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NY, NY: Pocket Books, 1977. 160pp., pictorial wraps, # 81443, moderate edgewear, reading crease to back cover, inside covers browning, faint browning to page edges / "Issues #1 throu… Mehr…

NY, NY: Pocket Books, 1977. 160pp., pictorial wraps, # 81443, moderate edgewear, reading crease to back cover, inside covers browning, faint browning to page edges / "Issues #1 through #6. All stories complete and unabridged." "At last! Your chance to build a complete Pocket Books library of Spider-Man's unforgettable battles with the world's most dreaded super villains." /. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good to Very Good., Pocket Books, 1977, 2.75, UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour cartoon illustrated dw/dj,with red,black and green lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A small brown stain to top edge of rear panel of dw/dj also lightly affecting the rear bd beneath.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean but with some minimal,sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-111pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,an introduction 13 sections/chapters including a glossary of angling terms and Last Word,profuse b/w line illus/cartoons by Len Gurd,throughout the text and the book, plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. No TV comic is better known today than Jim Davidson; not only is his face instantly recognisable to millions but his distinctive voice has been heard making people laugh for many years on stage,in clubs and pubs and even in other countries.Another aspect of his more serious side is his love of angling,instilled into him by his father on many countryside holidays on the Norfolk Broads and in Kent when he was young. What may not be known to many of his TV fans is that Jim is widely accepted by anglers,especially carp anglers,as a successful big fish man.He is a member of the Carp Anglers' Association and his best carp,caught from a very 'difficult' club water in Kent weighed 21 lbs 10 ozs.To catch this fish,Jim forgot about his TV work and fished for five days and nights, camping by the waterside with a friend in a quest for his biggest fish ever,which he eventually succeeded in catching his angling exploits have been reported widely in the 'Sun' newspaper,'Angling Times','Angler's Mail', and the 'Carp Catcher' magazine.As you will see from this book,Jim has been so keen to get fishing that at times he has worn his fishing clothes on stage and has mixed his bait in his dressing room.Given Jim's love of fishing there is obviously some serious content in his first book,but it wouldn't be a Jim Davidson book without containing much Davidson humour on every page which the reader will not need to be an angler to appreciate.Indeed,the publishers have had to provide some censorship for some of the well known bawdy Davidson humour,or the book might not have been published at all! Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.HENLOW CAMP,BEFORDSHIRE (BEDS.).BEEKAY PUBLISHERS LTD.,1986., 3, Icon Books Ltd, Dec 1996. Paperback. Regarding the Introducing series in general, before I get down to the specifics of the Derrida title... Even as a philosophy M.A., I was an admirer of these Introducing books. While they naturally appeal to the uninitiated reader, I think they can also be of some small use to academics --- as a gangplank leading to far more detailed texts! The great benefit of this series is that anyone can master the basics of a field-of-study or major thinker in a single day. These 176 mini-page books take just a long afternoon to read cover to cover. And most of it will sink in reasonably well after just one rushed sitting because of their radical ("comic strip") format. The very small morsels of text on each page are often mildly amusing or else employ some other device to aid their memorability. So these are often ideal way to prepare for a class on the subject or understand the basics of what is probably important about the subject before scanning the library for all the texts you will need for your essay. These books include fairly decent select bibliographies, which really help you to find serious texts if you feel you're ready to move onto the next step.\r\n\r\nI should point out that of the many many books in the Introducing... series, they vary slightly in quality and usefulness. But I am happy to report that Introducing Derrida is one of the absolute best. Maybe the best of all (I haven't read every single title).\r\n\r\nAll the key ideas, devices, strategies and concepts associated with this allegedly "impossible" thinker are at a basic level, unpacked very well indeed. The book is adequately up to date, covering Derrida's writings way into the 1990s, not merely the c.1967 texts which initially brought him to widespread attention as a controversial sensation within academia, following his 1966 "Structure, Sign and Play" lecture at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.