Kurt Kusenberg (715 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 293 pp., xxv. Presumed First Edition with no editions, printings or number line cited. Glossy red wrappers with title and Subtitle lettering in white and black lettering, respectively, across top third front cover, above a black and white illustration of an ostensible "EKG printout" across middle front cover; Author names in small white letters across bottom front cover. Following the Preface and Introduction, Contents divided into 6 sections with three short stories each, each trio followed by "Questions for Discussion / List of Additional Stories": (1) "Preliminary Phase"; (2) Spectator Phase"; (3) "Increasing Participation Phase"; (4) "Shock Phase"; (5) "Adaptation Phase"; (6) "Re-Entry Phase". Previous owner name and date discreetly at top left inside front cover; 'WITHDRAWN' red-stamped top and bottom edge and on ffep and rear flyleaf (NO other indication of being an x-Library book); 1 1/2" soft crease (NOT folded or floppy) on the diagonal at right bottom front cover corner (does not actually reach either the right edge or lower edge, but confined within those borders, echoes only through ffep, not text itself)); 3/4" fan-shaped water stain at same lower right front cover corner, but discoloration is thin with micro-jaggedness along "fan" edge for only 4 pp., rest of impact diminishingly, through p. 5 (text NOT impacted): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Binding tight (NO cracks); corners sharp (Micro-tip wear). Clean text. Despite peccadilloes, Solid Copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

brosch. 178 S. Abb. guter Zustand.

Taschenbuch. Buch hat leichte Gebrauchs spuren ( Lese spuren ) Kanten leicht bestoßen 293 Deutsch 400g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. German language.

Soft cover. Jaroslav Bradá? (illustrator). ENCOUNTER MAGAZINE was a leading and influential literary & cultural journal "Encounter", founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and author Irving Kristol, was an English literary and cultural monthly magazine that covered the arts, literature, history and politics. Its contributors consisted of some of the leading intellectual and literary lights of the day. Melvin Lasky replaced Kristol as editor in 1958. Spender resigned as editor in 1967, and the journal ceased publication in 1990. This issue is notable for the inclusion of the First Appearance of a piece on Trieste by famed Science Fiction author Brian W. Aldiss. Also the First Appearances of three stories by Kurt Kusenberg. The article, "Has Futurology a Future?" by Robert Nisbet has considerable underlining. The piece by Nisbet is Illustrated by Czech artist Jaroslav Bradác. There are also pieces on authors Günter Grass, Bronowski, Arthur Miller, and Saul Bellow. There is much more in this issue (see table of contents given below) THE ARTICLE "HAS FUTUROLOGY A FUTURE?" IS CONSIDERABLY UNDERLINED IN RED AND GREEN PENCIL, ELSE THE REST OF THE ISSUE IS FREE OF MARKING CONTENTS : --- Three Stories by Kurt Kusenberg : "A Look of Contempt", "One Match in Three", "There's Not All That Much Difference" --- Modest Atmosphere with Monsters : Writer's Notebook in Trieste - by Brian W. Aldiss (First Appearance) --- Has Futurology a Future? - by Robert Nisbet (with an Illustration by Czech artist Jaroslav Bradác) [UNDERLINED] --- The Novelty of Revolution : A Study in 17th-Century English Ideology - by Melvin J. Lasky --- Column [ on the appearance at various times to various persons of the face of Jesus] - by Anonymous (R.) --- Bellow & Herzog ? by Gabriel Josipovici- Post - Imperial Blues (Theatre) - by John Weightman --- Günter Grass, or Dragon Hunting - by Hellmut Jaesrich --- The Innocence of OZ - by Keith Botsford --- Arthur Miller : Between Sartre & Society - by Ronald Hayman --- Alban Berg : An Index to Vienna - a review of "Alban Berg: Letters to His Wife" - by Peter Porter --- Children's Hour - a review of "A Collection of Poetry by Stepney Children Aged 11 to 15 Years" - by D. J. Enright --- Worsthorne's Myth - A review of "The Socialist Myth" - by John Vaizey --- The Disestablishment of Science : On Dr. Brownowski's Proposal - by Edward Shils --- Letters from : Hans-Joachim Reiss, Roland R. Towe, Erling Eng --- Poetry by Lawrence Raab, John Welch, Daniel Huws, Edward Lowbury, Richard E. Sherwin, David Gill, Robert Conquest TITLE : ENCOUNTER ISSUE : Vol. XXXVI, No. 5 DATE : November 1971 EDITORS : Melvin J. Lasky & D. J. Enright PLACE : 25 Haymarket, London DETAILS: Monthly Periodical ; 7 1/4" x 10", printed wraps (paper covers, glued) ; 96 pages STATUS : OP. CONDITION -- GOOD ONLY --This is a previously owned periodical that has underlining through one article, but else remains clean and unmarked, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Modest wear, including some nicking and crimping about the edges; mild surface rub; the spine is slightly faded - the text-block edges are darkened - else the cover is clean and attractive. BINDING - Solid / INTERIOR - THE ARTICLE "HAS FUTUROLOGY A FUTURE?" IS CONSIDERABLY UNDERLINED IN RED AND GREEN PENCIL, ELSE THE REST OF THE ISSUE IS FREE OF MARKING. The paper is somewhat toned. No marginalia , no signatures. The illustration by Jaroslav Bradá? displays cleanly.

