Edited John Higgins (14 results)

Pamphlet. 32 p.; 15 cm. (Living selections from the great devotional classics) Good, stapled, in orig. red on white wrapper.

Condition: Used - Very Good. Used - Very Good.For Four Players at One Piano. All four parts on 2 pages. Last Tag symbolizes a game of tag to be played by four children at one piano. Each time a single "D" is played the child playing it succeeds in tagging another child. Each section of the piece is supposed to represent the children running around and away from each other, evading the tags from the one who has been tagged last.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 24 Stories, 223 pages, with an introduction by Higgins. Jacket very gently rubbed, in Brodart.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First editions. Three volumes. Small quartos. 304, 275, 292pp. Illustrated in black and white. Glossy printed boards. Spine titling a bit sunned else fine in a fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. With new introduction by Conor Cruise O'Brien. Octavo. 236pp. A few miniscule splash mark to the page ends, else fine in near fine dust jacket a touch of edgewear and hint of toning. Includes profiles of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, George Moore, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St. John Gogarty, F.R. Higgins, and A.E.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Contributors include such luminaries as [Donald E. Westlake, Peter Godfrey, Joe Gores, Julian Symons, James Grady, Donald Hamilton, Aaron Marc Stein, Hillary Waugh, Justin Scott, Lucy Freeman, Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, John D. MacDonald, among others.*Scarce title in this condition. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine (sl chipping to spine and fold ends, else fine) mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped } M110.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st UK printing 1984. Hardback in jacket. 24x16cm. xii+172 pages with index. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. SIGNED by 5 of the contributors plus Dr Eileen Joyce at the Foyles Literary Luncheon. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £12.50. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. ----- LAID IN : Foyles Literary Luncheon table plan and Guest of Honour list ------------ Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. Glyndebourne: A Celebration. Published by Jonathan Cape, London. SIGNED by 5 of the contributors plus Dr Eileen Joyce at a Foyles Literary Luncheon. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. 1: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the publisher's copyright prelims page. (Simultaneously published by St. Martin's Press, New York). ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Owner's name and address printed label to top of front free endpaper. Unobtrusive, very small 'coffee' splash mark to outer margin of page 177, and tiny splash mark to a tiny section of the fore-edge of text-block. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrappers bright. ***222mm x 144mm. 218 pages including notes to the end of each chapter and index to rear. ***Contents: Reference Key to Nietzsche's texts; Introduction; Part One: Nobles and Exemplars: 1. Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics by David Owen; 2. Annunciation and Rebirth: The Prefaces of 1886 by Daniel W. Conway; 3. Stendhal's ecstatic embrace of History as the Antidote for decadence by Brain Domino; Part Two: Laughter and Comedy: 4. Nietzsche's Best Jokes by Laurence Lampert; 5. Waves of Uncountable Laughter by Kathleen Marie Higgins; 6. Laughter: a Tool in Moral Perfectionism? John Lippitt; Part Three: Art, Nature and the Transhuman: 7. A Pessimism of Strength: Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime by Jim Urpeth; 8. Creating the Future: Legislation and Aesthetics by Gary Banham; 9. Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker by Graham Parkes; 10. Loving the Poison: On the 'Meaning' of the Transhuman Condition by Keith Ansell Pearson. ***'This wide-ranging collection of essays, explores various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, centered upon the general issue of futurity. It asks such questions as: What are the roles of human exemplars, moral perfectionism and noble ethics in our 'self-overcoming'? What place does laughter have in Nietzsche's vision of the future? What contribution can Nietzsche make to the issue of humanity's relation to the natural world in an age of ecological crisis? Or to questions about the "transhuman condition" arising from contemporary views of evolution? ***John Lippett has published numerous articles on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and theories of humour and laughter.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***An extremely hard to find first impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice bright condition. ***An extremely detailed and scholarly collection of philosophical essays of interest to academics and existentialists studying the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. ***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.

Pictorial Card. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). No Jacket. Black & White & Illustrations (illustrator). 1996 Edition. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 344 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Magazine. Quarto. 34pp. Stapled wrappers. A touch rubbed with moderate dampstain to front and rear wraps and some page edges, very good plus. Errata slip laid in. A literary magazine that was the successor to James Liddy's *Arena*. Among its contributors are W.H. Auden, Anthony Cronin, Anthony Kerrigan, Earle Birney, Dominick Browne, George Barker, Leland Bardwell, Paul Durcan, Michael Harnett, Aidan Higgins, Liam O'Connor, James Liddy, John Montague, Brian Higgins, Pearse Hutchinson, Flea Ceoil, Jaime Gil de Biedma, George Dowden, Ewart Milne, Sydney Bernard Smith, Neil Spratling, Knute Skinner, and Desmond O'Grady. No individual issue located in *OCLC*. Southern Illinois University has archive of *The Holy Door* manuscripts and correspondence.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 62pp. Photographic wrappers. Slight sticker shadow on front wrap, else near fine. Featuring Richard Prince's text piece, "from Moving by Wading More than Swimming." Additional contributors include Michael Hurson, Keith Rahmmings, John Perreault, Michael Tracy, Dick Higgins, Cindy Shearer, Mitchell Kane, and Ascher/Straus. Very uncommon.

3/4 Leather. Condition: Very Good. Three Parts in 2 Volumes. "First-person accounts of the rise to power and decline of famous men, chiefly figures in English History." First Edition was published in 1554-1555 and considered treasonable by Queen Mary. Contemporary 3/4 dark blue leather over marbled boards with matching endpapers, all edges gilt. the spine has 5 raised bands with gilt decorations and lettering.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 344 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.