Thomas John Ormond (17 results)

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. Cover not as pictured.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Copyright 1964. 177 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Publisher's remainder copy. Creased spine. Back cover corners are missing. Stain on fore-edge. Alexey Brodovitch (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very good condition. 140pp with sepia photographs.

Pulp fiction magazine. This issue features novelette Temple of the Dogs by Bedford-Jones plus numerous other stories (Lowell Thomas), serials, and other features. 7 x 10, 144 pp, b/w illus & ads. Good unmarked, bright wraps, light edgewear incl 1 x 2-1/2 edge chip & 1 x 1 spine corner chip, yellowing pages. Paperback in color wraps, inside stapled. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 1st Edition. Welsh poet & writer Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), hard-drinking & ever bar present, hailed as a major 20th century Welsh poet, wrote wrote chiefly in the English language. This novel shows his rhythmic, ingenious command of words & imagery is evidenced in his prose as well. A semi-Gothic tale of a medical school physician/teacher short on lab cadavers, and, the consequent criminal responses by either digging them out of graves, or, killing them fresh to sell them to the medical school. The work, set in early 19th century Edinburgh, famous for schools of medicine, is based on true story of Dr. Knox for whom Burke and Hare, who in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, murdered at least 16 people to sell their bodies for anatomical dissection. Screen script adapted to 1985 horror film, The Doctor and The Devils, produced by Mel Brooks.…

Condition: Very Good. 1943. Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear, some nicks and bumps to cover, otherwise clear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1943. Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear, some nicks and bumps to cover, otherwise clear. . . . .

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 7" x 10"], 144 pages, illustrated. VG or better copy [shallow chipping to the spine end, usual edgewear to the cover, store (Raney Drug & Jewelry / Osborne, Kansas) stamp to the top of the rear cover, cheap paper tanning as usual]. . mag bx 7.…

Condition: Good. English. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. pp [3] + 40 Internally very good subject to some browning, binding firm, fair dregree of wear to wrapper. Uncommon Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rare first edition signed by poet and editor John Bayliss on title page. Small brown marks to left of cover and one-inch tears to top left and right, see pictures. Some foxing to pages that are otherwise unmarked. Ships securely with tracking from United Kingdom. Signed by Author(s).…

First edition. Octavo. 40 pages. Card wrappers with integral dustwrapper. James Kirkup contributes eight poems including ''The Drowned Sailor''.Dustwrapper slightly chipped. Very good. Uncommon.

Card cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition with rubbed, soiled and chipped dust jacket. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 40pp.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Color ad for International Harvester inside front cover features smoky combat scene and speaks of Canadian soldiers anxious for a crack at Japan as payback for Hong Kong in 1941; Editorial - Long-Service Men Should Get Home; Why Britain Went Left - Clement Attlee defeats Winston Churchill; What Price Shelter? - Four out of five families can't afford the favorite NHA home - labour and materias are in short supply; Meals Without Meat - Marcel Thomas, noted Chef-Steward of the Mount Royal Hotel, shows how he plans tasy menus on meatless days (resulting from rationing); The Amazing Mr. Rank - Arthur Rank put Britain's movie industry into the money; Russia's Quarrel With Japan - She needs an ice-free port, security for Siberia, and she has an old score to settle; How Hitler Lost the War - L.S.B. Shapiro claims German documents and witnesses make it clear that the Fuhrer's intuition upset long-term plans; Backstage Ottawa - Pearkes vs. Gardiner; Washington Memo - astonishment at Churchill's defeat; Howe Sound Salmon Derby!; Lie Trap - Photo-illustrated article on lie detection with what appears to be an early version of the polygraph; Hear No Evil (short story); Aunt Em (short story); Sawdust In Their Eyes (short story); School Lunches; and more. Nice ads for: Thor washing machines, Colgate dental cream (with sailor theme); Eveready Flashlight Batteries - featuring photo of radio singer Flora Montgomery, General Steel Wares, B.C. Pears, B.C. Peaches, Rolex watches (for returning troops), Pepto-Besmal (with illustration of little boy), Kreml, Vitalis, Caterpillar Diesel - featuring colour photo of dozer at work in a remote location, nice colour illustrated back cover ad by Mac Sheppard for Pep O Mint Life Savers features young pirates discovering hidden treasure. 52 pages. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Gunther-Lipney; Skemp, R.; Jousset; Timmins; Sheppard, Mac (illustrator).…