Gordon and Jackson (31 results)

First edition (not stated). [8], 280 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 16cm. Blue dust jacket well rubbed; several short closed tears and nicks at top edges; top corner of front flap is price-clipped. Blue cloth. Blue top edge. Top corner of pages 227-228 creased from past fold-down. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. Chapter titles: VISION AND VALUE: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WILLIAM STYRON by Robert K. Morris and Irving Malin; AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM STYRON by Robert K. Morris; NOTES ON A SOUTHERN WRITER IN OUR TIME by Louis D. Rubin Jr.; ON "LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS" by John O. Lyons; PERMUTATIONS OF DEATH: A READING OF "LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS" by Jan B. Gordon; THE SYMBOLIC MARCH by Irving Malin; MASK AND SYMBOL IN "SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE" by Robert Phillips; "THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER" AND THE BURDEN OF THE PAST by George Core; HISTORY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE: THE MYTH OF NAT TURNER by Seymour L. Gross and Eileen Bender; THE DIVIDED SELF: WILLIAM STYRON'S FICTION FROM "LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS" TO "THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER" by Norman Kelvin; "IN THE CLAP SHACK:" COMEDY IN THE CHARNEL HOUSE by Robert K. Morris; and WILLIAM STYRON: A BIBLIOGRAPHY by Jackson R. Bryer. ISBN 0820303518.…

Hb. Condition: VG. 235pp. Light wear.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Light crease.

Paperback. Condition: Good +/NO DUSTJACKET. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. Good +/NO DUSTJACKET. 1989. . Paperback. 4to., 417 pp., spine crease, edges rubbed . Black & White/Color Illus. & Photos (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 104 page magazine format softcover quarterly, bound with stiff illustrated French fold covers. Small surface loss of paper to the front cover, with some minor rubbing losses to the edges, but the binding remains tight and sharp and the interior is clean and clear of markings. Focused illustrated essays in English on the London subway system, with a few ancillary texts in Italian or German.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. Mike Stotter "The Historical & Adventure Novels of Dennis Wheatley" / Tom Scott "Wildlife & Landscape Artist Gordon Beninfield" / Martin Spence And Julian Maddison "Goscinny And Uderzo - Creators Of 'Asterix'" / Michael Gill "Horror Novelist Peter Straub" / Maggie Williams "Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, Author Of 'Cranford'" / Crispin Jackson "Damon Runyon The Laureate Of Broadway" / Richard Dalby "A.J.A. Symons". …

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A lot of six VG or better original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Poster.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A little reading wear; very good overall. Contains: Teachers and Their Books (Bibby), The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond (Mallett on a cracking murder ballad), Not Teaching R S Thomas (Bridge), Back to the Drawing Board (Gubb), Using Journals with Third Year Classes (Millard), Teachers Views of Writing and Their Pupil's Performance (Diamond), Images of English 1: Back to Basics or Forward to Understanding? (Parker and Seaman), Images of English 2: 'Is This Proper English We're Doing Sir?' (Jackson). Book.…

Softcover. Condition: As New. Color pictorial wraps; 417 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color plates and figures. Number 25 in the Studies in the History of Art series; Contains over 20 essays, including "William Kent and Esher Place, " "The Neo-Classical Transformation of the English Country House," "The Hanging and Display of Pictures, 1700 - 1850," "A British Parnassus: Mythology and the Country House," "The Eighteenth-Century English Chimneypiece," "The Lady of the Country-House Poem, "History, Myth, and the English Garden," and more.…

