Search Results: Essays/Prose Narratives from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Pocket-size anthology of 36 true stories of the essence of motherhood. Exploring that universe where unconditional love resides, including parenting by surrogate & stand-in moms. 127 pgs arranged in 5 groups: I, Milk & Cookies; II, Moms Know Best; III, The Intuitive Edge; IV, Divinely Sent; and, V, Between Us Girls. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Robert Borja (Woodcuts). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright; previously under paper cover (included; tidy & still servicable) which left discoloration to front/rear covers verso & tape residue to first title page. First Edition, First Thus. An erudite & highly entertaining gardening book. A most satisfying volume w/invaluable tips for both new & seasoned gardeners. Compilation of essays first published in the Washington Post are at heart an excursion into the universe of gardening, and being a gardener able to balance the sheer joy of leisure, slowness and contemplation.

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1930. 9e édition 19 Juin 1930 . Printed Cardstock. Good/No Jacket. 7 3/8"; 18.73cm. 230 (+ XX) pages. Covers have colored, are brittle, and show losses; text is strong and unmarked, but browning to margins and coloring throughout.

London, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New w/soil spot to pgs 51/52. Decorated linen boards/NF w/light surface wear. DJ/None. Trace soiling to upper text blockEnglish epic poem by Edmund Spenser (1552? - 1599). An allegorical work, in praise of Queen Elizabeth I, examining virtuous and noble discipline exemplified by several knights. Edited by P.C. Bayley. 6 sectors precede text proper: 1, Introduction; 2, The Language of The Faerie Queene (Alan Ward); 3, Table of Dates; 4, A Note on the Text; 5, Dedication to Queen Elizabeth; and 6, Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh (Edmund Spenser). Following The Faerie Queene, Book I with 12 cantos are Notes and a Glossary by Alan Ward.

New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1982. Eighth Printing, 1988 . Illustrated Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/4" Tall. The selections here are drawn from the Essayes (1597, 1612); The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625); The Proficience and Advancement of Learning; The Wisdom of the Ancients; The Great Instauration; The New Organon; Of the Dignity and Advancement of Learning; and New Atlantis. Additionally there are 22 letters written between 1592 and 1624. Altogether, a feast. 497 pages, with Contents and other prefatory matter, Glossary, and Selected Bibliography. Covers are bumped at front lower lagging corner, minorly creased at upper leading corner, and creased at backstrap; text is clean and strong.

Ebenhausen [b. Munchen]: Wilhelm Langewiesche-Brandt, 1937. 10., Textlich Erweiterte Auflage, 1944 . Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/16" Tall. Comparing the page count this edition with previous printings, it is not "erweiterte." What makes the selections noteworthy is the editor's Nachwort - he was later editor of the respected Spektrum des Geistes - which concludes with the dating "Im Jahr des 100. Todestages (1943)". 164 pages with Inhalt; plus 2 unnumbered pages Nachwort. Covers have one chip, are frayed at backstrap, are browning throughout, and show incipient foxing; text is clean and strong but browning throughout.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Todd Webb (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge and surface rubs. DJ/Poor; intact w/nips, chips, rubs. closed tears & small losses to all leading edges. Maps to endpapers; tape residue to fEP. A photographic documentary of mining camps and ghost towns of California, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana by award winning photographer Todd Webb (1905 - 2000) whose keen eye for everyday life and architecture is not often rivaled. This study of famous old diggings is presented in 4 sections: I, The Mother Lode - California; 2, The Comstock Lode; 3, Colorado - Pikes Peak or Bust; and, 4, Gold- and Silver-Mining Camps - Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Webb tells us sites were dictated often by "whimsy of time, luck (both good and bad), available money, weather, ... flatires, a cracked radiator, and other trivia." Strong copy in a… Read More