\r\n\r\nI should point out that while Introducing Derrida does occasionally reference some of his famous books where relevant, its emphasis is very much on conveying an understanding of the important points one needs to know about this man, rather than chronologically trawling through all the texts with which he and his publishers saturated the market. This is very much to its credit, making it immediately readable and useful time and time again.\r\n\r\nIn terms of both the text by Jeff Collins and the artwork by Bill Mayblin, this book is an especially bright star in this bold series from Icon Books. The graphics totally compliment the text and aid in its digestibility and comprehensibility at all times. In some of the other titles, it seems to be little more than background imagery. But in Introducing Derrida it is brilliant and essential. One gets the impression that on this title, the writer and the artist worked very closely together, making sure that every page was brought alive to the maximum extent by the harmony of their respective labours.\r\n\r\nDerrida is held to be a difficult thinker to comprehend. But Introducing Derrida can make this brilliant and critically important thinker very palatable for those who have never attended university, while also being a valuable first nudge in the right direction for those who are already experienced academics.\r\n\r\nIf you get beyond this book with a thirst for really tackling Derrida, I recommend reading his major and early opuses in French. The English translations make less sense for these titles. His much smaller texts which are really just essays on applying his mindset to specific topics, mostly dating from the last decade or two of his life, are just fine in English. But the big '60s and '70s tomes should be read in French. His writing is beautiful and brilliant in his native language. As Derrida himself suggested: something will always be lost in translation. A huge thanks to Collins and Mayblin for "translating" the fundamentals of Derrida into a special format that will help countless readers get a foothold., Icon Books Ltd, 0, New York: Pocket Books/ A Simon & Schuster Divsion of Gulf & Western Corporation, 1979. 8th Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 609 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slanted and creased spine. Tears at top right corner of cover page. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. Synopsis: Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit." Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character. In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him? Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad." All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo--From Library Journal:"In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases." This sentence ends both Irving's comic and tragic novel and its wonderful audio adaptation, read disarmingly by Michael Prichard. We hear the familiar story of T.S. Garp; his mother, Jenny Fields; and Garp's wife, family, friends, and lovers. We also see Garp's efforts to establish himself as a serious author and his involvement in sexual politics. In contrast, Jenny's memoirs establish her as a feminist leader. This work is funny, sexual, serious, and sad. Prichard's narration adds a wonderful dimension to the story. Plus, Irving opens with a terrific introduction to mark the novel's 20th anniversary. This wise and unique tale is as fresh today as it was when first published in 1978. Obviously, a required purchase for all audio collections and required listening for all Irving fans. Irving's (A Son of the Circus, Audio Reviews, LJ 12/94) new novel echoes Garp through tracing the complicated life of novelist Ruth Cole. Divided into three parts, the book views Ruth's life and relationships at age four in 1958, age 36 in 19, Pocket Books/ A Simon & Schuster Divsion of Gulf & Western Corporation, 1979, 3, UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial,cartoon illustrated boards with immaculate plain white endpapers; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.UK,slim 12mo HB,1st edn,32pp [unpaginated] of both b/w+colour caricatures/cartoons,5 double-paged.Collection of Gerard Hoffnung's glorious caricatures of members of the orchestra at work - or at play - with some of his additional sketches based on a musical theme, by him,for the 1957 Chelsea Arts School's New Year Ball,many with a musical theme.A humorous insight into Hoffnung's crazy musical world.For a decade and a half after the Second World War,the Chelsea Arts School's New Year Ball was the highlight of the carnival season.Held at the Royal Albert Hall,it was patronised by almost every artist in London,both budding and arrived. In 1957 Hoffnung was asked to design the decorations for the event and the following rough sketches,transformed into models,made the