Oscar lewis editor (22 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good to Very Good-. 2nd printing, May 1981. Cover art by Bill Yennes. Includes "Introduction"; "The Death of a Dentist" by David Magee; "The Phosphorescent Bride" by Oscar Lewis; "Wells, Fargo Jekyll and Hyde" by Richard H. Dillon; "The History of Theodore Durrant" by Thomas S. Duke; "Eleven Days' Wonder" by Lenore Glen Offord; "The Lingering Doubt" by Miriam Allen deFord; "The Labor Union Murders" by Joe Gores; "Today Is the Zodiac Speaking. . ." by Duffy Jennings; "The Chinatown Murders" by Thomas W. Emch.Creasing; edge and corner wear; tanning; minor scuffs and scratches. Book. …

hardcover. Condición: Good. A good hardcover copy with a tight and square binding. Rust colored cloth covered hardcovers are very good (clean, no creasing, no edge wear). Text is clean but is lightly age-toned. Dust jacket is clean but has some edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.…

HARDCOVER. Condición: cover wear otherwise very good. First edition. 53pp octavo cloth.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. Limited edition. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Signed by Oscar Lewis at end of his contribution, page 192. Part of the City and County Readers Series, edited by John Farrar and Roger W. Straus, Jr. 524 pages. Blue and black cloth covers with gold on spine. Covers with mild corner bumping and edge wear. DJ illustrated. DJ reinforced with tape on inside at spine top and bottom and at top of front flap. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. The book is in four sections: Before the Gold, The Gold Rush, City in the Making, and City of Our Times. Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Limited First Edition. Quarter cloth over decorated paper boards in publisher's plain paper dust-jacket (mylar protected). 127 pages. One of 650 copies printed by Arlen & Clara Louise Philpott; monotype composition by Mackenzie-Harris; photolithography by Paragraphics and binding by Cardoza-James. Paper is Mohawk Superfine. This is publication 165 of The Book Club of California. A clean, tight copy in "as new" condition Size: Small Quarto. …

First Printing. Bantam 354, Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and soiling.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Ed; 1971; Lewis Osborne, Ashland; HC in VG in G condition with tight binding; No ink marks or highlighting to text; NO DJ; Light edge wear to boards; Light tanning to pages.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: as new. Quarter-cloth boards titled in silver-foil and blue ink over white papered board as new with A fine titleless white dust jacket, Limited edition of 400 copies designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serprent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. Prospectus laid in.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 10 parts. Complete. No markings anywhere. Housed in light-blue card sleeve, which is inserted into blue slipcase. Scuffed slipcase.

No Binding. Condición: Near Fine. 12 unbound printed folders, each loosely enclosing a facimile broadside or poster, 4to., slipcase and chemise. Keepsake No. XVI (labelled No. XV in colophon) limited to 950 copies printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press. Two small typewritten notices from the Club laid in. Complete and fine copies in the worn but very good club-supplied cloth chemise and slipcase with leather spine labels gilt.…

Original Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Second Edition. Second UK hardback edition of this collection of stories previously published in 1953 by Cassell. Originally published in the US by Random House in 1951. There is a little bumping to the corners of the boards which are otherwise unmarked. Quite heavy browning to the page edges and the pages are also browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has quite a bit of browning to the spine with some chipping with a little loss at the top and bottom - the bottom has a quarter-inch piece missing. The front panel has three small chips and a few small tears to the edges with two small stains. The rear panel has a small hole to the surface towards the bottom edge and a little edge chipping. Light chipping to the corners. Jacket design by Cecil W. Bacon. Bacon, Cecil W. (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. (1963) 608 pp. Original brown, decorative cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends and bottom corner of rear cover a bit bumped. DJ lightly rubbed w/ wear to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ drawings, paintings, engravings, historical maps, documentary art, old prints, woodcuts, and lithographs. Contents very nice.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition (#64 of 250) printed by Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California. A very good copy that has been nicely rebound in quarter blue leather that has a little edgewear. A bookplate on endpaper. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #18.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very fine. 1st Edition. First collected, book edition. Small quarto. 10x7 inches. Pp. vi, 53. Cloth-backed patterned boards. A very fine copy. One of 500 numbered copies. Printed at the Grace Hoper Press. Elegies written for this Comstock paper, which started the careers of many famous writers. Authors include Dan de Quille, Rollin M. Daggett, Sam Davis, Arthur McEwen, and Wells Drury. Edited and with an excellent introduction by Oscar Lewis. Beautifully printed in black and red by Sherwood and Katherine Grover at their Grace Hoper Press with hand-set Garamond type.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. volume 2 only. shows minor wear.

