Alfred David Thomas (63 results)

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CO-EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR ROBERT G. SHOEMAKER ALONG WITH AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS) LAID-IN. x, 261 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed, mild bumping and slight nicks at edges, some rippling and slight bubbling to dj's laminate along lower edges. Black cloth spine with ends lightly bumped, blue boards. Shoemaker's four-line ink inscription " For Michael - | With best wishes | Robert Shoemaker | May, 1993" on front free endpaper with eleven-line handwritten note dated May 17, 1993 to same individual laid-in between front free endpaper and half-title. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. ISBN 0195072014.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. 197 pp. Volume 51, Number 1 (April 1994). Softcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 222 No. 1 September - October - November 1925.

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stephen Fabian; Jim Pitts; Alfred Klosterman; Russ Nicholson; John Grandfield; Sue Simpson; Dave Carson; Clive Barker; Martin McKenna; J. K. Potter; Allen Koszowski; (illustrator). 1st Edition. Digest format. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Stephen Fabian; interiors by: Jim Pitts; Alfred Klosterman; Russ Nicholson; John Grandfield; Sue Simpson; Dave Carson; Clive Barker; Martin McKenna; J. K. Potter; and Allen Koszowski. This issue contains: An Outworn Story by Robert E. Howard; The Last Call by Michael Moorcock; Six Commonplaces by Clive Barker; The Dandelion Chronicles by William F. Nolan; Writer's Curse by Ramsey Campbell; Hell Is a Personal Place by Brian Lumley; North Sea Lament by Steve Eng; The Traveling Salesman and the Farmer's Daughter by C. Bruce Hunter; Ebony Rose by Leilah Wendell; The Hollywood Mandate by Mike Chinn; and The Ghoul of the Four Winds by William Thomas Webb. Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 128 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0809424029 (retail ed.); 9780809424023 (retail ed.) LCCN: 78-1110 ; LC: TH4955; Dewey: 690.89 ; OCLC: 8577251 ; color pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; "Offers instructions for building and repairing fences, gates, walls, gazebos, tree houses, benches, and storage structures" ; Contents: Laying the groundwork -- Borders of wood, brick and iron -- Quick-and-easy backyard building -- A roomy all-purpose structure. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Pages a little tanned with some foxing to the edges, previous owner's name on front endpaper, else the book is in very good condition; wrapper is a little worn and faded.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Gilman, Elaine (illustrator). 1st Edition. Some damage to cover. From the collection of New York poet, Tom Savage and may contain minor markings from the poet in the book. We may request additional monies for international shipping, based on actual costs. Cover and/or pages may be lightly soiled/faded/discolored due to age or minor damage.

