owen starke (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Owen, Starke, Reinecke, Schoell, INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN BUSINESS Toronto, Ontario: Allyn and Bacon Canada Ltd. 1977 VG 576pp. 8vo. Cover is clean other than some light markings. Corners and bottom and top of spine are worn. The letters GN are written on the bottom edge and there is writing blacked out at the top of the inside page. Text is lightly age toned but otherwise clean and binding is strong. Overall book is in very good condition.

paperback. Condición: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

First edition (per matching dates on title and copyright leaves). [2], i-x, 1-330, [18] pages. Hardcover: H 19.5cm x L 12.75cm. Original dark green cloth rubbed with some staining; board corners worn; rear board detached but retaining rear free endpaper and last advertising leaf by strip of relatively modern binding tape; spine's surface cloth chipped at ends with additional tear at heel; spine separated along rear joint but still attached at front joint; spine's gilt lettering still reasonably bright but not vibrant. Toning to text block edges. Antebellum bookseller ticket "Sold by | Thos. J. Starke, | No. 53 Main Street, | Opposite St. Charles Hotel, | Richmond, Va." affixed at front pastedown's top left (antebellum Richmond bookseller tickets are uncommon); three-line antiquarian ink ownership inscription "Owen B. Hill MD | Richmond | Va" on front free endpaper; old four leaf clover laid-in between pages 184-185; occasional pencil marks at text margins; pages 313-314 with near leaf long tear towards gutter margin affecting text. Features frontispiece with guard sheet plus three b/w plates all on unpaged leaves (opposite pages 43, 98, and 129). Includes single publisher's advertising leaf preceding frontis and a section of nine unnumbered leaves (i.e. 18 pages) of publisher's advertisements at rear. Wright Howes only calls for six advertising pages so this copy may be a second state of the first edition. Several quires slightly pulled but otherwise text block (save for aforementioned defects) is reasonably firm. Just a good antiquarian copy in need of spine repair and re-stitching. Lawyer Joseph Glover Baldwin (1815-1864) relays his humorous stories and impressions, mostly autobiographical but some fictional elements too, of life during the speculative southern land rush in Alabama and Mississippi prior to the 1837 financial crash. Baldwin moved to California in the late Gold Rush years and served on the Supreme Court of California from 1858 to 1862. In an essay regarding Baldwin on pages 18-19 of LIVES OF MISSISSIPPI AUTHORS, 1817-1967 (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1981) James D. Wilson describes Baldwin's book as a "literary attempt to extol the glories of the region's past and to warn of its impending doom . . . cast in the form of sketches, many dealing with the legal profession" and cites W.D. Howe's statement (from the 1918 edition of CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE) that FLUSH TIMES is "perhaps the most significant volume of humor by a Southerner before the Civil War." Bibliographer Thomas Clark summarized FLUSH TIMES as a "burlesque description of pioneer life in Alabama and Mississippi as it appeared to a young lawyer who had recently arrived from Virginia." {Bibliographical references: Wright Howes "U.S.IANA" B-62, Joseph Sabin 2898, Streeter 1564, and Clark "Travels in the Old South" 124.} Bookseller Thomas Jefferson Starke and the book's likely original owner Dr. Owen Baylor Hill (who evidently served as Confederate War Department acting assistant surgeon in charge of prisons) are both buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Approx. 554 page hard cover, numerous graphs, chrts, exercises, slightly bumped, PO name on FLEP, Any picture found beside this listing may NOT actually be a picture of this book but a stock photo used by the listing site. 3 R's Used Books and Hannelore Headley Old & Fine Books, Inc. are committed to saving the trees one leaf at the time!