Lawrence Ball (43 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories by Jewish authors. Featured are The Banality of Evil by Terence Ball, Silver is Better Than Gold by Sandra Levy Ceren, Death Has Beckoned by Martin S. Cohen, The Golem of Bronx Park East by Richard Fliegel, Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper by Michael A. Kahn, The Tenth Man by Stuart M. Kaminsky, Bitter Waters by Rochelle Krich, Thy Brother's Bloods by Ronald Levitsky, Your Papers, Please by Lev Raphael, Reconciling Howard by Shelley Singer, Hospitality in a Dry Country by Janice Steinberg, Without a Trace by Batya Swift Yasgur. Sun fading to the spine. In very good condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Probably Murder, I Figured. Book.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Les Lawrence (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, some yellowing to white parts of jacket, not price clipped (£3.75), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 244pp. A Pasadena scoutmaster on a hike discovers the dead body of a young woman who was the object of an extensive police search. John Dudley Ball (1911-88), was an American writer best known for mystery novels featuring the African American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel 'In the Heat of the Night', which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

Condition: New. In.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnAtlantic City has many nicknames: The worlds Playground, the newest one is Do/AC. Some people refer to it as Sin City of the East. Private detective Maxwell Diamond isn t sure he even has a case when he is asked to look into a car.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xix, 361 pp. Good condition; moderately faded; touches of wear to top and bottom edges of cover. signed by the editor.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Atlantic City has many nicknames: The worlds Playground, the newest one is Do/AC. Some people refer to it as Sin City of the East. Private detective Maxwell Diamond isn't sure he even has a case when he is asked to look into a car crash that the police ruled a accident. But every time he comes up with a possible suspect they end up dead. Max is sure he has a case when somebody tries to kill him. The investigation leads Max to Philadelphia and Las Vegas, and to a beach where Max gets a sunburn in an embarrassing place.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 202, [6] ads; over 70 illustrations, tables, etc. in the text; original blue gilt-stamped cloth; light wear, a few pencil annotations (largely in the bibliography at the back), all else very good and clean. William Lawrence Gordon Balls (1882-1960) was a British botanist who specialized in cotton picking technology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and made many practical achievements in cotton botany, agronomy, and entomology.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. 12mo. [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [7], 2-143 pp. Publisher's ads on the pastedowns and endpapers. Blue-green paper boards with a colorful mounted illustration on each board. With full-page black and white photographs of golfers. Publisher's ads illustrated as well. Price of 1'- net on the front board. Mild soiling to the boards, a crack to the front hinge but the binding remains secure.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Illustrated. 143 pages. With Alexander Herd, George Duncan, Wilfrid Reid, Lawrence Ayton, Jack White, Tom Ball. Introduction by R. E. Howard. Covers lightly soiled but colorful cover illustration of Vardon complete as is rear panel advert for Pirelli tyres, 1" scrape upper cover not affecting the title or image. Cover corners and upper spine paper worn. Former owner's name upper pastedown. Several light thumb/finger marks to the early page edges, otherwise no internal markings, underlining, notations, etc. that often appear in this early instructional by some of the day's greatest golfers. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 300 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated. 143 pages. With Alexander Herd, George Duncan, Wilfrid Reid, Lawrence Ayton, Jack White, Tom Ball. Introduction by R. E. Howard. Covers lightly soiled, small stain lower front cover, but colorful illustration of Vardon complete as is rear panel color advert for Pirelli tyres; name of famed Canadian golf book collector H. Thomae and date on pastedown. No internal markings, underlining, notations, etc. that often appear in this early instructional by some of the day's greatest golfers. Covers protected in mylar. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 300.