John Ritchie Editor (26 results)

Softcover. Condition: New. Second Edition; First Printing. Edinburgh: The Stationary Office Ltd, 1997. Large 8vo. 2nd edition, 1st printing. [228] pp.; Exploring Scotland's Heritage Series; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 228 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 64 pages. Harry Alan Towers "Fifteen Minutes" / Robert Westerby "Solo Flight" / Sean O'Faolain "Lady Lucifer" /Dora Broome "Rhubarb Wine" / S L Bensusan "Emily's Errand" / Elleston Trevor "The Waiting Game" / B L Jacot "And A Million Women Wait" / Eric Moore Ritchie "The Short Cut" / John Brophy "Sprig Of Mistletoe" / Antonia Ridge "The Grey English Hat" (SL#10B).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Printing. This copy is minty, like it came fresh off the bookstore shelf. The spine is tight, boards rigid, interior is unmarked. Tips are pointed. Appears unread. The jacket IS NOT price clipped and is unblemished. Looks spiffy in a shiny new plastic cover. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 238 pp. Dell Book 1420. Some edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features Alfred Hitchcock, Bela Lugosi and a skeleton playing poker. This anthology contains: The Play's the Thing by Robert Bloch; The Executioner by H. A. DeRosso; Man on a Leash by Jack Ritchie; The Deep Six by Richard Hardwick; Hidden Tiger by Michael Brett; The Sensitive Juror by Richard Deming; Fat Jow and Chance by Robert Alan Blair; Slay the Wicked by Frank Sisk; Into the Morgue by Hal Ellson; I'll Be Loving You by Fletcher Flora; Motive: Another Woman by Donald Honig; The Brotherhood by Theodore Mathieson; The Final Reel by John Lutz; and Chimps Ain't Chumps by Talmage Powell. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 128 pp. Digest format. Light wear; somewhat cocked. Cover art by David Rosler and Lonny W. Buinis. This issue contains: Beyond the Known by John Keel; Quirks of Fate by Harold Helfer; Your Astrological Forecast by Anne Lyddane; Book Reviews by Steve Deger; Roman Theatre-Found by W. Ritchie Benedict; Visionary of Atlantis by Francis Joseph; A Monument for Salem's Witches by Claire Metzger; A Great Loneliness of Spirit by Elizabeth Bergh; A Consumer's Guide to Channeling by Alan Vaughan; Paranormal Times in Apartment 5-11 by Vivian R. Cole; New Fishing Aid Based on the Aura by Tom R. Kovach; Bigfoot's Weird Blood by Jon Erik Beckjord; Eat Fried Burgers For Your Health by Paul Steiner; On the Psychic Frontier by D. Scott Rogo; Our Strange World by Mark Chorvinsky; UFO Reporter by Jerome Clark; and I See by the Papers by Donald Michael Kraig. Size: 12mo. David Rosler; Lonny W. Buinis; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Light creasing on the front cover; no interior markings. Cover art by David Wool. This first issue contains: Time to Kill by Tony Wilmot; The Queen and King by Isaac Asimov; The President's Brain Is Missing by Ron Goulart; The Purist by Edward Wellen; The Hurricane Courier by P. E. Halycon; The Foreign Minister's Brother by Stuart Symons; The Commissar by Jack Ritchie; Historically Spying by Joe Lewis; A Boy and His Camera by Jery Tillotson; Breakfast at The Kawnbawza by Isak Romun; The Hatchtree Assignment by Edward D. Hoch; The Knack by Percy Spurlark Parker; The Intelligence Process by Ernest Volkman; Winds of Change by John Lutz; A Cameo Disappearance by E. Brooks Peters; and You Can't Fool a Wife by Ardath Mayhar. Size: 12mo. David Wool; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean unmarked book with the exception of signature on fpd.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. A creased spine with edge rubbings and a piece torn from the FFEP.No store stamp. Stories by : John Keith, Christopher Priest, Brian W. Aldiss, Cherry Wilder, David S. garnett, Laurence James, Ramsey Campbell, Ian Watson, Ritchie Smith & Thomas Penman.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Neil Ritchie "The Lungarno Series". Barbara McCrimmon "Dr Richard Garnett". Stephen H Cape "J Allen St John 1872 - 1957". Paul W Nash "T E Lawrence's Diary MCMXI". Paul W Nash "The Dropmore Press Winchester Bible".

