Fisher John P Editor (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. a clean, square copy, no creasing.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Signed by Irving Sigel on first page, with inscription. No text markings noted. Wear at corners, remnant of adhesive label on back cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. James Fisher "The Fulmar population of Britain and Ireland, 1959" / P Hope Jones "Effects of consecutive, contrasting, winters on the bird population of an Anglesey pine plantation" / M P Harris "Age of return to the colony, age of breeding and adult survival of Manx Shearwaters" / I Newton and P R Evans "Weights of birds in winter" / John Hori "Moult migration of second-summer Shelduck" (SL#83).…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Black cloth, gilt lettering fine on spine, black inside covers and adjacent end papers, 273 browned pages. DJ price-clipped, colorfully designed in black and red, small b/w photos of Wiener and Fisher on back. DJ very slightly rubbed, very tiny tears to all top edges, slight wear to spine bottom edge. Fair DJ/Fine book.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. First Thus. Foreword by John Dewey. Trade paperback, glossy wrappers colorfully designed in purple, gray, red and black, 288 pages plus catalog. Mint.

[0-396-06374-8] 1971. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 392pp. Minor rubbing on dust jacket. "Here is a powerful selection of fiction and nonfiction mirroring the Negro experience in America. The time sequence of the book extends from the midnight of slave time to now - 11 P.M. (when 'for America this may be the last opportunity she has to deal with black Americans and negotiate. Before the terrifying prospects of internal strife, armed suppression and needless destruction descend fully upon us all.' - Whitney M. Young, Jr.). The changes in black and white consciousness over the years are clearly evident in this clockwise turn of fiction and events". Contributors include James Baldwin, Claude Brown, T.R. Carskadon, Eldridge Cleaver, John Allen Davidson, Robert K. Durkee, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Rudolph Fisher, Chris Frazer, John Howard Griffin, Wayne Grover, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Julius Lester, E.P. O'Donnell, Carl Ruthven Offord, Joseph E. Pumila, Edward Rivera, William Styron, Sandra Taylor, Bob Teague, Michael Thelwell, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright. Locale: United States. (Fiction, Autobiography, Black Americans, Black Studies, Fiction, Race Relations, Short Stories). …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 771 pages. 10.00x7.01x1.65 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 483 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.15 inches. In Stock.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The June 17 & 24 and July 1, 1939 issues of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 5, 6 & 7 (conclusion) of 7 of And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians), a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, and The Editor Regrets, a Drones Club short story by P G Wodehouse (7/1). Other fiction and articles include Idle Money - Idle Men, an article about proposals to solve the Depression by future presidential candidate Wendell Willkie (6/17), A Man From Fort Necessity, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (7/1), Charles' Gift, an article by detective fiction writer Hulbert Footner on the 17th century house he restored on the Chesapeake Bay (7/1), and others.The magazines contain several 1939 NY World's Fair ads. Cover art by Philip Clay Roettinger (6/17 - Smiling Boy), John LaGatta (6/24 - Wedding Day), & Arthur H. Fisher (7/1 - Sam the American Eagle). Condition issues include: 6/17 - scrapes to the lower left & right fore edge of the front cover, insect damage to the back cover with loss around the edges & spine w/minor text los to the last few pages, and a 1.5" x .75" chip to the fore edge of the back cover & page 107/108; 6/24 - small adhesions at the top left of page 2/3 at the spine; and 7/1 - light soiling & small closed tears to the front cover, and a top corner fold to pages 78 - 88 & the back cover. A very good set with serial installments and short stories by a prominent and collectible authors. A heavy oversize set that may require additional postage. Philip Clay Roettinger, John LaGatta, & Arthur H. Fisher (covers); Henry Raleigh (And Then There Were None); James Williamson (The Editor Regrets) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volume set of hardcovers bound in black and white cloth with gold accents, gold lettering across spines. No DJs. Volume I is ex libris with a few markings: faint sticker residue near foot of spine, extending onto both covers; an inked out sticker left at foot of spine with indexing numbers; library bookplate on front free endpaper and stamp on copyright page. No text marred or obscured. White cloth on Volume I slightly discolored along edges. Volume II is not ex libris. White cloth is similarly discolored, black cloth on spine is faded about half a shade. Both volumes are encased in protective mylar sleeves to prevents further damage or discoloration. Volume I dated only 1960. 413 pages. All clean (excluding previously mentioned ex libris markings), lightly and evenly toned. Binding is beginning to loosen along front hinge but not cracked, overall neat and secure. Volume II dated only 1964. 472 pages. All clean, lightly and evenly toned. Binding is tight and secure. This is an oversized set, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…