Smith Brian D Editor (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BCE. DJ: edge wear, chipped, missing portion of spine Black boards with light blue spine text. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. Volume One. SCIFI/FANTASY/SHORTSTORIES/SERIES. Karel Thole [DJ] (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. [1st printing] Apr. 1971; #N1982. Cover art by Lehr. Includes 'Introduction"; "The Muse" by Anthony Burgess; "Working in the Spaceship Yards" by Brian W. Aldiss; "The Schematic Man" by Frederik Pohl; "The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone" by James Tiptree, Jr.; "Hospital of Transplanted Hearts" by D. M. Thomas; "Eco-Catastrophe!" by Dr. Paul Ehrlich; "The Castle on the Crag" by Pg Wyal; "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. Le Guin; "Holding Your Eight Hands" by Edward Lucie-Smith; "Progression of the Species" by Brian W. Aldiss; "Report Back" by John Cotton; "The Killing Ground" by J. G. Ballard; "The Dannold Cheque" by Ken W. Purdy; "Womb to Tomb" by Joseph Wesley; "Like Father" by Jon Hartridge; "The Electric Ant" by Philip K. Dick; "The Man Inside" by Bruce McAllister; "Now Hear the Word of the Lord" by Algis Budrys; "Afterward: An Awful Lot of Copy" by Brian W. Aldiss. Tipped-in bookclub card. Tanning; edge nicks and wear.Edge and corner nicks and wear; tanning; minor creasing; minor internal; ink spot. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Minneapolis: Del Rey / The Ballantine Publishing Group 2001. First Thus. Trade Paperback. 0345444078 . First edition thus. Pictorial [John Jude Palencar] wrappers, [470] pages [last numbered page is 468], collecting 16 Mythos stories [plus HPL's], afterwords: contributors' notes, illustrated. Fine copy with a remainder dot to the top edge. See photos clph. Dave Carson, Martin McKenna, Jim Pitts (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Homestead, FL: Olivant Press. 1970. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 8.5"], 88+ pages, illustrated. Poet Percival R. Roberts III has written his name ["PRRobertsIII"] to the title page [Roberts contributed a poem to this issue]. Near fine with light wear. See photos whb19.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (xv) 211 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Harry Fassl. This anthology contains: The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft; In the Rue d'Auseil by Fred Chappell; The Plain of Sound by Ramsey Campbell; Water Music for the Tillers of the Soil by Tom Piccirilli; Shallow Fathoms by M. Christian; How Nyarlathotep Rocked Our World by Gregory Nicoll; Listen by James Robert Smith; Mud by Brian McNaughton; Paedomorphosis by Caitlin R. Kiernan; Intruders by Hugh B. Cave; Chant by Robert Weinberg; Ghoul's Tale by Robert M. Price; The Next Big Thing by Rob Suggs; The Flautists by Edward P. Berglund; Fall from Grace by D. F. Lewis; Drums by William R. Trotter; The Enchanting of Lila Woods by E. A. Lustig; and Yog-Sothoth, Superstar by Thomas F. Monteleone. Size: 8vo. H. E. Fassl; (illustrator). Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Some corner tips curled. Wraps have edge rubbing, wear to corner tips. Contents: Smith, "Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value." Michaels, "Against Formalism: The Autonomous Text in Legal and Literary Interpretation." Perry, "Literary Dynamics: How the Order of a Text Creates Its Meanings: With an Analysis of Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'" Tamir-Ghez, Nomi, "The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov's Lolita." Mooij, "The Nature and Funciton of Literary Theories." Culler, "Semiotics and Deconstruction." Van Dijk, "Cognitive Processing of Literary Discourse." Lotman, "The Origin of Plot in the Light of Typology." Weinshheimer, "Theory of Character: Emma." Cureton, "e. e. cummings: A Study of the Poetic Use oof Deviant Morphology." Ziva Ben-Porat, "Method in Madness: Notes on the Structure of Parody Based on MAD TV Satires." John J. Gumperz, "The Retrieval of Sociocultural Knowledge in Conversation." Itamar Even-Zohar, "Polysystem Theory." Hrushovski, "The Structure of Semiotic Objects." Rolf Kloepfer, "Trends in West German Literary Semiotics." Reviews. 9.0" tall; 416 pages.…

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. An anthology containing 19 stories of betrayal, revenge, and treachery, ranging from Victorian England to the post-Cold War world. Contributors include Mark Twain, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stuart Kaminsky, John D. MacDonald and more. Authors' biographies. 415 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printings. (xii, viii) 338, 296 pp. Both books have light edge and corner wear with uncreased spines; no interior markings. Covers by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Karel Thole; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Editions. (xii, viii) 305, 278 pp. Book One has black boards lettered in gray on the spine; Book Two is quarter-bound in dark blue on light blue boards; lettered in lavender on the spine. Both dustjackets have light wear at the corners. Dj art by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Size: 8vo. Karel Thole; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Editions. (xii, viii) 305, 278 pp. Book One has black boards; Book Two is quarter-bound in dark blue on light blue boards; both are lettered in lavender on the spine. Both dustjackets have some wear at the corners; no interior markings. Dj art by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Size: 8vo. Karel Thole; (illustrator). Book.…

paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor shelf and perusal wear; light bumping to all corners with a tiny tear at top of spine. Some scuffing and smudging to (matte white) covers. Pages are well bound. Text appears clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 144 pages. 10.25x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. Thibert, Art; Hanna, Scott; Smith, J. D.; Eliopoulos, Chris (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor shelf and perusal wear; scuffing and smudging to (matte white) covers. Pages are well bound. Text appears clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd pap/psc edition. 270 pages. 9.50x7.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 209 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 634 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.80 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.90 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.