John Cooke Editor (50 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Large paperback, "The definitive edition of the historic essays - fully annotated and reproduced from the original newspaper texts," no significant flaws to this clean, tight, unmarked copy; ; 672 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Very good+ paperback copy, NOT ex-library. Text clean. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Exterior looks very nice. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Burnham Carter (one of the collected authors) on the front free end paper. Octavo 8 1/4" tall, 252 pages, red titles on pale blue boards. A very good (minus), clean hard cover first edition over all with moderate shelf wear and light rubbing at the corners, BUT text paper yellowed; hinges and binding solid. Lacking dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The poets selected were from categories: Political & Social Backgrounds; Poets with Religious Motif; Poets of Doubt, Disbelief, and Pessimism; E. B. Browning, Fitzgerald, and Patmore; Poets Dominated Chiefly by Artistic Impulse; Poets of Realism. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 4 1/2" x 7", 615 pages. Good condition with the exception of owner's sticker on front endpaper, split hinges, and some pencil underlining in the intro.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 316 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ decorative blind stamp on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. A Lakeside Classic. John Esten Cooke was Confederate General JEB Stuart's ordnance officer in the American Civil War. Blue cloth. xxxiv + 413 pages. Very nice condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean as new copy. A 252 page tribute to Will Eisner presented by a cast of hundreds. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 313 pp., xx. Stated "First Edition" with NAP; ' 9/80 ' at foot of inside rear dustwrapper panel. Following the Introduction by John Dorsey, Contents divided into 8 sections: [1] MENCKEN IN PERSON by John Dorsey; by Mencken: "In the Footsteps of Gutenberg"; Fire Alarm"; "A Dip into Statecraft"; [2] MENCKEN OF BALTIMORE by Huntington Cairns; by Mencken: "Good Old Baltimore"; "800,000"; [3] MENCKEN AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Alistair Cooke; [4] THE COMFORTABLE BOURGEOIS: The Thought of H.L. Mencken by Charles A. Fecher; by Mencken: "On Metaphysicians"; "Sabbath Meditation"; "The State of Religion Today"; "The Origin of Morality"; "The Essence of Democracy"; "Last Words"; "The Iconoclast"; [5] MENCKEN, POLITICS, AND POLITICIANS by Malcolm Moos; by Mencken: "The Politician"; "The Last Gasp"; "Gamalielese"; The Clowns March In"; "Post-Mortem"; "Onward, Christian Soldiers!"; "Imperial Purple"; "The Choice Tomorrow"; "Coroner's Inquest"; [6] THE LITERARY CRITIC by William H. Nolte; by Mencken: "Criticism of Criticism of Criticism"; "Portrait of an American Citizen"; "Stephen Crane"; "Joseph Conrad"; "Fifteen Years"; [7] MENCKEN IN HIS LETTERS by Carl Bode; Mencken: "Selected Letters"; [8] H.L. MENCKEN: A MEMOIR BY ALFRED A. KNOPF. // From Charles A. Fecher's essay: "Converting me to anything is probably a psychological impossibility. At all events, it has never been achieved by anyone. . . I can't recall ever changing my mind about any capital matter. My general body of fundamental ideas is the same today as it was in the days when I first began to ponder." (MENCKEN). This lifelong immutability of his thought was remarked on by many people besides himself. To a friend and colleague like Hamilton Owens, it signified that Mencken had been able to avoid the painful intellectual experience to most of us, of being forced to discard one set of beliefs because they had proved false or inadequate and then grope about for a new set to take their place.To critics or outright enemies, it constituted proof positive that he was narrow-minded and prejudiced, closed to any point of view that did not happen to coincide with his own, and had never gone through the normal processes of maturing (p. 114f) . . . From his high regard for scientific achievement his skeptical attitude naturally follows.His opinions on religion lead directly to what might be called, if in his case it did not sound so dreadfully formal, his "philosophy of man." His view of human nature is the foundation for his contemptuous dismissal of democracy, and for all his beliefs about government and politics. And so it goes. (p. 116). // Brown cloth with bright (diminished from brilliant) gilt lettering on spine; decorative design (4" x 1") down right front cover edge on top half front cover; deckled fore-edge. Tan dustwrapper not price-clipped ($15.00) with tinted black and white photo-portrait of Mencken a center front cover; large Title lettering across top front cover above photo-portrait; Contributors' names and Editor name lettering below photo-portrait. Dustwrapper spine age-toned (with corresponding slightly diminished brown of book spine); wear across spine ends and tiny bits missing at spine and cover corners with 1/4" and 5/8" tears at top spine corners (NOW sins backed with Archival tape); slight offsetting on endpapers; two fingertip food stains on p. 25 and at center rear cover (these appear slightly on inside rear cover but NO staining onto brown cloth book cover itself), and similar micro-stain (1/8", ostensibly by a same finger causing above-noted stains, but nearly undetectable on beveled edge) on page edge of beveled fore-edge (p. 37/38); small red Publisher's remainder mark (logo) on lower edge near spine: describes worse than it is, but there you have it in uncompromising truth. Book itself essentially Near Fine: Strong binding (NO cracks); NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names; NO writing in text. Dustwrapper in Brodart mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 256 Pp. Purple Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Lightly Used, Inscription Dated Nov. 30, 1955. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Some Wear, Small Chips At Edges.

paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Montilla Publications 1990 First Edition. Softcover. Guide for the HPL Centennial Weekend held 8/17/90 through 8/20/90. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, illustrated. Fine condition. whb12E.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No marks or highlighting in the book. Our copy is hardback, no dust jacket, showing shelf-wear.

BLUE CLOTH. Condition: NEAR FINE. FIRST EDITION THUS (LIMITED). GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE AND GOLD GILT DONNELLY INDIAN PORTRAIT LOGO ON COVER, 413 PAGES, TOP EDGE GILT, ILLUSTRATED, INDEX. THIS IS VOLUME 59 OF THE ANNUAL LAKESIDE CLASSICS.

Hardcover. Octavo, 76 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine red with white lettering. Modest wear including lightly rubbed joints, foxing to the rear, closed defect to the joints/fore edges and few, minor chips to the edges. Boards show extremely light wear. Text block has light age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1375262. FP New Rockville Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Picture available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good or Better. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 524+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed w/ wear to corners and spine ends. Top edge gilt. Inner hinges starting. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper; bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Illust. w/ a folding map at front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good+ Hardcover Original 1975 publication The American Irish Historical Society 165 pp. 16 Essays on Irish and American history "The Importance of a Neighborhood" by the great writer Andrew M. Greeley "Ireland's First Ambassador to the United States" Harry O'Flanagan "Ships of Tarshish" John T. Noonan "A Journey to the Edge" Terence Cardinal Cooke More Clean 164 pp. NOT a library copy which in itself is rare. Three Geese in Flight Celtic Books since 1977.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. E.P. Dutton, New York, 1956. First edition. First printing. A near-fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy in a price-clipped jacket (not book club edition). Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: A small, light stain on lower edge. F1500A.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second printing. Thick octavo ( over sized ). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Slightly more wear at head and heel of DJ. xxx, 672 p. w/footnotes, endnotes, index.

Original Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fifth Edition. Spine ends worn; pp. 214-238 attached by a single thread (very loose).

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Original box: VG. Glassine wrapperr: VG. Book: As New. A Lakeside Classic. B;ue cloth binding. John Esten Cooke was Confederate General JEB Stuart's ordnance officer in the American Civil War. xxxiv + 413 pages. Scarce with glassine wrapper and box. The glassine wrapper is fragile. The plain brown shipping box was not intended to be kept. The book nestled inside is in superb condition. All will be sent to you well packed in a separate box.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Surprisinglu scarce study of the many ethnice groups who inhabit New Orleans!

