Hitchens,john (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Corners bumped; dust jacket has edgewear and minor soil; tight, text clean. 272 p., well illustrated. Published in 1990 at 15.95 pounds sterling. [B2:6:3L].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) of the 2nd Dell edition of a late 1950s collection of stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock. Dell Book F206. Reprints Dell D231. Includes Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams, Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White, A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom, The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair, The Price of the Head by John Russell, Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q Patrick (Hugh Callingham Wheeler), Sredni Vashtar by "Saki" (H H Munro), Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald, The Dancing Partner by Jerome K Jerome, Casting the Runes by M R James, The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hudson, and How Love Came to Professor Guildea and by Robert S Hitchens. Light edge wear. Very light browning to the pages. A very good or better copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 224 pp. Dell Book F206. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faintly creased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson; The Perfectionist by Margaret St. Clair; Sredni Vashtar by H. H. Munro writing as Saki; Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams; Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White; A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom; The Price of the Head by John Russell; Love Comes to Miss Lucy by Q. Patrick; Love Lies Bleeding by Philip MacDonald; The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome; Casting the Runes by M. R. James; and How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hitchens. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 304 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and some creasing on the spine; slightly wrinkled along the edges of the last few pages. This anthology contains: It Only Takes a Minute to Die by Cornell Woolrich; The Greyling Crescent Tragedy by John Creasey; Life in Our Time by Robert Bloch; Inspector Maigret Deduces by Georges Simenon; The Splintered Monday by Charlotte Armstrong; Death of the Sun by Michael Innes; If You See This Woman by Dolores Hitchens; Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl by Stanley Ellin; Sleep Is the Enemy by Anthony Gilbert; In Compartment 813 by Arthur Porges; The Inner Voices by Jean Potts; The Adventure of the Widow's Weeds by Robert L. Fish; Dr Coffee and the Philanderer's Brain by Lawrence G. Blochman; The Seasons Come, the Seasons Go by Fletcher Flora; Jericho and the Nuisance Clue by Hugh Pentecost; The Simpcox Miracle by William Shakespeare; Good Neighbor by Ursula Curtis; The hkzmp gsv bzmp Case by James Cross; The Game's the Thing by Holly Roth; Mom Sings an Aria by James Yaffe; M As in Mugged by Lawrence Treat; and The Friends of Hector Jouvet - best first story of the year - by James Powell. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 192 pages. Robin Blackburn "Fin de Siecle: Socialism after the Crash" / Peter Wollen "Scenes from the Future: Komar & Melamid" / Lynne Segal "Whose Left? Socialism, Feminism and the Future" / Andrzej Walicki "From Stalinism to Post-Communist Pluralism: The Case of Poland" / Robert Brenner "Why is the United States at War with Iraq?" / David Edgerton "Liberal Militarism and the British State" / John Grahl "Economies Out of Control" / Christopher Hitchens "Annan's Unacknowledged Legislators".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 272 pages. Illustrated. Lightly foxed inside dust jacket.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:9781739171346.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. illustrated, 64 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 422 pp. ; 24 cm. ; LC:PN6014.G7 1986; ISBN:0671629697 ; OCLC: 13270864 ; LCCN: 86005687 ; stiff paper wrappers ; paperback ; Contents: House opposite / N K Narayan - Working for a living . Alice Munro - A house divided / David Walton - Thieving / Norman Rush - Cathay / Steven Milhauser - Lost sons / James Salter - The old left / Daniel Menaker - Saks Fifth Avenue / Leon Rooke - Arcadia / Charles Dickinson - Hiding /Susan Minot - Claire's Lover's Church / Teri Ruch - Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt - The Nuisance / Penelope Gilliatt - Harry and Sylvia and Sylvia and Son On / Welch D. Everman - Poems : Narcissus explains / Richard Howard - Babel aboard the Hellas International express / Amy Clampitt - Effet et Neige / John Hollander - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Ground / Donald Finkel - The biographies of solitude / Irving Feldman - Telemetry before impact / George Starbuck - The thought that counts / Tom Disch - Memoirs: Sounds / Luis Brunuel - Heatherdown / Alexander Cockburn - Lost property / Ben Sonnenberg - Last home holiday / Dan Jacobson - Kwi-kwi, kwa-kwa / Michael Train - A late debut / Frank Hauser - Poems: Work-in-Progress / Djuna Barnes - Fringecups / Sandra McPherson - Moorhen / William Logan - Emigre / W. S. Merwin - The partisan / Nicholas Christopher - On reading a writer's letters / Mary Jo Salter - Articles: Translating Proust / Terence Kilmartin - Spying in Spain and Elsewhere / Claud Cockburn - For George Orwell / Christopher Hitchens - Revolutionary requirements, etc / Dorothy Gallagher - The culture gulch of the Time / Joh L. hess - Dishonoring Partisan Review / Murray Kempton - Notes on selling out / Dwight Macdonald ; stamp of The Carter Center, Atlanta on front endpaper ; remainder mark at bottom of textblock, else VG. Book.

