Walker 1970 new york (22 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Book is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners. Two small stains on page fore edge. Small stain on page 96 and at bottom of pages 5 to 8. Minor damp wrinkle on pages 169 to 174. 222 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. Contains publisher's statement " First published in the United States of America in 1970" to the copyright page. Dust jacket art by Al Nagy. An Inspector Harry James and Sergeant Honeybody mystery from the author of DEATH CRACKS A BOTTLE. The Inspector gets more than he bargained for when he starts investigating the 1874 poisoning death of a man whose wife had been under suspicion. Near fine and tight in beige boards with black embossed titles to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with mild age-tonging and a few scratches to the front panel; original printed $4.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Kenneth Giles was a British crime writer who wrote books under his own name, as well as the pseudonyms Charles Drummond and Edmund McGirr.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine dj. First ed. thus. [a very nice copy, with no discernible wear to the book; the jacket shows a tiny bit of surface wear on the rear panel, and bears a silver "Newbury Honor Book" medallion sticker on the front jacket panel]. A nicely-produced new edition of the author's award-winning first novel, a science-fantasy reimagining of the Celtic legend of the Fairy Queen, originally published by Atheneum in 1970. Illustrated by (dj and chapter-head illus) Leo & Diane Dillon (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition, SECOND printing before publication. "First published in the United States of America in 1970 by the Walker Publishing Company, Inc." statement to the copyright page, $4.95 to the jacket's flap. After doing two prison years for a crime he can't remember, Jim Parker returns home, finds out about an upcoming crime, tells the police, and gets into trouble with revenging crooks in his small town. Accused falsely again, only his wife and a detective friend believe him. Faint age-toning to the inner hinge areas and to the cover shelf-edges as usual, else tight, square and near fine in textured antique-cream boards with black embossed titles to the spine; in a very good plus dust jacket with mild creases to the spine panel, rubbed crimps to the upper and lower spine edges, and crimps to the upper edge of the rear panel; original printed $4.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Roderic Jeffries is the son of Bruce Graeme (author of the Blackshirt series).…

Hardcover. Condizione: VG orig. navy cloth in dj. 1st US edition. xv,358 p.; 23 cm. (Documentary history of Western civilization) Includes 184 documents in English translation, with brief notes.

First edition. Octavo, boards. The complete text of THE PEOPLE MAKER (1959). "Problems with a matter-duplication device." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [1]. "Rigid, stratified, slave society as a result of a machine that can reproduce anything." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 279. "An uneasy adventure developed from the premise of a brilliant short story." - Brian Stableford. Inked name to front paste down, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a light stain ghost to verso of lower spine with bleed through from glue degradation from a glue tab from a dust jacket protector. (31763). …

Condizione: good, fair. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 194, index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, edges soiled, DJ worn and soiled. Introduction by Theodosius Dobzhansky. The author takes issue with the views of Konrad Lorenz. This work was awarded the Pope John XXIII Memorial Prize for Peace.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket designed by Al Nagy (unclipped; few small nicks). Very good. 190 pages. No signatures or bookplates.

8vo, xx + 364pp. Original cloth in olive and grey dustwrapper, very slightly chipped at corners and towards top and bottom of spine. A near-fine copy. . First edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 366 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated white cloth. An excellent copy, nearly fine. Very clean and tight. The dust jacket has light wear, a 1 1/2" tear to the upper, front and a 3/4" tear to the upper, rear edge. Clear tape to the underside of the tear on the front. Original price of $3.50 to the front flap. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First Edition. 160p octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Knight.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, first printing. Tiny stain to the upper front endpaper, else near fine in red boards; in a near fine dust jacket with minor creasing to the upper edge of the rear panel. Riveting tale of a London antiquarian bookseller who finds himself involved in a grim race to retrieve the secret 'black box' of a crashed Russian satellite. Ingenious, attractively landscaped against Venice and Lake Garda."--Sheffield Telegraph.…

First U. S. edition. Octavo, boards. Part of the author's "Known Space" series. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear and a little toning. An unread copy. (26960).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Large 8vo. 136 pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold. Jacket price-clipped, small creases and edgewear, spine toned, crown of spine reinforced with tape. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 30, [82]. 228 illus. (some colour). cloth. dw. (chipped). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 4to. [6], 7-443, [5] pp. Yellow cloth with a device in gold on the front board, gold lettering blocked in purple on the spine. Illustrated brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Naoto Kondo. With full-page and in-text black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. A name on the half-title page and a tiny dampspot on the fore-edge; jacket with a hint or two of edge wear.…

1st edition orig. dec. cloth Fine octavo xiv + 326pp., b/w pls., appends., index, Author was the Serbian Red Cross representative who travelled through America over six years to enlist aid for her embattled Country.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original white paper covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, pink dyed upper edges, fore edges uncut. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 160 printed pages of text. Damp marks to the front and rear covers, two ink literary agency stamps to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with a little wear to the upper spine end and edges, shelf rubs to the white of the panels, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 080275533X SCIENCE FICTION.…

First edition. Octavo, boards. The novella version was a 1968 Nebula and 1969 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1021. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1526-30]. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some foxing to the verso with bleed through at the flaps and slight edge wear. (31757).…

First U. S. edition. Octavo, boards. Signed by Niven on the title page. Part of the author's "Known Space" series. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28032).

Hardcover. First Edition. Edited by Ivan Morris. Presented to the playwright John Guare by the cast of his play THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES before the play's opening and INSCRIBED on the half-title page "To John, February 5, 1971/From the residents of/The House of Blue Leaves. Below the inscription, the book is SIGNED by the entire cast as well as by the director, stage manager, and set designer. The play opened on 10 February 1971 and ran for 337 performances. It was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Play and won both an Obie and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in that category. Among the actors signing are William Atherton, Frank Converse, Anne Meara, and Katherine Helmond. A couple of pages with underlining, presumably by Guare. Very Good in a price-clipped, Good dustwrapper with chipping and fading. …