Fry a Ruth (100 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Moderately darkened and worn paper wraps, "with the author's compliments" laid in, library stamp, pages lightly yellowed and wrinkled. From the library of Rufus M. Jones, Quaker scholar and author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Meeting stamp and pen notes plus some remnants of paper inside front cover, binding tight, pages very good. Paper dust jacket browned, rubbed over spine, several small edge tears, one hole in spine, two old stickers on spine. Blue cloth covers edge worn and curved/warped. …

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Lightly edgeworn, cover spotted, library stamp, 8-page pamphlet. No other copies found for sale online. No date. Post WWI.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Grey cloth boards with faded gold lettering on spine. Book is used with some wear to cover. Boards have some rubbed edges. There are some small tears on top and bottom of spine portion. Spine is slightly cocked and pages have some age toning and foxing.Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Tightly bound copy with small amount of marginalia. Inv. # 13529.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. An attempt to explain Quaker beliefs and practices and to illustrate them by the lives and activities of Friends of former days.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Previous owner's name inside front cover.; 280 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. Cloth coves very darkened, spotting and cloth worn on spine, some edge wear, corners bumped. Owner name on front free end paper from 1933 (marked through in dark pencil), inner hinge cracked, pages very good - bright and clean.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condition: New.

32p., stapled wraps, 5 x 8 inches, wraps worn and soiled, wraps beginning to detach from pages, staples rusted, previous owner's initials penned on first page, a few article titles with pencil checkmarks next to them, last page lightly foxed, a reading copy only. Collection of writings on nonviolent resistance, including considerable material on the Quakers.…

Condition: COME NUOVO. cm.14x21,5, pp.IX,198, brossura. Coll,New Casebooks. Contemporary Critical Essays. Edited by Daivd Monagnan.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Quaker Adventure. Book.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Offered is an Enlarged and Revised Edition of "A Simple Faith" written by A. Ruth Fry and self-published in 1956 out of London, England. A stapled pamphlet measuring 4-7/8" by 7-1/4" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. The topics discussed are: The Two Faiths ("one is a belief in a system" - "the other is a belief in relationships"); The Golden Rule; The Universe; Matter is Energy; Can We Believe in God?; Divine Guidance; The Unseen Forces; God in Everything; The Problem of Evil; Mountains and Hillocks; Personal Responsibility; The Invincible Power; The Power of Thought; Religion in Human Society; International Religion; and Epilogue. Staples age-rusted; covers lightly aged.…

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: As new in orig. green wrapper. 1st U.S. viii, 9-88 p.; 18 cm. [Original edition 1937; reprinted from 1952 edition].

Condition: Good. 1905. Paperback. "Commissioning organisation: by A. Ruth Fry; from an address to the Women's Peace Meeting held at the Central Hall, Westminster, 16th December, 1939. 6 p. 20 cm. Original printed wraps. Good copy with tight staple binding, clean and crisp pages, clean cover with slight suggestion of dust dulling to edges, title printed on front cover, staples a trifle rusted." Keywords: Subjects. Not a first edition copy. . . .…

