Umphrey James (10 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Standard Magazines Inc.1949. First edition. Pulp magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 9.25"], 146 pages, illustrated. Very good copy with light chipping to the spine ends, usual rubbing and edgewear/light chipping to the cover, text paper tanning as usual. mag 34// E. Cover artwork by Earle Bergey (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inaugural Issue. Red covers. Very light shelf-wear. Articles include: Limitations of History by Hans Karl Gunther; The Negro Revolt by James C. Butler; Ferment in the Red Intelligentsia by Hugh G. Elbot; For the Birds, a story by Howard J. Waldman; Nationalism and Socialist Discipline in Soviet Russia by Lawrence L. Whetten; Feeling and the Significance of the Novel by Charles H. Whiting; Training for the Commitment and Initiative Among the Jesuits by Eugen S. Powell; Shaw's Therapeutic Satire by Robert R. Speckhard; Ideological Conflict: Marxism and Taoism by Steven J. Klarer.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Red covers. Crisp copy. Articles: Dostoevsky's Religious Dualism and the Psychological Critics by Joseph Whitt; A Case Study in Political-Military Decision Making: Austria, 1956 by Lawrence L. Whetten; Crisis of Conservationism by James C. Butler; The Spanish Garden, a story by Robert Bogard; Two Poems by James Gurley; An American's Guide to Cricket Culture by John Highet; Eastern Europe: Realities by Ivan Volgyes; The Corporation's Most Important Objective: A Critical Analysis by J. Carroll Swart.…

Condition: Very Good-. Vol. XL, No. 2. Edited by Samuel Mines. [Cover by Bergey.] Includes "The Gadget had a Ghost" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Square Cube Law" (novelet) by Fletcher Pratt; "Bombs Awry" (novelet) by George O. Smith; "Papa Knows Best" by Wallace Umphrey; "Such an Angel" by R. J. McGregor; "The Foxholes of Mars" by Fritz Leiber. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?"; "Systems Within a System" by James Blish; "The Frying Pan" (A Fanzine Commentary) by Jerome Bixby; "Science Fiction Book Review." Letters from Bill Tuning, Harlan Ellison, and others. Illustrated by Orban, Poulton, Finlay, Schomburg, and Dreary. Wraps edge and spine end chipping. Book. …

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. XL, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Samuel Mines. [Cover art by Bergey.] Includes "The Gadget had a Ghost" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Square Cube Law" (novelet) by Fletcher Pratt; "Bombs Awry" (novelet) by George O. Smith; "Papa Knows Best" by Wallace Umphrey; "Such an Angel" by R. J. McGregor; "The Foxholes of Mars" by Fritz Leiber. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?"; "Systems Within a System" by James Blish; "The Frying Pan" (A Fanzine Commentary) by Jerome Bixby; "Science Fiction Book Review." Letters from Bill Tuning, Harlan Ellison, and others. Illustrated by Orban, Poulton, Finlay, Schomburg, and Dreary. Less than usual wear to overlapping edges, but another issue, stacked on top, had protruding staples which made a couple of tiny tears to this issues cover, right over upper staple; minor creasing. Book.…

Original Wraps. Condition: Poor. First Edition. US Edition with a cover price of 25c. Contains The Gadget had a Ghost by Leinster, The Square Cube Law by Pratt, Bombs Away by Smith, Papa Knows Best by Umphrey, Such an Angel by McGregor, The Foxholes of Mars by Leiber, features by Blish and Bixby and a letter from Harlan Ellison. The front cover is badly chipped with a one inch square piece missing from the right edge and five chips of varying sizes out of the top edge. Heavy surface chipping to the spine with a tear down most of the length of the rear cover which also has several small chips out of the edges. Pages browned and otherwise largely unmarked. Cover by Earle Bergey and interior illustrations by Orban, Poulton, Finlay, Schomburg and Dreany. Bergey, Earle; Orban, Paul; Poulton, Peter; Finlay, Virgil; Schomburg, Alex; Dreany, J. (illustrator).…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. XL, No. 2. Edited by Samuel Mines. [Cover by Bergey.] Includes "The Gadget had a Ghost" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Square Cube Law" (novelet) by Fletcher Pratt; "Bombs Awry" (novelet) by George O. Smith; "Papa Knows Best" by Wallace Umphrey; "Such an Angel" by R. J. McGregor; "The Foxholes of Mars" by Fritz Leiber. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?"; "Systems Within a System" by James Blish; "The Frying Pan" (A Fanzine Commentary) by Jerome Bixby; "Science Fiction Book Review." Letters from Bill Tuning, Harlan Ellison, and others. Illustrated by Orban, Poulton, Finlay, Schomburg, and Dreary. Small edge tears and losses; minor creasing; tanning. Book. …

Condition: Very Good+. Vol. XL, No. 2. Edited by Samuel Mines. [Cover by Bergey.] Includes "The Gadget had a Ghost" (novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Square Cube Law" (novelet) by Fletcher Pratt; "Bombs Awry" (novelet) by George O. Smith; "Papa Knows Best" by Wallace Umphrey; "Such an Angel" by R. J. McGregor; "The Foxholes of Mars" by Fritz Leiber. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "What's New in Science?"; "Systems Within a System" by James Blish; "The Frying Pan" (A Fanzine Commentary) by Jerome Bixby; "Science Fiction Book Review." Letters from Bill Tuning, Harlan Ellison, and others. Illustrated by Orban, Poulton, Finlay, Schomburg, and Dreary. Creasing; dealer's marks; edgewear and standard short tears. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 190 pages. 8.43x5.85x0.73 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1-4, Winter to Autumn, 1950. HC, Orig. Red cloth and gilt stamping to spine. B/W photography, ads, illustrations and collected writings from celebrated authors. 4to. xxiv++ (ea. quarter differs in roman numeral pages), 332pp + 4 page Index to all 4 quarters. Fine, Clean, with no markings or writings, never read. Mint Interior with near fine exterior; spine is sunned. Includes stories, poems and other writings by J. Frank Dobie, William Goyen, James Pipes, Boyd McDonald, John B. Jackson, William Burford, W.M. Frohock, Arthur Marvin Shaw, Herschell Brickell, Ted Robins, Joseph Leach, John Rosenfield, William A. Owens, Peter Viereck, Ben Jeffrey, Robert G. Payne, Vernon Young, John T. Flanagan, Jordan Mason, Esther McCoy, T.M. Pearce, Clarence K. Streit, Charlie Masters, Wilson Owen Henderson, Ruth M. Sanders, Umphrey Lee Jr., Joseph Ross and many more. Hard to find in such nice condition. RARE. Collectible. BR Box 152.…