Edited Foreman (63 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Freire Wright and Michael Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Color Illustrations; Signed by Not signed; Illustrated soft covers. Very light rubbing along spine and top and bottom edges. Creasing of the back cover. Pages are clean and secure. ; Color Illustrations; 12mo-7" to 71/2" tall; Unpaginated pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. G/none, used hc, 143 pages. Three-quarter color illustrated paper over boards with gilt text on upper and spine. This book is part of the Library of Curious and Unusual Facts series. Interior pages are clean, unmarked, no highlighting. The chapters include information on Pomp and Circumstance, Curious Corpses, Odd Exits, and The Last Word. Binding is tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wright, Freire & Foreman, Michael (illustrator). Number line in the work reads as follows: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 . This is a 32 page pamphlet, highly illustrated with color drawings that is a young children's book. A quite nice copy, free of any markings. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed!

Condition: As New. No Jacket. Michael Foreman (illustrator). 524pp, 5 x 7 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A nice copy with light normal age wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Light normal age/use wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Light normal age/use wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Has some scuffs and a large splotch on cover. An adequate reference copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Moderate dust jacket wear; normal book wear. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Slight shelf wear and lean with sunning to the spine and lower cover edges. Binding remains tight and pages are clean and unbent. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sticker reading "Presented by The Rochester Historical Society, Edward R. Roreman, Editor", then inked name to whom this was presented. Ink note from this owner to her daughter on the flyleaf. Cover has some rub marks, minor wear/soils; interior is in very good condition. 485 pages, nicely illustrated. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Maroon faux leather pattern with log cabin blind-stamp on front cover, gold-color lettering on spine, frontispiece, vi, 419 pp., b/w photos throughout. Mild wear, unmarked, bottom corner of last 5 leaves with crease.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. NF/-. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Covers bright and clean, no wear. Contents clean and unmarked, binding and hinges sound. Gorgeous copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Brick colored cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1941. 298 pages. DJ has shelf wear along top and bottom edges. Light rubbing on rear cover. Second Printing stated on top left corner of front flap of DJ. $5.95 price printed at top right corner of front flap. List of titles in the American Exploration and Travel series as well as the Western Frontier Library on inside of DJ. Boards have been well protected by DJ. Silver illustration on front board and silver lettering on spine are shiny and legible. Photograph of a medal with the face of A. W. Whipple on it as frontispiece. Pages are in excellent shape. Text is neat and legible. Binding strong and tight. Very Good Condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. 3rd edition. Softcover. Foreword by Rennard Strickland. Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die. Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the 'New York Journal of Commerce' in 1841. In his Foreword to this new edition, Rennard Strickland places the case in historical and contemporary context, exploring the evolution of tribal court systems and Indian justice over the past century and a half. Illus. + Index. 112pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Laura Knight et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 126, published in 1991. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed. The top corner of the page block is slightly creased. No tears. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***244mm x 176mm. 96 pages. ***Contents: Jim Burns: Poems; Justine Rivers: Skin; Robert MacAulay; Judy Gahagan: Poem; John Emanuel: Drawings; Elaine Randell: Poem; Jonathan Treitel: Quest; Ken Cox: Drawings; Elaine Randell: Storm Damage; Laurie Preece: Pitures; Donal Atkinson Poems; Charles Shearer: Drawings; John Gower: Lillian; Mike Foreman; Edward Lowbury; Mary Knight: The Girl with the Unicorn; David Remfry; Herbert Lomas: Reviews; Florence Elon: From Frieda & William; Pop Art Retrospective from Ambit: Hockney / Paolozzi / Caulfield / Donaldson / Jones / Blake / Anuand / Donaldson; Joel Lane: The Death of the Witness; Laura Knight; Jeff Nuttall: Eyes IV; Jacqueline Lucas: Poems; William Hampton: To a Man Who Became a Storyteller; Ann Born / Vernon Scannell: Reviews; Duncan Chambers: Poems; Eric Mathieson: Reviews; Robert Magowan: Looking for Binoculars; Kevin Crossley-Holland: Poem. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting. (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 90s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Foreman, Michael (illustrator). Signed Copy. Type: Book N.B. very light shelf wear to edges of covers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Laura Knight et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 127, published in 1992. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed. The top of the spine is slightly creased. No tears. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***244mm x 176mm. 96 pages. ***Contents: James Laughlin: Poems, Robert MacAulay; Vanessa Jackson: Drawings; Ann Gray: Poems; Martin Bax: Le Magasin des Gants, David Remfy; Rosemary Norman: Poems; Adrian Mitchell: Poems; Michael Foreman; Judith Kazantzis: The Glass Avenue, Laura Knight; Andzej Klimowski: The Story So Far; Josephine Wilson: Poems; Lomas / Eisa Sterberg: Money Doesn't Stink; E.A. Markham: Madeline; Elizabeth Smith: The Tzar, Lenin & Picasso; Lois Beeson: Poems; Jim Burns: Reviews; David Grubb: Poems; Sue Flynn: Disabled Vows; Ian Pollock: Drawings; Liz Dearden: Cut Woman Poems; Linda Sutton: Etchings; Anthony Edkins: Poems; Lomas / Belbin: Reviews; Ambit Nights Out; Felicity Napier: Poems; Richard Dyer: Poems / Pictures. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 90s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Good book on the contributions of the Hollywood screenwriter. First pub. as a special issue of Film Comment. Inclds. essays, articles, interviews & symposium with 12 writers. 50 filmogs. No photos. A few tiny impression marks to the silver cover and the usual light browning to the paper otherwise this is a fine unread copy. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 60pp. Pictorial wrappers. A faint stain on the interior front wrap (that shows through a bit), five tiny ink arrows on the contents page, near fine. The issue is devoted to Ezra Pound, and contains "A Laud for Ezra Pound" by Paul Foreman. Additional contributions by Kenneth Rexroth, Malcolm Glass, and more.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Contemporary gift inscription, else fine in perfect bound wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. MICHAEL FOREMAN (illustrator). NOTE FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS: HEAVY BOOK WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA POSTAGE FEE FOR OVERSEAS SHIPPING FROM THE UK, PLEASE EMAIL FOR PRICE-DETAILS IF RELEVANT. Excellent fine interior and boards, no inscriptions - nicely-illustrated throughout by Michael Foreman (please email for more information re stores/authors) d/j near fine as shows just a hint of previous usage but no tears or loss and not price-clipped./.

