Gibson Walter Ed (30 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First paperback edition, first printing # T-149 of the novel about true and sinister tales of spying by Winston Churchill, Somerset Maugham, Anthony Abbott and more. Sticker scar to the front cover. Reading creases near the spine. Light edgewear. Light rubbing to the cover. Age toning to the cover and pages. Tip of the rear cover is missing. In Good Condition.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT*****DOVER ORIGINAL BOOK*** stated.but obviously a later printing.; COVER SHOWS OLD PHOTO OF YOUNG HOUDINI IN MESMERIZING GAZE.YELLOW TONES, BLACK BACKGROUND; 280ps pages; His Own Account.MANY DETAILS ON HOW HIS MAGIC TRICKS WERE DONE.Not just card tricks, but technical manipulations and secret maneuvers. Illustrated by Photos,drawings (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (1963), 207pp, illus., bottom corners bumped, slight shelfwear, rear hinge starting. Earl E. Mayan (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Very Good -. (1964), 208pp, illus., light shelfwear to cover, small tears to dj, some edgewear to dj, contents clean. Earl E. Mayan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. B&W Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 213 pages; 1976 Drake Publishers. Oversize HC/DJ. First edition. Snugly bound and neat in original glossy pictorial jacket. A wide ranging collection of period articles and pieces by magicians and magic historians chronicling magic acts, magic tricks and magicians. Mild laminate wrinkling to the front jacket panel. Contents clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and instructive figures. VG++/VG+ . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. Well-illustrated (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VERY GOOD CONDITION, A small check mark near a very few poems ; Gold spine titles on dark blue cloth hard covers. Large EL in script bottom spine.INDEX OF AUTHORS.ALL ON NICE WHITE MATTE PAPER. ; 351pg pages. Illustrated by Decorated Endpapers "EL"(orange) (illustrator). …

Condition: Good. 1965. No edition remarks. 236 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over blue cloth. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light rubbing and marking all over.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Essays by writers on great confidence games and swindles: James L. Collier, Carl Carmer, A.J. Liebling, P.T. Barnum, Allan Hynd and others. Slightly smaller book, green cloth, 255 lightly browned heavy pages. Gibson is the creator of "The Shadow." DJ dark green background, color-illustration of con games on front, spine faded to dark blue, b/w photo of Gibson on back. DJ has light wear to tips, tiny tear at top front edge, very slight wear to spine edges, 1/4" tear at top back edge nearer tip. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. Sacks, Cal (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., vi+254 pp., Includes chapters on Rube Burrow, Black Bart, Bill Carslile, the Renos. etc. Missed by Adams.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Cone, "Abstact" art as a veil: tricolor painting in Vichy France, 1940-44. Gibson, Bosch's dreams: responses to Bosch's imagery in the sixteenth century. Joyce, Grasping at shadows: ancient paintings in Renaissance and Baroque Rome. Wood, Inigo Jones, Italian art, and the practice of drawing. Harvey, Death and dynasty in the Bouillon tomb commissions. Paul, Mariano Rossi's Camillus fresco in the Borghese Gallery. Reviews. American and Canadian dissertations, 1991. 11.5" tall; 170 pages. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A monthly magazine for independent magicians. 64pp. Illus throughout. This issue is notable for an article "Riddle in Red and Yellow" a story about Chung Ling Soo by Fulton Oursler. Soo was an Oriental Illusionist who managed to get himself shot on stage performing one of his tricks. Controversy has raged for many years over whether it was an accident or suicide. Decent copy. There is a little creasing and rubbing to the covers. The staples have rusted and the binding is a little shaky.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper rubbed with creasing, tearing on corners, spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Cal Sacks. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket, both rubbed at spine ends and corners, pages slightly browned, dust jacket worn, darkened at edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG. Corners slightly creased, spine panel somewhat deteriorated, internally fine throughout. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones. This UK edition is an abridged version of the US Ziff-Davis original. Two stories have been omitted from this edition - "The Catspaw" by John McGreevey, and "The Secret of John Marsh" by William P. McGivern.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Wonder Books,1965. SCARCE. Soft Cover. Cover has mild shelfwear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Very nice copy. Tales include Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. Tallarico, Tony (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. General wear. Cover art by Walter Popp. This issue contains: Shadow on the Moon - a novel by Joe Gibson; The Innkeeper of Mars - a short story by Dex R. Moore; Deadly Dust - a novelette by Gerald Vance (house name); He Played with Dolls - a short story by William P. McGivern; The Blessed Assassins - a short novel by Ivar Jorgensen (house name); Master of the Universe - a short story by an unknown author; and Idiot Command - a short story by John Jakes; along with the usual features. Size: 8vo. Walter Popp; Ed Emshwiller; David Stone; Ed Valigursky; (illustrator). Book.…

