Introduction George Christopher (29 results)

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moser, Barry (illustrator). Words selected from the Holy Scripture by Charles Jennens.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 7.75x5.00x7.80 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Plastic spiral binding with paper covers. ; 224 pages.

Black Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Moser, Barry (illustrator). First Edition. Unpaginated. First Printing. Interior As New. Inscribed By Barry Moser On Title Page. Dj Lightly Scuffed. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Moser, Barry (illustrator). 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Selections from the author's comic strip Life in hell.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No marks. Minimal use. First Printing.

First Edition. 1st thus, softcovers Dick Turpin, Jonathan Wild etc Neat inscription to fep and pages tanned otherwise VG+.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st new edition. 232 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth spine and embossed black boards, 8 3/4 X 11 1/4 inches, (48 pages)Fine in fine unclipped jacket. An illustrated edition of Handel's popular choral work.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 251 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A first edition book. Near fine, in a near fine DW. "Written shortly after the war - but never before published - Bowen's narrative is immediate, direct and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit.".

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xii, 254 pp. LCC: 9639636 Very good condition; touches of wear on bottom edges of covers.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xii, 254 pp. LCC: 9639636 Very good condition; touches of wear on bottom edges of covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 422 pp. ; 24 cm. ; LC:PN6014.G7 1986; ISBN:0671629697 ; OCLC: 13270864 ; LCCN: 86005687 ; stiff paper wrappers ; paperback ; Contents: House opposite / N K Narayan - Working for a living . Alice Munro - A house divided / David Walton - Thieving / Norman Rush - Cathay / Steven Milhauser - Lost sons / James Salter - The old left / Daniel Menaker - Saks Fifth Avenue / Leon Rooke - Arcadia / Charles Dickinson - Hiding /Susan Minot - Claire's Lover's Church / Teri Ruch - Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt - The Nuisance / Penelope Gilliatt - Harry and Sylvia and Sylvia and Son On / Welch D. Everman - Poems : Narcissus explains / Richard Howard - Babel aboard the Hellas International express / Amy Clampitt - Effet et Neige / John Hollander - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Ground / Donald Finkel - The biographies of solitude / Irving Feldman - Telemetry before impact / George Starbuck - The thought that counts / Tom Disch - Memoirs: Sounds / Luis Brunuel - Heatherdown / Alexander Cockburn - Lost property / Ben Sonnenberg - Last home holiday / Dan Jacobson - Kwi-kwi, kwa-kwa / Michael Train - A late debut / Frank Hauser - Poems: Work-in-Progress / Djuna Barnes - Fringecups / Sandra McPherson - Moorhen / William Logan - Emigre / W. S. Merwin - The partisan / Nicholas Christopher - On reading a writer's letters / Mary Jo Salter - Articles: Translating Proust / Terence Kilmartin - Spying in Spain and Elsewhere / Claud Cockburn - For George Orwell / Christopher Hitchens - Revolutionary requirements, etc / Dorothy Gallagher - The culture gulch of the Time / Joh L. hess - Dishonoring Partisan Review / Murray Kempton - Notes on selling out / Dwight Macdonald ; stamp of The Carter Center, Atlanta on front endpaper ; remainder mark at bottom of textblock, else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean and pristine, with no signs of use. There is just a touch of tanning to the endpapers, but none noted elsewhere. The jacket is intact, front and back, with some chipping. ; 8.1 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches; 177 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 624 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Christopher McKimmie (Jacket Designs) (illustrator). VG PB. Li + 493pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tute, George (illustrator). Quarter bound hardcover with beautiful boards, no just jacket, within complementary slipcase, both in very good condition. Wood engravings by George Tute. Light scuffs to the slipcase. No other notable faults. LW.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Small Octavo, 72 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Parchment white spine with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "£25", has mild shelving wear, stains throughout, and bending wear along the head fore corners. Boards have mild shelving wear. Textblock has a stain on page 59, mild wear along the edges, and stains on the edges. Limited edition #54/300. Shelved Room C. 1390767. Special Collections. First Limited Edition, First Printing #54/300.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 251 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Quarto; hardcover; 256pp., with many full-colour illustrations. Mildly worn dustwrapper; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. George Johnson arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1952 and in 1956 held his first exhibition of abstract painting in Melbourne. This book marks the artist's 80th birthday and fifty years of singular dedication to philosophy-based abstract imagery. Johnson's work is uniquely consistent - rarely straying from compositions based on primary shapes and a limited range of colour preferences, but demonstrating how these minimal means can, in combination, serve as surrogates for complex ideas. Additional contributors to the text include the artist's brother, renowned New Zealand poet, Louis Johnson; Australian poet and critic, Gary Catalano and Melbourne philosopher, Patrick Hutchings.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First American Edition 2012; full number-line beginning w/0. Deep red boards, red textured spine wrap, grey impressed spine titles, moderate shelf wear, sticker residue. Front boards features grey facsimile of George Orwell signature and Liveright Publishing emblem. Pages very good, clean. With thirty illustration from the diaries scattered throughout. Frontipiece portrait of Orwell at typewriter with decorative wrting in b.g. Dark grey endpapers. Small red Denver Public Library stamp at front endpaper and top exterior text block; label for same at back pastedown. Original dust wrapper, light shelf wear, spine toning; unclipped 39.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Intriguing wrapper by Evan Gaffney Design features portrait of Orwell wrapping around to back panel with Orwell's left eye enclosed by circular spine titles. Near very good first edition in same wrapper. Features an introduction by the ever skeptical Christopher Hitchens shortly before his swift passing in 2011. Peter Davison edited this collection and the twenty volumes of Orwell's Complete Works. Presented here is a major literary event of the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his masterpieces "Animal Farm" and "1984". Which together have sold more than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell's own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world's leading Orwell scholar Peter Davison, exhibit "the seeds of famous passages to come" - New Statesman - and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he never penned. Printed in the United States of America. 597 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

