Collins Charles James Editor (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (viii) 164 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction; An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu; No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman by Charles Dickens; Mrs Zant and the Ghost by Wilkie Collins; Reality or Delusion by Mrs Henry Wood; The New Pass by Amelia B. Edwards; The Body-snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; The Real Right Thing by Henry James; Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M. R. James; In Kropfsberg Keep by Ralph A. Cram; and The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing - First Thus. (xxvi) 368 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Writing by: Will Blythe; Doug Most; Bucky McMahon; Charles P. Pierce; STephen Rodrick; Buzz Bissinger; Michael Leahy; David Owen; Tom Friend; James McManus; William Nack; Ian Whitcomb; Kevin Conley; Geoffrey Douglas; Dave Kindred; Greg Child; Michael Dileo; Toure; Robert Draper; Pete Kotz; Woody Woodburn; Vahe Gregorian; Charles M. Young; Gene Collier; Jim Harrison; Beth Kephart; and Rick Reilly. Size: 8vo. Book. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some spot staining to the lower fore-edge else Near Fine copy. whb16E. Sam Adkins, John Digby (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 54 pp. Volume 9, number 4, issue 90. Very light wear. Cover art by James Christainsen. This issue contains: The Old Captain Goes Home: Manly Wade Wellman by Karl Edward Wagner; What Should an SF Novel be About? by Brian W. Aldiss; The Elusiveness of Fantasy by C. N. Manlove; To Tell It on the Mountain: Achievement of Manly Wade Wellman by Diana Waggoner; Conference Report by Michael Collings; Ragna Con by Rayson Lorrey; Cobra, She Said: An Interim Report on William Gibson by Tom Maddox; Astronomy 100 by Jacqueline A. Justice; Orbits by Mark Rich; and Thinly Veiled Suicide Note by Charles West; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. James Christiansen; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Magazine. Standard size and format. Staple bound. With illustrated cover and many interior black/white drawings and photos. 38 pages. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, 128 pp. Heel of spine bumped, wrappers rubbed, handled and edgewon.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 157 pages. 10.00x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Collins, Mike; Offredi, James (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Following the Editor's Introduction, Contents divided into 15 Essays in 3 Parts: Part One: BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND CULTURAL FACTORS [1] Helen Fisher, "The Nature and Evolution of Romantic Love"; [2] James S. Chisholm, "Love's Contingencies: The Development Socioecology of Romantic Passion"; [3] Charles Lindholm, "Love as an Experience of Transcendence"; [4] Jan Collins and Thomas Gregor, "The Boundaries of Love"; Part Two: ROMANTIC LOVE AS A PRIVATE EXPERIENCE [5] Helen Harris, "Rethinking Heterosexual Relationships in PolynesiaA Case Study of Mangaia, Cook Island"; [6] Leonard Plotnikov, "Love, Lust and Found in Nigeria"; [7] Helen A. Regis, "The Madness of Excess: Love Among the Fulbe of North Cameroun"; [8] Jim Bell,"Notions odf Love and Romance Among the Taita in Kenya"; [9] William Jankowiak, "Romantic Passion in the People's Republic of China"; Part Three: CULTURAL EXPRESSION: FAMILY, MARRIAGE, AND THE POLITICS OF ROMANCE [10] Victoria Katherine Burbank, "Passion as Politics: Romantic Love in an Australian Aboriginal Community"; [11] Pamela R. Stern and Richard G. Congdon, "A Good Spouse is Hard to Find: Marriage, Spouse Exchange, and Infatuation Among the Copper Inuit"; [12] Douglas A. Davis and Susan Schaefer Davis, "Possessed by Love: Gender and Romance in Morocco"; [13] L.A. Rebhun, "Language of Love in Northeast Brazil"; [14] Kevin K. Birth and Morris Freilich, "Putting Romance Into Systems of Sexuality: Changing Smart Rules in a Trinidadian Village"; [16] William Jankowiak and Emile Allen, "The Balance of Duty and Desire in an AmericanPolygamous Community"; Contributors, pp. 297-301; Index, pp. 303-310. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped (NO price) with full front cover abstract realist illustration, Title Box in black at top center front cover for Title lettering in white-tinted-light-green lettering; Editor name lettering in narrow rectangular black box at bottom left front cover with similar white-tinted-light-green lettering; Subtitle in a line along front cover right edge. Only peccadillo is a tiny tear at right bottom spine corner (now backed by Archival tape): NOW in Brodart mylar for additional aesthetic appeal and protection. Book itself: Cream boards with green cloth spine and brilliant silver lettering. Only flaw is a 1/8" light brown, surface spot on fore-edge, abutting the rear cover left edge and landing on pp. 265 to rear flyleaf (NO bleeding onto pages): describes much worse than it is (truly nugatory), but there you have it. Essentially, an As New ensemble. Crisp. Appears UNREAD.…

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

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. Magazine begins with page 151 and ends with page 202, with ads in the rear. A magazine devoted to railroads, railways, etc. With tables in the rear. Railways discussed are the South Eastern and London and Brighton companies, Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway, the Great Pacific railway in the United States, the Dublin railway in Ireland and others. GOOD condition. Spine repaired with clear TAPE down its length. Covers chipped and torn along their extremities, with some loss, especially along the fore edge. Heavy darkening to the covers, with some soiling. Text clean and solid with moderate darkening to the pages.…