Edited Alan Thomas (42 results)

Softcover. xiii, 347 pp. Softcover. LCC: 2005053425 Good condition; touches of wear on covers; slight water warping near bottom edges of pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st American edition. First American edition. Book has some light wear. Dust jacket is price clipped, some wear to spine ends and light rubbing and smudges overall. Illustrated with eight b & w reproductions of paintings by the author. Material includes descriptions of travel using essays, letters, travel articles, and selections from early novels. Has an index. Durrell is known for his sense of place.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with faint stain to back cover and last few pages. Edward W. Said - Third World Intellectuals / Metropolitan Culture. John G. Blair - Chain And Democracy. Alan H. Friedman - The French Lesson (fiction). Nancy Huston - A Tongue Called Mother. Edward Snow - Bruegel's Peasant Dance. Daniel Aaron - Theodore Roosevelt As Cultural Artifact. J. D. McClatchy - Two Poems. Lee Rust Brown - Emersonian Transparency. ; D3D; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 145 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover design by Guy A. Rossi. Quarto. 76pp. Stapled wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Light age-toning, near fine. Copy 48 out of 300. Notable contributors include David Meltzer, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder, and others.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover design by Guy A. Rossi. Quarto. 76pp. Stapled wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Age-toning and rubbing, near fine. Copy 93 out of 300. Notable contributors include David Meltzer, Lyn Lifshin, Alan Michael Leder, and others.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie Eainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Wear and Tear, PAPER BACK Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover & Interior Art by Alan Hunter, Thomas Clark, & Wendy Wees (illustrator). Issue 5 of this fantastic small-press dark fantasy fiction zine, published in 1985. Features stories by B. Richard Parks, Phillip C. Heath, Frank Belknap Long, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Billy Wolfenbarger, Bobby G. Warner, Margaret Widdemer, Richard Le Gallienne, M. Jesse Hoare, Joseph Payne Brennan, Delia Shiflet, Theophile Gautier, and many more. There where seventeen issues between 1980-1996, the first four edited by UK fan Dave Reeder, the rest by American author Jessica Amanda Salmonson. The first two issues (1980-1981) were published by Dave Reeder himself, the following fifteen issues (no 3 and 4 with Reeder still as editor) by Richard Fawcett in the USA. Contains an ad card for issue #6 with discritions of that issue and back issues. Perfect for the collector of horror and fantasy zines. Good to very good; covers are dirty and show slight discoloration as do the inside pages. No tears, rips, or missing pages. Protected in an acid free plastic sleeve.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. inscribed and signed by editor on title page, 11 inches, 133 pages, maps, photos, Constitution statistics, Dandrea drawing of frigate, color illustrated card cover. Cover lightly edgeworn and rubbed, contents fine. A daily log and journal by Ship's Carpenter has been used to create the first book on this voyage. USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975! Signed.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. New Series. Volume XIX, Part 1 (April 1968). Softcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrations by Bob Lavoie, Steve Gervais and Don Maitz (illustrator). 1st Edition. This version limited to 500 copies in black lettered [trade sized paperback format] wrappers. Essays and photographs relating to Necon, stories, plus essays on H. P. Lovecraft, etc. Divided into three parts: The first part contains Necon Memories along with photos and drawings that seem particularly Necon. The second part contains fiction; some new, some out of print for a long time, and the third part contains two articles about H.P. Lovecraft. If you were at the early Necons and remember the fun of those years you will want a copy of this book. This copy is signed by several of the writers and is in excellent condition. Very good to fine, being protected in an acid free plastic sleeve. Signed by Author(s).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 209 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover illustration by G.F. Hollingsworth. Quarto. 68pp. Tied wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edgewear, near fine. Notable authors include George Hardie, Thomas A. Clark, Maurice Lindsay, Finlay J. Macdonald, Edwin Morgan, and David Morrison. Additional contributors include Ronald Eadie Munro, D.M. Black, Eric Gold, Alan Jackson, Alexander Scott, Alastair Mackie, Rayne Mackinnon, Keith Murdoch, John Manson, W.A.S. Keir, and Charles Senior.

Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the wrappers. Text complete, clean and tight; Paperback; Measures Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6") (1 kg); pp 376; Index; Contains: Diagrams; Tables; References; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185322 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxvi, 403 pp. LCC: 33552.

