Foster John L Editor (18 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. [1st printing] May 2003. Cover art by C. Calvert. Includes "The Green Lama" by Kendell Foster Cross; "A Mask for a Killer" by Wyatt Blassingame; "Life - Or Death?" by Roger Torrey; "Bullets for Your Birthday" by Cyril Plunkett; "The Murderers Confessed" by Mabel Abbott; "The Reel Detective"; "Let Me Live" by D. L. Champion. Original illustrations. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. [1st printing] May 2003. Cover art by C. Calvert. Includes "The Green Lama" by Kendell Foster Cross; "A Mask for a Killer" by Wyatt Blassingame; "Life - Or Death?" by Roger Torrey; "Bullets for Your Birthday" by Cyril Plunkett; "The Murderers Confessed" by Mabel Abbott; "The Reel Detective"; "Let Me Live" by D. L. Champion. Original illustrations. Slight handling wear. Book.

paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Julek Heller; (illustrator). Second Printing. (xiv) 494 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Julek Heller. This anthology contains: A Hedge Against Alchemy by John Morressy; Uncle Harry Passes by Esther Friesner; The Shoemaker and the Elvis by Lawrence Schimel; The Birthday Gift by Elisabeth Waters; Escape from the Planet of the Bears by Tom Holt; The Star of the Farmyard by Terry Jones; The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel by John Kendrick Bangs; Neander Tale by James P. Hogan; A Dealing with Demons - a novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner; The Case of Jack the Clipper by David Langford; Dances with Elves by Cynthia Ward; A Slow Day in Hell by Julia S. Mandala; How I Got Three Zip Codes by Gene Wolfe; The Failure of Hope and Wandel by Ambrose Bierce; Captain Honario Harpplayer R. N. by Harry Harrison; The Aliens Who Knew I Mean Everything by George Alec Effinger; History Book: A Thog the Mighty Text - a novelette by John Grant; Elija P. Jopp and the Dragon by Archibald Marshall; The Dragon Doctor's Apprentice - a novelette by Charles Partingan; Rules of Engagement by Molly Brown; The Triumph of Vice by W. S. Gilbert; The Top 50 Things I'd Do if I Ever Became an Evil Overlord - an essay by Peter Anspach; How to be Fantastic by Elizabeth Counihan; Hershey's Kisses by Ron Goulart; Quest by Sue Anderson; The Hills Behind Hollywood High - a novelette by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis; The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Neil Gaiman; The Man Who Hated Cadillacs - a novelette by E. K. Grant; The Ultimate - a novelette by Seamus Cullen; Diamonds - Black and White by Anthony Armstrong; Malocchio by Eliot Fintushel; The Metrognome - a novelette by Alan Dean Foster; The Eye of Tandyla - a novelette by L Sprague de Camp; and The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists by Harlan Ellison. Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Julek Heller; (illustrator). First U.S. Edition. (xiv) 494 pp. Dark gray boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; bumped at the foot of the spine; no interior markings. Dj art by Julek Heller. This anthology contains: The Metrognome - a novelette by Alan Dean Foster; The Eye of Tandyla - a novelette by L Sprague de Camp; The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists by Harlan Ellison; A Hedge Against Alchemy by John Morressy; Uncle Harry Passes by Esther Friesner; The Shoemaker and the Elvis by Lawrence Schimel; The Birthday Gift by Elisabeth Waters; Escape from the Planet of the Bears by Tom Holt; The Star of the Farmyard by Terry Jones; The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel by John Kendrick Bangs; Neander Tale by James P. Hogan; A Dealing with Demons - a novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner; The Case of Jack the Clipper by David Langford; Dances with Elves by Cynthia Ward; A Slow Day in Hell by Julia S. Mandala; How I Got Three Zip Codes by Gene Wolfe; The Failure of Hope and Wandel by Ambrose Beirce; Captain Honario Harpplayer R. N. by Harry Harrison; The Aliens Who Knew I Mean Everything by George Alec Effinger; History Book - a novelette by John Grant; Elija P. Jopp and the Dragon by Archibald Marshall; The Dragon Doctor's Apprentice - a novelette by Charles Partingan; Rules of Engagement by Molly Brown; The Triumph of Vice by W. S. Gilbert; The Top 50 Things I'd Do if I Ever Became an Evil Overlord - an essay by Peter Anspach; How to be Fantastic by Elizabeth Counihan; Hershey's Kisses by Ron Goulart; Quest by Sue Anderson; The Hills Behind Hollywood High - a novelette by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis; The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Neil Gaiman; The Man Who Hated Cadillacs - a novelette by E. K. Grant; The Ultimate - a novelette by Seamus Cullen; Diamonds Black and White by Anthony Armstrong; and Malocchio by Eliot Fintushel. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to lower front and upper rear corners, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 115pp. An anthology of contemporary poetry chosen and edited by John L Foster. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

Digest. Condition: Very Good +. May. Digest. Very Good +. May. A clean copy with no flaws. Stories by : R. Garcia y Robertson, Robert Reed, John Maddox Roberts, Alan Dean Foster Esther M. Friesner & Gene O'Neill.

