Edward William Gray (129 results)

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Book shows usage & shelf wear. Spine is cracked and creasing. Binding intact but loose. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good used paperback. Some minor creasing.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 96, No. 2; Whole No. 572. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Cover photo of Robert Loggia. Includes "The Spy and the Healing Waters" by Edward D. Hoch; "Paperwork" by Ruth Rendell; "All the Little Pussycats" by William Bankier; "The Crime at the Post office" by Karel Capek; "A Devil Sick of Sin" by Jeffry Scott; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen; "Hup Three" by Janwillem van de Wetering; "In the Public Eye" by Jack Ritchie; "People of Peace" by Terry Mullins; "The Balnay Report" by Malcolm Gray; "Challange the Widow-Maker" by Clark Howard. Creasing; tanning; label gum residue; minor edge nicks. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 96, No. 2; Whole No. 572. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Cover photo of Robert Loggia. Includes "The Spy and the Healing Waters" by Edward D. Hoch; "Paperwork" by Ruth Rendell; "All the Little Pussycats" by William Bankier; "The Crime at the Post office" by Karel Capek; "A Devil Sick of Sin" by Jeffry Scott; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen; "Hup Three" by Janwillem van de Wetering; "In the Public Eye" by Jack Ritchie; "People of Peace" by Terry Mullins; "The Balnay Report" by Malcolm Gray; "Challange the Widow-Maker" by Clark Howard. Creasing; tanning; label gum residue; standard glue-shrink. Book. …

Condition: New.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

hardcover. Condition: fair. Garrett & Massie, Richmond, 1956, 8vo., cloth, 229pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, frayed spine caps, peel-marked ep, ow G $.

No Binding. Condition: VG. A VG or better lot of seven original release lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. A deluxe edition in marbled endpapers and foreedges. Some small chips to lower leather hinge, and a 1/2" chip to the bottom spine corner, else very good.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. bound in full leather, cover shows moderate wear and rubbing. pages lightly tanned.

Paper Back. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Not Dated, c.1920 early 20th century. Size quarto, 9.75" tall, 80 pages, paginated from 81 to 160 pages. Paper covers with illustration of the character Dolly Varden on the front cover. Condition good, rubbing to cover edges and folds, paper on spine rubbed and chipped, only part of title on spine remains, staples are rusted, contents are clean. With many illustrations including photos of the authors, reproduction of portraits or illustrations from the books, rear cover has advertisements on both sides, for "The Sunny Mag" on the outside and "The Strand" Magazine on the inside. Includes contributions from: G. K. Chesterton, Count Tolstoi, William Harrison Ainsworth, H. G. Wells, Sir Wiliam Watson's Poems, Edward A. Freeman, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Gray, Zadig Voltaire, Mrs. Humphry Ward.…

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded and stained, some foxing, good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Front hinge weakening, rear board lightly soiled, ink gift note on front flyleaf. Binding square, text clean and unmarked. 1912 Hard Cover. xvi, 387 pp. Photographic frontispiece, black-and-white plates from contemporary photographs and illustrations. A collection of writings on Chinese society and culture by various authors.…

Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Ex-Library, 1831.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tan leather bound cover is lacking spine strip and heavily worn and frayed at extremities. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Frontispiece protected by tissue. Pages are clean and very good. .

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 637 p. ; 23 cm. ; LCCN 2006000487 ; ISBN 9781890650186, 1890650188 OCLC 62888967 ; LC PR1309.S5 P37 2006 Dewey 823/.0108 ; color illustrated stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Introduction / Rikki Ducornet --Lionflower hedge / Ira Sher -- Son of Chimera / Leena Krohn -- Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe / Angela Carter -- Ever and anon / Kate Kasten -- Lithia Park / William Luvaas -- Third Jungle Book : A Mowgli story / Michael Moorcock -- White girl / Maureen N. McLane -- Lucky strike / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Third initiation: A gift from the land of dreams / Mary Mackey -- Side effects / Janice Law -- Concert pianist's flight / Carole Rosenthal -- Making faces / Stephen Shugart -- Town news / Justin Courter -- Midnight lover / Carol Schwalberg -- Night reconnaissance / Tom La Farge -- Short-term Memorial Park / Shelley Jackson -- Magnificent carp of Hichi Street / Paul Pekin -- Tears of Niobe / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Lettuce / Rikki Ducornet -- Night of love's last dance / Randall Silvis -- Five letters from an Eastern Empire / Alasdair Gray -- Beginnings, endings, and middles ball / Anna Tambour -- Jack Kerouac disembodied school of poetics / Rudy Rucker -- Nobody's home / Ira Sher -- Ice cream vendor / Leena Krohn -- Jubilee dreams / Karen Heuler -- An accounting / Brian Evenson -- Armegedn, or The end of the word / K. Bannerman -- Gardener of heart / Bradford Morrow -- Maryolatry / Laura Moriarty -- Cloud room / Kevin W. Reardon -- Tree / Noelle Sickels -- Nobody walks in London / Terry Gates-Grimwood -- Tiger's eye / Gladys Swan -- Skunk / Justin Courter -- Old flames in new bottles / Michael Andre-Driussi -- Power couple, or love never sleeps / Charlie Anders -- Who's there? / Rikki Ducornet -- Secret paths of Rajan Khanna / Jeff VanderMeer -- Dream catcher / Mercedes Sanchez -- B, Longing / Robin Caton -- Three tales / Laird Hunt -- About the Henbane City / Leena Krohn -- Losing the war / Stepan Chapman -- Flowers / Mark Wallace -- White man / Jeffrey Ford -- Finding the words / Michael Constance -- English/History / Laura Mullen -- Birthday of the world / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Cake / Michael Moorcock. ; Exploring the porous boundary between mainstream literary fiction and the genres of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, this collection of short stories juxtaposes the conventional and the fabulist--with dazzling results. In Rikki Ducornet's "Lettuce," a petitioner in a futuristic totalitarian state pays with his life when he requests permission to grow lettuce; "Birthday of the World," by Ursula K. Le Guin, is narrated by a woman whose brother destroys their culture when he decides he wants to.; FINE. Book.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The history and antiquities of Newbury and its environs. [By E. W. Gray.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Gray, Edward William; br/b/b 1831.br/b/b no. 1.: pp. 26: plate. ; 8º. 23 cm.br/b/b 10351.g.23.br/.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1949). 1949 1st edition. 8vo (146 x 222mm). Ppxii,113. B/w photograph frontispiece. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight staining to boards, edges and preliminaries foxed, gift inscription to rear of half title. Good-plus in chipped dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. The author of "Pike fishing" reveals that salmon are his first love. As a clergyman living on the Aberdeenshire Dee, that is hardly surprising. Here he writes of Dartmoor trout and peal, salmon on Dee and Tweed, and of pike and perch, bream and tench in pre-War England. ".whether trout fishing in Devon, fishing for bream in the Nene, angling for salmon in Scotland, or fishing for pike, he made many notable catches." (Angling, January 1950). Chapters include: Dry fly on the Kennet; Peal fishing on the Webburns, Dartmoor; Bream fishing on the Nene; On Dartmoor; The tench; Cransley Reservoir; A salmon rod on the tweed; Canal pike fishing; Wee streams on Dartmoor; Pike fishing in a Shropshire mere; Pike and perch in a lake in the home counties; Days with the salmon rods on the Royal Dee; The ways of salmon; Tackle oddments. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Cloth hardcover made to resemble leather; black spine with gilt lettering; gray boards; each chapter separately paginated; b&w illustrations. Very good plus condition: very slight wear. Will cost extra for shipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.