Ferre William (6 results)

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

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing and overall shelf wear. ; Contents: Ferré, "Limits, Myths, and Morals"; Weales, "American Theater Watch, 1979-1980"; Bharucha, "Calcutta: Notes on a Homecoming"; Ford, "The Rebirth of Greek Tragedy and the Decline of the Humanities"; Hassan, "Parabiography: The Varieties of Critical Experience"; Cain, "Authors and Authority in Interpretation"; Chabot, "The Fates of Interpretation"; McNiece, "The Ring"; Baker, "'28 Hours in an Open Boat' by Stephen Crane"; poetry by Gerald W. Barrax, David Walker, Brendan Galvin, Susan Ludvigson, Richard Hugo, Lynne Lawner, Paul Nelson, Charles Simic, Celia Gilbert, Jody Silky, Marcia Southwick, Mark Osaki, Sandra Byrd, Alan Nadel, Daniel Halpern, Bin Ramke, Carl von Kienbusch; O'Kain, "Lewis Hine in Georgia"; book reviews. 10.0" tall; 202 pages.

2nd edition, 1893. Book size - c. 9 x 6 inches, pp. b&w frontis + vii + 505 + 7(blank), illustrations in the text, 'clay' paper endpapers, hardback in publisher's cloth. Book condition - Good Plus ; contents clean, some foxing of endpapers then rapidly diminishing in the preliminaries, occasional neat pencil inscriptions/underlinings, inner hinges intact and binding firm ; publisher's dark-green cloth with gilt title on the spine : front corners a bit bent and with some rubbing , back of clean appearance with no marks and with scattered small spots of colour loss, back hinge intact though with the top 4 cm. evidently split and repaired, spine complete with ends creased and rubbed with small nicks, spine colour a little darkened and with a central area of slight colour loss, the spine gilt title is a little dulled but remains complete and clear, front hinge good, front board clean and again with small spots of colour loss. Please see photos (which tend to exaggerate the spotting/colour loss) for indications of condition and contents. William Ferrel (1817 1891) was an eminent American meteorologist who developed theories that explained the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell in detail. See online entries, eg. Wikipedia, for a fuller account of his life and work. This treatise, first ritten only a couple of years before his death, is a detailed and wide ranging scholarly work on the atmosphere and how it affects the weather.

Condition: Neuf.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 88 pp. A rare, hard-to-find gem! Publisher's remainder mark is on both top edge and fore-edge. A small, tiny piece of top front cover corner chipped off. Otherwise, a very good study/work/reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New.