Olsen Norman (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Name inside front cover. Most orders ship within 24 hours.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine in a Fine DJ; light hairline scratch to back glossy pictorial board, illustrated in color, 4to., 96 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 207, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Helen Tono. Cover art by Sara Cleghy for "Hired Killer" (novel) by Ray Gaulden. Includes "Blizard Pass" (novelette) by Walker A. Tompkins; "the Man Who Came Back" by Ben Frank; "Wagontrain Woman" by Barbara Bonham; "Border Hunt" by Norman Wells; "Vengeance Station" by T. V. Olsen; "The Waiting Gun" (pt. 2) by John S. Daniels. Features: "Trade Rat Treasure" (verse) by S. Omar Barker; "Pikes Peak Legends" by Burton L. Wollenzien; "The Passing of the Jackass Mail" (true story) by Ben B. Sampselle. Departments: "Our Air Mail"; "Trail Dust"; "Roundup of Western Movies, Music and TV"; "Know Your West" (Quiz) by Rattlesnake Robert; "Crossword Puzzle"; "Out of the Chutes"; "Whom Shall I Marry?" by Professor Marcus Mari. Illustrations are uncredited. Creasing; minor edge tears; crossword done in pencil. Book. …

Original wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. 281p octavo, a good copy in white spiral bound wraps. Some minor staining.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. None Stated. The May 1948 issue (v 176 # 1) of a detective digest from the late 1940s. Stories by Frank R Read, Norman Anthony, D B Olsen, Dean Evans, William Campbell Gault, Thomas Thursday, Raymond Drennen Jr, Donald Van Riper, & EdwarD William Murphy. Light edge wear with some small chips. Corner ships to the top of the front & rear covers. Light toning to the pages. A very good copy. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1964. Journals, North America, Native Americans. Sacramento Anthropological Society, paper number 1, fall 1964. 44 pages of mimeograph paape, plus charts and 8 figures (line drawings). In very good condition, paper cover, black taped spine 10/26 new S crate.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first issue, with Spring 1979 on the bottom of the front cover and on the title-page. There were only the two printings of the true first edition of Granta No. 1, and this true first printing is scarce, having a very low print-run. ***Near fine in white colour-illustrated card covers. The extremities of the covers are just very slightly rubbed and slightly discoloured (being a white background). Some light smudge marks on the front cover (please see scans). No creases or tears. No reading creases to the spine. No reading lean. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. ***212 pages plus unnumbered page on recto of rear wrapper of adverts. 212mm x 146mm. ***Contents: Bill Bryson & Bill Buford: New American Writing - Introduction; Stanley Elkin: from The Franchiser; John Dugdale: Updike's Nabokov; Jonathan Levi: John Cheever in the Bourgeois Tradition; Susan Sontag: Unguided Tour; Henry Davis: A Plug for Bukowski; Ronald Sukenick: from Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues; Don Guttenplan: The Wor(l)ds of William Gass; Tillie Olsen: Requa-I; Donald Barthelme: The New Music; James Purdy: Summer Tidings; Leonard Michaels: The Men's Club; Norman Bryson: Orgy, hors-je, hors-jeu: a Note on the Work of James Purdy; Marc Granetz: Chuckle or Gasp: a Note on the Work of Leonard Michaels; Tony Tanner: Present Imperfect: a Note on the Work of Walter Abish; Joyce Carol Oates: from Son of the Morning; William Gass: The First Winter of my Married Life; William Warner: Interview - Theodore Solotaroff; John Hawkes: The Universal Fears. ***Extremely scarce first printing(Spring 1979) of the first issue of this collectable landmark literary magazine. By far the rarest of all the early Grantas. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …