Pratt William Arthur (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William Pratt, Arthur Dixon & G.J. Staniland (illustrator). no date given (circa 1920?); tan c w/pictorial inset on front; unpaginated, clean, unmarked, lovely colored illustrations.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Rear cover corner loss; chipping, creasing and rubbing; soil/foxing; tanning; small losses and tears to spine which is a bit sunned. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Creasing; a few short tears; short pieces of tape inside cover at lower end; mild dampstains. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Standard Magazines Inc. 1951. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.25"], 146 pages, illustrated. Good copy [near vertical fold to the front cover which also has some odd white discoloration to its lower right corner and along its bottom edge, dampstaining to the lower corner areas of the rear cover and with a further area of light colored staining near the upper spine edge, text paper tanned as usual. bx74E.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. Vol. 5, No. 1. Edited by Boucher & McComas. Cover art by Emsh for "The Hypnoglyph" by John Anthony. Includes "The Star Gypsies" by William Lindsay Gresham; "The Adventure of the Snitch in Time" (Solar Pons series) by Mack Reynolds & August Derleth; "The Untimely Toper" (Gavagan's Bar series) by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt; "Man" by Dave Dryfoos; "Mop-Up" by Arthur Porges; "Yankee Exodus" by Ruth M. Goldsmith; "The Model of a Science Fiction Editor" by Anthony Boucher; "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James; "Judgement Planet" by Idris Seabright [Margaret St. Clair]; "Expendable" by Philip K. Dick; "The King's Wishes" by Robert Sheckley; "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. Tanning; edge and corner wear; slightly bent from poor stacking; minor creasing. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Tears at spine ends; rubbing; tanning; standard wear and tear at edges with small losses; staple etars; dealer's marks in pencil on rear. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James [James Gunn]. Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Several small bumps to cover; a few minor tears; short tears at spine ends; standard wear, chips and tear at overlaps; minor wet spot to cover. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Small discolored area on front; rubbing; tanning; standard wear and tear at edges; small loss at heel; minor cover scratches; marks in pen on cover. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Front foredge chipped. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 177 pp., viii. NAP. Following the Prefatory Note, Contents divided into 7 Essays: [1] Henry N.Wieman, "Neo-Othodoxy and Contemporary Religious Reaction"; [2] Arthur E. Murphy, "Coming to Grips with ' The Nature and Destiny of Man ' "; [3] Gardner Williams, "Humanistic Elements in the Opposition to Liberalism"; [4] Jay William Hudson, "The New Orthodoxy and Human Progress"; [5] M.C. Otto, "Neo-Thomism and the Aggressive Growth of a Religionless Church"; [6] James Bissett Pratt, "The New Supernaturalism: Peril to 20th Century Christianity"; [7] Roy Wood Sellars, "Accept the Universe as a Growing Concern!"; Index, pp. 175-177. Taupe cloth with baby blue lettering on spine and front cover; light age-toning to text, slightly more so on endpapers; spine slightly age-darkened (baby blue lettering slightly darker than on front cover, but all letters sharp and distinct, eminently readable). VG- Dustwrapper, not price-clipped ($2.00), with Baby blue front cover; Title and Subtitle lettering in white letters in a column on right 3/4 front cover, adjacent to column of Contributors' names in small black letters on left 1/4 front cover; white rear cover with column of small black and white photo-portraits of Contributors, with Notes on Contributors in a column down right side of rear cover. Dustwrapper worn along edges and across spine ends with small chips and tears (one thin 3/16" x 1/2" triangular piece missing at bottom right spine corner; 1 1/2" arc-tear at lower left front cover [long repaired with tape]): peccadilloes of edges now backed with archival tape. Dustwrapper Now in Brodart mylar, which graciously forgives all sins. Binding strong (some signatures stiff with distinct separations from other signatures, as you thumb through text, but no harmful cracks to spine itself); Corners square with only micro curls at front cover corners alone; NO rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names. Clean text. Despite dw wear, book looks virtually unread. Unusually fine condition for a book more than 75 years old: The way to read a Classic in Christian Theology and its then Contemporary Philosophy. New York Times BELIEFS column of Peter Steinfels laid in (clipped from July 6, 1991): "An updated statement of faith by Protestants that blends tradition and innovation".

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3. Pulp magazine. Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr. Cover art by Bergey for "Alarm Reaction" (short novel) by Raymond F. Jones. Includes "Earthlight" (short novel) by Arthur C. Clarke; "Ultimate Purpose" by Walter Kublius & Fletcher Pratt; "The Jester" by William Tenn; "The Dome" by Fredric Brown; "No Dipsy for Dix" by Larry Clinton; "At Your Service" by Cleve Cartmill; "These Things Are Sirius" by Edwin James (James Gunn). Features: "The Reader Speaks" (Letters from A. J. Budrys & Marion Zimmer Bradley); "Venus, The Corpse Planet" by James Blish; "Science Fiction Forecast"; "Wonder oddities"; "The Frying Pan." Illustrated by Poulton, Schomburg and others. Chip at front foredge and another at rear hinge heel; light rub. Book.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good and Sound. First Edition. Spine faded.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. William Pratt and Arthur Dixon (illustrator). No date of publication given. Ca. 1940s as a 1944 "New York Historical-Society Library" pastedown presentation label is on interior of front cover. ILLUSTRATED with 11 full-page, full-color paintings depicting children in the Bible with accompanying descriptive captions. 22 pages. LG7.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 17pp. Stapled wrappers. Fading along the spine with light rubbing and owner's mailing stamp on the rear panel, near fine. Subscription slip tipped in. Original printing from the University of South Carolina before reprints. Contributors include Norman Silverstein, Arthur L. Lewis, Anne McNamara, Muriel Davison, William Howard, Robert A. Pratt, Alexander S. Liddie, Robert J. Griffin, Gerald Smith, and Yeaton Wagener.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Malak (cover photo); Schmidt, Al; Brown, Arthur William;Anderson, Frederick; Atwell, Tom; (illustrator). First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Morale - and the Mails; Are We Running Out of Oil? - by a V.P. of Standard Oil; Air Service for Every Canadian Community? - interesting article with photos from Watson Lake and Whitehorse; The Bazooka is Born - workroom to warfront in thirty days - photo illustrated article provides the behind-the-scenes account of the workers who got the Bazooka to the front - and on time; Russia's Children - caring for 15 million orphans; Science attacks loneliness. Fiction: Wind in the Valley; Without Motive; Professor Pyro - part 5; Condensed Book - Der Fuehrer (part 1). Ads: Amazing Kinsmen Fund ad inside front cover raises funds for milk for British children - with photo; Nice vintage one-page ad for Trans-Canada Air Lines (T.C.A.); Calvert Distillers ad promotes partnership between Canada, the US and Britain; Ipana tooth paste; Canada Dry ginger ale; Skintite Swim Suits (with photo); Kreml Hair Tonic; John Labbatt Limited - comic-style ad #43 supports price ceilings to curb inflation; Band-Aid; Heinz Baby Foods; Alka-Seltzer; Cutex nail colours; McBrine Baggage; Brier Pipes; Don Juan Lipstick; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover depicts scene in soda shop with wartime flier describing an adventure to young boy and ladies. Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Liberty Magazine, June 3, 1944 - Russia's 15 Million Orphans Major General Levin H. Campbell; G.E. General Electric James L. Powers Morale - and the Mails; Are We Running Out of Oil? - by a V.P. of Standard Oil; Air Service for Every Canadian Community?