Phillips Williamson Editor (13 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 2nd printing, Aug. 1965; #52-837. Cover art is uncredited [John Schoenherr]. Includes "Introduction"; "First Contact" by Murray Leinster; "Intelligence Test" by Harry Walton; "The Large Ant" by Howard Fast; "What's He Doing in There?" by Fritz Leiber; "Chemical Plant" by Ian Williamson; "Limiting Factor" by Clifford D. Simak; "The Fire Balloons" by Ray Bradbury; "Invasion from Mars" by Howard Koch;"The Gentle Vultures" by Isaac Asimov; "Knock" by Fredric Brown; "Specialist" by Robert Sheckley; "Lost Memory" by Peter Phillips. Creasing; tanning; edge and corner wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Donald Shoffstall (illustrator). Book in very good condition; slight scuffing to boards and light rubbing along edges; faint to light toning at outside edges of book; faint to light toning to clean interior; tiny soil mark top edge of back free end paper and back end paper; binding sound. Slipcase in good condition; light soiling; moderate soiling to tipped in illustration. Foreword by William C. Steinkraus. 282 pages. Brown cloth boards with gold stamped decoration on front board and gold stamped decoration and lettering on spine. 9.5 x 6 1/4 in.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 208 pp., x. '1' in number line. Following the list of Contributors and "Introduction: Looking Forward Into History" by Editor, Contents divided into 24 Essays in 6 Sections: [I] INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS (1) Jeffrey G. Williamson, "How Tough Are Times in the Third World?"; (2) Julian L. Simon and Rita James Simon, "Do We Really Need All These Immigrants?'; (3) Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback, "Do Imperial Powers Get Rich Off Their Colonies?"; (4) Robert Higgs, "How Military Mobilization Hurts the Economy"; [II] WORKERS AND EMPLOYMENT (5) Price V. Fishback, "Does Workers' Compensation Make for a Safer Workplace?"; (6) Lee J. Alston, "American Farming: If It's Broke, Why Can't We Fix It?"; (7) Elizabeth Hoffman,"How Can Displaced Workers Find Better Jobs?"; [III] WOMEN AND MINORITIES (8) Robert A. Margo, "What is the Key to Black Progress?"; (9) Elyce J. Rotella, "The Equal Rights Amendment--Yes, But Whose?"; [IV] GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY (10) Barry Eichengreen, "As Good As Gold--By What Standard?"; (11) Mark Thomas, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Trade Deficit?"; (12) John Wallis, "The Great Depression: Can It Happen Again?"; (13) Benjamin Baack and Edward Ray, "The Income Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone and Come?"; (14) Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill, "Are Government Giveaways Really Free?"; (15) Jonathan Hughes, "Do Americans Want Big Government?"; [V] REGULATION, DEREGULATION AND REREGULATION (16) Richard Sylla, "Should We Reregulate the Banks?"; (17) Hugh Rockoff, "Can Price Controls Work?"; (18) Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecker, "The Securities Exchange Commission: Where From, Where To?'; [VI] TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVENESS (19) Gary M. Walton, "Fulton's Folly"; (20) Peter Temin, "Down the Primrose Path"; (21) Gary Libecap, "What Really Happened at Teapot Dome?"; (22) Paul Uselding, "Does Government Intervention in the Economy Hurt Competitiveness--or Help It?"; (23) Donald N. McCloskey, "Competitiveness and the Antieconomics of Decline"; (24) Nathan Rosenberg, "Does Science Shape Economic Progress--Or Is It the Other Way Around?"; Appendix: Chronology of Important Dates, pp. 181-199; For Further Reading, pp. 201-203; Index, pp. 205-208. Taupe cloth with bold black lettering on spine. Glossy beige dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with Title lettering in large, thick, purple letters on top third front cover, above Subtitle lettering in smaller purple across middle front cover; Editor name letters in smaller purple across bottom front cover. Only peccadilloes are spine sunned to lighter taupe than rest of cover (all lettering still bold purple and eminently readable) and SLIGHT crease remaining at top edge front cover from once having had a paper clip positioned there. Book itself is As New: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Apart from collecting sun's rays on the shelf, book looks unheld, UNREAD.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. [xiv], 282pp [small address label on front free endpaper] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 282 pages. Trade hardbound edition. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Donald Shoffstall. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612684.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Donald Shoffstall (illustrator). Book condition is very good. Slip-cased. Gilt lettering on spine and gilt duck on front cover. Slip-case condition is very good. Very minor wear to corners. 282 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 264 pages. 9.00x6.00x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Shoffstall, Donald (illustrator). 282 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Brown endpapers. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles. Lightly worn on the corners. Kept in a brown slipcase with a pasted-on illustration. Light wear on the edges. VG+. Book.

Shoffstall, Donald. First edition, number 53 of 1000 copies signed by the author, artist and publisher. Original illustrations by Donald Shoffstall. xiii, [i], 282 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue bonded leather, a.e.g. Fine in slipcase Original illustrations by Donald Shoffstall. xiii, [i], 282 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, number 53 of 1000 copies signed by the author, artist and publisher. Signed.

Amwell Press, Clinton, 1979, #343 of 1,000 copies, signed by both the editor and the artist and with a signed inscription from the editor to bookseller and sporting book bibliographer Duke Biscotti. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and drawings by Donald Shoffstall. 6.25" x 9.5". 282 pp. Bound in full blue bonded leather. Foreword by W.C. Steinkraus. An excellent anthology, with commentary on each selection by the editor. 29 chapters on duck and goose hunting by Payne-Gallwey, Leffingwell, Nye, Bradford, Grinnell, Cleveland, Buckingham, Gardner, Hazelton, Askins, Kimble, Bruette, Clark, Phillips, Sheldon, Heilner, Holland, Queeny, Rutledge, Hochbaum, Hill and others. Lots of good reading here. Fine in fine slipcase.

Amwell Press, Clinton, 1979, #18 of 1,000 copies, signed by the editor and the artist, with a signed inscription from the editor to sporting book bibliographer Duke Biscotti. Illustrated with color frontispiece and drawings. 6.25" x 9.5". 282 pp. Bound in blue bonded leather. An excellent anthology on duck and goose hunting by Payne-Gallwey, Leffingwell, Nye, Grinnell, Cleveland, Buckingham, Gardner, Hazelton, Kimble, Bruette, Phillips, Sheldon, Heilner, Holland, Hochbaum, Hill, Queeny, Rutledge, etc. Scarce. Very fine in very fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.63 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.