American literary offering, the short story. Edgar Allan Poe, the creator of the short story form, based the world's first mystery tale on the crime story, a style of fiction that originally appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He enhanced the elements in these negligible stories with such genius that he lifted his own tales to the level of art. Poe's "The Murder in the Rue Morgue," first published in 1841, has been called by one critic "the single most important story in the history of the genre." Subsequent literary detectives may have occasionally felt daunted by following the mystery story's inimitable forefather; still, they have made their own distinctive contributions to this uniquely American literary form. Among them, the twenty-three writers in this anthology of American mystery masterpieces have written hundreds of memorable stories. Choosing the writers - not to mention the stories - from a national treasure of literary excellence was indeed difficult. The sheer number of outstanding American mystery stories offers endless hours of reading pleasure. To this day, superlative writers apply their varied skills to the genre first explored by Edgar Allan Poe. Readers new to this literary terrain will enjoy finding their way to some of mystery's hidden corners - as well as its landmarks. - The Editors" - from the Preliminary Page.

Condizione: Like New. hardcover. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hardback: Good Condition. No Jacket. Pages Tanned But Clean And Unmarked. Binding Lightly Warped But Tight And Secure. Clean Boards, Some Creasing To Spine. Photograph Is Added By Selling Site And Not Ours, Therefore May Not Reflect This Edition Or Condition.

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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. There are illustrations and photographs throughout in this book. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Some wear and fading around edges of spine and boards. Corners bumped. Blue boards are discoloured, especially at spine, also well worn with minor stains. Foxing and staining on page edges. Book is foxed throughout. Front pastedown endpaper contains inscription from previous owner. Page following front free endpaper contains a name in faded black ink. Front free endpaper is lightly discoloured and stained. Pages are thumbed. Few pages contain very minor tears. Hinge separation between front free endpaper and following page, and pages 50-51, 62-63, 80-81, 96-97, 146-147, 160-161, and rear free endpapers. Binding of rear cover to spine is somewhat loose. Else book is in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 232, xxv pp. ; illustrated, 19 photographic plates, 3 in color ; 21 cm. ; John Horace McFarland (1859-1948) was an American master printer and horticulturist. Throughout his career, he advocated for civic beautification, and he became a leader in the conservation movement of the early twentieth century. These early experiences instilled the passion for horticultural beauty and the business expertise that distinguished him personally and professionally. He eventually purchased his father's press. Combining the skills learned from these early experiences, he established a successful printing company of his own. He founded the J. Horace McFarland Company/Mount Pleasant Press, specializing in seed catalogs and nursery trade publications. Over the course of his lifetime, McFarland wrote and lectured extensively on horticulture, printing methods, and civic improvement. McFarland was a prominent member of the American Rose Society. Contents : Why do you like roses? / B Y Morisson -- Favorite moss roses / Jesse A Currey -- Tea roses for southern climates / George C Thomas, Jr -- The land of enchantment / Edmund M Mills -- Interesting boys and girls in roses / J Horace McFarland -- A beginner's experiences / Dwight L Armstrong -- East and West beginnings and experiences / John F Mahneke -- Own-root roses again / G A Stevens -- Buying roses from traveling agents -- Why we stopped selling roses in Sping / George H Petereson -- Rose understocks at Arlington Farm / Guy E Yerkes -- Rose-breeding in theory and practice -- Chromosomes and their relation to rose problems / Kathleen B Blackburn -- Mendelian principles and rose hybridization / J H Nicolas -- Artificial fertilization / J Pernet-Ducher -- Parents and offspring / Capt. George C THomas, Jr -- Handling seeds and seedlings / Allan C Fraser -- Roses and their hybridization in Spain / Pedro Dot -- Hybridization from a woman's viewpoint / Rena E Wilbur -- A poor start makes poor roses / W L Bredero -- The Northeast corner, a double symposium -- Roses in New England -- Roses in Maine / Dr. George T Elliot -- New Hampshire roses / Dr. Joseph Boylston -- Green Mountain roses / Edna V Highley -- Roses in Vermont / R R Campbell -- Practical methods / Mrs. A H Parker -- Along the New England seaboard / John Barrow -- Rhode Island roses / R Marion Hatton -- Roses and heresies in Connecticut / Alexander Cummings, Jr -- Roses in New York and Ontario -- Simplified rose culture on Long Island / Mrs Tracy H Lewis -- Planting and feeding roses / A Schierenberg -- Roses in Central New York / Dr. G Griffin Lewis -- Amateur rose-growing in Rochester / Paul Seel, Elsie Seel - A home rose-garden in Ithaca / E A White -- A Buffalo backyard rose-garden / Oscar S Witte -- Roswe varieties in Ontario / Paul B Sanders -- Thomas, Pemberton, and Lambert roses / Whitman Cross -- Color standardization for roses / H S Tillotson -- Considering new varieties / Capt. George C Thomas, Jr -- Patience for the new roses / G F Middleton -- The proof ofthe pudding, again -- A gentleman discusses blondes / Geoffrey G Whitney -- Roses in China / M Leslie Hancock -- Five years of rose progress in Australia / H H Hazlewood -- Roses at a naval base / G Prideaux -- Brown canker of the rose / Anna E Jenkins -- As the retail florist sees roses / Max Schling -- The cut-rose situation in New York / E L D Seymour, Frank H Traendly -- Conversation with a rose beginner -- A rose school in Texas -- The favored roses of America / Robert Pyle -- Royal doings in Tacoma / James A Hays -- What about the new European roses? -- Two new van Fleet hybrids -- New roses of the world -- Roses registered -- Rose notes. ; green patterned cloth ; with return card for ARS laid-in ; slight edge wear, else VG. Book.

Condizione: Very good. New York: July 13, 1967., 1967. Very good. - Folio, 15 inches high by 11-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, unbound signatures laid into printed self-wraps. 40 pages of newsprint including the wrappers, illustrated by Tom Carnese, David Levine and Grandville. There is some minor foxing to the front edge of the cover page and a couple of very tiny holes along the front border of the last few pages. The newspaper is folded once horizontally. Near fine. RARE First edition. "Prometheus Bound" was published here 2 years prior to its first appearance in book form. His adaptation of the drama was produced at the Yale Drama School in May 1967, directed by Jonathan Miller. Also in this issue is Leslie Fiedler making his case, "On Being Busted at Fifty" and Richard Wilbur on Edgar Allan Poe.

ed. hardback very good condition in green cloth with a bit of wear - no dust jacket-.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1910 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 484 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 484 Language: English.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1910 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 481 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 481 Language: English.