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1894. First Edition, 7th Impression . Hard Cover/Stitched. Very Good/No Jacket. COLLECTIBLE. LAID-IN: Handwritten letter from Anges Repplier (1858-1950) on personal stationary dated June 21st, 1938 attached to rear. First Edition, 7th Impression of 1899. Text/Near New, showing faint margin discoloration. Red linen boards/VG w/trace soiling and discolored backstrap. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verso. Anthology of 20 essays, gracefully witty and scholarly. The title is taken from the first essay in which Repplier speaks of those "dozy hours" when one wakes at night begin a perfect time to revisit and "only half remember" favorite books, a pleasure she notes was shared by Thackeray and Charles Lamb. The 2nd essay is titled "A Kitten", relevant to the laid-in note: "I care nothing for book plates, but a great deal for cats, and a very great deal for words. They (the words, not the cats) are the inheritors of ancient loyalties and… Read More

Oslo: Spillerom: HUN, Spillerom for Kvinner, 1998. Illustrated Coated Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 11 1/4 x 8 11/16. This is a collection of contemporary and historical photos, poetry, and prose about working Norwegian women, and women at work in Norway. 161 pages, with Frontispiece, prefatory matter and many illustrations; illustrated EPs. Boards are nipped at leading corners, and rough at front and rear; author's inscription on second title page; text is clean and strong.

Paris, France: Editions Mereal, 1996. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/with Dust Jacket. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. Louis Monier (Photographer). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Thus. A perpetual calendar and photographic (Louise Monier) tribute to cats, and, a literary anthology of prose, verse, and quotations celebrating that enigmatic creature that has lodged itself in our hearts.

New York, NY: Augustus M. Kelley/Reprints of Economics Classics, 1967. Reprint of 1967 . Hardcover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. British colonia governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, Thomas Pownall (1722 - 1805) was a British colonial official and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, was a strong advocate against British Parliamentary attempts to tax the colonies. Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith,(1723 - 1790), best known for "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). This is the 1967 faithful reprint of Pownall's immediate, 1776, open response to Smith's ideas. 48 pgs.

Bologna, Italy: Zanichelli, 1974. First Edition, Printing of 1978 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Text in Italian. Essays on literature and structualism. 1974 major works of Italian linguist Luigi Rosiello (1930 - 1993 ). 155 pgs.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1897. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/Near New, and showing trace margin discoloration. Gilt embossed, illustrated blue linen boards/NF w/nips & rubs to edges. DJ/None. Upper text edge in gilt. PO name to fEP. From his Roycroft Press in East Aurora, NY, Illinois-born Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) edited The Philistine magazine and published numerous writings including the series of 170 Little Journeys to homes of great/famous personages, which were first issued in single copies. This volume is the composite collection of those written about of famous women. 12 essays with portraits: 1, Elizabeth Barrett Browing; 2, Madame Guyon; 3, Harriet Martineau; 4, Charlotte Bronte; 5, Christina Rossetti; 6, Rosa Bonheur; 7, Madame de Stael; 8, Elizabeth Fry; 9, Mary Lamb; 10, Jane Austen; 11, Empress Josephine; and, 12, Mary W. Shelley.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Fõrlag, 1946. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7"; 19cm. 188 pages, plus one unnumbered page, Innehalle. Author's dedication inked on front endpaper. Covers show slight shelf use, and have a mended tear at left lower corner; otherwise covers and text are strong and unmarked.

New York, NY: Books, Inc/E.P. Dutton, 1943. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New; Bright & Clean. First Edition. Beige boards/VG; strong w/edge & surface rubs. DJ/None. Chicago Times correspondent Keith Wheeler (1911 - 1994) was dispatched with hours of notice to the Southwest Pacific after Pearl Harbor (Dec 7th, 1941). He spent December through May aboard cruiser, carrier, destroyer, in and out of engagements. Volume records those days of life among fighting men. Wheeler reports of the Far East through the occupation of Japan. He considered this account as "an amateur's report of an amateurs' War"; a documentation of a war correspondent's experiences In the Pacific of the first 14 months following Pearl Harbor. 383 pgs in 31 chapters, with a list of accompanied b/w archival photos.

Paris: Nouvelle Société des Éditions Encre, 1984. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 7/16"; 21.7cm. A volume in the publisher's series Itineraires, it is an original collection of travel essays and sketches about mid-19th Century Paris, and about points north to Crépy-en-Valois, and west to Pontoise and St-Germain-en-Laye. 183 pages, with (non-contemporary) illustrations, and map. Covers show insignificant shelf-use; text is strong and unmarked.