cowley ken (13 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Trade Sized Paperback. 9 x 6 inches.197 pages. Staple bound. With manuscript pages, short pieces, poems, photos, drawings and the first two parts of "Seven Prayers by Grandma Whittier". VERY GOOD. All corners pointed. Binding square. Without tears, bumps, creases, or chips. With slight wear from handling. Not marked and very bright and clean. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. The premier issue of this hardcover journal of military history. Spotless inside and out. Hinges secure. No wrinkles, creases, marks or stains to the pages. None of the cover corners are bumped. Slight wear to top and bottom edges of the covers. The book will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "An Empty Ocean" (Since World War II the submarine has replaced the aircraft carrier as ruler of the sea. The great naval battles of the future will be fought underwater) by John Keegan; "McClellan vs. Lee: The Seven-Day Trial" (Battles around Richmond in the summer of 1862 became the proving ground for two leaders. Events would clearly mark on for mediocrity, the other for greatness) by Stephen W. Sears; "Why the Armada Failed" (Archaeologists working on the Armada wrecks have found an unsuspected reason: the inability of Spanish cannon to fire more than a single shot in battle) by Geoffrey Parker; "If the Armada had Landed" (Indications are that, if the Duke of Parma's own army had landed in England, it could have walked to London practically unopposed) by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker; "The General at Ease: An Interview with Westmoreland" (The former U. S. commander in Vietnam muses on Tet, CBS, the movie Platoon, questions he might ask General Giap, his hardest decision, and the Wall) by Laura Palmer; "The Roman Killing Machine" (A murderously efficient weapon, the short sword, hacked out an empire, a superbly trained and disciplined army held its far-flung parts together) by Robert L. O'Connell; "Joint Plan Red" (War with the British Empire in 1931? No thought seems more outlandish. And yet, U.S. Army planners had a plan.) by Thaddeus Holt; "A Short History of the Management of Violence" (Warfare may be as old as civilization itself, but the military professional is not. Technology created him--and technology, curiously, may prove his undoing) by Martin Van Creveld; "The Tunnels of Hill 60" (In the Great War, generals willingly expended lives to win and hold a tiny man-made mound near Ypres. If, today, it hardly seems to rise above the surrounding landscape, there is a reason) by Robert Cowley; "Alexander in India: The Battle at the Edge of the Earth" (In the history of war, few gestures are more romantic than Alexander's decision to probe the terra incognita that was India--or to do battle with a beast that seemed right out of myth) by Arther Ferrill; "Britain's Finest Hour: Artists as Witnesses" (They left a matchless record of the desperate early years of World War II when the whole country was a front line. Here, in a special portfolio, is the work of six of the best) by Ken McCormack and Hamilton Darby Perry; "Mutiny on the Potemkin" (The actual event turns out to be less glorious than the revolutionary icon the communists and the moviemaker Eisenstein made of it, but more fascinating as a study of human behavior) by Elihu Rose; "Last Stand" (An eminent historian finds that Custer was less to be blamed than his opponents were to be admired. But for the Plains Indians, the Little Bighorn was the last stand) by Robert W. Utley; "In Review: Vann's Private War" (No American who served in Vietnam acquired more mystique than John Paul Vann. Geoffrey Ward reviews Neil Sheehan's extraordinary account of his career, A Bright Shining Lie) by Geoffrey C. Ward and "Some Final Words about Military History (Makers of history--and historians--view the subject of military history.).

Card wrappers. First edition (& 1st printing). Collects ten stories from the small press, plus an article on the early pulps and 'Unknown' magazine: introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Fine (as new) copy.

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. Cover drawing and other art by Ken Kesey. The first combined edition of articles that first appeared in Volume XVI of the Northwest Review, Numbers One and Two. Clean and bright with crisp text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, viii+200pp, printed wrappers. The Northwest Review Books stated second edition of this issue of Northwest Review entirely devoted to work by and about Ken Kesey. Nice unmarked copy, light outer spots. Not Signed.

Card pictorial wrappers. First edition (& 1st printing). 80-page booklet. Collects ten stories from the small press, plus an article on the early pulps and 'Unknown': introduction by Ramsey Campbell. LIMITED EDITION: 150 numbered copies signed by the author, Ramsey Campbell and cover artist David Bezzina.This copy is no.13. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY KEN COWLEY ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine (as new) copy.

Paperback. Condición: Good. ken rinkle Ilustrador. 23 pages. ex library.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Number 48 of a limited edition of 150. Signed by Ken Cowley, Ramsey Campbell, and David Bezzina. Corners bumped, especially lower right corner which is also creased on the front cover. Bottom of the spine bumped. Seemingly unread and internally clean. Signed by Author(s).

Stapled Softcover Wraps. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Includes articles on Crime Noir, Tit Bits SF, WE Johns and juvenile SF of the 50s and WC Tuttle. Only light edge wear. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Limited Edition. First Edition. Fine trade wraps. Limited to 150 triply-signed and numbered copies, autographed by author Ken Crowley, by introductionist Ramsey Campbell, and by illustrator David Bezzina. Cowley is best known as a Lovecraft scholar, but these ten stories and essays are more far-ranging than just Lovecraftiana, from a tale of Count Dracula told from his own point of view, to an essay on the classic pulp magazine "Unknown Worlds.". Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration under white dust jacket priced at $8.00. First edition, no flaws noted. Includes manuscript pages, working notes, and various selections & drawings by Kesey. A popular adjunct to any Kesey collection.

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. 142 pages. Features: Solar Water Heaters in California, 1891-1930; The Ideas of Greenwich Village; Sanctuary in Cuba; Neighborhood Preservation is an ecology issue; The Hawksbill Turtle; Insulation Heresy; Wilderness Plots; Broken Circuits, Smoke and Fire; and much more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 311pp. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in the publisher's green cloth. In a very good first-issue dust jacket with mild fading (as often) to the spine, and some shallow wear to the spine ends. A singular copy, with a significant inscription by Malcolm Cowley on the front free endpaper: "This is the very rare first printing, withdrawn from the bookstores because of a passage the [sic] Gwen Davis claimed to be libelous. Malcolm Cowley." Kesey was one of Cowley's writing students at Stanford, and Cowley helped Kesey get this hit novel published at Viking. Davis, a therapist steeped in the 60s counterculture (she was famous for "nude encounter therapy") believed the minor character of Gwendolyn (spelled "Gwen-doe-lin") was based on her, and she threatened Viking with a lawsuit, which resulted in a number of first printings being removed from bookstores, and the book quickly reprinted with the character changed to "Public Relation," a heavyset man who cynically promotes the institution to unwitting outsiders. The first issue is uncommon, particularly with such a meaningful inscription from one of Kesey's most important colleagues. An excellent copy. (Note that the book is NOT signed by Kesey.).