Phelps Introduction (57 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover without jacket (as issued?). Binding sound, text clean, light shelfwear. Text is facsimile of 1879 Houghton, Osgood edition. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Some light discoloration on the underside of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boynton, Suki (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. 1st Printing: August, 1941. The book shows signs of wear consistent with its age, particularly along the spine and edges. The cover is slightly worn but intact, and the pages are yellowed, typical of publications from this era. There is no dust jacket, and the binding remains secure, ensuring the book is still readable and a worthy addition to any collection. unknown (no dust jacket visible).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 605 pages. Tear on the dust jacket at the top of the spine. Stories.

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 439 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Pen and pencil markings on front and back covers, first and last front end pages, and main title page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing July 1960. 605 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor wear to DJ; bottom edges of covers rubbed through; inked name & date to first free endpaper; else VG/VG. 235 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Noonday Press Edition/12th Printing. 605 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine and front cover. Jacqueline Schuman (Cover Design); Cynthia Krupat (Design) (illustrator).

Staple-bound Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages are clean and crisp; no owners' marks; there is some delicate shelfwear and rubbing to the back soft cover and a very small chip at the spine heel; otherwise clean and excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition. Text/NEW w/margin discoloration. Soft cover/VG; strong; light edge wear, also discolored, and slight lean to spine. Collection of letters author, poet, screenwriter and film critic James Rufus Agee (1909 - 1955) and 1958 posthumous recipient of the Pultizer for his autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), wrote to Episcopal priest Father James Harold Flye. Father Flye was both close friend and spiritual confidant. The letters span 30 years --- from Agee's entrance to Phillips Exeter to his death in 1955. …

Condition: Fine. 1st thus. Cloth, F. xviii+166pp, a fine copy. An 1879 novel, the story of which deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. The text follows that which appeared in the 1879 Manchester Weekly News serialization. 375 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Text is clean. Some staining to front free endpaper. Cover shows light wear. Dust jacket has minor wear along edges and chiping to head of DJ. Small tear to top edge of front panel. Includes introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Reissued with new introduction in 1950. ; Toledano binding '8', Kent Endpapers, Dust jacket style 'h5', listing 334 titles. DJ artwork release 4 of 5. [VanMeter, America in Historical Fiction, 33 (The Age of Exploration and the Colonization of America, 1492-1775 - Colonial America) ] [Burt: The Novel 100 - A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, #42] [Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, (Major Works of American Literature) pg. 483] [Kilpatrick & Wolfe, Books that Build Character (Historical Fiction - Older Readers) pg. 190 (Title listed, not this edition) ]; Modern Library; Vol. 93.2; 0.9 x 7.2 x 4.9 Inches; 303 pages. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Light wear to edges. Interior clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 61 pages. 8.50x8.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A selection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited and with an introduction by William Lyon Phelps. Includes his notable "Virginibus Puerisque," as well as biographical sketches of authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Pepys and Walt Whitman; and on many other topics relating to human nature. An entry in publisher's Modern Student Library series. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling and series vignette gilt-stamped on cover, titling in gilt on spine. Volume has no dust jacket. --- With near complete dulling to spine titling, some chafing to head of spine, else a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 323, [6, ads] pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fading to spine and part of cover. Wear to cover. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 176 pages. 7.75x5.06x0.44 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1880, Very Good/no dj, octavo, 304pp plus 6pp. ads in rear, brown cloth hardcover, gold lettering on backstrip, slight cover soil, binding tight, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 61 pages. 8.50x8.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition. Boards show light wear to corners and chipping to spine ends; front gutter shows a bit of cracking; binding tight; pages clean. Stamp at bottom of title page from distributor Baker & Taylor; on the reverse, "Prefatory Note to the Third Edition," Baker & Taylor has updated the price from forty cents to fifty cents (see photos). Strong was a leader of the Social Gospel movement and a prominent missionary for social justice, but "Our Country" is darker: He argues that Anglo-Saxons are a superior race who have a responsibility to "Christianize and civilize" the "savage" races. Yeesh. 229 pages + 4 pages of reader's blurbs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. First Folio Society edition, first printing. 292pp, with illustrated frontispiece and occasional illustrations in text. Green boards with gilt decorations front and spine, gilt titles on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed brown. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends, hint of spotting on fore edge, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Housed in its slipcase, shelf worn, rubbed on corners, with a little cracking in paper along edges. …

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Inscribed by Betsy Phelps on front end page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 339 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing to upper corners of frontis and title page. ; James Fenimore Cooper Jr. Bookplate on the front endpaper.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN 1560970154. Trade Paperback. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers, slight dustsoiling to corners.

First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (22.5cm); glossy pictorial paper wrappers; [6],7-149,[3]pp; colorful illustrations on glossy pages. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pencilled ownership and date to title page, and his pencilled notes to final page. A Near Fine copy. King's collection of verse includes seven of his full-page colorful paintings, and an introduction by Donald Phelps. [87079].…

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 22 x 27,5 cm 138 S. . Broschiert. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Sehr Gut, eher ungelesen (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat min. Gebrauchsspuren; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. Original price of $3.75 printed on dust jacket front flap. Jacket lower front corner rubbed now protected in paper backed polyester film. Book has no writing or marking.

paperback. Condition: Fine Condition. Uncorrected proof. Bound in publisher's original plain pumpkin wrappers with the front cover stamped in black.