233 S 19x11,5cm, Taschenbuch, zahlr. SW-Fotos und Abbildungen im Text, Gebrauchsspuren.

172 S Taschenbuch, zahlr. SW-Fotos im Text, Gebrauchsspuren.

Broschiert. Condition: Befriedigend. Mängelexemplar! ---. nein.

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. ---. nein.

Oln.m.SU.; kl.8°; sehr gutes Ex.; unpag.

32-51 Tsd. 237 S OLn, geprägt, OU, gutes Exemplar.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. Tb, Reihe: Rowohlts Monographien, mit vielen, z. T. ganzseitigen s/w-Illustrationen, mit Lebensdaten des Konfuzius, Vergleichende Zeittafel, Zeugnisse, Bibliographie, 179/1 Seiten, leichte Gebrauchspuren, (intern: Religion).

Softcover. Condition: Gut. rowohlts monographieen, Tb, (76) mit vielen s/w-Fotos, Briefen, Schriftstücken, ect., Bibliographie, Namenregister, Quellenangaben der Abbildungen, 179/9 Seiten, Namensangabe mit Datum auf Vorsatzblatt, Papier leicht gebräunt, sonst guter Zustand, (intern: Ideologie).

Broschur 172 Seiten; Ausgabe von 1977, Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

107.-121.Tsd. (dieser Ausg.). M. 26 Illustr. v. Raymond Peynet. Kl.-8°. 181 S. Illustr. OKart. (= rororo 12687). Schnitt etw. gebräunt u. teilw. angeschmutzt, unten m. kl. Stempelrest; Vorderdeckel m. winziger Druckstelle; sonst gutes sauberes Expl.

Tb. Condition: Gut erhalten. Rowohlts Monographien 23 ; 174 (4) Seiten; Übersetzung aus dem dem Französischen von Nostitz, Oswalt von ;

362 S 19x11,5cm, Taschenbuch, Leinenrücken, Seiten gebräunt, Gebrauchsspuren.

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SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 18, No. 4. Edited by Robert P. Mills. Cover art by Emsh for "Crazy Maro" (short novelet) by Daniel Keyes. Includes "The Hairy Thunderer" by Levi Crow; "Ringer" by G. C. Edmondson; "Ferdinand Feghoot: XXV" by Grendel Briarton [R. Bretnor]; "The Wrens in Granpa's Whiskers" by Edgar Pangborn; "A Certain Room" by Kurt Kusenberg; "Among the Dangs" (short novelet) by George P. Elliott; "A Little Human Contact" by Rosel George Brown; "Memo at the Department of Agriculture" (verse) by Hilbert Schenek, Jr.; "Science: About Time" by Isaac Asimov; "Books: The Best of 1959" by Damon Knight; "In the House, Another" by Joseph Whitehill; "The Game of Five" (novelet) by Gordon R. Dickson. Tanning. Book.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Tb. Condition: Gut erhalten. Rowohlts Monographien 12; 172 (4) Seiten; Buddhismus Übersetzung aus dem dem Französischen von Joachim Rassat; Buddhismus.

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