W. james macdonald (83 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. no dust jacket. Fourth Printing, April 1948. The book is in fair condition with significant wear to the blue cloth cover, including fraying at the edges and corners. The spine shows some fading and wear. Inside, the pages are yellowed with age, and the book contains library stamps and an inscription, indicating its history as a library copy. The binding remains intact, though it shows signs of use typical for a book of its age and previous library circulation. James MacDonald (illustrateur).…

Blue Cloth. Etat : Good+. No Jacket. Wear to edges and corners, prev owner's name stamped in three places. Nicely illustrated. A sound reading copy. W. Alister MacDonald (illustrateur).

Etat : New.

Hard Cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Tan cloth boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Softcover, 202 pgs. Signature of architect Hugh Miller to top of front cover, else near fine+.

Soft Cover. Etat : Poor to Fair. First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories this issue are part 1 of The Players of Null A (later also known as The Pawns of Null A) by Van Vogt, and Unite and Conquer by Sturgeon. Spine torn and clear-taped, cover creases, chips and tears, a poor-fair copy. Back cover advertisement is for Audel's Carpenters and Builders Guides (Theo. Audel & Co). Hubert Rogers (front cover) (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition. 342 pp. Quarter-bound in Navy blue cloth on gold boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; blue endpapers; headband; blue upper edge. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket with three short tears along the upper edge of the front panel; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with the original pulp drawings. This anthology contains: Gun Devil of Red God Desert by Tom Roan; Boss of Buckskin Empire by Cliff Farrell; Good-by Mimbres Kid by Frank Bonham; Bearhide's Moonshine War by Roy M. O'Mara; Teetotal and the Six-gun Spirits by Murray Leinster; Flatwheel Draws the Line by Tom W. Blackburn; The Line Camp Terror by Walt Coburn; Hell Trail Pilgrim by Murray Leinster; The Parson of Owlhoot Junction by Charles W. Tyler; Trail City's Hot-lead Crusaders by Clifford D. Simak; Crazy Springs Write-in Vote by Roy M. O'Mara; Col. Colt Buys a Border Herd by Bennett Foster; The Corpse Rides at Dawn by John D. MacDonald; The Long Arm of the Law by James Shaffer; By the Guns Forgot by Murray Leinster; and Deadman's Derringer by Tom W. Blackburn. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. No Jacket. Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly as "From Med to Mum". Discoloration, aging along interior cover spine. Macdonald, W. Alister (illustrateur).

Blue Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Fair (in mylar). Reprint. Age toned end papers, else textblock is clean and tight; 12 color plates from Original Audubon prints; Age toned top page edges. Bright blue cloth, bumped head and foot of spine, minor wear to the corners and edges. Price-clipped, heavily worn and edge-chipped, edge-tattered dust jacket; 342p., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 12 Color Plates from Original Audubon Prints; b&w illustrations by James MacDonald (illustrateur). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Book Club Edition. Book of the Month Club (BOMC) better than usual quality printing. A nice and newish book with stiff spine, rigid boards and pointed tips. Jacket has tiny tear at bottom spine back. Looks great in its new plastic book protector. A great edition that gives a cross section of excellent mystery writers for someone who thought about getting into the mystery genre but hasn't yet done so. Not Signed.…

Softcover Digest. Etat : Good+. First Edition, 1st Printing. An attractive copy of the October 1948 edition featuring cover art by Rogers for The Players of A by Van Vogt. Full spine intact and covers attached. Pages 103-111 has small water spots to to the outside edge, not affecting the text. Remaining pages are clean, unmarked, and toned. Wraps have wear around the edges. Front cover has a 0.5 inch chip to the lower corner and some chipping at bottom edge bear the spine. Soft vertical crease down center. Back cover has chipping at lower edge bear the spine. Some wrinkling and toning hinge. A nice copy. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 352 pp. Blue cloth with a gilt pictorial on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings by Gillian Zeiner. This anthology contains: Gigi and Gaston by Colette; The Princess Walter de la Mare; The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov; The Ugly Duckling by Frank O'Connor; Daniel with Guitar by Anthea Courtenay; The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde; On Guard by Evelyn Waugh; The Return by Charlotte Bronte; The Field of Blue Children by Tennessee Williams; The Mysterious Domain by Alain-Fournier; Mabel by W. Somerset Maugham; The Island by Shelagh Macdonald; The Right One by henry James; How Love Came to Big Joe Portagee by John Steinbeck; The Boy on the Hill by Brian Hayles; Lady Catherine's Mistake by Jane Austen; Sasha by Virginia Woolf; The Sire De Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson; Ariadne on Naxos by Iain Finlayson; The Higher Pragmatism by O. Henry; The Wings of Morning by Helen Waddell; The Prophetic Pictures by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Guys and Dolls or The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon; Cherry by Ann Lawrence; Gatsby's Request by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Spectre Bridegroom by Wasington Irving; and Right at Last by Mrs Gaskell. Size: 8vo. Gillian Zeiner; (illustrateur). Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Rear fixed end page shows previous owner's inscriptions of recorded reading dates. Previous owner's name on front fixed end page. Foxing & darkening to end pages, otherwise very good. W. Alister MacDonald (illustrateur).…

PB. Etat : very good, wraps (softcover). 120pp. B&W illustrations (illustrateur).

