W. gardner smith (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

VG, sewn, in orig. tan on black wrapper. vii, 183 p.; 20.5 cm. Binding is Paperbound.

8vo. pp ix, 413, (2). Colour illustrated card wraps/paperback. Part of a series issued by 'The Independent Institute', founder and president David J. Theroux, research director Alexander Tabarrok. ISBN: 9781412845786 May show some very slight shelfwear but content clean and unread. Very good indeed.

Zustand: Very Good. Bon état. 1952. Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 14 x 22 cm.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 116 pages. Short Stories: The Susceptible Scientists; Rich Man's Daughter; In Ememy Hands; The Third Man in the Boat. Articles: Con Man of the Country Clubs - David Goldreyer passed bad checks; The Hunt for HIdden Diabetics - Fresno, CA tracks unsuspecting victims; ; Biggest City in the World - great photo-illustrated article on Tokyo, Japan; "Background Music" - Persuasion in the Air; Robert Preston - The Happiest Actor on Broadway; What's New in Toyland? - lovely color-photo-illustrated article; Does Pro Basketball Have a Future? - with photo of Richie Guerin of the Knicks attacking referee Mendy Rudolph; Serials; The Midtown Bomber (part 1 of 5); The Case of the Greedy Grandpa (part 7 of 8). Ads: Nice Santa-theme Alka-Seltzer ad; Kaywoodie Pipes; GE TVs; *Fantastic* color ad for the Lincoln Continental Mark IV (maroon); United States Steel; Hammond Organ; Chanel No. 5; Nice Cadillac (yellow) evening ad; Stanley Tools Christmas ad; Vintage Shulton Old Spice ad; Lowry organs; Magnavox TVs (color photo); Campbell's Oyster Stew Soup; Fisher Body; L&M cigarettes; Arrow Shirts; Toastmaster Appliances (2 pages); 1959 Edsel; King Sano cigarette ad features photo of former U.S. diplomat John S. Young; Westinghouse Appliances ad feeatures color photo of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz wearing crowns; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Pizza; Fantastic color-photo centerfold features family shopping scene with the 1959 Mercury Park Lane 4-door hardtop cruiser (beige); Viceroy cigarettes; Gem Push-Button Razor; Douglas DC-8; Norelco shavers; Avis; Black and Decker Tools; GMAC; Borden's Ice Cream; Singer Sewing Machines and Vacuums - color photos; Arvin Hi-Fi Stereo Radio; Thor Electric Tools; Lady Schick shavers; Cushman Scooters; Dormeyer appliances; Rex-Flex shoes; Kodak cameras. Back cover color photo Lucky Strike ad features Jack Benny writing his 'giving' Christmas list. Piece of masking tape on front cover which shows above-average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A worthy vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, December (Dec.) 6, 1958 - Robert Preston is "The Music Man" / Hidden Diabetics Susceptible Scientists; Rich Man's Daughter; In Ememy Hands; The Third Man in the Boat. Articles: Con Man of the Country Clubs - David Goldreyer. Illustrated by Hughes, George (cover); Burns, G.; Whitmore, Coby;Kritcher; Fischer, Otto; (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 124 pages. Short Stories: Hero with a Past; Surprise on the Desert; Night Ferry; The Lady and the Brute. Articles: Why Auto Insurance Costs So Much; The Doctors Who Make Children Grow - pediatric endocrinologists; Act of Compassion - F. de Sales Meyers, a WWII submariner,destroyed Japanese merchant shipping; Golden Isles of the Aegean - lovely Greek isle color photos; A Visit With boss of the Chicago White Sox, Bill Veeck; The Untold Story of Little Rock (part 3) - Faubus makes his move - photo-illustrated article on the first day of school when the National Guard ringed Central High and kept Negroes out; He Knows Where Your Money Goes - Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Anderson; Photo of Conductor Jacob Avshalomov at work. Serials: Island of Hate (part 1 of 5); The Case of the Mythical Monkeys (part 6 of 8). Ads: Movie "Say One For Me"; Graceful Chrysler Imperial ad features a maroon Le Baron 4-door Silvercrest Landau; GE Air Conditioners; Dutch Boy House Paint; Huge two-page Marlboro ad promotes their flip-top box; Dial Soap; Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese; Campbell's Bean with Bacon Soup; AC Oil Filter ad featuring color photo of Victor Borge at the piano; Pall Mall cigarette ad; De Soto ad featuring its push-button transmision and a Firedome 4-door Sportsman; General Telephone; Band-Aid; Palmolive; Great two-page color photo 7up ad shows boy in backyard recliner; Kodak cameras; Swimquip pool equipment; Mopar parts; Vauxhall; L&M cigarette ad features James Arness in his 'Gunsmoke' attire offering a light to Miss Kitty(?); Nice two-page color photo Chevrolet ad features a silver Kingswood station wagon - with young boy hanging out back window as his mother drives!; Whitman's chocolates; Florida tourism; Mazola; Bulova; Johnson Outboards; Schlitz Beer; Smith-Corona Typewriters; Caterpillar ad features color photo of Al C. Church, Florida State Highway Engineer at Miami Beach; Norelco shavers; Nice color ad for McGregor sportswear; Nice color Coke ad on back covers features icy class and small image of soda fountain below. and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, June 6, 1959 - The Untold Story of Little Rock Short Stories: Hero with a Past; Surprise on the Desert; Night Ferry; The Lady and the Brute. Articles: Why Auto Insurance Costs So Much; The Doctors Who Make Children Grow - pe. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (cover); Fields, Jack; Briggs, Austin;Bomberger, Bruce; Jones, Robert; (illustrator).…

