Gallagher William Edited (12 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xvi, 294 pp. Good condition; previous owner's name on inside of front cover; pen underlining within Introduction.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. xxi, 392 pp. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. Softcover. LCC: 2005031386.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. xv, 335 pp. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. Softcover. LCC: 9837086.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition. Second impression of the first UK edition of this collection, with the number line 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The book was published as a paperback original (PBO) with a simultaneous hardback edition. There was no equivalent US edition. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Near fine in glossy illustrated card wrappers. Corners of wrappers slightly rubbed and creased. Edges of wrappers slightly rubbed. Light reading creases. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing to the pages. Pages clean and bright. No creasing. No tears. Spine tight. ***300 pages. 216 mm x 135 mm. ***Contents - Uncollected Stories: Kindling, What Would You Like to See?, Dreams, Vandals, Call If You Need Me. ***Five Essays and a Meditation, Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, Notes. ***'When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection "Elephant" and his own selection, "Where I'm Calling from". Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this volume brings them together with all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose'. [Quote taken from the back cover] ***Second impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original [there was also a hardcover issue]. A very nice reading copy of this final Raymond Carver collection. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition of this collection, with the number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the printer's page. The book was first published the previous year as a hardback by Harvill Press, and preceded the first American publication which was a paperback original. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Very good in glossy illustrated card covers. Indentation crease to the front cover affecting the first couple of pages. Indentation mark to the back cover. Corners of covers slightly rubbed and creased. Small crease and tear to the top of the spine. Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased but no reading creases to the spine. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. No foxing to the pages. Pages clean and bright. Top corners of the first few pages slightly creased. No tears. Spine tight. ***239 pages. 216mm x 135mm. ***Contents - Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Poems, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, An Essay and a Meditation, Notes. ***'By the time of his tragically early death, Raymond Carver was acknowledged as one of the most original writers in the English language of his generation. "No Heroics, Please," edited by William Stull, and with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher, brings together in one volume his uncollected writings. It includes Carver's first published story and other pieces from the 1971 collection "Furious Seasons"; a fragment of a novel; a substantial number of poems; short pieces on the circumstances in which certain poems and stories were written; essays on the American short story; reviews of works by his contemporaries, including Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Richard Ford, Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane; and the two last prose pieces he wrote, and essay on "Friendship" and a "Meditation on a line from Saint Teresa"'. (Quote taken from the back cover) ***A first impression of the first UK paperback edition, published as a paperback original (preceded by a hardcover issue the previous year). A very nice reading copy of this Raymond Carver collection. Quite uncommon in this edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in 2000. First impression of the first UK edition of this collection, with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The book was published in this simultaneous hardback edition, alongside a paperback edition. There was no equivalent US edition. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Very good in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, with some light creasing to the board edges in places. Corners sharp. Edges of page block nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of £15.00. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, with just some minimal rubbing and creasing at the edges with a small nick at the top of the spine. The dustwrapper is crisp and unfaded. ***300 pages. 225mm x 145mm. ***Contents - Uncollected Stories: Kindling, What Would You Like to See?, Dreams, Vandals, Call If You Need Me. ***Five Essays and a Meditation, Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, Notes. ***'When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection "Elephant" and his own selection, "Where I'm Calling from". Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this volume brings them together with all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose'. (Quote taken from the back panel) ***First impression of the true first edition, published in hardcover (there was also a more common wrappers issue). A nice copy of this final Raymond Carver collection. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in 2000. First impression of the first UK edition of this collection, with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The book was published in this simultaneous hardback edition, alongside a paperback edition. There was no equivalent US edition. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Edges of page block nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality paper. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of £15.00. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, with just some minimal rubbing and creasing at the bottom of the spine. The dustwrapper is crisp and unfaded. ***300 pages. 225mm x 145mm. ***Contents - Uncollected Stories: Kindling, What Would You Like to See?, Dreams, Vandals, Call If You Need Me. ***Five Essays and a Meditation, Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, Notes. ***'When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection "Elephant" and his own selection, "Where I'm Calling from". Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this volume brings them together with all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose'. (Quote taken from the back panel) ***First impression of the true first edition, published in hardcover (there was also a more common wrappers issue). A very nice collectable copy of this final Raymond Carver collection. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo bound volume of the monthly in original half leather over marbled boards. Some moderate ancient insect predation ("worming"?) to top and bottom two inches of front board interior along the front hinge. Also a goodly amount of rubbing to boards and along edges of leather spine, though volume remains tightly bound; grade it "good" overall, though pp. 289-336 of Number Four (April), which were printed on a different stock, have browned a bit more than the rest. Bookplate of the Franklin Institute Library of Philadelphia to front pastedown, indicating this volume was the gift of Maria Heyl, likely 1822-1900 of Bala Cynwyd. There is also a Franklin Institute blindstamp to top corner of first page of text, but blessedly we find no edge stampings, no lending-library attachments, card-holders, cross-outs, etc. Issue number 5 -- presumably May, and including some of "Notes on Texas" -- is PRESENT (sometimes missing from bound volumes), but pp. 489-492 are missing, as usual. (Since the absence of pages with those numbers creates no break in text, and given the absence of any reference to those pages in Index, it's possible there never were any such pages.) A brief "Valedictory" announces the retirement from editorship of poet Otway Curry, though he continues contributing, including a 7,000-word biography of Indian fighter Samuel Davis. Wm. Gallagher's editorial (crediting Benjamin Drake) on the death of the great Sac Indian leader and warrior Black-Hawk, a 6,500-word biography singularly sympathetic for the time, describing the Black-Hawk War of 1832 as "characterized by so much bravery and fortitude on the part of the Indians, and such cruelty and baseness on the part of the Americans -- in which imploring men were hunted down like wild-beasts, and helpless women and children given to the water and the sword. . . ." The editor also offers a remarkable essay endorsing the complaints of education reformer Josiah Holbrook (1788-1854) against "rote learning," which condemns children to "intolerable drudgery" which actually causes them to dislike the books from which they're required to recite, holding that "outdoor instruction has been too much neglected; education having been conducted on the principle of looking out the window at things, instead of visiting objects and learning their properties and uses. . . . The teacher should take occasion to instruct in the fields, in ship-yards, in the crowded streets . . ." Also featuring C.D. Drake's 3,700-word essay praising the perseverance of Robert Fulton in pursuing his dream of steam-powered navigation, and the editor's lengthy, 7,400-word sketch on "The Early Settlements and Early Men of Kentucky," which is in essence a biography of that "great and good man," Daniel Boone. Yet what is most of note here is the serialization of Chapters 9 through 24 (the end) of the anonymous travelogue "Notes on Texas" (the first 8 chapters having appeared in Volume I, 1837.) These essays were collected by the University of Texas Press in 1988 as "Texas in 1837," those editors explaining: "Written anonymously in 1838-39 by a 'Citizen of Ohio,' this is the earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic. Providing information nowhere else available, the still-unknown author describes a land rich in potential but at the time 'a more suitable arena for those who have everything to make and nothing to lose than for the man of capital or family.' The author arrived at Galveston Island on March 22, 1837, before the city of Galveston was founded. . . . His travels took him to Houston, then little more than a camp made up of brush shelters and jerry-built houses, and as far west as San Antonio. . . . He attended the first anniversary celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto and has left a memorable account of Texas' first Independence Day. His inquiring mind and objective, acute observations . . . provide us a way of . . . revisiting landmarks that have vanished forever." Reduced from $195.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the true first edition - published in the UK in 2000. First impression of the first UK edition of this collection, with the number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. The book was published in this simultaneous hardback edition, alongside a paperback edition. There was no equivalent US edition. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Near fine in scarlet cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. No bumps or creasing to the boards. Corners sharp. Edges of page block nice and clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - clean with no marks or creases. No tears. Printed on nice quality paper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-printed dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of £15.00. The dustwrapper is complete with no tears or chips, no rubbing or creasing. The dustwrapper is crisp and unfaded. ***300 pages. 