Original Wraps Softcovers/CDs. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Original Wraps: New 2006 Copyright In Original Pictorial Box-Packaged Slipcase In Soft Covers And CD-ROM Formats, Teaching The Constitution: A Project Of The Annenberg Foundation Trust At Sunnylands: Box-Packaged Set With Fourteen Soft Cover Items And Four CD-ROMS, As Follows: Our Constitution With Chapters 1-5, The US Constitution, Appendices 1 And 2, Constitutional Glossary, Further Reading, Websites, Museums And Historic Sites Related To The Constitution, Index, About The Authors, Full Color Illustrations, Full Color Photography, 255 Pages And Pictorial Cover, The Pursuit Of Justice, Supreme Court Cases That Shaped America With Introduction: The Supreme Court As A Mirror Of America With Introduction, Chapters 1-23, Epilogue: We Are All Slaves To The Law, Appendix, Further Reading, Websites, Full Color Illustrations, Full Color Photography, About The Authors, 253 Pages And Pictorial Cover, Our Documents, 100 Milestone Documents From The National Archives With A Foreword By Michael Beschloss, Preface, Why These Documents? Further Reading, Illustrations, Photography, About The Authors, 256 Pages And Pictorial Cover, Our Rights, With Introduction, Chapters 1-25, Appendix: The Bill Of Rights, Time Line, Further Reading, Websites, Index, Illustrations, Maps, Full Color Photography, About The Author, 253 Pages And Pictorial Cover, Factory Sealed Set Of Five Pocket-Sized US Constitutions, What It Says, What It Means With Introduction By Caroline Kennedy And Afterword By David Eisenhower And Pictorial Covers, Factory Sealed Set Of Five Pocket-Sized Soft Cover Items Entitled Understanding Democracy WIth Pictorial Covers, Guides That Explain The Core Concepts Of Democracy In A Clear A-Z Format, Set Of Seven CD-ROMS Designed Exclusively And Specifically For Compatible Macintosh And Windows Devices Entitled Mandate: The President And The People, Our Constitution: A Conversation, Key Constitution Concepts And A Conversation On The Constitution: Judicial Independence, Conversations On The Constitution, The Constitution Project Documents, All In Original Pictorial Box-Packaged Slipcase In Original Wraps, ISBN 0195325702 (2006 Copyright) KK.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 408 pages. 6.00x0.91x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ex library hardback with D/J, Usual stamps/markings. Published in 1993 by Melbourne University Press. Very good condition throughout. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from Uk. 8A*.

1st Ed. XXII, (IV), 490 PP, plus 4 pages with 5 b/w illustrations (1 facsimile of letter, 2 portraits and 2 paintings). Fp (in colour): Portrait of Major George Johnston tipped in. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is somewhat sunned but no chips, book is in fine condition. 23.4 x 15. Introduction by Dr. John Ritchie and facsimile of the Court Martial of Lt. Col. George Johnston for deposing Governor William Bligh in the rebellion of 26 January 1808. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex library hardback with dust jacket, usual library stamps and markings. Volume 12 1891-1939, Smy-Z. Published in 1990 by Melbourne University Press. Heavy book will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from the UK. 49A*.…

4to (25.5x16.5cm), hardback, xxvi + 626pp. Very good condition in very good dustwrapper (light wear, rubbed). Mild wear only. Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16.5cm), hardback, xxviii + 616pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper (bumped, upper right front corner lightly chipped, mild wear only). Light wear. Pictures available on request.

4to (25.5x16.5cm), hardback, xxvi + 626pp. Very good condition in good dustwrapper (light wear, rubbed, some scratch marks). Mild wear, light foxing to lower fore-edge, offsets to half-title and last page. ISBN: 0522845126. Pictures available on request.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 242 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Each volume: Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), top edge little foxed, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear, bookshop sticker (v1 only). 324 pp. John Thomas Bigge was the Commissioner appointed by the Home Office (after receiving complaints) to enquire into the transportation system of sending convicts to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and their settlement under Governor Lachlan Macquarie. His two-volume report in 1822 - 1823 generated considerable controversy, and has been considered as the major issue for the future development of the Australian colonies. The ISBN 0855610271 applies to the 2-volume set: Volume 1: The Oral Evidence [and] Volume 2: The Written Evidence. The editor, Dr John Ritchie, a lecturer in history at the Australian National University (ANU), also wrote a revealing background report about Commissioner Bigge called 'Punishment and Profit' (based on his ANU PhD thesis). (The ISBN applies to the 2-volume set. Amazon photo shows only Volume 2.).…

