Hitchens John (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Corners bumped; dust jacket has edgewear and minor soil; tight, text clean. 272 p., well illustrated. Published in 1990 at 15.95 pounds sterling. [B2:6:3L].

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 192 pages. Robin Blackburn "Fin de Siecle: Socialism after the Crash" / Peter Wollen "Scenes from the Future: Komar & Melamid" / Lynne Segal "Whose Left? Socialism, Feminism and the Future" / Andrzej Walicki "From Stalinism to Post-Communist Pluralism: The Case of Poland" / Robert Brenner "Why is the United States at War with Iraq?" / David Edgerton "Liberal Militarism and the British State" / John Grahl "Economies Out of Control" / Christopher Hitchens "Annan's Unacknowledged Legislators".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 272 pages. Illustrated. Lightly foxed inside dust jacket.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:9781739171346.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated, 64 pages.

Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. There is some light discolouration to the covers around the staples which are rusty. Small blue stain to the bottom corner of the back cover. The spine has a little chipping to the surface with small pieces missing at the top and bottom and one inch closed tears on either side at the top and a smaller tear at the bottom. The covers are detached from the text block. The pages are browned around the edges with spotting to the first and last pages and to the edges but are otherwise unmarked. Contains 'Waikiki Widow' by Gault, 'Model T Murders' by Wert, 'The Corpse Loved Flowers' by Hogan, 'The Unlamented Corpse' by Polito, 'Love Me, She's Dead!' by Baker and 'Murder Walks a Strange Path' by Olsen. Small uncredited illustrations at the beginning of three of the stories. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Condition: NEW.

Condition: Good. - Small quarto [approximately 8-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is rubbed, soiled & bumped. The joints are split & there is a piece out of the head of the spine. 104 pages plus 4 blanks headed "Memoranda". 12 plates illustrated or decorated in color by J. McNeill Whistler, Joseph Pennell and others. The pastedowns & endpapers are stained & foxed & there is light foxing to the fore-edge & bottom edges with occasional foxing or soiling elsewhere in the book. The plates are clean & bright. Good. First edition.A beautifully illustrated book of essays, most of them revolving around the Savoy Hotel and Claridges. In the rear are lists of the hotels' amenities and prices, with useful information for tourists on consulate, banks, etc. There is a brief, illustrated piece about the semi-feral cats that live in the Savoy's basement.

A4 booklet. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Hazel Pryor inside front cover. viii, 64 pp. A study of the paid gardeners of Altrincham, Cheshire, and particularly the Altrincham & District Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society, from its beginnings in the 1890s to its closure in 1994. B&w illustrations. Signed by the author. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Folding card. 40 item catalogue, biography.

Newspaper. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Condition: NEW.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large square Quarto size (4to) in red stiff card covers white lettering to front cover, 28pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc . [CONDITION: VERY GOOD (covers slightly dusty) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Condition: Very good +. John McEwen (curator), Critic's Choice, ICA, London, 1978. Folding invitation card for group show, artists listed include John Hoyland, Ivan Hitchens, Howard Hodgkin, Hamish Fulton and Barry Flanagan. Printed red and black on white stock, 122 x 103mm (folded). Very good +.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 30 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Redfern Gallery, London, 15 February - 23 March 1989. Includes : Patrick Procktor RA, Paul Feiler, Keith Vaughan, Francis Davison, Adrian Heath, Stanley William Hayter, Christopher Wood, Sir Terry Frost RA, Merlyn Evans, Alan Reynolds ,Ivon Hitchens, Prunella Clough, Graham Sutherland, Arthur Lett-Haines, Peter Lanyon, Sir Cedric Morris, Michael Ayrton, Ben Nicholson, John Minton page.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first US edition of John Knittel's debut novel. The personal copy of the author's son, the publisher Robert Knittel. The very scarce first US edition of Indian-born Swiss writer John Knittel's commercially successful first novel, set on the Cornish coast.With the inscription of the author's son, Robert Knittel, to the front free endpaper. Robert was editorial director of publisher William Collins, and the husband of Academy Award winning German born actress Luise Rainer.With a preface from the author's friend, the journalist and writer Robert Hichens, who encouraged Knittel to embark on his English language fiction career. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding. With boards restored, original back strip laid down, and retaining the original endpapers. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Front hinge lightly strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, with title page gathering attached at the head only. Pages lightly age toned, with light tide mark to head of first few leaves. Very Good. book.

117 pp.; 34.8 x 22.4 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Inaugural issue of XXIst Century Magazine published in Winter 1990 / 1991. Edited by Gini Alhadeff. Essays "Do the Wrong Thing: The Significance of Mr. Lee," by Christopher Hutchins; "Dirty Toys: Mike Kelley Interviewed," by Ralph Rugoff; "Ahh.Youth!' Eight Portraits,"; "The Animal Life of Ideas," by Harold Brodkey; "Writing Japanese: Seven Watercolors," by Ray Smith; "The New Negro, From the Novel 'High Cotton,'" by Darryl Pinckney; "Natural Wonder: Five C-Prints," by Gregory Crewdson; "Poems and Diaries," by James Schuyler; "The Ossorio 'Sails': Seven Drawings," by Dan Flavin; "Men in Camisoles: Five Poems," Elaine Equi; "Marshmallow Bombs / Camerasa and Computers: The New Technology of Invisible Deception," by Fred Ritchin; "Baby Elvis, Baby Marilyn, Lion/Sheep: Three Computer Composites," Nancy Burson; "How do you Get the Blood Stains Out of the Carpet? A Preview of The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez," by Peter Sellars; "The Talk Show Confidental," by David Rieff; "The Architect as a Figure of Melancholy: A Profile of John Hejduk," by Carter Ratcliff; "Museum for the Subjects Adam and Eve: Ten Drawings," by John Hejduk; "'Real' Furniture: Seven Drawings," by Donald Judd; "The Begging Bowl Diet," by Ariane Zurcher; "Modern Suit, Modern House: Color Photographs," by Adam Bartos; "Inez: The Takeover of an Island in Hawaii for Military Target Practice," by W. S. Merwin; "The Bombing of the American West: Eight Photographs," by Richard Misrach; "A Day on the Klamath River," by Alexander Cockburn; "On Sloth and Other Virtues," by Amy Hertz; "Coney Island: Four Photographs," by Rosemary Warner; "Letters from London, Colony of Pop," by Ian Buruma; "Twenty-Four Postcards from Bhutan," by John Ryle; "The Difference Between the Planet Venus and the Moon: A Conversation," by Ewa Kuryluk and Michael March; "On Record at The Russian Tea Room: Save the Children," by Fran Lebowitz and "Twenty-seven 'Pueblo' and Navajo Religious Objects from the American Southwest." Cover by Mike Kelley. Very Good / Fine. Nominal rubbing of cover edges and 2 cm. mild fold to upper right corner of recto, otherwise Fine. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required.

First edition, first printing. Large format. Fine in fine dustjacket.