demijohn thom disch thomas (20 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. Book club edition. Ostensibly a light-hearted suspense novel, this story of an 11 year old heiress who is abducted and disguised as a little black girl - white Alice becomes Black Alice - is really a commentary on our racial attitudes and on the invisibility of those in the black community to the white. 224 pp. Great wraparound dust jacket art by Virginia Fritz. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 224pps. This copy with a tight binding and faint edge wear to spine bottom only, mild edge wear to dust jacket. Usual age discoloration, otherwise Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club edition. Bumped at head and heel of spine and front corners. Jacket has edgewear on top edge; missing about top 1/2 inch at head of spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition. A good copy in a poor dust jacket. Internally clean and free of marks or notes. Boards are a bit dulled and worn at the edges and corners. Top edge is foxed and pages are evenly toned. The dust jacket is torn and chipped at the corners and spine ends with a large 1" x 3" loss to the front. Hinges are secure and the original $4.95 jacket price is present. 235p. J36 gutter code.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Novel of a kidnapped blond heiress who is "turned" black to disguise her to hide her. Written by Disch and Sladek. Near fine - scarce in this condition.

Paperback. about good paperback, covers creased, spine crease 1st printing. In the 1960s, while in Virginia blacks fighting for their civil rights face the Ku Klux Klan, a white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. The Dust Jacket Is Lightly Creased At The Outer Edges. There Is A Small Gift Inscription At The First End Paper. The Text Is Clean With No Remarks Or Highlights. Price Clipped Dust Jacket. First Edition Stated. The Front Gutter Is Damaged. 1St Us Edition American Edition.books are NOT signed. We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 1st printing, 1968. Book is tight and unread with only minor hints of wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Satirical thriller of race relations in the 60s in which a black girl kidnaps a white girl. Book and jacket are clean, whole and unmarked, with very tiny chips at jacket spine corners. Protected in a Brodart jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Inked over name to front free endpaper, VG in dj with minor darkening to inner flap edges.

First edition. Very small, almost imperceptible stain to top edge, else near fine with pages very slightly age-toned; in very very slightly edgeworn and age-toned dust jacket with provocative wraparound art work by Virginia Fritz. Pseudononymous collaboration between Disch and Sladek is a social satire cloaked in the trappings of a suspense novel. A nice copy. Fritz's cover painting features Tenniel's Alice recoiling from Topsy ("Ah jes' growed, honey!").

First edition. Hardcover. Advance copy with complimentary stamp from the publisher on the front pastedown. Pseudononymously written collaboration between Thomas K. Disch and John T. Sladek. An about very good copy with a small stain to the rear panel in an about good dust jacket with some edge chips, tears and some small stains as well. Still, a presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. Tan hardcover with titles on spine in black. Scuffing to bottom of spine. "Doubleday-nine 10/06/76" on ffep in ink, otherwise clean throughout. Pictorial dust jacket by Virginia Fritz has small tears top and bottom, now in brodart archival sleeve.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A thoroughly adult mixture of sheer horror, appalling villainy, and macabre humor -- a diabolical journey into terror." - Mystery Guild. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with publication date in light blue crayon on front panel and front flap. (#128596).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unusual thriller about a white girl who is kidnapped and raised as a black child. Compelling. VG; slight wear at heel; in jacket (small closed tears).

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. None (illustratore). First edition. The first edition of this curious fantasy novel by Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek, signed by Disch. The first edition, first impression.Signed by one of the authors, Thomas M. Disch, to the title page.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.'Black Alice' is a fantasy novel in which a schizophrenic 11 year old heiress is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her kidnappers give her a pill which darkens her skin, and thus she is hiding in plain sight, leading to her experiencing racial injustice.By Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, heavier to the head and tail of the spine. Light handling marks to the wraps, and a few spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. signed by author. book.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Disch on the front free endpaper. "A thoroughly adult mixture of sheer horror, appalling villainy, and macabre humor -- a diabolical journey into terror." - Mystery Guild. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $4.95 on the front flap. (#172548).