boucher alan e (11 resultados)

Wraps. Condición: Good. Vol. 3, No. 2. Edited by Boucher & McComas. Cover art by George Salter. Includes "Love Thy Vimp" by Alan E. Nourse; "SRL Ad" by Richard Matheson; "Sealskin Trousers" by Eric Linklater; "The Dreamer" by Alfred Coppel; "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" by Anthony Boucher; "The Cheery Soul" by Elizabeth Bowen; "A Tale to Tell" by C. A. Barnett; "The Bitterness of Ghoril" by Kay Rogers; "The Shout" by Robert Graves; "Machine" by John W. Jakes; "The Doll's Ghost" by F. Marion Crawford; "The Actinic Actor" by H. Nearing, Jr.; "Letters to the editor" by Ron Goulart. Wraps re-glued; has been wet at spine heel and adjacent corners with discoloration, rusty staple, and slight waviness. Book.

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

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. First Edition. Featuring "Dreamworld" by Isaac Asimov. A clean, unmarked copy free of creases, in a Mylar magazine sleeve.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Ed Emsh; Ilustrador. First Edition. 128 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; date stamped faintly on the front cover. Cover art by Ed Emshwiller. This issue contains: The Brass Cannon by Lee Correy; Asking by Margaret St. Clair writing as Idris Seabright; Piece of Eight - a novelette by Frank Gruber; The Logic of Rufus Weir by Arthur Porges; The Expert Touch by Alan E. Nourse; Youth Anybody by Cleve Cartmill; Joy in Mudville (a Hoka story) - a novelette by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson; The Widget, the Wadget and Boff (first of two parts) by Theodore Sturgeon; and Dreamworld - a short story by Isaac Asimov. Size: 12mo. Book.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Collier Books edition. Very good condition paperback. No inscriptions. Remains of price label to back cover. ---- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall condition of the book(s) or other item. We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by tracked mail for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. G. R .Day Ilustrador. 1st Edition. An exciting story of a schoolboy's adventures in Iceland, involving stunning scenery, a stolen illuminated manuscript and pony-trekking on Icelandic ponies. Four full page line drawings. The author was an Icelandic expert who translated Icelandic folklore and stories as well as several Icelandic sagas and wrote numerous books for children. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Iceland from 1979 to 1981.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Peron Ilustrador. First Edition. library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Some creasing to edges of price-clipped dustwrapper, slight fading to top and bottom edges of blue boards, original owner's Sunday School prize message dated 1965 on f/ep, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A childrens story involving a boy on holiday in Iceland and a stolen mediaeval manuscript. 177pp, 4 b&w drawings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ISBN 9780252015533, 0252015533 OCLC 17676686 LCCN 88004825 LC KF5692 .C67 1989 Dewey 346.73045 and 347.30645 ; grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Aesthetics in the Museum and in the Courthouse -- East side, west side all around the town (and nation) -- The case for coherence -- Aesthetics at any price opr no aesthetics at all -- The case for legal aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Legal System -- The swinging pendulum -- A blessed union? -- A return to first principles -- Legal Aesthetics and legal institutions -- Icons and Aliens -- A format for aesthetics controversies -- The aesthetics impulse: Beauty as a nonstarter -- Aesthetics and Process Values -- Legal language and lay language -- Process and end-state values: Pathways to accommodation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index ; Discusses issues surrounding the daily war being fought in cities across the country--developmental change and business growth versus historic preservation. Can there be a meeting of the minds beween those who strive to preserve our environment and historical landmarks and those who continue to try to meet the needs of a changing society? publisher's promotional materials laid in, associated with a Kiwanis Club presentation to Memphis area Law alumni ; SIGNED letter to attorney Richard W. Foster from the author with comments upon the city of Memphis, laid-in with envelope ; John Costinis was dean of the Vanderbilt Law School who previously taught in the urban design, historic preservation and property fields on the law faculties of New York University and Illinois. A frequent contributor of essays on design and land use topics to legal and lay publications, Costonis was also the author of Space Adrift, Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace, a seminal study of the use of incentive zoning to finance the preservation of endangered urban landmarks. ; Allan Jacobs was was a professor of environmental design, University of California at Berkeley and the former director of planning, Department of City Planning, San Francisco ; includes discussions about the Zucchini on Park Avenue, East Side buildings on Manhattan's West Side, Billboards along a scenic Arizona highway, Sodium vapor lamps in downtown Bronxville, An international style tower atop the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, a Con Ed pumping station on Storm King Mountain, the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, McDonald's Speedee Service Drive-in, Goodyear Airdock, Isaac I Rice Mansion, Upper East Side Historic District, ; inlcudes numerous New Yorker cartoons and black and white photographs ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by Toni Patten Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of fab, bright retro jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, some slight offsetting to endpapers. Not price clipped (13/6), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age in bright unsunned jacket. 160pp, illustrated. A story of the Norse expeditions to America by now largely forgotten children's author Alan Boucher (1918-96). A scarce book.

13x18. Condición: Gut. 48 Seiten altersbedingt guter Zustand bo105321 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.