Macmillan Thomas Editor (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xx) 474 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. This anthology contains: City Life by Mary Gordon; The Falls by George Saunders; The Talk Talked Between Worms by Lee K. Abbott; On with the Story by John Barth; The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro; The Twa Corbies by Carolyn Cooke; Catface by Arthur Bradford; Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus; The Royal Palms by Matthew Klam; The Lipstick Tree by Kiana Davenport; The Red House by Ian MacMillan; Comfort by Mary Gaitskill; The Balm of Gilead Tree by Robert Morgan; The Final Inning by Thomas Glave; Mermaids by Deborah Eisenberg; The Old Farmhouse and the Dog Wife by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; The Taxi Ride by Patricia Elam Ruff; Mirrors by Carol Shields; His Chorus by Christine Schutt; and Demonology by Rick Moody. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Inter Ocean Publishing Company. Chicago. 1881-1882. January 1881 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Three-quarter leather boards with light wear to extremities. solid text block. firm hinges/joints. Entertaining. TM/Reference.

Hardcover. Six consecutive volumes, each about 200 pages. A 'handbook of ready reference, a family library of useful knowledge, with information covering scientific, historical, political, literary, and other subjects' -- from the 1883 edition. Text printed in two columns per page. First editions, except for 1882 (third edition), and 1883 (Second edition). Cloth copies with decorative blind stamp to the covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Very good copies with wear to the edges and corners. The 1885 edition discolored on the cover and split near the rear in the index. Former owner's stamp in each volume.

4to, 1 p. Twenty lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on aged paper, with slight traces of mount on reverse. Having read Humberstone's article on the London School of Hygiene, he is 'sending it to the printers to be set up'. He commends the article for dealing with the subject 'in an interesting and useful way'. He rejects the five plans Humberstone has sent, as they would not 'reproduce satisfactorily', and a photograph which is 'too large to go across a page', and would like 'a photograph of the elevation of the School' and 'either a photograph or an electro of the design of the Seal'.