James Stanley Gilbert (99 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. A few pages with corner crease. Covers show light edge wear. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Spine edge wear. Binding cracked but still intact. Previous owner's inscription (fake dr. livingstone) on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories. Featured are Out of Sight by Isaac Asimov, Every Litter But Hurts by Michael Avallone, Parlor Game by Gary Brandner, The Pearls of Peace by Leslie Charteris, The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin, The Unstoppable Man by Michael Gilbert, Goodbye, Pops by Joe Gores, The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith, The Leopold Locked Room by Edward D. Hoch, Second Talent by James Holding, Gup by H.R.F. Keating, The Locked Room by Peter Lovesey, Woman Trouble by Florence V. Mayberry, First Offense by Ed McBain, Somebody's Telling the Truth by Patricia McGerr, Black Spider by Francis M. Nevins, Invitation to a Murder by Josh Pachter, Proof of Guilt by Bill Pronzini, The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue by Ellery Queen, Seven Little Crosses in a Notebook by Georges Simenon, The Right Kind of a House by Henry Slesar, A Theme For Hyacinth by Julian Symons, L is for Loot by Lawrence Treat, A Great Sight by Janwillem van de Wetering. In fine / fine condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Printing. 4th printing (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #1140). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fine book in near fine slipcase. Slipcase faintly scuffed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2003 Hard Cover. 288 pp. A collection of humorous vignettes by various authors, with contributions by William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Winston S. Churchill, the Queen of England, G.K. Chesterton, P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, etc., etc. Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. The best speakers are natural story-tellers - Gerard Hoffnung, reading a selection of letters from continental hoteliers: 'There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects'; John Mortimer telling the woeful tale of a man's numerous unsuccessful attempts to murder his wife: 'At no time did Mrs Scott feel that the magic had gone out of their marriage' - and in this collection of post-prandial treasures you will find the very best of them, from Groucho Marx on how to resist a femme fatale, to Ralph Steadman surreally addressing the Lewis Carroll Centenary Dinner. 'Goodness', said a friend on greeting Mae West, 'where did you get those beautiful pearls?' 'Goodness', replied Mae, 'had nothing to do with it.' Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risque reminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history. Among the guests are Peter Ustinov, Jilly Cooper, Brian Johnstone, Charles Dickens, Dorothy Parker, Robertson Davies, Henry Grady and A.P. Herbert. There is food and drink in abundance. There is gentle reflection and endearing charm as well as defiant frivolity. Above all there are stories for every occasion - witty, absurd, momentous, philosophical, fascinating, poignant, and forever entertaining.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. Dark blue cover shows edgewear. Gilt lettering and design bright. TEG. Front hinge cracked but tight. No foxing.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Memorial edition. (Panama, Travel, Poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Special Edition.

Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 222 No. 1 September - October - November 1925.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Minor fading to spine, light shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. WSmall smudge of paint on cloth edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, hardcover, no dj, green cloth. Vg condition. Prev. owner's inscription, dated 1920; paper yellowed, 166 pages, several photographs; Exterior lightly rubbed, contents clean, binding tight.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1908 Third Edition, Fifth Thousand. Hardcover. Text is clean, binding is strong. Text is in very good condition, dark red cloth cover is worn on the corners, darkened spine. Dedication on first pages dated 1908.

hardcover. Condition: Good. minor wear.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Black stain on front board. Rubbing and edge wear on boards. Spotting on rear board. Inscription on first blank page. Clean text. Pages are somewhat brittle with toning. Musty odor. Tulsa's largest used bookstore. Located on South Mingo Road since 1991. No-hassle return policy if not completely satisfied.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PF. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Near FNE, 2nd edition, maroon hard cover with bright gilt embossed palm tree decoration and font on cover and gilt font on spine, 170 pps. Portrait of Gilbert with tissue protected frontispiece. Unmarked, clean and tight. Beautiful cover and contents very well preserved for a copy this old. Cover corners gently bumped. Gilbert was one of the few poets to write extensively about Panama. His poetry does paint a picture of what life was like (for him) in Panama at this time - era of construction of Canal. "Gilbert had begun to write poetry about Panama while employed as shipping agent, and he continued to so so for the rest of his life. From "Away down south in the Torrid Zone,' the first line of his first poem, readers were captivated by Gilbert's vision of the tropical pre-canal Panama. His poems in Panama Patchwork, the book in which "Beyond the Chagres" appeared, were called 'documents of life on the Isthmus' by a New York Times reviewer in 1906. His fans called him the 'poet laurete of the . " GIFT quality, a book which through it's beautiful binding, also pays homage to an era in which binding was a most appreciated art.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Most probably a pirated edition. Octavo; pp. x, 166; Frontispiece portrait of the author, twenty additional black and white photographs, illustrating characters and locations from the poems; terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge, gilt; This book is great fun. Some of the worst rhymes ever contrived with an occasional flash of brilliance. Reflects life in the Canal Zone at the time of construction. The excitement of the challenge, the circumstances of the life there. Other editions are often dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, this one is not. Also contains an obituary of the author who died at Colon in 1906. The late author was an official for the Panamanian Railway.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (literature, poetry, poems) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 170 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine sunned w/ light fraying at ends. Top edge gilt. Edges of leaves a bit age toned, otherwise, contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 172 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Previous owner's name/address on front paste-down. Natural toning to blank endpapers. Otherwise, contents nice. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of Columbus Statue, at the Atlantic End of the Panama Canal.