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The May 23 & 30, June 6, 13, 20, & 27, & July 11, 1942 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably parts 1 - 6 & 8 of 8 of TCOT Careless Kitten, a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardner. Precedes book publication. Other fiction includes parts 4 - 8 of 8 of Assignment Brittany, a suspense novel by Helen MacInnes, and December 6th (5/23) & The Dumb Dutchman (7/11), short stories by C S Forester. Articles include Canada Did It (6/6), on price fixing by Congressman Al Gore (father of senator & presidential candidate Al Gore), and the Case for Minorities, an article on the importance of diversity in the US by Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie! Cover art by Charles Kaiser (5/23 - Ugly Tie), Ruzzie Green (Homecoming Kiss), James W. Schucker (Knitting for the War Effort), W.W. Calvert (Closeup of Bald Eagle), Fred Ludekens (Woman at Dude Ranch), Norman Rockwell (Willie Gillis in a Blackout), & Rudy Arnold (Ammo). Condition issues as follows: 5/23 - pages 51/54 loose from the top staple of the binding, 5/30 - missing pages 7 - Goodrich ad/8 - Maxwell House Coffee ad & back cover plus some light wrinkling & bleed due to dampness, & 6/27 - 1" x .75" triangular chip mid way down the fore edge of the front cove. A very good set with a nice, and hard to assemble, run of Perry Mason serial installments. A heavy & oversize set that may require additional postage. Cover art by Charles Kaiser, Ruzzie Green, James W. Schucker, W.W. Calvert, Fred Ludekens, Norman Rockwell & Rudy Arnold (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 136 pages. Short Stories: Swamp Girl; Hour of Panic; Return From Nowhere; Hard of Heart. Articles: My Friend, Trotsky's Assassin - Jacques Mornard - with numerous photos; Rockety-Happy Kids at Camp A.P. Hill artillery range in Virginia; I Call on Actor Laurence Harvey - with photos; Adventures of the Mind, 54 - The U.S. Presidencyy; Germany's Enchanted Black Forest - with color photos; The Face of America - The Grandeur That Was - great color photo of the Old Tyson place at Lowndesboro, Alabama; The Mystery of the Palatine Light - this photo-illustrated article investigates an enduring legend of murder and mayhem on Block Island 120 miles from Manhattan; Is Baseball Comedy Dead? - great comedic photos of baseball stars - with article discussing the contention that modern major-leaguers have become too serious. Serials: The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 2 of 8); Journey into Danger (part 6 of 8). Ads: Westinghouse Center Drawer Refrigerator; Chevrolet Power Steering; Glidden House Paint (2 pages); Chrysler Certified Car Care; Northern Tissue (two pages); Studebaker Lark - nice color photo with fire truck); Campbell's Soup; Corvair; Chryslter - fantastic one-page color photo of a white New Yorker convertible on beach; Brownie 8 Movie Camera; Fantastic 2-page colour photo 7up ad shows young blond making ice cream float for five young men; Ford Galaxie; International Trucks; Morris 1000 car; Nice two-page color Chevrolet ad featuring a 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Sustom Safari catching the ferry to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior; Newport cigarettes; Great one-page color-photo Smirnoff ad featuring Joan Fontaine and her husband, Collier Young; Orange Crush; Admiral portable TVs - 19" portable; Renault Dauphine; Borden's Peach Blossom Ice Cream; De Beers Diamonds; Papst Beer - with color photo of piano player and stage entertainers; Amity Wallets; Dodge Dart Car (inside back cover). Above-average wear. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy vintage copy.; Magazine; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1960 - My Friend, Trotsky's Assassin / Laurence Harvey Larushka Mischa Skikne Swamp Girl; Hour of Panic; Return From Nowhere; Hard of Heart. Articles: My Friend, Trotsky's Assassin - Jacques Mornard - with numerous ph. Illustrated by Hughes, George; Smith, J. Frederick; Buell, Al; Stevens,Peter; Bingham, James R.; (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "Blackout" is the fifth Willie Gillis picture and depicts him and girlfriend planning what to do in a blackout; The Case for Minorities - Now's the time to come to the aid of the other side; Our Two Months on Corregidor - Eyewitness description of the siege; Why Germany Must Invade England - England must be beaten before the Axis can win; I can't get a Job - Nobody wants this businesswoman of fifty-seven; Wool-Hat Dictator - How Gene Talmadge wows 'em in Georgia's cracker counties; Address - Paradise - This American went to the South Seas to live; The Japanese Pincers in Brazil - Japan's 'colonists' farm our neighbor's strategic spots; You Can Do Business With Your Junkman - Any old clothes, tin or rubber today? Stories: Johnny, Come back to Me!; "V" for Virginia; Pirate off Nantucket McQuillan Goes Below; Hell on Wheels The Bride Saw Red (part 1 of 7); The case of the careless Kitten (part 6 of 8). 116 pages. Lumberman's one-page insurance ad features Arthur Szyk illustration of the Axis leaders presenting medal to injured motorist. Nice color Willys ad inside back cover shows military Jeep flying through a large letter V. Back cover Camel cigarette ad shows paratroopers in action and an illustration of Helen V. Lynch working at the Pioneer Parachute Company. Pages 81-82 missing. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A well-preserved copy of this vintage WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman; Szyk, Arthur (illustrator). …

