foreword tom wolfe (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 272 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, but printed in the USA. With an 18 page Foreword by Tom Wolfe. ***Very good in yellow cloth-covered boards, with black titles to the spine. The boards are quite clean - only slightly marked from age and handling. No serious bumps or creases - just slight creasing to the head and tail of the spine. Corners sharp. Slight rubbing to the edges. Top edge of page block dusty and foxed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally near fine with no inscriptions and clean pages. No foxing. No creases or tears. ***In a very good printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £2.95 net (crossed out in ink). The dustwrapper is complete, without any chips, but there is some slight loss and creasing to the top and tail of the spine, and rubbing, wear, small nicks and creasing to the top edges of the front and back panels. Slight fading to the pink colour of the titles on the spine. Dustwrapper otherwise bright. ***314 pages including a detailed section of Notes, Select Bibliography and Index at the back of the book. 224mm x 147mm. ***Contents: Introduction, Reply to James A. Wechsler, 1/ "America Is a Fascist Country", 2/ "America Means Genocide", 3/ "The Bomber Left Is a Moral Force", 4/ "The American Worker Is a Honky", 5/ "Our Political System Is a Fraud", 6/ "American Values Are Materialistic", 7/ "America Is Insane", 8/ "The American People Are Guilty", 9/ "America Needs a Violent Revolution", Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. ***'How much "gloom and doom" can a thoughtful, critical American take? Arnold Beichman, like many of us, has been prepared to listen and to read, to pay attention to all the criticisms of the U.S.A., past, present and future -- Amerika, as the way-out prophets call it -- as the furious indictment mounted in self-hatred. But enough is enough. In this book, which is likely to be one of the most controversial of the year, Arnold Beichman hits back at that whole school of dark prophecy, and he takes on both its intellectual and hippie spokesmen who see nothing but evil in American history, nothing but corruption and ruin ahead.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***"There is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism; a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat. On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish. Near the top of the ladder we encounter curious mixtures of untruth and truth that exert a lasting fascination on the intellectual community". (Walter Kaufmann, "I and You, a Prologue." in I and Thou, by Martin Buber, 1971.) ***A first UK edition in very good condition - a topical work on the nature of political criticism of the USA. Interestingly, published in the same year as the Watergate Scandal! ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hard Cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Illustrated by John Parnell (illustrator). Stated First Edition. First Printing. Illustrated with 208 color plates. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEW/NEW. Color Photographs. Small 4to 11" - 13" tall. 176 pp.

Softcover. Zustand: Gut. Goof condition, some creasing to cover but otherwise good, a solid readable copy of a rare book. See photos.

Cloth. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Illustrated (illustrator). First Thus. First thus. Revised and expanded edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth binding, 144 pp. Over eight years, Douglas Curran traveled across North America and recorded the ideas and experiences of individuals whose obsession with outer space inspired them to create elaborate homemade spaceships and even more elaborate belief systems. He illustrates his nonjudgmental account with photographs of saucer-shaped houses, backyard rocketships, and images from UFO witnesses and pop culture. In the words of Tom Wolfe, "This book is the culmination of a quest that, by terrestrial standards, is as extraordinary as that of the people he brings to life." First published in 1985, this book has established itself as a classic work within the New Age/UFO communities and also with sociologists, psychologists, and artists. This expanded edition includes new material on the Roswell incident of 1947 and the Raelian movement. New in new dust jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lemon cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 314 printed pages of text. Minimal wear to the covers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shelf rubs to the black of the panels. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].

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].

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Large 4to. in stiff glossy card covers, 124pp on various types of card and paper, plates etc. Exhibition held at Contemporary Art Galleries, Lytton Halls, Frances and Armand Hammer Wing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art . [CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (spine sunned, bottom corner of front cover and first few leaves flat creased) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Publisher's original illustrated laminated card covers. Folio 12'' x 9'' 224 pp ISBN 0091451302. Colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. Small crease line to the lower card cover and in near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book).

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.