Tough John (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Peter Shaw "The Tough Guy Intellectual" /Tony Tanner "Henry James's 'The Ambassadors'" / John Holloway "Yeats and the Penal Age" / C B Cox "The Poetry of Louis Simpson".

Magazine. First edition. Near Fine magazine with a hint of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The May 25, 2003, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, with: a fashion pictorial photographed by Dominique Issermann with Zooey Deschanel and Samantha Shelton modeling and Peter McQuaid on their cabaret act; college conservatives try to act like other young Americans, by John Colapinto with photographs by Platon; a profile of Leo Felton, who tried to ignite a racial war to bring an all-white nation--only, it turns out he's half Black, by Paul Tough with a photomontage by Amy Guip; a profile of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian minister of finance, and his attempts to reform the Palestinian Authority, by James Bennet with portraits by Heidi Levine; a profile of Tamika Catchings, the All-Star forward for the WNBA's Indiana Fever, by Mark Adams with a portrait by Dana Lixenberg; Dirk Olin on the "Washington Consensus" for foreign aid; an interview with Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; "The Meaning of the Matrix," with interviews of movie-goers by Hope Reeves and portraits by Matthias Clamer; Sir Edmund Hillary on climbing Everest and adventuring; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 62 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Corner clipped from front flap. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. pp.176 plus 16 pages of photographs with drawings, graphs and diagrams in the text. Green boards with silver title on spine. Fading to top edge and with some colour loss to rear bottom corner and some mild rubbing to edges. Top and fore edge of page block yellowed. A good clean and tight copy in a good protected dustjacket with faint water marking to rear bottom edge and tears and creasing to top and bottom edges. Scarce title.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 176pply illustrated throughout with B/W photographs and line drawings a very good copy with no inscriptions or marks, DJ complete no splits.

Hardback. An Innovatory Form of Communal Transport. 176pp, 16 plates 1971. VG in VG DW.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.