May John P Editor (10 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 552 pp. Review blurb laid in. Includes18 short stories. Bright, near fine copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. first edition,1p; 123456789 print line. VERY GOOD CONDITION,clean, solid, bright.; Black titles on gold spine strip.Cover shows 8 different photos of musical cultureal expressions, all on gold background. .HAS 3 NICE RECORDS WITH BOOK, AS ISSUED ; 456 pages; "The foremost authorities in the field of music from around the world have contributed twenty original essays for this volume, edited by Elizabeth May. Only European musics have been omitted, except insofar as they affect other musics discussed here. North American music is represented by musics of Native Americans and the Alaskan Eskimos. The essays are profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, diagrams, photographs, and music examples. There are extensive glossaries, bibliographies, and annotated film lists.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Danilo Ducak; (illustrator). First Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edgewear with some creasing on the lower right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Danilo. This anthology contains: Introduction: The Truth of the Mummy's Curse by John Richard Stephens; The Malevolence of Ancient Egyptian Spirits by Arthur Weigall; Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Louisa May Alcott; Raiding Mummies' Tombs - by various Egyptologists; The Vengeance of Nitocris by Tennessee Williams; Under the Pyramids - a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft, written for Harry Houdini; Opening King Tutankhamen's Tomb by Howard Carter with A. C. Mace; The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie; The Demon Possessed Princess - by an ancient Egyptian priest; The Majestic Sphinx by Mark Twain; Smith and the Pharaohs - a novella by H. Rider Haggard; Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe; Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Homemade Truly Egyptian Mummy by Ray Bradbury; Dead Kings - an excerpt by Rudyard Kipling; Lot No. 249 - a novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Locked Tomb Mystery by Elizabeth Peters; The Death Ring of Sneferu by Sax Rohmer; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned - an excerpt by Anne Rice; and The Jewel of the Seven Stars - a novella by Bram Stoker. Size: 8vo. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have light wear for age. Pages are clean with no markings. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have light wear for age, a few small insect nibbles. Pages are clean with no markings. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 475 pages. 9.25x1.08x6.10 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near Fine - very. See scans and description. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1941. The February, 1941 issue of the Sierra Club Bulletin, that being Volume XXVI, Number 1. Tall octavo (9 1/4"), printed perfect-bound wraps, 193 pp. (158 pp. numbered, 34 plates, one onionskin). Quite Near Fine, with in fact no salient flaws to point to; this example is, in all likelihood, in the same condition in which it was originally received in 1941. See all scans. This issue feature a 16-plate section of majestic photos of the King's Canyon National Park by Cedric Wright (as well as two other Wright plates elsewhere); a fold-out reproduced map of the San Joaquin Valley, originally created by Lieutenant Jose Maria Estudillo in 1819; and onionskin foldout map of the Mt. Whitney Region, executed by the Sierra Club itself, new for this issue; an 1875 article on the King's River Valley by John Muir, originally published in The Daily Evening Bulletin; two 1875 photos by W.E. James which may be the first photographs ever taken in the King's Canyon National Park; sketch-illustrated pieces on climbing and camping; and a lot more. See scan of contents page. Photographers: Cedric Wright; David R. Brower; Weldon F. Heald; Henry E. Timby; David Burd; Raffi Bedayan; Spencer Austin; Richard M. Leonard; Thomas Morley; W.E. James. Writers of the above-mentioned pieces and others on Mountain Wind, King's River Sierra, Mount Avon, End of the Rope, High and Dry, Little Gem Company, Snowpatch, the legislative history of Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park, Botany, Mountain Photography, and Mountaineering Notes include: Francis P. Farquhar; John Muir; Ansel Adams; Joseph N. LeConte; Norman Livermore; Charlotte E. Mauk; Weldon F. Heald; Blanche Stallings; Fritz Lippmann; John Thomas Howell; May Pridham; Cedric Wright; Bestor Robinson; Leland Curtis; John D. and Ruth Mendenhall; Arthur B. Johnson; Braeme Gigas; Howard Koster. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LSC2.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 188 pages. 9.00x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.