Gilbert Simon James (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (ix) 230 pp. Black cloth lettered in silver on the spine. Very light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Man Who Rowed for the Shore by Catherine Aird; The One Who Did for Blagden Cole by Eric Ambler; The Man Who Got the Dirt by Simon Brett; The Man Who Was a Coyote by Len Deighton; The Man Who Wiped the Smile Off Her Face by Antonia Fraser; The Man Who Was Reconstituted by Michael Gilbert; The Man Who Defenestrated His Sister by Reginald Hill; The Man Who Was Eighty by P. D. James; The Man Who Killed for Pleasure by H. R. F. Keating; The Man Who Ate People by Peter Lovesey; The Man Who Was the God of Love by Ruth Rendell; The Man Whose Holiday Was a Fiasco by George Sims; and The Man Who Scattered Crumbs by Michael Underwood. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B.C.E. A solid spine( black boards with silver lettering) with no edge rubbings. The dustjacket has no edge rubbings.Price intact. This anthology contains: The Man Who Rowed for the Shore by Catherine Aird; The One Who Did for Blagden Cole by Eric Ambler; The Man Who Got the Dirt by Simon Brett; The Man Who Was a Coyote by Len Deighton; The Man Who Wiped the Smile Off Her Face by Antonia Fraser; The Man Who Was Reconstituted by Michael Gilbert; The Man Who Defenestrated His Sister by Reginald Hill; The Man Who Was Eighty by P. D. James; The Man Who Killed for Pleasure by H. R. F. Keating; The Man Who Ate People by Peter Lovesey; The Man Who Was the God of Love by Ruth Rendell; The Man Whose Holiday Was a Fiasco by George Sims; and The Man Who Scattered Crumbs by Michael Underwood.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 188 pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology of original stories contains: The Party of the Second Part by Ted Allbeury; Don't Know Much About Art by Simon Brett; I Do Dwell by Lionel Davidson; A Very Special Relationship by Michael Gilbert; The Reluctant Detective by Michael Z. Lewin; Remember that Joke Harry by James McClure; Come to Dust by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter); Form by Miles Tripp; and The Bully by David Williams. Size: 8vo. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 77, No. 3, Whole No. 450. Edited by Eleanor Sullivan. "40th Anniversary". Includes "The Violence Peddlers" by Michael Gilbert; "The Clay-McBride Feud" by Jay Murphy; "Metaphor for Murder" by Simon Brett; "The Black Enigma" by Maurice Imhoof; "The Miracle Day" by Ernest Savage; "Cliffhanger" by Georgiana Eidukas; "The Boy Who Collected Poisons" by Ruth Rendell; "The Only One of Its Kind" by James Holding; "The Theft of the Lopsided Cobweb" by Edward D. Hoch); "Mystery Newsletter"; R. E. Porter & Chris Steinbrunner; "The Jury Box" by Jon L. Breen. Label bits and pulls to front; corner wear; creasining; short tear at heel.

No Binding. Condition: Good. No clipped or missing pages. Slight soiling to covers and a few pages. Covers and many pages have a bent or creased corner or two. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. Upper left corner of the back cover is creased. There is a mailing label on the back cover. A few pages have light creases or wrinkles. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Editorial"; "Letters"; "People in the Arts"; "Auctions"; "The Grand Niagara" by Hilton Kramer; "Too Many Sargents?" by John Simon; "Byzantium: The Phoenix in the Closet" by Rosalind G. Wholden; "Masterpieces from Swiss Collections"; "The Venice Biennale" by Gene Baro; "Documenta: The Self-Saboteurs" by John Anthony Thwaites; "Geometry and After" by Edouard Roditi; "Budapest" by Alfred Werner; "London" by Gene Baro; "Month in Review: Perspectives and Retrospectives" by Sidney Tillim; "In the Galleries" by Donald Judd, Vivien Raynor, and Sidney Tillim; "Book Reviews" by Sidney Geist, Creighton Gilbert, James R. Mellow; "Where to Show" and "Calendar of Exhibitions".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 124pp, stapled wrappers. Rare early issue of Morris Edelson's protean underground review, includes a lengthy transcript of a 1964 symposium on "The State of American Poetry" featuring James Dickey, Gregory Corso, and others, plus work by Douglas Blazek, Joan Michelson, et al. Unmarked copy, a bit of rubbing and moderate spotting to covers. Not Signed.

Half-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st Limited Edition 1992. Number 122 of 125 and signed by the contributing authors. Namely Catherine Aird, Eric Ambler; Simon Brett; Len Deighton; Antonia Fraser; Michael Gilbert; Reginald Hill; P. D. James; H. R. F. Keating; Peter Lovesey; Ruth Rendell; George Sims; and Michael Underwood.Original white quarter morocco with black and white marbled boards, top edge silver. With the original glassine. Book is fine. More images can be taken upon request. Ref19080. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Jack Walsdorf on title page. Limited edition of 225, this being copy 225. Fine. Quarter black cloth with marbled paper sides. Frontispiece portrait of Symons by Rosemary Vamosi. xi, 55, [3] p. Tributes by P. D. James, H. R. F. Keating, Lionel Davidson, Reginald Hill, Jack Walsdorf, Peter Lovesey, George Sims, Robert Conquest, Robin Winks, and others. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine, "The Potluck Issue." Quarto. 111(13)pp. About fine in lightly rubbed wrappers. Magazine with a 55-page transcription from a symposium featuring James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Gregory Corso, Jack Gilbert, John Simon, and Theodore Weiss, held at the YMHA Poetry Center in New York on February 2, 1964. Additional contributions from Norbert Blei, Edward Ben Elson, Robert Chute, Stanley Cooperman, Douglas Blazek, Linda Chown, Ray Crabtree, Harvey Feinberg, A.A. Fox, Richard Grossinger, Joan White, Hugh Know, Loren Loverde, Joan Michelson, Sol Newman, Bernie Pyron, Rock Proktos, Ed Ochesier, and Clayton Bailey.

Limited numbered de luxe edn (1 of 125) signed by all the authors and the illustrator on tipped-in b&w frontispiece plate. 8vo (8¾ x 5¾ ins). Original silver lettered quarter goatskin on marbled paper-laid sides, in matching marbled paper-laid slipcase (Fine). Pp. ix + 230, illus with tipped-in frontispiece by Gary Short (pages a little toned at edges; no other inscriptions).

First edition, first printing. Edition of 50 signed by the artists. Fig-1 was 50 projects in 50 weeks initiated by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling, set in a small warehouse building in Soho, each project lasting one week. Each poster is signed by the relevant artist or artists. The projects embraced a broad range of contemporary creative productions including fine art, with 13 Turner Prize nominees, as well as literature, film and video, fashion, design, and architecture. Quarto, 32 page stapled booklet, A1 folded poster with photo-portraits of all the artists, 50 A2 folded posters. With the original silver card clamshell box. Box lightly rubbed to edges, else fine.