Robert William C H Editor (51 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [1st printing] 1977. Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. Includes "Foreward" by Isaac Asimov; "Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe" by John Varley; "Machismo on Byronia" by Martin Gardiner; "Low Grade Ore" by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.; "Backspace" by F. M. Busby; "Perchance to Dream" by Sally A. Sellers; "On the Martian Problem" by Randall Garrett; "The Missing Item" by Isaac Asimov; "Home Team Advantage" by Jack C. Haldeman II; "Air Raid" by Herb Boehm; "A Simple Outside Job" by Robert Lee Hawkins; "Time and Hagakure" by Steven Utley; "Coming of Age in Henson's Tube" by William Jon Watkins; "To Sin Against Systems" by Garry R. Osgood. Creasing; edge and corner wear; tanning. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. illustrated in color photos. appears this copy was never read.

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. AHbox 04 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: The Tax to End All Taxes (Henry George and the single tax movement) by David Hapgood; The Jeaning of America-and the World (the pants of Levi Strauss) by Carin C. Quinn; The Wounded Generation (an excerpt from Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation) by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss; A Heritage Preserved: Out of the Shadow of Ruin (Mt. Auburn neighborhood Cincinnati, Ohio) by T. H. Watkins; Polonia: The Face of Poland in America by W. S. Kuniczak; The Way I See It: The Other Side of the Coin (monetary inflation) by Bruce Catton; The Jump Into Sicilian (excerpt from On to Berlin: Battles of an Airborne Commander, 1943-1945) by James M. Gavin; American Characters: Charles Goodyear by Richard F. Snow; What We Got For What We Gave (American foreign aid) by Gaddis Smith; Columbus La Navidad by Edward T. Stone; Books We Think You'll Like: Autobiography of Values by Charles A. Lindbergh, On Becoming American by Ted Morgan, The Children of Bladensfield by Evelyn D. Ward, The Making of the Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz reviews by Barbara Klaw; Behind the Blackface: Minstrel Men and Minstrel Myths by Robert C. Toll; The Red Hot Republican (Elephant Joe Josephs); Readers Album: Maternal Emulsion (photo of Dr. Parmenas Dyer); Crossword Puzzle: The American Revolution by Eugene T. Maleska; Postscripts: Gunfight at the Xerox Corral (trademarks); Catalpa to the Rescue (The Catalpa rescue of six Irish Fenian prisoners); Okay-Once More from the Top (Star-Spangles Banner, Anacreontic Society); Jenny Afloat'(steamboat Jenny Lind); A Phantom Locomotive(locomotive Texas, Civil War); Nice Work If You Can Get It (John Trumbull, William Short, Thomas Jefferson).…

Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. Some wear. Very serviceable copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [1st printing] Oct. 1972; #P1749. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Introduction"; "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum; "Night" by Don A. Stuart; "The Day Is Done" by Lester del Rey; "Heavy Planet" by Milton A. Rothman; "-And He Built a Crooked House-" by Robert A. Heinlein; "Proof" by Hal Clement; "A Subway Named Mobius" by A. J. Deutsch; "Surface Tension" by James Blish; "Country Doctor" by William Morrison; "The Holes Around Mars" by Jerome Bixby; "The Deep Range" by Arthur C. Clarke; "The Cave of Night" by James E. Gunn; "Dust Rag" by Hal Clement; "Pate de Foie Gras" by Isaac Asimov; "Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper; "The Big Bounce" by Walter S. Tevis; "Neutron Star" by Larry Niven; "Appendix". Tanning; edge and corner nicks and wear; creasing. Book.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

