Preface William Jackson (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Text clean, pages bright and crisp. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Some wear and scratches at edges. Part of the Bollingen Series. Reprint. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This magnificent book is "A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes" by Thomas Franklin Currier, as Edited by Eleanor M. Tilton for The Bibliographical Society of America. With a Foreword by William A. Jackson, the book was published in 1953 by New York University Press in a large octavo hardcover. Graced with a handsome photograph of Dr. Holmes, and presenting 23 other plate illustrations, it is a handsome volume, and necessary for any scholar or collector of Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table", the novel "Elsie Venner". Holmes was a ground-breaking doctor and Professor of Medicine at Harvard, and, also : inventor of the American Stereoscope. TITLE : A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes AUTHOR : Thomas Franklin Currier (1873 - 1946) EDITOR : Eleanor M. Tilton (1913 - 1992) FOREWORD : William A. Jackson PREFACE ; Eleanor M. Tilton AEGIS : Bibliographical Society of America IMPRINT : New York University Press PLACE : Washington Square, New York DATE : 1953 EDITION : First Edition - With Errata page at end. DETAILS : Large Octavo Hardcover; Contains 24 photo-illustrations, including a Frontispiece photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes at age 40; contains a Foreword, a Preface, and an Index; [xiv] + 707 pages, plus one page with Errata; 7 3/8" x 10 1/2", deep orange cloth-covered spine and boards; spine has gilt lettering stamped against bright red panels, bordered in single gilt lines; publisher stamped in gilt at foot of spine. CONTENTS : PARTS I - III - Foreword / Preface / Editions and Leaflets / Poems / Prose APPENDIXES : Anonymous Poems / Sheet-Music Editions / Star-Spangled Banner / National Anthem Prize Contest, 1861 / Popular Lectures / Printed Letters / First Printings in Book or Pamphlet / American Reprints and Editions for the Blind / English Reprints and Foreign Editions / Biography and Criticism / Index/ Addenda CONDITION -- VERY GOOD PLUS -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particular noted : EXTERIOR - Spine and spine lettering bright; just a touch of mild abrasion to spine extremities; a tiny dent can be seen on the top front board, else boards are clean; just about the only signs of handling can be seen on the top text-block edge which have a very slight darkening - just perceptible next to the headband; but on the bottom edge, more obvious is some shelf rub at the fore) - else the edges are clean and the entire aspect of the binding is clean and attractive. BINDING -- Solid INTERIOR -- Clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1949. Appears unread. Very Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket (plain paper, as issued). The jacket has light wear at the extremities. NOT a library discard. Square and tight. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First Edition. 1949. Here are detailed production data on 1,300 books published during the first 26 years of the firm of Ticknor and Fields. Among them are THE SCARLET LETTER; WALDEN; EVANGELINE and others by Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Thoreau, etc. Also recorded here are details on first and early American printings of works by Tennyson, DeQuincy, Kingsley, etc. Entries provide size of edition, data on printing, paper, binding, royalties, profits, dates of printing and publication, pulping of sheets, etc. Fifty pages of introductory matter include a preface by William A. Jackson, a brief history of Ticknor and Fields, as well as a glossary. 1 plate (Thoreau's WALDEN). From the introduction: "The information given includes the size and number of editions, data on printing, stereotyping, paper, presswork, binding, cancels, corrections, illustrations, royalties, prices, profits, and the dates of printing and publication. Here, in short, is the story of the life of books between their creation by the author and their emergence from the bindery." Bound in the original brick red cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with original dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Near Very Good jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. l, 508pp [558 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eight thick octavo volumes in red cloth bindings. Additional materials in pocket at back of volume 8. Condition: sunfading to spines of all volumes with minor insect damage to several of the spines; some of the pages in a few of the volumes are toned due to various types of papers used in manufacture; previous owner's rubber stamp on 1st endpaper of most volumes; else very good.