64 pp. Illustrated. Folio, publisher's illustrated wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. Houdini's article (pp. 11-13, continued in the March issue) is reprinted from Conjuror's Magazine - 1906, and sets out to correct many errors in "The Life of Robert Houdin.".

Spies Literature 1st. ed. Includes Maugham,Churchill,F.Pratt and Others. v.g. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.…

Paperback. Condition: VG-. Copyright 1953 but this probably 1970s. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo in dar yellow jacket illus in color; 254 pages illustrations 22 cm. Anthology of crime stories. Robbery. Vol qualifi? Robbery. Class Descriptors: LC: HV6650; Dewey: 364.162 Responsibility. Fine in near fine price-clipped slightly spine-sunned jacket housed in mylar sleeve. Overall and very sharp, tight copy.…

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. 1st US edn. A study of the fine points of the murderers' art through the case histories of some of the more notorious practitioners. The cases featured here have been chosen because they show the knack of killing - or lack of it - from the most practiced hand to that of the outright bungler. Contents include H.H. Holmes (Herbert Asbury); Belle Gunness (Holbrook); Lizzie Borden (Pearson) + 8 others. Illus. by Cal Sacks. Vg+.…

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. 1st US edn. A study of the fine points of the murderers' art through the case histories of some of the more notorious practitioners. The cases featured here have been chosen because they show the knack of killing - or lack of it - from the most practiced hand to that of the outright bungler. Contents include H.H. Holmes (Herbert Asbury); Belle Gunness (Holbrook); Lizzie Borden (Pearson)+ 8 others. Illus. by Cal Sacks. 236pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in Vg. dw. which is creased along lower edge of back cover.…

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk, 389pp, b+w photo portrait frontis, prev ownerÕs blind stamp discretely on front endpaper, otherwise an unread copy, excellent clean tight and unmarked in fine, unclipped and sleeve-protected dj, as new.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. ANALOG SCIENCE FACT SCIENCE FICTION FOR 1961 ALL 12 ISSUES, Street & Smith, first edition, fading to the lower sections of several spines, else near fine copies in full color pictorial wraps with original contributions by: John W. Campbell, Randall Garrett (THE HIGHEST TREASON & A SPACESHIP NAMED MCGUIRE), Poul Anderson (HIDING PLACE), Clifford Simak (THE FISHERMAN aka TIME IS THE SIMPLEST THING), Arthur C. Clarke (DEATH AND THE SENATOR), James Schmitz (GOOD FISHING), L. Sprague De Camp, Lloyd Biggle (MONUMENT), Frederik Pohl & Cyril Kornbluth (THE QUAKER CANNON), Walter Gibson, Harry Harrison (SENSE OF OBLIGATION), Donald Westlake, James Schmitz (LION LOOSE), Gordon Dickson, George O. Smith, Hal Clement, Mack Reynolds, Tom Godust-wrapper in, Frank Kelly Freas, Ed Emshwiler, H.R. van Dongen, et.al.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A few ink annotations to index. ; Bound magazines. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 207 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ink annotations to index. ; Bound magazines. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 404 pages.