Humor old south (38 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. Page edges a bit foxed. Dust Jacket chipped, torn. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Americana, South; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25950.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good-. First Edition. [xii], 337pp [tears, edge wear and general wear to price-clipped dust jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mary Alice Baker (ilustrador).

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.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Very fine first edition in a very fine dust jacket. No names, bookplates, etc.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with a bumped corner and a remainder mark on the top edge. The dust jacket is near fine with a bump at the back bottom corner. 173, pages, index, bibliography, and foot notes.

Condición: New.

Cloth. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good Plus. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to Floyd Stovall, a Poe and Whitman scholar: "For Floyd Stovall--/ from a grateful/ student-/John Q. Anderson/ Houston, Texas/ May 23, 1967." The book is somewhat cocked, otherwise a Good Plus, internally clean, solid hard cover copy in a complete but somewhat soiled Good Plus dust jacket. #. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Printing. As New. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo.; 321 pages.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition, First Printing. This is a new hardcover first edition, first printing copy in new mylar protected DJ, blue spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Book has some staining at bottom of the spine are and some discoloring of pages. Dust jacket has same stain at bottom of spine, other staining and some chipping. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.

Condición: Used: Very Good. 2009 hardcover in dust jacket foxing along top edge of pages clean text sticky at bottom of jacket bind from removed label 173 pages M-2.

Octavo, 335 pp., cloth. First edition. A collection of sketches and short stories with introduction and notes by Anderson. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with some dust soiling and minor edge wear. (#135362).

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Volume II only (begins with chapter nine). P. 277-548. Light rubbing on boards, near fine, lacking the dust jacket.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 173 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Used: Very Good. 2009 hardcover in dust jacket clean crisp unmarked pages slight sticky on bottom of bind of dust jacket 173 pages M-2.

Condición: New. These essays capture the humour of the Old South, in tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, and profiles of local characters, all of which flourished between 1830 and 1860. Editor(s): Inge, M. Thomas; Piacentino, Edward J. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DN; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771. . 2001. Hardback. . . . .…

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: New.

Condición: New. pp. 200 Reprint edition.

Condición: New.

Condición: New. These essays capture the humour of the Old South, in tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, and profiles of local characters, all of which flourished between 1830 and 1860. Editor(s): Inge, M. Thomas; Piacentino, Edward J. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DN; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771. . 2001. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condición: New. pp. 332.

Condición: New. pp. 332 52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam.

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

Condición: New. This literary legacy left an indelible mark on the works of later writers such as Mark Twain and William Faulkner, whose works in a comic vein reflect affinities and connections to the rich lode of materials initially popularized by the Southwestern humoris.