Paperback. Condition: fine. First paperback edition. The Clarendon Edition of The Works of Thomas Hobbes. Volume XI. Trade paperback. 192pp.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 108pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from Ronald Draper, Nadine Gordimer, Mikis Theodorakis, Ian Wedde, David Harsent, Geoffrey Hutchings, Berthe Morisot, Daniel Hoffman, Vis Nathan, William Feaver, Roy Armes, Don Locke, P. Lal, Edward Thomas, Patric Dickinson, Duncan Fallowell, and Gavin Ewart.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 96pp. Fine in perfectbound wrappers. British literary magazine that includes contributions from W.H. Auden, Michael Feld, Philip Larken, Daniel Hoffman, Minos Argyrakis, Douglas Dunn, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Fuller, Julian Symons, John Ginger, Stephen Grant, Lucian Freud, Ian Watson, Lionel Brett, Don Locke, Peter Porter, John Elsom, Edward Thomas, Jonathan Raban, and John Betjeman.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 221 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Two unbound signatures. 12mos. xvi; P.387-390. A touch of toning and one small spot on front wrap, near fine. Containing only the Editor's notes and the contents pages listing the contributors to this issue which are Jocelyn Brooke, Jon Manchip White, Hal Summers, Frederick Vanson, Ursula Wood, R.L. Cook, Thomas Fassam, Michael Hamburger, R.H. Ward, Juanita Peirse, F. Pratt Green, A.J. Bull, and Alan Barnsley, along with the author's biographical notes. No poems.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Lucian Freud, Glen Baxter (illustrator). Paperback. 21x15.5cm. 96 pages. Flat spine Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref HV5. London Magazine. March 1978. Volume 17. Number 9. Includes: Lucian Freud - Night Nudes; Anthony Powell - Dawn in Henrietta Street, Glen Baxter Cartoons and Article.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Military Miscellany I. Manuscripts From the Seven Years War, The First and Second Sikh Wars and the First World War edited by Alan J. Guy, Thomas and Gerard J. DeGroot. Bottom corners very slightly bumped. The Journal of George Durant, giving a vivid account of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759, has passed through the family, by dirent descent to the present opwner, who has kindly allowed its reproduction in this volume. Daniel George Robinson's letters, describing the experiences of an engineer working on the Hazara Survey during the First and Second Sikh Wars (in which he participated), belong to the family of their editor, R. N. W. Thomas, who is himself related to the writer. The Diary of the Reverand G. S. Duncan gives a very personal view of Haig's GHQ from 1916 to 1918 and is interesting beftween the two men and how it fostered Haig's conviction that he had been singled out by God and that 'At the right time the Lord will bring about a gteat victory.'449 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

21.5cm, 449p., index, colour frontis portrait, map, illustration, red cloth, fine in fine jacket. (Mt).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback 1995. 21.5x14cm. viii+338 pages with index. SPINE IS LIGHTLY CREASED. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner, securely boxed in cardboard. ref o-as.

200 / 216 pp. Good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean, with just some very light foxing to the front endpaper and pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. No creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mervyn Peake (Illustrations), Gerald Wilde (Lithographs and dustwrapper) (illustrator). First Edition. Vol. 2, No. 10 - February 1945 - the tenth issue in the original series of the historic Poetry magazine, designed and edited by Tambimuttu. First impression of the true first edition, and the only issue of the magazine issued in hardcover, actually published in February 1945, although the book states 'Published in December 1944' - publication was delayed due to operating under wartime conditions. With an eight page introductory piece by the editor Tambimuttu, and dedicated to the memory of the poet Keith Douglas, who was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944. The book contains three stunning full-page colour lithographs by Gerald Wilde, one of which is a double-page centre-fold, to accompany T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night". In addition, there are eight-pages of drawings by Mervyn Peake which were used to illustrate "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which was published the year before by Chatto & Windus (including the plates suppressed and not used by Chatto). There is also a full-page handwritten poem by Augustus John. ***Very good in light beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine (There is also a variant issue of the book in blue cloth). The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are clean - just slightly marked with age and handling. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Corners slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally near fine with no inscriptions - just a small pencil price at the top of the front free endpaper and a bookseller's label to the bottom of the front pastedown. Illustrations bright and clean. The lithographs are printed on high grade cartridge paper, printed from the original stones by the Baynard Press, whereas the text of the magazine is on thin wartime economy paper. Top corners of some pages slightly creased - otherwise, no creases or tears. No dustwrapper. ***258mm x 192mm. x prelim-pages plus 264 pages. ***Contents: Poems, Illustrations, Prose, Art, Radio, Music, Points of View, Correspondence. Poems by various poets including Michael Hamburger, Henry Miller, Alan Ross, Stevie Smith, R.S. Thomas etc. Illustrations: three full-page colour lithographs including a two-page centrefold of T. S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" by Gerald Wilde, and eight full-page drawings for "The Ancient Mariner" by Mervyn Peake. Also a full-page reproduction of a handwritten poem: "The Antiquary, 1944" by Augustus John. ***First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in February 1945, although the book states December 1944. Of interest to collectors of poetry first editions, the publications of Poetry London, collectors of the illustrations of Mervyn Peake, and of the artwork of Gerald Wilde. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 194, [2]pp. Original paper covered boards, with black and white lettering to spine and covers. "This inaugural volume of the 'German Yearbook of Contemporary History' is devoted to a central theme of recent historical scholarship: the Holocaust. Ulrich Herbert and Peter Hayes take stock of German contributions to Holocaust research, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe examines the collective memory of the murder of the Jews in the Ukrainian diaspora, and Jürgen Zarusky critically evaluates the controversial notion of the "Bloodlands". The volume is rounded out by an English translation of the original 1953 article by Hans Rothfels in which a key document, the Gerstein Report, was first published, as well as a retrospective analysis of this important article by Valerie Hébert. Updates on recent German projects in the field of Holocaust history are also provided by Frank Bajohr and Susanne Heim." (From the Publishers). Binding and interior in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 221 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 350 pages. 9.25x6.38x1.38 inches. In Stock.