Walter E Read (9 results)
Language: English
Published by Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1952
- Hardcover
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.Redux Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.
Language: English
Published by The Crowell Publishing Company, Springfield, OH, 1935
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.Lazy S Books
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Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The August 1935 issue of the American Magazine. It contains Footsteps at Night (Dead Man Manor), part 3 of 6 of a novel by Valentine Williams (George Valentine Williams), part 5 of 6 of Opera Hat, a novel by Clarence Budington Kelland, Read 'em and Weep, a story by…Rube Goldberg, Plans by the Carload, an article by Walter Lippmann, an editorial on Fame - "Babe Ruth", Fifer - an Interesting People feature of writer MacKinlay Kantor, and others. Light wear with some rubbing to the top right corner of the front cover. Light damp stain with occasional loss & bleed to the top edge or corner of the pages - doesn't affect any text except for a couple of words towards the spine on pages 124 & 125. Soiling at the top staple on the back cover. No cutouts or missing pages. A good to very good copy. Barker Devin (cover), Matt Clark (Footsteps at Night), George Rowe (Opera Hat), E O Hurst (Read 'em and Weep), Harold Talburt (Plans by the Carload) (illustrator).
- Softcover
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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Condition: New.
- Softcover
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
- Softcover
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United KingdomGreatBookPricesUK
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US$ 66.53
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Condition: New.
- Softcover
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United KingdomGreatBookPricesUK
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US$ 73.36
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
More imagesPublished by Poetry London - New York, London, UK and New York, USA, 1956
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United KingdomOrlando Booksellers
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US$ 47.78
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Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 - the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. After a hiatus of around five years since the publication of the final issue of the original series, in 1951, Tambimu…ttu relaunched the magazine in New York in 1956. However, this version of the magazine only ran to four issues before cessation again in 1960. With the Lyre Bird cover design by Alexander Calder. ***Very good in cream-coloured, black and red illustrated and printed stapled card covers. The covers are slightly dulled and browned with age, with some marks to the covers commensurate with age and handling, but the covers are still very clean. Staples rusted as usual. Please note that the bottom of the spine has been bumped and this affects all pages (please see scans). Edges of covers slightly rubbed and creased, but no tears. Internally also very good with very clean pages. None of the usual foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***40 pages. 248mm x 186mm. ***Contents: Poems by Walter de la Mare, Roy Campbell, Marya Zaturenska, W. S. Merwyn, Herbert Read, W. H. Auden, Anne Ridler, Jean Garrigue, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Nelson Bentley, Robert Graves, Claire McAllister, E. E. Cummings, Christopher Logue, Tom Scott, Arthur Gregor, Alice Monks Mears, Kenneth Eisold, Babette Deutsch, Diana Menuhin, Amrita Pritam, Buddhadiva Bose, Jibanananda Das. ***Vol. 1, No. 1 - March-April 1956 of Poetry London - New York, the first issue in the new series of this historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, and the publications of Poetry London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Alexander Calder (Lyre Bird cover design) (illustrator).
World furniture : an illustrated history
Hayward, Helena ; Ash, Douglas. [Yvonne Brunhammer, Laurence Buffet-Challie, Joseph T Butler, Andrew Ciechanowiecki, Anthony Coleridge, Serge Grandjean, Charles Handley-Read, John R. Harris, J. Hillier, Hugh Honour, John Hunt, Hans Hunth, E. T. Joy, Joan Liversidge, Bozenna Maszkowska, Margaret Medley, P W Meister, Clifford Musgrave, Th. H. Lusingh Scheurleer, Herwin Schaefer, Robert C. Smith, Peter Thornton, F L Kenett; art, Jacopo Ligozzi, Bernardino Poccetti, Christophe Huet, John Pimm, William Burges, Gerrit Rietveld, Charles Eames, Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Eero Saarinen, Clive Latimer, Robin Day, William Armbruster, Peter Hvidt, O Molgaard Nielsen, Borge Morgenson, Gio Pointi, Poul Kjaerholm, Hanne Kjaerholm,Walter Brune
Language: English
Published by Secaucus, N.J. : Chartwell Books, 1976, 1965, 1976
- Hardcover
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 320 pages, [15] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm ; ISBN: 0890090637; 9780890090633 LCCN: 76-11648 ; LC: NK2270; Dewey: 749 ; OCLC: 2672426 ; green cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; "Twenty-five scholars and curators examine Eastern and Western… furniture styles during major historical periods from ancient Egyptian and Hellenic times through the twentieth century. Illustrated description is supplied of furniture from China , Egypt , England, France , Germany, India , The Low Countries, Italy, Japan , The Middle East , India, and South East Asia, Poland , Rome, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, and The United States of America" ; large heavy volume ; tears to dustjacket ; VG/G. Book.
The Wide World, The Magazine for Men, October [Oct.] 1916, Vol. 37, No. 222: How We Foiled "U 39"
Patterson, Walter G.; Read, H.O.; Hardeman, F.E.; Skelton, Jas.; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Dundas, Grace; Fletcher, Alfred C.B.; Lees, Frederic; Freeman, Lewis R.; Lucas, M.R.; Lees, G. Frederic
Published by The International News Company, New York, 1916
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 395.00
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Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: In the Grip of the "Hip Sings" - Part II - an American businessman is also secretly a member of a lawless tong/Chinese secret society; How We Foiled "U 39" - H.O. Read, Late First Officer S.S.… "Anglo-Californian", a horse transport, explains what happened when his vessel was attacked by a German U-Boat; Our Wanderings in Northern Africa - another of the popular "Penelope" articles covers Tunis, Kairouan, and Algeria (includes photo of Tunisian Jewesses in towering head-dresses intended to make them, all fat to enhance their marriage prospects); The Trapped Diver - Charles Margerison recounts his terrible underwater predicament working for the City of Toronto's Department of Works; On the Trail in Wonderland - Part I - Mary Roberts Rinehart explores the new Glacier Park in North-Western Montana; The Old Man of Tregennon Lodge - a very remarkable ghost story from Cornwall, England; From Job to Job Around the World - Part VIII - two young Americans begin broke in London but soon Mr. Fletcher travels to Norway under contract to do Arctic coal-mining; A Boy Hero of the Midi - translated from the diary of Eugene Escloupie, a 14-year-old French boy who smuggled himself to the front and took part in some hot WWI fighting; Our Fijian Field-Day - three young white men compete in sports contests against sport-loving Fijians (with nice photos); The Great Wire Mystery - copper wire was constantly stolen from South-East Pennsylvania railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies until the elusive culprit was caught; Fishing With Spades and Ploughs for the sand eel on the Normandy coast; and more. pp. 9 [ads], [2], 484-576, 10-16 [ads]. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Gilbert, A.; Pitcher, N. Sotheby; Montford, C.E.; Somerfield, Thomas; Evison, G.H.; Prater, Ernest; Montford, C.E.; Gillett, F. (illustrator).
