True Rest, First Edition (12 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book pages have lightly toned. Pages are clean with no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Viking Press [2005]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice clean copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. 0REVIEW COPY, with publicity letter laid in. 4400.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Full number line. ; 320 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is signed by the author on the half title page with a letter from him is also laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.25 inches. [10], 162, [4] pages. Frontispiece. Map. Sources. The dust jacket has a decorative front cover and has some wear and soiling. Documents an inspiring event just after Christmas in 1862 when closely camped Union and Confederate armies, having endeavored to out-sing one another with contrasting patriotic songs, joined together in a shared round of "Home Sweet Home," in an account complemented by soldier letters, period poetry, and historical song lyrics. James Mclvor's God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story discusses how Union and Confederate soldiers celebrated Christmas in the days before Congress officially declared it a national holiday. The focus of the book is on a Union and a Confederate camp that were within shouting distance from each other in Murfeesboro, Tennessee, in 1862. On Christmas day the two separate camps, while staying in their respective sites, joined together to sing "Home! Sweet Home!" A Publishers Weekly reviewer commented that even though this "charming" book "skips lightly over dense history it's distinctly readable and moving throughout." John David Smith reviewed this "splendidly concise and deceptively powerful book" on the BookPage Web site. He concluded that Mclvor's book "underscores the meaning of Christmas for nations at war, when memories of home and longings for the safe return of loved ones preoccupy families rich and poor." James McIvor is a freelance writer living in Virginia. In the waning days of 1862, Union and Confederate troops set up camp within earshot of one another in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Christmas had just passed, and for many of these battle-wearied young soldiers the holiday season was a melancholy reminder of the families and loved ones they'd left behind. Bands from both camps played patriotic songs in an attempt to raise spirits, a musical duel that presaged the bloody battle to come. Then, something extraordinary occurred. One of the bands began playing a popular sentimental tune called "Home Sweet Home." Soon, bands from both sides picked up the tune, and before long thousands of Northern and Southern soldiers had joined together in song. God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers: A True Civil War Christmas Story tells the tale of this yuletide interlude, which came at a time when the early optimism of the Civil War had given way to the bitter realities of seemingly endless bloodshed. Told through soldiers' letters and period songs, God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers is the hopeful and touching story of human compassion in the midst of unspeakable violence. McIvor notes that sometimes the Christmas season and holiday coincided with battles, and soldiers found themselves marching to battle when they would have preferred to be at home, or at worst sitting around a campfire and enjoying a good meal. More often, Christmas was quiet, leaving too much time to think and reflect, and miss fallen colleagues and the family at home. He points out that the Civil War changed perceptions of the holiday. The suffering on both sides had been great, and the feelings about Christmas that had been growing for decades before the war became something much stronger with the end of the way. "The Civil War, in fact," McIvor writes, "made Christmas a truly American holiday in a way it had never entirely been before.".

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardccover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fiine. First American Edition. Very nice copy in its first printing. Crisp, unread text. Inscribed briefly by author on front endpaper. Price intact jacket is a nice one. No flaws. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black boards with titles in gilt to spine, illustrated dust jacket unclipped, vol1- 589pp 16pp colour plates to centre, Vol II 370pp 8pp of colour plates to centre, corners slightly bumped, dust jacket creased at edges, Vol 1 has occasional marginalia and underlinings in pencil, and a dedication in black ink to half title page. Overall, a very good set of books. A heavy set of books that may require extra postage.

(No place: No publisher, no date). First edition. Broadside poem, 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Anonymous, but signed in ink "J.S. Dwight" at the bottom. The poem suggests that rest isn't truly possible without hard, meaningful work. From E.P. Gould in The Musical Record of Boston, June 17, 1882: True Rest as published in the Musical Record of April 29, was composed by John Sullivan Dwight, and first appeared in the Christian Register in 1837, then in the first number of The Dial in 1840. The fact of Mr. Dwight s having been a translator of some of Goethe s poems has perhaps led to the ascription in public print, of this, his original poem, to Goethe. I am glad to give facts as authentic, having them in my possession from Mr. Dwight himself. Very scarce, just one copy in OCLC, at Brown University. In Fine condition.

First and only edition and printing of the official commemorative publication for Sun Yat-Sen's state burial, distributed as a gift by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over one hundred photographic illustrations record the elaborate multi-day ceremony and the appearance of Sun's mausoleum; these are accompanied by several folding architectural plans. Loosely inserted is the ministry's printed presentation card. Following Sun's death on 12 March 1925, the Kuomintang formed a 12-man committee tasked with overseeing the construction of a massive mausoleum on Mount Zijin in Nanjing. The stakes were high: amidst the breakdown of the Kuomintang's relations with the Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kai-Shek's tightening grip on the party-state, exerting control over Sun's legacy and image was paramount. The design of the site was opened to public tender, the committee requiring the winning design to combine traditional Chinese styles with modern concepts of adaptive architecture. The winning architect, Lu Yanzhi (1894-1929), died before construction finished, and his vision was seen through to completion by his colleague Poy Gum Lee (1900-1968). Lu and Poy's American training is reflected in such design elements as the layout of the site (which draws on the Mall in Washington and the Liberty Bell) and the design of a statue of Sun seated in Lincoln-esque fashion. In spring 1929, the internment ceremony began with the transfer of Sun's body from Beiping to Nanjing on a special train (named the "Soul Train" in Chinese). "The transfer was designed as a long, drawn-out, mobile media event that was to spiritually mobilize, modernize, and unify the population around the spirit and body of Sun Yat-sen". The internment ceremony, held on 1 June 1929 after the body had lain in state for three days, was a lavish and highly regulated spectacle. The body was escorted by a 3-mile-long procession to the echoes of a 101-gun salute from a gunboat moored on the Yangtze River. At midday, as Song Qingling and Sun Ke (Sun's wife and son) closed the metal door on the tomb, the ceremony closed with a national three-minutes silence. This is the most important printed record of one of 20th-century China's defining political events. The majority of copies are now housed in institutional collections, and we have traced no others in commerce. Accompanying this copy are two contemporary typescript translations into English of the book's captions. Rudolph G. Wagner, "1925-1928: Enshrining the Father of the Republic", China Heritage Annual, available online. Large octavo. With 73 plates, 4 collotype and 35 half-tone plates, 7 maps and plans (6 folding), ornate title page after calligraphy by Han Minjing. Original lavish silk brocade lettered in gold, orange thread xianzhuang stitching, spine and covers lined with tan silk. With original blue cloth folding case, xylographic label on front panel reproducing calligraphy by Chiang Kai-Shek, lined with decorative blue paper, bone toggles. Brocade bright, some losses to silk on spine, rear cover silk lining worn and feathering where sometime damp, text and illustrations very well preserved, one folding plan with small hole not affecting printed area: a very good copy, the binding having lost none of its lustre, in very good case with rubbing, a little soiling, and cockling to lining.