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

Original Limited Edition (as stated on copyright page). vi, 84 pages. Paperback: H 25.25cm x L 29.75cm. Paper covers rubbed; surface scuffs/nicks at front cover edges; impression on rear cover from bookstore removed barcode-price sticker. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. {AL-Shelf#1} ISBN 0943994217.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 360 pages. Illustrated. Water damage through about the first two-thirds of the book, evident half way or more from the bottom of the pages through about the lower half of the book. Confederate Correspondence.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 110 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: poetry (Michael Collier, Susan Prospere, Katha Pollitt); Margaret Atwood ("Hack Wednesday"); Whitney Balliett (Profiles: Dizzy Gillespie); William Finnegan (Reporter at arge: A Street Kid in the Drug Trade, Pt II); Alma Guillernoprieto (Letter from Mexico City), Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Etc. Bob Knox "Sculptured Skyline" cover art, plus cartoons by Lee Lorenz, Mischa Richter, George Booth, Ed Fisher, ed Arno, James Stevenson, , etc (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 156 clean, unmarked pages; items by/about: poetry (Jorie Graham, Eamon Grenman, Donald Hall); Robert lBolswell ("Rain"); Douglas Watt ("Profiles: Herb Graff)' David K. Shipler (Letter from Budapest); Cynthia Ozick (Critic at Large: T.S. Eliot); Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Reviews, Etc. Bob Knox cover art, plus cartoons by Lee Lorenz, Robert Weber, Dannyh Shanahan, Dana Fradon, Edwsward Koren, George Booth, etc (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. stapled wraps; 120 clean, unmarked pagesitems by/about: Poetry (Donald Hall, Revan Schendler); Mark O'Donnell ("The Solar Yearbook"); Lindsley Cameron ("Private Lesson"); Penelope Gilliatt (PROFILES: John Cleese); Anthony Bailey (Reporter at Large: Sanctuary); Alastair Macauley (Dancing); George Steiner (Books); Roger Angell (SPORTING SCENE: Baseball Spring Training); Jane Kramer (Letter fro Europe); Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book Reviews, Etc. Henry Threadgill, composer inventor of Hubkaphone, in DeWars ad on back cover. Bob Knox "Manhattan Spring" cover art; also, drawings by cover Art; lee lorenz, Roz Chast, Charles Addams, george booth, Mischa R (illustrator). …

Hardcover. 1st edition. 128 p.; 19 cm. Imprint on tailpiece: Benn. Includes `faint echoes' (parodies) of John Masefield, A. E. Housman, A. C. Swinburne, Andrew Marvell, Matthew Arnold, John Still, Ben Jonson, John Keats, Lord Byron, Edward Fitzgerald and Robert Burns. VG orig.azure cloth and endpapers in edgeworn dj. Without foxing. Arthur Watts. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. COAL BOARD UNDER FIRE / Wilson Harris "Paris Week-End" / Edward Hodgkin "At The Tribunal" / Rawle Knox "'Up The Republic'" / Peter Campbell "The Odds For 1950" / Cyril Ray "New Film Techniques" / Cleland Scott "Hippopotamus Land" / George Godwin "Horse Trade" (Papers).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "Palestine Exodus" / Wilson Harris "Dealing With The Russians" / Edward Hodgkin "Sword Or Scabbard" / Norman Kirby "Opening The Iron Gates?" / On Pitching It Strong" / Eileen Martin "One-Way Ticket To Kenya" / George Brinsmead "Papaguay" / Rawle Knox "The Decline Of An Orgy" (Papers). …

No Jacket. THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

No Jacket. THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

No Jacket. THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

No Jacket. THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete 4 vol set. Text in clean/unmarked condition. Cover has minor wear. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.

THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

[no date]. (Hardcover) Good, no dust jacket. 250pp. Illustrations, maps, plans. Light wear to edges, water marks to front cover and spine, corners bumped. Biography of Robert Blake, Edward Boscawen, Sir Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, Admiral Lord & George Rooke. Locale. (Military, Naval History).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 392 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.30 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First American Edition. Original Huge Very Good+ Hardcover. Volume 3 First American Edition Original. 8vo Very Good Thick Blue Hardcover. Clean pages NOT a library copy. 1486 pp Primary documents, letters from the Revolutionary War as it was being fought day by day at sea and in Congress. Letters from Ezra Stiles on the Cannons at Ticonderoga. George Washington to John Hancock on forming the Marines, Master's log of H.M. Nautilus. Philip Schuyler letters Maps. Painting of Ezra Hopkins. Original sketch of the American ship Privateer Washington. Published by our American government for us. Education sponsors patriotism Large handsome thick hardcover. NO writing in text. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of scarce hardback, 1971. Forward by Kenneth Rexroth. Clean and tightly bound with near fine contents. Extremely slight bump at spine, an "Archive Copy Do Not Remove From Shelf" stamp on the endpaper and a few ink marks at the title page, otherwise fine. The unclipped dust jacket shows age-toning at folds, light fading and edge wear, remains Very Good.…

Card with stamp and postmark. Of the two addresses in her letterhead, she has deleted the London one (105 Hallam Street, W1). In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Addressed to 'Secretary to | E. V. Knot [sic] Eq. | Offices of "Punch"'. The card reads: 'Miss de Casalis hopes to broadcast Mr. Knot's "Reparation" at the end of her turn on Friday 27th 9.35 to 10.15 (Forces programme) & again on Sunday to Forces abroad.'. …

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4-volume set. hardcovers, no DJs. Please Note: No International shipping, No Expedited shipping. Standard shipping only. Vol. 1, 1984: History, determinants, scope, and strategies. Vol. 2, 1985: Processes for public health promotion. Vol. 3, 1985: Investigative methods in public health. Vol. 4, 1985: Specific applications. Approx 2000 pp. > Language: English | > Size: 4to - over 9 3/4 - 12 Tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |.…

According to the Oxford DNB entry on Carter's wife the crime writer Margery Allingham (whose book jackets were among those he designed): 'Their amiable, childless marriage was funded by Allingham's increasingly successful fiction. And, although Youngman Carter assisted his wife as a sounding board for plot design, and by producing covers and illustrations for her work, he found it difficult to sell his art. Allingham supported his increasingly expensive tastes until after the Second World War, when Pip came into his own writing society columns for The Tatler, which he edited from 1954.' For the letters' recipient E. V. Knox, editor of Punch from 1932 to 1949, see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The letters are in good condition, lightly aged; the galley proof is on the usual cheap paper, discoloured and chipping. (The first two of the four books reviewed by Knox in the proof are crime novels: quite appropriately considering Carter's wife and Knox's brother Ronald, author of the celebrated 'Ten Commandments' of detective fiction.) All eight letters signed 'Youngman Carter'. Three of the eight letters are in autograph: two from 1953 and the other undated. The letters are businesslike, exclusively concerned with the practicalities of reviewing (the sending of copy, 'wordage', deadlines, arrangements for a holiday 'deputy'. On one occasion he asks Knox to send 'an article concerning itself with recommended reading for the Festival [of Britain]', on another he asks him to review H. E. Bates's 'The Face of England', as its illustrator, an 'artist called Kirsting' has 'himself been very kind and unassuming to us in other directions'. On 14 May 1953 he asks Knox to review 'The Christs Hospital Book', of which Carter is 'the most insignificant of the editors'. He explains that he is drawing Knox's attention to 'its existence because the subject is naturally very near my heart, although I think it can stand on its own legs. It is a labour of love by one and all concerned: if you can think it worth a line or so I would be deeply grateful'. The galley proof ('Book Reviews | By E. V. Knox | Holiday Amusements') is headed 'B?20-7?TATLER?July 29 Book Review?1 9-pt. Baskerville'. It can be dated to 1953 from the publication dates of the four books reviewed: 'Post Mortem' by Guy Cullingford ('I rank Mr. Guy Cullingford's Gilbert Worth very high among murderees.'); 'Symphony in Murder' by Amelia R. Long ('And who fired the pistol, and how? If you can discover before the last chapter, in which the whole orchestra is brought into the house for a demonstration by the Homicide Bureau, you deserve a free ticket for the Festival Hall.'); 'Things I Don't Remember' by Jeanne de Casalis (the author 'has a charming way of confusing reminiscence with fiction'); and 'Regional Books' published by Robert Hale. There are three proof corrections by Knox. From the E. V. Knox papers.…

