King Joe M (18 results)

Large Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Top edge faintly foxed, ink name on front cover. 1984 Large Softcover. 112 pp. Detailed instructions and illustrations for fifty wooden construction boats, including sailing craft, powerboats, and rowboats. Types includes skiffs, catboats, dinghies, daysailers, launches, lapstrake canoes, etc. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (xii) 478 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Larry Rostant. This anthology contains: Introduction: The Bastard Stepchild by George R. R. Martin; Lord John and the Plague of Zombies - a novella by Diana Gabaldon; Death by Dahlia - a novelette by Charlaine Harris; The Bleeding Shadow - a novelette by Joe R. Lansdale; Hungry Heart by Simon R. Green; Styx and Stones - a novelette by Steven Saylor; Pain and Suffering - a novelette by S. M. Stirling; It's Still the Same Old Story - a novelette by Carrie Vaughn; The Lady Is a Screamer - a short story by Conn Iggulden; Hellbender - a novelette by Laurie R. King; Shadow Thieves - a novelette by Glen Cook; No Mystery, No Miracle - a novelette by Melinda M. Snodgrass; The Difference Between a Puzzle and a Mystery - a novelette by Daniel Abraham writing as M. L .N. Hanover; The Curious Affair of the Deodand - a novelette by Lisa Tuttle; Beware the Snake - a short story by John Maddox Roberts; In Red with Pearls - a novelette by Patricia Briggs; and The Adakian Eagle - a novella by Bradley Denton. Size: 8vo. Larry Rostant; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo. xxii, 494 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Lacks the dust jacket. The binding shows some rubbing but is sound with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's signature on the front flyleaf. Black underlining on pages 253-255, as well as a couple of check marks in the Table of Contents. Otherwise appears clean. The text is sound.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Octavo. xxii, 494 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in burgundy cloth. Lacks the dust jacket. The binding shows some rubbing and contact marks. Prior pencil notation erased from the top corner of the front flyleaf, and prior owner's signature (Julian Carr, Jr.) on the title page. The text is sound and clean.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Apatite, the most abundant phosphate on Earth, is ubiquitous in the lithosphere and in vertebrates of the animal kingdom. Because it forms large colorful crystals, this toothsome mineral is among the most prized species populating mineral collections worldwide. Commonly confused with other minerals, Apatite takes its name from the Greek word άπατάω, meaning 'to deceive.' This collector's compendium explores in luscious color the science, history, localities and culture of Apatite - the Great Pretender. William W. Besse; Joe Budd; Jordi Deusedes; Josè Arce Diaz; Jordi Fabre; Bob King; Don Komarechka; Jesse La Plante; Robert F. Martin; Alana McConnon; John Schneider; Jeff Scovil; Brad Wilson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. xxii, 494 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a white and green dust jacket. The jacket has some wear with small edge tears. The front panel of the jacket has some sticker residue from a removed label. The book is sound with clean text and shows little use.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 494pp. Edges foxed. Owner's name front endpape, Dated purchase receipt affixed to reverse of front endpaper. DJ chipped and edgeworn, now in protective mylar wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new, great condition. Apatite, the most abundant phosphate on Earth, is ubiquitous in the lithosphere and in vertebrates of the animal kingdom. Because it forms large colorful crystals, this toothsome mineral is among the most prized species populating mineral collections. Commonly confused with other minerals, Apatite takes its name from the Greek word meaning "to deceive." This collector's compendium explores in luscious color the science and history, localities and culture of Apatite. Beautiful photography/lithography. William W. Besse; Joe Budd; Jordi Deusedes; Josè Arce Diaz; Jordi Fabre; Bob King; Don Komarechka; Jesse La Plante; Robert F. Martin; Alana McConnon; John Schneider; Jeff Scovil; Brad Wilson (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex Church library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condition: New. Deutsche Erstausgabe.

