William R Shields (64 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 35, pp. 991-1001, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 68, No 5, pp. 1373-1386, Illus, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

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

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Condition: New. Hunterman, Charles R (illustrator).

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 56 pages. Leonard Duck "On Choosing a Dictionary of Music" / Maurice J E Brown "Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy" / Frank Dawes "Nicholas Carlton and the Earliest Keyboard Duet" / Frances Collingwood "The Ballad-Monger" / John Lade "A Belgian Enterprise" / Lang-Jordan "Let us drink and be merry (sheet-music)" / W R Anderson "Round about Radio" / Charles Wilson "Shield's 'An Introduction to Harmony" (M13).…

Condition: Gut. 28 Seiten mit zahlr. Ill. Der hier angebotene Sonderdruck ist informativ und kurz gehalten. Er stammt aus der Separaten-Sammlung einer wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt einen den Text nicht verdeckenden Stempel. Insgesamt ordentlicher Erhaltungszustand.ENGLISCH; Aufgrund der Rarität und des geringen Umfangs des Werkes bitten wir um Verständnis, dass dieser Sonderdruck vom Rückgaberecht ausgeschlossen ist. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 60.…

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soft cover. Condition: fine. first edition. In-8° broché, paginé de 149 à 294 - Articles originaux : Canada at War. - Austria-Hungary : Its Peoples and Government. - America to England : 1917. Shakespeare : Heart of the Race. - The Dedication of Hilgard Hall : Agricultural Progress in California. - The Railroad and the Farmer. - Production and Marketing of Farm Products. - Solid Foundations. - Hilgard as I Knew Him. - Carrying Hilgard's Work Forward. - The Universities in War Time. - Carleton H. Parker : Frater, Ave atque Vale. - Ethnology and History. - Two Sonnets. - University Record. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book details the advancements in instrumentation and research activities of scientists in the Analytical Mass Spectrometry Section during the period of July 1968 to June 1969. These experts have been working to establish high accuracy and absolute abundance ratio standards for various elements. The atomic weight associated with absolute abundance ratio standards is the real product if the element shows no variation in nature. To make the abundance ratio standards more useful, the new materials are now supplied in a stoichiometric form. These reference materials are then certified for both isotopic composition and assay. As such, these standards can now be used to calibrate instruments for filament bias and at the same time, calibrate spike solutions used for isotope dilution analysis. Of note, the author has also detailed procedures and equipment changes that have been implemented over the past year, which has included the need to sometimes identify commercial materials and equipment. However, in no case does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Bureau of Standards, nor does it imply that the material or equipment identified is necessarily the best available for the purpose. 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.…