James Weeks, First Edition (37 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Trade Edition. Sound, tight binding, some foxing on top and fore edges., otherwise very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, mild shelfwear. 16 page, color illustrated, oversize exhibition catalogue. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. as new unused.

First Edition. Fine colour-printed boards copy. Well-preserved overall. Series; Big ideas simply explained. Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Literature History and criticism. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 195 p. illus.; 26 cm. Subjects; Mummies Radiography Egypt. Egypt Antiquities. Ancient Egypt; history. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat sun-toned and edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 274 pages; 1st Trade Edition. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good+ dust jacket has a small illustration of couple dancing, black and blue lettering, very slight edge rub wear, price clipped, a mylar dust jacket has been added. Very Good+ binding is tan paper over boards, blue cloth-backed. Illustration of boys face in silver, silver lettering on spine. Gift inscription on front free end paper dated 12/25/81. Small sticker on inside rear cover. Line illustrations throughout. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.5" tall x 6.6" wide. About the book (from the dust jacket) The creator of Walter Mitty and the Thurber Dog, of the Seal in the Bedroom and the Unicorn in the Garden, James Thurber counted among his friends many of the most distinguished literary and theatrical figures of his time. He wrote hugely entertaining letters to and about them, the best of which are gathered here. Thurber's letters were sent from London, Paris, Bermuda, New York, and Connecticut; they went to Harold Ross, E. B. White, and John O'Hara, to friends from his Columbus, Ohio, boyhood, to magazine editors, to his eye surgeon. They include anecdotes about Thurber's friends and acquaintances among New Yorker writers (Wolcott Gibbs, Joe! Sayre, Frank Sullivan) and about the legendary Algonquin group (Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Alexander Wbollcott). There are announcements of Thurber`s "discovery" of Peter De Vries and Kenneth Tynan, notes on encounters with F Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot (who smoked Kools, Thurber observed), Noel Coward, Robert Sherwood, Fred Allen, and the Marx others. There are gripes, reminiscences, many stories, literary feuds, and progress Ports that contain the beginnings of what were to become some of Thurber's best-known irks. The section "Mr. Thurber Regrets" is a sampling of Thurber's responses to the words of letters from "publishers, agents, 90 professors, sick people, crazy people, children, and old ladies," against whose petitions Thurber stoutly defended his privacy, always gracefully, often hilariously. From a mass of correspondence, Helen Thurber, the author's widow, and Edward Weeks, Thurber's editor at The Atlantic and friend, have selected over a hundred letters, generously illustrating them with Thurber men, women, and dogs. They cover the period of 1935 to 1961, from Thurber's confident prime as a writer and artist, to his last days, when blindness and infirmity failed to quench the exuberance of his spirit or of his prose. Happily, Thurber did not reserve his best writing for publication; this collection is by turns cantankerous, revealing, and compassionate, as good as the best of vintage Thurber.

1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 195 pages: illus. (some col.), geneal. tables. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Mummies Radiography Egypt. Mummies. Radiography in archaeology. Egypt Antiquities. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine colour-printed boards copy. Well-preserved overall. Series; Big ideas simply explained. Physical description; 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Literature History and criticism. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 195 p. illus.; 26 cm. Subjects; Mummies Radiography Egypt. Egypt Antiquities. Ancient Egypt; history. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat sun-toned and edge-nicked dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 274 pages; 1st Trade Edition. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth-backed, paper-covered boards copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 274 p, ill, 24 cm. Notes; Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 1981. Includes index. Originally published, Boston, Mass. , Little, Brown, 1981. Subjects; Thurber, James 1894-1961 Biography. Thurber, James 1894-1961. Thurber, James 1894-1961 Correspondence. Humorists, American Biography. American wit and humor. Humorists, American ; Biography. Humorists, American 20th century ; Correspondence. Humour in English American writers Thurber, James Correspondence, diaries. American Letters (1900-). 3 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Exhibition catalog. Excellent condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First edition. 9 x 11 in. Paper wraps. Catalogue with color plates. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; like near new on all points. Art. Stax.

