Walker John Brisben (75 results)

Condition: Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 2pp article, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 photographs, and a full-page plate of the general plan of proposed improvements, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVIII, No. 1, November, 1904. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 140pp article, printed in double columns, profusely illustrated with photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVII, No. 5, September, 1904. This is the entire issue, apparently removed from a bound volume, and includes the following sections: What the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition Is, The Five Great Features of the Fair, The Education of the World as Shown in the Exhibits of Many Peoples, The Story of Creation, Woman's Progress Since the World's Fair at Chicago, Transportation in 1904, World Instruction in Pictures, The Mining Gulch and its Wonders, Manufacturing Processes and Machinery at the Fair, The Boer War, Electricity up to 1904, New Household Methods and Art as Exhibited at the Exposition, The Walled City of Jerusalem -- In St. Louis, Art at the Exposition, Scientific Agriculture, Athletics and Health, The Naval Battle of Santiago, Foreign Nations at the Fair, Exhibition of Modern Road-Building, Articles of Luxury and Curious Exhibits, Anthropological, The Pike, Great Inventions and Discoveries, and The Art of Governing Peoples as Shown at the World's Fair. Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 18pp story, printed in double columns, illustrated with 2 full-page drawings by Gibbs, salvaged from damaged issues of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVII, No. 6, October, 1904, and Volume XXXVIII, Nos. 1 and 2, November / December, 1904. Fiction from the editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine. From the preface, "What would happen if one of the great steamers of twenty-four thousand tons, which now plow the Pacific, go laden to the East with all classes of goods, and have as passengers distinguished men and women from all parts of the world, should by storm be driven out of her course and beached on a Pacific island?" Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 11 portraits, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVI, No. 4, February, 1904. From the opening paragraph, "In 1581 Russia began her march across the Asiatic continent. At that time her advance posts were but eight hundred miles from St. Petersburg. Today Russia stretches in an unbroken line of five thousand miles." Portraits include Field Marshall Count Yamagata of the Japanese Army, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Foreign Secretary of Japan's ally Great Britain, Baron Hayasti, Japanese Minister to the Court of St. James, M. De Witte, Russia's Prime Minister, the Mikado Mutsuhito, Count M. Muravieff, Minister of Justice of Russia, and President of the Hague Peace Tribunal, Field Marshall Count Oyama of the Japanese Army, Admiral Alexieff, Vice-Czar of Greater Russia, in command of the forces in the Far East, Czar Nicholas II, Lieutenant - General Kouropatkin, Russian Minister of War, and Count Lamsdorff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 15 photographs, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVI, No. 6, April, 1904. Illustrations include a battalion of Russian reserves in Kursk, Southwestern Russia, officers of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard at St. Petersburg, a battalion of Finnish Rifles of the Imperial Guard at Helsingfors, Finland, an Engineer Corps along the railroad line at Warsaw, general staff officers of the Conscription Department at St. Petersburg, officers of the Second Battalion of Sappers at Wilna, officers of the Sixty-Seventh Regiment of Russian Infantry, with their wives, Russian officers of the Department of Roads and Communications, the U. S. Torpedo-boat Morris discharging a torpedo from a Stern launching-tube, a Howell Automobile torpedo, officers of the Pawlowsky Regiment of the Imperial Guard, a group of Russian infantry officers, the Morris discharging a torpedo from a side launching-tube, Kopinsky Cossacks, and the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II as she would appear equipped with submarines and torpedo auto-boats. Housed in protective mylar report cover.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair some age wear. The front cover is badly torn and partially missing, and there is; Vol. 37.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 124pp + ads. Darkening and light edgewear to cover, contents are toned but clean. A miscellany of articles including one on the American railways,liberal tendencies in Europe, the human eye.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 125pp + 68pp ads. Light soiling to cover, otherwid a bright, clean copy. one ad excised. Contributors include W. D. Howells, Edward Bok, Laura Porter, W. Clark Russell. Articles on art, architecture, history, theater, science.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Approx 110pp + ads. Printed wraps. Moderate cover soil, light wear, contents are toned and occasional dampstain in some margins, owner's name on front cover. Contributions by Rupert Hughes, Brander Mathews, Arthur Brisbane, Oscar Hammerstein and others.

