Powell James Editor (49 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. (viii) 244 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing at the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Santa Claus Beat by Rex Stout; Dead on Christmas Street by John D. MacDonald; Mystery for Christmas by Anthony Boucher; On Christmas Day in the Morning by Margery Allingham; The Christmas Bear by Herbert Resnicow; Christmas Cop by Thomas Adcock; I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus by George Baxt; Kelso's Christmas by Malcolm McClintick; The Marley Case by Linda Haldeman; The Plot Against Santa Claus by James Powell; Whatever Became of Ebenezer Scrooge? by Tom Tolnay; and Who Killed Father Christmas? by Patricia Moyes. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. Softcover journal in very good minus condition. Article topics include: dedication to Herbert Eugene Bolton; Anglo observers of the southwest borderlands 1825-1890: the rise of a concept; European expansion and the enclavement of southwestern Indians; the tragedy at Camp Grant in 1871; James Addison Reavis: the 'Baron of Arizona' self-revealed: a letter to his lawyer in 1894; the tunnel: a fragment of railroad history in Arizona Territory. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Journal.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trade paperback format. Signed by Elaine Matlow on the front endpaper. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. This anthology contains: To Court Disaster by Elaine Matlow; McGowney's Miracle by Margaret Millar; My Vacation in the Numbers Racket by Howard Engel; The Cure by Eric Wright; A Natural Death by Sandra Woodruff; The Mandalasian Garotte by James Powell; St. Anthony's Man by Tim Wynne-Jones; The Capitalist by Marion Crook; Strange Archaeology by Josef Skvorecky; Common or Garden Murder by Ellen Godfrey; Dame Millicent's Revenge by Tim Heald; Wish You Were Here by Frank Jones; Hard Luck Joey by Elaine Slater; An Evening at the Opera by Anna Sandor and Bill Gough; Death on Horseback by John Ballem; and The Girl in the White Dress by Tony Aspler. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Greenwood Press first edition (per Greenwood's "First published" statement upon copyright page). xx, 348 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Dark mustard cloth. Text block edges foxed; foxing to several initial and rear leaves but with interior text leaves mostly clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Editor's Introduction, and Index. Five sections feature eighteen essays which were first published in the academic journal "Civil War History." ***** [PART I. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR.] "Civil War Synthesis in American Political History" by Joel H. Silbey. "Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions" by Eric Foner. "Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations" by Richard O. Curry. "John Brown and His Judges: A Critique of the Historical Literature" by Stephen B. Oates. [PART II. POLITICS AT THE GRASS ROOTS: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS.] "Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional Elections of 1858" by David E. Meerse. "Ethnic Voter and the First Lincoln Election" by Robert P. Swierenga. "Rejected Republican Incumbents in the 1866 Congressional Nominating Conventions: A Study in Reconstruction Politics" by Lawrence N. Powell. "Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867" by Michael Les Benedict. "Republicans and Black Suffrage in New York State: The Grass Roots Response" by Phyllis Frances Field. [PART III. "SPIRIT OF PARTY": CONGRESS AND ROLL CALL VOTING.] "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill" by Gerald W. Wolff. "Unconscious "Spirit of Party" in the Confederate Congress" by Richard E. Beringer. "Bloc and Party in the United States Senate: 1861-1863" by Alan G. Bogue. "Who Were the Senate Radicals?" by Edward L. Gambill. "'Radical' Political and Economic Policies: The Senate, 1873-1877" by Glenn M. Linden. [PART IV. PATRONAGE, RELIGION, AND RACE: THE ETHNORELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF POLITICS.] "Political Patronage and Ethnic Groups: Foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861" by Leonard Tabachnik. "Religious and Occupational Roots of Party Identification: Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's" by Richard Jensen. "Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South" by August Meier. [PART V. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS.] "Slavery and the Slave Power: A Crucial Distinction" by Larry Gara. "William Lloyd Garrison and Antislavery Unity: A Reappraisal" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860" by James B. Stewart. ISBN 0837179602.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 389 pages. Chapters: Latin Paleography/ Diplomatics/ Numismatics/ Prosography/ Computer-Assisted Analysis of Statistical Documents of Medieval Society/ Medieval Chronology/ Medieval English Literature/ Latin Philosophy of the Middle Ages/ Tradition and Innovation in Medieval Art/ Medieval Music in Perspective.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Signet Books, 1992. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, and unmarked. No store stamp, ink name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Anthology of Christmas mysteries including: The Santa Claus Club by Julian Symons; Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas by John Mortimer; Santa's Way by James Powell; Carmine and the Christmas Presecet by Charles Ardai; The Shape of the Nightmare by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; Christmas Party by Martin Werner; Supper with Miss Shivers by Peter Lovesey; Noel Noel by Barry Perowne; The Embezzler's Christmas Present by Ennis Duling; The Christmas Spirit by Thomasina Weber; The Spy and the Christmas Cipher by Edward D. Hoch; But Once a Year. Thank God by Joyce Porter; The Carol Singers by Josephine Bell; Murder under the Mistletoe by Margery Allingham; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; etc. . First Printing of the First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition. viii, 250pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED* name in ink.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition Paperback Original. Trade paperback, 306 pages, 16 stories; tiny traces of shelf wear along edges, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition, pages fresh and white.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked. Paperback cover has no creases in spine, is discolored. Widenor, Terry (Cover Art) (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. 493 clean, unmarked, tight pages; very light shelf and corner wear on cover.