Etat : New. In English.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 164 pages; 18 chapters. Pages tight; slight yellowing; page edges darkened. Endpapers foxed; Previous owner name penciled on front inside cover and name label on endpapers. Blue linen-like hard cover with red lettering on front cover. No shelf wear. 10 illustrations including frontispiece-"Great Seas were piling in, andthere was Nothing to be done except to hang on to something until we knew what the sea meant to do with us". A Thrilling tale of shipwreck in 1933 following a journey from Tahiti to Pitcairn Island. -an experience described in "Men Against the Sea" which was authored by James Hall along with others. This story originally appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" unter the title< "From Med to Mum". RARE VINTAGE COPY. W Alsiter MacDonald (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Edges worn. Jacket glued to the inside of the front and back cover.; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by MacDonald. James (illustrateur).

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Eighth Printing. Edges worn. Jacket glued to the inside of the covers. Jacket waterstained. Repaired; 8th printing 1962; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by MacDonald James (illustrateur).

Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First Edition. 8VO, FIRST EDITION, HARDCOVER, 164 PGS. BOOK IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME RUBBING/BUMPING TO EDGES (INCLUDING A SIGNIFICANT BUMP TO CENTER BOTTOM EDGE OF FRONT COVER). SOME DISCOLORATION TO PAGES DUE TO AGE. DJ IS IN FAIR CONDITION WITH CHIPPING TO EDGES AND DICOLORATION TO SPINE. INTERIOR IS CLEAN AND TIGHT. BLUE CLOTH COVER; ORANGE/WHITE DJ WITH BLACK TEXT. Size: 8vo. Illustrations By W. Alister MacDonald (illustrateur). Hardcover.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Paperback Printings. (xii, viii) 338, 296 pp. Both books have light edge and corner wear with uncreased spines; no interior markings. Covers by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Karel Thole; (illustrateur). Book. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. None. First Edition. The history of the Pitcairn Island castaways.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Ex-library copy with jacket in mylar and unclipped price of $3.25 Tape marks on yellow book cloth where jacket is taped on. Blacka nd white pistol end papers. Missing publisher page so year is not shown. Pages are clean and undamaged. Binding is tight. James MacDonald (illustrateur).…

VeryGood+ unmarked. Etat : VeryGood unmarked. Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Illustrated biography of famed naturalist and painter John Jamres Audubon, with 12 color plates. Bright tight clean HB 1st. 6-1/2 x 9, 342 pp, index, b/w illus, full-page color plates.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 185pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles to cover, floral feps. G+ copy, covers slightly rubbed and a little worn at edges, internally very good, no jacket.

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 15+(1) pages. Includes two sheets laid-in with additional titles and errata.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good +. No edition or printing statement; Voyager Book number AVB 44; cover price 75 cents. A New England stagecoach-times adventure. The book is unmarked; the spine is slightly slanted but uncreased; some age-toning to the pages; sleeve protected. James MacDonald (illustrateur).…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp: 277 [9]. Pictorial card covers. The Honour Roll for 3 Nova Scotia battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The men are listed alphabetically by name. And, for each entry there is a photo (when available), name, rank, unit number, date and place of birth, and a short biographical sketch that includes where and when he was killed. The appendices include a bibliography, the names of the members communities, and a list of the Commonwealth War Graves for the members. The final section contains 9 fold-out maps and documents. A near fine copy with minimal wear to the corners of the covers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book Club Editions. (xii, viii) 305, 278 pp. Book One has black boards lettered in gray on the spine; Book Two is quarter-bound in dark blue on light blue boards; lettered in lavender on the spine. Both dustjackets have light wear at the corners. Dj art by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Size: 8vo. Karel Thole; (illustrateur). Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book Club Editions. (xii, viii) 305, 278 pp. Book One has black boards; Book Two is quarter-bound in dark blue on light blue boards; both are lettered in lavender on the spine. Both dustjackets have some wear at the corners; no interior markings. Dj art by Karel Thole. These anthologies contain: VOLUME ONE: Been a Long, Long Time by R. A. Lafferty; The Possessed by Arthur C. Clarke; Protected Species by H. B. Fyfe; All the Way Back by Michael Shaara; The Star Plunderer - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Foundation - a novelette by Isaac Asimov; We're Civilized by Alex Apostolides and Mark Clifton; The Crime and Glory of Commander Suzdal by Cordwainer Smith; The Rebel of Valkyr - a novella by Alfred Coppel; Brightness Falls from the Air by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Immigrant - a novella by Clifford D. Simak; Resident Physician - a novelette by James White; Age of Retirement by Hal Lynch; and Planting Time by Pete Adams and Charles Nightingale. VOLUME TWO: Escape to Chaos - a novella by John D. MacDonald; Concealment by A. E. van Vogt; To Civilize by Algis Budrys; Beep - a novelette by James Blish; Down the River by Mack Reynolds; The Bounty Hunter by Avram Davidson; Not Yet the End by Fredric Brown; Tonight the Stars Revolt - a novella by Gardner F. Fox; Final Encounter by Harry Harrison; Lord of a Thousand Suns - a novelette by Poul Anderson; Big Ancestor - a novelette by F. L. Wallace; and The Interlopers by Roger Dee. Both volumes contain an assortment of essays by Brian W. Aldiss. Size: 8vo. Karel Thole; (illustrateur). Book.…

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Slight foxing to covers. Some staining and edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. In this issue: "Science and the Fortunes of Natural Theology", "Personality and Epistemology: Cognitive Social Learning Theory as a Philosophy of Science", "Mirrors, Portals, and Multiple Realities", "The Whole Brain as the Basis for the Analogical Expression of God", "Sociobiology, God, and Understanding".…