Cairns William Editor (9 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Used copy with some notations. Light wear to the exterior.

Hard Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Printing. Hard Bound. No Jacket. Third Printing. 4t. "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography" (Longmans English Classics Series). Edited with notes and an introduction by William B. Cairns, Ph.D. Longmans, Green and Co. NY 1905. Third priniting February 1913. Green cloth hardback with ornate pictorgraph in dark blue. Condition is Very Good/No Jacket. Has some edge and spine wear plus slight fading to boards. Former owner name in ink plus pencil mark. Pub. Ads to back end papers. Tight and clean copy.

later printing. Writers prior to Washington Irving (John Smith, William Byrd, Cotton Mather et. al.) Light shelfwear & a few pencil margin notations otherwise nice hard cover reading copy/ no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 316 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ decorative blind stamp on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 1980 First Edition of "On Mencken", which consists of essays by eight men who worked with or knew the great newspaper columnist, and professional curmudgeon, H. L. Mencken in one way or another. The essayists are William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, the book was edited by John Dorsey, who also wrote the Introduction. From the dust-jacket flap : "In essays celebrating the incomparable H. L. Mencken, on the centenary of his birth, eight distinguished writers and editors consider various aspects of the man and his work - telling of his life, his writings, his prejudices, his passions, and his profound influence on American letters in the first half of the Twentieth Century. --- The result is a book that offers much pleasure and new insights to Mencken's admirers, and that will serve, for anyone not familiar with him, as a fine introduction to one of the most colorful and memorable figures in modern Twentieth Century American letters." TITLE : On Mencken SUBJECT MATTER : H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) EDITOR / INTRODUCTION : John Dorsey AUTHORS : William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf IMPRINT : Alfred A. Knopf PLACE : New York YEAR : 1980 EDITION : First Edition, so stated DETAILS : Trade hardcover; approx. 5.5" x 8.25", brown, cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorative impression on the front board; Contains an Introduction; xx + 313 pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Compression to spine extremities; a shallow surface wrinkle displays near the foot; slight splay to covers at fore-edge; soft bump to top fore-edge corner tip; small dent to bottom edge of front board; color is not faded. Top edge of text-block is somewhat rubbed, else edges clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There is a minute ink spot to the fore-edge of the first three leaves in the book (this is minute and hardly worth mentioning, but it is there); there are also three minute ink specks arranged in a triangular patter near the bottom of the front free end-paper (again minute and of little real effect) - else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET - Small loss to the bottom edge of the front panel; spine panel has a bit of wrinkling to the extremities; front flap top extremity has light wrinkling, corresponding to the bump the corner received; Else the jacket is clean and attractive. It is protected from further wear by a clear mylar sleeve.

Original cloth. Condition: Good. Fifth Edition. With library stamps & labels. Endpapers and edges somewhat foxed. Spine somewhat faded. Some wear and some soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; 12mo; xii, 443 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 2nd Edition, First Thus. VOLUME 4 ONLY. BRAND NEW w/trace wear to corner tips of softcover. Reference, resource. Scholarly guide to English-Candian literature. This volume covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984 with bibliography & indices. 16 chapters from contributors: 1, Poetry; 2, Short Fiction; 3, The Novel; 4, Translation; 5, Theory & Criticism; 6, Scholarship & Criticism; 7, Writing for Radio, Television & Film; 8, Theartre & Drama; 9, Children's Literature; 10, Folklore; 11, Anthropological Literature; 12, Writings in Political Science; 13, Writings in Canadian History; 14, Life-Writing; 15, Writings in Psychology; and 16, From Author to Reader.

With a prefatory note on the life of the author. A nice copy in red cloth with black tiotles. 2nd edition.

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