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Woods, Rex (cover art); Ball, Seymour; Davenport, Ernest; Nurick, Irving; Scott, F.; Moyer, S.G. (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Features: College fashion cover illustration; Bright red Canada brand Lobster ad inside front cover; Salute to a People, by Margaret Lawrence; Nice one-page photo ad for RCA Victor radios features the Model A-32; Come to the Fair (fiction); Two pages of black and white photos of college fashions for ladies; By Design - watch out when a pretty girl starts studying model trains!; Ugly Duckling - Jan worries about blonde Judith; Light Was Her Laughter (continued); "I'm glad we're friends with Canada", said FDR's mother to S.G. Moyer; Nice color ad for Campbell's Soups; Woodbury soap ad features photo of 'noted societal commentator' Cholly Knickerbocker; Women Face the Second Year of WWII; One-page ad for Fleischmann's Yeast features photos of locomotive cleaning and manually loading a horse-drawn wagon; Woodbury cold cream ad features photo of Andrea Leeds; One-page photo ad for Magic Baking Powder features young girl at chalkboard; The Bath Through the Ages; Teach the Children Music; Beauty News; Half-page ad for Mercury sportswear features photo of U.B.C. (UBC) outstanding woman athlete Ruth Wilson wearing her UBC top and Mercury campus stockings; Nice bright colourful ad for Hewetson Shoes inside back cover; Fantastic colour-photo ad for Crown Brand Corn Syrup on back cover features young man in necktie gobbling pancakes, plus an endorsement by Mrs. Percy Bone of Thornhill, Ontario, and a small colour photo of Kate Aitken; and much more. Moderate wear. Small address label upon front cover. A quality vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Woods, Rex; Fischer, Anton Otto; Klett, Walter; Wilcox, C.R.; Ball, Seymour; Dahlberg, Edwin; Merwin, Decie (illustrator). First Edition. Wonderfully illustrated front cover by Rex Woods depicts two medieval musicians performing a Christmas tune. 96 pages. Features: Charming colour ad for Green Giant canned tomatoes inside front cover includes map of Essex County, Ontario, where "the swankiest tomatoes in Canada' are grown; Nice one-page ad for the 1937 Chevrolet; Christmas 1936-2000 - a thoughtful article on the the future of the church and those born in 1936; Gorgeous one-page colour ad for the new 1937 V-8 Ford cars, featuring a maroon sedan; Lucky Keyes - short story by A.D. Divine; Silver Legs - short story by Margaret Nyren Hoffman; Christmas poems; I Was A Stranger - a true Canadian story as told to Janet Erskine Scott; Santa Claus for a Quarter - short story by Emma-Lindsay Squier; The Transit of Venus - short story by Gertrude Macaulay Sutton; Fog Over Fundy - short story by Louis Arthur Cunningham; Marvelous one-page colour-illustrated Campbell's Soup ad features grocer talking to well-heeled lady; Teens and Twenties; Fulfill Wishes - by Eva Nagel Wolf; Nice one-page ad for Jane Seymour Beauty Preparations; Movie reviews of "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Gorgeous Hussy", "Craig's Wife", and "Seven Sinners"; A Peek at the Books - Margaret Lawrence reports on the Toronto Book Fair; One-page Carnation Milk ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Lovely one-page colour ad for Five Roses flour features Christmas baking; Eight delicious-looking recipes by Mona Parr for Christmas puddings and sauces - Rich Plum, Plum, Simple Dark Fruit, Carrot, Fluffy Mocha, Chilled Moulded Plum, Hard Sauce, Brown Sugar Sauce; One-page Libby's baby food ad features photos of the Dionne Quints; Fashion ideas - 'Dresses for Dates'; Delightful page of illustrations to be cut out entitled "Mary Lou and Bobby's Christmas" by Lydia Fraser; and more. A quality copy of this heartwarming depression-era piece of Christmas Canadiana.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +. Book / Periodical. Ian Hamilton Finlay (ed.), Poor Old Tired Horse: Number Three, Wild Hawthorn Press, Edinburgh, undated (1962). Black and white offset, folded. 4pp. With contributions by: Robert Garioch; Jonathan Williams; Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. Dave Ball); César Lopez Nunez (trans. Jim Haynes); Veng; Larry Eigner; R. Crombie Saunders; Libby Houston; Edwin Morgan; Giacomo Leopardi (trans. Edwin Morgan); and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Condition: light handling marks, some toning to top of first two pages. Overall: Very good + Murray 2.3.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 300.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 300 8:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Blue Cloth w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.