A Murray Oliver (27 results)

hardcover. 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.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket as Published. 1st Edition. Clean, tight pb with uncreased spine.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Book has considerable wear. No highlighting or underlining. Foxing on one or more of the fore-edges. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Cover/edges have light wear. Pages are clean/intact.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 97 pages; 8 x 9 ".

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Binding has soil, rubbing and wear; tight, text clean. xiii, [1], 97 p., with in-text illustrations and 4 p. of color plates [abo strs] Size: Oversize.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Book spine faded, light fading to red paper covered slipcase, embossed seal of previous owner on FFEP; A tight solid book. Blue cloth covered boards; B&W Illustrations; 97 pages. Illustrated by Map Endpapers (illustrator).

Condition: Fine. Softcover exhibition catalog, 8" x 9", covers are very good, text is fine; xii, 97 pp, map; 215 object5s described, well-illustrated in black-and-white - 4 color. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. Large 8vo. 97pp. Illus throughout including colour + maps. The book is based on an exhibition at the Oregon Historical Society to mark and record the 3 great voyages of Capt. Cook. Well illustrated. VG.

Condition: Very good. xiii, 97, col + b/w illus. . PB. Vg. . [9780875950495].

Stapled Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Alexander Turnbull Library Occasional Publications No. 2 (n.s.) Reprinted from the Turnbull Libray Record Volume 1 (n.s.) No. 4 November 1968. 53 pages.

Imperial octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

1st Ed. Foreword by David C. Seath, Minister of Internal Affairs. No pagination, 20 PP with description of 50 paintings. Pictorial soft cover. (View up the Matavai Valley, 1777). Fine. 20 x 16.2. Selection of 50 paintings exhibited in 1967.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Fourth edition This is a heavy book which may incur a higher postage charge. library label on front free end paper and top of front board. No other library marks. Dust wrapper lacks top inch of front probably where label has been.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

B/w. illustrations. Rebound in blue cloth with original pictorial wrapps. bound in. US$13.

xiii, (1), 97, (5)pp. Prof. illus. Sq. 4to. Wraps.

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1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Sir James Madden. Preface by Thomas Vaughan. Introduction by Edmund Hayes. XIII, 97 PP with 85 pages of b/w illustrations, plus 4 colour plates. Eps: Carte reduite des parties connues du Globe Terrestre MDCCLV. Pictorial card cover. Covers somewhat rubbed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.8 x 20.3. Catalogue for an exhibition on Capt. Cook organized by the Oregon Historical Society for the bicentennial of the USA and the exploration of Cook on its shores.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Aceptable. 1ª Edición. Revista "Enigmas" #11. Edición mexicana de "Fantastic Story Magazine". Versión castellana directa de la edición norteamericana. Buen estado / aceptable. Señales de uso, tapa algo arrugada, y bordes gastados con algunos pequeños cortes. Incluye los siguientes relatos: EL AUDITORIO CAUTIVO, Wallace West; LA CIUDAD DE LOS MUERTOS INSEPULTOS, Chad Oliver; ASESINATO A CONTROL REMOTO, Kris Neville; SOBRE UNA ESTRELLA, J. W. Groves; ¡A LAS ARMAS!, John Cristopher; MEMORIA FUGITIVA, Bill Venable; VIAJERO DEL TIEMPO, A. Kulik; LAS ESTRELLAS ESTÁN CERCA, R. S. Richardson; EL ROBOT NEURASTENICO, Murray Leinster; EL PARAGUAS SUB-SONICO DEL SOL, Carlos Sprague. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Philadelphia: Gernsback Publications Inc., 1953. First Editions of the scarce Large Format (large quarto, near folio) fifties sci-fi pulp. June and August, 1953 editions (consecutive), Volume 1, Nos. 4 & 5; containing the two parts of the serial novel "The Stolen Minute" (see below). Cover illustrations by Alex Schomburg and Frank R. Paul; rear cover illustrations (one shown in scan) by Frank R. Paul and Tina Paul. Interior illustrations by Frank R. Paul, Tom O'Reilly, Paul Cooper, Charles Hornstein, Muneef Awan, and Jay Landau (Jacob Landau). 11 1/4" x 8 5/8". Illustrated wraps, 66 pp. Light soiling to covers, normal mild toning of interior pages, spines are 98% complete. Light pencil marking near top of cover of No. 5. Sharp and bright, Very Good plus. See scans. Handsome consecutive installments of one of the legendary Hugo Gernsback's best publications, providing the entire two-part Jacob-Landau-illustrated "The Stolen Minute". Issue no. 4 (June) includes "Nightmare Planet", a short novel by Murray Leinster; part one of "The Stolen Minute", a french sci-fi entree by Pierre Devaux and Henri Viot, translated by Sabine and Leonard J. Wang and illustrated by Jay Landau, who was occasionally seen under that name as a sci-fi illustrator in this era and who later earned fame, under the name Jacob Landau, as a mainstream painter; "The Dimensional Terror", a short story by Harry Walton; "The Spiral Intelligence", by Frank Belknap Long; and a short-short, "Incident in Space", by Lawrence E. Larkey. Articles includes "The World in 2046" (Gernsback) and " Saturn-Queen of the Sky" (also the subject of Schomburg's cover work) and a variety of regular departments, including Sam Moskowitz book reviews. Issue #5 (August) includes the Clifford Simak novel "Spacebred Generations"; Short stories "Ultimate Life" (Albert de Pina and Henry Hasse) and "Hands Across Space" (Chad Oliver); the second part of "The Stolen Minute"; an illustrated feature, "The End of the Moon", by Gustav Albrecht, Frank R. Paul, and Donald H. Menzel; and again the standard departments by Gernsback, Moskowitz, , and Secor. Studded with the now-timeless genre luminaries Gernsback, Leinster, Long, Simak, Paul, Schomburg, Moskowitz, and Landau, undeniable treasures from science fiction history. An interesting companion piece is our item number 000924 , the original Jay Landau illustration for the two-page header illustration of the second part of "The Stolen Minute". Please see scans. Lg8. Schomburg, Alex; Paul, Fran R.; Paul, Tina et al (illustrator).…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.12. Newspaper format with six sheets folded once, unbound. Toned paperstock. Fine. A special In Memoriam issue to celebrate the life of Roland Muirhead with contributions from the great and the good of Scottish thinkers including Hugh MacDiarmid, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Douglas Young amongst many others.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 85-168, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Queen Side of Things - The Shot That Failed; Derelicts of Misfortune; Short Stories - The Novice, My Friend the Sea; Clearing the Road; Through Borneo by 'Bus; Tshaka's Treasure; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden; Work-Hunting in New Zealand - part 1; A Run on Raincoats; Phases of Life - When the Tanker Took Fire, The Tribal Law, Streets Paved with Gold; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Sindall, Alfred; Tresilian, S.; Golden, Grace; Leigh, Conrad; Cuneo, T.C.; Prater, Ernest; Lathan; Wenban, R.; Stott, W.R.S.; Soper, Geo. (illustrator).…