William Mccain (81 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have condition issues including wear and notes/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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First edition (not stated). xii, 187 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 21.75cm. Reddish-brown dust jacket rubbed; nicks, short tears, and some scuffs at edges; foxing to dj's verso; front flap is not price-clipped. Reddish brown cloth boards; past owner's name boldly written in ink at top of front board and again on front pastedown. Foxing to text block edges with leaves lightly affected at margins. Binding is firm. With Foreword by Dr. William D. McCain, Acknowledgements, Introduction, color and b/w illustrations throughout, and Index. Sections titled: "Physical Features," "History," "Population and Social Institutions," "Natural Resources and Resource Utilization," "Transportation and Communication," "Manufacturing," "Services," and "Mississippi: Future Perspective." ISBN 0878050612.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Single issue. Paged as [2], 87-152 plus covers (pagination in succession to preceding issue). Paperback: H 25.25cm x L 17cm. Tan paper covers toned/foxed with some soiling and light staining; tearing and chipping to surface paper at spine heel; some edge-wear to covers with creasing/curling at corners with a few leaves affected likewise. Toning to text block edges. Past owner's personal blind-stamp to unpaged initial title leaf; some minor soiling but overall interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: "Repair of and Changes in the Old Capitol" by A.S. Cody; "Census of Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory, 1805" edited by Madel Jacobs Morgan; "The Joseph Dunbar Shields Letters" edited by Charles L. Salley; "Claudius Wistar Sears, Soldier and Educator" by Karlem Riess; "Alfred W. Garner: An Autobiographical Sketch; Introduction by Glover Moore.".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+ the front cover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Previous owner's name and address label to; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 264 pages.

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.

Ex-private school library copy. University and College Press of Mississippi first edition (not stated but with matching dates upon title and copyright pages) - a revised reprint of the 1889 first with a new Introduction by William D. McCain plus a Preface and an expanded Index by Laura D.S. Harrell. xiv, 456 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 13.75cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Gray cloth; light soiling to boards with slender wear at bumped corners; staining at upper spine with white ink library shelf code near heel. Text block edges foxed with soiling to lower fore-edge. School library markings on page v, 19, and rear endpapers; foxing and some scattered light soiling to interior leaves. Binding is firm. Attorney, judge, state congressman, U.S. Representative, and Confederate Army brigadier general, Reuben Davis was among Mississippi's most prominent citizens from antebellum days through the Reconstruction era. His autobiographical RECOLLECTIONS OF MISSISSIPPI AND MISSISSIPPIANS is a grand account of nineteenth century life in Mississippi and was first published in 1889 with reprintings quickly following in 1890 and 1891. {Bibliographical reference: Wright Howes US IANA D-132.} {MS Shelf #7} ISBN 0878050116.

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (natural gas, oil reservoir engineering, chemistry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 275 pages, sepia illustrations, index of authors; 4to, white buckram. Fine, No dust jacket.

Presumed first edition (single date upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [12], 268 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Lacks dust jacket. Green cloth rubbed; spine and front board minimally decorated with gilt stamped lettering. Light toning to top edge and fore-edge; faint toning to endpapers. Three-line ink ownership inscription at top of front free endpaper with author's three-line ink inscription "Best wishes to my friend, | Dr. W.F. Sistrunk | 5/22/58 Willard F. Bond." at center of page. Occasional ink underlining and a few margin marks amongst text. Binding is firm. A good+ copy. With Foreword by William D. McCain (President of Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi), Preface, Prologue, Epilogue, and Appendix. Uncommon Mississippi history title with eight chapters titled as: "Boyhood in Longleaf Yellow Pine Country of South Mississippi;" "Student and Teacher;" "State Superintendent of Education; Appointment by Governor Bilbo; Building a Public School System for All the Children;" "Politics and Public Speaking;" "Commissioner of Public Welfare;" "Travel;" "Hunting and Fishing;" and "The Business of Retirement." Willard Bond served as Mississippi State Superintendent of Education from 1916 to 1936 and Commissioner of Public Welfare from 1936 to 1955. {MS_Shelf#4}.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. CLXXIII, No. 4. [Edited by Matthew White Jr.] Cover by Modest Stein for "Her Hour of Reckoning" (pt 1 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller. Includes "The Sun-Makers" (pt. 2 of 3) by William F. McMorrow; "The Starlit Trail" (pt. 4 of 6) by Kenneth Perkins; "A Blaze of Glory" (pt. 3 of 3) by Fred MacIsaac; "The Infallible Eye" by Arthur Preston Hankins; "Verdict: 'Suicide'" by George Allan England; "The Pony Express Rider" by Earl C. McCain; "Came Dawn" by Charlton Andrews; "Charle Chong and Beauty's Queen" by James Perley Hughes; "Love in an Attic" by Charles Divine. Poetry: "A Radio Tragedy" by John McColl; "The Disciplined Youngsters" by Strickland Gillilan; "A Seaside Tragedy" by Ella Bentkey Arthur; "If I Were a Painter" by Jane Burr; "Skin Deep" by Mazie V. Caruthers; "My Guest" by Edward W. Barnard. Mild dampstain at upper rear spine corner and spine head - head has lost a little over 1"; rear cover hinge glue-repaired; name on cover in pencil. Book.

