Clark E Harrison and Clark Harrison E (5 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Closely based on Washington's letters, diaries, and papers, a monumental, complimentary biography traces Washington's early days as a pioneer and frontiersman along the wilderness of the eastern seaboard. George Washington (February 22, 1732 ? December 14, 1799) was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War, and presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the Constitution of the United States and a federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country.…

First edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice). x, 246 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight sunning to spine; rear flap's top corner is creased. Pale yellow cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription (name|date) on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by editors Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John Louis Lucaites, Notes, References, Contributors, and Index. Features nine essays: "Alabama as Egypt: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Religion of Slaves" by Keith D. Miller; "The American Dilemma in King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'" by E. Culpepper Clark; "Reconstruction of the Rhetorical Situation in 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'" by Judith D. Hoover; "Covenanted Rights: The Metaphoric Matrix of 'I Have a Dream'" by Martha Solomon; "Universalizing 'Equality': The Public Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr." by John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit; "'I Have a Dream': The Performance of Theology Fused with the Power of Orality" by John H. Patton; "When 'Silence Is Betrayal': An Ethical Criticism of the Revolution of Values in the Speech at Riverside Church" by Frederick J. Antczak; "The Last Mountaintop of Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Osborn; "The Call from the Mountaintop: Call-Response and the Oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr." by Robert D. Harrison and Linda K. Harrison. ISBN 0817306897.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1992. SIGNED by all 4 editors on title page. A Near Fine book in a Good- dust jacket. Large 8vo., 1045 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with blue dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed and worn with chipping along tips & edges. Small closed tear at base of spine. Text appears clean and unmarked, dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. 2,000 plus entries, was published to commemorate the state bicentennial.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 151 pages, illustrations; 24 x 29 cm. Accompanies an exhibition jointly organized by the Asia House Gallery of the Asia Society and the American Federation of Arts. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First UK Edition. Dust jacket, with toned flaps, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Profusely illustrated. Size: Oblong. Collectible.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black pebble cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, charcoal black end sheets. Quarto. 10½'' x 8''. Contains (xvi), 296 pp with 89 monochrome text illustrations throughout. From the private library of Leonard Harrison Matthews with his illustrated | coat of arms bookplate to the front paste down. In Very Good bright condition with the text block being particularly clean and not opened. Member of the P.B.F.A. ZOOLOGY (Animal Biology).…