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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(nopr ice) DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT. ; Attractive blue titles on grey dust jacket.gold spine title with 1x4" gold design to RED CLOTH HARDCOVER.ALL NICE.Blue endpapers.a rather tall, narrow volume, with a distinct charm. ; 260 pages. Illustrated by MOSER, BARRY WOOD ENGRAVINGS (6( (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. The Westminister Press 1947 Later Printing Very Good/ Red decorative cover with verticle embossing. Published in 1941. Printed in 1957 (20th printing) X penned on spine, Pos penned on front cover and inside cover dated "1/66". Previous owner's stamp blotted out in front but remains on back end paper. Tight bright unmarked pages.…

paperback. Condition: Good. PAPERBACK. GOOD CONDITION .Loss of luster PAPERBACK with extensive & pervasive pencil underlining to first half of the book.then clean. Dime sized hole in title page. OW clean, solid copy. ; black titles with green & blue computer punch tape "data strips" as cover art, all on white paper covers.HEILBRONER contributed on IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY.ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, RELEVANCE OF DEBATE.; 186pg pages; .Management by Machines.New Science .INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. B&W illustrations. Near fine condition. 105 pages.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. LAST REPRINTED EDITION". GOOD CONDITION. TOP ENDPAPER CORNER CLIPT (else very good) ; Gold spine titles on ORANGE cloth hardcovers. Orange VINES "RKE1905" DECORATED ENDPAPERS. "RKE" spine 1" decoration.; 308+313pg pages; Everyman's Lib #164.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. LAST REPRINTED EDITION". GOOD CONDITION. TOP ENDPAPER CORNER CLIPT (else very good) ; Gold spine titles on ORANGE cloth hardcovers. Orange VINES "RKE1905" DECORATED ENDPAPERS. "RKE" spine 1" decoration.; 306+377+4pg pages; Everyman's Lib #164.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Thick octavo. Condition: ex-library copy with library markings; else very good in very good DJ. Pages: xviii, 750.

Condition: FINE. Trade paperback, Book of the Month club edition. A significant anthology with contributions from both established and emerging writers, including Tina McElroy Ansa, Octavia Butler, James Alan McPherson, John Mc Cluskey, Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Darryl Pinckney, Connie Porter, Barbara Neely, Wesley Brown, Becky Birtha, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Connie Porter, Gayl Jones, Al Young and many others. SIGNED by Al Young at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hbk, 91 p. ; 19 cm. Previous owner's name on ffep o/w a clean copy in very good condition, dust-wrapper torn around edges. [Poetry Wales - Sonnets, English - Welsh poetry ; Translations into English] w162 / m16672.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . B003Q3SWE4. Staplebound trade paperback. Tight sound unmarked copy in Good to Very Good condition with slight edgewear. No Signature.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages 365-421. Lord Dunsany "The Awakening" / T A Gardiner "Preface To Sassoon" / Alun Llewellyn "The Science of Poetry" (BT#38).

Condition: Good. first edition,1st ptg.. Good Cond has had spine rebound some check marks on tble of contents, else not marked up. ; Gold spine titles & cover shows 2" circle art 4 person dance.all on dark blue cloth hardcovers. white endpapers. ; 966pg heavy pages; a great many distinguished authors write a great many insightful papers.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Text In English And German.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing in unclipped dust jacket, no markings, NOT ex-lib, bump to top rear corner tip, slight jacket wear to edges & extremities, else Fine; the collection featues a Who's Who of poet-translators including Bogan, Leonie Adams, John Peale Bishop, Babbette Deutsch, Kenneth Patchen, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams & others; 8vo; 190pp.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A significant anthology with contributions from both established and emerging writers, including Tina McElroy Ansa, Octavia Butler, James Alan McPherson, John McCluskey, Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Darryl Pinckney, Connie Porter, Barbara Neely, Wesley Brown, Becky Birtha, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Connie Porter, Gayl Jones, Al Young and many others. SIGNED by Samuel Delany at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Seven Staplebound trade paperback booklets. Tight sound copies in Good condition with slight edgewear. This set of booklets is Newsy Vents Magazine, 7 issues, March/April 1979, May/June 1979, Jul/August 1979, Sep/Oct 1979, nov/dec 1978, sep/oct 1978, and Volume 37 #1 1980. No Signature.…

