Herbert a P Foreword (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

vg/vg, prev bookplate, lite edgewear, o/w tight & clean. stated "first printing". Illustrated by cartoons. Bookclub edition. Binding is hc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustrator). First Edition. (xv) 266 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes. Discusses the work of: Edgar Rice B urroughs; Philip K. Dick; Thomas M. Disch; Robert A. Heinlein; Frank Herbert; William Hope Hodgson; C. S. Lewis; H. P. Lovecraft; A. Merritt; Walter M. Miller; Jack Vance; Jules Verne; Stanley G. Wein baum; H. G. Wells; Jack Williamson; S. Fowler Wright; John Wyndham; Roger Zelazny; Michael Moorcock; Larry Niven; H. Beam Piper; Frederik Pohl; C. M. Kornbluth; Joanna Russ; Mary Shelley; Cordwainer S mith; E. E. "Doc" Smith; Olaf Stapledon; Theodore Sturgeon; A. E. Van Vogt; Fritz Leiber; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Ursula K. Le Guin; Harlan Ellison; M. John Harrison; Gordon R. Dickson; Arthur C. Clarke; Hal Clement; Samuel R. Delany; Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; J. G. Ballard; Alfred Bester; James Blish; Ray Bradbury; John Brunner; and many many others. Book.

Condition: Vg-fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). About 200pp.

First edition, octavo hardcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Imperial octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Herbert Slobin (Cover) (illustrator). Revised Edition. 364 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear and crisp pages. Occassional pencil markings on text. Creased spine. Marks on front cover and spine.

Pastedown Over Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Armonstrong, John (illustrator). First Edition. London: Unwin, 1926. First edition. Textured orange cloth binding with illustrated pastedown showing Elsa Lancaster as a chorus girl. Illustrated endpapers showing the two authors and the characters as puppets on a stage. Illustrated half-title and title. Foreword by Galsworthy. 8 additional black and white plates plus additional in-text illustrations. 125 pp. Light wear, light soiling, previous owner name to front endpaper. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, blue cloth boards with some marks and a faded spine. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Noble, Ernest (illustrator). Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in good condition for its age. Boards are marked and sunned, with surface colour loss to the rear. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned and blemished. A section of the upper edge of the FEP has been removed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Pink Boards. Black Spine. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of over 250 cartoons, selected for their appeal to the American sense of humour, drawn by a variety of cartoonists. Unpageinated. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Silver lettering to spine, blind-stamped 'Punch' illustration to front board. Bumping to spine and edges, top edges foxed and dusty, otherwise good copy. Unclipped DJ somewhat soiled with loss to corners and edges. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches high. 256 pp. Signed twice by author, George Thayer- Once on the ffep "to Sheila & Bob (and Mr. & Mrs. Cassatt too) with kind regards from George, Sparks, 11 December 1965" again on title page where printed name is crossed-out with a single pen line, beneath which is signed "George Thayer". Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Aside from the inscription & signature unmarked & excellent, text is very clean, binding is tight. Condition of dust jacket is VERY GOOD; Light wear at edges, not price clipped (30s) Government & Politics RGR.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. THE RICHARDSON LAKES: JEWELS in the RANGELEY CHAIN, by Herbert P. Shirrefs; Edited and with a Foreword by Randall H. Bennett- 1995- Bethel Historical Society, Bethel, Maine- FIRST EDITION ('First Edition' STATED)- This is NOT an ex-library book- BINDING is thick pictorial SOFTCOVER; binding and text are generally neat, clean and solid, GOOD with NO extraneous writings or bookplates, Just general wear. Overall, a SOLID COPY of the fairly UNCOMMON FIRST EDITION. a WELL-DONE and DETAILED HISTORY of the area. Contents include: DISCOVERING the RICHARDSON LAKES, ROCKS and ICE, INDIANS ANCIENT and MODERN, METALLAK, OLD MAPS and their MAKERS, George Frost Richardson, ANDOVER, SPORTING CAMPS and PUBLIC HOUSES, SOUTH ARM CAMPGROUND, OLD CAMPS, LOGGING and DAM CONSTRUCTION, FISH and FISHING. and much, much, much, much more. 485 pages ILLUSTRATED with UNCOMMON PHOTOGRAPHS throughout and INCLUDES MAP (suitable for framing) in 'pocket' at rear (a FACSIMILE of 'FARRAR'S MAP of the RANGELEY LAKES REGION and the SOURCES of the MAGALLOWAY and ANDROSCOGGIN RIVERS, Drawn expressly for Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book, by M. M. Tidd, 1876') with EXTENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX at rear. MBH925-03.

Condition: Very Good. Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered cream back. Quarto. 10'' x 7½''. Contains 124 pp with nearly 200 monochrome illustrations and archive photographs on loaded art paper throughout, one full-page map. Foxing to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chip to the top of the spine, rubbing to the corners, not price clipped, 21s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. CANAL BARGES & WATERWAYS.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 485pp ISBN 0961415347 Folding map in rear pocket. good+ w/lightly rubbed and chipped dustjacket (hardcover).

Hb. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Orange paper on boards, black titles and wear to covers margins to below the paper cover and most of the rear cover. Wear to extremeties. Edges: light foxings. Eps: faint foxings. Ffep with tidy signature. Clean contents. Binding is VG+. Unpaginated. Landscape.