Porter gerald editor (10 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

xxiv, 112 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 14cm. Yellow paper covers, 2cm tear to surface paper near spine heel, faint creasing to rear cover's fore-edge corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good copy. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by Thad Cochran, Foreword by Porter L. Fortune, Jr., "Preface: Why Study the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, "Appendix: Aphorisms About the Future" by Walter M. Mathews, and Notes on Contributors. PART I: VIEWS FROM HISTORY. "Modernization in the Deep South" by C. Thompson Wacaster, "The Ultimate Legacy" by William Winter, "The Future of Representative Government" by Vagn K. Hansen. PART II: INVENTING THE FUTURE. "Inventing the Future" by Mary Maury Harding, "Digging Up the Future" by Lucy C. Turnbull. PART III: SCENARIOS OF THE FUTURE. "'Everything That Rises Must Converge'" by Gerald Blessey, "Economic and Political Power" by Aaron E. Henry, "Which Way Mississippi?" by Gilbert E. Carmichael. PART IV: EDUCATION. "Coping with Semiliteracy in Mississippi Education" by Roger Johnson, Jr., "Will Liberal Arts Education Be Flourishing?" by Robert E. Bergmark, "Graduation Day: May 31, 1990" by Charles Granville Hamilton. ISBN 0878051473.…

Soft cover. Etat : Fine/Very Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover pocket edition, complete and unabridged. Cover shows signs of wear at the edges of the spine and back. Pages are clean, unmarked and firmly bound to the spine. This book is in fine to very fine condition. 1945, first edition, first printing. …

Hardcover. Etat : Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company . Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1945. . Hardcover. 8vo., 251 p.p., Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; cracked inner hinge; shelf lean; previous owner's inscription on first front free-end paper; spine lightly faded; pages 151-154 creased over; pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Photographs (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges, light fade/soil to spine; the dust jacket is protected in plastic cover but is badly chipped especially along bottom edge, not price-clipped.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "FORUM BOOKS EDITION First Printing November 1945" on copyright page; hardcover in red cloth clean square tight unmarked, light age toning around page edges.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First edition thus, Forum Books edition. Octavo. 251pp. Owner name and address on front fly, bottom edges of cloth lightly sunned, small white stain on front board, else a very good copy in very good price-clipped dust jacket with small corresponding stain on front panel, short tears on extremities. In cloth, preceded by wrappered edition.…

Hardcover. First hardback edition. Cleveland and N.Y.: World Publishing Co., [Forum Books, 1945]. 251 pages. Original red cloth. [21.1 cm.] A very good plus copy in good dust jacket. Spine ends a little bumped and rubbed; upper corners slightly bumped. Jacket is bright, but has nickel-sized chip at upper corner of front panel not affecting lettering; shallow chip to base of spine panel; some light wear with minor loss to corners; and short tear along fold between rear panel and rear flap. FIRST EDITION IN CLOTH, preceded by the paperback original of the same year (published by Pocket Books). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, GERALD WENDT, on the title page. An account of the development of the atomic bomb, including its recent use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a discussion of the potential and dangers of continuing to develop atomic energy. Subtitle on dust jacket reads: "Exciting and authoritative answers to the questions the man in the street is asking: What is atomic energy? What does it mean in your daily life? How should it be controlled?".…

Hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.