Will Anonymous (32 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD Condition .clean, solid,bright. ; Cover shows window with some broken, some complete panes.; "Unlike a lot of 6th st.'s clients, I never had to sleep under a bridge as a teenager." from introduction to this book of mostly first name only ."Hey Whose donuts?.It's writing for donuts day.I answered-still my stock reply today. "Wanna write for a donut?".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Grefe, Will (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Scarce; by the author of "People of the Whirlpool." Red cloth with white & black title print & heart-in-branches emblem; covers and spine rubbed, with fading along spine; spine firm if slightly cocked forward. Pages unmarked & unmarred, with fading gilt top; bookplate amidst toned endpapers. Includes 5 illustrations plus frontispiece by Will Grefe. First Editions; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This book has corner bumping and edge wear with board showing. There is some spotting and dis-coloration of the text where "clipping" were located. Text and illustrations are complete and solid in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This book has corner bumping, edge wear with board showing. Some rubbing, fading of covers. Dis-coloration of the text where "clippings" were located. Text and illustrations complete and solid in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This book has been bound in a brown cloth with faded gilt lettering and decoration. Text has yellowed slightly with age, solid in binding. There is edge wear and corner bumping, board starting to show. Owner's mark inside front cover, otherwise clean and unmarked. Most illustrations retain protective tissue. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This book has been bound in a dark brown cloth with faded gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. There is severe corner bumping and edge wear, board showing. Wear at head and foot of spine. Text has yellowed with age, but clean and solid in binding. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This copy has been bounhd in a dark green with gilt lettering and decoration of the front cover. There is corner bumping, board just starting to show. Wear at head and foot of spine, edge wear and rubbing of the covers. Text is clean and solid in binding. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This book has been bound in a light grey with gilt lettering and illustration front cover. There is some corner bumping and edge wear. No board showing, light rubbing of the covers. Owner's gift inscription has been inked inside front cover. Text has yellowed with age, clean and solid in binding. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Anonymous (illustrator). This poetry collection has been bound in a medium grey cloth with gilt lettering and decoration of the front cover. There is severe corner bumping, edge wear with board showing. Small tears at head of spine. Pencilled owner's name on front end paper. Text has yellowed with age, but clean and solid in binding. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition faux red leather boards with elaborately illustrated gold front cover perimeter and spine decorations, gold front cover lettering, and gold spine lettering over a black block border. Includes Editor's Comment and Acknowledgments. Major chapter headings are as follows: Wisdom; Benjamin Franklin; History; Beauty and Business. "Sometimes it seems almost futile to try to write anything new because it has all been said before - and so well said. Of course, any such defeatism must lead to a dead end of accomplishment in terms of literary effort. Fortunately for the living and those to come, there are many bright new stars on the panel of contemporary writers. They are skillfully telling the story of these eventful days and their words will be read with relish by future generations. In fact, the printed word today is so prolific, and the competition with the book, the magazine and the newspaper is so great, future generations will require anthologies in great number to know what our bright literary stars have said. In this anthology there has bee no effort to be erudite, consistent, unusual or educational. The prime purpose is to amuse by exposing the reader to many things he has read before and may wish to read again. Perhaps that poem he [or she] HAD to learn, to pass freshman English, is here. He may even enjoy rereading it under different auspices. It is not possible to include only those things that appeal to him. If he dislikes poetry in any form, we hope he will please forgive us. Some of us like the "well-turned couplet." On the other hand, there are those who love Shakespeare, but just cannot understand how his hallowed words should appear with some of the more commonplace choices that have arrived in this selection. It takes all kinds you know - and we have tried to select all kinds of literature." - excerpt from Editor's Comment.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Single issue of this fiction magazine,containing complete novelette. Original blue card wrappers, lettered in red. Edges turned, small chips on spine, foxing spots, good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Anonymous (illustrator). First.

** USA Customers Please Note: We ship via Canada Post & USPS. We process and pay all customs fees before shipping; there will be no Import Charges, Brokerage Fees or Tariffs on any Items purchased from us. ** (illustrator). Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vi) + 329 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, pale coated endpapers. Issued as Volume VII in "Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Modern Popular Works", as per the catalogue at the rear (which lists up to this title only). This edition contains a New Preface by the author, first published here. Covers lightly worn and frayed at edges, lower front corners knocked, ink name on front endpaper and the author's name inked in on title leaf; a bout a Very Good copy. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. SAM SLICK'S WISE SAWS. was originally issued by Hurst & Blackett in two volumes in 1853. Satyrical and humourous short stories, set in Nova Scotia.

