Tompkins Peter Editor (10 results)

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/FR. Photographs (B&W) (illustrator). New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers. G/FR. (1961). Cloth(Hrdcvr). 8vo., 287 pp, lil bit of foxing, dj frayed and yellowed .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Near fine in an about Very good dust jacket. Top edge of front cover slightly faded. Nice blue cloth cover. 4 inch piece missing from top edge of dust jacket Slight shelf rubbing to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Former owners' name on endpaper. Corners slightly bent. Edges of blue cloth cover slightly faded. Slight shelf rubbing to dust jacket Minor tears on edges of dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4 books -- Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets: A Collection of Writings by Peter Kropotkin. Kropotkin, Peter and Baldwin, Roger N. (editor) Dover Publications, New York, 1970. 307p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings. Kropotkin, Peter. Published by Dover Publications, 2002. 307p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, binding tight, text clean/unmarked - + Memoirs of a Revolutionist. Peter Kropotkin. James Allen Rogers (ed.) Anchor. 338p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked + The Essential Kropotkin: A General Selection from the Writings of the Great Russian Anarchist Thinker , Emile Capouya & Keitha Tompkins (Editors), Liveright, 1975, 294p, trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed/small tears, text underlining/marginalia, solid binding, name inked top/bottom page edges---20.00 for all 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. The correspondence between Bernard Shaw and an American artist from 1921 through 1949. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A very nice copy with previous owner's name neatly written on ffep in a nice dustjacket with some shelfwear and a four inch tear to back. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. The correspondence between Bernard Shaw and an American artist from 1921 through 1949. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A very nice copy with previous owner's name neatly written on ffep in a nice dustjacket with some shelfwear and a four inch tear to back. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "The correspondence between Bernard Shaw and an American artist from 1921 through 1949". Lightly bumped and faded at ends of spine, faint pencil erasure mark on title page, else near fine. DJ smudged, chipped, torn - overall, good. Protected in mylar. Note: heavy book.

Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 192pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edge-chipped along bottom edge. First edition. Since Shaw's script is easily legible and he also typed many of his letters, much of this correspondence is given strictly in facsimiles of the actual letters rather than in the form of transcripts.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Black boards, mustard cloth spine wrap, black spine titles, lt shelf wear. Black endpapers. Pages crisp, clean; no writing. Dj lt. edge wear; in new clear sleeve. A collection of portraits on the some the most fantastic living beings to have walked the earth. Written w/great intellectual excitement and accuracy, filled w/ insights into the mysterious natures and accomplishments of Crowley, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, Rasputin, Tesla, Dashwood, Geller, Mesmer, and Nostradamus. 236 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1977 at title and copyright page; no other indications. Red orange textured boards, bright gilt spine titles, slight shelf wear. Pages fine; no writing. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Scarce dust wrapper, near fine; unclipped 3.95 net, protected in new clear sleeve. Unique 1970's mustard yellow wrapper with borders, stylized ank with cross, beams of sun and earthen red and orange titles emanating; red titles at spine area. Near fine intriguing rarity and same wrapper. This anthology is a straightforward approach to some of the individuals that have baffled and intrigued from ancient to modern times. Each essay focuses on a mysterious persona who appeared to have special powers not easily explained. The spoon-bender, the 18th century founder of the Hell-Fire Club, the sinister monk of Imperial Russia, the "beast" of Black Magic, the astounding inventor who harnessed electricity and other, etc. The facts and myths are presented to the reader without romanticising so you can make up your own mind. From back panel: The occult revival which began in the early 1960's is a reaction against the worst absudities of modern science, its insistence that the univers is meaningless and purposeless, that evolution is a matter of chance, that man must be judged purely as an animal - or worse still, as a bundle of mechanical reflexes. Soon to ba Television series produced and devised by Hal Hamilton. Introduction and two essays by Colin Wilson, on Rasputin and Gurdjieff. Chapters by Christmas Humphreys on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Kit Pedler on Nikola Tesla, Oliver Marlow Wilkinson on Aleister Crowley (Rest In?), Pat Silver and Jesse Lasky Jr. on Hell Fire Dashwood, Uri Geller, and Nostradamus, and, Peter Tompkins on Franz Anton Mesmer. Bibliography at back. Printed in Great Britain. 206 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.