Condition: Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing. The book condition is Fine. Signed by Jim Stiles 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing Including the plays "The Cure," Film is Evil Radio is Good," "Symphony of Rats," "What Did He See?", "Lava". Fine and bright in like pictorial dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. Gift quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong tall 8vo illus warps, 50p. essays, art, poetry etc VG+ clean and crease-free with light general wear, includes articles by and about Kathy Acker. The 1st issue of this literary anthology. anthology.

8vo. First edition, with CD. ppXV(1)495(1) with numerous illustrations, music examples, Elgar wartime chronology, bibliography, discography, and index; pictorial endpapers. Hardback / hard cover: illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Rear pastedown with graze of width just over 0.5cm and length 3cm adjacent to upper edge of CD sleeve, nothing too disfiguring. VERY GOOD+ copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. There are line drawings throughout the text, illustrating entries which benefit from visual treatment, and the last thirty pages of the encyclopedia carry a list of Useful Abbreviations, tables of Weights and Measures with special emphasis on the Metric System, brief chonologies of all the Commonwealth Countries, the structure of the United Nations Organisation and a miscellany of interesting statistics including The Highest Mountain, The Deepest Mine, The Farthest Star and many others. Illustrated. 469 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 Academic Literature.).

Stapled Card Covers. Condition: Very Good Plus. Drawings by Michael Foreman (illustrator). Card Covers 1960. 32 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 600.3. Ambit. No 6. Autumn 1960. Magazine. Edited by M. C. O. Bax. Drawings by Michael Foreman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 087011204X. Hardback. Very Good condition book, with minor rubs and bumps to cover corners and edges, slight browning to edges of interior pages, in a Good to Very Good Condition dustjacket with minor small closed tears, chips, rubs and creases to edges, shallow, straight scratch running just below top edge of front jacket, some browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy except for previous owner crossing out copyright date on publication info page in ink. $16.50 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Oversized. No Signature.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Michael Foreman (illustrator). Stapled card covers. 25x18.5cm. 44 pages. 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 d664477.