1916 2013 (37 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Edition By This Publisher. INVENTORY = B >> Softcover Digest Trade Paperback; 1st Printing by Publisher; 66 Pages; 95 Grams; Goodreads; A collection of writings about the science fiction and travel of Grand Master Jack Vance (1916-2013). The six essays were first published in "The New York Review of Science Fiction," while the one review was published in "Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts." Topics include the curious linkages between some of Vance's novels into a sort of "Future History;" an examination of a Vancean "hard sf" novel; a look at his various globe-trotting excursions and what he wrote while out on each one; and further delving's into the methods he employed to create such memorable fiction. This book is approximately 16,000 words; ** Asi The Future History of Jack Vance; ** The Blue Jack Vance's Hard Science Wonder; ** The Adventures of Jack Vance in Traveling and Writing; **Tracing Terms in Jack Vance's 'Sjambak; ** Patterns to the Five Demon Princes of Jack Vance; ** The New Prime' as Herald of Future Jack Vance; ** Review of "An Encyclopedia of Jack Vance; Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 64 pages with illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's gray cloth with dark brown lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Sullivan provides an engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture. Condition: Near fine in like jacket.…

Morgan, Edmund S., 1916-2013. The mirror of the Indian: an exhibition of books and other source materials by Spanish, French,and English historians and colonists of North America from the 16th throughout the 18th century. Providence: The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1958, 57pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear, old price label removed. With an address, The American Indian: incorrigible individualist, by Edmund S. Morgan. - ONLY CONTAINS 4-PAGES of illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. frontis, photos, index, 399p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. Few tiny spots on covers. Jacket slightly chipped along edges.

Condition: New. An Introduction to Chinese Art; 0 (Paperback or Softback).

Condition: FINE. First printing. The rather uncommon first book of poetry by this Black author whom The New Yorker described as "possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, and the gospel singer's depth of feeling." A small slim volume. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.).…

Association copy - INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY GRENVILLE CLARK'S SON-IN-LAW. First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite statement for former and ascending number line for former upon copyright page). xvi, 319 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed; tears, shallow chips, and some creasing at edges; foxing to rear panel and rear flap; sunning to spine's title block; front flap's bottom corner trimmed but with price present at top right. Red cloth with bright gilt stamping to spine. Seven-line ink inscription "Will | Thank you for the view | from within - and the | opportunity to give the | Fitts Lecture - | Grey Dimond | Sept 21, 1984" upon the half-title page (cardiologist Dr. E. Grey Dimond, 1918-2013, was husband to Mary Clark Dimond who, of course, was one of Grenville Clark's four children; the William T. Fitts Lecture is sponsored by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma; acquired from the estate of inscribee Dr. Wilmer Jesse Coggins, Jr., 1925-2012, who served as Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences and Associate Dean of the Tuscaloosa Program, at the University of Alabama School of Medicine among other medical field appointments and honors). Interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. ISBN 0393087166. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Brown slipcase and covers, gold lettering on spine. 64 pp illustrations. Part of Series Walter Neurath memorial lectures.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, [viii], 95 pp, 1 leaf; portrait. Original cloth. Near Fine. One of 2,500 copies. A trade edition was published in 1980 by W. W. Norton in both cloth and paperback and each version was also reprinted (perhaps not later than 1982), but the edition offered here is much less common. Rowman & Littlefield reissued it in 1985. …

809 S./3 Bl. + 571/2 Bl. + 330 S./3 Bl., 3 TB; unbenutzte Exple. mit durch Lager leicht angestaubtem Schnitt in sonst sehr gutem Zustand. ISBN 3 453 08329 6 / 3 453 07987 6 / 3 453 07988 4; Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy Band 0605300 / 0605301 / 0605302. Vergriffen. - (L).

First Edition. Presentation Copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with a slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Painting, Chinese. Calligraphy, Chinese Inscriptions. Painting China Themes, motives. Chinese poetry History and criticism. Art and literature China. Genre: Art. 1 Kg.…

Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. Large 4° (23 x 30 cm). 4 separate parts. 20, 24, 12, 14 pages. Ref : AL 30719. Brand new price 2026 : 75,00 euros.

First Edition. Presentation Copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth with a slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Painting, Chinese. Calligraphy, Chinese Inscriptions. Painting China Themes, motives. Chinese poetry History and criticism. Art and literature China. Genre: Art. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Efterord av sonen Ernst Brunner. Natur och Kultur, 2010. Inbunden (förlagsband) med skyddsomslag. Mycket gott skick. 211 s. + VIII pl.-s. ISBN 978-91-27-12194-2.