paperback. Condition: Good. Some reading/age wear. Pages clean.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st printing, Dec. 1962/Feb. 1963; #6163. [Cover by Valigursky.] Includes "Inside John Barth" by William W. Stuart; "The Last Letter" by Fritz Leiber; "Perfect Answer" by L. J. Stecher, Jr.; "Double Dare" by Robert Silverberg; "Pastoral Affair" by Charles A. Stearns; "Black Charlie" by Gordon R. Dickson; "$1,000 A Plate" by Jack McKenty; "Take Wooden Indians" by Avram Davidson; "The Bitterest Pill" by Frederik Pohl; "This Side Up" by Raymond E. Banks; "The Eel" by Miriam Allen DeFord; "A Feast Of Demons" by William Morrison; "Nightmare With Zeppelins" by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth; "We Never Mention Aunt Nora" by Paul Flehr; "When The People Fell" by Cordwainer Smith. Cover crease; tanning; minor edge nicks and wear; address label and date-stamp on first page; # in pen inside cover. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st printing, Dec. 1962/Feb. 1963; #6163. [Cover by Valigursky.] Includes "Inside John Barth" by William W. Stuart; "The Last Letter" by Fritz Leiber; "Perfect Answer" by L. J. Stecher, Jr.; "Double Dare" by Robert Silverberg; "Pastoral Affair" by Charles A. Stearns; "Black Charlie" by Gordon R. Dickson; "$1,000 A Plate" by Jack McKenty; "Take Wooden Indians" by Avram Davidson; "The Bitterest Pill" by Frederik Pohl; "This Side Up" by Raymond E. Banks; "The Eel" by Miriam Allen DeFord; "A Feast Of Demons" by William Morrison; "Nightmare With Zeppelins" by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth; "We Never Mention Aunt Nora" by Paul Flehr; "When The People Fell" by Cordwainer Smith. Light soiling; tanning; starting at contents page. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 1st printing, Dec. 1962/Feb. 1963; #6163. [Cover by Valigursky.] Includes "Inside John Barth" by William W. Stuart; "The Last Letter" by Fritz Leiber; "Perfect Answer" by L. J. Stecher, Jr.; "Double Dare" by Robert Silverberg; "Pastoral Affair" by Charles A. Stearns; "Black Charlie" by Gordon R. Dickson; "$1,000 A Plate" by Jack McKenty; "Take Wooden Indians" by Avram Davidson; "The Bitterest Pill" by Frederik Pohl; "This Side Up" by Raymond E. Banks; "The Eel" by Miriam Allen DeFord; "A Feast Of Demons" by William Morrison; "Nightmare With Zeppelins" by Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth; "We Never Mention Aunt Nora" by Paul Flehr; "When The People Fell" by Cordwainer Smith. Minor creasing, rubbing and soiling; tanning. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very good copy. Tear and fold on bk DJ.

Hard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

xii, 212 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with minor soiling. Slender abrasion and soiling to text block's bottom edge. Shallow crease at top corner of pages 165-166; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Acknowledgements, b/w illustrations (including frontispiece), Contributors. and Index. Features thirteen chapters among three sections - PART I. SETTING THE STAGE: THE ORIGINAL MISSISSIPPIANS. "Introduction" by John H. Peterson, Jr.; "Prehistoric Mississippi" by Jay K. Johnson; "The Emergence of Historic Indian Tribes in the Southeast" by Patricia Galloway; "Trail of Treaties: The Choctaws from the American Revolution to Removal" by Samuel J. Wells; "The Mississippi Choctaws in the Nineteenth Century" by Clara Sue Kidwell. PART II. ENCOUNTERS: NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AFRICANS. "Introduction" by Charles D. Lowery; "The European Background in the Late Fifteenth Century" by Paul E. Hoffman; "European Interest in the Gulf Coast, 1500- 1699" by Robert S. Weddle; "European Colonization of Mississippi" by William Cash; "Africans in Colonial and Territorial Mississippi" by Robert L. Jenkins. PART III. THE CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC SCENE: A PHOTO ESSAY. "Ethnic Mississippi 1992" by D.C. Young and Stephen Young. {MS-Shelf#2|CMS-00700} ISBN 0878055789. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Evanston: Greenleaf Publishing Company. Good. 1956. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Digest-sized pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 7.25"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Last Call for Doomsday!" by S. M. Tenneshaw, "The Alien Dies at Dawn" by Alexander Blade, "Lair of the Dragonbird" by Robert Silverberg, "The Inquisitor" by Randall Garrett, etc. Good only copy [tearing to the spine head rear corner, minor chipping to the spine heel, cover creasing, price and a small mark to the front cover, date stamp to the rear cover, text paper tanned as usual. whb6. cover art by Lloyd N. Rognan] (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Third. Very good paperback from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; exterior shelfwear is minor save curling to corners. Text is also very good and interior appears free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. B00J3UY9Z0 Unmarked text. Great reading copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 162 pp. Digest format - combined with Fantastic Magazine. Volume 56, Number 5. Light wear at the corners with a crease at the upper left of the front cover. Cover art by Jack Gaughan; interiors by: Jack Gaughan; Alex Schomburg; Karl Kofoed; Alexis A. Gilliland; William Rotsler; Frank Borth; and George Barr. This issue contains: I Lost My Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia by Damien Broderick; Favor by J. Michael Matuszewicz; The Desert of Vast Eternity by Tom Disch; Continued Lunacy by Darrell Schweitzer; In the Islands by Pat Murphy; The Syncopated Man by Sharon Webb; Sand Painting by Allen L. Wold; On the Rebound by Jack C. Haldeman II; The Amazing Years by Cele Goldsmith Lalli; and Against Infinity by Gregory Benford; along with all the usual features. Size: 12mo. Jack Gaughan; Alex Schomburg; Karl Kofoed; Alexis A. Gilliland; William Rotsler; Frank Borth; George Barr; (illustrator). Book. …

