Ranck James (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Green card covers, staple-bound. Tip of bottom corner of pages are scorched and lightly chipped (not affecting any text), else clean. Includes a handful of linoprint-type illustrations. 23, [1] pages. A scarce copy of Tide, the literary journal of the Writers' Club of the College of Puget Sound. This issue features a piece by Herbert Arntson (1911-1982), who went on to become an award-winning author of juvenile historical novels set in the pioneer milieu of Oregon and Washington. He served on the faculty of Washington State University, 1946-1974, where he was head of the creative writing program. (His papers are collected at the University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections). One of the longer prose pieces is a story titled, ''The Class Struggle in Yelm, Washington,'' by James Docherty. It's a quirky tale that centers on a sketchy communist barber and a pro-fascist editor of a local newspaper. This issue also includes a book review by Francis Galbraith, who became the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1966-1969, and Indonesia, 1969-1974. (The other brief book reviews cover Aldous Huxley and Charles Erskine Scott Wood). Dorothy Belle Harriss (m. Cairnes) contributes a poem. In January 1937, she became the first woman to serve as President of the University of Puget Sound Student Body. The cover was done by Maurita Shank (m. Runions), president of the C.P.S. Art Club.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ex-library with usual library markings.? Hardcover, no dust jacket.? Corners bumped and some light staining to covers.? Contents clean.? 224 pages, index, notes, bibliography, b&w photos and illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B/w (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; red c e/gilt titles; frontis portrait of Ulric Zwingli; 224 Clean, unmarked pages/appendices/index.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Red cloth over boards with gold lettering on front board. Title page dated 1964. No evident copyright page. 224 pages. Boards have been kept quite clean. Very minor shelf wear at top and bottom edges of spine as well as corners of boards. Gold lettering on front board is shiny and legible. Illustration of Ulrich Zwingli as frontispiece. Light toning on title page. Pages have been well maintained. Several black and white photographs of important church members throughout. Binding secure with no missing pages. Very Good Condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. First edition. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Royal octavo. xiv [6] 320pp. Bibliography, index. Blue cloth in chipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. Illustrated with 16 maps of which 6 are in color. Front gutter starting. Jacket notes that this is a limited edition, limitation size not specified. Uncommon work. Brown was the Governor of Mississippi from 1844-1848 and Senator of the same from 1854-1861. The present work discusses his early career as a radical southern nationalist, his political career, the American Civil War and reconstruction.