1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 195 pages: illus. (some col.), geneal. tables. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Mummies Radiography Egypt. Mummies. Radiography in archaeology. Egypt Antiquities. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Near fine cloth-backed, paper-covered boards copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 274 p, ill, 24 cm. Notes; Originally published: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 1981. Includes index. Originally published, Boston, Mass. , Little, Brown, 1981. Subjects; Thurber, James 1894-1961 Biography. Thurber, James 1894-1961. Thurber, James 1894-1961 Correspondence. Humorists, American Biography. American wit and humor. Humorists, American ; Biography. Humorists, American 20th century ; Correspondence. Humour in English American writers Thurber, James Correspondence, diaries. American Letters (1900-). 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First trade. Very good in very good dust jacket; Book and dust jacket show slight rubbing/bumping, slight tearing of top dust jacket panel edges.

remainder line, else fine in fine dust jacket. 1st edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. Oblong 4to, 36pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon color exhibition catalogue. Unmarked copy, not a remainder, clean with minor wear. Not Signed.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean.Provenance; Derek Keene. Series; Southampton records series; vol. 32. Physical description; xxxvii, 139 p.; 25 cm. Subjects; Harbors England. Shipping history. Records. Post-medieval. Maritime history. British ports. Historical documents. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Provenance; Derek Keene. Series; Southampton records series; 33. Physical description; 140310 p.; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 283284) and indexes. Subjects; History sources. Commerce. Harbors. Shipping. Industries. Economic history. Maritime trade. Industrial history. 3 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Illustrated in black and white, 269 pages., 8vo, blue cloth-backed boards. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1981, first edition. A fine copy with very slight sunning at the head and foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. ix, [3], 239, [5] pages. Illustration. Notes. Bookplate signed by the author on fep. Earl Swift has written for a living since his teens. The Virginia-based journalist has been a Fulbright fellow, PEN finalist and six-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, and has earned a reputation for powerful narrative and scrupulous reporting. Swift wrote for newspapers in St. Louis, Anchorage and, for twenty-two years, in Norfolk, where his long-form features won numerous state and national awards. His stories have also appeared in Outside, PARADE, Popular Mechanics, The Atlantic Cities, America's Best Newspaper Writing, Our State, and River Teeth. He is the author of JOURNEY ON THE JAMES (University of Virginia Press, 2001), the story of a great American river and the largely untold history that has unfolded in and around it; AUTO BIOGRAPHY: A Classic Car, An Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream (HarperCollins, 2014), a narrative journey through postwar America told through a single old car and the fourteen people who've owned it; THE BIG ROADS (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), an armchair history of the interstate highway system and its effects, physical and cultural, on the nation it binds; WHERE THEY LAY: Searching for America's Lost Soldiers (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), for which he accompanied an Army archaeological team into the jungles of Laos in search of a helicopter crew shot down thirty years before; and a 2007 collection of his stories, THE TANGIERMAN'S LAMENT (UVa Press).An avid outdoorsman, Swift has through-hiked the Appalachian Trail, circumnavigated the Chesapeake Bay by sea kayak, and canoed the 435-mile James River from source to sea.Since 2012 he's been a residential fellow of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia. He lives with his 22-year-old daughter, Saylor, in Crozet, Virginia, and is engaged to the fetching Amy Walton of Virginia Beach From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Provenance; Derek Keene. Series; Southampton records series; 33. Physical description; 140310 p.; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 283284) and indexes. Subjects; History sources. Commerce. Harbors. Shipping. Industries. Economic history. Maritime trade. Industrial history. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean.Provenance; Derek Keene. Series; Southampton records series; vol. 32. Physical description; xxxvii, 139 p.; 25 cm. Subjects; Harbors England. Shipping history. Records. Post-medieval. Maritime history. British ports. Historical documents. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First trade edition, following the limited Franklyn Library issue. 8vo. 274pp. Decorated paper-covered cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With a caricature self-portrait frontispiece and a number of Thurber cartoons in the text. In fine state with dust wrapper, faded at spine panel and lightly rubbed and chafed at top edge. A selection of over 100 of Thurber's letters chosen by his widow and editor at 'The Atlantic' and including correspondence to Harold Ross, John O'Hara, E.B.White, Kenneth Tynan and others.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Small barcode from the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation in the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1947, 1st Edition THUS, VG+/VG + ,Dust Jacket has light edgewear, tanning, several minor TINYstains, and DJ wrapped in mylar Brodart covering, which is removable. Light wear to GREEN ,GREY & YELLOW ILLUSTRATED cover CIRCUS SCENES, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and bright. RED TOPSTAIN, BACVK TOP DJSMALL FOX STAIN LISTS RAINBOW CLASSICS AN OLD FAShIONED GIRL THRU 20,000 LEAGUES, 239 PGS ,(5 3/4" wide by 8 1/2" tall) . Tells the story of a ten-year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the circus from the outside and the reality as seen from the inside is depicted. Toby's friend, Mr. Stubbs the chimpanzee, reinforces the consequences of what happ.