Hardcover in original binding and dust jacket. Not Ex-Lib. SIGNED and dated by author on ffep. SCARCE title.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 76 pages. Features: Doctor's Diary - Acidosis; Home is Where You Are (short story); Be the Smartest Family under the Sun - #4 in our great fashion holiday fashion series; Fun loving easy knits; Song in Her Heart (serial); Polly the Dog's devotion to her blind owner Harry; My Life with Bing - photo-illustrated article by Mrs. Kathryn Grant Crosby; An End to Dreaming (short story); Don't Be Afraid of X-Rays; Transform your fireplace; Short articles on four girls who made their jobs passports to happy adventure - Frances Mattheson, Pamela Hammond, Penelope Grimes and Maxine Ridell; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Wall's Ice Cream; Recipes and colour photos of Glorious cakes for sweet or tea; Maternity fashion ideas; Many lovely ads; and more. Pages 47-48 missing. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Dixon, John; Whittingham, Bill; King, Gordon; De Mers, Joe (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ISSN: 0361-0128 ; LCCN: 87-658053 ; yellow paper wrappers ; "Jubilee volume" ; Contents: Te outlook for the future: nonrenewable resources -- Geologic structure surrounding the Santa Rita intrusive -- Vacuum differential thermal analysis of coal -- A review of the Falconbridge Ore Deposit -- The Geochemistry and origin of the Gold bearing Quartz veins and lenses of the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt -- The genesis of asbestos in ultrabasic rocks -- Origin of the Roan Antelope Copper Deposit of Northern Rhodesia -- Reviews: Geology of Australian ore deposits (A B Edwards) -- Geoogie der Schweizeralpen (Cadisch and Niggli) -- Second Conference on the Origin and Constitution of Coal -- Coal (Wilfrid Francis) -- The use of stereographic projection in structural geology ( F C Phillips) -- La geologie et les problems de l'eau en Algerie (Geol. Cong. Algiers) -- Books received -- Abstracts of papers to be presented at the Chicago Meeting, February 14-17, 1955 -- Scientific notes and news. ; published semiquarterly ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, the onetime plowboy who was pitchforked into the White House; Here's a Fine Stymie! - humorous article about golf and the impact upon it by WWII; To Chuck - With Love (short story); "They're Full of Love and Mozart" - Maclean's War Correspondent L.S.B. Shapiro tours Eisenhower's Germany; Sissy Fish? No Sir! - Charley Hartman and his Ontario Government Trout Rearing Station (fish hatchery) at Cold Water Creek take care of almost 3 million trout (with photos); 25,000 Miles to Battle - Lieut. Stuart Keate, an officer of Canada's new cruiser, the H.M.C.S. Uganda, describes why war in the Pacific is different than War in the Atlantic; Well, Good Night (short story); Charles H. Scott, Director of the Vancouver School of Art, chastises Vancouver's art patrons of not supporting Canadian artists; Stage set for an election in England; Ottawa political report; On the Corner in the Sun (short story); What About Russia? - Will the men of the Kremlin enter the family of nations or erect a Russian Great Wall?; Music By Adaskins, Canada's most musical family - Murray, Naomi, Yanova, Frances Marr, John, Frances James and Harry; Three-Way X-Ray - LeRoy J. Leishman, a Los Angeles inventor, solves the problem of bringing depth perception to the fluoroscope with his stereofluoroscope; Nice colour half-page Orange Crush ad shows girl with dog; Additional ads for Canada Dry, Kotex, Palmolive soap, Castoria, Lysol, Absorbine Jr., Vaseline hair tonic, and many more; One-page ad for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board encourages readers to use sugar sparingly; Back cover Coke ad features colour painting of a happy scene in Brussels where Canadian troops imbibe with friendly locals. 50 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Faint discoloration to back cover. Please note: missing first page. Last page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue from the tail end of WWII, printed mere days before Truman, featured in this issue, authorized atomic bombs to fall upon Japan. Grassick; Templeton; Timmins, Harry; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Buresch, Joe E. (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: New. Deutsche Erstausgabe.