See Knox's entry in the Oxford DNB. The two items are in fair condition, lightly aged and creased, each with a couple of lightly-rusted pin holes. Clemens's plain card, with stamps and postmarks, is addressed to 'E. V. Knox Esq / c/o Punch / London, England.', and is signed 'faithfully / C C Clemens'. The message reads: 'Dear E.V. Knox / We hope the life of President Truman reached you safely? / The Society is arranging a symposium on democracy You may care to send your definition of democracy and a few comments. / Are you writing your Memoirs?' The unsigned typed carbon copy of Knox's reply is 1p, 12mo. After thanking Clemens for the book and the card he writes: 'I don't think my views on Democracy are very original. It seems to me simply a right to express an opinion. By Vote? Perhaps. In print? Possibly. By consent of the Police? NO. Good luck with the Society.' He ends with a witty twist: 'As for my memoirs, well I've been asked [last word underlined] to write them by several people. There are limits of course - even to Democracy.'.…

A son of Sir George Edward Knox, Gordon Daniell Knox was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, before going into journalism. He served as deputy editor of the Times of India, and was the author of several works of popular science. The letter and questionnaire are on separate pieces of paper, pinned together. Each 1p, 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. ONE: Circular letter, 9 November 1909. Twenty-three lines of text, beginning: 'Dear Sir, / I am sending a copy of "The Standard" for the 1st of this month to all Fellows of the Royal Society.' He discusses the arrangement of the paper, expressing a hope that signed articles, such as 'the one written by Dr. Miers', will be published, along with educational and scientific news. He will be 'greatly obliged' if the recipient 'can see your way to answering the enclosed questions', as he wants 'to be able to explain to the Universities and to the Learned Societies that I have asked these questions of the Fellows of the Royal Society, and to inform them as to the replies I have received'. TWO: Questionnaire. Three numbered questions, with gaps for answers, beginning with '(1) Do you consider it desirable that scientific matters should be treated to the ordinary news of the day?'.…