Zustand: Good. 8 x 10 in., [8]pp., illustrations. Gray, textured paper card covers with titling on the front cover, saddle stiched. Includes important bibliographic information for the limited edition books of the press by John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W. S. Merwin, L. M. Rosenberg, Dave Smith, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Berger, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Robert Coover, Hary Crews, James Dickey, William Everson, Gerald R. Ford, John Gardner, Gunter Grass, John Hawkes, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ross Macdonald, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Robert B. Parker, Walker Percy, Reynold Price, James Purdy, Michel Tournier, Garry Trudeau, John Updike, Eudora Welty, and Diane Wakoski. From the estate of Herb Yellin (1935 - 2014), publisher of the Lord John Press.…

Map dimensions 71.5 x 85cm, overall dimensions 74 x 88 cm. Folding map of London and environs, showing the extents from Enfield Wash through to Banstead Downs and Hornchurch through to Southall. Original colour in wash and outline, the parks and large estates coloured in green; the county boundaries in pink and yello.w The map dissected into 24 sections and backed onto linen. Folds into dark green card slipcase, publisher's label to upper board and old printed title label to spine. Plain old brown paper to folded end sections on linen verso. Extremities of slipcase somewhat worn, and with crude tape repairs.Map evenly toned, old pin holes to corners. Many of the places, seats and estates are accompanied by the name of their owners. In a printed note in the lower margin the publisher notes that "having Surveyed the whole of the Great Roads in this Map, and determined the exact situation of the Noblemen's and Gentleman's Seats, [he] is aware that there may be some Houses omitted which from their multiplicity is unavoidable, but considerable pains have been bestowed in selecting those that appeared to him of most importance, but should any material omissions occur, information on the subject will be thankfully received and carefully attended to." Cf. Howgego, No. 288, (this edition not listed). Cf. Boyle, 122 for a similar edition.…