Jack Newby (17 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, bumps, light browning/VG, Edgewear, tear, abrasion, label stain on front flap. Political drama. Jacket design by Roger Phillips. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 254 pages. (SL#80).

Condition: Good. Signed by the author. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good complete DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair+. Black boards look patchy but this may be the design - hard to tell. Otherwise in Good condition. Front endpaper has a diagonal snip to top corner. Internally in good condition other than light foxing to edges. D/J is a little edgeworn and scuffed with surface tear along front spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

1st Ed., H/B brown cloth bds, VG, unclipped d/w, Good, a little edgewear, dusty, contents crisp, clean and tight, pp254.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Dust Jacket Included. GGA - {Good Girl Art) Painted Cover (illustrator). First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. Inventory # D512-1 FATE (Pulp Digest Magazine); Vol. 7, No. 4, Issue 49, April 1954 True Stories on The Strange, The Unusual, The Unknown - Rasputin Strange Powers Of The Mad Monk - Sex, Sanctity, And Rasputin, Astrology, Pseudo-Science, Astrology, Ecuadors Moon-Mad Slayer Published by Highland Park, IL: Clark Publishing Company, CONTENTS; ** STORIES (1) Ecuadors Moon-Mad Slayer by J. M. Sheppard (2) The First Quarter And His Healing by Margaret Newby (3) Strange Events In Poltergeist Canyon by Charles C. Stemmer (4) Footsteps By The Bed by Della Fricker (5) Vampire Of Croglin Hall by Valentine Dyall (6) The Ghost Dance by Virginia Stumbough (7) Haunted Church Of Avenbury by Marion C. S. Holbourn (8);** ARTICLES = (1); Chinese Divination by Hereford Carrington (2) Sex, Sanctity, And Rasputin by Richard Hirsch (3) The Disappearing Warts by Jack M. Swartout (4) Astrology - Science Or Pseudo-Science? by Sydney Omarr (5) Is There An Astrological Force? by Fenn Gremer (6) Peter MQuhaes Monster by Valentine Dyall CONDITION; VG/Fine; reading stress line, sm crease bottom right PRICE = $39; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Softcover. Year 1976. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The year is 1967. In China, eighteen years after the founding of the People's Republic, the Cultural Revolution is at its peak. In Malaysia, seven years after the ending of the Emergency, some 400-500 communists live in the Thai-Malaysian border jungle waging a forgotten war against the security forces of both countries, and waiting for instructions. How these instructions arrive and how they affect the lives of the members of Geretak Batu, a small town in a Malaysian border state, is the theme of this novel. But it is not just another political thriller or spy story: Jack Newby uses the threat of civil disturbance and insurrection to show a nation reaching political maturity and its citizens of differing races and creeds finding their national identity. (LL).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by the author and Laurie Peacock (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some yellowing to back jacket, some slight spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (21/-), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 251pp. Superintendent Bill Abbott goes back to Cyprus to investigate a crime that could return Cyprus to Civil War. By forgotten author Jack Newby.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Year 1976. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The year is 1967. In China, eighteen years after the founding of the People's Republic, the Cultural Revolution is at its peak. In Malaysia, seven years after the ending of the Emergency, some 400-500 communists live in the Thai-Malaysian border jungle waging a forgotten war against the security forces of both countries, and waiting for instructions. How these instructions arrive and how they affect the lives of the members of Geretak Batu, a small town in a Malaysian border state, is the theme of this novel. But it is not just another political thriller or spy story: Jack Newby uses the threat of civil disturbance and insurrection to show a nation reaching political maturity and its citizens of differing races and creeds finding their national identity. (LL).

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: nrVG DW. 1st Edition.

Newsletter. Four issue broken run, various pagination, 8.25x10.75 inches, news, events, opinion, services and resources, photos, ads, lightly-used newsletters of folded nested or pastebound sheets, pen note at top of first two. Misnumbering of early issues. 1:5 & 6? (both marked as issue number 5 but dated May and July-August, 1984 ) 2:1 & 2, February & April 1987. Bimonthly newsletter. Cover stories on the election of board members of One, Inc. at Long Beach and the new executive director of The Center, Jack M. Newby.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 8" x 5¼" 251 pp. Couple of small fox spots to top edge. Near Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with tiny closed nicks to corners of spine tips and foot of upper panel, spine not faded, not price clipped 21/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Sitting Member by Jack Newby, Hardcover, First English Edition (1967). Book in very good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. (See pictures).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. number stamp to fep and copyright page. some darkening to endpapers with owners inscription to ffep. foxing to outer edge of text block. unclipped d.j. in protective jacket with small chips to the overjacket at bottom and front edge. 5mm tear to bottom front corner of d.j. Ex-Library.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Collection of three legal briefs pertaining to a court case involving the General Creditors of the Golden Fleece Sheep Company and the Fidelity Trust Company. The legal briefs are carbon typescripts in black ink on white paper and affixed to light blue paper backings with metal fasteners at top. One of the briefs is divided into two gatherings. 9" x 14." Twenty-five pages between the three documents. Each legal brief is clean and intact overall except for a few fold lines and wrinkles, occasional small stains (including rust marks), light age toning, and some chipping and closed tears on the backings. Each legal brief and the entire collection are Very Good. The Golden Fleece Sheep Company operated a sheep business in Nevada during c. 1900s-1920s. The company borrowed $1,000,000 from the Fidelity Trust Company of San Francisco but eventually fell into receivership. When the receiver began to sell off assets in the mid-1920s, the Golden Fleece Sheep Company's General Creditors sued the Fidelity Trust Company in order to get money from the sale of those assets. Attorneys for the General Creditors were Kenneth Lloyd Williams and Jack Monterief Sinclair. Attorneys for Fidelity were Norris J. Burke and Nathan Newby, Jr. Williams and Sinclair have signed in black ink. Burke has a carbon signature. There is no signature by Newby.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.