Springer John M (50 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. David Hardy (cover) (illustrator). A fascinating vintage SF digest from over 30 years ago. CONTENTS: see accompanying scan image of the Table of Contents. 164 pages. CONDITION: a bright, solid, unmarked copy with moderate shelf-wear plus creases on the covers and spine. The interior is clean and uncompromised. This quite respectable copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing board. NOTE: A higher resolution scan of the cover will gladly be supplied on request. This small item will be shipped with a complimentary upgrade to trackable First Class on domestic (US) orders.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 1ST JANUARY 1987. COVER HAS CREASING AND SHELF WEAR. 272 PAGE TEXT HAS LIGHT WEAR. SCIENCE FICTION. 4.25" X 7". WE USE BUBBLE MAILERS.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover Illustrated By Bob Eggleton (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Three short science fiction novels-three visions of tyranny. Created by Elizabeth Mitchell. Wear at edges, reading creases, a few small creases on book, rubbed, light interior browning. Size: 4 1/8" x 6 3/4". PAPERBACK.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of two novelets and seven short stories. Featured are Rogueworld by Charles Sheffield (novelet), The New Neighbors by Frederik Pohl (novelet), Amends: A Tale of the Sun Kings by Nancy Springer (short story), A Love Story by Thomas A Easton (short story), Welcome to Wizcon by John Morressy (short story), On the Ship by Andrew Weiner (short story), The Master Stroke by Edward F Hughes (short story), The Forbidden Thought by Thomas M Disch (short story) and Alchemy by Gene O'Neill (short story). Slight edgewear. In Near Fine Condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Yvonne Gilbert; (illustrator). First Edition. (viii) 309 pp. DAW Collectors Book 1119. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Yvonne Gilbert. This anthology contains: Spinning a Yarn by Jody Lynn Nye; How I Came to Marry a Herpetologist by Nina Kiriki Hoffman; Puck in Boots, the True Story by Connie Hirsch; The Beanstalk Incident by Jane Lindskold; Gilly the Goose Girl by Nancy Springer; Feeding Frenzy, or the Further Adventures of the Frog Prince by Josepha Sherman; Mrs Myrtle Montegrande vs. the Vegetable Stalker/Slayer by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; Case #285B by Esther M. Friesner; Fifi's Tale by Alan Rodgers; Thy Golden Stair by Richard Parks; True Love, or the Many Brides of Prince Charming by Todd Fahnestock and Giles Custer; Savior by John Helfers; Wolf at the Door by Lupita Shepard; The Castle and Jack by Tim Waggoner; Baron Boscov's Bastard by Jacey Bedford; The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes by Leslie What; One Fairy Tale, Hard Boiled by P. Andrew Miller; and A Leg Up, or the Constant Tin Soldier (Gonzo Version) by Gary A. Braunbeck. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 64, No. 5. Edited by Edward L. Ferman. Cover art by David Hardy. Includes "Rogueworld" (novelet) by Charles Sheffield; "The New Neighbors" (novelet) by Frederik Pohl; "Amends: A Tale of the Sun Kings" by Nancy Springer; "A Love Story" by Thomas A. Easton; "Welcome to Wizcon" by John Morressy; "On the Ship" by Andrew Weiner; "The Master Stroke" by Edward F. Hughes; "The Forbidden Thought" by Thomas M. Disch; "Alchemy" by Gene O'Neill. Departments: "Books" by Algis Budrys; "Films: The Dark Crystal" by Baird Searles; "Science: Out in the Boondocks" by Isaac Asimov; "F&SF Competition". Creasing; mild tanning; minor top end wet spot. No label never was. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xx, 311, [1] pages, 2 leaves frontispiece, 1 illustration, plates, portrait groups, folded map 19 cm. Provenance: From the library of Robert Smith Simpson. Simpson was a noted career foreign service officer in the US State Department and professor at the Edward Walsh school of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Simpson was the American Consulate General in Lourenco Marques [Maputo], Mozambique. Originally from the library of Charles H. Stauffacher, a noted Methodist missionary to Portuguese East Africa; Inhambane, Mozambique. Stauffacher was a bishop of the United Methodists.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. This work is a serious, definitive and careful examination of the works of the Holy Spirit today and the biblical place of healing and spiritual gifts in evangelism. Learn what the Bible has to say about signs and wonders, the role and work of the Holy Spirit, healing and the Gospel. The book contains appendices, abbreviations, bibliography, scripture index, and a subject index. This copy is clean and solid. Appears to be unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first thus. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Green variant dust jacket. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like near new on all points. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, mild wear, spine a touch sunned. Maine. Stax.