Cumberland David (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated by J. B. Dobbs. Softcover has some rubbing and stains. Pages are bright and unmarked, clean illustrations, good binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. As pictured. A very good condition hardcover, in a good condition dust jacket chip to spine ends,tiny sots of tape to chips gently read, 408 pages,

PB. drawings by J. B. Dobbs (illustrator). 96pp Some discoloration on covers - internally very good. good+, wraps (softcover) some discoloration on covers.

Softcover. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including creasing near spine. Spine is tanned. Small amount of writing on front. Contents: Cumberland, Moas and men: New Zealand about A.D. 1250. Curry, The climatic resources of intensive grassland farming: the Waikato, New Zealand. Lowenthal and Comitas, Emigration and depopulation: some neglected aspects of population geography. Parsons, The acorn-hog economy of the oak woodlands of southwestern Spain. Eyre, Mountain land use in northern Japan. Wagner, Natural and artifical zonation in a vegetation cover: Chiapas, Mexico. Presentation of the society's medals. The American Geographical Society. Geographical record. Geographical reviews. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 193 pages. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Stapled wrappers. 101pp. Wrappers sunned and worn, corners curled, spine cocked, very good. Contributions by Daniel G. Hoffman, Richard M. Dorson, Carvel Collins, and John W. Ashton, Archer Taylor, Mabel P. Worthington, Warren E. Roberts, Richard M. Dorson, Herbert Halpert, Alexander E. Jones, Simon D. Messing, T.K. Kroeber, Josef Rysan, Taylor Starck, Hensley C. Woodbridge, Ernest W. Baughman, Frank Goodwyn, Newbell N. Puckett, Charles Haywood, D.K. Wilgus, Stanley L. Robe, Juan B. Rael, Charles C. Cumberland, Kenneth Porter, Herbert Weisinger, and David P. McAllester.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: tall PAPERBACK, cover price $2.95, very good lighly worn copy, cover s bit rubbed and worn along top front edge, purple marker line at top corner of front endpaper across an old priced and date in pencil. CUMBERLAND, DAVID. Death and justice frescoes. Drawings by J. B. Dobbs. Lenox, Mass.: Bookstore Press, 1971, stated First Edition, 96pp., . Poetry, short essays, and numerous (24) black and white drawings by J. B. Dobbs (1931-2011). A biography of the artist can be found from the Canton Art Collection online. The works are reminiscent of George Grosz. - Self-described Tennessee-born poet David Cumberland, aka David Johnson, David Gallatin, once graduate student at Columbia Univeristy, private school teacher for two decades, author of Machines and Illusions 91957 or 1958), living in NYC East Village, and age 44 at publication. ISBN B000IZLE4I 8.70.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Four plays bound together: Every Man in His Humour: A Comedy by Ben Jonson as altered by David Garrick (112 pages, frontispiece of Lee Lewis as Capt. Bobadil); The Suspicious Husband: A Comedy by Dr. Hoadly (112 pages, frontispiece of Mr. Bernard as Jack Meggot); The Grecian Daughter: A Tragedy by Arthur Murphy (88 pages, frontispiece of Mrs. Siddons as Euphraisia); The Choleric Man: A Comedy by Richard Cumberland (115 pages, frontispiece of Mr. Fawcet as Jack Nightshade); 15 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment "British Theatre," and volume number in fourth compartment "4." Published by John Bell as part of his British Library series in 1791, 1792, and 1793. Former owner's armorial bookplate on front free endpaper: "Rogers" with motto "Nos Nostraque Deo." Small oval label on front fixed endpaper with handwritten number: 262. In Very Good Condition: rubbed; internally clean and solid.

Five volumes bound as one. Frontispiece to each, that to the Cantlivre partly detached and worn on fore-margin. 8vo (6 3/8 x 4 inches), pages: 75:54:100:100:& 103. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered direct "Plays". The front free endpaper inscribed "Ann Herbert June 3 1814". Headband split. Overall very good.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcovers: H 22.75cm x L 14.5cm. Contemporary full leather; some staining and surface abrasions to boards; losses to slender gilt decoration along worn board edges; spines darkened with surface furrows/losses (particularly Vol. I) and antiquarian toned small paper tags affixed near heels; spines' title and volume# labels retains bright gilt lettering. Double column text. Interior foxing/toning; old pencil writing on front endpapers with some scattered interior pencil markings; each volume with antiquarian ink signature of an early owner at tops of four initial pages of each volume; different owner's antiquarian ink name stamp also on early page of each. *** VOLUME I: i-iv, 5-812 pages; bottom quarter of ffep removed; top fore-edge corners of pages 161-170 creased; pages 303-310 slightly pulled but binding is otherwise firm. Features nineteen tragedies, sixteen comedies, eleven farces, and ten operas. *** VOLUME II: i-iv, 5-816 pages; scattered leaves with creased fore-edge corners; several leaves near front and rear at fractionally pulled but binding is otherwise firm. Features thirteen tragedies, seventeen comedies, nine farces, and three operas. *** Still an attractive set with good shelf presence. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 5.5 pounds (2.49 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 92.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains self-portrait of W. G. Collingwood, 236 pp with map, monochrome illustrations and photographs. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ICELAND (Ísland, Icelandic).

Kl.-8° (13 x 9 cm); full leather with gilt title on spine; book covers with waffle pattern and gilt lines; marbled edges - The volume contains a collection of plays "as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden; printed, under the Authority of the Manages, from the Prompt-Books": 1) The Brothers; a Comedy, in five Acts by Richard Cumberland; 54 p.; 2) The Inconstant; A Comedy in five Acts, by George Farquhar; 46 p.; 3) The Road to Ruin; a Comedy, in five Acts, by Thomas Holcroft, 64 p.; 4) The Constant Couple, or, A Trip to the Jubilee; a Comedy, in five Acts by George Farquhar, Esq., 60 p. (publishing date on title page: 1814); 5) The Irish Widow; A Farce, in two Acts, by David Garrick, 38 p.; 6) The Padlock; a Comic Opera, in two Acts, by Isaac Bickerstaff; 32 p.; 7) Three Weeks after Marriage; a Comedy, in two Acts, by Arthur Murphy, 31 p. - Appendix: The Nightingale Club; or, a Droll Fellow`s Companion, being an Admirable Collection of New, Original, and Eccentric Comic Songs, adapted for that Description of Singers who want Taste, Voice, and Ears. Dublin: Printed by J. Charles, 57, Mary-street, n.y., 45 p. - Book covers a little rubbed and bumped; ex-libris with coat of arms and inscription "Pieux quoique Preux" and old hand-written owner`s name on inner cover. Each play has its own engraving. Some browning and foxing throughout, title of "The Brothers" with name scribbled over the page, also quite a few (and some picturesque) hand-written names or remarks throughout. On the whole, in good condition. B/F2 - Please ask for detailed information in English / Demandez des détails en francais s.v.p. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Size: Four volumes in one. 8vo. Tree calf binding with modern polished calf backstrip.