P G M Dickson (55 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 3, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas. Cover art by George Gibbons ("Lunar Landscape"). Includes "Hobson's Choice" by Alfred Bester; "The Ancestral Amethyst" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "W.S." by L. P. Hartley; "The Tooth" by G. Gordon Dewey; "Nine-Finger Jack" by Anthony Boucher; "The Sling" by Richard Ashby; "The Soothsayer" by Kem Bennett; "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" by August Derleth; "Listen" by Gordon R. Dickson; "Nor Iron Bars" by Dan Kelly & Cleve Cartmill; "Extra-Curricular" by Garen Drussai; "Stair Trick" by Mildred Clingerman; "Proof Positive" by Graham Greene; "The Gualcophone" by Alan Nelson; "The Hour of Letdown" by E. B. White. Light roll; creasing; rear cover rubbed at foredge with a few short tears; mild tanning; internal corner creasing with minor etars. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. 3, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas. Cover art by George Gibbons ("Lunar Landscape"). Includes "Hobson's Choice" by Alfred Bester; "The Ancestral Amethyst" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "W.S." by L. P. Hartley; "The Tooth" by G. Gordon Dewey; "Nine-Finger Jack" by Anthony Boucher; "The Sling" by Richard Ashby; "The Soothsayer" by Kem Bennett; "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" by August Derleth; "Listen" by Gordon R. Dickson; "Nor Iron Bars" by Dan Kelly & Cleve Cartmill; "Extra-Curricular" by Garen Drussai; "Stair Trick" by Mildred Clingerman; "Proof Positive" by Graham Greene; "The Gualcophone" by Alan Nelson; "The Hour of Letdown" by E. B. White. Tanning; creasing, edge and corner wear with tiny corner losses and minor tears. Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 3, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas. Cover art by George Gibbons ("Lunar Landscape"). Includes "Hobson's Choice" by Alfred Bester; "The Ancestral Amethyst" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "W.S." by L. P. Hartley; "The Tooth" by G. Gordon Dewey; "Nine-Finger Jack" by Anthony Boucher; "The Sling" by Richard Ashby; "The Soothsayer" by Kem Bennett; "Who Shall I Say Is Calling?" by August Derleth; "Listen" by Gordon R. Dickson; "Nor Iron Bars" by Dan Kelly & Cleve Cartmill; "Extra-Curricular" by Garen Drussai; "Stair Trick" by Mildred Clingerman; "Proof Positive" by Graham Greene; "The Gualcophone" by Alan Nelson; "The Hour of Letdown" by E. B. White. Wear at spine ends and corners which have small creases; tanning. Book. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has mild edgewear and light soiling. Sticker on dust jacket flap. Pages are clean and unmarked with some toning on the edges. If you have any questions, or would like images, please let me know.

Condition: Good. 1960. No Edition Remarks. 324 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Oxford University Press, London, 1960, first edition; 8vo, 150 x 240mm; pp xiv, 324; coloured frontispiece and 12 plates one of them coloured and showing a Sun fireman of the early 17th century; ex-Norfolk County Libery with a few relevant stamps but sill in good condition, the dust wrapper protected by a clear plastic sleeve. The Sun Insurance Office is the oldest independent insurance company in the world and this work was commissioned as a history of the company's 250 years. The work includes a useful bibliography.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1973 Hardcover. Ex-Library. Like new except for neat library markings. Text is clean, Binding is strong. Very nice charcoal cloth cover.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. With owner's inscription inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.…

octavo, orange boards with blue and gilt lettering to spine & front, viii + 324 pp (VG+) with d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The jacket is a touch rubbed and edgeworn. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j., in an acetate cover. Some shelf-wear and edge-wear; closed tears to d.j. Else clean copy.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Boards have some staining, light wear.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (britain, insurance, sun insurance office) 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.

Condition: Good. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.

Condition: Good. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. The world's oldest insurance office, previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, 324pp, VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first edition; yellow publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; gilt is bright; 324 pages; illustrated; all 14 full page plates are present in excellent condition; yellow dust jacket; lettering in black on spine and front cover; hinges tight; spine is square; minimal edge wear; light age browning to outer fore edges of page block and inner top of dust jacket; laid in is a gift presentation sheet from the Chairman of the Company.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.…

Condition: VG. London 1995 first edition. Issue for April, no 436. vol CX. octavo wraps. Dickson article pp. 323-367. Other articles in issue as well. VG plus. no ownership marks.

Firs Edition: Orange bds., gold titles, blue and gold decs., 240x155mm., 950grms., 324pps., with index, illustrated colour frontis, 14 bw. plates, textual line drawings, pictorial dw., with some shelf marking, foxed eps., VG/VG, copy.

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0198228821. …

Condition: Good. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780198228820.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Dust jacket unclipped. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

London: O.U.P. 1960. Roy.8vo. Or.cl.d.w. (XIV324pp.). With col. frontisp. 14 full-page plates and text-illusts. Fine ex-libr. copy.