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Near Fine. Vol. 64, No. 5. Edited by Edward L. Ferman. Cover art by David Hardy. Includes "Rogueworld" (novelet) by Charles Sheffield; "The New Neighbors" (novelet) by Frederik Pohl; "Amends: A Tale of the Sun Kings" by Nancy Springer; "A Love Story" by Thomas A. Easton; "Welcome to Wizcon" by John Morressy; "On the Ship" by Andrew Weiner; "The Master Stroke" by Edward F. Hughes; "The Forbidden Thought" by Thomas M. Disch; "Alchemy" by Gene O'Neill. Departments: "Books" by Algis Budrys; "Films: The Dark Crystal" by Baird Searles; "Science: Out in the Boondocks" by Isaac Asimov; "F&SF Competition". Minor handling wear; mild tanning. No label never was. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 223 pages. John M. Springer's inscription dated March 1928 on front liner page. U.S. orders are shipped from our Lewiston, New York location.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Inscribed By John M Springer on the front end paper. There is also a gift inscription on the front paste down. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Olive cloth binding slightly rubbed at extremities, a bit cocked; backstrip lightly browned; front board smudged; front hinge cracking, though still fairly firm; gift inscription inked on front free endpaper; a few leaves chipped at edges; leaf edges lightly foxed, else a solid, clean book. No dj. ; Good b&w photo ils.; 8vo; 194 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. [AFRICA] [MISSIONARIES] [RESOURCES] [TRAVEL] Springer, John M. The Heart of Central Africa: Mineral Wealth and Missionary Opportunity (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1909). Pictorial cloth cover; frontis; 223 pp; photo illustrations; double page map at rear. Near Fine condition. [23-126] The author was a Methodist Episcopal missionary to Rhodesia, South Africa and after a brief history of the ME missions, details his travels, experiences and observations. In the Introductory notes, Bishop J. C. Hartzell writes, "This book, which gives the story of a journey across the Continent of Africa, is full of incidents and illustrations, showing how conscientious people may be led in ways they knew not; what life is among the natives in darkest heathenism, and also describes stirring events incident to the advance of civilization northward toward the heart of the continent, especially as illustrated in the extension of railways and the opening of mines.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second edition. 311 pp, illustrated with b/w plates. Ex-library, with stamps and bookplates on the endpapers, stamps on top and bottom edge. Old tape repair to title page, otherwise sound, with no markings in the text and minimal wear to boards. Introduction by Bishop J.C. Hartzell. Springer and his wife spent 14 years as missionaries in central Africa.

Hard Cover. First. First edition. Cloth, 194 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Inscribed by the author and dated 1920 on the front free endpaper. Collection of articles, stories and anecdotes about Africa by a woman prominent in vaious forien missionary societies. A tight copy, some spotting to the cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Orange & brown cloth, 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, "For Editorial Use Only" ink stamp on ffep, xvi., 128 clean pp., tight. Illustrated from photographs. Dust jacket very good with slight edgewear only, now in a clear wrapper. The author writes of thirty-six years' experience as a missionary wife in Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo. "They reduced languages to writing, opened new stations, trained preachers and travelled on foot through forests, over mountains, and by great rivers more than 8,000 miles." - Foreword.A book written for older children to learn about the life of children in the Congo, and the progress of Christian missions there.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The boards are slightly edge worn and show insect damage, as well as other minor marks. Internally clean, besides some pencil annotations and other age related marks. Tightly bound and complete with 194 pages. The pages are deckle edged and some has a shirt closed tear. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First Edition. Hardcover, 223 pp. plus 2 page map. A lightly used very good copy with clean text and tight binding in a fair dust jacket (spine darkened and missing bottom third, heavy edge wear, front flap is unattached). Scarce in jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 223pp, double page map, bw ills, Or gray cloth with spear and laid on photo of Massai (?) warrior. Interesting combination appealing to greed with the mineral wealth of Central Africa, to introduce missionary opportunities and practice in areas such as Tanganyika and the Congo. Quite a bit of anthropological information on the people of Kassai, Malange, the mineral areas and the Bachiolwe people. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ (in mylar). Photos (illustrator). First Edition. one previous owner's name inked out on ffep, and another owner's signature (dated 1928) below it, otherwise textblock and binding immaculate and tight; unclipped dust jacket a bit sunned and lightly to moderately edge-worn; 151pp. Hard Cover.

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