Search Results: american child by engle paul

Random house, 1945. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1945 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Random House, NY, c.1945, 1st., 12mo., boards, 66pp., owner's name, G $

New York: Random, 1945. 3rd ptg . hard. Good. Front endpaper removed. Designed by Stefan Salter. Good reading copy Sepia-toned photo, title pg. good, no dj, black cloth spine w/ patterned bds, worn edges 66 pgs

New York: Random, 1945. stated 1st . Hardcover. Very Good+/Fair. 2800 shelf. Black cloth spine w/ patterned bds. Inked name FEP, clean text. Designed by Stefan Salter. The noted Iowa writer celebrates many phases of childhood. Sepia photo on title page. Chipped worn dj, black cloth w/ patterned bds 66 pgs

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 66 pp. Light rubbing, edgewear on exterior; some yellowing on edges. Pieces of dust jacket pasted onto front and back endpapers. Pages have some yellowing on edges; clean inside. Sound binding. . Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4 in - 7 3/4 in tall. Year: 1945.

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1945. First Printing. 66 pages. Illustrative jacket over blue paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Jacket is in two parts. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Visible tanning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

Dial Press, 1956. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated First Trade Edition. Decorated paper over boards, black cloth-backed. Fine duotone photograph in cameo at title page. 66 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Dial Press, 1956. Cloth. Fine. Smaller book, no dust jacket. Black cloth spine, illustrated boards. Fine.

Hardbound. About fine. Sonnets for My Daughters. With Thirty-Six New Poems. NY (Dial) (1956). Ex-library, but about fine in dust wrapper, with presentation inscription from the author on title.

New York: The Dial Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good +. 102 p. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Black cloth spine binding with grey printed paper boards, gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD+: light wear to covers and spine- printing at edges of covers worn, light soiling to covers and spine, light foxing to edge of text block, pages clean, binding tight, signed by author in blue ink, 1957, on ffep.

Random, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Very good hardcover with DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on included card folder. WITH A SEPARATE PRIVATELY PRINTED PAMPHLET FOR CHRISTMAS 1944. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor edge tan. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Presented with clear mylar ARCHIVAL book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Taipei: Han yi she yan wen hua shi ye you xian gong si, 1990. 211p., wraps, very good. Collection of poems by the Iowan author, with Chinese translation on facing pages by Cangwu Gu (? aka Koo Siu-Sun). Engle was a Rhodes scholar in Oxford, met his wife, became director of the Iowa Writers Workshop when.. slowly, his wife lost her will to live, became catatonic, neglected their daughters. These poems celebrate the children, whom he got to know as full-time parent as well as bread-winner.

this poem by Paul Engle, the creator of the MFA programs in literature has been read many times. the front cover is wrinkled and scuffed top right edge shows wear. rear cover bottom left has something crossed out in black and missing tiny piece of cover. The poem is signed and inscribed. and dated. Text is unmarked. An image of Christmas in Middle America during World War two

New York: Dial Press, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Reprint. Spine ends lightly rubbed with stains on bottom of spine, else near fine in a good faded and stained dustwrapper with some small chips and tears on edges.

New York, The Dial Press, 1956;. Hardback. Very good/ Dust jacket Good+. 102pp. Decorated covers with black spine & gilt title on spine. "100 Sonnets for My Daughters." Protected dust jacket has small closed tears, price intact. .

NY: Dial, (1956).. First edition.. 102 pp. Near fine in boards lacking dust jacket. Dated (1962) and INSCRIBED to a noted scholar.

New York, NY: Dial Press, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Anthology of 100 poems to America's young, particulary to his own daughters, and joy of parenting in a blessed land from poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwrigh Paul Hamilton (1908 - 1991), director of Iowa Writers' Workshop and founder of the Internat'l Writing Program. 102 pgs. Sonnet 1 begins "Lucky the living child born in a land/ Bordered by rivers of enormous flow/ Missouri talking through its throat of sand/ Mississippi with with ice and snow". And, Sonnet 100: "Lucky the living child born in a land/ Whose fault and lack are publicly admitted/ --- Let this, her land, be always such a place/ Where having freedom is like having bread".

New York: Random House, 1945. 3rd printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. SIGNED. 66 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Minor chipping and small closed tears on dust jacket covers. A little spotting on front dust jacket cover. Some tanning along edges of rear dust jacket flap. Dust jacket price clipped. Very light creasing on last few pages. Nice, tight copy. Record # 856303

Random House, 1945. 3d Ptg. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (3d) Smaller thinner, sturdy book, black spine, blue and white flowery pattern on front and back, gilt lettering bright on spine, 66 pages. Ink owner's name neat on first front end paper. DJ heavy paper, light brown background with color-illusration of a child on front in blue and red frame, blue spine with dark red at spine top and bottom, a small photo of Engle at top backDJ has micronick at spine top edge, back somewhat browned. Fine DJ+/Very Fine book.