Thomas Brasher (20 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Near Fine, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing in a price-clipped but otherwise Near Fine dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Very light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 264 pages. Dust Jacket is a heavy brown paper stock and has just the faintest wrinkle at the front corner of the tail of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in a very good (fading along the spine and edges) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. No dustjacket. Spine lettering is faded and, except for "Whitman", illegible. ; With introductions to each piece and footnotes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Boards and dust jackets signs of wear. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. All pages are intact and otherwise clean, binding is sound. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. Dust jacket condition is Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 264 pages. Notes, Index. First edition, first printing. "From March 1846 until January 1848, Whitman served as the editor of the widely read Brooklyn Daily Eagle, writing over 800 editorials, political commentaries, news stories, short reviews about literature, and two very early poems. In his early years the poet served as editor on a number of newspapers, the Brooklyn daily Eagle being on of his longest tenures. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rex Brasher, Robert Bruce Horsfall, Roger Tory Peterson (illustrator). Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Thick, large hardback revised in 1959. Previous owner's name label on inside front board. Light wear and bumping along edges of green cloth covers. Hinges sound, uncracked; pages tight, clean. No DJ. Not library discard. Illustrations.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Red 1/2 buckram, gray cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil on green field. xxii,352 pp. 1st ptg. Covers show modest surface rubbing/soiling, otherwise about as issued, though lacking dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Spine lettering faded. Contents very good. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 352 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, no wear, upper text edge foxed. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, minor wear. Bio. Stax.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edition in Near Fine condition with some edgewear in a Very Good dust-jacket with edgewear ; Whitman was an editor, journalist, and politician who was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1878 until his death in 1905. He was a leader in the Democratic Party and served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1892 to 1894.; 8vo; 264 pages; FSA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874- August 22, 1927), R.I. Brasher, R. Bruce Horsfall, Henry Thurston (illustrator). 1st Edition. A comprehensive account of the birdlife of this continent arranged by order & including numerous drawings & color plates from artists such as Fuertes, Brasher, Horsfall and Thurston. This copy is the second printing, 1936, of the 1917 original. It is in very good condition with a tight,straight binding and no defects. There is no dustjacket but the big book- 11" x 8.5" , 6# 1oz - will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping with those rates adjusted.

Hardcover. Bound in half gray and half red cloth boards with gilt lettering, green title block on spine; xxii, 352 pp; facsimiles. Contents: The Poems. Young Grimes [Old Grimes] -- The Inca's daughter -- The love that is hereafter -- The Spanish lady -- The Columbian's song -- The winding-up [The end of all] -- Each has his grief [We all shall rest at last] -- The punishment of pride -- Ambition [Fame's vanity] -- The death and burial of McDonald Clarke. A parody -- Time to come [Our future lot] -- Death of the nature-lover [My departure] -- The play-ground -- Ode -- The house of friends [Wounded in the house of friends] -- Resurgemus [Europe, the 72d and 73d years of these states] -- Sailing the Mississippi at midnight [The Mississippi at midnight] -- Dough-face song [Song for certain congressmen] -- Blood-money -- New Year's Day, 1848 -- Isle of La Belle Riviere. The fiction. Death in the school-room (a fact) -- Wild Frank's return -- The child and the profligate [The child's champion] -- Bervance: or, father and son -- The tomb blossoms -- The last of the sacred army -- The last loyalist [the child-ghost; a story of the last loyalist] -- Reuben's last wish -- A legend of life and love -- The angel of tears -- The madman -- The love of Eris: a spirit record [Eris: a spirit record] -- My boys and girls -- Dumb Kate [Dumb Kate.-an early death] -- The little sleighers -- The half-breed: a tale of the western frontier [Arrow-tip] -- Shirval: a tale of Jerusalem -- Richard Parker's widow -- The boy lover -- One wicked impulse! [Revenge and requital: a tale of a murderer escaped]. Some fact-romances. [A fact-romance of Long Island] -- [The Old Black Widow] -- [An Incident on Long Island Forty Years Ago] -- The shadow and the light of a young man's soul -- Lingave's temptation -- Appendices: A. Publication history of Whitman's fiction -- B. Chronology of Walt Whitman's life and work. Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Bumping to corners. Binding tight.).

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good plus. Name and date inside front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clipped DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rex Brasher, Robert Bruce Horsfall and Roger Tory Peterson (illustrator). Revised Edition. 416 page, well illustrated text on the birds of North Carolina, from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Dust jacket is faded and has edge wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A bright mid-twentieth century edition of the poetry and short stories of American literary figure Walt Whitman. Featuring twenty-one examples of Whitman's poetry, twenty-one pieces of short fiction, and three 'fact-romances', this work provides wonderful insight into the lesser-known writing of the American poet.Illustrated with nine plates of facsimile images of Whitman's manuscripts and handwriting.Edited and with a lengthy introductory essay - and two appendixes - by academic Thomas L. Brasher. In a full cloth binding. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail and joints, resulting in fading of the cloth to these regions. Light mark to front board. Adhesive residue to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.