cairns william editor (9 resultados)

paperback. Condición: Good. Used copy with some notations. Light wear to the exterior.

Hard Bound. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Printing. Hard Bound. No Jacket. Third Printing. 4t. "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography" (Longmans English Classics Series). Edited with notes and an introduction by William B. Cairns, Ph.D. Longmans, Green and Co. NY 1905. Third priniting February 1913. Green cloth hardback with ornate pictorgraph in dark blue. Condition is Very Good/No Jacket. Has some edge and spine wear plus slight fading to boards. Former owner name in ink plus pencil mark. Pub. Ads to back end papers. Tight and clean copy.

later printing. Writers prior to Washington Irving (John Smith, William Byrd, Cotton Mather et. al.) Light shelfwear & a few pencil margin notations otherwise nice hard cover reading copy/ no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 316 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ decorative blind stamp on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 313 pp., xx. Stated "First Edition" with NAP; ' 9/80 ' at foot of inside rear dustwrapper panel. Following the Introduction by John Dorsey, Contents divided into 8 sections: [1] MENCKEN IN PERSON by John Dorsey; by Mencken: "In the Footsteps of Gutenberg"; Fire Alarm"; "A Dip into Statecraft"; [2] MENCKEN OF BALTIMORE by Huntington Cairns; by Mencken: "Good Old Baltimore"; "800,000"; [3] MENCKEN AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Alistair Cooke; [4] THE COMFORTABLE BOURGEOIS: The Thought of H.L. Mencken by Charles A. Fecher; by Mencken: "On Metaphysicians"; "Sabbath Meditation"; "The State of Religion Today"; "The Origin of Morality"; "The Essence of Democracy"; "Last Words"; "The Iconoclast"; [5] MENCKEN, POLITICS, AND POLITICIANS by Malcolm Moos; by Mencken: "The Politician"; "The Last Gasp"; "Gamalielese"; The Clowns March In"; "Post-Mortem"; "Onward, Christian Soldiers!"; "Imperial Purple"; "The Choice Tomorrow"; "Coroner's Inquest"; [6] THE LITERARY CRITIC by William H. Nolte; by Mencken: "Criticism of Criticism of Criticism"; "Portrait of an American Citizen"; "Stephen Crane"; "Joseph Conrad"; "Fifteen Years"; [7] MENCKEN IN HIS LETTERS by Carl Bode; Mencken: "Selected Letters"; [8] H.L. MENCKEN: A MEMOIR BY ALFRED A. KNOPF. // From Charles A. Fecher's essay: "Converting me to anything is probably a psychological impossibility. At all events, it has never been achieved by anyone. . . I can't recall ever changing my mind about any capital matter. My general body of fundamental ideas is the same today as it was in the days when I first began to ponder." (MENCKEN). This lifelong immutability of his thought was remarked on by many people besides himself. To a friend and colleague like Hamilton Owens, it signified that Mencken had been able to avoid the painful intellectual experience to most of us, of being forced to discard one set of beliefs because they had proved false or inadequate and then grope about for a new set to take their place.To critics or outright enemies, it constituted proof positive that he was narrow-minded and prejudiced, closed to any point of view that did not happen to coincide with his own, and had never gone through the normal processes of maturing (p. 114f) . . . From his high regard for scientific achievement his skeptical attitude naturally follows.His opinions on religion lead directly to what might be called, if in his case it did not sound so dreadfully formal, his "philosophy of man." His view of human nature is the foundation for his contemptuous dismissal of democracy, and for all his beliefs about government and politics. And so it goes. (p. 116). // Brown cloth with bright (diminished from brilliant) gilt lettering on spine; decorative design (4" x 1") down right front cover edge on top half front cover; deckled fore-edge. Tan dustwrapper not price-clipped ($15.00) with tinted black and white photo-portrait of Mencken a center front cover; large Title lettering across top front cover above photo-portrait; Contributors' names and Editor name lettering below photo-portrait. Dustwrapper spine age-toned (with corresponding slightly diminished brown of book spine); wear across spine ends and tiny bits missing at spine and cover corners with 1/4" and 5/8" tears at top spine corners (NOW sins backed with Archival tape); slight offsetting on endpapers; two fingertip food stains on p. 25 and at center rear cover (these appear slightly on inside rear cover but NO staining onto brown cloth book cover itself), and similar micro-stain (1/8", ostensibly by a same finger causing above-noted stains, but nearly undetectable on beveled edge) on page edge of beveled fore-edge (p. 37/38); small red Publisher's remainder mark (logo) on lower edge near spine: describes worse than it is, but there you have it in uncompromising truth. Book itself essentially Near Fine: Strong binding (NO cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO writing in text. Dustwrapper in Brodart mylar.

Soft cover. Condición: New. 2nd Edition, First Thus. VOLUME 4 ONLY. BRAND NEW w/trace wear to corner tips of softcover. Reference, resource. Scholarly guide to English-Candian literature. This volume covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984 with bibliography & indices. 16 chapters from contributors: 1, Poetry; 2, Short Fiction; 3, The Novel; 4, Translation; 5, Theory & Criticism; 6, Scholarship & Criticism; 7, Writing for Radio, Television & Film; 8, Theartre & Drama; 9, Children's Literature; 10, Folklore; 11, Anthropological Literature; 12, Writings in Political Science; 13, Writings in Canadian History; 14, Life-Writing; 15, Writings in Psychology; and 16, From Author to Reader.

Original cloth. Condición: Good. Fifth Edition. With library stamps & labels. Endpapers and edges somewhat foxed. Spine somewhat faded. Some wear and some soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; 12mo; xii, 443 pages.

With a prefatory note on the life of the author. A nice copy in red cloth with black tiotles. 2nd edition.

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!