** USA Customers Please Note: We ship via Canada Post & USPS. We process and pay all customs fees before shipping; there will be no Import Charges, Brokerage Fees or Tariffs on any Items purchased from us. ** (illustrator). Reprint. Octavo, original purple cloth decorated in gilt and blind on spine and front panel, the titles reverse-blocked in gilt. (vii) + 350 pp, [2] pp ads at rear, frontispiece with tissue guard, pale coated endpapers. Issued as Volume XII in "Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions of Modern Popular Works", as per the catalogue at the rear (which lists up to this title only).Very light wear, minor fraying near spine head, corners a bit soft; a Very Good copy, pretty attractive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. THE OLD JUDGE., a novel set in Nova Scotia, was originally issued by Henry Colburn in two volumes in 1849. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography states, "Not excepting Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodle, it remains the most graphic picture of colonial society in British North America that we have.".

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 100 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. This item is printed on demand.

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** USA Customers Please Note: We ship via Canada Post & USPS. We process and pay all customs fees before shipping; there will be no Import Charges, Brokerage Fees or Tariffs on any Items purchased from us. ** (illustrator). First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo [in-fours], disbound but rebound in modern plain wrappers, woodcut emblem on title-leaf, engraved chapter heading at head of text on A2. Pp[1]-[3]; 4-112; A1-O4; collated complete. Trimmed a bit tightly in the margins affecting a few page numbers; a nice clean copy. Sabin 32280; Goldsmith 6502. HOADLEY, Benjamin, Bishop of Winchester [1676-1761]. A tract concerning British relations with Spain, the West Indies, Commerce with America, & The Slave Trade. It discusses "El Affiento de Negros", the right to deal in Negro Slaves: in 1713, the British were awarded the right to the asiento in the Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. The British government later passed on its rights to the South Sea Company.Also discussed is the 'Depredations and Hostilities committed in the West Indies by the Spaniards, under pretence of their right to guard against Clandestine Trade- those Violences, by which the whole Commerce of Jamaica has been well nigh destroyed and the trade of that Island reduced to a miserable Condition'.

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** USA Customers Please Note: We ship via Canada Post & USPS. We process and pay all customs fees before shipping; there will be no Import Charges, Brokerage Fees or Tariffs on any Items purchased from us. ** (illustrator). Second Edition. Two volumes. Octavo, original publisher's brown cloth decorated in blind on front & rear panels, spine panel lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Pp (i-half-title), (ii-blank), (iii-title), (iv-blank) (v), vi, (vii-contents), viii, (1), 2-277, (278-blank); (i-half-title), (ii-blank), (iii-title), (iv-blank) (v-contents), vi; (1), 2-289, (290-printer's imprint). Contemporary early signatures on endpapers of each volume, Hairline crack to inner front hinge of Vol. 1 and inner rear hinge with an old repair, glue stains in spots to endpapers (possibly from an old cloth book wrapper, long removed); cloth worn lightly at the edges; a very good, sound set. Uncommon. Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796 - 1865) was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author who was the first international best-selling fiction author from what is now Canada, and who served as a Conservative Member of Parliament in England. With his wry wit and Yankee voice, "Sam Slick of Slicksville" put forward his views on "human nature" , and were originally published in a regular column in 'The Novascotian'. The first Sam Slick book, entitled 'The Clockmaker: the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville" was published in 1836. It was Canada's first international bestseller and was hugely popular not only in Nova Scotia, but also in Britain and the United States. Slick's wise-cracking commentary on the colonial life of Nova Scotia and relations with the U.S. and Britain struck a note with readers, which led to a second series of stories in 1838 and a third in 1840. The satirical sketches, mocking both Canadians and Americans, made Haliburton one of the most popular writers of comic fiction in English of that era. THE ATTACHÉ is the first Sam Slick novel. Sam Slick's sayings are likely familiar, even if you have never read Haliburton's work. The stories popularized many phrases which are still in use today, such as: Quick as a wink Facts are stranger than fiction A place for everything, and everything in its place It's raining cats and dogs. Six of one, half a dozen of the other Bark up the wrong tree Won't take no for an answer An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure You can't get blood from a stone This country is going to the dogs The early bird gets the worm Never look a gift horse in the mouth A miss is as good as a mile Mad as a hatter.

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