Dennis Rolfe (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Dennis Rolfe, Cover Photo (illustrator). 332 pages. Clean text, spine has heavy creases, tear at the spine, cover creases. Store stamped: The Book Shop, 6 Yosef Du Nuwas St, Jerusalem. An engaging and information book for ordinary people rather than professionals. Illustrated with figures; ;

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, spine creasing, some light cover creasing, slight spine lean, rubbed hinges, some marks to page edges and cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, spine & cover creasing, rubbed hinges, slight lean.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Rolfe, Dennis (Cover Photography) (illustrator). Fourth Paperback Printing. 223pp. 025944. Slight Edge-wear. Small previous owner's name one first page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall J6.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dennis Rolfe (Cover Photo) (illustrator). 141 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with minimal external and overall wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Slightly browned pages.

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1964: A collection of 8 short stories by Isaac Asimov in the 'Positronic Robot' series of books. 1st printing of 1968 paperback edition:- Contents: Robot AL-76 Goes Astray / Victory Unintentional / First Law / Lets Get Together / Satisfaction Guaranteed / Risk / Lenny / Galley Slave:- Synopsis: 'The Rest Of The Robots' are not simple unthinking machines victimised by frightened men. 'The Rest Of The Robots' are positronic with brains of platinum-iridium. Independent. Precision-engineered. Sensible. Rational. And from the moment the last rivet is in place. 'The Rest Of The Robots' is Isaac Asimov's final, classic, terrifying picture of robotic developments in the future - here in paperback for the first time:- (original cost 5').

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1964: A collection of 8 short stories by Isaac Asimov in the 'Positronic Robot' series of books. 9th printing of 1968 paperback edition:- Contents: Robot AL-76 Goes Astray / Victory Unintentional / First Law / Lets Get Together / Satisfaction Guaranteed / Risk / Lenny / Galley Slave:- Synopsis: 'The Rest Of The Robots' are not simple unthinking machines victimised by frightened men. 'The Rest Of The Robots' are positronic with brains of platinum-iridium. Independent. Precision-engineered. Sensible. Rational. And from the moment the last rivet is in place. 'The Rest Of The Robots' is Isaac Asimov's final, classic, terrifying picture of robotic developments in the future:- (original cost £1.50).

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Full blue cltoh, jacket has lighty wear to the extremities. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a VERY GOOD dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1950: A collection of 9 short stories that are a part of the 'Robot' series of books. 10th printing of 1968 paperback edition:- Contents:- Robbie / Runaround / Reason / Catch That Rabbit / Liar! / Little Lost Robot / Escape! / Evidence / The Evitable Conflict:- Synopsis: "To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. You don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are". When Earth is ruled by master-machines. When robots are more human than mankind:- (original cost £0.60).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1950: A collection of 9 short stories that are a part of the 'Robot' series of books. 7th printing of 1968 paperback edition:- Contents:- Robbie / Runaround / Reason / Catch That Rabbit / Liar! / Little Lost Robot / Escape! / Evidence / The Evitable Conflict:- Synopsis: "To you, a robot is just a robot. But you haven't worked with them. You don't know them. They're a cleaner, better breed than we are". When Earth is ruled by master-machines. When robots are more human than mankind:- (original cost £0.30).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1958 Edition. © 1954: 1st in the 'Elijah Baley & R Daneel Olivaw' series of books. 7th printing of 1958 edition:- Synopsis: A spaceman - a specialist in robotics - has been murdered. Lije Baley, a plainclothesman of his time, combs the vast caves of steel in a tense hunt for a lone fanatic, for a murderer and for the solution to an almost perfect crime that could set an entire galaxy ablaze:- (original cost £0.30).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). Spine faded and some creasing to the front bottom corner, otherwise a good reading copy. lighter item- reduced rates. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. GD+ Moderate edgewear, moderate creasing to spine, store-stamp to front fly-page,otherwise an attractive copy, clean throughout. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Cover photograph by Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). Second Edition. Penguin Books D-103. First printing of the revised and enlarged edition, which was published in 1974. The original edition was first published in 1967. A paperback original. Cover photograph by Dennis Rolfe. ***Very good in colour-illustrated card covers. The covers have some light wear commensurate with age and handling. There is some creasing to the top corner of the front cover. No serious creases, tears or bumps. There are no reading creases to the spine, but there is some light rubbing to the edges of the spine. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with an owner's name and date to the top of the inside front cover. Paper stock lightly tanned. Pages clean. ***152 pages plus eight pages of publisher's adverts at the back of the book. 180 mm x 110 mm. ***'Penguin Modern Poets is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume. In each case the selection has been made to illustrated the poet's characteristics in style and form. The ten earlier volumes are still available and further volumes are in preparation.' (Quote taken from the back cover) The series eventually ran to 27 volumes, published between 1962 and 1979. ***'The Liverpool poets are a number of influential 1960s poets from Liverpool, England, influenced by 1950s Beat poetry. They were involved in the 1960s Liverpool scene that gave rise to The Beatles. Their work is characterised by its directness of expression, simplicity of language, suitability for live performance and concern for contemporary subjects and references. There is often humour, but the full range of human experience and emotion is addressed. "The kids didn't see this poetry with a capital 'p', they understood it as modern entertainment, as part of the pop-movement."' (Roger McGough - Wiki) ***First printing of the revised and enlarged edition, in the original card covers. One of the most popular titles in the Penguin Modern Poets series, covering the Liverpool Poets - the Mersey Sound. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. GD+ Moderate edgewear, moderate creasing to spine and corners, mild age-toning to pages, old price in black marker pen to front cover and front fly page, otherwise clean throughout. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe.