Hardcover. 262pp. As new, clean, tight & bright condition without dust jacket as published.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Zach McCain (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Pocket size hardcover. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. 12.00x9.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: new.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Oatmeal cloth, 8 X 10 1/4 inches, 275 pages. Illustrated with examples from the rare book collection. Fine in near fine jacket.

Magazine. The December 22, 2002, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine with: The Party, a 6-page Christmas tale/fashion fantasy by Maira Kalman; Lawrence Weschler on Decasia by Bill Morrison, a film fashioned entirely out of snippets of severely distressed and decomposed nitrate film stock; the style of Richard Gere by William Norwich with a portrait by Brigitte Lacombe; College Football Is A Sucker's Game by Michael Sokolove with photographs by Brian Finke; interview with John McCain; a primer on who's who in the House of Saud by Aram Roston; an essay by Margaret Talbot on the "home front" as America prepares for war with Iraq; What Will Become of Africa's AIDS Orphans? by Melissa Fay Greene; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 74 pages; color and b&w reproductions throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Condition: Fine magazine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition.Crisp pages. Clean cover and pages. Book shows minimal shelf wear. No highlighting/marking. Not Satisfied? Contact us to get a refund.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a detailed account of the author's extensive research into the history and evolution of a meticulously structured freight rate system in the United States. The system's origins, development, and implementation are intricately detailed within the volume. An in-depth analysis of the rate structure and its influence on the nation's economic landscape provides readers with an unprecedented examination of this complex system. Through the author's exhaustive examination, readers gain invaluable insights into the complexities of the freight rate system and its profound impact on the development of the nation's economy and infrastructure. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book delves into the history and evolution of New York-Chicago rate-making system for railroads in the United States. The author traces the genesis of the percentage system back to its introduction in 1876. The book traverses external pressures and carrier responses that shaped the system over time leading to its current form and its significance in the broader context of railroad freight rates. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book provides a meticulous examination of the complex dynamics of port differentials in the Atlantic ports of the United States from 1878 to 1898. The author delves into the historical evolution of these differentials, tracing their origins and the various factors that influenced their development. By studying the interplay between competing railway lines, changing ocean freight rates, and the ever-shifting tides of international trade, the book uncovers the intricate forces that shaped the movement of grain and other commodities through these vital ports. The author meticulously analyzes the impact of these differentials on the relative prosperity of cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston, offering a nuanced perspective on the economic and commercial landscape of the period. By shedding light on the historical underpinnings of port differentials, this book contributes to our understanding of the intricate factors that have shaped the global trade landscape, making it a valuable resource for scholars, policymakers, and anyone interested in the history of transportation and commerce. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 2020 reprint published by descendant William Overholt Kehew in June 2020. "A Family History in Photographs"; this is an oversized hardcover book of photographs of members of the McCain family, all descendants of William McCain, born in Ireland in 1800, died in Freeport, Pennsylvania 1864. In 1931, the original book was compiled by George Nox McCain and five copies were printed for his family members at that time. This is a Reprint of that original book. Landscape orientation, 13" × 11"; 78pp. In absolutely pristine condition. Please see all images.

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

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book thoroughly analyzes freight rates in official classification territory and discusses how these rates impact industries and revenue. The author explores several complex rate structures that govern the transportation of goods, providing illustrative examples to explain how these structures are applied in various scenarios. Additionally, the book delves into the historical development of rate systems and their influence on the economic landscape. The author's insights offer valuable context for understanding the intricacies of freight rate structures and their broader implications for businesses and consumers alike. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.