Very Good condition.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition" Thus. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; Dark red spine & decorative titles on white paper covers. 1" color art drawings in 4 cover corners, same style to back cover.Endpaper 2 page map.with frotis ilust of AUTHOR IN DRAMATIC PRINT. ; 384 pages; Cover ilust shows old typeface with 4 bordering ilust. Has several other cute old quality ilust. GRAHAME FRONTIS ILUST What a nice book. Various popular ILLUSTRATORS, WITH STORY TEXTS & interpretive notes alongside the story.PUBLISHED TO HONOR THE AUTHOR'S 150TH BIRTHDAY. Photographs of the Grahames, their friends, and illustrations from the various editions. Illustrated by Color Ilust ,others (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Nine Folded and Staplebound trade paperback booklets. Tight sound copies in Good condition with slight edgewear. This set of booklets is Newsy Vents Magazine, 9 issues, Volume 41 issues #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8 from 1983, and Volume 42, Issues #3 and #4 from 1984. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st ed. viii+145; D.J.Furley's sm. sig. to fr.pastedown, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked, covers clean and virtually unworn; unclipped jacket has only sl.rubbing to top and faint brown stain marks on back of little consequence, waterstain is in fact clearly visible on verso, but nobody ever sees tha t! Green cloth covers appear undamaged by whatever caused water stain other than faint loss of surface sheen to back when held at an angle. Somewhat uncommon. Needham's chapter is on translating old Chinese scientific and technical texts, Furley's is on translating Greek Philosophy. Others are on French, 'machine translation' (A.D.Booth, who claims the notion of using computers for translation originated with himself) and 'Conference Interpreting'. contributor's sig to fr.pasted. …

31.5x21.5cm. First English-language edition. 160pp including colour pictorial endpapers; with illustrated introduction outlining the history of the exploration and exploitation of the region, personal essays, and numerous full- & double-page colour images. Hardback / hard cover: glazed light-buff paper-covered boards, backstrip and front board titled in blue-grey. Foot of backstrip including corner shared with front board a little bumped & crumpled; a scattering of a few little bumps of minimal effect at upper edges and elsewheres at lower edges. Removal-resistant plastic barcode tab attached to rear board. Contents fine. VERY GOOD copy in GOOD+ unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed, and with a number of minor nicks & creases at upper and lower edges. (Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Twelve Staplebound trade paperback booklets. Tight sound copies in Good condition with slight edgewear. This set of booklets is Newsy Vents Magazine, 12 issues, Volume 38 #1 1981, Volume 38 #2 1981, Volume 38 #3 1981, Volume 39 #1 September 1981, Volume 39 #3 1981, Volume 39 #4 1981, Volume 40 #1 1982 , Volume 40 #2 1982, Volume 40 #8 1982, Volume 1940 #9 1982, Volume #40 #10 1982, Volume 40 #11 1982, Volume 40 #12 1982 . No Signature.…

First edition Bilingual. Text in French and English. Brand new and bright gatefold wraps with crisp bright text throughout. Marvelous selections from Denise Levertov, Janine Pommy Vega, Lenore Kandel, Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Mary Norbet Korte and many others. Scarce. Gift quality.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xviii, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st ed. Red cloth cover. Issued as English Studies in Criminal Science Volume II. xxiv (inc. after p.viii a series eds 'Note') +316+(4, series notice and list);private ex lib. label to front pastedowns, outer sides of endpapers have brown strips to centre off-set from jacket wraparounds, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked, otherwise near pristine inside and out, small 1946-dated stenciled notice of a Howard League for Penal Reform Summer School slipped in, with owner's name & address on verso (as ex lib.label); unclipped jacket generally very good but a little rubbing & nicking to top edge and spine slightly browned (will add protective sleeve when ordered). An interesting collection of essays covering a range of topics such as mental illness, alcoholism delinquency and the like plus a closing report on the work of the Exeter Child Guidance Clinic. Fairly uncommon in the condition.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Eastleigh and Gosport in Hampshire during WWII. 4to. Pictorial wraps. 188 pp. B/w and colour photos, b/w illustrations. As-new. FINE.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 21x14cm. xxii+305 pages. Flat spine. Front cover has a crease. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-flsh.

Front endpapers a little toned. Barely visible stain at bottom of cover. Otherwise a book in fine condition. 8vo. 8" x 5-3/8". Blue pictorial cloth cover. 519 pp. Map endpapers of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. With Biographical Introduction by Sir J.M. Barrie and a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. With 19 gravure photo illustrations by Herbert G. Pointing and others. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket. 24x16cm. vii+360 pages. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. Jacket has a little edge wear but is not torn. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref ZDT-DON.…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Bulletin 614; Former owner's bookplate on fep, usual reading and age wear, else clean and tight. Former owner's inked name along upper edge of front cover, creased corners, clear taped head and foot of spine, soiled spine, creased corners, creasing on back cover. 142pp., including glossary and index., plus 33 plates, 19 Maps, and 15 Figures. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Plates/Maps/Graphs/Charts (illustrator). Paperback. …