David H Porter (161 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of one novelette and ten short stories. Featured are The Novelette: A Bully's Downfall by John H. Dirckx. The short stories: A Gross Miscarriage of Justice by Joyce Porter, Marked Down by John Lutz, A Matter of Mushrooms by Lawrence Treat, Getting Out by Barry N. Malzberg, The Woman in the Yellow Dress by Mary Braund, Second Story Man by Jeffry Scott, Manhunt - Indiana Style by Robert Edward Eckels, The Kitchen Floor by Dorothy A. Collins, Death of a Champion by Walter Dean Myers, The Booney Diary by David Holmstrom. Light moisture ring to the front cover. Slight edge wear. In good condition.…

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4" 128 pages. Selections from the Collection of The Internorth Art Foundation. priority and international shipping will be extra, please inquire.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good Condition paperback 1st edition 128 pages. Various Western Artists (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket has about 3" of front fore edge torn/chewed o/w VG+. Vol has spotting to front cover. o/w tight, crisp, clean. Laid in is an Exhibition Checklist from Kennedy Galleries show of the same name concurrent with the publication of this book, Sept 14 through Oct2, 1981.…

paperback. Condition: Used - Good. First Edition. some light wear. Good copy.

paperback. Condition: Used - Good. First Edition. light wear. edgewear. Very readable copy.

paperback. Condition: Used - Good. First Edition. Good condition but showing some signs of wear from normal use and reading.

Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. First Edition. *Spring 1976. Vol. 16 No. 3. Different color covers.* Some wear. Cracked binding. Very serviceable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. 2000 Hardcover. 1584560231 First edition 320 pages, illustrated [in both color and in black-and-white], notes on contributors. Fine condition except for a small line of sticker residue to front pastedown. See photos. clphE. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Light foxing to top of textblock.; This book discusses three Greek tragedies: Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles Antigone, and Euripides Heracles. Its focus is on continuity and discontinuity, unity and disintegration, connection and separation both in the structure and in the thematic content of these plays; 128 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. xvi, 112pp. Bound in original red soft covers. Light to medium wear in a few places on covers, including a small spot to front cover where a sticker used to be. None of the wear is offensive. Text clean. Binding sound.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 44 page soft cover exhibition catalog - A Retrospective - at The Firehouse Gallery in Garden City, NY. Introduction by B. H. Friedman. Work shown in b/w and color. Inscribed to prior owner by the artist. Very good condition except for light stain (drop if coffee?) on rear free endpaper. Signed by Artist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ownership signature, else clean.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xvi, 320 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor bumping. Dark purple cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine; a few small patches of discoloration at rear board's bottom edge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. With List of Illustrations, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Introduction by editor Catherine J. Golden, and Index. Features eight essays: "Pictorial Shakespeare: Text, Stage, Illustration" by Jonathan Bate; "Taglioni's Double Meanings: Illustration and the Romantic Ballerina" by Sarah Webster Goodwin; "Politics of Humor in George Cruikshank's Graphic Satire" by Robert L. Patten; "Cruikshank's Illustrative Wrinkle in Oliver Twist's Misrepresentation of Class" by Catherine J. Golden; "Rossetti and the Art of the Book" by Elizabeth K. Helsinger; "Love, Death, and the Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illustrations of Wilde and Pope" by James A. W. Hefferman; "Dream Blocks: American Women Illustrators of the Golden Age, 1890-1920" by Ruth Copans; "'We All Sit on the Edge of Stools and Crack Jokes': Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press" by David H. Porter. ISBN 1584560231. …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cerulean-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 127. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. . Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . William H. Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He has written and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he has served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS. He was most recently the Jack S. Blanton, Sr., Chair Emeritus in History and American Studies. His last book published during his lifetime was Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism. In exceptionally good condition In exceptionally good condition.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9", is bound in dark brown, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Gift inscription and date appear at top of front flyleaf. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket has small spot at lower outside corner, with darkening to spine and edges of panels. xiv/281 pages. "David Porter's approach Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in "Odes" 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times almost narrative flow. While earlier studies have shown that Horace intended these three books to be read as a unit, this fresh reading of the collection demonstrates the degree to which Horace has wrested harmony from dissonance and unity from multiplicity.". …

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. B0029Y1VJE good clean condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Coyright © 1988 by the Foundation for Re. 127 pp. Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1988 issue only! ISSN: 0090-7790. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Inscribed by the author on title page. Some water damage on top of dust jacket, does not appear to have impacted the front cover significantly. Pages are unaffected by water damage. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 7-8 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Berland, William Byrd's sexual lexicography. Boulukos, Maria Edgeworth's "grateful Negro" and the sentimental argument for slavery. Gelineau, Dryden's portrait of Kneller in "To Sir Godfrey Kneller." Porter, From Chinese to Goth: Walpole and teh Gothic repudiation of Chinoiserie. Shuttleton, "Pamela's Library": Samuel Richardson and Dr. Cheyne's "universal cure." Williamson, Hogarth and the Strangelove effect. Edgecombe, Habakkuk 2.2, Cowper's "Tirocinium," and Keble's "Septuagesima Sunday." Mahony, Retrieving eighteenth-century Ireland (review essay). Book reviews. 9.0" tall; 124 pages.…