Hardcover. Quarto, xvii, 213 pages + unnumbered pages of plates. In Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is gold with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with tears at spine ends and flap corners, smudging/shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$10.00". Boards in green cloth with gilt illustration on front panel; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has penciled underlining and marginal notation. Illustrated: b&w plates. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Quarto and Folio Case. 1399913. FP New Rockville Stock.…

First edition, first printing (per copyright page statement for former and latter indicated by descending number line) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xiv, 286 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with scuffs at edges; 2.25cm closed tear at rear panel's lower right. Dark brown boards; vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Author's boldly written black felt tip ink signature "Dick Hauserman" upon the front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0970443803. …

Condition: FINE. First thus. African American writer's second book, originally published in 1971 - a combination of memoir and literary criticism - in part, a book about one black intellectual's perspectives on a number of white Southern writers (Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy among others) and in part recollections of Murray's boyhood and youth. SIGNED on the title page. ML binding style 17 with Modern Llibrary running torchbearer end papers and a photographic dust jacket. 266 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. 280 p. ; 23x15 cm. Abogados Chile biografías (A-305-ML).

Gedrucktes Porträtfoto, eigenhändig signiert (dito : Repro-Porträtfoto (in Uniform mit Ritterkreuz) mit rückseitig E.Kurzbrief mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift Bremen, d. 30.5.89 Euro 45,-).

76 p. : il. : (23 cm) : broch. Muito bom exemplar.

Size: 8vo. xii, 694pp. + plates. Publisher's cloth (worn, front hinge broken). Music examples. Author's copy with notes, and many documents and notes loosely inserted.

[126] p. : il. (1 mapa desdob.) ; 23 cm : broch. Bom exemplar. Profusamente ilustrado, com fotografias a cores e a preto-e-branco, desenhos e um mapa desdobrável.

16 brochures In-4, 30 cm, 88pp. illustr. , portraits, photos, textes musicaux, 1 disque compact, CD audio, ensemble sous coffret cart. de l'editeur, Nb-0377, Sommaire: Ainsi Dutilleux, Introduction - Manuscrit - Propos recueillis - Temoignages - Forces creatrices - Piano - Symphonies - Violon, violoncelle - Petites formations - Orchestre - Revetements sonores - Imaginaire - Rayonnement, etc. . . …

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). x, 213 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket with pictorial front panel and spine illustrated by Alex Schomburg with slight fading to latter but former retains bright color; pervasive foxing to rear panel with lesser prevalence to flaps; several tears at edges with one having verso tape repair; shallow chipping to spine head and flap fold ends with other edge nicks; top corner of front flap is price clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Red cloth with black stamping to spine. Top edge foxed and toned; mild foxing to fore-edge with light foxing to bottom edge; toning to Alex Schomburg-illustrated endpapers; slight foxing fractionally affecting some page margins but interior leaves overall remain quite clean. Binding is firm. Still a very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. Early novel by mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author Jack Vance whose first published short story was issued in 1945. Vance enjoyed a prolific career as a writer and was a three-time Hugo Award winner as well as winner of the Nebula Award, the Jupiter Award, the World Fantasy Award, and an Edgar. …

Repro-Porträtfoto (in Uniform mit Ritterkreuz), vorderseitig eigenhändig signiert.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original tawny brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. When Belgium capitulated, and he was held in camps in Germany and France. On 10 January 1941, he was repatriated to Belgium. After release in German-occupied Belgium, he met his former colleague sergeant-pilot Léon Divoy, and they briefly planned to build an aircraft with which to escape to England. Contains Sir William Rothenstein frontispiece drawing of Michael Donnet, sketched in 1943, (xi), 108 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Touch of foxing to the text block edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Number 152 of 997 flown cover SIGNED 'Mike Donnet' and Cadet 'Leon Divoy' to the front cover. 13.6.75 Belgium post marked stamp, reverse signed by W. S. O. Randle, Royal Air Forces Escaping Society, + 2 other stamps 'Municipal Airport 14 June, 1975 Southend-on-Sea' and 'Royal Air Forces Escaping Society, 16.6.1975', one cachet insert. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1 leaf, 21, [1] pp. Original wrappers. Very Good. Inscribed and signed by Geach on the title page.

dj. First Edition. [Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.128. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With a black and white frontispiece and vignette title page. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Miller, priced at $15.00. Internally crisp and clean. Jacket shows patches of heavy abrasion; otherwise light wear to edges and a little toning. Very good. Inhabitants of a planet where homes are living things attempt to defend their 'house seeds' from greedy outsiders. Signed.…

7 S. Seiten vergilbt, kleine Randausbesserung. Gering wasserwellig. Erstausgabe.

1 p. 13 x 20 cm. John Holbrook Vance wrote mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories, many under pseudonyms including Peter Held, Alan Wade, and John van See, but also Ellery Queen. In 1961 he receivced the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best first mystery novel ("The Man in the Cage").