morley hodgson (27 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Illustrations. Lightly spotted binding, light foxing, else a VG copy in a rubbed, somewhat chipped (foot and crown of spine) dust jacket which has had the price excised from the center of the dust jacket flap.

Paperback. Condizione: New. He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth.In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The Beast with Five Fingers', his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction's true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand story back into the nineteenth century, and to showcase its influence on writers of weird fiction from the 1920s to the modern day, horror expert Brian J. Showers presents a new collection of classics from the well-thumbed oeuvres of Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant through to miniature masterpieces from the hands of Jean Ray, Mark Valentine and many more.Featuring ghostly hands, hands possessed by demons and unexplained hands where no hands should be, prepare to enter a world of nightmares run amok as the vice-grip of terror takes hold.

Paperback. Condizione: New. He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth.In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The Beast with Five Fingers', his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction's true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand story back into the nineteenth century, and to showcase its influence on writers of weird fiction from the 1920s to the modern day, horror expert Brian J. Showers presents a new collection of classics from the well-thumbed oeuvres of Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant through to miniature masterpieces from the hands of Jean Ray, Mark Valentine and many more.Featuring ghostly hands, hands possessed by demons and unexplained hands where no hands should be, prepare to enter a world of nightmares run amok as the vice-grip of terror takes hold.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Spine toned. 1926 Hard Cover. xvii, 235 pp. Front board illustrated with an whale and a compass rose. Photographs by the authors. Includes frontispiece and 31 photographic plates. Endpapers illustrated with the North and South Poles. A tale of whaling in the North and South Poles.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 7.40x5.12x0.67 inches. In Stock.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 10, No. 5. Edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Uncredited cover art for "The Impossible Intelligence" by Robert Silverberg. Includes "The Hunted Ones" (novelet) by Mack Reynolds; "Luck, Inc." by Jim Harmon; "No Star Shall Fail" by Wilfred Owen Morley [R. A. W. Lowndes]; "The Great Mutation" by Talmage Powell; "A Little Knowledge" by Charles V. De Vet; "For Sale- Super Ears" by Louise Hodgson. Departments: "Missille, Missile, Who's Got the Missile?" (quiz) by Joseph Stacey; "Readin' and Writhin'" (Book reviews) by Calvin M. Knox [Robert Silverberg]. Illustrated by Emsh and others. Creasing; soiling; tanning. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 10, No. 5. Edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Uncredited cover art for "The Impossible Intelligence" by Robert Silverberg. Includes "The Hunted Ones" (novelet) by Mack Reynolds; "Luck, Inc." by Jim Harmon; "No Star Shall Fail" by Wilfred Owen Morley [R. A. W. Lowndes]; "The Great Mutation" by Talmage Powell; "A Little Knowledge" by Charles V. De Vet; "For Sale- Super Ears" by Louise Hodgson. Departments: "Missille, Missile, Who's Got the Missile?" (quiz) by Joseph Stacey; "Readin' and Writhin'" (Book reviews) by Calvin M. Knox [Robert Silverberg]. Illustrated by Emsh and others. Creased; tanned; stress; minor bumps, nicks and scars. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 10, No. 5. Edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Uncredited cover art for "The Impossible Intelligence" by Robert Silverberg. Includes "The Hunted Ones" (novelet) by Mack Reynolds; "Luck, Inc." by Jim Harmon; "No Star Shall Fail" by Wilfred Owen Morley [R. A. W. Lowndes]; "The Great Mutation" by Talmage Powell; "A Little Knowledge" by Charles V. De Vet; "For Sale- Super Ears" by Louise Hodgson. Departments: "Missille, Missile, Who's Got the Missile?" (quiz) by Joseph Stacey; "Readin' and Writhin'" (Book reviews) by Calvin M. Knox [Robert Silverberg]. Illustrated by Emsh and others. Minor soiling and rubbing; rear cover foxed/soiled; spine sunned; tanning. Book.

hardcover. Condizione: good. Illus. 8vo, original green cloth, spine toned to tan, spine ends worn, ex-lib with usual markings. New York: Century, (1926).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Darkening to cloth on spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 235 pp.+ 32 Photo Plts, Map e.p., Blue Illus Hardback, Gilt title & Whale & Compass on F cover, VG, no DJ, 1st ed.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 10, No. 5. Edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes. Uncredited cover art for "The Impossible Intelligence" by Robert Silverberg. Includes "The Hunted Ones" (novelet) by Mack Reynolds; "Luck, Inc." by Jim Harmon; "No Star Shall Fail" by Wilfred Owen Morley [R. A. W. Lowndes]; "The Great Mutation" by Talmage Powell; "A Little Knowledge" by Charles V. De Vet; "For Sale- Super Ears" by Louise Hodgson. Departments: "Missille, Missile, Who's Got the Missile?" (quiz) by Joseph Stacey; "Readin' and Writhin'" (Book reviews) by Calvin M. Knox [Robert Silverberg]. Illustrated by Emsh and others. Minor creasing and staple wear; tanning. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with no marks. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket chipped and edgeworn.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st ed. frontis, photos, xvii, 229, 8p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Backstrip faded. Edges of cover faded. Spine slightly sloped. No jacket.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 235 pages, b&w photographs by the authors. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, light spotting to page edges. Record # 402362.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. xvii, 229, 8 pp publishers' adverts, publisher's pale blue cloth, 47 illustrations, 1 map, a diagram and maps on eps.Spine darkened, covers spotted, red ownership stamp on fep and head of title page. Bookplate of Oxford zoologist Desmond Morris on verso of fep.Chapters on legend and Myth, Science, Whaling industry, southern whaling grounds, the seaplanes in whale hunting, whaling in Antarctica Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