Condition: Collectible - Like New. With near fine dust jacket. Stated first edition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Deutsche Erstausgabe.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 302 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 038000187X; 9780380001873 ; LC: PN4900.L55; Dewey: 051 ; OCLC:3365253 ; Contents: The moment preserved -- The athletes -- Speaking of pictures -- The leaders -- The variety of life -- The sciences -- And into space -- Far-out fashion -- And real fashion -- The Black cause -- The land -- The soldiers -- The children -- The animals -- The faddists -- People -- Growing up -- The entertainers -- The photographic essay -- Fun out of life. ; marks on flyleaf ; slight edge wear ; repair to page 75 ; G. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 12th printing ; 293 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 038000187X; 9780380001873 ; LCCN: 73-79056 LC: PN4900.L55; Dewey: 051 ; OCLC: 15376643 ; Contents: The moment preserved -- The athletes -- Speaking of pictures -- The leaders -- The variety of life -- The sciences -- And into space -- Far-out fashion -- And real fashion -- The Black cause -- The land -- The soldiers -- The children -- The animals -- The faddists -- People -- Growing up -- The entertainers -- The photographic essay -- Fun out of life. ; marks on flyleaf ; slight edge wear ; flyleaf corner clipped ; store stamp on inside front cover ; G. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. George Grosz, John Heartfield, Luis Quintanilla (illustrator). Dustjacket affixed to stiff boards. 8vo, 513 pp., illus. Exterior sunned, dustsoiled, edgeworn, page edges dusty, interior clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. ; LCCN 95050472 ; LC Z2014.P7 B39 1997 ; ISBN 9780847819584, 0847819582 ; OCLC 33818867 ; black and tan cloth in photographic dustjacket ; The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture ; Contents: Foreword / by Paul LeClerc -- Introduction / by Rodney Phillips -- The magical value of manuscripts / Dana Gioia -- Poems and papers. John Donne -- Alexander Pope -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Leigh Hunt -- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Emily Bronte? -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Alfred Lord Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Lewis Carroll -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Rudyard Kipling -- Thomas Hardy -- Charlotte Mew -- Hilaire Belloc -- Oscar Wilde -- Ernest Dowson -- William Butler Yeats -- James Stephens -- Robert Frost -- Edward Thomas -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Issac Rosenberg -- Humbert Wolfe -- Anna Wickham -- D.H. Lawrence -- Robert Graves -- Elinor Wylie -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Robinson Jeffers -- William Faulkner -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- Marianne Moore -- E.E. Cummings -- Vladimir Nabokov -- W.H. Auden -- Louise Bogan -- Kay Boyle -- Lorine Niedecker -- Louis Zukofsky -- Charles Olson -- Stanley Kunitz -- Jean Garrigue -- May Sarton -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Delmore Schwartz -- Dylan Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Robert Lowell -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Howard Moss -- Richard Wilbur -- Jack Kerouac -- Allen Ginsberg -- Gary Snyder -- Robert Duncan -- Denise Levertov -- Robert Creeley -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- Kenneth Koch -- Ted Berrigan -- Ron Padgett -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Justice -- Samuel Menashe -- James Merrill -- Amy Clampitt -- James Wright -- W.S. Merwin -- Anne Sexton -- Sylvia Plath -- Philip Levine -- Jean Valentine -- Adrienne Rich -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Mark Strand -- Louise Glu?ck -- Charles Simic -- Ai -- Dana Gioia -- Julia Alvarez -- The Prado of poetry : a history of the Berg Collection / Dana Gioia -- Suggestions for further reading -- Checklist of illustrations/permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index ; Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks"--Make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First American.Edition. Fine Decorative Hardcover First Edition NOT a library copy. NO jacket issued by Publisher Clean 271 pp. Palgrave, 2012. 8 v.o Seven Cutting edge essays on the new focused study of "Atlantic Sea Provence" Norse whaling, Irish Imramma, more. Edited by Benjamin Hudson Essays from the Fairy isles as Christian desert sanctuaries to Manx Viking Kings. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of Cover and partial Table of Contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 295 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm. ; ISBN: 0870443585; 9780870443589 LCCN: 80-7827 ; LC: CB311; Dewey: 930 ; OCLC: 7734568 ; A lavishly illustrated volume that deals with such historical sites as Pompeii, Angkor, & those associated with the Hittite Empire. ; Contents : Foreword -- An introduction : cities lost and found / by John Carswell -- The Sumerians of Mesopotamia ; The royal cities of Solomon / by Seymour L. Fishbein -- Pompeii : city sealed in time / by Thomas O'Neill ; photographed by David Hiser -- The mysterious kingdom of Kush / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by Michael S. Yamashita -- Angkor and the ancient Khmer / by Louis de la Haba -- The Hittites of Asia Minor / by Louis de la Haba ; photographed by Mehmet Biber -- Land of the Sinhalese Kings / by Cynthia Russ Ramsey ; photographed by David Hiser. ; yellow and brown embossed cloth in color dustjacket ; Folio, large volume ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 47, [1] pp., 8vo, stapled card wrapper. Very good copy overall; contents fine, wrapper dust and finger-soiled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Hardcover. Very good minus blue blindstamped 16mo., bright gilt title to spine. Spotty orange soiling to boards, rubbing to hinges, spine ends; corners bumped. Foxing to endpapers and early/late pages but majority of interior is clean w/bright text. Tightly bound. 192 pp. Religion. REL/8293.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. Square 4to, 100pp, printed wrappers. Third issue of this impressive quarterly, includes The Hut by Mohammed Mrabet, translated by Paul Bowles. Plus work by Charles Bukowski and others. Unmarked copy, very light wear. Not Signed.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Garland Publishing. xlix, 834 pp. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. Volume 1942. LCC: 99045450 Very good condition; traces of wear on covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. ; ISBN: 0810934531; 9780810934535; National Library: BA22665918 LCCN: 90-205 ; LC: PR8851; Dewey: 821.008/032415 ; OCLC: 21118559 ; Dewey: 821.008 ; includes the artworks of Brian Ballard, Thomas Bridgeford, James Henry Brocas, Seaan Mac William Burke, Frederick Burton, Harry Clarke, Pat Connor, Barrie Cooke, Anton Corbijn, Lillian Lucy Davidson, Wilfred de Glehn, Albrecht Durer, Owen D. Edwards, Conor Fallon, Richard Fitzgerald, E. Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Grogan, Patrick Harris, Paul Henry, David Hone, A. B. Houghton, Mainie Jellett, Augustus John, Thomas Alfred Jones, John Kelly, James Latham, John Lavery, Thomas Lawrence, Louis le Brocquy, S. J. McCormack, Edward McGuire, Daniel Maclise, F. E. McWilliam, CAsimir de Markievicz, Evelyn Montague, Jane Morgan, Peter David Morgan, Robin Morrison, Robert Motherwell, George Mott, Richard T. Moynan, James Nachtwey, Roderic O'Conor, William Orpen, Walter Osborne, Marin Parr, Nano Reid, Marjorie Robinson, Norman Rockwell, Kathleen Jo Ryan, Patrick Scott, John Sloan, John Speed, Patrick Touhy, Rod Tuach, Jill Uris, Joan Walsh-Smith, Samuel Waugh, Francis Wheatley, James Worsdale, Jan Wyck, Jack B. Yeats, John Butler Yeats ; poets include AE (George Russell); W H Auden, Samuel Beckett, Eavan Boland, George Buchanan, Robert Burns, Ciaran Carson, Austin Clarke, Sigerson Clifford, Shirley Graves Cochrane, Brian Coffey, Padraic Colum, Thomas Davis, Gerald Dawe, Seamus Deane, Aubrey De Vere, Denis Devlin, Charles Donnelly, Edward Dowden, Padraic Fallon, Father Prout, Samuel Ferguson, Padraic Fiacc, Oliver Goldsmith, Alfred Percival Graves, Natalie Hardwick, Michael Harnett, Daniel Hayes, Seamus Heaney, John Hewitt, John Hogan, Ted Hughes, John Kells Ingram, Robinson Jeffers, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanaugh, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeicce, Derek Mahon, John Montague, Frank O'Connor, Jane Wilde, W B Yeats ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. F W Fairholt (illustrator). Book by Alfred David Thomas depicting the stories of the gospels in 24 plates, with accompanying quotes. Condition: good. Some scratches to covers, wear and creasing to spine. Contents all clean and tight.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b In the Land of the Harp and Feathers: a series of Welsh village idylls.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Thomas, Alfred David; br/b/b 1896.br/b/b 255 p. ; 8ş.br/b/b 012625.h.15.br/.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.