title messenger (17 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Book has edgewear with some spots being worn thru to boards. Coloring on spine is lightly faded. Some soiling. Bumped & worn corners. Front endpage is missing. Inside hinge is heavily cracked exposing gauzelike binding in front & back. Book cocked. Not pretty but a good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 210 pages. Published in 2003. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of Elizabeth Crane's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Elizabeth Crane's "When The Messenger Is Hot". In many ways, her best book. "Crane works on an intuitive plane as her funny, funky, wounded, but still swinging women protagonists struggle to survive in a cacophonous and aggressive world. Having kicked the alcohol habit, they have turned to caffeine with a vengeance, making for marvelously keyed-up and jittery narratives. Crane off-handedly toys with assumptions about reality as her characters change shape, indulge in elaborate fantasies, and even, slowly disappear. One narrator is certain that her mother has come back from the dead, another riffs hilariously on the complications of having a much younger lover, and yet another documents her experiences dating various men named Dave. Clever, inventive, and piquant, Crane's breathless stories hit the brain with more voltage than a double espresso" (Donna Seaman). An absolute "must-have" title for Elizabeth Crane collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Elizabeth Crane. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0316096520. Signed by Author(s).

Unpaginated preliminaries, 217-276p., ads, and several inserted sepia portraits on coated paper. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in black and gilt, faint dust-soil and a small ink stain, spine panel browned.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 141-214p., ads; several inserted photographic plates (of buildings). Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in black and gilt. Signatures opened rather carelessly. Wraps are stained, soiled and dusty.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 381-480p., iv [index], ads, portrait and architectural plates from photography. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in dark green and gilt on yellow-green stock, Mildest signs of age, handling.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 81-159p., chapter-house and campus edifice photography. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in dark green and gilt on yellow-green stock. Slightly edgeworn.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 163-235p., a few inserted plates. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in dark green and gilt on yellow-green stock. Nice copy.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 239-305p., a few inserted plates. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in dark green and gilt on yellow-green stock. A nice copy.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 3-77p., a half-dozen inserted plates of which four are of college sportsmen. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in dark green and gilt on yellow-green stock. Nice.

Unpaginated preliminaries and ads, 73-314p., 9 x 6 inch wraps. Wraps are dust-soiled and worn, and torn an inch or so at the tail of the spine panel; fore edge has a bad nick affecting many leaves.

Unpaginated preliminaries and ads, 89-348p., 9 x 6 inch wraps. Wraps are a bit dust-soiled.

Unpaginated preliminaries, 347-432p., ads, iv [index]; this issue boasts a number of inserted photographic portrait plates and a couple of floorplans of the ideal chapter house. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, titled in black and gilt. Signatures partially opened, several carelessly. Wraps are faintly browned, faintly dusty.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. Language:Chinese.Author:MAO ZE DONG.Binding:.Publisher:Xinhua Publishing House.

Octavo, pp. [1] 2-120, illustrations, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Issued as "Horner's 3d. Library," number 2. Boys' fantastic adventure novel. An English missionary is captured and taken to a secret underground stronghold ruled by Khalfa, a gigantic African native with dreams of world domination. However, Khalfa is destroyed by his own "fierce passions, fierce appetites, gluttony, self-indulgence, rage and fear" and his fearless white nemesis, Gregory Maine, quickly frees the slaves and converts them to Christianity. Gregory Maine returns in the sequel, THE GREAT WHITE CHIEF (1915). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 18. Old tape (yellowed) on the spine, a very good copy. (165937).

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the First National film starring Nazimova and Milton Sills. "Story of an idealistic young clergyman, who, to prove that he practiced the doctrines that he preached, married a destitute girl whom he met on the streets one night". Uncommon photoplay title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends.

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the First National film starring Nazimova and Milton Sills. "Story of an idealistic young clergyman, who, to prove that he practiced the doctrines that he preached, married a destitute girl whom he met on the streets one night". Uncommon photoplay title. Very Good to Near Fine, contemporary gift inscription and small abrasion at front end paper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips and short closed tears.

First edition (?). Oblong 4to (7 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches). (1, index), 36 pp. [printed triple column]. Biographical directory of 19th-century ministers, both men and women, for the General Baptist denomination, including the deceased, for an area including Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma; each sketch is accompanied by a portrait of the minister. General Baptists (believing Christ died for everyone and not just the chosen) first gained a foothold in America in Kentucky and Indiana in the 1820s, spreading to the general area reflected in this biographical sketch book. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original printed tan wrappers (soiled, worn around the edges, spine eroded).