paperback. Condition: Good. 20276.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 633 pp. Black boards lettered in copper on the spine; headband. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Message to Myself by Diana L. Paxson; In the Country of the Blind No One Can See by Melisa Michaels; Keepersmith by Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron; A Delicate Shade of Kipney by Nancy Kress; Born Again by Sharon N. Farber; Good-Bye Robinson Crusoe by John Varley; A Bait of Dreams by Jo Clayton; Dance Band on the Titanic by Jack Chalker; Bystander by Alan Dean Foster; Time and Hagakure by Steven Utley; Ghosts by Keith Minnion; A Simple Outside Job by Robert Lee Hawkins; The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny; Lost and Found by Michael A. Banks and George Wagner; Hellhole by David Gerrold; The Man Who Took the Fifth by Michael Schimmel; The Adventure of the Global Traveler by Anne Lear; Backspace by F. M. Busby; On the Q167 File by John M. Ford; Horseless Carriage by Michael A. Banks; Piece de Resistance by Jesse Bone; Lipidleggin' by F. Paul Wilson; Omit Flowers by Dean McLaughlin; One Rejection Too Many by Patricia Nurse; But Do They Ride Dolphins? by Frederick S. Lord; When There's No Man Around by Stephen Goldin; Guilt by James Gunn; Proud Rider by Barry B. Longyear; Lorelie at Storyville West by Sherwood Springer; On the Way by Conway Conley; Darkside by Gary D. McClellan; No Room in the Stable by A. Bertram Chandler; African Blues by Paula Smith; Coming of Age in Henson's Tube by William Jon Watkins; Star Train by Drew Mendelson; Softly Touch the Stranger's Mind by E. Amalia Andujar; Joelle by Poul Anderson; Quarantine by Arthur C. Clarke; Cautionary Tales by Larry Niven; Air Raid by Herb Boehm; A Many Splendored Thing by Linda Isaacs; Boarder Incident by Ted Reynolds; Low Grade Ore by Kevin O'Donnell; Heal the Sick Raise the Dead by Jesse Peel; A Time for Terror by Frederick Longbeard; Perchance to Dream by Sally A. Sellers; The Small Stones to Tu Fu by Brian W. Aldiss; To Sin Against Systems by Garry R. Osgood; Louisville Slugger by Jack C. Haldeman II; and Good Taste by Isaac Asimov. Size: 8vo. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. lst ed edition. 272 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Slight foxing to covers. Some staining and edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. In this issue: Science and Religion in the Thought of Michael Polanyi: "The Spectrum of Meaning - Polanyian Perspectives on Science and Religion" ; "Michael Polanyi's Meaning: A Response to Ronald Hall" ; "Questioning Polanyi's Meaning: A Response to Ronald Hall" ; "Science and Reality, Religion and God: A Reply to Harry Prosch", "Polanyi's View of Religion and God: A Reply to Harry Prosch", "Truth in Religion: A Polanyian Appraisal of Wolfhart Pannenberg's Theological Program", "Pannenberg's Polanyianism: A Response to John V. Apczynski", "The Question of a Religious Reality: Commentary on the Polanyi Papers".

