G P Wells Editor (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Boston, Massachusetts; Little Brown & Co; 1984; 1st American Edition; Hardcover; Very Good in Good dust jacket; Beige hard cover with red cloth spine. NOT ex-library. D253 pages, chronology and index. Dust jacket featuring Wells photo. A very good copy, tight, clean and unmarked. Jacket grade of good, has edge chips and rub, still attractive front, now in mylar. ..…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Red cloth spine and beige covers, book is about 9 1/2" tall. 253 pages with section of photos, all b/w.Book FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket has light edgewear and is now protected by new clear removable Brodart brand cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Several illustrations. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Amer. Ed. Octavo, 253pp., Small damp ripple on bottom edge of plates. Otherwise Fine in V.Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First American Edition. Clean stated First American Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket protected in new clear removable mylar sleeve. Clean gray boards with red cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white plates. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one very short closed edge tear at top edge of rear panel. A robust and candid memoir of one of the 20th century's most famous men portraying himself as he really was -- including his passionate love affairs.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Boston, 1984; gray cloth covered boards; red spine; minimal shelf wear; illustrated jacket in very good condition with edge wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 253 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The binding is tight, corners sharp. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 253 pp.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Free of markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Name and date on the inside of the front cover. Very little shelfwear. The dust jacket has a small closed tear at the top edge of the front panel near the spine. The jacket is in new mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Autobiogaphy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Little, Brown & Co., 1984; stated First American Edition, no additional printings indicated; 253pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; minor wear to edges of gray/red cloth boards, gilt titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Light wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket; light rubbing around spine; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 122 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This collection of essays contains: The Origin of Cosmic Radiation: The Name of the Problem; The Composition of Primary Radiation; Super Novae as a Source of Cosmic Rays; How Cosmic Rays Acquire Their Great Strength by Prof. C. F. Powell; How Rough Is the Moon by V. A. Hughes; Why the Continents Move by Prof. S. Keith Runcorn; The Generation of Electricity in Thuderstorms and the Origin of Lightning by Prof B. J. Mason; Why Solids Melt by Prof. A. R. Ubbelohde; Towards High Temperatures in Research by Prof. A. R. Ubbelohde; Man-made Conductors of Electricity by Prof. A. R. Ubbelohde; The Coming of Modern Plastics by Prof. C. E. H. Bawn; How to Classify at the Borderline of Life by Dr P. D. Cooper; How Living Organisms Regulate Their Metabolism by Prof. Sir Hans Krebs; Biological Clocks by Prof. G. P. Wells; The Slow Life of the Sea by Dr D. M. Ross; Vision in Deep Sea Fish and Squid by Dr Eric J. Denton; Bees Moths and Memory by Dr A. D. Blest; Mind Matter and Machines by Dr Grey Walter; How Much Sleep Do We Need by Dr R. T. Wilkinson; On Making Up Your Mind by D. E. Broadbent; How the Eyes Deceive by Richard L. Gregory; and What Gives the Salt Its Savour by Prof G. M. Wyburn. Size: 12mo. Book.…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 253pp. Illustration. Near fine/very good. "Not for Resale" lightly inkstamped on top and bottom page edges. Attractive first U.S. edition.

(1984). First edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs printed on coated stock. Index. The secret final volume of Wells's autobiography, too frank to be published in his lifetime, first saw print in this 1984 volume, along with "Introduction to THE BOOK OF CATHERINE WELLS," Wells's account of his marriage; edited and introduced by his son.…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First American Edition that does have some minor soiling to the lower boards and spine, housed in a handsome Fine dust-jacket; H. G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography, edited by G. P. Wells, is a collection of essays and reminiscences by the author about his relationships with women. The essays are arranged in chronological order and cover a period of more than fifty years. Wells discusses his courtship of Olga Khokhlova, his marriages to Katherine Mansfield and Odette DeWitt, and his relationship with Soviet author Anna Akhmatova. The book also includes a postscript by Wells in which he reflects on his life and career.; 8vo; 253 pages; Price? ? .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. A Fine first Printing of the First American Edition housed in a handsome alike dust-jacket; This book is a postscript to H.G. Wells' autobiography, which was originally published in 1940. It consists of new material, which was not included in the original book. The new material covers Wells' life after 1940, including his love life.; 8vo; 253 pages; Price? ? .…

"'Mind at the End of its Tether' (first published 1945) consisted originally of two separate prophecies joined together, the later prophecy printed before the earlier one. Now, for the first time, the two are placed in chronological order, to bring out more clearly the closing stages in the evolution of H.G.Wells's ideas. For lighter fare, H.G.Wells's penultimate book, The Happy Turning, is also included - a suite of barbed fantasies originally published a few months before 'Mind at the End of its Tether'." Pp.85, black & white portrait frontispiece. Paperback. VG.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Limited Edition. The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 & 2 (1901-2000), edited by John Pelan Volume 1: A Fine, sharp, square copy. Light shelfwear.Volume 2: A Fine, sharp, square copy. Volume 1: Not price clipped. Fine. Minor shelfwear.Volume 2: Not price clipped. Fine. Light shelfwear. First Limited Edition Printing (stated). Two Volumes (1901-2000). 100 stories, 100 authors. One story selection for each year. Stories by Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, et al. (Volume One (1901-1950): ISBN-10: 1587670801; Volume Two (1951-2000): 1587671727). Alan M. Clark(Illustrator) Alan M. Clark(Interior Artist) John Pelan(Editor) Alan M. Clark(Illustrator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 841 pages. 9.25x6.10x1.89 inches. In Stock.