Journal. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** name inside cover with light pencil - no marks on text - my shelf location ea-c-55*.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Chicago: Bell Publications, Inc., 1953. The September, 1953 issue of Universe Science Fiction, Volume 1, Number 2 - the second issue ever. 12mo, illustrated wraps (cover by Robert Gibson Jones), 128 pp. Very Good Plus; faint traces of sunning at periphery of the cover (see scan), toning to pages, as always with pulp fiction from the fifties. A strong, clean, collectible copy. Plenty of bi-color illustrations (see scan) by Robert Gibson Jones; Michael Becker; Don Simmons; H.W. McCauley; Malcom Smith; Don Mills; and D.C. Buhrmann grace six good lengthy stories: The Caibrated People (W.T. Powers), Janushek (Roger Flint Young) , The Breaking of Jerry McCloud (Gordon R. Dickson), Election Campaign (William Campbell Gault), Up the Mountain or Down (Sylvia Jacobs), and Reward or Valor (Mark Clifton). L-35n. Robert Gibson Jones; Michael Becker; Don Simmons; H.W. McCauley; Malcom Smith; Don Mills; D.C. Buhrmann (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover ex-library with typical marks shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST.

First edition (not stated). xx, 232 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed; spine strongly sunned; minor chips, some nicks/scuffs, and bumping at edges; light foxing to white rear panel. Beige cloth. Foxing and light soiling to text block's top edge. Interior leaves are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction, Selective Bibliography, Notes, and List of Contributors. Primary text comprised of seven papers presented at the (fourth annual) 1978 Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History at the University of Mississippi: "The New Black Estate: The Coming of Age of Blackamerica" by C. Eric Lincoln; "So Much History, So Much Future: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Second Coming of America" by Vincent Harding; "Education and Earnings of Blacks and the Brown Decision" by Henry M. Levin; "The White House and Black America: From Eisenhower to Carter" by William E. Leuchtenburg; "White Attitudes and Black Rights from Brown to Bakke" by Robert H. Wiebe; "The Jurisprudence of Brown and the Dilemmas of Liberalism" by Morton J. Horwitz; "Have We Overcome?" by Lerone Bennett, Jr. ISBN 087805099X. …