First Edition. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers. Light browning to preliminaries. Rubbed cloth extensively and rather roughly re-coloured. A bump to the centre of the spine, with some loss of gilt. Very good. After publishing several articles in favour of Italian-style Fascism in the 1920's, Grieve here emerges as a fervent Communist in this collection, with the title poem praising Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov as a modern Messiah. From the library of pioneering Sports Scientist Prof. N.C. Craig Sharp (1933-2018), also a Burns scholar and Poetry Critic for Radio Clyde.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. Stated at copyright: "First Published in 1939". Features a new foreword for this edition by W. Risdon from The Hume Books Trust. Rare volume from the author, E. Douglas Hume, writer of "Bechamp or Pasteur" which was a divergence in 1925 from Hume's less weighty earlier works. Rave reviews adjacent to title page for Bechamp or Pasteur, and Hume's other volumes, The Globular Jottings of Griselda, and, The Multiplicities of Una. Blue cloth boards, black spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages very good, some toning to endpapers; no writing. Moderate fox to exterior text block. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Rare original wrapper, moderate shelf wear, some rub, fox, discoloration; unclipped 16/- net, protected in new clear sleeve. Features a detailed 11-page index of all the names, places, and events referred to throughout. Near very good first edition in near good complete wrapper of this thoughtful provoking collection. From title page: "He is great who succeeds in changing my state of mind." - Emerson. Each chapter begins with a unique quotation of historical acclaim from an individual who saw truth for themselves. Presented here is a book about unusual people. The author has named them "The Mind-Changers," because they belong to the group of thinkers and workers whose influence has been potent in altering and moulding opinion. A volume about extraordinary thinkers for extraordinay thinkers. Those whose minds move to a stereo-typed groove may find it provokingly controversial. There is no use for blind acceptance of the hasty verdicts from history or "experts". E. Douglas Hume sheds new light on many of the so-called heroes of popular prejudice or pre-judgment. Readers will add much of interest and incalculable value to their knowledge and may just change their minds on innumerable subjects that are supposedly settled. Contents: "I. The Good Old Days; II. Under the Low Bridge of St. Stephen's; III. The Poet's Corner; IV. The Star in the East; V. Pioneers of Progress; VI. The Wisdom of the Wild; VII. A Galaxy of Workers; VIII. The Ambassadress and the Apothecary; IX. The Voice of the People; X. A Victorian Pioneer; XI. The Outcome of a Tea-Party; XII. The Parson's Wife; XIII. Hell in Paris; XIV. The New Gospel of Interpretation; XV. The Burden and Heat of the Day; XVI. The Vengeance of Louis Pasteur; XVII. Champions of Animals; XVIII. The Gay 'Nineties; XIX. The Challenge of Battersea; XX. The Shadow of the Inferno; XXI. Storm and Stress; XXII. Purely Personal; XXIII. On the War Path; XXIV. Medical Martyrs; XXV. All Roads Lead to Rome; XXVI. The Dogs of War; XXVII. The Fate of the Horse; XXVIII. For Benefit of Beeves; XXIX. On Wings of Song; XXX. 'A Hunting We Will Go!; XXXI. The Isle Full of Noises; XXXII. The Dark Places of the Earth; XXXIII. The Temple of the Cross; XXXIV. The Privilege of the Galllows." Made and Printed in Great Britain by The Garden City Press, Limited, Letchworth, Hertfordshire. 