G c a tanner (9 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1965. First Edition. 223 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Lettering is clear.…

Condizione: Good. 1965. First Edition. 223 pages. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Condizione: Fine.

Condizione: As New.

Condizione: Fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. (xv) 390 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Dj art by Gahan Wilson. Lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Robert M. Price; The Final War by David H. Keller; The Letters of Cold Fire by Manly Wade Wellman; The Seventh Incantation by Joseph Payne Brennan; Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Pierce Jr; Black Noon by C. M. Eddy; The Jewels of Charlotte by Duane Rimel; Horror at Vecra by Henry Hasse; Out of the Jar by Charles A. Tanner; The Earth Brain by Edmond Hamilton; Through the Alien Angle by Elwin G. Powers; Legacy in Crystal by James Causey; Thye Will of Claude Asher by C. Hall Thompson; The Dunstable Horror by Arthur Pendragon; The Crib ofHell by Arthur Pendragon; The Last Work of Pietro de Apono by Steffan B. Aletti; The Eye of Horus by Steffan B. Aletti; The Cellar Room by Steffan B. Aletti; Mythos by John Glasby; There Are More Things by Jorges Luis Borges; The Horror Out of Time by Randall Garrett; The Recurring Doom by S. T. Joshi; Necrotic Knowledge by Dirk W. Mosig; Night Bus by Don Burleson; The Pewter Ring by Peter Cannon; John Lehmann Alone by David Kaufmann; The Purple Death by Gustav Meyrinck; The Mists of Death by Richard F. Searight and Franklin Searight; and Shoggoth's Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman. Size: 8vo. Gahan Wilson; (illustratore). Book.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. House Maintenance and Repairs (1965) by G.C.A. Tanner ? Penguin Books Offered by Crappy Old Books ? because not everything ages like fine wine. Long before YouTube tutorials and MDF everything, G.C.A. Tanner laid out the nuts, bolts, and common sense of keeping a British home upright and vaguely waterproof. House Maintenance and Repairs (1965) is a charmingly no-nonsense guide to the domestic arts: from patching plaster to taming rogue gutters, all delivered in clipped prose and a tone that assumes you own a hammer, a ladder, and a spine. This Penguin edition has certainly seen some DIY action itself ? foxed, faded, possibly dropped in paint ? but still clinging proudly to its integrity, much like the draughty houses it was written to save. Crappy Old Books ? Built to last, like your dad?s shed.…

Hardcover. First, limited, and numbered edition. This first edition 1925 collection of Dartmouth Verse connects two great American poets of the twentieth century - Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. This is Sandburg's personal copy, inscribed and gifted to him. The inscription is inked in seven lines on the front free endpaper: "To | Carl Sandburg | January 14, 1926 | Hanover New Hampshire | Gail Borden | for | 'The Arts'". The person who inscribed this copy to Sandburg, Gail Borden, was at the time a Dartmouth undergraduate, class of 1926, who went on to become a journalist, drama critic, and columnist with the Chicago Daily Times, and during the Second World War served in the Army Air Corps.This anthology is noteworthy for a Foreword (dated "June, 1925") and Introduction by Robert Frost found at pages V-IX. Frost explains in his Foreword that this volume results from a Dartmouth undergraduate contest in which "more than sixty undergraduates submitted over two hundred manuscripts, many of them of such quality that competent members of the faculty and of the writing profession hailed them as worthy of publication." The book was produced for subscribers in a limited and numbered edition of "FIVE HUNDRED COPIES. PRINTED ON VAN GELDER PAPER BY THE MOSHER PRESS PORTLAND MAINE FOR THE ARTS HANOVER NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE TYPE DISTRIBUTED IN THE MONTH OF MAY MDCCCCXV". It is a handsome, if fragile, production, a small hardcover featuring a quarter ivory paper-covered spine with blue-gray paper-covered boards, the spine printed in black and red. The contents are printed on laid paper and bound with untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Per the colophon, this copy is hand-numbered "422". Condition is very good. The binding is square, tight, and sharp-cornered, though mildly soiled with some shelf wear to extremities. The contents are beautifully clean and bright. Frost's Introduction is characteristically folksy, pithy, and mischievous, and merits the book on its own. It begins: "No one given to looking under-ground in spring can have failed to notice how a bean starts its growth from the seed. Now the manner of a poet's germination is less like that of a bean in the ground than of a waterspout at sea. He has to begin as a cloud of all the other poets he ever read. That can't be helped. And first the cloud reaches down toward the water from above and then the water reaches up toward the cloud from below and finally cloud and water join together to roll as one pillar between heaven and earth. The base of water he picks up from below is of course all the life he ever lived outside of books." Indicative of Frost's intimate and often conflicted and contentious relationship with institutions of higher education is his following comment about the emerging poet, necessarily "between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five" struggling to "strike his individual note" which must be struck then "or never." Of such emerging poets, Frost says: "School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. I for one should be in favor of the colleges setting the expectation of poetry forward a few years (the way the clocks are set forward in May), so as to get the young poets started earlier in the morning before the freshness dries off. Just setting the expectation of poetry forward might be all that was needed to give us our proportioned number of poets to Congressmen. R.F.".…

16 Autograph Letters Signed, 10 Autograph Cards Signed and one Typed Letter Signed. The letters total 32pp. The collection is in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. The correspondence deals exclusively with mathematical questions raised in the Mathematical Gazette, with the writers providing mathematical calculations and demonstrations. From six individuals, as follows. ONE: T.A.A. Broadbent [ Thomas Arthur Alan Broadbent ] (1903-1973) of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich: 4 ALsS and 3 ACsS. TWO: G.A. Garreau [ Gabriel Armand Garreau ]: 2 ALsS and one TLS. THREE: C. Dudley Langford (see 'Langford's Problem') of Henrietta Cottage, 16 Henrietta Street, Girvan, Ayrshire: 2 ALsS and 2 ACsS. FOUR: T.B.W. Spencer (author of 'Mathematical Problem Papers') of 35 The Downs, Wimbledon: one ALS. FIVE: A.S. Gosset Tanner [ Arthur Spencer Gosset-Tanner ], master at Derby School: 5 ACsS and 2 ALsS. SIX: J. Travers, Headmaster, Peterborough College, Harrow: 5 ALsS. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed by 'Ripley' (i.e. on behalf of Robert Ripley's American franchise), on letterhead of the Sunday Express, 3 January 1940: 'Your interesting problem of the three numbers has been noted, and will be included in "Believe it or Not" at an early date.' From the Harington family papers, the recipient being Sir Richard Dundas Harington, 13th Baronet (1900-1981), whose address is given as The Brook, Lower Howsell, Malvern Link, Worcestershire.…