Leslie B Davis Editor (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This vintage, large 8vo pulp magazine is intact, complete, "good-plus." would grade higher save for two small holes to top left of front wrap near the letter "f" -- they don't penetrate into the text block, but look almost as though someone contemplated punching holes for mounting or storage in a binder. Marvelous color cover illustration credited to BOTH H.W. McCauley and J. Allen St. John, which is unusual. This issue also includes Robert Leslie Bellem's "Robots Can't Lie" and William P. McGivern's "Doorway of Vanishing Men." Calling Burroughs' 36-page story "Goddess of Fire" a "novel" is a bit of a stretch -- in fact it's the second of four interlinking stories (following "Slaves of the Fish Men", preceding "The Living Dead" and "War on Venus" -- published sequentially in Fantastic Adventures 1941-42, later fixed up into the Carson Napier science fiction / fantasy novel "Escape on Venus" (1946.) Reduced from $36. Cover credited to H.W. McCauley and J. Allen St. John / Interior B&W illustrations by J. Allen St. John (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Illustrated. Simon Collins "Csaba Erdelyi" / Robert lewin "Le Messie, tuscan And maggini" / Julian Lloyd Webber "The Cello Music Of Sir Lennox Berkeley" / S S Dale "Contemporary Cello Concerti XLIV: Respighi and Kinsella" / M B Stanfield "The Cellist's Achilles heel" / Leslie Sheppard "The Auditor" / Eileen Davis-brown "Smile Please!" / Arthur Herman "The 'Russian Tourte' Nicholas Kittel" / Frederic Vanson "The other Romberg Cellist and Associate of Beethoven" (U.P.).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Occasional Papers of the Museum of the Rockies Number 1. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, references, 158 pages. Covers lightly rubbed, brief gift inscription at top of title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 379 pp. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ; LCCN: 96-17740 ; ISBN: 1570362777 ; OCLC: 34584021 ; grey and black cloth with silver lettering, in white, black and red dust jacket ; slight wear, Contents: Preface -- Prologue -- Chap. 1. Zaire, 1983/1965 -- Chap. 2. Of epidemiology and potato salad -- Chap. 3. Suffer the children -- Chap. 4. The death of a nurse from Yambuku -- Chap. 5. The battle commences -- Chap. 6. The Ebola trail -- Chap. 7. The deserted hospital -- Chap. 8. My place among the dead -- Chap. 9. Learning Lassa -- Chap. 10. Of souls and centrifuges -- Chap. 11. Magic bullets -- Chap. 12. Kadiatu -- Chap. 13. Nzara revisited -- Chap. 14. Sue's story -- Chap. 15. Virology, plumbing and Ebola -- Chap. 16. Level 4 : British style -- Chap. 17. The outbreak that escaped -- Chap. 18. A free woman from La Cite? -- Chap. 19. Project SIDA begins -- Chap. 20. HIV reveals its past -- Chap. 21. HIV goes downriver -- Chap. 22. The Lassa project revisited -- Chap. 23. Jenny Sanders in Segbwema -- Chap. 24. Sunset over Segbwema -- Chap. 25. Of mice and peanut shells -- Chap. 26. Lassa moves to Chicago -- Chap. 27. Juju -- Chap. 28. Ebola in Virginia? -- Chap. 29. The Asian bombshell -- Chap. 30. The infected animal handlers -- Chap. 31. The monkey expedition -- Chap. 32. Desert fevers -- Chap. 33. Cathedrals -- Chap. 34. The stricken surgeons -- Chap. 35. Between two worlds -- Appendix 1. A viral pedigree -- Appendix 2. The hot lab -- Acknowledgements -- Index. ; Personal account of the author's work in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that he created at the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta battling such viruses as Ebola, Lassa fever, Crimean Congo Hermorrhagic Fever, and AIDS and searching for weapons with which to combat them. ; VG/VG. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Very good(+). White quarto, 313 pages, b&w illustrations, maps; 28 cm. Archaeology, Great Plains, Saskatchewan -- Congresses. Very little wear to spine head and foot, faint crease to spine, extremely mild rubbing to corners, small crease to front corners, light soiling to covers, faint crease and small wear-mark to front cover, else Very good(+) to near Fine(-). First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Volume 20, No. 3. (Archaeology, Montana) 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 +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. B.C.E. A solid spine with light edge rubbings. The dustjacket has light edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by :Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur B.Reeves, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Dasheill Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Hart Davis, Raymond Chandler, Brett Halliday, Orson Welles, Leslie Charteris, John Greasey, Francis Durbridge, H.R.F. Keating. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 434 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.94 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover in faded brown cloth. First edition. Book is in good condition, generally clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Historic firsthand reporting as well as Army Brigade and battle info throughout. Book plate from the Military Library at Fort Sherman. Large 8vo. 1107 pp. Including index. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S.…