Booth Edward Townsend (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket has edgewear with chipping. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Rear of DJ is missing a large piece of paper from the upper edge, including most of the first paragraph of the author's biography. DJ is missing the top spine end, has chipping to the corners, and is now in a mylar cover. DJ has slight damp staining to the front lower margin and is price clipped. ; "Lives of great writers from Hesiod to Tolstoy prove that literature, like life itself, is rooted in the soil of the good earth." Literary analysis includes Horace, Virgil, Voltaire, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Good. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good/Good. 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Slight wear/soiling to covers and spine. Previous owner ink inscriptions on front and verso of front free endpaper. Otherwise contents clean and tight. Dustjacket is quite faded and has some chipping along the edges. . …

hardcover. B010586; 330 pp hardcover, very good contents, dustjacket good with edgetears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First, dust jacket. Prev. owners name inside front cover, musty smell. DJ heavy soil. Internally clean and sound. As Lived by Ten Presidents of the United States. G/VG.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket. Signed by author on signed by author page. Book Club edition. (biography, history, world).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1971 Hardcover Reprint of the 1946 edition. Ex-Library. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Blue cloth cover with red title box on spine, cover is very nice except for about a 1/4" tear on upper back edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. Text clean. Spine ends lightly bumped.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. New York; Knopf, 1946. Stated first edition. 8vo. Beige cloth, black titles, gold plant design on front board. A fascinating anthology of the rural life in literature, with selections from Hesiod, Xenophon, Horace, Virgil, Ausonius, Sidonius, Madame de Sevigne, Voltaire, Thames-Side Rustics, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, William Cowper, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Melville, Yasnaya Polyana, with an introduction, notes and bibliography. Boards darkened, no dustjacket. Clean copy, sound condition, very good. …

Condition: Good. New York, 1946; beige dust jacket with green and black cover titles and spine titles; brown cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; no wear on boards; edges of dust jacket are torn; 12mo, 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" Tall; half title page is signed by the author; no annotations or underlining throughout interior. 330 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket covered in protective mylar sleeve. Dust jacket is sunfaded. Pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Top adn bottom edges of the spine are slightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Torn DJ. First Edition. 276pp ".as lived by ten Presidents of the United States." Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren, W.H. Harrison, Buchanan, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Coolidge. Small moisture mark atop 12 pages of index and top of rear cover.

Green or.-cloth. (22x15 cm). First /1./ edition. 264,XII pp. Exemplar shows slight traces of lecture or use, respectively. With a little time stained pages. With some marks in the text. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First edition. Slightly tanned with faint foxing to endpapers and with a little marking to the text block edge. Otherwise with clean contents in a tight binding. Complete with a slightly toned but otherwise neat dust jacket. …

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Vignettes before each chapter. Typography and binding design by W.A. Dwiggins. Printed in Caledonia type at the Plimpton Press. 8vo., original brown cloth with design by Dwiggins in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine very slightly darkened, small mark on upper cover, otherwise good.

Fine Binding. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+. Ex-library. Imprint on title page and dedication page.

56 pp.; 30.7 x 24.1 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; July / August 1971 issue of Studio International. Edited by Peter Townsend. Contents include: "What is Reality? The Theme of Documenta 5," by Georg Jappe; "This Spring in West Germany," by Robert Kudielka; "Science in Art," by Marcello Salvadori; "Correspondence;" "News and Notes;" "Experimental Art: Stubbs to Sonfist," by Jonathan Benthall; "Sydney: Art in the Universities," by Donald Brook; "'True Patriot Love': Joyce Wieland at the National Gallery of Canada;" "Bridget Riley," by David Thompson; "Three Shows at the Hayward: Hodler and Böcklin," by Frank Whitford and "Henri Laurens," by William Tucker; "Letter from Bucharest," by Radu Varia; "A Tail of Two Exhibitions," by Barbara Reise; "Background to the Foreground: The Haacke Exhibition History," by Edward Fry and Thomas M. Messer; "Which is in Fact What Happened," Thomas M. Messer in an interview with Barbara Reise; "The Limits of Collecting," by Sir Norman Reid; "Three Early African Sculptures;" "Supplement: New and Recent Art Books" "Reviews," by Marth Haworth-Booth, Jonathan Benthall, Alan Bowness, Timothy Clark, Richard Cork, Peter Gidal, Andrew Higgens, Timothy Hilton, and Frank Whitford. Cover: Sketch for "Zing" 1970 by Bridget Riley. Very Good. Light rubbing and bumping of cover edges. 8 cm. vertical creasing to verso with 6 cm. of pencil writing on verso edge. Contents clean and unmarked.…