See Knox's entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of his father and three brothers. 8pp, 4to. Paginated and complete; on eight leaves held together with a rusting paperclip. In fair condition, aged and creased. A fair copy, with occasional emendations. There is no indication that this essay was published. A polished piece of writing by an accomplished essayist, lightly humorous but with serious intent, Knox's aim being to put forward the view that modern childhood is more self-indulgent than that of previous generations, and results is the self-deceit of adults who have never grown up. Knox sets out his case at the start: 'This is the age of the child. | If I have heard that sentence once, I have heard it a thousand times, but I doubt whether most people who use it realise what it means. It is a confession of decadence and despair. | To being with, if our age is an age of children, it means that children are growing rate. You cannot place eight or nine olive branches (as they used to be called) on marble pedestals and admire them the whole day long. They keep hopping off the pedestal and making a hideous din. It is the solitary child surrounded by fifteen stuffed animals which is adored.' 'The modern child', he writes later, 'as far as I can see, has no future before it. It does not want to grow up. Why should it? There are no restrictions or limitations placed upon its happiness. Grown ups surround it like a gang of fawning slaves. Why should it be willing to throw aside its position of independence and imperious sovereignty, and pass into servitude? It has its dances and suppers, and razzles along in its own little motor car.' There are occasional references to Knox's own childhood, most notably the following passage: 'I always wanted - I aspired, I may say - to be a tram conductor. I never have been a tram conductor, and I never shall be, now, except perhaps during a general strike. Well. I dont want to be a tram conductor. But the hope, the joy of aspiration, while they lasted, were splendid enough. The prohibitions that restricted from time to time my use of a sofa and a bell with a string tied on to it as a tram were easily endured. They were much more easily endured than the prohibitions which prevent me now from doing a hundred and one things that I want to do.' The last third of the essay is devoted to mocking 'three old men' with whom Knox 'lunched recently'. 'They were all striving to be as jolly as schoolboys, and bantering each other with the jokes of childish days. They all danced nightly, patted tennis balls over nets, pranced when possible at the edge of the ocean foam, and strove in every way to imitate the example of their youngers and betters.' His companions were 'anxious about their waists', exercised and 'sipped tonic water'. He concedes that he 'may be exaggerating a little' when he states: 'One of them, so far as I remember, had to be hung every day by his feet from the ceiling, and there slowly turning round, puffing out his cheeks from time to time, and performing fantastic movements with his arms, recover the lithe grace of the nursery. Another was pickled in brine for one hour every morning, and wallowed one hour every evening in mud.' These men, Knox believes, have 'no consolations. Infancy over, the best of life is past. [.] Parenthood has thrown over its privileges, its pleasure in authority and control.' He concludes: 'I pity the young of to-day. | While there is yet time, cannot we begin to check them a little, to institute a campaign of "Stop, Bertie!" or "Hush, Angela!! When you grow up you can say or do things like that, but now you are only a child" - and then offer to Angela and Bertie some mild inducement to grow up at all? And at the same time, shall we not discover, those of us who have done it, some faint excuse for having grown up ourselves? | There should be a quid pro quo in childhood and age. Childhood is in any case, it seems to me, the happier condition.' From the E. V. Knox papers.…

See Knox's entry in the Oxford DNB, along with those of his father and three brothers. The school was in existence in various places and under various names between 1914 and 1965. Four items, in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Autograph Speech by Knox, headed 'BROOKFIELD SCHOOL'. Dated 19 July 1951. 3pp, 12mo. On three leaves held together with brass stud, with directions to the school on reverse of last leaf. Written in capital letters. Knox begins by noting the prizes: 'Difficult to think of anything else when one sees this table loaded with gifts. But before the Prizes, we have to consider the praises, and it is very right and proper that we should.' He makes two quotes before recalling the 'first day I went to school [.] though it wasn't severe, it was not very imaginative'. He notes 'the immense advance in system and ideas of education. Not cramming things into heads, but trying to get the best out of them. Training minds to think for themselves and characters to mould themselves in the best way they can. I think we live in a Golden Age of education in spite of all the difficulties of the times, especially in a school like this, in the greatest city in the world, with all its opportunities for education in Art, Drama and Places of Historical Interest.' He refers to the head mistress and 'diagrams and pictures', stating: 'Everything done to interest and stimulate the mind. | It wasn't so, once, I assure you'. Looking at the school he wishes he could go back to school himself, and 'learn things I never did learn. Not perhaps cookery and sewing but nature-study and drawing and better ways of learning history and geography and French'. TWO: 12mo letterhead for Knox's home in Hampstead (now bearing a blue plaque), on which is written in capitals: 'You must have pleasant memories of your school time and gratitude'. THREE: Programme for 'Brookfield Secondary School for Girls | Speech Day - 19th July, 1951'. Duplicated typescript including '6. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AND SPEECH by Mr. E. V. Knox'. Stapled into buff folder with crudely-printed design on front cover, including Festival of Britain motif, headed 'Brookfield Secondary School for Girls. Speech Day 1951.' FOUR: Another copy of the programme, this time inserted in a buff folder carrying a childish watercolour of a riverside vista, headed 'Brookfield Secondary Central School. Speech Day 1951.' From the E. V. Knox papers.…

