W Gordon Simpson (45 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Second Edition. 1st printing of the 1954 second edition. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, previous owner's emboss to title page; no jacket. Map present in pocket. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. Green cloth binding. The pages are tanned, but clean. The spine has a minor lean. The dust jacket has some small edge tears, some very light soiling and some darkening on the spine area. Illustrated. 130 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1971. Hardcover. Fair. DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. DJ creased. Some edgewear. 249p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. green cloth boards, some shelf wear, minor wear to edges and corners etc, some minor scuffing, a very good tight clean copy, an illustrated guide to all the ancient monuments in the ownership or guardianship of the ministry of works covering Scotland, illustrated with black and white photos, makes me want to hitch up the camper and set off! Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1952, 127pp, illus., v. 6 only, map in rear pocket, light shelfwear to cover, light soiling to pg edges, a few small spots to eps, a few small tears to dj, some edgewear to dj, slight foxing to dj, a couple pgs w/ 1 or 2 lines underlined, a few margin marks, otherwise contents clean & unmarked.

Condition: Good. 1961. 4th Edition. 131 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pull-out map to pocket to rear pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Sticker residue to front panel. Foxing overall.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. xv, 335 pp. Military Campaigns of the Civil War. Softcover. LCC: 9837086.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd edition. VG in green cloth, with gilt lettering. Cover spine faded. Previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper. Loose leaf map. 13392.

Large Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Wrappers a bit rubbed. 1962 Large Softcover. 96 pp. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout. A collection of articles originally published in Yachting, selected 'because of their lasting and practical value.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. cover by Hubert Rogers (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Butterick Publishing Company. 1932 First edition Pulp magazine in pictorial wrappers, 96 pages, illustrated. Includes the first part of "Scalawag" by Gordon Young, the seventh part of "The Broad Arrow" by William MacLeod Raine, "By Command Of." by Ared White, "So-so Krooboy Palaver" by Robert Simpson, "There Were Giants in Those Days" by Paul Annixter, "Banana Herder" by L. G. Blochman, "The Mister" by Walt Coburn, etc. A Good with shallow chipping to the spine ends, creasing and the usual edgewear to the cover, name/word in pencil to the front cover, text paper toned. See Photos bx 504E.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Her Majesty's Stationery Office Edinburgh 1961 12mo. 131 pages with fold-out map. fourth edition. green cloth boards. binding tight. dust jacket in mylar.

Condition: Good. 1961. 4th Edition. 131 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pull-out black and white map to pocket to rear pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to spine and rear panel.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. Second Imp. With Amendments. 129pp; Profusely illustrated with b/w plates and fold-out map to rear; Ex school library and bears a few small stamps to indicate this; Internally bright though covers slightly sunned; Size: 12mo. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Owner's name, taped tears on jacket, illustrations, fold-out map.

Condition: Good. 1959. 3rd Edition. 130 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Illustrated Guide To Ancient Monuments Volume VI Scotland. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pull-out map to pocket to rear pastedown. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Creasing to some pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Water mark to spine. Foxing overall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight copy. Light wear to the edges. Previous owner signature. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Second Edition. Torn jacket.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 252pp. Wrappers. Slightly bowed, else near fine. Containing "Sir: I Have the Honor" by Cowley, "The Importance of Robert Lowell" by Nitchie, with reviews on Borges and Strand, Weak Henry, Philip Levine, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and more.

Paperback. Condition: New.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Near Fine. Vol. LXXXIV, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by A. A. Proctor. Cover by Hubert Rogers. Includes "By Command Of" by Ared White; "Farmlocked" (poem) by Bert Cooksley; "So-so Krooboy Palaver" by Robert Simpson; "The Broad Arrow" (pt. VII) by William MacLeod Raine; "There Were Giants in Those Days" (dinosaurs) by Paul Annixter; "My First Russian Bear" (article) by Boris N. Kamyshansky; "Banana Herder" by L. G. Blochman; "Loot" (article) by James W. Bennett; "The Mister" by Walt Coburn; "Scalawag" (pt. 1) by Gordon Young. Features: "The Camp-Fire"; "Ask Adventure"; "Trial Ahead." Illustrated by V. E. Pyles. Small mark on contents page; edgewear; tanning. A very nice copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. [publisher: Her majesty's Stationery Office] 1956. 2nd edition, 2nd impression. Very good condition in good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4th Edition. publisher - HMSO, Edinburgh, 1961. 4th ed. Near fine book in fine jacket in protective sleeve. Unfortunately taped down to inner boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. [publisher: Her majesty's Stationery Office] 1956. 2nd edition, 2nd impression. Very good condition in good jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated Guide to Ancient Monuments in the Ownership or Guardianship of The Ministry of Works. Volume VI. Scotland. Tiny tear to top edge of spine of D/J. Contents: Glossary. List of Illustrations. Foreword to First Edition. The Physical Background. Prehistoric Periods: The Earlier Stone Age. The Neolithic Age. The Bronze Age. Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Houses. The Iron Age and the Romano - British Period. The Roman Occupation. The Dark Ages. The Celtic Period. The Middle Ages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Distribution Map of Monuments. Illustrated. 131 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [publisher: Her majesty's Stationery Office] 1952. First edition, 1st edition. 128 pages. No dust jacket. Green boards. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 245 grams. There is a pouch to the rear containing a map of Scotland showing the monuments.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: G+ DW. Fifth Edition. Discreet name of owner on front pastedown. Black cloth, gilt. In almost fine condition BUT spine ends a bit rubbed. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.