occasion one of the most successful in the history of the Chelsea Arts Ball.Some of the cartoons are by Annetta Hoffnung from 'Encore'. Gerard Hoffnung (1925-59).Born Berlin;moved to London (1938). Studied at Hornsey and Harrow Schools of Art.Taught art at Stamford School (1944) and Harrow School (1945).Cartoonist, illustrator and painter,broadcaster,impressario and amateur musician.He contributed to 'Lilliput' from the age of 15 and to numerous magazines internationally; staff artist on the London Evening News and Flair magazine (New York).He also originated and organised the Hoffnung Festival Concerts,made broadcasts on BBC radio and television,and spoke regularly at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions. As a black and white artist,he was particularly known for his wittily inventive musical cartoons,in which orchestral performers and their instruments were affectionately depicted in a vein of comic fantasy reminiscent of Edward Lear.His output and versatility was prodigious: musical cartoons,drawings and illustrations along with radio and television appearances and his famous concerts.His art was that of a gentle man,always laughing with those he caricatured,never at them.Passionately fond of music,he loved to satirise its every aspect.The drawings in this book were made during the last two years of his life and bear his trademarks of keen observation,underlying kindness and lack of malice.Perhaps these are the reasons why his books continue to delight countless people throughout the world even now,more than twenty-five years after his death. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.SOUVENIR PRESS LTD.,1985., 5, New York: Henry Rinehart & Winston, 1975. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. When a tailor, a baker, and a shoemaker set off for the fair, a series of comic mishaps and clashing personalities make an unforseen change in their plans. Just who the four donkeys are, is a question which small children will ask again and again." About the Author - Few writers have inspired as much affection and interest among readers young and old as Lloyd Alexander. At one point, however, it seemed unlikely that he would ever be a writer at all. His parents could not afford to send him to college. And so when a Philadelphia bank had an opening for a messenger boy, he went to work there. Finally, having saved some money, he quit and went to a local college. Dissatisfied with not having learned enough to be a writer he left at the end of one term. Adventure, he decided was the best way. The United States had already entered World War II. Convinced that here was a chance for real deeds of derring-do, he joined the army -- and was promptly shipped to Texas where he became, in disheartening succession an artilleryman, a cymbal player in the band, an organist in the post chapel, and a first-aid man. At last, he was assigned to a military intelligence center in Maryland. There he trained as a member of a combat team to be parachuted into France to work with the Resistance. "This, to my intense relief, did not happen," says Alexander. Instead, Alexander and his group sailed to Wales to finish their training. This ancient, rough-hewn country, with its castles, mountains, and its own beautiful language made a tremendous impression on him. But not until years later did he realize he had been given a glimpse of another enchanted kingdom. Alexander was sent to Alsace-Lorraine, the Rhineland, and southern Germany. When the war ended, he was assigned to a counterintelligence unit in Paris. Later he was discharged to attend the University of Paris. While a student he met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine, and they soon married. Life abroad was fascinating, but eventually Alexander longed for home. The young couple went back to Drexel Hill, near Philadelphia, where Alexander wrote novel after novel which publishers unhesitatingly turned down. To earn his living, he worked as a cartoonist, advertising writer, layout artist, and associate editor for a small magazine. It took seven years of constant rejection before his first novel was at last published. During the next ten years, he wrote for adults. And then he began writing for young people.Doing historical research for Time Cat he discovered material on Welsh mythology. The result was The Book of Three and the other chronicles of Prydain, the imaginary kingdom being something like the enchanted land of Wales. In The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen Alexander explored yet another fantastic world. Evoking an atmosphere of ancient China, this unique multi-layered novel was critically acclaimed as one of his finest works. Trina Schart Hyman illustrated The Fortune-tellers as a Cameroonian folktale sparkling with vibrant images, keen insight and delicious wit. Most of the books have been written in the form of fantasy. But fantasy, Alexander believes, is merely one of many ways