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Front and rear wraps are detached ane edgeworn.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edgewear to wraps. Includes 'The Great Boar Trek by Stephen Crane.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 16pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 29 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXXVI, No. 5, March, 1904. Includes much on Samuel Pierpont Langley, who, at the time was head of the Smithsonian Institution, and to whom the author, who was editor of The Cosmopolitan, gives too much credit for the present status of aeronautics. Other named aeronauts include the Montgolfier brothers, M. De La Landelle, Robertson, Lebaudy, Henri Villard, Mr. Cocking, Spencer, Fred Bickford, and Santos-Dumont. Curiously absent (except a very small drawing of the aerostat) are the Wright Brothers, who, on December 17, 1903, only a few month's prior to the release of this March issue of The Cosmopolitan, were making history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This, perhaps, was the beginning of the myth propagated by the Smithsonian Institution that it was Professor Langley who first achieved man-carrying, sustained, motorized flight. In fact, Langley's aerodrome had crashed for the second time only days before the Wright's successful flight. Due credit wouldn't be given to the Wrights by the Smithsonian Institution until after World War II, and it was only then that the Wright brothers' aeroplane was donated to the Smithsonian after spending two decades in the Kensington Science Museum, England. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Very scarce, important piece of aviation history.…

Softcover. Condition: Good. Covers have some browning, and chipping. ; Contains "The Rose Lay on the Ghebir's Shrine" by John G. Whittier, "A Bit of Altruria in New York" by W. D. Howells, and "Humor: English and American" by Agnes Repplier.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Rear cover is missing. Spine is missing the lower end, has a chip to the upper end. Front cover has a vertical tear to the upper edge and is slightly smudged. ; Contents include Uriel Acosta by Israel Zangwill; A Spy of France by Joeph A. Altsheler; The Curious Race of Arctic Highlanders by Lewis Lindsay Dyche; and others.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Frton and rear wraps are detached ane edgeworn. 'A Changed Man' by Thomas Hardy is included in this edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Magazine, very good. Age yellowed, extended edges of covers bent, a few nicks, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Besides the Roosevelt article includes another interesting one, "The Modern Aeronaut" about manned balloons and kites (more or less gliders). History; biography; airplanes; aeronautics; aviation; ephemera.…

Staple Bound. Condition: Good - Cash. Dark gray paper covers with black lettering and detailed boarding to the cover. The corners have been bumped. The tips of the top corners have been torn off. Soiling to the cover. Tears in the corners of the spine. Pages show reader and age wear. The binding is tight and pages are secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. includes items by/about: Katherine V.C. Matthews (Rose of Yesterday and Today), Pheve Westcott Humphreys (Gateways: Artistic and Characteristic, Gates, Entrances, landscaping); Mrs. Woodrow Wilson (Floral Head-Dresses)francis Willing Wharton (short story), Albert Shaw (Profession--Journalism), R.H. Farnham (short story) Edward Everett Hale (Old-Age Pensions), Edna Wheeler Wilcox (poem), Henry Seton Merriman 9short story), William R. Lighton & Charles E. Duffie (Sugar-beet Industry in the US), Annie L. Diggs (bourneville, England; Garden City), H. R. Martin (short story), Caroline Sterm (poem), Captains of Industry (George Gilbert Williams, William Barclay Parsons, Baron Stratchona & Mount royal), Trumbull White (Short story), H.G. Wells (Mankind in the Making continued), Mary E. Thornton (Caring for the Sick at Home), etc; moderate chipping of cover edges. B&w Photos & Engravings (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edgewear to wraps. Includes 'The Rembrant' by Edith Wharton.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Two holes were drilled through the spine margins of this periodical (binder? ). Spine has been tape reinforced. Covers are somewhat darkened and have some slight edge wear. ; Contents are predominantly about the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair / Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. A USED MAGAZINE STILL IN FAIR CONDITION. PUBLISHED ON fEB.1899 VOL.XXVI.NO.4. WEAR AND TEAR ON COVERS AND EAGE AND CORNER OF PAGES. YELLOWING PAPER BECAUSE OF AGE. TEXT IS CLEAN AND BINDING IS TIGHT.ONLY THE COVER IS LOOSE.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Irvington, NY: Cosmopolitan. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1898. . Paperback. The Cosmopolitan from May 1898, includes "Love (Poem.)" by Paul Laurence Dunbar on pp. 93. . Sm 4to., 116pp., light staining/soiling, light age-toning/sunning, edges have small tears, some creasing, former owner's last name penciled on cover, otherwise good; some pages with edges age-toned, few pages with bent corners, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Irvington, NY: Cosmopolitan. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1898. . Paperback. The Cosmopolitan from September 1898, includes "Sonnet" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox on pp. 540, and "Captain Dreams Again" by Capt. Charles King (Illustrated by Peter Newell) on pp. 577. . Sm 4to., 117pp., lightly soiled and sunned, light chipping and creasing, shelf wear, some small tears to edges, spine peeling at tips, former owner's last name penciled on cover, otherwise good; some pages dog-eared or bent, front hinge mostly cracked, very light staining to bottom spine corner throughout text block, few pages age-toned, staples a little rusted, otherwise pages are clean and readable. . Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. contains pages 343-456, plus ads; some edgewear and browning to wraps; content clean, pages intact.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete issue, original wrapper, some light wear and discoloration. ; Includes Irving Bacheller "A Story of Big Timber," and work by Grant Allen, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Saltus, and others.