Stapled. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The July 16 & 30, 1932 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 9 & 11 of 12 of Hot Water, a novel by P G Wodehouse, part 11 of 12 (7/16) of The Mask of Fu ManChu, a novel by Sax Rohmer, The Real Lindbergh (7/16), an article W B Courtney - the man who hired him, Come on In! (7/16), an article by Elizabeth Dickson about olympic swimmer Eleanor Hold and overcoming the fear of water, part 1 of Wife for Sale (7/30), a novel by Kathleen Norris,The Iron Captain (7/30), an article by George Creel about John Smith's adventurous life before Pocahontas, and others. Condition issues include: 7/16 - a damp stain at the bottom of pages 2/3, soiling & browning to the back cover; and7/30 - soiling, edge wear & spine roll to the front cover, dog ears to the lower corner through page 27, soiling to the top corner of page 5/6, soil spots to pages 11 - 14, and soiling, browning & edge wear to the back cover. A fair to good set with serial installments by a prominent & collectible author plus an interesting set of period articles. E M Jackson (cover), John Richard Flanagan (The Mask of Fu ManChu) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 207 pp ; photographs in black & white and in color ; 25 cm. ; green textured cloth with gold lettering and decorations ; several photographs of important hybridizers and rose growers, and several color plates of new roses for 1961, including Super Star, Daily Sketch, Mischief, Stella, Lucy Cramphorn, Sabrina, Memoriam, Dearest, Fritz Thiedemann, Lilac Cream, Miss Ireland, Orange Sensation and Pink Parfait ; numerous interesting and important articles on rose growing ; Contents : Patrons, Officers And Council -- Arrangements For 1961 -- Report Of The Council -- Balance Sheets -- Presidents And Awards -- The President's Page, By F. Royalton Kisch, M.C., President -- A Great Venture, By F. Fairbrother, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. -- Recent Research On Roses, By E. F. Allen -- The Rose Garden Of Rome, By Stelvio Coggiatti -- The Late Charles Mallerin, By André Leroy, Louis Laperrière And M. Perroud -- Looking At Roses, By Constancewheatcroft -- Rose Arrangements, By Ena Harkness -- Book Review, By F. Fairbrother, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. -- My Grandmother's Roses, By Arbel. M. Aldous -- Rose Culture In The Tropics, By Rev. P. Soares -- The Local Incidence Of Rose Disease, By A. Dick, B.Sc., M.D.,J. Clarke, Lieut.-Col. D. Pope, F. H. Morse -- Lessons From Derriaghy, By Sam McGredy -- Red Roses, By C. Walter Gregory -- The "Floiuade" At Rotterdam 1960, By A. P. C. Dickson -- Common Mistakes In Rose Growing, By R. L. Pallett -- The Yellow Roses, By Bertram Park, O.B.E., V.M.H., Mtrite Agri -- The Unorthodox Rose Grower, By F. C. H. Witchell -- By The Way, By W. J. W. Sanday -- Fifty Years Of The Rose Annual, By A. Norman -- Garden View, By J. H. Wilding -- A Modern Approach To Rose Deterioration And Disease, By Aphra P. Wilson, M.B.E., A.R.C.S. -- "Overhead Watering Prevents Black Spot?" By Roy Hay -- Whose Roses? From A Correspondent Of The Times -- Display Gardens, By Sir Harry Pilkington . -- What's In A Name? By W. C. Thom -- Special Encouragement For Amateur Hybridists, By Edgar M. Allen, C.M.G. -- Highlights In A Veteran Rose Grower's Life, By Edgar M. Allen, C.M.G. -- An Itinerant 'Frau Karl Druschki', By Mrs. F. M. Briscoe -- Roses Which Deserve Greater Recognition, By Rosemary James -- Plant Breeders' Rights, By Gordon Edwards, C.B.E. -- The Spring Competition, By A. J. Huxley -- The Great Summer Rose Show, By A. G. L. Hellyer -- The Artistic Classes, By Julia Clements -- Bristol Group's Annual Show -- Northern Rose Show, By Mr. And Mrs. Joseph C. Watson -- The Great Autumn Rose Show, By Gordon Forsyth -- The Trial Ground, By H. Edland -- Show Awards And Trial Ground Awards 1960 -- International Awards 1960 -- The Rose Analysis, By H. Edland -- Monochrome Plates -- The President -- New Headquarters Of The National Rose Society, Bone Hill, Chiswell Green, St. Albans, Hertfordshire -- Royal Lodge, Windsor -- The Municipal Rose Gardens, Rome -- The Late Charles Mallerin -- The Silver Plate And Spoons -- The Poulsen "Family" -- Alain And Michke Meilland -- "Just Don't Get Him Started Talking About His Roses" -- 'Vanity' -- Colour Plates -- Super Star -- Daily Sketch -- Mischief -- Gold Crown -- Golden Giant -- Stella -- Lucy Cramphorn -- Sabrina -- Memoriam -- Dearest -- Fritz Thiedemann -- Lilac Charm -- Miss Ireland -- Orange Sensation -- Pink Parfait ; no dustjacket ; G. Book. …