Title beecher (4 resultados)

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite statement upon copyright page) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xviii, 290 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; negligible short closed tear at top edge of front panel with head of front flap fold worn; minor wear along other edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth with bright gilt stamped spine lettering; light rubbing to boards. Slight soiling to top edge and fore-edge. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket with Beecher's bold signature in black felt tip upon the front free endpaper. Noted Birmingham, Alabama poet championing "the ideals of the American Dream against the ills of oppression and indifference" (quoted from the dj's rear flap). ISBN 0025083104. …

Fair, stained orig. maroon cloth, lacks ffep. Text complete. [11], 207 p.; 21 cm. (Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale ; 41) [First printed July 1915]. 2nd impression edition. Binding is Hardcover.

Full title: PATRIOTIC ADDRESSES IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND, FROM 1850 TO 1885, ON SLAVERY, THE CIVIL WAR, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL LIBERTY IN THE UNITED STATES BY HENRY WARD BEECHER EDITED, WITH A REVIEW OF MR. BEECHER'S PERSONALITY AND INFLUENCE IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS, BY JOHN R. HOWARD. Early reprint (first published 1887). 857 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.75cm. Original dark maroon pebbled cloth with light rubbing and staining, bumping and slight scuffing at spine ends, spine's gilt stamped lettering remains bright. Edges toned. Some toning to pages 338-339 caused by small laid-in card from publisher Fords, Howard, & Hulbert advertising their other Beecher titles; another publisher advertisement slip laid-in between pages 254-255; a few leaves at rear have bumped/creased top fore-edge corners. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Still a handsome very good+ copy. With b/w plates on unpaged leaves including a frontispiece portrait with tissue guard sheet. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds (1.36 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Small octavo, illus yellow heavy card boards with black lettering, 8pp reviews + frontispiece x 2 + 243pp, VG- (front board attached with unattractive brown tape externally & to front hinge, heavy soiling to boards, bruising, dings & smoe fraying to board edges & corners, moderate browning to page edges & eps, inscription in ink to fep, occasional foxing elsewhere).…