341 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Stated at copyright: "First Published in 1939". Rare volume from the author, E. Douglas Hume, writer of "Bechamp or Pasteur" which was a divergence in 1925 from Hume's less weighty earlier works. Rave reviews adjacent to title page for Bechamp or Pasteur, and Hume's other volumes, The Globular Jottings of Griselda, and, The Multiplicities of Una. Ruddy orange cloth boards, black spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages very good, moderate discoloration to few; no writing. Light yellow endpapers. Moderate odor. Bind good; hinges intact. Rare original wrapper, moderate shelf wear, few small areas of discoloration; unclipped 8/6 net, protected in new clear sleeve. Features a detailed 11-page index of all the names, places, and events referred to throughout. Near very good first edition in same wrapper of this thoughtful provoking collection. From title page: "He is great who succeeds in changing my state of mind." - Emerson. Each chapter begins with a unique quotation of historical acclaim from an individual who saw truth for themselves. Presented here is a book about unusual people. The author has named them "The Mind-Changers," because they belong to the group of thinkers and workers whose influence has been potent in altering and moulding opinion. A volume about extraordinary thinkers for extraordinay thinkers. Those whose minds move to a stereo-typed groove may find it provokingly controversial. There is no use for blind acceptance of the hasty verdicts from history or "experts". E. Douglas Hume sheds new light on many of the so-called heroes of popular prejudice or pre-judgment. Readers will add much of interest and incalculable value to their knowledge and may just change their minds on innumerable subjects that are supposedly settled. Contents: "I. The Good Old Days; II. Under the Low Bridge of St. Stephen's; III. The Poet's Corner; IV. The Star in the East; V. Pioneers of Progress; VI. The Wisdom of the Wild; VII. A Galaxy of Workers; VIII. The Ambassadress and the Apothecary; IX. The Voice of the People; X. A Victorian Pioneer; XI. The Outcome of a Tea-Party; XII. The Parson's Wife; XIII. Hell in Paris; XIV. The New Gospel of Interpretation; XV. The Burden and Heat of the Day; XVI. The Vengeance of Louis Pasteur; XVII. Champions of Animals; XVIII. The Gay 'Nineties; XIX. The Challenge of Battersea; XX. The Shadow of the Inferno; XXI. Storm and Stress; XXII. Purely Personal; XXIII. On the War Path; XXIV. Medical Martyrs; XXV. All Roads Lead to Rome; XXVI. The Dogs of War; XXVII. The Fate of the Horse; XXVIII. For Benefit of Beeves; XXIX. On Wings of Song; XXX. 'A Hunting We Will Go!; XXXI. The Isle Full of Noises; XXXII. The Dark Places of the Earth; XXXIII. The Temple of the Cross; XXXIV. The Privilege of the Galllows." Set and printed in Great Britain by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth, in Baskerville type, on a toned antique-wove paper made by John Dickinson and bound by James Burn. 341 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Tute, George (illustrator). Limited Edition. Very good condition hardcover quarter bound in dark brown Nigerian goatskin with gilt lettering on the spine, and Cockerell hand-marbled sides, no dust jacket, within complementary red slipcase. This edition limited to 150 numbered copies, of which this is number 110, and signed by the artist George Tute. Eight full page wood engravings by Tute, and details from two of the wood engravings in sunken panels on the slipcase. Printed on Brunswick Wove paper. A few light marks to the slipcase exterior. Content in fine, unread condition with no notable faults. LW. Signed By Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by all eight contributors. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket in a tray case. Signed by Author(s).