Ralph Mccurdy (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. 199 - 339 pp. Volume 51, Number 2 (July 1994). Softcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. A near-fine copy, without a jacket. A clean, unmarked copy. Features William Styron's very first stories in print, "Autumn" and "The Long Dark Road." Selections from William Styron, Frances Gray Patton, Frances Wright, Lorenz Eitner, Ovid Williams Pierce, Harold Grier McCurdy, Archie Robertson, R.P. Harriss, Newman Ivey White, Julian Lee Rayford, Richard Austin Smith, Ralph Nash, H.P. Koenig, and others. Fiction-S.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jean Lamont; Susanne Suba; C. Barney Moore; Jos. A. Low; Charles E. McCurdy; Mary Dana (illustrator). First edition. A scarce complete set of Powgen Press' 'The American Renaissance Series', a fantastic selection of writings by eminent American authors. Complete in six volumes, scarce to find as a complete set.Each volume is in the original unclipped dust wrapper.In the original slipcase and chemise. Chemise is in a very good condition, slipcase is very good indeed.A lovely set of six pieces of writing by six of the most important American authors, Powgen Press' 'The American Renaissance Series'.Poe's volume in this set contains a short story about a man, narrating his survival of a shipwreck and a whirlpool. Irving's 'Sleepy Hollow' is one of the most popular short stories ever written, an eerie piece of Gothic horror.This set contains:'A Descent into the Maelstrom', by Edgar Allan Poe, with a frontispiece and decorations by Charles McCurdy. Published in March 1936.'Life Without Principles', by Henry David Thoreau, with four illustrations by Susanne Suba. Published in April 1936'Legends of the Province House', by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with a frontispiece and decorations by Jean Lamont. Published in June 1936.'Compensation', by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with designs by C. Barney Moore. Published in July 1936.'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', by Washington Irving, illustrated with a frontispiece and decorations by Mary Dana. Published in August 1936.'Song of Myself', part one of the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass', by Walt Whitman, with decorations by Jos. A. Low. Published in September 1936. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrappers, in a paper-covered slipcase and chemise. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards, a little heavier to 'A Descent into the Maelstrom'. Spine labels are age-toned. Spines of 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'Legends of the Province' are faded. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpapers. Dust wrappers are lightly edge worn, with a couple of very small closed tears. Wraps are very light age-toned with a few light handling marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Light shelf wear and fading to the slipcase and chemise. Chemise is in a very good condition, slipcase is very good indeed. Near Fine. book.