Ball N Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gift inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York:: Hearst Books, 1997. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket would be FINE but for a small crease to lower corner of rear inner flap. NOT price clipped (25.00). No tears. No chips. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp and clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Includes 68 essays that explore the eternal themes in a woman's life -- childhood, motherhood, grandmothers, sisters, places of the heart, rituals, on writing and writers, etc. Among the contributors are Jane Smiley, Carol Shields, Judith Thurman, Madeleine L'Engle, Diane Ackerman, Perri Klass, and Francine Prose. Notes on contibutors. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (123456789 10) on the copyright page. Bound in the original two tone boards (yellow with gold spine). . First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. x, 358pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. "Women reflecting on life's passages from the pages of Victoria magazine.".

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Reading creasing, edge rubbing and a little chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. Price label over the original price at the top right corner of the front cover. Browning to the white areas of the covers with some discolouration to the covers and a small surface chip near the bottom right corner of the back cover. Initials in pen to the first page. Light staining to the page edges and browning to pages Contains 'Man in His Time' by Aldiss, 'The War at Foxhanger' by Roberts, 'The Chicken Switch' by Trevor, 'Susan' by Bevan (Keith Roberts), 'The Excursion' by Ball, 'Over and Out' by Hay, 'Hunt a Wild Dream' by Heywood and an editorial by Bonfiglioli. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine lean with a faint reading crease and there is slight warping to the front cover next to the spine. Browning to the page edges with a little spotting to the top edges and some browning to pages which are otherwise unmarked. Contains 'Man in His Time' by Aldiss, 'The War at Foxhanger' by Roberts, 'The Chicken Switch' by Trevor, 'Susan' by Bevan (Keith Roberts), 'The Excursion' by Ball, 'Over and Out' by Hay, 'Hunt a Wild Dream' by Heywood and an editorial by Bonfiglioli. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 4th edition. edition. 450 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Includes The Pioneer by Ball; Late by Harding; The Engineer by Harding; Conversation Piece by Aldiss; The Bundenburg Touch by Draper; Part 2 of 3 of Field Hospital by White; a guest editiorial by William F Temple; a film review by Carnell and book reviews by Leslie Flood. Cover art by Brian Lewis. Three inch crease to bottom corner of front cover and slight marking to rear cover. Small pieces torn from the top and bottom corners of about 13 pages and some edge wear and browning to pages. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Lewis, Brian (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes The Dark Mind by Kapp (Part one of three parts); Crux by Rackham; The Postlethwaite Effect by Ball; Interlude by Baxter; Return Visit by Woods; No Ending by Busby and a guest editorial by Ashton. Slight edge and surface wear and light browning to pages. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. This book combines two issues of Science Fantasy, 70 and 71 from early 1965, dropping the editorials but otherwise retaining the original pagination. New uncredited cover illustration. There is a little surface discolouration to the covers and quite heavy reading creasing to the spine. Browning to pages which are otherwise unmarked. Contains 'The Outcast' by Harrison, 'Song of the Syren' by Wells, 'Moriarty' by Wordley, 'Bring Back a Life' by Rackham, 'The Jennifer' by Roberts, 'A Cave in the Hills' by Mackelworth, 'Man in His Time' by Aldiss, 'The War at Foxhanger' by Roberts, 'The Chicken Switch' by Trevor, 'Susan' by Bevan (Keith Roberts), 'The Excursion' by Ball, 'Over and Out' by Hay, 'Hunt the Wild Dream' (parts one and two) by Heywood. Cover art credited to Price-Sims. Price-Sims (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 310 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. This scarce first edition, first impression of an invaluable, illustrated guide to the science of astronomy for amateurs, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work.Volume IV from theAmateur Astronomer's Library.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Includes twenty four monochrome plate illustrations in addition to ten charts and more than fifty line diagrams. Collated complete. Among the plates included in the work are the photographs captured by Horace Edward Stafford Dall on 21st April 1956 of Jupiter showing a very rare triple shadow transit of Io, Ganymede and Callisto. H. E. Dall was a major figure in the field of planetary photography between the 1940s and 1970s.Scarce.This is an invaluable amateur guide to astronomy edited by the beloved amateur astronomer Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore. Moore was co-founder and president of the Society for Popular Astronomy and published a number of significant works on astronomy, however remains most famous for having been the permanent host of the BBC television series The Sky at Nightfrom 1957 until his death in 2012. HisPractical Amateur Astronomy seeks to encourage other serious amateurs to devote themselves to the field and includes specific chapters on astronomical recording, lunar observation, the Aurora, and radio astronomy. Full bound in the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, very excellent with just a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Wrapper is lightly age toned with a few minor handling marks to its rear and some edgewear, including a few closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a trifle age toned, however are generally bright and clean barring a couple of small marks. Near Fine. L. F. Ball [illustrator]; H. E. Dall, W. M. Baxter, and, N. D. Wright [photographers] (illustrator). book.…