to express attitudes and feelings about real people, real human relationships and problems. The book is in very good condition with minor edge wear, lightly-rubbed at corners and ends of spine. There is a tiny dimple on the back of the spine. The pasted end papers both have an irregularity, a horizonal bubble. The front end paper is 3.5 inches long by 1/4 inch wide and the back one is maybe 2 inches long. Not unsightly, but noticeable, The interior of the book is immaculate. The dust jacket is very good with mild edge wear, light bumping. It is sunned along the spine. The back of the jacket has surface scuffing and a few very faint marks or discoloration. The picture is a scan of the actual book., Henry Rinehart & Winston, 1975, 3, New York, NY, USA.: Pocket Books., 1980. 160 pages.; >>>Book #1 great newspaper strip in FULL-Color. "At last! Every thrill, every wondrous feat, every fantastic villian from one of the world's most popular newspaper strips is yours, complete and unabridged, between the covers of this colorful collector's item book! The First of a Series" >>> An UN-READ, Original Warehouse copy, with only Minor Shelf / Handling wear.. First Collected Edition, PBO thus!. Soft Cover. FINE+, Near New. Illus. by JOHN ROMITA Senior Comics Cover & Art. . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.. Mass Market Paperback.., Pocket Books., 1980, 5, Titan Books Ltd, 2006. New and in stock. Paperback. New. Illus. by Pencils: Pia Guerrra and Goran Sudzuka Inks: Jose Marzan Jr., Titan Books Ltd, 2006, 6, New York: Pocket Books, 1991. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Good. 542, [2] pages. Map. Illustrations. This is a Dirk Pitt adventure. Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931) is an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than 20 times. Cussler is the founder and chairman of the real-life National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), which has discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and numerous other notable underwater wrecks. He is the sole author or lead author of more than 70 books. Clive Cussler began writing in 1965. His most famous creation is marine engineer, government agent and adventurer Dirk Pitt. The first two Pitt novels, The Mediterranean Caper and Iceberg, were relatively conventional maritime thrillers. The third, Raise the Titanic!, made Cussler's reputation and established the pattern that subsequent Pitt novels would follow: a blend of high adventure and high technology, generally involving megalomaniacal villains, lost ships, beautiful women, and sunken treasure. Cussler's novels, like those of Michael Crichton, are examples of techno-thrillers that do not use military plots and settings. Dirk Pitt is a fictional character, the protagonist of a series of bestselling adventure novels written by Clive Cussler. Dirk is an adventurer who seizes the opportunity to save the day. Through action-filled story lines, Pitt is portrayed as a man who is in love with the sea and does not fear pushing the envelope. The character is an avid collector of cars. Dirk Eric Pitt is a renowned adventurer. Cussler describes him as tall, 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) with craggy looks, dark wavy hair, and possessing a rangy build. His most striking feature is his opaline green eyes, which can be both alluring or intimidating, as need be. Pitt has a commanding presence which, combined with a quick, sly wit, often infuriates those opposed to him. His comical banter with his sidekick Al Giordino during stressful situations leaves the reader with little doubt that both are confident of their abilities. While Dirk may be considered the hero of the two, Al Giordino is the man behind him. Dragon is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 10th book featuring the author's primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. In 1945, a B-29 bomber carrying a third nuclear bomb to Japan is shot down over the sea off the coast of Japan. In 1993, terrorists want to restore Japan's former glory by taking out the United States economy by planting nuclear bombs. Derived from a Kirkus review: Cussler keeps a tight plot under a favoring wind. The story builds on Saturday-matinee cliffhangers and has the usual aircraft blueprints, as well as the Cussler clangor of underwater hardware. The story: In 1945, a third plane carrying an atomic bomb to Japan is shot down and sinks off a Japanese island. The waterproof bomb lies down there for 50 years. In 1993, Dirk Pitt mines the sea-bottom with a colossal submersible tractor near the lost plane when a huge Japanese automobile-carrying cargo ship miles above him blows up, destroying two other ships nearby. It seems that a secret Japanese crime cartel, set on raising Japan to world trade dominance starting with a takeover of the US, has been making A-bombs. The cartel smuggles its small A-bombs in Japanese automobiles into various US cities