Howe Robin Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Jacket. . Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xvi) 235 pp. Gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art and interior drawings by John Howe. This anthology contains: Introduction by George R. R. Martin; On Tolkien and Fairy Stories by Terri Windling; The Radical Distinction - A Conversation with Tim and Greg Hildebrandt by Glenn Hurdling; The Mythmaker by Lisa Goldstein; The Tale Goes Ever On by Charles de Lint; How Tolkien Means by Orson Scott Card; Tolkien After All These Years by Douglas A. Anderson; The Longest Sunday by Diane Duane; Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings by Ursula K. Le Guin; A Bar and a Quest by Robin Hobb; Cult Classic by Terry Pratchett; The Ring and I by Harry Turtledove; If You Give a Girl a Hobbit by Esther M. Friesner; A Changeling Returns by Michael Swanwick; Awakening the Elves by Poul Anderson; and Our Grandfather: Meditations on J. R. R. Tolkien. Size: 8vo. John Howe; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 128pp, illustrated in black and white. In brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little rounded at spine ends. Internally a hint of creaminess to pages else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little rubbed on edges, crumbled at spine ends, a little shelf wear. A distillation of many years of research into the history of English food and cookery - a medley of old cookery lore, household recipes, advice on kitchen equipment and dining etiquette.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine condition color photographic softcover/magazine wraps. All pages are in fine unmarked condition. Includes Introduction and List of Photographers. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs. "The pictures you hold in your hands are from the LIFE that, suspended as a weekly in 1972, was reborn as a monthly in 1978. Like most such collections, this one is a kind of betrayal; the photographs - and photographers - most poignantly present here are the ones that are not included. There are several other collections called The Best of LIFE that we could have done, and perhaps someday we will. In the meantime, we will busy ourselves with the sort of journalism that inspires pictures that one day can stand alone, pictures that outlive their stories, pictures as great as poems. We chose the text of a poem, Whitman's "One's-Self I sing" from Leaves of Grass, to accompany the photographs in the section that follows. But as an epigraph for this collection, a few lines from Whitman's "Starting from Paumanok" serve better. Let them serve as an epigraph for photography as well, and for this magazine: This then is life, Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions. How curious! How real!" " - excerpt from the Introduction by James R. Gaines, managing editor. Cook, Dennis (cover photograph) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound illustrated laminated boards, foxing on the free end papers. With photographs by Frederika Davis (illustrator).