Condition: Very Good. 1976. paperback. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine and showing light wear. Lightly toned text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Filled with b/w photographs of the contributing authors. This is a compilation of eleven southern authors memories of growing up in the south. …

Condition: Very Good. 1976. paperback. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine and showing light wear. Lightly toned text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest wear to jacket, clean pages and sound binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This issue contains: The Problem of Santa's Lighthouse by Edward D. Hoch; The Price of Light by Ellis Peters; Christmas Eve at Lulu's by Ed Conrow; Wild Things by Clark Howard; The Speck by Isaac Asimov; Natural Causes by Dorothy Salisbury Davis; The Dark Elf Master of Crack of Doom by James Powell; Flash Attachment by Dell Shannon; The Journey by Jack Ritchie; and Beast at the Door by Donald Olson; along with the usual features. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 144 pp. Digest format. Volume 113, number 4. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Carol Heyer. This issue contains: Saint Bobby by Doug Allyn; The Phantom Lover by Edward D. Hoch; But the Corpse Can't Laugh by Mary Jane Maffini; Flood by Bill Pronzini; The Do-Gooder by Celia Fremlin; The Long Way Back by Ed Gorman; Jerrold's Meat by James Powell; Da Capo by Janet LaPierre; and The Final Chance by David Williams; along with the usual features. Size: 12mo. Carol Heyer; (illustrator). Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dell 1964 1st ed. PBO 174pp. Very good with very light wear, toning to inside cover and page margins. See photos sr 3/6.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Religious Studies dept stamp on title page. Otherwise about unused with no text marks or DJ splits. Minimal use.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good in publisher'w wraps showing some light handling, bottom corner of the front pane creased. 4to. 52pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JAMES POWELL, PAGES LIGHTLY AGE TONED. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 189 pp. Vol. 8, No. 1, Spring 1979 issue only! ISSN 0090-5674. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Reno Odlin (Cover Design) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 81 pages. Illustrated. Carol Mavor on Aurelian Fairy Tales James Jennings writes from Myanmar Elizabeth Metzger's Figment of Mortality,Tony Roberts on Kirsch & Hofmann Hobbyhorsing, Horatio Morpurgo on Butler on the Odyssey John Lucas remembers G.S. Fraser, Neil Powell on The Poet Alone. (U.P.).…

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Firm and square, bright and clean, no creases, just very mildly rubbed. And so a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. But despite such this book is in great shape and is actually in nearly new condition. Thus it looks and feels unread with contents that are crisp, fresh and tight. Now offered for sale at a special bargain price.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front cover has two UK price stamps and a small closed tear to the bottom edge. Light purple staining to the back cover. Book Stall stamp to the first page and browning to the pages which are otherwise generally unmarked. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 191 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. THE WAR ISSUE Near Fine paperback about 9x12 inches. 160 pages, unmarked. Dennis Philips, Joshua Beckman, Leslie Scalapino, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, D. A. Powell, Paul Vangelisti, Sherril Jaffe, Mathew Zapruder, Rusty Morrison, James Tate, Martha Ronk Brenda Hillman, Joseph Lease, Robert Haas, Steve Dickison, Kathleen Fraser, et al ; FOPL OVR72; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 228 pages. 7.28x0.79x9.65 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4 volumes complete. All are near fine with tight binds and clean pages. No marks and no writings.