Munro Robert John (55 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Poor. No Jacket. Reprint. A 4th print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a Penguin Books collection of sci-fi stories. Contents include Evening Primrose (John Collier), Laura (Saki (H H Munro)), Sam Small's Tyke (Eric Knight), Satan and Sam Shay (Robert Arthur), A Disputed Authorship (John Kendrick Bangs), Mr Mergenthwirker's Lobblies (Nelson S Bond), A Vision of Judgment (H G Wells), This I Refute Beelzy (John Collier), The King of the Cats (Stephen Vincent Benet), The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde), My Friend Merton (Julius Fast), And Adam Begot (Arch Oboler), The Club Secretary (Lord Dunsany (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett)), and the Scarlet Plague (Jack London). Penguin Books 537. Light edge wear. Soiling to the covers. Browning and damp stains to the pages. A fair to poor copy. A reader.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Crisp, clean pages except for a few pale gray smudges on the top edge of the book; no owners' marks; square, tight binding; full cloth hard cover bears modest shelfwear at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Jacket is faded along the spine and shows several shallow wrinkles at the top and bottom rear and at the spine heel, but is otherwise clean and well-kept.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289p.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural). A haunting, inspiring anthology of some twenty-six ghost stories, some of which are classics, while others are les-known. Here, Sir Walter Scott keeps company with Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, John Lang, Edith Nesbit, and Oscar Wilde, among others. 289p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean Good DJ with little wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** English edition - DJ shows light wear - my shelf location -11-B-22*.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Later Printing. New York: Penguin Books Inc [1945]. Good. 1945. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Later [3rd] printing thus. Penguin #537 with 25 cents cover price. 232 pages collecting 14 stories plus the editor's introduction. Good only copy [spine creased, cover creased, scattered surface damage and minor staining to the front cover, text paper tanned]. .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Softcover. 296 pp. Softcover. LCC: C910949093 Good condition; on covers: touches of wear on edges, and previous owner's name on cover; occassional pen underlining.

