Fecher charles a editor (28 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Minor shelf and edge wear.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Paperback. Near fine, spine, owner name and quarter inch dogear to upper front corner. Last two decades of the author's life, showing all his varied sides, gossipy, humorous, opinionated, rascist, analytical, hypochondriacal, misanthropic, outrageous and definitely interesting. 476 pp.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, small dust jacket edge tear, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Clipped. Stated first ed., 1989; 476 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; binding tight; boards without discernible wear; d.j. has very slight rubbing at upper edges but no chipping. No remainder mark.

Very good minus, light shelfwear. First Edition Cloth Lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good (Protective cover). First Edition. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal corner bumping. DJ is unclipped and in very good condition, save for rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

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: Fine in Near Fine DJ. dj. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine illustrated brown and white dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Illustrated. Index, 476 pages. H.L. Mencken. MENCKE21/112399.

Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket. 8vo. First edition. Book is in fine condition; jacket is in VG+ condition, with lightly rubbed edges and shelf wear. Rear jacket flap has a creased corner. With 8 pages of black and white photographs. A bright, clean copy. Not price-clipped. No remainder mark. 476 pp. Including index. …

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.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 1980 First Edition of "On Mencken", which consists of essays by eight men who worked with or knew the great newspaper columnist, and professional curmudgeon, H. L. Mencken in one way or another. The essayists are William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, the book was edited by John Dorsey, who also wrote the Introduction. From the dust-jacket flap : "In essays celebrating the incomparable H. L. Mencken, on the centenary of his birth, eight distinguished writers and editors consider various aspects of the man and his work - telling of his life, his writings, his prejudices, his passions, and his profound influence on American letters in the first half of the Twentieth Century. --- The result is a book that offers much pleasure and new insights to Mencken's admirers, and that will serve, for anyone not familiar with him, as a fine introduction to one of the most colorful and memorable figures in modern Twentieth Century American letters." TITLE : On Mencken SUBJECT MATTER : H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) EDITOR / INTRODUCTION : John Dorsey AUTHORS : William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf IMPRINT : Alfred A. Knopf PLACE : New York YEAR : 1980 EDITION : First Edition, so stated DETAILS : Trade hardcover; approx. 5.5" x 8.25", brown, cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorative impression on the front board; Contains an Introduction; xx + 313 pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Compression to spine extremities; a shallow surface wrinkle displays near the foot; slight splay to covers at fore-edge; soft bump to top fore-edge corner tip; small dent to bottom edge of front board; color is not faded. Top edge of text-block is somewhat rubbed, else edges clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There is a minute ink spot to the fore-edge of the first three leaves in the book (this is minute and hardly worth mentioning, but it is there); there are also three minute ink specks arranged in a triangular patter near the bottom of the front free end-paper (again minute and of little real effect) - else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET - Small loss to the bottom edge of the front panel; spine panel has a bit of wrinkling to the extremities; front flap top extremity has light wrinkling, corresponding to the bump the corner received; Else the jacket is clean and attractive. It is protected from further wear by a clear mylar sleeve.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. ***PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A PAPERBACK UNCORRECTED PROOF*** Softbound Book. Book is in Very Good condition, with minimal handling and light shelfwear, some creasing to upper edge of front panel, binding is tight as if unread, corners are sharp, interior is clean, text is free of markings. …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Selections from the never-before-published diary of Mencken covering the years 1930-1948, which was sealed for 25 years after his death at his request. Near fine in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NEAR FINE, stated 1st edition / printing, cream cloth over boards with gilt monogram on cover and gilt and designed font on spine, 476 pps . Appears unread, without writing or marks of any kind. Tight and crisp. Light spotting on top edge.Dust jacket is not price clipped, without tears, lightly age toned and mylar wrap protected. "this publication of this journal, which was sealed, by Mencken¿s request, from public view for 25 years after his death in 1956, and which for several years past has been available only to scholars and the rumor mill" will open your eyes and mind to a journalist who was not easily intimidated and whose values, even when questionable, were direct and clear. …

Soft cover. Condición: Good +. 476 pp, index, b/w photos. Lightly creased spine. Interior unmarked.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1990, numbers 113 - 116. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1990, numbers 109 - 111. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1993, numbers 125 - 128. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1998, numbers 145 - 148. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1992, numbers 121 - 124. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1996, numbers 137 - 140. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1981, numbers 77 - 80. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1994, numbers 129 - 132. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition, in alike dust-jacket; The Diary of H. L. Mencken is a collection of essays, speeches, and other writings by Pulitzer Prize-winner and critic H. L. Mencken. It was published in 1938 and edited by Charles A. Fecher.; 8vo; FSA. …

Stapled Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Square and tight in clean olive and blue wraps. Interior bright with no markings. 16 pages.In archival sleeve.

Stapled Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Square and tight in clean olive and blue wraps. Interior bright with no markings. 16 pages. In archival sleeve.

Stapled Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Square and tight in clean olive and blue wraps. Interior bright with no markings. 16 pages. In archival sleeve.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxx, 476, index. Illustrated with eight pages of b&w photo reproductions. Bound in tan cloth, spine decorated in gilt with blue title panel lettered in gilt. Near Fine, bottom corners a trifle bumped in Very Good+ dust jacket. Briefly inscribed by the editor in year of publication. New York Times review laid in, now in an archival sleeve. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector. s.…