runyon james (68 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # P64 of this collection of short stories. All the stories were published earlier in various magazines and collections. Featured are Blood Money by David Karp, Taste by Ronald Dahl, Everything Is Wild by James Thurber, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, The Wager by Anton Chekhov, translated by A.E. Chamot, Two Days Wasted in Kanas City by William Saroyan, Swindler's Luck by Ben Hecht, Katz by Nelson Algren, A Piece of the Pie by Damon Runyon, Elementals by Stephen Vincent Benet, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, The Resourceful Miss Railey by Irvin S. Cobb, A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce, A Fowl Disaster by John Taintor Foote, Gambler's Luck by Albert Richard Wetjen. Slight spine slant. Light edge wear. Light age toning to the pages. In good condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of a novella, a novelet and five short stories. Featured are The Anvil of Jove by Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund (novella), The Ice Cream Golem by Mel Gilden (novelet), Waiting for You, Maude-Ellen by JP Dixon (short story), Miranda-Escobedo by James Sallis (short story), The Massahattan Snap Tube by D Thomas Bear (short story), BKA The Master by George Alec Effinger (short story) and The Sitter by Charles W Runyon (short story). Slight edgewear. Age toning to cover and pages. In Near Fine Condition.

paperback. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. 415 pp. Quarter-bound in black on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the lower left of the front panel; no interior markings. Dj art by Wilma Ervin. This anthology contains: Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; and Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). First American Edition. 415 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inked out on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman; Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; and Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Royce Publishers, Chicago, 1944. Softcover, 125 pp. A small book, measuring 3.125 x 4.75 inches (about 7.9 x 12 cm.). It was a movie theatre handout. With a fool-the-eye design resembling a wider hardcover. Four short stories with illustrations. Very good with edge wear, creases and an old stain on rear panel of wraps. See third photo for scale.

Zustand: New.

Paperback or Softback. Zustand: New. The Imperceptible Adjustment. Book.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of short stories. Only one of the Esquire gallery pictures remain. "Ballet of the Spoondrift" by Harry Bishoff. In very good condition.

1st edition. Selection of the best stories of fantasy and science fiction, new and old. Solid bright tight clean copy. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4, 160 pp, b/w cartoon (Gahan Wilson). Fine w faint datestamp on cover. Pulp magazine in color illus wraps (Rick Sternbach).

Zustand: New. In.

PF. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Frank Kelly Freas (illustrator). First Edition. [1st printing.] Dj art by Frank Kelly Freas. Includes "Introduction" by Robert Silverberg; "Catch 'Em All Alive" by Robert Silverberg; "Who Am I?" by Henry Slesar; "Every Day is Christmas" by James E. Gunn; "I'll Take Over" by A.Bertram Chandler; "Song of the Axe" by Don Berry; "Broomstick Ride" by Robert Bloch; "Worlds of Origin" by Jack Vance; "The Tool of Creation" by J.F. Bone; "I Want to Go Home" by Robert Moore Williams; "Hostile Life-Form" by Daniel L. Galouye; "The Gift of Numbers" by Alan E. Nourse; "First Man in a Satellite" by Charles W. Runyon; "A Place Beyond the Stars" by Tom Godwin; "The Loathsome Beasts" by Dan Malcolm [Robert Silverberg]. Illustrated by Ed Emshwiller, Frank Kelly Freas, Paul Orban, and William Bowman. Brand new. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hirsch (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition, early printing. The book has with square boards, pointed tips and firm spine. Dust jacket is price clipped with some chipping around some edges and at spine ends. No interior markings. Dust jacket has protective removable cover and packaging is suitable for wrapping.

PF. Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 336 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Axelrod. 32mo. Measuring 3" x 4½". 125, [1 ad] pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. A tiny bit of loss at the spine ends, near fine. The abridged stories (and subsequent movies) are: "Nothing Sacred" by James Street (same); "Madame la Gimp" by Damon Runyon (*Lady for a Day*); "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét (*All that Money Can Buy*); and "The Failure" by Katharine Haviland-Taylor (*A Man to Remember*). A cute little book, issued as Royce Quick Readers No. 127.

First Edition. Paperbound. Small format, 3Ó x 4 1/2Ó. Pictorial wrappers and illustrations by Axelrod. Very good plus copy with some minor edge wear and a hint of dust soiling in colorful printed wrappers. An abridged anthology of four stories which were made into films: ÒNothing SacredÓ by James Street, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, ÒMadame La GimpÓ by Damon Runyon, which was the basis for Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring May Robson and Walter Connolly, ÒThe Devil and Daniel WebsterÓ by Stephen Vincent Benet, which became the motion picture All That Money Can Buy, starring Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, and Simone Simon, and ÒThe FailureÓ by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, which appeared in film under the title A Man to Remember, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Edward Ellis.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Gluyas Williams, Richard Decker et al (illustrator). Second printing, the same month as the first edition. 144pp. Beige cloth covered boards with a couple of small marks. B + w cartoon illustrations. Flyleaf removed, otherwise internally clean. An anthology of the best in American humour. Part of the wartime Life and Literature in the United States series.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. viii, 142 pp. Spine sunned and tilted, covers slightly curled, sticker ghost to head of front cover. Here, in What the Spirit Is Saying to the Churches, are significant writings on the work of the Spirit in today's world, written from authors from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Zustand: New. In.

Volume 93, Number 9. Features stories by Damon Runyon and James Gould Cozzens. 11 x 14 inches. 27 leaves, rectos and versos. Very Good plus in side-stapled wrappers.