and is now ready to blackmail the President. The cartel works out of Dragon Center, the island near where the US A-bomb sank. Dirk Pitt, now drawn into a US secret agency for locating the Japanese bombs, is given a new submersible tractor, since his last was destroyed in the accidental A-bomb explosion of the automobile cargo ship, and is sent down to blow up the US bomb in the sunken bomber, thus causing an earthquake and tsunami that will wipe out Dragon Center. Naturally, blowing up an A-bomb poses some threat to Dirk's life--but he does it, and his submersible sinks under a tremendous mudslide into a huge trench. More surpassingly improbable than Indiana Jones, but much fun, crisply told, with exciting special effects., Pocket Books, 1991, 2.5, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,sharp-cornered publisher's original plain black cloth bds (boards) with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,4-246pp [paginated] includes editor's introduction,3 sections including writings from The Manchester Guardian,'Sligo' (1930), from 'Sailing Sailing Swiftly' (1933), 'The Aramanthers','And To You Also' (1944),'The Silencer','The Careless Flower' (1947) and 'In Sand' (1964 - play),plus [unpaginated] half-title+title page, editorial note,contents list/table,Introduction separator page,other individual section separator pages and bibliography at the rear. It may come as a surprise to some that Jack B. Yeats,indisputably Ireland's greatest painter,was also one of the country's most original writers,much admired by both James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.For ironically,he stood in his own light,the long shadow he cast as a painter obscuring the writings. His early output included melodramatic plays for children to be performed in toy theatres and vivid anecdotal essays for the Manchester Guardian.He wrote a number of plays,which were stage in the Abbey Theatre.His most astonishing work,however, may be found in his novels which combine rich fantasy and philosophical humour and a thoroughgoing celebration of the joys and pleasures of the common man.They are exuberant,comic, nostalgic and touching.Inspired by an early and lasting love of Baron Muchhausen,he is,one might say,a giant among liars,and therefore something of a poet.For, as his brother W.B. Yeats pointed out,'Poets must be good liars.'The way of life he describes in his accounts of small towns and loquacious people,is one that is enormously attractive in its innocence and affection.Affection is perhaps a key word here.Jack Yeats writes with affection,and even his most satirical passages (and there is a touch of Swift in some of these) are filled with a curiosity about and love of his fellow human creatures. With this anthology,Deutsch has the privilege of reintroducing a great master too long out of print with a representative selection of his writings,including the complete script of his play 'In Sand'.It is an accident of history alone that Jack B. Yeats the writer is only now beginning to receive the general recognition he so richly deserves. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct, shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH,1991., 5, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[First published by Stanley & Co Ltd.,1992,this 2nd imp the same year.] FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated b/w line illustrated upper wrap by Patrick Benson and green lettering,red+black lettering to spine,rear panel with colour portrait photograph of Norman Lumsden [the Yellow Pages ad-man who turned the J.R. Hartley character into a national celebrity with advertiser/sponsor's Yellow Pages logo superimposed to one corner]; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip.Front panel of dw/dj with some minor indents,lightly affecting the board beneath.Top edge with a couple of foxing spots fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,publisher's original,sharp-cornered,dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a green+red striped headband and immaculate pale beige endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn 2nd imp,9-127pp[paginated] includes 8 chapters each with a b/w line illus chapter head-piece,6 full-page b/w line illus all by Patrick Benson,throughout the text and book,plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w line illustrated frntis to reverse - design repeated from front panel of dw/dj,title page,a contents list/table,and author's acknowledgements. J.R. Hartley's best-known catch to date is the public imagination.But here are his elusive fishing recollections told in a series of sometimes vividly comic chronological cameos, ranging over period and location - from Yorkshire schooldays in the early 1930's,through memorable outings on chalk stream,spate river and loch,to a startling conclusion half a lifetime later on a Scottish summer night. Complemented by his protege Patrick Benson's evocative