Murray Alexander Editor (24 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. US DOOR, This as new trade softcover with previous owners neat bookplate, is as new. Black spine, white title.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Very Good. Name on front end page, else unmarked. Tight spine. Bright, glossy cover. All items packaged promptly with care.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. clr csm bl edition. 112 pages. 11.50x9.00x0.25 inches. In Stock. Erashov, Alexander (illustrator).

xiv, 427 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket with front panel and spine illustration credited to C.R. Wilkins; rubbing and soiling; 1cm deep chip at spine head; shallow chip at front panel's top right; some other nicks, tears, and creasing at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Text block edges toned. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. An attractive near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. With b/w plates on unpaged leaves.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Includes 'Reflections on an Interview' by Rhys and 'The Diary of a Mad Space-Wife' by Ballard. Staining to the top left corner of the rear cover and some wrinkling to the pages at the back - the magazine has been damp at some time. The spine has a little surface tearing at the top and bottom and there is a little corner creasing to the pages at the front.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. (SL#37).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine: firm and square, strong joints, no bumps. Complete with original dustjacket: showing well, no tears, no chips. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 225mm x 145mm. Pages: xvi, 169. Fully indexed. Thus a better than very good copy.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 679 pages. 8.99x5.98x1.32 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; 422 pp. ; 24 cm. ; LC:PN6014.G7 1986; ISBN:0671629697 ; OCLC: 13270864 ; LCCN: 86005687 ; stiff paper wrappers ; paperback ; Contents: House opposite / N K Narayan - Working for a living . Alice Munro - A house divided / David Walton - Thieving / Norman Rush - Cathay / Steven Milhauser - Lost sons / James Salter - The old left / Daniel Menaker - Saks Fifth Avenue / Leon Rooke - Arcadia / Charles Dickinson - Hiding /Susan Minot - Claire's Lover's Church / Teri Ruch - Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt - The Nuisance / Penelope Gilliatt - Harry and Sylvia and Sylvia and Son On / Welch D. Everman - Poems : Narcissus explains / Richard Howard - Babel aboard the Hellas International express / Amy Clampitt - Effet et Neige / John Hollander - Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Ground / Donald Finkel - The biographies of solitude / Irving Feldman - Telemetry before impact / George Starbuck - The thought that counts / Tom Disch - Memoirs: Sounds / Luis Brunuel - Heatherdown / Alexander Cockburn - Lost property / Ben Sonnenberg - Last home holiday / Dan Jacobson - Kwi-kwi, kwa-kwa / Michael Train - A late debut / Frank Hauser - Poems: Work-in-Progress / Djuna Barnes - Fringecups / Sandra McPherson - Moorhen / William Logan - Emigre / W. S. Merwin - The partisan / Nicholas Christopher - On reading a writer's letters / Mary Jo Salter - Articles: Translating Proust / Terence Kilmartin - Spying in Spain and Elsewhere / Claud Cockburn - For George Orwell / Christopher Hitchens - Revolutionary requirements, etc / Dorothy Gallagher - The culture gulch of the Time / Joh L. hess - Dishonoring Partisan Review / Murray Kempton - Notes on selling out / Dwight Macdonald ; stamp of The Carter Center, Atlanta on front endpaper ; remainder mark at bottom of textblock, else VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Erratum Slip laid in. Mylar protected dust jacket. Both the DJ and the book are like new.

Soft cover. Condition: New. New condition glossy color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reflections on The Green Hornet by Van Williams; Afterword by Dean Jeffries and Author Biographies. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings. "Moonstone is proud to present The Green Hornet Chronicles, the first anthology featuring all-new, original crime fiction tales of the man who hunts the biggest of all game, public enemies that even the FBI can't reach! It's the mid 1960s, the political climate is shaky, there's civil unrest, freedom and equality issues erupt everywhere from film to music to out in the streets. On police records, The Green Hornet is actually a wanted criminal, a master manipulator, a crime boss who has his fingers in every pie. In reality, The Green Hornet is actually Britt Reid, owner-publisher of the Daily Sentinel. His goal is to destroy crim from within by posing as a criminal himself." - from the rear outer cover. Procopio, Ruben (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 94. Publisher's green cloth titles in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 15s. to front flap. A little dustiness to edges, dust-jacket lightly handled, toned to spine. Near fine.…