For information on Graves see the generous obituary of him in The Times, 18 April 1944. Both items in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with minor staining from paperclip to first leaf of letter. The work was not published, and although Graves states in Item One that the greater part of the text is 'in the hands of my typist', there is no record of its survival, or of the thousand related documents he states were sent to him by M. H. Spielmann. ONE: ALS from 'C L. G.' to 'Dear Evoe'. 4pp., landscape 8vo. Having sent Knox a typescript of the first part of his book, Graves begins on the subject of Knox's memorandum, saying that he is 'sending in a separate envelope my notes on your questions and very helpful suggestions arising out of the first instalment'. He explains that he has been asked 'to undertake the book' by 'Phil', who 'made it clear that it should consist of only one volume' With reference to M. H. Spielmann's 'History of Punch', Graves reports that 'Phil' found that 'Spielmann's idea of incorporating in the work his own volume in a revised form was quite impracticable. Speilmann acquiesced and very handsomely handed over his book to be condensed in the introductory part of the new book, subject of course to due acknowledgment.' Spielmann has sent Graves 'an enormous quantity of material, which he has collected since his history of Punch was published in 1895, for a second edition of it. These have been arriving at intervals during the last few months and I calculate that they run to at least a 1000 documents, letters, newspaper cuttings, articles &c'. Having felt 'bound to go through them', Graves is 'at last emerging from the wilderness, having made extracts from and notes on the very small proportion that was of any real value.' The correspondence includes 'some letters from Burnand Furniss and that old bore Arthur-à-Beckett', but is 'mostly of an intimate and controversial character & quite unsuitable'. He praises Spielmann's 'instudstry ( 'No contributor to Punch however insignificant has escaped his notice'), but considers that, being a literary critic, he 'leaves much to be desired, giving as an example his 'admiration for Clement Scott's verses(!)'. Graves also feels that Spielmann's 'loyalty to his race has not unnaturally affected his judgment in dealing with Punch's attitude towards Jews'. Graves has nevertheless found 'a small residuum of interesting new matter, notably about Charles Keene ad his relation with Edward FitzGerald, and letters from Ansty Guthrie on his authors'.These matters have a bearing on Graves's 'primary preoccupation': 'the condensation of the work into one volume of normal size'. The book 'ought not to run to much more than 100,000 words', but 'drastic revision will be necessary', as he has 'already written nearly that on the period down to 1920', 'it is really a rather appalling job, but if my health remains as good as at present, I do not despair of bringing the record more or less up to date by the end of the year.' At Graves's age (81 or 82) 'one can't look far ahead'. He explains his 'scheme': 'to treat the progress of Punch in sections. The first deals with the Jerroldian régime democratic and humanitarian, the second with Punch's gradual move to the Right, while remaining a Reformer and an advocate of non-intervention. The third covers the long duel between Gladstone and Dizzy, Dizzy's imperial policy and his decline. The fourth covers the Victorian climax, culminating in the pageantry of the Jubilee of 1887, and the fifth treats of the passing of the Old Order and events which led up to the Great War.' He has written a shorter section on 'Punch in War Time, and there remains the Epilogue, or whatever it shall be called, on the aftermath of the Versailles Conference'. Each section 'opens with a review of High Politics as they are dealt with by Punch, and contains chapters on the other activities and interests, manners, fashions, art and sport &c.' He concludes the letter with a justification of his 'method', despite its 'drawbacks'. He hopes to 'send in the sections down to the end of the War by the end of the month; they are now in the hands of my typist'. TWO: 5pp, 8vo. Headed 'Notes on your Memorandum. | When you have found time to read them, would you kindly return them, as there are some passages that I may possibly want to refer to.' A closely-written draft, with deletions and emendations. Graves responds to comments by Knox on the first 87pp. of typescript of the work, with subjects including: Mark Lemon; the first Almanac; the Mark Twain dinner; Punch's attitude to 'Dizzy' ('Punch did not love Jews, but he was never an anti-Semite. Spielmann misrepresents him in this matter, and disregards Punch's consistent support, in its final stages, of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill.'); Punch a London paper; the Prince Consort; attacks on Foreign Sovereigns; the change of opinion in the Jerrold family; Thackeray and his political opinions; Leech's picture of "The Great Social Evil". There is also a long section headed: 'General Question of Punch's attitude to Popes, Roman Catholicism and Ritualism.'.…