John k aiken (11 risultati)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Good-. Vol. 2, No. 4. Edited by John Carnell. Cover art by Dennis. Includes "World in Shadow" (novelette) by John Brody; "The Cireesians" by Norman Lazenby; "Edge of Night" by John K. Aiken; "The Rebels" by E. R. James; "Position Line" by A. Bertram Chandler. Article: "The Shape of Ships to Come" by Arthur C. Clarke, B.Sc. Features: "Editorial"; "The Literary Line-up". Illustrated by Dennis and White. Cover torn with small loss and edge wear and chipping; cover glued on at hinge; rubbing; tanning; date in pen on first page. Book. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The North American Review Vol. 228 No. 4 October 1929. Various (illustratore).

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Good-. Vol. 2, No. 4. Edited by John Carnell. Cover art by Dennis. Includes "World in Shadow" (novelette) by John Brody; "The Cireesians" by Norman Lazenby; "Edge of Night" by John K. Aiken; "The Rebels" by E. R. James; "Position Line" by A. Bertram Chandler. Article: "The Shape of Ships to Come" by Arthur C. Clarke, B.Sc. Features: "Editorial"; "The Literary Line-up". Illustrated by Dennis and White. Heavy edgewear with chips, creasing and short tears; old tape at spine ends, heel piece is off with loss to heel; rubbing; minor soiling; marks in pen on rear. Book. …

paperback / softback. Condizione: vg. 1st edition 1st printing paperback, vg, In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with wear at the bottom of the spine and some edgewear.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Pretty good condition but tear to corner of cover. Contains: Phoenix Nest (Aiken), Adoption (Doughty), Castaway (Whitley), Adaptability (Rayer), Jet Landing (Ashton), Coefficient X (Bertram Chandler). Clothier and Turner (illustratore). Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Contains 'Performance Test' by Aiken; 'Precedent' by Gray; 'Breaking Point' by Christopher; 'Hideaway' by Hawkins; 'Home is the Hero' by Tubb; an article by Flood and an editorial by Carnell. The front cover has some surface and edge wear with a two inch crease to the bottom right corner. Chipping at the bottom of the spine where about one inch of the surface is missing. The rear cover is a little discoloured in places with a half inch piece missing from the bottom right corner and a small crease to the bottom left corner. Creasing to the bottom corners of the last few pages and the pages are a little browned but otherwise generally clean and unmarked. Quinn provided the cover illustration. Interior illustrations by Quinn, Clothier and Hunter. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Clothier, Bob; Quinn, Gerard; Hunter, Alan (illustratore).…

Soft cover (Stapled Wrappers). Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Contents Include: "Fantasy on Television" featuring John Carnell reporting on HG Wells' The Time Machine; "The Search for Superman" by John K. Aiken; a "Masters of Fantasy" profile on legendary author Clark Ashton Smith by Arthur F. Hillman; and "The Radio Man and The Golden Amazon" by Thomas Sheridan. The back cover features prominent full-page publishing advertisements for Atlas publishing properties including the British editions of Unknown Worlds and Astounding Science Fiction.Condition: Very Good. Text block shows light, uniform age-toning typical for late-1940s UK paper stock. Clean wrappers with sharp lettering and woodcut-style graphic borders. Spine fold remains clean with minimal stress; staples are firm and free of heavy rust. No institutional marks or owner signatures. …

Soft cover (Stapled Wrappers). Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small Octavo, 24pp. Original printed stapled wrappers featuring a contents table and cover vignette on the front. Priced by subscription.Features: Front cover features a small, intricate illustration commemorating H.G. Wells' "First Man in the Moon". This issue contains a fascinating, highly desirable early cultural essay titled "Dianetics: My Experience" by Vernon L. McCain, capturing the science fiction community's immediate reaction to L. Ron Hubbard's early psychological movement. Additional major content includes a deep critical profile on author Sydney Fowler Wright by Dr. John K. Aiken and a detailed cinematic overview of "Science Fiction on the Silver Screen" by Paul W. Healy. The rear cover is blank cardstock as issued.Condition: Very Good. Spine fold is firm with only slight rubbing. The blank rear cover shows light dust-soiling and faint, natural age-spotting near the right-hand margin. Internally bright, tightly bound, and completely free of marks. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Small abrasion on rear pastedown, moderate foxing on the cover with a small tear along the joint, very good, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xxii, 85pp. Spine and edges sunned, very good being poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on the front fly, lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Contains the first book appearance of five poems by Louis Simpson (as Louis Marantz Simpson) [1923-2012], who eventually earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University and was awarded the Medal for Excellence from Columbia University; his first collection of poems was The Arrivistes: Poems, 19401949 (published in 1949 by Fine Editions Press).…