reprint).Octavo,ten volumes,very good set in dustwrappers. Freight will be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 380 pages. 10.00x7.01x0.86 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Very Good. Uniform matching first editions hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt backs. 8vo. 10'' x 6½''. Ex-library set with bookplate to each front paste down, bar code label to foot of each front free end paper, indigo reference stamp to each copyright page, Corrigenda pages loosely inserted. Very Good condition books in Very Good condition dust wrappers, not price clipped. Dust wrappers supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume set weighing 15 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRALIA (Terra Australis).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. [Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] 24 volume set. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some covers creased. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes. Contents: Vol. 37, No. 1, Mar. 2016; Vol. 37, No. 2, Jun. 2016; Vol. 37, No. 3, Sep. 2016; Vol. 37, No. 4, Dec, 2016; Vol. 38, No. 1, Mar. 2017; Vol. 38, No. 2, Jun. 2017; Vol. 38, No. 3, Sep. 2017; Vol. 38, No. 4, Dec. 2017; Vol. 39, No. 1, Mar. 2018; Vol. 39, No. 2, Jun. 2018; Vol. 39, No. 3, Sep. 2018; Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec. 2018; Vol. 40, No. 2, Jun. 2019; Vol. 40, No. 3, Sep. 2019; Vol. 40, No. 4, Dec. 2019; Vol. 41, No. 1, Mar. 2020; Vol. 41, No. 2, Jun. 2020; Vol. 41, No. 3, Sep. 2020; Vol. 41, No. 4, Dec. 2020; Vol. 42, No. 1, Mar. 2021; Vol. 42, No. 2, Jun. 2021; Vol. 42, No. 3, Sept. 2021; Early American Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Spring 2021; Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage Vol. 9, No. 3, Nov. 2020. Interesting essays in this collection include: Free to Bury Their Dead: Baptism and the Meanings of Freedom in the Eighteenth Century Caribbean by Fernanda Bretones Lane; The Slave Ship Maria da Gloria and the Bare Life of Blackness in the Age of Emancipation by Martine Jean; Soul values and American Slavery by Daina Ramey Berry; African body marks, stereotypes and racialization in eighteenth century Brazil by Aldair Rodrigues; Slave-based coffee in the eighteenth century and the role of the Dutch in global commodity chains by Tamira Combrink; Gendering mastery: female slaveholders in the Colombian Pacific lowlands by Yesenia Barragan; Two concepts of a slave in the South Carolina law of slavery by John Samuel Harpham; Generation, resistance, and survival: African-American children and the Southampton Rebellion of 1831 by Vanessa M. Holden; Slavery and the American University: discourses of retrospective justice at Harvard and Brown by Lindsey K. Walters; Slave owning overseers in eighteenth century Virginia and South Carolina by Laura Sandy; Beyond plantations: Indian and African slavery in the Illinois County, 1720-1780 by M. Scott Heerman; In bondage when cold was king: the frigid terrain of slavery in antebellum Maryland by Tony C. Perry; Fugitive slaves and Christian evangelism in French West Africa: a protestant mission in late nineteenth century Senegal by Hilary Jones; The nameless and the forgotten: maternal grief, sacred protection, and the archive of slavery by Sasha Turner; From free womb to criminalized woman: fertility control in Brazilian slavery and freedom by Cassia Roth; Bad breeders and monstrosities: racializing childlessness and congenital disabilities in slavery and freedom by Jenifer L. Barclay; The enslaved wet nurse as nanny: the transition from free to slave labor in childcare in Barcelona after the Black Death (1348) by Rebecca Lynn Winer; Colonial bodies and the abolition of slavery: a tale of two Cobbes by Barbara A. Suess; Black Abolitionists, Irish supporters, and the brotherhood of man by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; Custom and law: The status of enslaved Africans in seventeenth century Barbados by Jerome S. Handler; The internal economy of Cuban tobacco slavery by William A. Morgan; Black skin, red coats: the Carolina corps and Nationalism in the revolutionary British Caribbean by Gary Sellick; Finding dignity in a landscape of fear: enslaved women and girls at the University of Virginia by Kelley F. Deetz; The Kingdom of Kongo and Palo Mayombe: Reflections on an African American Religion by John Thornton; Uncovering the Hidden Lives of Last Clotilda Survivor Matilda McCrear and Her Family by Hannah Durkin; Beyond Clarkson: Cambridge, Black Abolitionists, and the British anti-slave trade campaign by Michael E. Jirik; Trouble the water: The Baltimore to New Orleans coastwise slave trade, 1820-1860 by Jennie K. Williams; Manchester antislavery, 1792-1807 by Sami Pinarbasi; Elite colored women: the material culture of photography and Victorian era womanhood in recons. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies, miniature book, 166 pp., signed by eight contributers to making the book. A stunning book which can indeed be judged by its cover.bound in full black leather, red and blue leather abstract designs cut in on both boards, the front additionally with a small gilt circle, both boards and the spine glittering with iridescent green and blue dots, the gilt top-edge with debossed green and purple dots.a magical book, and so far we've just looked at the exterior. Upon opening the book, one discovers the bright blue marbled endpapers by Einen Miura, and inside will be found seven wood engravings by John DePol, each section with a "chapter headpiece" of a gilt abstract design. The contributors to this book include some of the most talented: authored by Bernard C. Middleton, a skilled restorer of bindings as well as a prolific writer on the techniques of the craft; Ward Ritche (who designed the text), John DePol (contributor of the seven wood engravings), David Pankow (the editor), Henry Morris (the printer), Mel Kavin (who wrote the Foreword), the blue marbled endpapers by Einen Miura and the binding design by Tini Miura (note that all eight of these signed the book at the final blanks). Although not signed by him, Pat Reagh set the type. A feast for both the eye and mind. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in leathers and decorated as set forth above, blue marbled endpapers, double-spread title page with gilt decorations and rules; miniature (2 7/8" by 2 3/8"), pagination: [1-7], 8-161, [1, blank] [1, colophon], [2, blanks], [2, signature pages]. Enclosed in a clamshell case covered in black silk on the sides, black leather spine with an abstract red spine label with silver lettering, the inner tray lined with grey handmade paper, this no. 35 of 500 copies. ___CONDITION: Volume fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean and as new. The clamshell case also fine, clean and without wear. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Signed.…