Ross James Ed (189 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. X-Library book. Typical library markings. Ships promptly from Texas. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 202 pages. Lightly toned pages; very good book. The jacket has light creasing and wear; discoloring. Foreword by Marc Simmons. Remainder mark. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; ISBN: 0826311830. ISBN/EAN: 9780826311832. Inventory No: 202712. …

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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:9780192835000.

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Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Larkin's diary provides a detailed record of a heal-seeker and tourist on the Santa Fe Trail after leaving St. Louis. Edited and annotated by Barton H. Barbour. Bibliography and index. Fine/Wraps. As new. Item # E4800. **SAVE MORE** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standard Shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club (BOMC) better than usual quality printing. A nice and newish book with stiff spine, rigid boards and pointed tips. Jacket has tiny tear at bottom spine back. Looks great in its new plastic book protector. A great edition that gives a cross section of excellent mystery writers for someone who thought about getting into the mystery genre but hasn't yet done so. Not Signed.…

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. General wear with some chipping along the spine. Rainbow Trout cover art by Milton C. Weiler. As well as the great articles, the list of which follows, there are also some fairly interesting advertisements: White Horse Scotch Whisky; Lucky Tiger Hair Tonic; A Nash Ad by Ed Zern; Kodak Movie Camera; Willys Station Wagon; Grants Blended Scotch; Federal - The Shells of Champions; and many, many more. The Contents are: Found - a Lost World by Charles Elliott; Pembe Moja by Alden G. Stevens; Mark the Spot by George B. Gordon; Night Without Fire by Ben East; Wade the Great Lakes by Byron W. Dalrymple; Meshach Browning by Ross C. McCluskey; My Secret Weapons by Lee Wulff; The Gilded Duckling by James B. Trefethen; All Surf and No Sleep by Charles W. Moore; Hot Steel by Claude M. Kreider; Never Say Uncle by Fred Meyer Schroder; World's Biggest Bear by Ed Ainsworth; and Do Bass Eat Frogs - Well, Do They by Mell Ellis; along with all the usual features and departments. Size: 4to. Milton C. Weiler; (illustrator). Book.…

Contains A GUERRILLA GUIDE TO THE POPOL VUH by Sarah Jane Sloane - An ancient myth lights the path to justice, THE OPPOSITE OF INJUSTICE is Compassion by Charlotte Joko Beck - Healing advice from a modern Zen master, DOING JUSTICE TO LIFE - A conversation with Death Row inmate Damien Echols, BREAKFAST WITH HENRY FORD by James Opie - The legendary tycoon learns a lesson about fair play, AN ACCURSED MIRAGE by Ross Fuller - The author glimpses Justice, through a glass darkly, A JUST MEASURE by Doug Thorpe - Finding the right balance, THE SACRED FOUNDATIONS OF JUSTICE IN ISLAM by Seyyed Hossein Nasr - The metaphysics of a just God, FACING INJUSTICE - A conversation with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, CARD IX: JUSTICE by P. D. Ouspensky - A mystical musing from the Tarot, THE LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD by Maurice Nicoll - Insight into one of JesusÄô greatest parables, THE BIG HARMONY by Kimberly McKeehan - A Native American way of justice, WILD JUSTICE by Madronna Holden - Fairy tales that celebrate a natural order, REFUGE IN THE STORM by Joyce Kornblatt - A moving meditation on Etty Hillesum, INNER JUSTICE by John Roger Barrie - On living in this world of injusticeÄîand justice;128 pages. Paperback in very good condition. …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding, clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: Berger, Reflections of the Last Editor fo the Annals of the Southeast Conference. Bradshaw and Ransdell, Anti-Asian Agitation in South Africa in the 1930s: Reactions to the "Japanese Treaty" and "Honorary White" Status. Chang, Indigenizing Deities: The Budai Maitreya and the Group fo Eighteen Luohans in Niche No. 68 at Feilaifeng. Dong, Two Decades of Local Democratic Experiment in China: Developments and Changing Assessments. Shen, The STate Goes Pop: Orientalism in Grief over the Yellow River. H. Wang, The Adulators and the Adulated: Religious Patronage of a Regional Ruler in Early Tenth-Century China. Q. Wang, Administrative Reform in China: Past, Present, and Future. Caldwell, The Movie Mujra: The Trope of the Courtesan in Urdu-Hindi Film. Hsiao, Dancing the Red Lantern: Zhang Yimou's Fusion of Western Ballet and Peking Opera. Hsiao and Ross, Taking Pains to Explain Li Keran's The Pain of Composition. Liu, Across the Borders: Hip Hop's Influence on Chinese Youth Culture. Metraux, The Futenma Issue and the Future of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Metraux, Ghosts of the Gold Rush: Visiting Chinese Camp, California. Ross, Huang Binhong's Unruly Pastoral. Ross, Musings on Miyazaki, Early and Late. Taj, Two Anarkalis: Saghar Nizami's Dream Drama and the Deconstruction of the Parsi Theatre. Takagi, Third Space Wonderland and the End of the Modern: Representation of Tokyo in the Works of Murakami Haruki. Book reviews, proceedings of the 49th SEC/AAS annual meeting, obituary of Derek John Waller. 9.0" tall; 236 pages.…

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Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. VG overall; no marks; 1.3 lbs.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 329 pages.