edited wylie (24 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Couple tiny stains to r panel DJ, do not effect boards or text. Binding is tight, text is clean. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The Encore Press , N.H. , 1946 First Edition 127 page Vintage Digest Sized magazine with stories and articles by Philip Wylie , Charles Fort , Sylvia Thompson and others. Contents Page in Photos A very good or better copy with dust soiling and edge wear to the covers as shown. See Photos whb12.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. Very Good condition book, with slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages, minor rubs to cover corners, in a Good to Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, two small closed tears on jacket spine. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Price clipped from inside front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0870219650. Hardback. Fifth edition. Slight wear to corners and edges; black felt marker on top edge (1/2"x 3"); faint blue stain on outer edge (1"); otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good condition. Dustjacket with minor wear to corners and edges; minor rubs to spine edges and back flyleaf fold; overall slight dustsoiling and browning; otherwise in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condizione: Fine. Roberts, Tom (illustratore). First Edition. 1st printing of trade paperback published simultaneously with the hardcover edition. Fine, unread copy still in shrinkwrap. Low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies, divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket, and trade softcover. Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific writer whose stories were, in the words of editor Bill Pronzini, "controversial, provocative, iconoclastic" and unafraid to question cultural sensibilities and critique American mores. As a result, his detective fiction was among the most ingenious and innovative of his generation. Included in this collection are six of his best mysteries where, in order to discover the solution, you will be forced to see through the mayhem of a hurricane in the Florida Keys, find something unnatural in a death by heart attack, join an Olympic swimmer as he matches wits with a ruthless murderer, and find which weapon (out of ten thousand!) was used to bludgeon someone to death in the New York Museum of Natural History. Edited and with an introduction by Bill Pronzini. Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments is the 29th in Crippen & Landru's "Lost Classics" series - new collections by great writers of traditional mysteries. Published: July, 2010. Trade Paperback.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 4th Edition. xiv, 280pp., many plates and illustrations. Small 4to cloth. A little wear to jacket with small repair to top of jacket at spine but not visible externally. Exceptionally clean and fresh boards.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Card wraps. Light soiling on front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 94, [2] pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. British poetry journal: poems, essays, and reviews.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Roberts, Tom (illustratore). First Edition. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies, divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket, and trade softcover. Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific writer whose stories were, in the words of editor Bill Pronzini, "controversial, provocative, iconoclastic" and unafraid to question cultural sensibilities and critique American mores. As a result, his detective fiction was among the most ingenious and innovative of his generation. Included in this collection are six of his best mysteries where, in order to discover the solution, you will be forced to see through the mayhem of a hurricane in the Florida Keys, find something unnatural in a death by heart attack, join an Olympic swimmer as he matches wits with a ruthless murderer, and find which weapon (out of ten thousand!) was used to bludgeon someone to death in the New York Museum of Natural History. Edited and with an introduction by Bill Pronzini. Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments is the 29th in Crippen & Landru's "Lost Classics" series - new collections by great writers of traditional mysteries. Published: July, 2010. Small Press.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. 383pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine, short tears, and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. (1939), First Edition, Very Good/no dj, thick octavo, 576pp., blue & gray cloth hardcover, covers lightly soiled, binding tight, text unmarked, Presentation note Signed on front endpaper: "For John W. Studebaker with best wishes and real respect, Sincerely, Max Wylie, N.Y.C. Jan 16 - 1940.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xiii, 199 pp. Proceedings of the Symposium 'Textiles in Trust" held at Blickling Hall, Norfolk, September 1995.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good/Fair. 1st Edition. Blue cloth hard cover - Good+. In DJ - edges worn/Good-Fair. 279 pages. Preface by Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Foxing to textblock. Content Good+. (964g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage is asked for when more than default price quoted. (WH).

Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 3/6 to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Publisher's original colour illustrated paper card wrap covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Slight tanning to the page margins, only very tiny rubs to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition, spine not faded, priced 3/6 to the spine. We currently hold 83 other Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine titles in stock. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.13x6.06x2.13 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 481 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 214 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. lg8vo illus maroon cloth, gilt illus and titles to cover and spine, gilt severely faded, fntcvr decorated with naval battle scene in pressed gilt ; front cover shaken, Separated at front end paper gutter, but with hinges and pages securely intact; rather worn ;ow VG/ndj: 542pp; color frontis of Jap emperor; a few other color plates (one of which is a painting by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany ilus euro nations at war with China, the original Yellow Peril!); numerous fullpage photographs of Japanese and Russian troops in the field, as well as photos depicting uniforms and equipment of Japanese troops; several maps, and photographs of all of the leaders ; wonderful period journalistic cartoons featuring the work of J. H. Donahey, Rehse, Maybell, and others, along with black and white reproductions of paintings by Wilkinson, Nikko, Charles Delacy, Woodville, and others; "Startling stories of the war as told by the heroes themselves" as written by "The Greatest Descriptive Writer the World has Ever Known." Here is a typical Everett production, in the vein of his books on the San Franciso earthquake and the disaster of the Titanic. This particular title is uncommon.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. lg8vo illus maroon cloth, gilt illus and titles to cover and spine, gilt severely faded, fntcvr decorated with naval battle scene in pressed gilt ; front cover shaken, Separated at front end paper gutter, but with hinges and pages securely intact; rather worn ;ow VG/ndj: 542pp; color frontis of Jap emperor; a few other color plates (one of which is a painting by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany ilus euro nations at war with China, the original Yellow Peril!); numerous fullpage photographs of Japanese and Russian troops in the field, as well as photos depicting uniforms and equipment of Japanese troops; several maps, and photographs of all of the leaders ; wonderful period journalistic cartoons featuring the work of J. H. Donahey, Rehse, Maybell, and others, along with black and white reproductions of paintings by Wilkinson, Nikko, Charles Delacy, Woodville, and others; "Startling stories of the war as told by the heroes themselves" as written by "The Greatest Descriptive Writer the World has Ever Known." Here is a typical Everett production, in the vein of his books on the San Franciso earthquake and the disaster of the Titanic. This particular title is uncommon.

Hardcover. Large type. [3], lxxxxiv, 872 double-column p.: 25 woodcuts in Wylie's introduction, 29 plates; ## cm. Text in great primer type. Woodcuts in Wylie's `An introductory sketch of the history of the period': Covenanters' sacrament, martyrdom of Jerome of Prague, Luther nailing 95 theses, Luther's house at Eisenach, death of Zwingle, Calvin dispensing the sacrament, view in Strasburg, Calvin refusing the sacrament to libertines in St. Peter's, Iona, Dunkeld, execution of Wallace, John Campbell laird of Cessnock before James IV, Prior Campbell and Patrick Hamilton disputing, martyrdom of Patrick Hamilton, Knox before Mary Queen of Scots, signing the Covenant, execution of Argyle, Guthrie addressing the crowd before his execution, rescue of the old man of Dalry, Battle of Rullion Green, Thomas Dalziel of Binns, murder of Abp. Sharp, escape from Drumclog, Greyfriars' Churchyard, William Prince of Orange. -- Full-page steel engravings: John Knox (frontispiece) -- George Wishart -- Cardinal Beaton -- St. Andrews Castle -- Regent Moray -- Assassination of Regent Moray -- Knox's house & Canongate -- George Buchanan -- Alexander Henderson -- Confession of faith, 1638 (folding, lithographed from the manuscript, tear across upper panel) -- Signing the Covenant in Greyfriars Churchyard -- Battle of Preston -- Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll -- Marquis of Montrose -- Battle of Philiphaugh -- General David Lesley -- Duke of Lauderdale -- The Grassmarket, Edinburgh -- Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee -- Battle of Drumclog -- Battle of Bothwell Bridge -- The Netherbow Port -- Stirling Castle -- Arrest of Montrose -- The Bass Rock -- Dunnottar Castle -- Lady Grisel (Hume) Baillie -- Sir Patrick Hume -- Lady Anna Mackenzie. Good scuffed half calf. Joints weak, covers holding by cords.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 202pp. Cloth. Illustrated. Gift inscription, pencil loop detached, else a fine, bright copy in price-clipped, fine dust jacket. The pictorial jacket reproduces a design by O. Soglow. Contributions include "How To Sleep" by Robert Benchley, a preface and "The Art of Breaking a Neck" by W.C. Fields, "The Doctor and the Contraption" by Stephen Leacock, "The Body Beautiful" by S.J. Perelman, "Essay on the Advantages of Sleeping in Bed Alone" by Groucho Marx, etc. Scarce in this condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 428 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.20 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.