Patterson Gene (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VG or better folded Advertising Supplement with no cuts. Size: 11" x 17". Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Patterson, Tracy - Cover Design (illustrator). First Printing. 377 Pages Indexed. Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater. Firsthand descriptions from American and Japanese paratroopers. Detailed maps illustrate battles. From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japan's surrender, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theater of World War II. Filling a glaring gap in the historical record of the war, Gene Eric Salecker recounts all twelve drops, highlighting the courage of paratroopers on both sides.

dvd. Condition: Used - Good.

First Edition SIGNED. New and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text. Bold inscription on the opening flyleaf fully signed by the author. Fine all around with vintage photographs. Gift quality.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VG or better 14-page folded pressbook with no cuts. Book.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. A good or better lot of seven original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Poster.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. A good or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Poster.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. University Press of Florida, 2002. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xvii,305pp, illust. A good copy. 0813025745/0.7us . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Gene Patterson (1923-1913) was the editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper from 1960 - 1968 and a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who was a civil rights activist who wrote frequently about the civil rights movement that was gripping the south. Contains an index, bibliography, and a "Cast of Characters" in the rear. Original tan cloth publisher's spine with gilt spine lettering over white paper covered boards. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket is in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings.; B&W Photographs; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 305 pages.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to cover, clean pages and sound binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. Schwab's massive and far-reaching book, which originally appeared in France in 1950, is a history of European oriental studies-- particularly studies of India.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1958 film. A rural community is terrorized by a giant, mutated arachnid. The last of noted exploitation producer and director Bert I. Gordon's giant monster movies of the 1950s. Shot on location in Vail, Arizona, and in Carlsbad, New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Faintly toned on the margins, else Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 542 Pages. Dust Jacket Worn And Frayed. Faint 6" Long Dent In Front Cover Of Dust Jacket And Front Cover Of Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xx, 542 pp. 24 x 16 cm. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a dustjacket printed red with white and black lettering. Very light sunning to spine of jacket, with some light rubbing and bumping to spine ends. Jagged 3.5 cm tear and creasing to head of rear panel of jacket, with another small 1.5 cm closed tear to bottom corner of front panel of jacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a mylar cover. Very slight rubbing and bumps to corners of boards. Light freckled foxing to head of text block. This book was originally owned by the literary critic Harold Bloom, and has his signed name at the head of the front free endpaper, followed by a gift inscription to the person he gifted it to in 1984. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping may be required for international orders. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Ex-library. Usual library stamps and markings. A couple of ink marks to top page edges. Dustjacket in plastic cover taped to boards with small pieces of adhesive tape. ; xxiv, [2], 542 pages. Page dimensions: 232 x 151mm. "For so long merely Mediterranean, humanism began to be global when the scientific reading of Avestan and Sanskrit scripts unlocked innumerable unsuspected scriptures." - quote from Schwab on dust wrapper blurb. Schwab's study was originally published in the French language in 1950. This English translation is copyrighted 1984. Selected chapter titles: There is an Oriental Renaissance; Establishing the Text; Europe learns Sanskrit; The Progress of Oriental Studies; Repercussions in Literature; Founders and Intermediaries; India and the Blossoming of Lamartine; Vigny Tempted by India; From Historical Poetry to Poetical History; An External Orient: Exoticism; The India of Schopenhauer; The Iran of Nietzsche; The Buddhism of Wagner; Russian Orientalism and Nonviolence; The Dialogue Between Creedson the Question of the Soul; An Age of Relativism; The Orient, the Supreme Romanticism. ; 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Gene Bilbrew (illustrator). Owen Patterson - Half-Stoned First Niter 251, 1967 Cover Artist: Gene Bilbrew,

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Upper cover detached. Slipcase torn, lower detached.

Coil bound in slip case. Condition: Very Good. Will Connell (photography) (illustrator). First Edition. Folio. Pp. 104. Illustrated with full-page black & white fine gravure photo reproductions recto, text verso, on Collins special gravure stock. Stiff printed wraps with titles in black, wire coil bound. Edges minimally rubbed, toning to the covers near the spine, a few small scars and creases in the cover black area. In the chipboard slipcase covered in red cloth with b&w photo reproduction and superimposed die-cut round title cartouche printed in reversed red mounted to the front: spine head chipped, short closed tears to the open end, chips and scuffs to the mounted illustration. Self-taught photographer Connell's experience in Hollywood publicity led to this, his first book, where each recto page is an energetic photomontage satirizing the dream factory, faced with a caption (Producer, Yes-Men, Sex Appeal, Censorship, Clinch.) The four eminent screenwriters' story "Hollywood Conference" runs independently, verso, in large Bodoni type with generous margins. Each slipcase was illustrated with an image from the volume, in this case "Cartoon.".

Softcover. Condition: fair. First edition. Large quarto. 104pp. Black and tan wrappers in spiral binding with original illustrated slipcase. Back wrapper detached but present. Some creasing, chipping, wear and discoloration to wrappers. Heavy chipping and tearing to slipcase. Spine split on slipcase. "Will Connell is that rarity - a photographer whose sense of humor extends to his own work. "In Pictures" is its own proof of the use to which he has put his gifts. Connell shows how wide the abilities of the camera are when a thorough technician, a penetrating mind, and the all important satirical impulse are blended in one talent capable of dissecting a national institution with its own instruments of torture.ground glass, shutter and lens." Illustrated with full page b/w photographs. Slipcase in poor, wrappers in fair, interior in very good condition.

First Edition. First Edition. Lengthily INSCRIBED and dated 1949 by co-author Gene Fowler on the front endpaper, with brief, additional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to the title page and page nine. Lacking the original illustrated paper slipcase. Housed in a custom clamshell box and matching chemise. A penetrating, satirical take on the film industry, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Gene Fowler was an American author, dramatist, and screenwriter who enjoyed a long and varied career. Fowler found early prestige as a journalist in New York, most notably a lengthy tenure as a managing editor of The Morning Telegraph, where his staff included a number of luminaries of the period, including Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner, Charles MacArthur, Westbrook Pegler, Martha Ostenso, Walter Winchell, Nellie Revell, among others. Fowler also worked as a screenwriter for several years, penning a dozen screenplays in the 1930s and early 1940s, including "What Price Hollywood?" (1932), "The Call of the Wild" (1935), and "Billy the Kid" (1941), and also collaborated with Ben Hecht on the 1932 Broadway play "The Great Magoo." Spiral bound wrappers Very Good plus-which anyone who has before encountered this book knows to be extraordinary condition. Custom clamshell box and chemise Very Good plus, with leather lightly faded and some light soil to the extremities.