Douglas curran (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 218 pgs. Fine.

Zustand: New. In English. Curran, Shane (illustrator).

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft cove. Illustrated in color and B&W. A clean and unmarked copy. Square 8vo.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 132 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photography, primarily in colour, throughout. ". A fascinating book that shows with compassionate insight how deeply man's longing for extraplanetary contact is felt. These eccentric individuals may be tuning in, with faulty radios, to a universal message: we must be ready at any time to make the leap into Space." - W.S. Burroughs on back cover. Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this most interesting work.…

First Edition. Softcover. Oblong octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 132pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Price sticker to inside of front wrapper. Lightly tanned with foxing and light shelf-soil; Very Good. Text and photographs focus on outer space, UFOs, and folk concepts, with a foreword by science-fiction author Tom Wolfe. [85653].…

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 16mo. 7'' x 5¼''. Contains 222 pp. SIGNED ink message by one of the contributors to the title 'To Rosemary (Baker - Wigtown), on her birthday, from her friends Josie (Josie Neill) and Steve - Year o' the Homecomin, 2009' and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. ; 132 p. : illustrated, mostly in color; 23 x 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0896595234 (pbk.); 9780896595231 (pbk.) LCCN: 85-9019 ; OCLC: 12078844 ; slight wear ; bookstore stamp on front ep ; color transfer on front and back endpapers from wrappers ; "Curran conceived the book's title long before he had any real interest in its subject matter. 'The title, In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, had come to me, full blown, in the middle of a dream one night in 1975'"--Air & Space Smithsonian, 1986 ; "Curran spent roughly eight years travelling across the US and Canada in search of people who believe in the imminent arrival of visitors "--Jack Salzman ; NOTE WELL: THIS IS A PAPERBACK NOT A HARDBACK; THIS IS NOT THE SET OF 12 POSTCARDS ; VG. Book.…

Leather_bound. Zustand: good. Second edition. Nearly contemporary three-quarter maroon leather with spine strip lettered, lined and fleurons in gilt; marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers. "Second Edition, with Additions". Frontispiece portrait engraving of Curran with tissue guard. vi+ 40+ 428 pp. Well rubbed at the extremities and joints, paper covered boards very well rubbed and with old blindstamp from a state library (no other markings in the book or on the endpapers. Internally clean, somewhat embrowned. John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) was a noted Irish orator, lawyer, Member of Parliament and writer of humorous and romantic poetry. He was early in his career nicknamed "Stuttering Jack Curran" for a speech impediment which he later overcame and was widely know in England, Ireland and America for his defence of Irish politicians charged with high treason.…