Paperback small folio, very good condition, one folded page, minor edgewear. 4 pp. (Copyright, 1962, but with printed decimal price.) Sheet music. Advert rear cover: Subsidiary items for Australian Music Examinations [etc].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in gold on spine and upper cover. A.e.g. 804 pages. Notes. Index of First Lines. First edition, the India paper issue. A collection of Irish verse. No previous ownership marks, albeit light tanning to end-papers. Very minor rubbing to top of spine. Else a clean, tight, square copy with no marks internally. Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition navy blue linen boards with gold front cover publisher insignia and gold spine lettering. Includes Publisher's Preface, Christmas 1961; Historical Introduction by Richard Harwell, Brunswick, Maine, August 19, 1961; A Bibliographical Note; Epilogue; Index and List of Other Publications by The Lakeside Classics. Also includes gilt upper page edges and the pages are sewn into the binding (not glued). Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and black-and-white portrait frontispiece of General J.E.B. Stuart with a fine tissue-guard overlay. "John Esten Cooke lived and fought among the heroes of the Army of Northern Virginia's grandest adventures. He was that army's most thorough and most romantic reporter, as well as J.E.B. Stuart's ordnance officer. It has often been said - and truly said - that the Amrican Civil War was the last romantic war and the first modern war. It was its romance that Cooke emphasized in his dispatches to Richmond's The Southern Illustrated News and in his postwar novels about the great sectional conflict. Though Cooke asserted again and again a distaste for war, he was incurably romantic; and it is the romance and adventure of Confederate army life that shine through his pages. His career as a soldier was largely with Stuart's dashing cavalry, and the author saw in his leader a new Rupert and in his companions a new breed of knightly cavaliers." - short excerpt from the Preliminary Page entitled: Historical Introduction. "Outlines From The Outpost is neither a reprint of a previously published book nor the publication of a previously unprinted manuscript. It is, as nearly as can new be achieved, however, the book that John Esten Cooke was preparing for publication during the Civil War but which was never published. Cooke described that book in the entry in his diary for March 20, 1863, and added additional information about it in his entries for March 29, March 30, and April 3. At the end of an itemization of his winter's writing to that date, Cooke noted on March 20: "Mr. Ayres [of Ayres & Wade] proposes to make a volume as soon as there is MS enough, and about 700 pages will do. My contract with him is $10 a column - about 6 pages - with the copyright reserved to myself, but he to have the 'refusal of it.' If necessary he is to copyright the sketches in his paper, in his own name, giving me a paper stating that the property remains in me." On March 29 he recorded the writing since his earlier entry of six additional sketches. "This makes about 500 pp written," he noted. It will be a book soon." But the sketches did not become a book during the war. They were reworked after the fall of the Confederacy and provided the basis for many of the chapters in Wearing of the Gray. Usually, however, the version in the postwar book is considerably different from the sketch as first published. No editorial liberties have been taken with the sketches in republishing them. The editorial work on them has been kept to a minimum -the insertion in brackets of the correct version of proper names misspelled by Cooke, the correction of errors obviously typographical, and making as consistent as possible the variant spellings apparently introduced by different typesetters and editors." - short excerpt from the Preliminary Page entitled: A Bibliographical Note.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. In-8, reliure pleine toile de l'éditeur, XXX-672 pp. America's Greatest Contribution to Political Philosophy By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, Reproduced from the Original Texts. Edited, with introduction and Notes By Jacob E. Cooke. "Série de quatre-vingt-cinq articles signés Ğ Publius ğ et publiés entre octobre 1787 et août 1788 dans le New York Packer. Leurs auteurs étaient trois des personnalités dont le rôle avait été fondamental dans la rédaction de la Constitution des États-Unis : Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804, qui fut l'âme de l'entreprise et écrivit près des deux tiers des articles), James Madison (1751-1836, futur président des États-Unis) et John Jay (1745-1829, qui devint président de la Cour suprême). Le but des trois hommes était de dissiper les réticences, particulièrement vives dans l'État de New York (dont l'accord était indispensable) à l'égard de la Constitution, en tentant d'en décrire, expliquer et justifier les divers articles. Les Federalist Papers s'articulent autour de quatre thèmes principaux : grandeur et décadence d'un système politique libre et démocratique ; défense et illustration du fédéralisme ; critique sévère de la Constitution précédente, analyse et apologie de la Constitution proposée. Remarquablement écrits, les Federalist Papers sont devenus un texte classique parce qu'ils sont à la fois le meilleur exposé des intentions des constituants américains (la Cour suprême s'y réfère souvent dans ses arrêts) et un exemple stimulant de la pensée politique nord-américaine, particulièrement féconde au xviiie siècle." Marie-France Toinet, art. in Universalis. Reliure et intérieur en très bon état. Très bon exemplaire.(ThHome28) Size: 17 x 23,5.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First edition, a Lakeside Classic issued for Christmas 1961 with historical introduction by Harwell. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, gilt top edge, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of General J. E. B. Stuart. Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Innovative seventies magazine. This issue includes cover by Bruce Laurance with great fifties retro fashion shoot inside, more fashion by Harri Peccinotti, 'The Deacon' by John Updike, plus many stunning period advertisements. Slight shelf wear to cover and edges, spine rolled. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!