new york charles scribner's sons 1979 new york (35 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. Classic murder at a good address, a gruesome killing in London's Aylestone Square. Final novel by the internationally acclaimed author. An Edgar Nominee. First Scribner Crime Novel Edition. 328 pages, light spine creasing. Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester, 1905-1980, was an English novelist and scientist. His numerous and varied writings often deal with science & society and the ethics of power. Softcover, mass market paperback.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First US Edition; First Printing. Book is as new. DJ has light wear at head and tail of spine. Not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages.

First Printing Hardbound Good+/Fair., DJ Susanne Suba, illus. 8vo, Unpaginated, General wear to covers. "Not For Resale" stamped on title page. DJ is heavily worn on edges/corners with several edge tears. DJ is not price clipped. ISBN:0-684-16112-5.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Gooding, Beverley (illustrateur). First Edition. Very good hard cover, good jacket. 1979 First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Reinforced binding. Bumped top spine, slight cock. DJ two small closed tears top front, minor shelf wear bottom back. Interior clean, bright & fresh, wonderfully illustrated by Beverly Gooding. This is the second chapter of Kenneth Grahame's WIND IN THE WILLOWS and makes a colorful introduction to this classic tale for children. Juvenile 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original price of $10.95 printed on dust jacket front flap with minor rubs/nicks at corners and spine ends now protected in paper backed polyester film. No writing, marking or remainder mark. Not ex-library.

American first printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). 143 pages. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x L 20.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed, spine head bumped and worn, light wear at flap folds ends, short tear at front panel's top right corner, toned impression from removed bookseller sticker at front flap's top right corner. Olive boards, spine ends lightly bumped. Several small stains on bottom edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. ISBN 0684164213.

HC. 197pp ISBN 0684162822 Released after a term in the state correctional farm, 18 year-old Michael moves in with his father and stepmother and struggles to become his own person. LIGHT FADE TO SPINE fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) light fade to spine.

Very good minus, light shelfwear First Printing hardbound Lightly worn, lightly soiled jacket with a few tears.

NF/VG+. BOOK HAS A BOOKPLATE ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. D.J. HAS SOME LIGHT WEAR AT CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A COUPLE TINY TEARS AT THE SPINE ENDS. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Etat : Very good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979)., (1979). Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-1/8 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in blue boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in gilt on the spine, in an illustrated white dust wrapper. The edges of the boards are slightly darkened. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with a couple of small chips to the edges. xviii & 302 pages, illustrated with black & white photographic portraits. Very good. First edition.

Green Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First. Green Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 190 pages; 4 p. index; Bibliography, 3 p.; 109 Plates, 3 maps; from the dj: "Of all the ancient people of Europe, the Celts stand out as one of the most intriguing. In 'Celtic Britain' Lloyd Laing traces the history of the Celts and Celtic culture from the arrival of the first scattered groups of settlers in Britain in the seventh century B.C. to the development of the kingdoms of medieval Scotland and Wales." Book condition: Book front cover, lower circa half-inch, has some surface, lighter colored discoloration. Contents of the book are fine.

8vo. 286 pp. Numerous photos, maps. Burgundy boards, silver lettrng (mnr bmpng to crnrs), w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr), VG/VG. First edition of this first comprehensive history of the various aspects of airborne warfare, using parachutes, gliders, helicopters, and reconnaissance aircraft from the 19th century into the 20th.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Bill Tinker (illustrateur). First American Edition. [nice clean copy, very minor wear to book, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; jacket shows only light surface wear, one itsy-bitsy closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel, some vertical creasing/scrunch along edge of front flap]. "When novelist Walter Machin goes to his eternal reward, he leaves behind his widow and his ex-wife who ever-so-politely share his house, his manuscripts, and the fond (or otherwise) memories of life as the first and second Mrs. Machins." Then Machin's posthumous literary reputation booms, the prospect of new profits from old manuscripts looms, and an ambitious biographer comes out of the woodwork -- all of which gets terribly complicated when one of the ladies "succumbs to a timely accident [and] there is just the slightest suggestion that she might have been assisted to her demise.".

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First American Edition. Over 200 black & white diagrams, maps, charts, and photos. 189 pages plus index. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Cloth Bds VG/VG, has dj 8vo, 144pp., Newberry Medal Winner ISBN:0-684-16340-3.

Etat : vg. ISBN: 9780684163222 Paperback. Flat-signed by Lopez and Baugess on title page. Clean, squzre copy, text unmarked throughout. Pages bright, binding tight. 14th printing. Slight bend along cover's right side, not creased.

4to [25 x 20 cm]; 108 pp, frontis (port), illus, mainly in color, some full-page, glossary, bibliog, classification diagrams. endpaper facsimiles of Linnaeus' handwriting. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine, clean, unmarked. Extracts from three major expeditions made in Sweden by one of the greatest and most influential naturalists. Beautifully illustrated in color. A picture of this book is available on request.

sm 4to [25 x 20 cm]; 108 pp, frontis (port), illus, mainly in color, some full-page, glossary, bibliog, classification diagrams. ep facsimiles. original cloth, gilt lettering, dj (small crease), fine. Extracts from three major expeditions made in Sweden by one of the greatest and most influential naturalists. A picture of this book is available on request.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped along top edges and at bottom corners. 340 pages with index, bibliography and many illustrations.

F/NF. D.J. HAS A BARELY PERCEPTIBLE FAINT COLOR CHANGE ON A SMALL AREA AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL BUT IS OTHERWISE A FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. former owner's name and bookplate on endpaper. 237 pages.

Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece, 238pp., illustrations, list illustrations, epilogue, family tree, biographic index, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.,

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. An entertaining biography of the "world's first and greatest consulting detective" with 136 illustrations. Tall octavo. 160 pages including a list of illustrations and an index.

First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustjacket. The only title among this fine series of pictorial biographies ( published by Thames & Hudson in the UK/ Scribner's in the US) about a fictional (some would dispute this!) character. With b/w illustrations and photographs.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979). First edition. Paper-covered boards, gilt, pictorial dust jacket, both Fine. Price neatly inked-out on front flap.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. li, 606 pp. Navy cloth lettered in silver at spine. Minor shelf-wear. Near Fine.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 15 x 10 inches. 20 pp. of b/w illustrations. Spiral-bound illustrated wraps. Small tear bottom corner of front wrap where a few spiral rings are are bent, corners creased, toning. Very Good.

Hard cover dust wrapper, 208pp, b&w plates. Clipped dw else very good. Examines the flying bomb and rocket attacks on Great Britain and parts of the Continent during the summer of 1944. Also includes historical survey of pre-Hitler 'Robot Age'. Also covers the work of the Royal Observer Corps, the fire brigades, the police and the Salvation Army and the high level muddles and conspiracies at high level relating to the use of the weapons and defence.

Etat : Very good. INSCRIBED BY ARTURO VIVANTE - Octavo, blue boards in a dust wrapper. The binding is slightly bumped with the extremities slightly faded. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the head of the spine chipped & with the rear panel slightly darkened & soiled. There are 2 small creases to the front flap. Half-title, title, [3] leaves & 145 pages. Very good. First edition, first printing.Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to Jeanne Campbell, who was briefly the wife of Norman Mailer.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Book Club Edition. MINUTE storage shelf wear.