Cairns William (386 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. G- book with slightly sunned spine, small stains and marks on cloth, former owner's signature inked on front free endpaper, and pencil margin marks and notes on about twenty pages. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Later Printing. 493 pp, ads, occasional underlining and notations in text, owner's sig on pastedown. Solid and tight, but main flaw is moisture damage to lower right corner involving cover, but not pages. This book is likely to require extra postage for overseas shipping which can be very high, so before ordering , contact me so that the postage rate can be agreed upon. ID# Nc.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Cover worn, hinges cracking, smudged, foxed, taped tear. Fair. 12mo. x+270p+ads. Blue cloth.

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.

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Corners and spine are beginning to chip.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. William B. Cairns (illustrator). 156 pages; b/w photos & illustrations; 2 color ils; text unmarked, previous owner name inside front cover; hinges darkened; 8.5" tall; shelf wear to edges of navy cover with gilt lettering on front & spine; no dj. Hardcover.

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.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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: Fair. printed in 1898. front cover has a dark stain.; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William B. Cairns (illustrator). 1st Edition. Inscribed Sincerely yours and signed by author on title page. In blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Square, tight, and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bno writing no tearing pages clean and white. i;llustrated. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in light gray paper covers approx. 10 x 6.5 inches 97 pages uncut and unopened, page edges not trimmed.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. William B. Cairns (illustrator). Former owner's inked gift inscription on ffep, date (1949) inked on title page. Age spotting to gutter of front and back end pages, else clean and tight. Light shelf wear to binding, light fraying to head and foot of spine 156pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue cloth, gold lettering, rubbed, some notes and underlining in pencil. FER.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 313 pp., xx. Stated "First Edition" with NAP; ' 9/80 ' at foot of inside rear dustwrapper panel. Following the Introduction by John Dorsey, Contents divided into 8 sections: [1] MENCKEN IN PERSON by John Dorsey; by Mencken: "In the Footsteps of Gutenberg"; Fire Alarm"; "A Dip into Statecraft"; [2] MENCKEN OF BALTIMORE by Huntington Cairns; by Mencken: "Good Old Baltimore"; "800,000"; [3] MENCKEN AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Alistair Cooke; [4] THE COMFORTABLE BOURGEOIS: The Thought of H.L. Mencken by Charles A. Fecher; by Mencken: "On Metaphysicians"; "Sabbath Meditation"; "The State of Religion Today"; "The Origin of Morality"; "The Essence of Democracy"; "Last Words"; "The Iconoclast"; [5] MENCKEN, POLITICS, AND POLITICIANS by Malcolm Moos; by Mencken: "The Politician"; "The Last Gasp"; "Gamalielese"; The Clowns March In"; "Post-Mortem"; "Onward, Christian Soldiers!"; "Imperial Purple"; "The Choice Tomorrow"; "Coroner's Inquest"; [6] THE LITERARY CRITIC by William H. Nolte; by Mencken: "Criticism of Criticism of Criticism"; "Portrait of an American Citizen"; "Stephen Crane"; "Joseph Conrad"; "Fifteen Years"; [7] MENCKEN IN HIS LETTERS by Carl Bode; Mencken: "Selected Letters"; [8] H.L. MENCKEN: A MEMOIR BY ALFRED A. KNOPF. // From Charles A. Fecher's essay: "Converting me to anything is probably a psychological impossibility. At all events, it has never been achieved by anyone. . . I can't recall ever changing my mind about any capital matter. My general body of fundamental ideas is the same today as it was in the days when I first began to ponder." (MENCKEN). This lifelong immutability of his thought was remarked on by many people besides himself. To a friend and colleague like Hamilton Owens, it signified that Mencken had been able to avoid the painful intellectual experience to most of us, of being forced to discard one set of beliefs because they had proved false or inadequate and then grope about for a new set to take their place.To critics or outright enemies, it constituted proof positive that he was narrow-minded and prejudiced, closed to any point of view that did not happen to coincide with his own, and had never gone through the normal processes of maturing (p. 114f) . . . From his high regard for scientific achievement his skeptical attitude naturally follows.His opinions on religion lead directly to what might be called, if in his case it did not sound so dreadfully formal, his "philosophy of man." His view of human nature is the foundation for his contemptuous dismissal of democracy, and for all his beliefs about government and politics. And so it goes. (p. 116). // Brown cloth with bright (diminished from brilliant) gilt lettering on spine; decorative design (4" x 1") down right front cover edge on top half front cover; deckled fore-edge. Tan dustwrapper not price-clipped ($15.00) with tinted black and white photo-portrait of Mencken a center front cover; large Title lettering across top front cover above photo-portrait; Contributors' names and Editor name lettering below photo-portrait. Dustwrapper spine age-toned (with corresponding slightly diminished brown of book spine); wear across spine ends and tiny bits missing at spine and cover corners with 1/4" and 5/8" tears at top spine corners (NOW sins backed with Archival tape); slight offsetting on endpapers; two fingertip food stains on p. 25 and at center rear cover (these appear slightly on inside rear cover but NO staining onto brown cloth book cover itself), and similar micro-stain (1/8", ostensibly by a same finger causing above-noted stains, but nearly undetectable on beveled edge) on page edge of beveled fore-edge (p. 37/38); small red Publisher's remainder mark (logo) on lower edge near spine: describes worse than it is, but there you have it in uncompromising truth. Book itself essentially Near Fine: Strong binding (NO cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO writing in text. Dustwrapper in Brodart mylar.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. With 569pp - asn ex library copy - with library markings o/w good. - reasonably priced . HARD COVER, NO DUST JACKET, LIBRARY MARKINGS, GOOD CONDITION, SPLENDID VALUE.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. William B. Cairns (illustrator). possible 1st ed. Backenstoe was a Lehigh Co. PA doctor in the early 20th century. 156pp; SIGNED by the author on title page; glossy paper; b/w photos & ils; Baggenstoss & Kemmerer shields reproduced in red, black, gilt & silver; gift inscription to previous owner (not by author) on front end page; light wear to extrems of cover; foxing on edges. Signed by author. Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1984 PUBLICATION; softcovers; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.