Leo Ross (220 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Near Fine. No. stated First Edition near fine condition . owners name on front end paper - Hardcover 192 pages pages white no with no foxing no water marks no writing . see pictures.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

soft cover, Level 4 reading program, text book, 72 pages, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, sample copy edition, very good book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile easy reader.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Shelf wear, pages yellowing; a good solid book. K-1 code inside. Pieces of the dust jacket are included but missing pieces, heavily torn and worn. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 183508.

Spiral. Condition: Good. Teacher's Edition. rubbed cover discard stamp Teacher's Edition.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A lighter look at the Rugby Game. Ross (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A lighter look at the English Game. Ross (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG/G, price unclipped, 1st edn.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 27, No. 10, March 1976. 64 pp. Vol. 27, Number 10, March 1976 issue only! ISSN: 0027-0520. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear and clean text.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Pan Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, browning. Comic drama. Pan X178. Photo on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Spiral-bound softcover, ex-library with pocket removed. Library stamps to inside front cover and title page and along outer page edges. Normal wear to covers with light soiling but interior is very clean with no marks or tears. 191 pg.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ with moderate edgewear or bumping. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 156 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some minor dings, scuffing, creases, light dusting, nicks on the pages and cover as a result of handling and reading the book. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is very loose. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Badly faded due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Condition: Good. Harper & Brothers New York 1959.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Two book collection. The Education of Hyman Kaplan; with fair to good dust jacket/ edge wear. Copyright 1937, signed by previous owner. The Return of Hyman Kaplan; First edition, 1959. No dust jacket, blind stamp on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. 192 pp. Text in flawless condition; dj shows wear. Inscription on front flyleaf. Anita Walker (Jacket Design) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First British edition. First printing Hardback. 200 pp. slight foxing of first and last few pages otherwise Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First British edition. First printing Hardback. 200 pp. Very Good condition in Good + unclipped dust jacket (tiny losses at a coiple of corners, now in protective transparent sleeve). No inscriptions.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. 320 pages. Clean text, good binding. Illustrated. Includes: Gurpatupsky by Harriet Savits and Maria Shecktor; Song of Hiawatha by Longellow; the Modern Hiawatha by George Strong; America, the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates; Oregon or Bust by Barbara McGraw; Chimp Orbits the Earth Twice by Julian Garner; The Traveling Musicians dramatized by Paul Anderson; One Hundred Nickels, by Carolyn Haywood, Manuel's Secret by Nancy Howe De Pagan, and much more. Illustrated by Franz Altschuler, Phoebe Moore, Joe Phelan, Mae Gerhard, JimHiga, Winnie Fitch, Et Al (illustrator).…