Bloch W L (58 results)

Condition: Very Good. 9780979264429. . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Before placing your order for please contact us for confirmation on the book's binding. Check out our other listings to add to your order for discounted shipping. Ewing, John W. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ewing, John W. (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ewing, John W. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0312850492 . Collects 17 stories plus the editor's introduction, 303 pages, about the authors. Near Fine copy spine heel lightly bumped, in very good jacket with very scattered light wear, and several tiny tears, to the top and bottom edges. clph.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Tor / Tom Doherty Associates 1993. Hardcover. 0312850492 . First edition. Collects 17 stories plus the editor's introduction, 303 pages, about the authors. Very good with dust soiling and foxing top page edges, spine head bumped in jacket with light edge wear. clph.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. New York: Stein and Day Publishers 1983. Hardcover. 0812828488 . First US edition. Collects 13 stories. 203 pages. Near Fine with light dust soiling and foxing top page edges in fine jacket. clphE.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The Library of Babel is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea-combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory-followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library-an easily notated but literally unimaginable number-and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books. Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader-including those more inclined to the literary world-to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First British Edition. (xv) 290 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Lacunae by Karl Edward Wagner; The Hands by Ramsey Campbell; Lost Souls by Clive Barker; Reaper by Robert Bloch; Lapses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; The Bell by Ray Russell; Goodbye Dark Love by Roberta Lannes; Blue Rose by Peter Straub; The Monster by Joe Haldeman; Pale Trembling Youth by W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson; Out There by Charles L. Grant; Little Cruelties by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Man with the Hoe by George Clayton Johnson; They're Coming for You by Les Daniels; Vampire - a poem by Richard Christian Matheson; The Final Stone by William F. Nolan; Irrelativity by Nicholas Royle; The Transfer by Edward Bryant; and Pain by Whitley Strieber. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Digest sized with pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled. A VG+ copy with bumps to both ends of the spine, some light rubbing near the staples, typical page toning, and a small crease on the back cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 33 Original Stories. Hardcover. BCE. DJ: minimal edge wear. Black boards with teal spine text. Prior owner's Ex-Libros plate obverse upper board. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Dangerous Visions, #1. SCIFI/SHORTSTORIES/HORROR/FANTASY/SERIES. Leo and Diane Dillon (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. (xv) 301 pp. Quarter-bound in black on red boards; lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj by Linda Fennimore. This anthology contains: This anthology contains: Lacunae by Karl Edward Wagner; The Hands by Ramsey Campbell; Lost Souls by Clive Barker; Reaper by Robert Bloch; Lapses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; The Bell by Ray Russell; Goodbye Dark Love by Roberta Lannes; Blue Rose by Peter Straub; The Monster by Joe Haldeman; Pale Trembling Youth by W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson; Out There by Charles L. Grant; Little Cruelties by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Man with the Hoe by George Clayton Johnson; They're Coming for You by Les Daniels; Vampire - a poem by Richard Christian Matheson; The Final Stone by William F. Nolan; Irrelativity by Nicholas Royle; The Transfer by Edward Bryant; and Pain by Whitley Strieber. Size: 8vo. Linda Fennimore; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK edition. DJ has a 1-inch closed tear and some creases along head of front panel. yu3. Edd Cartier (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. A solid spine with no edge rubbings. The dustjacket has edge rubbings. Stories by : Maurie Level, Struart Palmer, Robert Bloch, Guy de Maupassant, Fritz Lieber, Robert Browning, Julia L.Keefer, Marvin Kaye, W.B.Yeats, Marion Zimmer Bradley, C.H.Sherman, Patricia Mullen, Ivan Turgenev, Julian Kilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Honore de Balzac, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Durrell Schweitzer,Ira Levin, Vernon Lee, Clemence Housman, Dan Simmons, Robert W.Chambers, Giovanni Boccaccio, Anne McCaffrey, Feodor Sologub, Carole Bugge, Henry James, Annette Covino, Saralee Kaye, Edward D.Hoch, Alexander Elizabeth Honigsberg, Toby Sanders, , Robert Sheckley, Alan Dean Foster,Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Susan C.Stone, Hope Manville, Tanith Lee, Gina M.Angelone, Morgan Llywelyn, Maryellen B.Wanderer, Barbara Gallow,Lisa Tuttle, JeanPaiva, Joan Vander Putten, Jane Jolen, Zenna Henderson. Lurin, Larry (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author to the actress Mary Kay Stearns (and Johnny) on the front free endpaper. The book would be fine save for foxing of the top, bottom and front of the text block. Else book is free of internal marking, spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. The jacket is not price clipped, has some slight frey and tear at spine ends and some edges though looks quite smart in its shiny new plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing. This book is from the estate and association copy of actress Mary Kay Stearns of the T.V. comedy show "Mary Kay and Johnny." Wikipedia states, "Mary Katherine Stearns was an American actress best known for portraying the fictional version of herself on the sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny from 1947 until 1950. The series was the first sitcom to air on television, the first television series to feature a pregnancy, (the Stearns' real life son Christopher), and the first to feature a couple sharing a bed.". Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-Library, GD+ original blue cloth, light shelfwear, remains of labels to end-papers, stamps to copyright page, otherwise reasonably clean throughout, in VG protected DW. Wrap-around jacket art by Terry Oakes.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Staining to edge of front cover. Ships daily.

First Edition. UNKNOWN WORLDS, Street & Smith, October, 1941, first edition, a good to very good copy in wraps with some light wear and chipping with original contributions by Anthony Boucher, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (THE LAND OF UNREASON), Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner (A GNOME THERE WAS), L. Ron Hubbard (BORROWED GLORY), et.al.…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; PB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342. . 2008. hardcover. . . . .

Wraps. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. First Edition. One shot publication edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.; large format (Bedsheet) pulp; all are reprints from Unknown Worlds (hence title). Classic cover and interior illustrations by Edd Cartier. Includes "The Enchanted Week End" by John MacCormac; "Nothing in the Rules" by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Compleat Werewolf" by Anthony Boucher; "The Refugee" by Jane Rice; "The Cloak" by Robert Bloch; "Yesterday Was Monday" by Theodore Sturgeon; "Trouble With Water" by H. L. Gold; "Anything" by Philip St. John; "One Man's Harp" by Babette Rosmond; "The Devil We Know" by Henry Kuttner; "The Psychomorph" by E. A. Grosser; "The Hexer" by H. W. Guernsey; "The Summons" by Don Evans; "Jesus Shoes" by Allan R. Bosworth. Illustrated by Cartier. Edge and corner nicks and wear with a few minor, or short tears; creasing; glue-mends to front hinge; tanning; stress; rubbing. Book. …

Hardback. Condition: New. The Library of Babel is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea-combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory-followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library-an easily notated but literally unimaginable number-and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books.Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader-including those more inclined to the literary world-to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; PB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342. . 2008. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Hardback 1940. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Jacket is poor & is torn & has lost a large section from the front cover: see photo. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref H211. The Photographer Speaks. Edited by Dr Olaf Bloch. Contributors: F.J. Mortimer; Dr Olaf Bloch; J. Dixon Scott; Marcus Adams; Bernard Alfieri; H. N. Blinkhorn; J. E. Saunders; W. L. F. Wastell; Noel Griggs; Dr D. A. Spencer. …