Condición: Very Good. 1908 Binding: Hardcover REAR HINGE CRACKED, FFEP AND TITLE PAGE LOOSE BUT PRESENT.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Limited Edition 400 copies. Hard cover, 4to, in quarter blue silk-like cloth over light stone paper covered boards, titles in blue to the front board and in silver to the spine. In orig. plain white d/j. Book design and printing by Susan Acker at The Feathered Serpent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. Bookbinder Cardoza-James. Limited edition 400 copies. CONDITION: Fine, in a Near Fine d/j. ***American Author Oscar Lewis (1893-1992) journalist, novelist and publisher, was a founder member of the Book Club of California, in whose name awards for works of history and the book arts are still granted annually. This anthology of his writings includes reminiscences, several short stories, columns and travel writing, literary criticism, as well as selections from several books. The pieces are excerpted from the "Atlantic Monthly, "The New Republic," "The Outlook," "Boy's Life" and "The Argonaut," among other magazines. The book excerpts come from " Bonanza Inn" and his best-selling history about the advent of California's Central Pacific Railroad ,"The Big Four." This is Publication No. 205 of the Book Club of California. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Collectible-Very Good. Cloth backed boards. Illustrations. 400 copies printed by Susan Acker. In the Foreword the author describes how he and Lewis Osborne discussed compiling some of the author's writings (short fiction, factual articles, travel sketches, boys' stories, book reviews, etc.) in book form. Because of other priorities, the project was put off, and Lewis Osborne died. The project sat around for three decades until in recent years the author once more picked it up, this time discussing it with Linda and Wayne Bonnett. Titles of some of Oscar Lewis' writings are: The Tree; Free Auto Camp Ground; When the Iron Horse First Ran West; The Medal He Lost; John Henry Nash; The Jumping Frog Contest; Jack London's California; Stanford -- "It is Pleasant to b e Rich"; etc.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 400 copies, folio size, 99 pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was a highly-regarded designer, illuminator, and decorator of books over a career that spanned decades, doing much of his early work for the Grabhorn Press and the Book Club of California; he also printed his own books in extremely limited editions under the imprints of "The Golden Cross Press" and "The Press of Valenti Angelo". This publication of The Book Club of California celebrates Angelo's fiftieth anniversary as a printer, and is a detailed collection of his work up to 1975. Many of the facsimiles in the book are printed in colour and some are even hand-coloured by Angelo himself; he contributed greatly to the design of this book. The volume has essays about Angelo's work and his skill as a printer and designer, written by celebrated novelist Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), writer Annis Duff, and Robert Grabhorn, of the Grabhorn Press. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter red cloth with orange boards, blue decorations by Valenti Angelo running vertically on the front and rear boards, orange paper spine label with blue lettering, fore-edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut, title page with illustrations and ornaments in blue and orange with hand-colouring in gilt by Angelo, decorations and initial capitals by Angelo throughout, forty-three specimens of Angelo's printing, thirty-five of which are in colour, and some hand-coloured, throughout; monotype Centaur, machine-made paper, folio size (14.5" by 10.25"), pagination: [1-6] 7-97 [98] [1, colophon], one of 400 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: A fine copy overall; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; with light toning at the hinges, else fine. ___CITATION: BCC, no. 154. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy item and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Angelo, Valenti (ilustrador).…

Seven issues of the postcolonial academic literary and political review of the Caribbean for an English-speaking audience. Tabloid format, newsprint. Vol. 1 Nos. 2,3,4; Vol. 2 Nos. 1,3,4; Vol. 3 No. 2. Very Good condition, folded horizontally with typical toning to newsprint, light reading wear, dampstaining to three or so of the issues' outer wraps. Includes English-translated work by Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Augustin Yanez, Mario de Andrade and others as well as some coverage of the Puerto Rican independence movement and other Caribbean movements. Uncommon in the trade. …