Greene Amsel (18 results)

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

hardcover. Condition: Good. Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview, Illinois [Published date: 1969]. Hardcover, 79 pp; illustrations throughout by the author; 28 cm. No other printings listed. In good+ condition/ NO dust jacket. Green and white boards have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing and faint soiling. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink and an address label in the top corner of the front free end paper. Two interior pages (38-39) have toning from a laid-in newspaper clipping. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Not ex-library. [From Introduction] These are Pullet Surprises. The name is the unwitting contribution of a high school student whose teacher shared with me a paper in which he had written, "In 1957 Eugene O'Neill won a Pullet Surprise." A Pullet Surprise! Here was the term for which I had been groping. As the teacher of a high school course in vocabulary building, I had jotted down hundreds of classroom misinterpretations for which I had found no name. The terms boners, bloopers, and boo-boos imply stupidity or inadvertence, whereas student errors are often marvels of ingenuity and logic. Howlers would exclude those refreshing interpretations that evoke a chuckle, not a shout. I had rejected all customary designations as unsuitable. But Pullet Surprise sparked a Eureka response. Its rightness had the impact of revelation. Every misinterpretation is by nature a surprise; the word Pullet is from the Latin pullus, meaning a young animal; the most engaging of young animals are those in our high schools. Of course their errors are Pullet Surprises! [Contents] Acknowledgment; To the Reader; Introduction; Section I The Happily Unaware: Mistaken Identity; Blurrish; The Power of Suggestion; Section II The Uneasily Aware: Noble Effort; Little Learning; Right-and-Wrong; Linguistic Labyrinth; Section III The Nonchalant: The Haphazard; A New Look; Section IV The Trusting: Take-It-For-Granites; Chameleon Words; Appendix Pullet Surprise Guessing Games.

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

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Greene, Amsel (illustrator). 2nd Printing. Signed "Have fun!, Amsel Greene, by Eula Miller. Eula Greene Miller being the author's sister. Dust jacket in brodart. Corners rubbed. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Greene, Amsel (illustrator). Good solid copy of this clever book. No jacket, the green hardcover has a thin white scratch through the title on the cover. Shelf bumps on all exterior edges, no interior markings. The orange end page and pastedown paper have a one inch deterioration along the length of the top. The author signed "Warm wishes to Gladys Hachbarth (sp? of last name) with pleasant memories of our times together. Reminiscently, Amsel Greene". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by the author. Second printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (moderate rubbing) dust jacket.

Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

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Fletcher, Bob (text, photography, design); Shope, Irvin (illustration and cover artist); Greene, Amsel (photography) Headin' for the Hills, Helena, Montana: Montana State Highway Department, 1937 8.5 x 11 inches, Stapled pictorial wrappers [28] pp., Heavy crease at old center fold, light soiling to rear wrap, internally fresh and bright. Very Good. A rare and lovely collaboration by a host of noted creators, issued by the Montana State Highway Department in 1937 to promote travel and tourism in the state. Heavily adorned with photographic images and wonderful illustrations, the book provides a conversational account of Montana highways and the scenic wonders statewide. The primary author of this work, Bob Fletcher, was (per a bio on the Montana Department of Transportation website) known as "Montana's Roadside Historian" and was "the perfect man for the job" to help boost tourism in the "Treasure State" after the Great Depression. Born in Iowa in 1885, Fletcher moved to Montana in 1908 and was hired as an engineer by the State Highway Commission in 1928. He spent over a decade writing the state's tourism promotional material, and with the department graphic artist (and noted painter) Irvin "Shorty" Shope, designed and built over 100 highway markers, many of which still stand. Fletcher also published the first of the state's colorful highway maps in 1934, designed and built visitor centers at Montana's ports of entry and established a roadside museum program. He authored a collection of cowboy poetry (like this book, also illustrated by Shope) as well as a seminal work on the Montana cattle industry, "Free Grass to Fences," in 1960. One of his poems was purchased by Cole Porter and became the basis of the famous song "Don't Fence Me In." Fletcher died in 1972. The cover image by Shorty Shope features a couple traveling with a dog, waving from their automobile as they pass several riders on horseback and a pack string. A member of Cowboy Artists of America, Shope (1900-1977) lived in Montana and worked as a cowboy before beginning his artistic career. His usual subjects were cowboys, the Blackfoot Indians, mountains and deserts, and all his works have a distinctly western look. This image was reused for the cover of the Summer 2024 issue of "Montana: The Magazine of Western History." Shope's work has frequently been sold at auction. The book also features photography by (Miss) Amsel Greene, a longtime schoolteacher in Helena. She is best known for her book "Pullet Surprises," composed of students' malapropisms and misinterpretations in language, as well as a widely-used textbook in word study and vocabulary-building, "Word Clues." One of Fletcher's poems is printed at the rear. A rare, wonderful introduction to Montana highways and sights. No holdings were found in OCLC but a Google search revealed a copy at Texas A&M University.

Condition: Very Good. Signed & inscribed by author on title page, Fine/Fair DJ in Mylar, book is clean & square, 1 interior page has 2 long creases, letter about book laid in, dustjacket pretty beat up- missing top 2 inches of spine, moderate rubbing at edges, afew tiny tears & chips, price intact, in new mylar coating. Priority shipping not available due to size.

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LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1937 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 34 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 34 Volume 1937 Fletcher, Robert H., 1885-1972,Shope, Irvin,Greene, Amsel,Montana. State Highway Commission.