Stearns Robert Editor (11 results)

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.…

Paperback Jan 01, 2002. Condition: New. New softcover, with no marks or flaws. No sign of handling or wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Pocket Book 6163. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Eel by Miriam Allen DeFord; 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; $1000 a Plate by Jack McKenty; Take Wooden Indians by Avram Davidson; The Bitterest Pill by Frederik Pohl; This Side Up by Raymond E. Banks; A Feast of Demons by William Morrison; Nightmare with Zeppelins by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; We Never Mention Aunt Nora by Paul Flehr (Frederik Pohl); and When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Light wear on the corners with an uncreased spine. Cover art by Alex Schomburg. This issue contains: Twilight Reign, a novella by Gerald Pearce; Altar Ego, a novelette by Phyllis Eisenstein and Alex Eisenstein; To See The Stars That Blind, a novelette by Joseph Green and Patrice Milton; The Day The Limited Was Late, a short story by Robert F. Young; An Altogether Peculiar Summer, a short story by Stephanie Stearns; and On The Pike, a short story by Dennis Etchison; Epitaph on Rigel XII - a poem by Sherwoo Springer; along with: Science: The Magic Isle by Isaac Asimov; a cartoon by Gahan Wilson; and the usual features. Size: 12mo. Alex Schomburg; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Pocket Book 6163. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Inside John Barth - a novelette 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; $1000 a Plate by Jack McKenty; Take Wooden Indians - a novelette 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 - a novelette by William Morrison; Nightmare with Zeppelins by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; We Never Mention Aunt Nora by Paul Flehr (Frederik Pohl;) and When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Catalog of exhibit curated by the Columbus Museum of Art in 2000; it traveled to Austria & Hungary. Text in English, German, and Hungarian. Profusely illustrated in full color. Large paperback. Light wear. Text clean; 278 pages, essays, biographical sketches, color & b/w figures. Size: 8¼" by 10¾".…

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. …

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Art Midwest, USA, 2000. Texto en inglés, alemán y húngaro. Arte. Profusamente ilustrado. 280 pp. 27 x 21. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación. ISBN: 0918881404.

Hardcover. 317, [1] p. Includes illustrations. This is a fascinating snapshot in time of American college life in the middle of the Roaring Twenties in the Nation's capital. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. A few ink marks (see p. 63-67) noted.