Sloane William Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 144 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.48 inches. In Stock.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex. library copy of the first UK edition. Originally published in the US by Funk & Wagnalls in 1954. This edition contains 22 stories whereas the US edition had 29. There is an introduction by the editor who also provides a short preface for each individual story. The boards have bumping to the bottom corners but otherwise only light surface and edge wear. Page edges are browned with library stamp and a small green mark to the top edges and small creases to several top corners. Tape marks down the front and rear endpapers with a card pocket and a stamp to the front pastedown and a label and a stamp to the front free endpaper. Library stamps and pen initials to the copyright page. Pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has been cut down along the edges of the front and rear flaps and has a library number on the spine but otherwise only light edge creasing. Jacket illustration by Val Biro. First printing. Biro, Val (illustrator).…

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Eric Frank Russell, Clifford D. Simak, Alan E. Nourse and others, selected, with story notes, by Sloane. A fine copy in good dust jacket with chipping along the top edges internal tape mends. The jacket with stunning wraparound illustration by Alex Schomburg still presents well externally. (#176738).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xii,476pp. Gift message, endpapers tanned, d/j slightly shelfworn and rubbed. A fair copy. /0.6uk.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UNCOMMON - LIMITED TO ONLY 500 COPIES - IN VERY GOOD CONDITION : Quarter vellum, dark green upper boards with gilt motif, spine is vellum, with tone, with bright gilt titles. Ink inscription of a previous owner 1963 to ffep. Thick cut paper is excellent, very tight and clean throughout. Excellent copy. vi, 73 pages portrait; NOTE - Whitman did actually visit Canada late in his life, and wrote about his experiences of what was his only excursion outside the borders of the United States. These experiences did not, it is true, find their way in any substantial form into his poetry. His only literary record of the excursion was a brief account written for the London (Ontario) Advertiser, an account ultimately incorporated into Specimen Days (1893), and a series of rough notes edited after his death by William Sloane Kennedy as published here in Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada, with Extracts from Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-Books (1904). ' These Canadian writings have received a modicum of textual and biographical attention, but no one has seriously considered them in terms of their possible significance for Whitman's art. Neither the diary nor the newspaper article is, of course, a polished literary creation; yet as the editors of the New York University Press standard edition of Whitman's work have suggested by their exhaustively inclusive poliCies, Whitman is a writer whose every scrap of literary output repays careful scrutiny. { Edited from Project Muse }. …

Octavo, single issue, cover by George Gross, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This magazine was a precursor to the mystery book club. Includes "Too Like The Lightning" by Dana Chambers and "The Edge of Running Water" by William Sloane. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, p. 586-588]. Mild tanning to text paper, a fine copy. (30364). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Funk & Wagnalls, NY 1954 First edition, 628pp. Very good condition with dust soiling and minor toning to page edges, light edge wear, in jacket with a 1/2" by 1" chip to bottom edge front panel, light chipping to spine ends and corners, a 1/5" closed tear to rear panel, small chip to bottom edge rear panel, light rubbing. Not price clipped. $3.95 intact on jacket flap. See photos LR1/5E.…

Condition: Good+. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Boards have scattered soiling and scuffing, heavy shelfwear to edges, corners bumped with boards exposed in spots. Backstrip is toned and rubbed, though gilt spine titling is still rather sharp, as is gilt cover insignia. Joints rubbed with split starting from bottom edge, but binding holding. Interior heavily foxed throughout, but frontis portrait is clean and striking. Previous owner's name in ink to FFEP. RFEP is missing top corner where, presumably, a library pocket was removed, as there is a subtle sticker remnant just below. Two red date stamps (1962) to bottom of RFEP and two notations, one in pencil, and one in ink "gift," as the only ex libris evidence. Binding tight. A just good copy of this very scarce edition.…