Condition: Good. 1905. Paperback. "Commissioning organisation: by A. Ruth Fry; from an address to the Women's Peace Meeting held at the Central Hall, Westminster, 16th December, 1939. 6 p. 20 cm. Original printed wraps. Good copy with tight staple binding, clean and crisp pages, clean cover with slight suggestion of dust dulling to edges, title printed on front cover, staples a trifle rusted." Keywords: Subjects. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 331 pp., xvii. '1' in number line. Following the Preface and Acknowledgments, Contents divided into 25 Chapters in 3 Parts: Part I: INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM (1) Rosalie A. Kane, "Everyday in Nursing Homes: ' The Way Things Are ' "; (2) Steven S. Foldes, "Life in an Institution: A Sociological and Anthropological View"; (3) Arthur L. Caplan, "The Morality of the Mundane: Ethical Issues Arising in the Daily Lives of Nursing Home Residents"; Part II: CASES AND COMMENTARIES (4) [Editors], "About the Case" [Each Case is accompanied by a Commentary, with Commentator Name preceding the Case]: (5) Ruth Macklin, "Good Citizen, Bad Citizen"; (6) Margaret P. Battin, "The Chair and Other Public Space"; (7) James F. Childress, "If You Let Them They'd Stay in Bed all Morning: The Tyranny of Regulation in Nursing Home Life"; (8) Stephen H. Miles and Greg A. Sachs, "Intimate Strangers: Roommates in Nursing Homes", Case Commentary: "Accommodating Room and Roommate Preferences"; (9) Rosemarie Tong, "Till Death Do Us Part: Married Life in Nursing Homes"; (10) Mary Ellen Waithe, "Thought for Food: Nursing Home Meals", Case Commentary: "Something to Chew On"; (11) Laurence B. McCullough, "Phone Privileges"; (12) Robert Schwartz, "Guardian Angles"; (13) Reinhard Priester, "Leaving Homes: Residents on Their Own Recognizance"; (14) Andrew Jameton, "Let My Persons Go! Restraints of the Trade"; (15) Mila Ann Aroskar, "Bathing: On the Boundaries of Health Treatment"; (16) Sara T. Fry, "Caring on Demand: How Responsive is Responsive Enough?"; (17) Diane K. Kjervik, "Beyond the Call of Duty: A Nurse's Aide Uses Her Judgment"; (18) Terrie Wetle, "Death of a Resident", Case Commentary: "Care of the Dying and the Newly Dead"; (19) Martin Benjamin, "Dressing for ' Success ' "; (20) David J. Mayo, "Tips and Favors", Case Commentary: "Private Contracts Between Residents and Staff"; (21) Harry R. Moody, "Finding a Home"; (22) Loren E. Lomasky, "Letter of the Law: Evictions from Homes"; Part III: TOWARD SOLUTIONS (23) Mila Ann Aroskar, Ene Kristi Urv-Wong, and Rosalie A. Kane, "Building an Effective Caregiving Staff: Transforming the Nursing Services"; (24) Iris C. Freeman, "Developing Systems That Promote Autonomy: Policy Considerations"; (25) Rosalie A. Kane, Arthur L. Caplan, Iris C. Freeman, Mila Ann Aroskar, and Ene Kristi Urv-Wong, " Avenues to Appropriate Autonomy: What Next?"; Contributors, pp. 319--323; Index, pp. 325-331. // Laid-in news items from the New York Times (NO offsetting): (1) Letters to the Editor, Roberta Sales, Gregory Siskind, "The Nursing Shortage" (4 12 2001) (2) Paul Zielbauer, "Some Nursing Homes Lock Out Strikers, and Hartford Vows to Help Homes Cover Costs" (3 22 2001; (3) Jennifer Steinhauer, "As Assisted Living Centers Grow, Calls for Standards and Oversight" (2 12 2001); (4) Letter to the Editor, Bobbie Sackman, "The Homebound Elderly" (4 12 2001); (5) Letter to Editor, Charles H. Roadman II, "Nursing Home Workers" (7 29 2000); (6) Letter to Editor, Pankaj Gupta, "Ethics and the Elderly" (1 21 2000); (7) Sara Rimer, "Home Aides for the Frail Elderly in Shorter Supply"; (8) Ann R. Langdon, "The Aged as an Inconvenience" {"Nursing Homes too easily forget the ' do unto others ' creed.") (7 27 1999); (9) Letters, Charles J. Hynes, Ann Colbert, "Caring for the Elderly" (12 19 1999); (10) Letters, Claire Fagin, Sidney Z. Cohn, "Don't Repeal Nursing Home Rules That Work" (10 14 1995; (11) Eliisabeth Rosenthal, "Once in Big Demand, Nurses Are Targets for Hospital Cuts" (8 19 1996); (12) Sharon R. King, "Nursing Homes Draw Attention As Worker-Saafety Focus Shifts" (8 7 1996). // NO Jacket. Blue boards with bright white lettering on front cover and spine. Previous owner name and origin of purchase discreetly on inside top left front cover, else unqualifiedly As New: Strong binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO rubbing wear. Clean text. …

Paperback. Condition: Good.

No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 8pp offprint from The Contemporary Review by the Quaker pacifist writer Ruth Fry, who was the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. An account of her third visit to post-Revolutionary Russia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; lite green c w/lite wear at spine/tips, moderate sunning; owner's insc; 280 clean, unmarked pages; in mylar protective wraps.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: VG orig. gray cloth. 1st edition. of Friends of former days. [7], 280 p.; 22 cm. Society of Friends -- Controversial literature.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean copy, firmly bound, jacket near fine. The book itself and jacket have been placed by the previous owner in a protective wrap which has kept the jacket very clean, it has also however made two marks on the first and last page from where the sticky tape has pressed against it. The previous owners name is stuck in on two small bookplates on inside front cover and one on FFEP. Available for immediate dispatch from our Bookshop; Jabberwock Books, Horncastle, Lincolnshire.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Originally published in 1942, published in this edition in 1960. Brown hardcover with title in faded gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, and general light foxing, more so around jacket edges. Not price-clipped. 57pp. Anna Ruth Fry, usually known as Ruth Fry (4 September 1878 26 April 1962), was a British Quaker writer, pacifist and peace activist. This book tells the story of three visits to Russia made by Fry in her position as general secretary of the Quaker Relief Committee, made in the years following the Revolution and Civil War. This was a period of experiment, and Fry's observations of the children's homes, schools, prisons and other institutions of the time shed light on the early years of Soviet rule.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Foxing to end inside covers. Small mark to edge. Couple of marks to front cloth. Browning to spine of cloth. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Friends House and the People In It. The Background of Quakerism. The Founder of Quakerism. Some Notable Men and Women. A Quaker Statesman. Conscientious Objection. Early Adventures. Religious Lawbreakers. Meetings and Ministers. Socieal Responsibility: General. Social Responsibility - Slavery. Prison Reform. Care of the Insane. Temperance. Education. Quaker Scientists. Quakers and Commerce. Charactersitics and Peculiarities. The End: The Best Is Yet To Be. Appendix: List of Places Where Quaker Meetings or Groups Are to be Found. Bibliography. Index. 280 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. 2nd. Lightly worn covers, inner hinge broken, page edges strongly foxed, else very good. She was Honorary General Secretary of the Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, 1914-1923. "Let us rejoice that humanity can still show such devotion and self-sacrifice, and in contemplating this wonderful story, let us thank God and take courage.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Published by The Author. reprinted with additions, 1952. 88pp. p/b. 4th edition. Compiled by the author. from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep. light soiling to covers but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. History, World War I. Second printing. Covers rubbed and soiled, corners and spine ends bumpedInterior clean, front hinge cracked at the frontis plate / title page. Title page and rpeliminaries foxed but readable, other foxing through the book and on the edges.