Language: English
Published by Pavilion Books Limited, London, 1995
ISBN 10: 1857934164 ISBN 13: 9781857934168
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Davidson, Andrew - Cover (illustrator). First Printing. 247 Pages. Red Cloth with Gold spine lettering and decoration. Dust jacket price 19.99 (British Pound) is unclipped. Unread book. Anyone considering acting as a career would be well advised to read this entertaining anthology by Philip Franks before making a decision. Meanwhile, those who have tried acting --- successfully or otherwise --- and those who have worked with actors, lived with them, or simply watched them from the stalls, will find much that is amusing. For in his selection of poetry and prose Franks runs the whole gamut of the span experiences, from wayward juvenile productions and amateur dramatics to professional acting at its most sublime. We are given graphic accounts of early struggles in the profession from Isadora Duncan and John Osborne, fascinating insights into the craft of acting from Fiona Shaw, and Juliet Stevenson, and some compelling memories of great performers:. Kenneth Williams on Laurence Olivier 's Othello, Michael MacLiammoir on the teenage, but already formidable , Orson Welles auditioning in Dublin in 1931 . and Michael Redgrave on falling in love with Edith Evans, his Rosalind in As You Like It. Equally unforgettable are monsters such as the diminutive, demoniacal Edmund Kean; Hollywood's own Mommie Dearest, Joan Crawford; and Matita Hunt, affectionately described by Alec Guinness as utterly impossible but easy to forgive. There are memorable literary accounts of mounting or attending plays from the novels of Henry Fielding and Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, and extracts from Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and from plays by Chekhov and Pinero, Coward and Stoppard. Songs include Stephen Sondheim's Broadway Baby and Noel Coward 's hilariously dire warning to Mrs. Worthington regarding her daughter. The work of poets ranging from Tennyson to Roger McGough completes this multi-faceted celebration of the routine, the rigours and the rapture of an actor 's life. Contents in Ten Parts: Childhood, Born in a Trunk, Am Dram, Training and Theory, Starting Out, Odd Jobs, Success, Failure, Monsters, and Old Age and Beyond.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Withdrawn library book. Only library markings are inside back cover. Volume 30 Hardcover in DJ with minor shelf wear. Pages are unmarked.
Language: English
Published by Chilton Book Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 1974
ISBN 10: 0801959314 ISBN 13: 9780801959318
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jack Freas; (illustrator). First Edition. (viii) 231 pp. Beige cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Jack Freas. This anthology contains: Oh, to be a Blobel - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; Venus and the Seven Sexes - a novella by William Tenn; Babel II - a novelette by Damon Knight; Useful Phrases for the Tourist by Joanna Russ; Conversational Mode by Grahame Leman; Heresies of the Huge God by Brian W. Aldiss; Now + n, Now - n - a novelette by Robert Silverberg; Slow Tuesday Night by R. A. Lafferty; Help, I am Dr Morris Goldpepper by Avram Davidson; Hobson's Choice by Alfred Bester; and I Plinglot, Who You? - a novelette by Frederik Pohl. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by John Murray, London, 1953
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown illus. paper covered boards. 2nd ptg.: Jan. 1954 (of British edition, by John Murray, Albemarle St.). A few hints of rubbing to corners and extremities, otherwise essentially as issued. Illus. dust jacket shows triangular chip of loss at head of front joint, a few small chips along top rear edge, minor soiling and several closed tears, now in mylar. 64 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by LRB, 2001
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Janes Davidson "Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction! / Anthony Grafton "The Lost World of Latin Users" / Philip Kitcher "Can biology be more like Physics?" / Patrick Collinson "The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s" / Lorraine Daston "Your map isn't my map" / Andrew saint "The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol.III, 1840-1950.
Published by Doubleday and Company, New York, 1979
Seller: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 455 pp. Black boards lettered in red on the spine. Book Club code V4. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. Edited with the assistance of Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. This anthology contains: War Game by Philip K. Dick; The Detweiler Boy by Tom Reamy; Coup de Grace by Jack Vance; Time in Advance by William Tenn; Second Game by Charles V. deVet and Katherine MacLean; The Ceaseless Stone by Avram Davidson; The Green Car by William F. Temple; ARM by Larry Niven; Mouthpiece by Edward Wellen; Time Exposures by Wilson Tucker; How 2 by Clifford Simak; The Ipswich Phial by Randall Garrett; and The Singing Bell by Isaac Asimov. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Mercury Press, Cornwall, CT, 1979
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1979. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 324 pages. F and SF only prints original stories (no reprints). This is a professional magazine that began publishing in 1949 which makes it the second oldest continually publishing science fiction magazines in the country. 6192L.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.25x8.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by Mercury Press, Inc., New York, 1964
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Emshwiller, Ed (Emsh) (illustrator). First Edition. Contains Cantata 140 by Dick, The Second Philadelphia Experiment by Young, Balloon Astronomy by Thomas, The Scientist and the Monster by Wilson, The Happy Place by Lamb, reviews by Davidson, The End of the Wine by Lewis, The Salvation of Faust by Zelazny, All-Hallows by Drake, science by Asimov, The Struldbrugg Reaction by Sutherland, The Girl with the 100 Proof Eyes by Webb and We Serve the Star of Freedom by Beauclerk. Light browning and edge rubbing to the covers with a small dent to the front cover which also affects the first few pages. Page edges browned. Browning to the insides of the covers. Pages browned but otherwise unmarked. Cover illustration by Emsh. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.
Language: English
Published by Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2009
ISBN 10: 0812219651 ISBN 13: 9780812219654
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Published by UPD Publishing Corporation, New York, 1971
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: GOOD. First printing, 2 digest magazines. Set of two issues which include both parts of 'The Fabulous Riverboat' , a serial by Philip Jose Farmer; Also included are Occam's Scalpel, a novellette by Theodore Sturgeon; Arnten of Ultima Thule by Avram Davidson; Easy Way Out, a novelette by John Brunner and more . Ads illustrated. Cover art by Jack Gauguin. 176 pp ea. Good condition overall (usual toning to the pages, minor wear to the covers, no mailing label).
paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 0567714861 ISBN 13: 9780567714862
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 0567714829 ISBN 13: 9780567714824
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 056771442X ISBN 13: 9780567714428
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 0567713717 ISBN 13: 9780567713711
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2023
ISBN 10: 0567702510 ISBN 13: 9780567702517
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2023
ISBN 10: 0567701913 ISBN 13: 9780567701916
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2022
ISBN 10: 0567697738 ISBN 13: 9780567697738
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2022
ISBN 10: 0567696898 ISBN 13: 9780567696892
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2021
ISBN 10: 056769898X ISBN 13: 9780567698988
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2021
ISBN 10: 0567698270 ISBN 13: 9780567698278
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2020
ISBN 10: 0567698181 ISBN 13: 9780567698186
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 195 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2020
ISBN 10: 0567694860 ISBN 13: 9780567694867
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 281 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 204 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2026
ISBN 10: 0567722392 ISBN 13: 9780567722393
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.21x6.14x1.11 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 0567718859 ISBN 13: 9780567718853
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.22x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.
Language: English
Published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2025
ISBN 10: 056771487X ISBN 13: 9780567714879
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.22x6.14x1.00 inches. In Stock.