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Wraps. Condizione: Very Good-. Vol. 1, No. 3. Final issue. Edited by Damon Knight. Cover art by Von Dongen for "The Deadliest Female" by Lester del Rey. Includes "Brain of the Galaxy" (novelette) by Jack Vance; "Valley of Doom" (novelette) by Halliday Sutherland; "Like a Bird, Like a Fish" by H. B. Hickey; "The Old Brown Coat" by Lord Dunsany; "The Acolytes" by Poul Anderson; "Forgotten Tongue" by Walter C. Davies[C. M. Kornbluth]; "Clothes Make the Man" by Richard Matheson; "The Rocket of 1955" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Rock Diver" (1st story) by Harry Harrison. Department: "The Dissecting Table". Interior illustrations by Harrison, Jannace and Napoli. Tanned; small loss at lower front foredge corner; marks on covers; a little wear and tear and spine ends; light lean. Magazine.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good Only. Redmill; (illustratore). First Edition. 80 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear with some tearing on the spine and a chip from the lower left of the front cover; no interior markings. This issue contains: FICTION: Troubled Waters by Alan C. Jenkins; The Case of the Missing International by Leonard Gribble; In the Straight by Eric Leyland; Biggles at School - part two of a serial by Capt. W. E. Johns. ARTICLES: The Boy Magician by Walter B. Gibson; Celestial Salvoes by Martin Thornhill; Barnstorming by David Roberts; The Bar as a Career by a Barrister-at-Law; Let's Make Something by W. P. Mathew; Swedish Boy by Olle Cronsjo; Ballistics Is a Science by Justin Atholl; Milestones by Reece Winstone; Acting the Part by Frank Newman; Is British Sport Too Commercialized by Lionel Gamlin; and Gone with the Wind by John Davies; along with all the usual features. Size: 12mo. Book.

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Vol. 1, No. 3. Final issue. Edited by Damon Knight. Cover art by Von Dongen for "The Deadliest Female" by Lester del Rey. Includes "Brain of the Galaxy" (novelette) by Jack Vance; "Valley of Doom" (novelette) by Halliday Sutherland; "Like a Bird, Like a Fish" by H. B. Hickey; "The Old Brown Coat" by Lord Dunsany; "The Acolytes" by Poul Anderson; "Forgotten Tongue" by Walter C. Davies[C. M. Kornbluth]; "Clothes Make the Man" by Richard Matheson; "The Rocket of 1955" by C. M. Kornbluth; "Rock Diver" (1st story) by Harry Harrison. Department: "The Dissecting Table". Interior illustrations by Harrison, Jannace and Napoli. Tanning; stress cracks; minor tear at heel; corner wear with minor creasing. Magazine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. R T Pritchett (illustratore). 1st Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Hinges cracking at front and rear of Volume IIr, but secure. Inked previous owner's name on half title page of both volumes. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout, and firm. Both first editions of the Badminton Library 2 volume set on yachting. Heavy set, will require additional carriage charges for non UK customers.

1975. (4to stiff paper covers) Very good. 78pp. Photographs, illustration, maps, tables, bibliography. "Churchill River Special Issue" Contributors include W.A. Davies (A brief history of the Churchill River), Don Gill (Hydroelectric developments in Northern Canada: a comparison with the Churchill River project in Saskatchewan), Walter Kupsch (The Churchill-Reindeer rivers area: evolution of the landscape), Claude Mondor (The Churchill River: a resource for conservation and recreation), Stewart Raby (Areas of initiation in the political geography of aboriginal minorities), J.W.T. Spinks (Alternate energy sources: the A.B.C.'s of energy). Locale: Churchill River--Saskatchewan; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Energy).

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Magazine. Octavo. 79pp. Stapled red wrappers with yapped foredge. Very good plus with a touch of sunning on the front wrap wear along the spine and the foredge. A poetry anthology with contributions from Herman Hesse, Ann Menebroker, Herman Salinger, Karl Krolow, David F. Ensley, Peter Wild, Duane Ackerson, Bob Conder, Robert L. Tyler, John McNally, Paul Baker Newman, Clyde Fixmer, Mary Vann Finley, John Stevens Wade, Coleman Barks, Mary Ann Meade, Mark Halliday, James Applewhite, Kip Ward, Juanita Tobin, Carol Parsons, Walter W. Stevens, Burke Davis III, Emilie Glen, Robert Joe Stout, Harry C. Stokes, Earl Wolslagel, Helen Anne Fuller, Anna Wooten, Steve Davies, Fred Chappell, Betty R. Ford, Joyce Odam, Victor Stranberg, James "Gator" Wise, John Bower, Kurt Hube, George R. Wood.

Condizione: New. In.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue, printed on handmade watermarked paper and limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 199pp. Brown buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some light partial toning to the endpapers. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper. A hefty selection of verse by Rupert Brooke ('The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'), Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, J. L. Flecker, W. W. Gibson, D. H. Lawrence, John Masefield, T. Sturge Moore, James Stephens and others. Originally published in 1912 (the very first book printed under the Poetry Bookshop imprint), this deluxe issue was produced in a uniform set with Georgian Poetry numbers 1-4, all published in 1923 and each volume limited to 250 copies. There is no change to the contents of any of the volumes, but the bibliographies have been updated to reflect subsequent publications. Woolmer A1b.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Lowell, Orson (cover); Justis, Lyle; Billmyer, James; Sykes, C.H.; Skidmore, T.D.; Wood, Lawson; Williams, C.D.; Gustavson, L.R. (illustratore). First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Nice Hockey illustration on cover; Colour Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 / Pontiac 6 full-page ad; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House Coffee; Mr. Tuggy Drives his Buggy (short story); Kansas Kid (short story); Against the Grain - Ire at Grain Traders - article; No Questions Asked (short story); The Polecat's Pal - the story of a dog who fell from grace but was redeemed in a most curious fashion; Fairweather Quinn - Captain Thomas P. Quinn of Seattle pilots vessels in and out of Puget Sound - article with photo; The Road Back (short story); A Lady of Resource (short story); Power and Glory - Boies Penrose - articles with photo; Sensational full-page color photo ad for Life Saver candies; Smoke in the Bank (short story); Oldsmobile ad; Captain of Industry - Barry Wood is Captain of the Harvard football team; Wonderful two-color centerfold ad for Willys cars; Nice full-page two-color ad for Coke 'behind the scenes' in Hollywood; Studebaker Truck ad; Wonderful color full-page ad for Chesterfield cigarettes; Nostalgic Nice color Camel cigarette ad on back cover shows couple in front of fireplace; General Electric Sun Lamp ad inside back cover. Average external wear and soiling. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Decorative Boards. Condizione: Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.