Paper. Condition: Good ++. Dennis Rolfe (cover) (illustrator). Daniel Miller is so frustrated by his discovery that he goes to a doctor for assistance. He (D.M.) is a lust-filled character in a novel by Roger Coleridge and as such has to move through re-write after re-write of certain chapters of his life - entirely at the AUTHOR'S whim .166 pages with a British setting. Intriguing technique. Cond: White paper wrapper with a colour cover photo of two people in an embrace. ONE soft corner, edges lightly chipped, minor soiling. Spine is fine, binding tight, no names, marks, tears, creases nor folds. Quote (p. 98) : " . might explain how it is that a frog taken (however reluctantly) into the soft bed of a princess can be changed overnight back into a prince. They were both too . .".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Rolfe, Dennis (illustrator). Later Printing. An uncreased spine with no edge rubbings. No store stamp. Contents-Robot AL-76 Goes Astray, Victory Unintenional, Fifst Law, Let's Get Together, Satisfaction Guaranteed, Risk, Lenny, & Galley Slave.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG+ matching set. Cover art by Dennis Rolfe.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Dennis Rolfe (illustrator). 1937 Edition. © 1930: A stand-alone novel by Olaf Stapledon. 3rd printing of 1937 edition:- Synopsis: "There have been many visions of the future. but none in my experience as strange as 'Last And First Men'". This was Arnold Bennett's comment on Stapledon's devastating chronicle of the next two thousand million years. The infinite and icy perspectives of a surrealist painting give form to Stapledon's vision of the future. As cataclysm succeeds cataclysm there is always a new race of men to take up the torch from the last, down to 'the last syllable of recorded time' and the destruction of the solar system. It rests with the last man to pronounce: "It is very good to have been man":- (original cost 5').

Soft cover. Condition: Good. VG- Moderate edgewear, light creasing to spine, very slight lean, diagonal crease to top front corner, store-stamps to front fly page, otherwise internally very clean throughout. Front cover design has Asimov's face through distorted lens by DennisRolfe.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Freeman, Robert Golden, and Dennis Rolfe (Photographs) (illustrator). First Edition. (1979) 504 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers. Faint sunning to edges. Spine ends bumped. DJ lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Includes 303 illustrations, 259 in full color, including many double-page spreads and multipage foldouts. Contents very nice.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Rolfe, Dennis (illustrator). First Edition. Paperback original. Previously published in the US also as a paperback original by Avon in 1960. The first edition appeared the previous year in France. The covers are clean and unmarked. Page edges browned. Light brown spotting around the edges of the insides of the covers and on the first and last pages. Browning at the edges of the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover photograph by Dennis Rolfe. First printing. Postage will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. I, Robot is Near Fine. Light edgewear, moderate age-toning to pages, otherwise an attractive copy, very clean throughout. The Rest of the Robots is a VG copy. Both volumes have matching cover art by Dennis Rolfe.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Valerie Hobson "A Day's Work" / Bob Raymond's Diary / Dennis Holman "John Ford" / Hollywood Snapshots / Eunice Forster "A Swell Guy - Guy Rolfe" / Peter Noble "Pick of the Films" (SL#116).

PF. Condition: New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Rolfe, Dennis (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Originally published in hard covers by Cape in 1966. Only very slight edge wear to covers with a little fading to the left edge of the front cover and slight browning to the edges of the spine. Page edges browned but pages otherwise unmarked. Cover photograph by Dennis Rolfe. First printing. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Paperback. Condition: VG-. Dennis Rolfe (cover) (illustrator). 1st Thus. (2 copies).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Nazraeli Press: 2005. Quarto. Hardcover without a dust jacket, as issued. Second printing, limited to 500 copies. Signed by Horn on the title page. Fading along the spine and the front board. On the lower end of very good. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New. pp. 384.