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very slight rubbing to wraps, no fading, creasing or tears. No inscriptions, bright and clean internally, appears almost unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 309 pp., x. No edition, printing or number line cited: presumed First Printing. Following the Preface, Contents divided into 20 Essays in 3 sections: EXPERIENCE (1) Charles W. Hendel, "Experience and Speculation"; (2) Robert O. Johann, S.J., "Experience and Philosophy"; (3) Isabel S. Stearns, "Creativity and Otherness"; (4) William Earle, "Love and Metaphysics"; (5) Irwin C. Lieb, "Purposes and Words"; (6) Charles Hartshorne, "Man in Nature"; (7) Richard M. Rorty, "The Limits of Reductionism"; EXISTENCE (8) Robert S. Brumbaugh, "Kinds of Time: An Excursion in First Philosophy"; (9) Milic Capek, "The Elusive Nature of the Past"; (10) W. Norris Clarke, S.J.,"Causality and Time"; (11) F.S.C. Northrup, "Is the Word Reality Meanigful?"; (12) A Boyce Gibson, "Time and Action"; (13) Richard F. Grabau, "Existence and Being"; (14) Iredell Jenkins, "The Modes of Law"; THE GOOD (15) Abrham Edel, "The Relation of Fact and Value: A Reassessment"; (16) John Wild, "The Objectivist View of Human Freedom: A Criticism"; (17) Nathan Rosenstreich, "Is There a Primacy of Practical Reason?"; (18) Louis Mackey, "The Analysis of the Good in Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart"; (19) Wilmon H. Sheldon, "The Criterioin ofg ther Good and the Right"; (20) Andrew J. Reck, "The Metaphysics of Liberty"; SOME PUBLICATIIONS OF PAUL WEISS, pp. 299-304; INDEX, pp. 305-309. Beige Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($10.00) with some perimeter browning (age-toning), minor tears and chips (Now backed with Archival tape); two small blue spots on front cover lower right , which appear to be small, superficial scrapes of surface beige, revealing blue underneath (NOT detected on inside dustwrapper at those locations and NOT the surface of the blue board showing through); 1" x 1/4" superficial liquid stain (blends in with age-toning and cannot be seen on inside dw at that location) on front cover between two blue spots cited. It all describes much worse than it is but there you have it: NOW in Brodart mylar, which forgives transgressions graciously. Medium blue, marbled boards with white spine and gold-stamped lettering; top edge stained yellow; some small speckles of foxing on top edge, partially hidden by yellow stain; modicum of foxing speckles on fore-edge, primarily near top edge, with a scant few bleeding onto pages (NO encroachment upon text); hint of shelf rubbing on lower edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it. Book essentially Fine, looking UNREAD. Tight binding (NO cracks); square corners (hint of curls on lower cover corners); essentially NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Classic Festschrift with list of distinguished Contributors: Arguably, Gift-Giving Condition for a scarce resource. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ex-library with spine label, university and withdrawn stamps, etc., else Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Octavo, green cloth, titles in gilt on front and across spine, moderate wear and sunning (it has lived and has more life left). toning and juvenile ownership on front end papers, internally clean and complete, many illustrations by the Brock brothers. This is an anthology of poetry aimed at children by many authors. xv plus 557 pages including indeces. [QP]. BROCK, C. E. and BROCK, H. M. (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. US edition. Contains: 'The Martian Way' by Asimov; 'Sugar Plum' by Bretnor; 'Command Performance' by Miller; 'Warrior Race' by Sheckley; 'A Thought for Tomorrow' by Gilbert; 'The Altar at Midnight' by Kornbluth; 'The Misogynist' by Gunn; 'Runaway' by Morrison; a science article by Ley; an editorial by Gold and book reviews by Conklin. Cover art by Jack Coggins showing 'Earth Satellite'. Interior illustrations by Emsh, Scattergood, Ashman, Stone and Rogers. Light edge and surface wear to the spine. Two chips out of the edge of the front cover. Creasing to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Browning to the pages which are otherwise unmarked. The postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed. Coggins, Jack; Emshwiller, Ed (Emsh); Scattergood; Ashman; Stone, David; Rogers, Karl; (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 395 pages. John E Jacob "Black America, 1991: An Overview" / Billy J Tidwell "Serving the National Interest: A Marshall Plan for America" / Bernard C Watson "The Demographic Revolution: Diversity in 21st Century America" / David H Swinton "The Economic Status of African Americans: Limited Ownership and Persistent Inequality" / William A Darity, Jr and Samuel L Myers, Jr "Racial Earnings Inequality into the 21st Century" / Shirley M McBay "The Condition of African American Education: Changes and Challenges" / Robert D Bullard "Urban Infrastructure: Social, Environmental, and Health Risks to African Americans" / Dianne Pinderhughes "Power and Progress: African American Politics in the New Era of Diversity". (SL#125/19).…

Had Cover. Condition: New - Collectible. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Thus. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Anthology. Critical essays examining the origin, history & capabilies of Spetsnaz --- Russian Special Purpose Forces (or Special Purpose Military Units), employed in many post-Soviet states. Special military unitts controlled by the military intelligence service GRU (Spetsnaz GRU). Volume gives special attention its role in the Afghan war. 308 pgs w/tables, diagrams & maps w/biographical sketch of contributors in 14 chapters: 1, Assessing Spetnaz; 2, Western Misconceptions; 3, Historical Precedent; 4, The Spanish Civil War; 5, Spetsnaz Engineers in the Great Patriotic War: An Overviewr; 6. The Far North Origin of Naval Spetsnaz; 7, The Artic: Petsamo-Kirkenes, 7-10th, Oct, 1944; 8, Manchuria, 1945; 9, Spetsnaz & Soviet Far North Strategy; 10, Prague to Kabul; 11, Afghanistan; 12, Spetsnaz & the Deep Operation; 13, Organization, Capabilities & Countermeasures; and 14, Conclusions, followed by Glossary. Larry A. Fourmet (Illustrator ) (illustrator).…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. 275 pages. Vol I only. With library labels on spine & front endpapers & library stamps on front free endpaper & verso title page. Otherwise in very good condition. Light wear to covers. Light fading to spine. Minor spot of soiling on title page. Very thorough bibliography relating to works on the discovery & exploration of Australia and the South Sea Islands. Rare and difficult to find. 8vo - over 7? - 9? Tall.; Ex Library; Octavo; x, 275 pages.…