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, 257 pp., b/w photos, drawings, tables Articles are "Winifred Ellen Needler (1904-1987)," Ronald J. Williams, "Klaus Baer (1930-1987)," John L. Foster, "Kom el-Hisn: Excavation of an Old Kingdom Settlement in the Egyptian Deta," Robert L. Wenke, Paul E. Buck, Hany A. Hamroush, Michal Kobusiewicz, Karla Kroeper, and Richard W. Redding, "Manmer and the Coptos Colossi," Bruce Williams, "'Arabian Ethnicity' and Arab Nationalism: the Case of Abd al-Rahman Azzam," Ralph Coury, "The Painted Tomb from Wardian and the Decoration of Alexandrian Tombs," Marjorie Susan Venit, "The End of the Sdf (3)-Tr(yt) 'Oath,'" Scott N.Morshauser, "The Apis House Project at Mit Rahinah, Preliminary Report of the Sxth Season, 1986," Michael Jones and Angela Milward Jones, "Two Altered Inscriptions of the Late Amarna Period," James P. Allen, "Reflections on Traveling to 'God's Land' and Punt in the Middle Kingdom," Louie Bradbury, "The Redistributive Economy in New Kingdom Egypt: An Examination of B3kw(t)," Edward Bleiberg, "Mytho-Theology in Ancient Egypt," Vincent Arieh Tobin, "Seasonality and the Name of the Nile," Gerald E. Kadish, "The High Price of Burial," Hans Goedicke, "The Organization of Royal Cemeteries at Saqqara in the Old Kingdom," Ann MacyRoth, "Seila 1981," eonard H. Lesko, "'ProGlyph: A Hieroglyphic Font for the Apple Macintosh," Peter Der Manuelian.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, paper covers, 262 pp., b/w photos, drawings, tables Articles are "Richard Bayly Winder (1920-1988)," Terence Walz, "Aziz Suryal Atya (1898-1988)," S. Kent Brown, "Graffiti and Petroglyphs Old and New from the Eastern Desert," Susan Redford and Donald B. Redford, "New Funerary Enclosures (Talbezirke) of the Early Dynastic Perod at Abydos," David O'Connor, "1987 Excavations on Bate's Island, Marsa Matruh: Second Prelimnary Report," Donald White, "Marsa Matruh 1987: Preliminary Ceramic Report," Linda Hulin, "Fieldwork on the Red Sea Coast: The 1987 Season," Steven E. Sidebotham, Joh A. Riley, Hany A. Hamroush and Hala Barakat, "Coptic Glazed Ceramics from the Excavations at Aqaba, Jordan," Donald Whitcomb, "Rhetorical History? The Beginning of Thutmose III's First Campagn in Western Asia," William J. Murnane, "An Ancient Method of Finding and Extending Direction," Martin Isler, "Engineering a Pyramid," Michael T. Lally, "The Painted Tomb from Wardian and the Antiquity of the Saqiya in Egypt," Marjorie Susan Venit, "The Myth of the Savior: Egypt's 'Just Tyrants' on the Eve of the Revolution, January-July 1952," Joel Gordon.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages + 130 pages of 1930s period advertising. Philip S Bernstein "Religion In Russia" / Genevieve Parkhurst "German Women In Politics" / Bertrand Russell "Why Is Modern Youth Cynical?" / Owen Wister "Roosevelt And The 1912 Disaster" / Roark Bradford "Come Day. Go Day" (story) / Joseph Stagg Lawrence "The Futility Of Farm Relief" / Lee Foster Hartman "Master Builder" (story) / Katharine Fullerton Gerould "Our Substitute Live" / Myron M Stearns "Two Flights In The Fog" / Letitia Preston Randall "Rhapsody In Mauve" (story) / Brendan Lee "Fisherman's Luck" / John Langdon-Davies "Two Childhoods" / Louis L Dublin "Can We Extend The Life Span?" (U.P.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 358 Pp. Blue Boards, Spine Lettered In Silver. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Includes A Long Ayer Bibliography. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (1910 - 1989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 1750 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Herbert W. Gleason, E.T. Parsons, M.V. Tenney, Edward Gray, H.E. Bailey, W.P. Boland, P.S. Bernays, C.C. Clarke, C.H. Hamilton, C.W. Pohlman, Mabel Sykes, R.L. Glisan, Arthur Gray, Geo. W. Hall (illustrator). First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1911. First Edition. January, 1911 Issue [Vol. VIII, No.1 ]. Original printed wrappers, 9 3/4" x 6 1/4"; 88 pp. + numerous unpaginated photographic plates, other features, and ads. Very, very Near Fine, certainly one of the nicest examples available from this early in the series. Very minute traces of handling, not even any of the typical issues with the overextending circuit binding (yapp binding). See scan. Clean, sturdy, handsome, bright. Everything we all aspire to be. See scans. The scan of the contents page lays out the array of always-inspired articles (Cathedral Peak; Tuolumne; Yosemite Valley; Kings River; Gray-Crowned Leucosticte; Mount Kinabalu (Borneo); Red Peak; Mountain Meadows; "Light Burning",and more) and their authors: John Muir, Francois E. Matthes, R.L. Glisan, F.W. Foxworthy, S.L. Foster, Milton S. Ray, Harold C. Bradley, F.E. Olmsted, and Marion Randall Parsons. The photographs for which the publications has long been famous were executed, for this issue, by Herbert W. Gleason, E.T. Parsons, M.V. Tenney, Edward Gray, H.E. Bailey, W.P. Boland, P.S. Bernays, C.C. Clarke, C.H. Hamilton, C.W. Pohlman, Mabel Sykes, R.L. Glisan, Arthur Gray, and Geo. W. Hall. with a large number of uncredited shots as well. Very difficult issue to find in this condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. L SC-2.