No Binding. Condition: VG+. A VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Poster.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. A lot of five VGF or better original release 8 x 10 stills. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Paperback. Color pictorial wraps; 417 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw and color plates and figures. Number 25 in the Studies in the History of Art series; Contains over 20 essays, including "William Kent and Esher Place, " "The Neo-Classical Transformation of the English Country House," "The Hanging and Display of Pictures, 1700 - 1850," "A British Parnassus: Mythology and the Country House," "The Eighteenth-Century English Chimneypiece," "The Lady of the Country-House Poem, "History, Myth, and the English Garden," and more. VG (Light edgewear to wraps; interior is clean; binding is solid.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 218 Pages Illus., Ads Etc.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. A VG or better folded pressbook with no cuts. Size: 8" x 11". Poster.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG/VG. y 1st Thus . HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus?* Date of Publication: Undated probably 1924, (1901)* Publisher: Blackie & Son Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Cream cloth, dark green titles with decoration to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to boards. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing two young scots-men cutting timber, black and red titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 2/6d. Some slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Ffep half removed. Contents clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, some age-marks to end papers, top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A single b/w illustration to frontis by W.Parkinson.* Pages: 288 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: A Victorian coming-of-age novel from Gordon Stables, the prolific author of boys' adventure novels. His introduction acknowledges that many of his characters in this work were acquaintances sketched from life and that the description of student life at Aberdeen University was taken from his own experiences. Gordon stables was also notable as the first person to order a "gentleman's caravan" from the Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works, in which he travelled the length of Great Britain in 1885.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st. thus ? with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.* 1924-01-01. Parkinson, W and A. E. Jackson (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Respectively: ('Five Sisters York') small 4to, stapled wrappers, 24pp., one of 400 numbered copies, somewhat rubbed and creased/handled, also a little marked, but Very Good all in all, in the jacket (with illustration affixed) which, aside from the fact that it is erroneously printed on both sides, is itself about Very Good, if echoing the book's wear, a couple of corners with small chips; ('Inarticulate Fluency') 8vo, stapled wrappers, 28pp., with an afterword by Jackson (formerly of Grosseteste Press), Very Good, the upper corner dog-eared.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.x; 44; xi-xiv. Publisher's card wraps printed in red and black, price of one shilling net to upper. Some spotting to edges and covers, staples rusted, lightly handled. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, 11.25 x 8.5", gilt-lettered purple cloth, 192pp with index, covers lightly rubbed and soiled, upper extremities bumped, old price sticker inside front cover else a nice, clean, tight copy. Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum reprint of this classic text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 394 pages. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper board. Bumped corners. Rubbed edges, al little dusty. Blue pen marking on ffep. Glossy bright and clean interior. VG-/--. Book.

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. 21 cm, 169 pp, b&w photo illus, soft covers - very small corner crease at rear, Small surface chip at base of spine. Very good copy. . Rare. This is lighter in weight than the average allowed for at the checkout and there will be a freight rebate made for orders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Light edge wear and a tape repair to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Slight bumps at edges of the boards, near fine in near very good price-clipped dust jacket with some overall rubbing and small chips and tears at the extremities. Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book club edition. Edited by Martha Foley. Octavo. xv, 368pp. Pages lightly age-toned, near fine in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and tears along the extremities. Bernard Malamud's first book appearance with "The Prison". Quotes William Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech at length in the Foreword, and contains stories by Roger Angell, Nathan Asch, Peggy Bennett, Mary Bolté, Hortense Calisher, Leonard Casper, R.V. Cassill, John Cheever, Harris Downey, Elizabeth Enright, J. Carol Goodman, Ethel Edison Gordon, William Goyen, Shirley Jackson, Josephine W. Johnson, Ilona Karmel, Oliver La Farge, George Lanning, Ethel G. Lewis, Dorothy Livesay, Robie Macauley, Bernard Malamud, Esther Patt, J.F. Powers, Paul Rader, Jean Stafford, Ray B. West, Jr., and Tennessee Williams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photos, 11.25 x 8.5", textured boards, 192pp with index, extremities a little worn, textblock edges a bit soiled and spotted, ink owernship inscription at top of front fly, in a lightly edge-worn and yellowed dustjacket with edge tear. FIRST EDITION.

Condition: Very Good. Original folded souvenir theatre programme. 6'' x 4¼''. Against the Wind is a black and white British film directed by Charles Crichton and produced by Michael Balcon, released through Ealing Studios in 1948 starring Simone Signoret in her first English language film role. The film is the exciting tale of a team of British spies trained for mission inside Nazi-occupied France. 4 printed pages. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CINEMA, SCREEN & FILMS.…

Hardcover. x, 394 p. Includes illustrations. Tables. References. The authors were associated with the Battelle Memorial Institute. This work was prepared for the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy. The Airframe Design Division of the Navy BUreaunof Aeronautics comissioned Battelle Memorial Institute to survey the then present state of knowledge and to prepare a book to provide additional help to the designer. This work was a standard design reference work after the Korean War, during a period of intense development in aeronautical design with combat aircraft expected to fly higher, faster, and be more maneuverable in flight than previously. Metal fatigue thus was one of the major risks encounted in design, test, maintenance, and combat operations. Good. No dust jacket. Date stamps inside front cover, on fep and rep. Ink notation inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos; illus., 11.5 x 9", boards, 192pp, covers a bit edge-worn, minor soiling to edges of textblock, front endpapers toned, in a lightly soiled and rubbed, edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

Condition: AS NEW. 1993. Facsimile reprint. Grey cloth hardcover with decorative gilt and black stamping. Frontispiece. 657pp. Index. AS NEW.