Books by john d humphries (8 items)

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1982. Softcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Publication contains some articles in French, others in English. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have general shelf wear and light handling wear. Contents: Avant-propos - Richard L. Barnett. Rigolot, Montaigne's maxims: from the discourse of other to the expression of self. Muratore, Aphorism as discursive weaponry: Corneille's language of ammunition. Barnett, Maxim-al codes of minimal closure: Pascal's sequestered schema. van Delft, Sur le statut de la maxime au XVIIe siècle: esthétique et éthique dans L'Art poétique. Humphries, The mad judge, or manners without morals: from La Rochfoucauld's mot juste to Chamfort's mot fou. Undank, Contagions of truth: language and history in Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit. Pasco, Balzac and the art of the macro-emblem in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. Caws, Maximization with no margins: reading the commonplace. Reviews. 9.0"… Read more

Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott, 1908., 1908. Hardcover. Poor. A New Edition, Revised" ; 1243 pp. ; 21 cm. ; green cloth, 1/4 leather ; 20%of leather spine and hinges present ; foxing ; "The object of this handbook is to supply readers with a lucid, but very brief account of such names as are used in allusions a nd references, whether by poets or prose writers,--to furnish those who consult it with the plot of popular dramas, the story of epic poems, and the outline of well-known tales." ; large, thick volume ; badly shaken ; READING COPY ; signature of Atlanta judge John D Humphries on front ep ; POOR

Philadelphia; London, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1930., 1930. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 3rd printing ; viii, 336 pp. ; frontispiece, plates, portraits, map ; 25 cm. ; LCCN: 30-31156 ; OCLC: 399402 ; LC: DA334.W8; Dewey: 923.242 ; red and black cloth with gold lettering and designs ; shaken worn ; mottled covers ; signature of Atlanta judge John D. Humphries on front ep ; 12 illustrations ; foxing ; with a bound-in prospectus for the author's life of Richelieu, consisting of an excerpt, pages 17-20 ; FAIR

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[Savannah, GA : The Morning News, Printers and Binders, 1913], 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. 259 pp. ; frontispiece (portrait) ; 2 foldout plates, 2 foldout maps, 6 foldout tables ; 26 cm. ; "A list of ships & vessels entered inwards at the port of Savannah in Georgia," between the 5th of April and the 5th of July, for the years 1765-67 ; LCCN: 13-12037 ; OCLC: 2778505 ; dark green cloth with gold lettering ; white silk moiré endpapers ; signature of Georgia state court judge, John D. Humphries, on front ep ; foxing ; Old Stratford laid paper ; large fold-out map of the northern front ier of Georgia ; illustrations of Tiby [sic for Tybee] Island Lighthouse, and Fort Cockspur, and a map of the "County" of Savannah ; frontispiece portrait of Joseph Clay ; scarce ; VG

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1920., 1920. Hardcover. Fair. xii, 148 pp. ; 19 cm.; OCLC: 6333389 ; LC: PS3539.E15; Dewey: 811.5 ; grey blue cloth with gold and blue lettering and design ; SIGNED presentation by Sara Teasdale to Georgia state court judge John D. Humphries on front ep, which also contains a quote from a poem by John Masefield ; signature of Annie Jones Humphries below ; foxing ; covers worn and water-splattered ; eps soiled ; "Published October, 1915. Reprinted February, July, 1916. Septemeber, 1917. July, 1918. June 1919. June 1920." ; acquired by Judge Humphries during the visit of Sara Teasdale to Atlanta in July 1921, when she gave a lecture and reading at an event sponsored by the Atlanta Writers' Club ; death notice of the poet laid in from January 30, 1933, along with a transcription of a dedicatory poem to Sara Teasdale by Carrie Fall Benson, possibly in her own hand ; FAIR

Suderburg, Schrader, 1989. 1989. Automobiltechnisches Handbuch für Turbolader und Kompressormotor Geschichte, Technik, Funktionsweise Schrader-Motor-Technik Automobiltechnisches Handbuch für Turbolader und Kompressormotor Geschichte, Technik, Funktionsweise Schrader-Motor-Technik Humphries, John D.