Edward r shields (5 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good / Very Good. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler >> Cover creasing; indent to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (ilustrador). Book.…

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (ilustrador). Book.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. First Collected Edition, PBO thus.. **FEATURE AND NOVELETS (1) Yesterdays Angel by Brett Halliday (2) Outlaws by Carl Hoffman **STORIES (1) You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison (2) Cop Killer by Edward R. Shields (3) Correspondence with a Bicycle Thief by Jerry Jacobson (4) The Opponent by Edmund R. Shields (5) The Smiling Corps by Lee G.Moler Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (ilustrador). Book.…

Paperback. Condición: Very good. Luke Cahill; LeRoy R. Hafen; Chauncey Thomas; Lillian B. Shields; Edward W. Milligan Contents: An Indian Campaign and Buffalo Hunting with 'Buffalo Bill' by Luke Cahill; Supplies and Market Prices in Pioneer Denver by LeRoy R. Hafen; Some Characteristics of Jim Baker by Chauncey Thomas; Relations with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes in Colorado to 1861 by Lillian B. Shields; Some Early Books on the Westby Edward Wl Milligan pp. 127 - 164 ; illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 cm.…