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition. Volume 2 only, pages 367-686. An ex-library copy with the typical stamps, stickers, and markings present. Text remains unmarked. Binding is tight with hinges securely attached. Red cloth boards are pointed with gilt lettering on spine. Lacks a dust jacket. A solid reading copy.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 840 pp. xx. Stated: "First published 2000". Contents divided into 42 Chapters in 9 Parts: (1) [Editors}, "Choices, Values and Frames"; Part One: PROSPECT THEORY AND EXTENSIONS [Editors] : (2) "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk"; (3) "Advances in Prospect Theory :Cumulative Representation of Uncertainty"; Part Two: THE UNCERTAINTY EFFECT AND THE WEIGHTING FUNCTION (4) Drazen Prelec; (5) & (6) Tversky and Craig R. Fox; Part III: LOSS AVERSION AND THE VALUE FUNCTION (7) [Editors], "Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice: A Reference-Dependent Model"; (8) Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler; (9) Jack L. Knetsch; (10) Ian Bateman, Alistair Munro, [et al.] "A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences"; (11) Matthew Rabin, "Diminishing Marginal Utility of Wealth Cannot Explain Risk Aversion"; Part Four: FRAMING AND MENTAL ACCOUNTING (12) [Editors], "Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions"; (13) Eric J. Johnson, John Hershey, [et al.] "Framing, Probability Distortions, and Insurance Decisions"; (14) Thaler, "Mental Accounting Matters"; Part Five APPLICATIONS (15) Thaler, "Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice"; (16) Colin F. Camerer, "Prospect Theory in the Wild: Evidence from the Field"; (17) "Shlomo Benartzi and Thaler, "Myopic Loss Aversion and the Equity Premium Puzzle"; (18) Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, and Thaler, "Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market"; (19) Eldar Shafir, Peter Diamond, and Tvwersky, "Money Illusion"; (20) Camerer, Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein, and Thaler, "Labor Supply of New York City Cab Drivers: One Day at a Time"; Terrance Odean, "Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses?"; (22) Kahneman and Dan Lovallo, "Timid Choices and Bold Forecasts: A Cognitive Perspective on Risk Taking"; (23) Camerer and Dan Lovallo, "Overconfidence and Excess Entry: An Experimental Approach"; (24) David Cohen and Knesch, "Judicial Choice and Disparities between Measures of Economic Values"; (25) George A. Quattrone and Tversky, "Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice"; (26) [Editors], "Conflict Resolution: A Cognitive Perspective"; Part SIX: THE MULTIPLICITY OF VALUE: REVERSALS OF PREFERENCE (27) Paul Slovic, "The Construction of Preference"; (28) Tversky, Shmuel Sattah, and Paul Slovic, "Contingent Weighting in Judgment and Choice"; (29) Tversky and Itamar Simonson, "Context-Dependent Preferences"; (30) Craig R. Fox and Tversky, "Ambiguity Aversion and Comparative Ignorance; (31) Christopher K. Hsee, "Attribute Evaluability: Its Implications for Joint-Separate Evaluation Reversals and Beyond"; Part Seven: CHOICE OVER TIME (32) George F. Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec, "Preferences for Sequences of Outcomes"; (33) ______, "Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and Interpretation"; Part Eight: ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS OF VALUE (34) Eldar Shafir, Simonson, and Tversky, "Reason-Based Choice"; (35) Baruch Fischhoff, "Value Elicitation: Is There Anything in There?"; (36) Kahneman, Ilana Ritov, David Shkade, "Economic Preferences or Attutude Expressions? An Analysis of Dollar Responses to Public Issues"; Part Nine: EXPERIENCED UTILITY AND OBJECTIVE HAPPINESS (37) Kahneman, "Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach"; (38) _____., "Evaluation by Moments:Past and Future"; (39) Tversky and Dale Griffin, "Endowments and in Judgments of Well-Being"; (40) . . . "A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes"; (41) . . .'The Effect of Purchase Quantity. ."; (42) . . ."New Challenges to the Rationality Assumptions".; References, Author and Subject Indexes, pp. 775-840. Faults: 39 pp.; of 840 pp have thin line brown underlining or vertical lines in margins; faint tea stain half-title page top and minor, clear waviness in 2" x 1 1/2" area adjacent, echoing, diminishingly, for 3 pp to end of "Contents."Tight biding; tiny outward curls at corners; NO previous owner names or remainder marks. Solid copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 4th Printing. A lightly creased spine with light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by H.G. Wells(A Vision of Judgment), Oscar Wilde(The Canterville Ghost) , Lord Dusnany( The Club Secertary), Jack London( The Scarlet Plague), John Collier(Evening Primrose & Thus I Reflute Beelzy), Saki(H.H.Munro)(Laura), Eric Knight(Sam Small's Tyke) , Robert Aurthur(Satan And SamShay), John Kendricks Bangs(A Disputed Authorship), Nelson S Bond(Mr Mergenthwirker's Lobblies), Stephen Vincent Benet(The King OfThe Cats), Julius Fast(My Friend Merton), Arch Oboler(And Adam Begot).

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. II. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 320pp, printed wrappers. This thick issue includes interviews with Yves Bonnefoy and Alice Munro, other significant writing. Unmarked copy, a little reading wear. Not Signed.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some light general wear to jacket, marker pen spot to top closed edges, else book very tidy. Size: 8vo.

Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5ĵ''. Contains 448 pp. New front end paper, spine sun faded and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

Condition: Good. Dust cover damaged. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. 424 pp. 3 volumes. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. W10.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 396 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Support Small Business by buying this book! Signed and inscribed by Author. Inscription reads: 'To Joseph Pearce with Best Regards - Robert Munro. 12/22/22' Pages are clean with no apparent marks. Binding is tight and square. Light shelf wear to cover. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Signed By Author.

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