Malcolm Douglas Whitman (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. 1st Edition. 111 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Brown Boards, Gilt Lettering On Spine, Illustrated Paper Label On Front Cover. Pseudonymous Humorous Story By Sportswriter Malcolm Douglas Whitman. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With A Touch Of Rubbing At Ends Of Spine, Minute Tear At Each Corner Of Spine, Nearly Invisible Entirely Closed 3/16" Tear At Top Of Front Panel. No Fading, No Names Or Marks. Circa 1921 Original Bookseller's Label Of Brentano's, New York, On Rear Pastedown. Drawings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University.…