Condition: Good. - Small quarto [approximately 8-3/4 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], pictorial paper covered boards. The binding is rubbed, soiled & bumped. The joints are split & there is a piece out of the head of the spine. 104 pages plus 4 blanks headed "Memoranda". 12 plates illustrated or decorated in color by J. McNeill Whistler, Joseph Pennell and others. The pastedowns & endpapers are stained & foxed & there is light foxing to the fore-edge & bottom edges with occasional foxing or soiling elsewhere in the book. The plates are clean & bright. Good. First edition.A beautifully illustrated book of essays, most of them revolving around the Savoy Hotel and Claridges. In the rear are lists of the hotels' amenities and prices, with useful information for tourists on consulate, banks, etc. There is a brief, illustrated piece about the semi-feral cats that live in the Savoy's basement.

A4 booklet. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Hazel Pryor inside front cover. viii, 64 pp. A study of the paid gardeners of Altrincham, Cheshire, and particularly the Altrincham & District Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society, from its beginnings in the 1890s to its closure in 1994. B&w illustrations. Signed by the author. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Folding card. 40 item catalogue, biography.

Newspaper. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Condition: NEW.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large square Quarto size (4to) in red stiff card covers white lettering to front cover, 28pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc . [CONDITION: VERY GOOD (covers slightly dusty) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING THUS-THE FIRST NEW EDITION WITH JOHN BETJEMAN PREFACE.VG HARDBACK-NEAT NAME DATE FEP IN A VG DUSTWRAPPER-A LITTLER DUSTY BUT A TIGHT COPY.NOT PRICECLIPPED.room.

Condition: Very good +. John McEwen (curator), Critic's Choice, ICA, London, 1978. Folding invitation card for group show, artists listed include John Hoyland, Ivan Hitchens, Howard Hodgkin, Hamish Fulton and Barry Flanagan. Printed red and black on white stock, 122 x 103mm (folded). Very good +.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 30 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Redfern Gallery, London, 15 February - 23 March 1989. Includes : Patrick Procktor RA, Paul Feiler, Keith Vaughan, Francis Davison, Adrian Heath, Stanley William Hayter, Christopher Wood, Sir Terry Frost RA, Merlyn Evans, Alan Reynolds ,Ivon Hitchens, Prunella Clough, Graham Sutherland, Arthur Lett-Haines, Peter Lanyon, Sir Cedric Morris, Michael Ayrton, Ben Nicholson, John Minton page.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first US edition of John Knittel's debut novel. The personal copy of the author's son, the publisher Robert Knittel. The very scarce first US edition of Indian-born Swiss writer John Knittel's commercially successful first novel, set on the Cornish coast.With the inscription of the author's son, Robert Knittel, to the front free endpaper. Robert was editorial director of publisher William Collins, and the husband of Academy Award winning German born actress Luise Rainer.With a preface from the author's friend, the journalist and writer Robert Hichens, who encouraged Knittel to embark on his English language fiction career. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding. With boards restored, original back strip laid down, and retaining the original endpapers. Discolouration to back strip and board perimeters. Front hinge lightly strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, with title page gathering attached at the head only. Pages lightly age toned, with light tide mark to head of first few leaves. Very Good. book.

117 pp.; 34.8 x 22.4 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Inaugural issue of XXIst Century Magazine published in Winter 1990 / 1991. Edited by Gini Alhadeff. Essays "Do the Wrong Thing: The Significance of Mr. Lee," by Christopher Hutchins; "Dirty Toys: Mike Kelley Interviewed," by Ralph Rugoff; "Ahh.Youth!' Eight Portraits,"; "The Animal Life of Ideas," by Harold Brodkey; "Writing Japanese: Seven Watercolors," by Ray Smith; "The New Negro, From the Novel 'High Cotton,'" by Darryl Pinckney; "Natural Wonder: Five C-Prints," by Gregory Crewdson; "Poems and Diaries," by James Schuyler; "The Ossorio 'Sails': Seven Drawings," by Dan Flavin; "Men in Camisoles: Five Poems," Elaine Equi; "Marshmallow Bombs / Camerasa and Computers: The New Technology of Invisible Deception," by Fred Ritchin; "Baby Elvis, Baby Marilyn, Lion/Sheep: Three Computer Composites," Nancy Burson; "How do you Get the Blood Stains Out of the Carpet? A Preview of The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez," by Peter Sellars; "The Talk Show Confidental," by David Rieff; "The Architect as a Figure of Melancholy: A Profile of John Hejduk," by Carter Ratcliff; "Museum for the Subjects Adam and Eve: Ten Drawings," by John Hejduk; "'Real' Furniture: Seven Drawings," by Donald Judd; "The Begging Bowl Diet," by Ariane Zurcher; "Modern Suit, Modern House: Color Photographs," by Adam Bartos; "Inez: The Takeover of an Island in Hawaii for Military Target Practice," by W. S. Merwin; "The Bombing of the American West: Eight Photographs," by Richard Misrach; "A Day on the Klamath River," by Alexander Cockburn; "On Sloth and Other Virtues," by Amy Hertz; "Coney Island: Four Photographs," by Rosemary Warner; "Letters from London, Colony of Pop," by Ian Buruma; "Twenty-Four Postcards from Bhutan," by John Ryle; "The Difference Between the Planet Venus and the Moon: A Conversation," by Ewa Kuryluk and Michael March; "On Record at The Russian Tea Room: Save the Children," by Fran Lebowitz and "Twenty-seven 'Pueblo' and Navajo Religious Objects from the American Southwest." Cover by Mike Kelley. Very Good / Fine. Nominal rubbing of cover edges and 2 cm. mild fold to upper right corner of recto, otherwise Fine. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required.

First edition, first printing. Large format. Fine in fine dustjacket.