8vo. xvii, [1], 235, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., numerous photo illusts., maps on endpapers. Illust. blue-gray cloth, gilt & blk illusts. & lettrng (minor shlfwr), VG. First edition of this account of the author on an Antarctic whaling voyage.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1926 Jacketed hardcover. Fresh green cloth with gilt and black designs. just about fine book with an owner name on ep. Jacket fresh with very light loss at spine ends and corners. No lettering is affected. A collectible / giftable copy. -Quality Counts! All books shipped in Cardboard and all books with dust jackets have mylar jacket protectors.,

Condizione: Good some sunning of spine. Methuen and co., 1927. Good some sunning of spine . 22 cm. 229 pp. B/W plates map and diagram.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xvii, 229 , frontispiece, black and white photographs, end paper maps. Blue cloth rather faded on the spine, signature dated 1927 on the first blank page of the original owner. Generally a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 235 pp.+ Photo Frontis & 34 Photo Plts, Map e.p., Gilt title & Rose Compass Design on Cover, VG in slightly chipped DJ, 1st ed.

Paperback. Condizione: New. He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth.In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The Beast with Five Fingers', his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction's true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand story back into the nineteenth century, and to showcase its influence on writers of weird fiction from the 1920s to the modern day, horror expert Brian J. Showers presents a new collection of classics from the well-thumbed oeuvres of Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant through to miniature masterpieces from the hands of Jean Ray, Mark Valentine and many more.Featuring ghostly hands, hands possessed by demons and unexplained hands where no hands should be, prepare to enter a world of nightmares run amok as the vice-grip of terror takes hold.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-Very Good +. First Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-Very Good +. xvii, 235 pp, introduction, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustratons, Part I. Whaling North: I. The Start; II. Legend and Myth; III. Science; IV. Industry; V. The Whale Hunt; VI. The Next Phase. Part II. Whaling South: I. Southward Bound; II. The Whaling-Grounds; III. At Work; IV. Hunting; V. Blooded; VI. Christmas in Antarctica; VII. Whaling with Skontorp; VIII. Homeward Bound; with photographs by the authors. First Edition, 1926. Not Price Clipped. Five 1" closed tears to dj with a minute chips and a creased corner to top front panel fore-edge. Only the slightes age-toning to text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Green cloth with illustrated black and gilt front board, gilt lettering to spine, and maps on endpapers. Size: 8vo. Book.

Octavo,235 pp.,photographs, very good copy in publisher's cloth.

b/w line ills and photos xvii, 235 pp. Twentieth Century polar whaling with photographs by the authors. Spence 812. Covers lightly sunned, with light wear to spine ends. VG.

Paperback. Condizione: New. He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers, and slowly scratching the head of the parrot with the fourth.In 1919, W. F. Harvey published 'The Beast with Five Fingers', his quintessential tale of the disembodied hand with a murderous mind of its own, and its position as one of weird fiction's true classics was cemented by the 1946 film adaptation. Seeking to trace the origins of the haunted hand story back into the nineteenth century, and to showcase its influence on writers of weird fiction from the 1920s to the modern day, horror expert Brian J. Showers presents a new collection of classics from the well-thumbed oeuvres of Sheridan Le Fanu and Guy de Maupassant through to miniature masterpieces from the hands of Jean Ray, Mark Valentine and many more.Featuring ghostly hands, hands possessed by demons and unexplained hands where no hands should be, prepare to enter a world of nightmares run amok as the vice-grip of terror takes hold.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition: xvii, (2), 229pp, (2) [8 publishers advertisements], illustrated, 47 b/w photographs on plates, plus one page of drawings, Polar maps on front end-papers. Blue cloth covers, block titling to front cover and gilt titling to spine, no dustjacket. Vivid (and well illustrated) descriptions of whaling in the 1920s, in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Spence 812. A personal narrative of whaling in the Arctic and Antarctic along with the history of the industry. Shelfware, top and bottom of spine softening. Previous owners signature and date (in pencil) on fly sheet. Some mild foxing, spotting to page edges, contents clean. Very Good Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2609.