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

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

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 679 pages. 8.99x5.98x1.32 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 187 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 291 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.26x6.11x9.21 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 568 pages. 9.26x6.10x1.16 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 356 pages. 9.00x6.10x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 2011 edition. 356 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

9 Volumes. Folio. (13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches). Vol. I: vi, 157 pp. Vol. II: xii, 167 pp. Vol. III: xvi, 120 pp. Vol. IV: xii, 100 pp. Vol. V: xx, 102 pp. Vol. VI: xii, 122 pp. Vol. VII: xii, 138 pp. Vol. VIII: xi, 162 pp. Vol. IX: ccxxiii, 224-298 pp. 76 hand-colored copper engravings, all after Wilson, heightened with gum arabic, 9 in each of the first eight volumes, 4 in the final volume, accompanied by an expanded version of Ord's "Life of Wilson" biography. Uniform contemporary red half morocco with marbled boards, five raised bands ruled gilt forming six compartments on spine with gilt-lettered titling in second compartment, volume number in fourth, and gilt foliate printer's device in rest. Neat repairs to joints A complete copy of the most important work on American ornithology published before Audubon with 76 beautifully hand-colored plates of over 320 birds. With the extended, superior "Life of Wilson" in volume nine. Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology was the most comprehensive illustrated work on the subject published to its date. In all, its 76 plates depict 320 birds from 278 different species, of which 56 had never before been illustrated. All of the illustrations are after drawings made by Wilson, who traveled across America in search of specimens, covering some ten thousand miles through rugged terrain over a seven-year period. Wilson hand-colored many of the sets himself. In fact, during the work's long publication period, it was his only source of income: "The correct execution of the plates will be rendered more secure, by the constant superintendence of the Author; and by the whole of the coloring being performed in his own room, under his immediate inspection." [Vol. IV, Preface] American Ornithology is notable for being among the earliest entirely native color-plate books; i.e. authored in America and printed in America on American paper, using type produced in America, illustrated with plates engraved in America, which were then hand-colored in America. Wilson died in 1813. The final two volumes were edited and seen through the press by his close friend and co-executor of his estate, George Ord, later the President of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In the preface to the final volume, Ord writes of Wilson: "Upon the future Ornithologist will devolve the pleasing duty of completing the history of the Birds of the United States, so ably commenced and carried on by the indefatigable Wilson, with honor to himself and advantage to science and literature. With respect to our country in particular, how much gratitude do we owe that excellent naturalist, for the treasure which he afford us in his inestimable work! He has unfolded a rich scene to our view; revealed new wonders to our meditation; and taught us that there cannot be a more rational amusement, than that which springs from the study of the birds, that diversified portion of animated nature." Due to the lengthy publication period of the first edition of American Ornithology, which spanned 1808 to 1825, few sets are found complete, and those which are encountered are usually mixed. This complete set, though its volumes carry dates of 1808, 1810, 1811, 1811, 1812, 1812, 1824, 1824, and 1825, was wholly published by Ord in 1824 and 1825: "For reasons best known to the publisher, Volumes I-VI retained the dates of the original edition, 1808-1812, although 1824 appears to have been the actual date of publication. Strictly speaking it is not a reprint, yet Ord made little change beyond incorporating Wilson's index corrections of nomenclature, together with a few of his own, in the body of the text." [Burns] See Burns for a detailed chart on how to determine Ord's Edition from the first editions of Volumes I-VI. Anker 533. Bennett, p.114. BM (NH), p.2332. Burns, "Alexander Wilson," in The Wilson Bulletin, Vol. XXI, No. 4, December 1909, pp.176-77. Cantwell, Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer, passim. Lederer, The Art of the Bird, p.81. Nissen IVB 992. Sabin 104597. Sitwell, Fine Bird Books, p.155. Stone, "Wilsoniana," in Cassinia: Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornitho-Logical Club, No. XVII (1913), pp.1-5. Wood, p.630. Zimmer, pp.679-80.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 667 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.