225mm x 145mm. ***Contents - Uncollected Stories: Kindling, What Would You Like to See?, Dreams, Vandals, Call If You Need Me. ***Five Essays and a Meditation, Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, Notes. ***'When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection "Elephant" and his own selection, "Where I'm Calling from". Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this volume brings them together with all of his uncollected fiction, including a fragment of an unfinished novel, five early stories, and all of his non-fiction prose'. (Quote taken from the back panel) ***First impression of the true first edition, published in hardcover (there was also a more common wrappers issue). A beautiful collector's copy of this final Raymond Carver collection. The book feels unread as the boards open quite stiffly. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the true first UK edition of this collection, and the only hardcover edition, with the number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the printer's page. The book was only published in the USA as a paperback original. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine uncreased. Slight creasing to the top edge of the front board. No reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block clean - just slightly marked on the top edge. Internally the book is also very good, with no inscriptions. No marks or annotations. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality thick paper. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-printed typographical dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £13.99 net. The dustwrapper is virtually complete, with no significant chips or tears, just a slight area of loss at the top edge of the back panel. Slight rubbing or creasing at the edges. Very slight marks to the cream border areas of the back panel. The bright orange colour is unfaded even on the spine. ***239 pages. 224mm x 145mm. ***Contents - Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Poems, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, An Essay and a Meditation, Notes. ***'By the time of his tragically early death, Raymond Carver was acknowledged as one of the most original writers in the English language of his generation. "No Heroics, Please" brings together in one volume the uncollected writings of Raymond Carver. It includes his first published story, "Furious Seasons" and other early stories; a fragment of a novel; a substantial number of poems; short pieces on the circumstances in which certain poems and stories were written; essays on the American short story; reviews of works by his contemporaries, including Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Richard Ford, Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane; and his last essay, "Friendship", about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. "No Heroics, Please" is essential reading for those who have come to value Carver as essayist, poet, and master of the short story'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the true first UK edition, in very good condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the true first UK edition of this collection, and the only hardcover edition, with the number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the printer's page. The book was only published in the USA as a paperback original. Edited by William L. Stull, with a Foreword by Tess Gallagher. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine uncreased. No reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. Edges of text-block perfectly clean. Internally the book is also near fine, with no inscriptions. No marks or annotations. No creases or tears. Printed on nice quality thick paper. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour-printed typographical dustwrapper, which retains the original publisher's printed price of £13.99 net, but has a £7.99 re-price sticker over. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears, and virtually no rubbing or creasing at the edges. Just very slight marks to the cream border areas of the back panel. The bright orange colour is unfaded even on the spine. ***239 pages. 224mm x 145mm. ***Contents - Early Stories: Furious Seasons, The Hair, The Aficionados, Poseidon and Company, Bright Red Apples, Fragment of a Novel: From The Augustine Notebooks, Poems, Occasions, Introductions, Book Reviews, An Essay and a Meditation, Notes. ***'By the time of his tragically early death, Raymond Carver was acknowledged as one of the most original writers in the English language of his generation. "No Heroics, Please" brings together in one volume the uncollected writings of Raymond Carver. It includes his first published story, "Furious Seasons" and other early stories; a fragment of a novel; a substantial number of poems; short pieces on the circumstances in which certain poems and stories were written; essays on the American short story; reviews of works by his contemporaries, including Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Richard Ford, Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane; and his last essay, "Friendship", about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. "No Heroics, Please" is essential reading for those who have come to value Carver as essayist, poet, and master of the short story'. (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***A first impression of the true first UK edition, in near fine collector's condition. A very nice example of this Raymond Carver collection. Quite uncommon in this condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

First Edition (& 1st printing). Thin octavo, original pictorial boards in dust wrapper. 47 pages, indexes, map endpapers. A fine copy in dust wrapper with the price corner clipped from the front flap.