illustrations, and with his angling expertise lightly threaded throughout,J.R.'s story will touch every fly fisherman's experience.But it is a book,too,that will appeal to everyone,even those who have never held a rod,for the engaging portrait that emerges of the ultimate reluctant hero. J.R. Hartley became a celebrity during the televised hunt for his elusive book on fly fishing.When the work was finally run to ground,it emerged as a number one seller.In it the author made it known that he was a doctor's son,he taught at a boy's preparatory school in Dorset, where he had a combative relationship with the bursar,was married with one daughter,and was a lifelong habitue of chalk stream and salmon river,the self-effacing hero of the fishing lodge,the underdog that usually got the last bite. Following the huge success of 'Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley',a book described by one reviewer as 'one of the funniest one could ever read', our hero is back,recalled to rummage once more in the creel of reminiscence.All fly fishermen will rise to J.R. and the undeniable charm of his enthusiasms,but it really doesn't matter a hoot if you don't know the difference between your Blue-Winged Olive and your Kite's Imperial.We glimpse J.R. not only in his natural habitat of lodge and water meadow, but also on more hazardous terrain - on the boards in the school pantomime,on the football field,and even,in a rooftop escapade,persuading a deranged cigar-importer not to jump. J.R. Hartley has been catapulted,albeit reluctantly, back into the limelight.Patrick Benson,J.R.'s accomplished illustrator,is again on hand to make the souffle rise. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the smaller size of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.STANLEY PAUL & CO LTD.,1992., 5, UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.NMINT.Pictorial colour decorated laminated boards with gilt letters to upper and white and yellow letters to spine/backstrip.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,44pp with colour comic strip format. Wallace has lost his slipper,and it's replacement - the Longlife Indoor Carpet Clog with Reinforced Everything - just isn't comfy.But when he and Gromit turn the clock back to return to the slipper's last recorded sighting - calamity - a malfunction in the time-space continuum lands man and dog thousands of years from home and their mid-morning elevenses.So begins the Oscar-winning characters' first ever cartoon strip adventure.The stars of 'A Grand Day Out', 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'A Close Shave' find out why King Harold didn't like umbrellas back in 1066.They reveal why Stonehenge was built One Million Years BC (Before Cheese).And they expose the threat posed to our delicate planet by people who wear clogs,as they pursue a shoe thief from the future who is, quite literally,hopping mad. 'The Lost Slipper' also includes Wallace and Gromit's second cartoon adventure,'The Curse of the Ramsbottoms'.This reunites them with Wendolene, a rare beauty, and Preston,a cyber-dog who is also rare but no beauty.And it pits them against the dastardly Rhett Leicester - a man with an unhealthy interest in gnomes,and cheese. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1997., 5, UK,Qrto HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn.Pictorial colour decorated,laminated bds with gilt+white letters to upper bd,yellow+white letters to spine/backstrip.No bumped corners,top and fore-edges bright and clean,as are contents.UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,2-44pp includes colour cartoon strips. Wallace has lost his slipper, and its replacement - the Longlife Indoor Carpet Clog with Reinforced Everything - just isn't comfy.But when he and Gromit turn the clock back to return to the slipper's last recorded sighting - calamity! - a malfunction in the time-space continuum lands man and dog thousands of years from home and their mid-morning elevenses. So begins the Oscar-winning characters' first ever cartoon strip adventure.The stars of 'A Grand Day Out', 'The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave' find out why King Harold didn't like umbrellas back in 1066.They reveal why Stonehenge was built One Million Years BC [Before Cheese].And they expose the threat posed to our delicate planet by people who wear clogs,as they pursue a shoe thief from the future who is, quite literally,hopping mad. 'The Lost Slipper',by writer Tristan Davies and artist Nick Newman, includes Wallace and Gromit's second cartoon adventure, 'The Curse of the Ramsbottoms'. This reunites them with Wendolene, a rare beauty, and Preston,a cyber-dog who is also rare but no beauty.And it pits them against the dastardly Rhett Leicester - a man with an unhealthy interest in gnomes,and cheese. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1997., 5, Vintage Books, Jan 1997. 1st Vintage Books Ed. Paperback. Only Philip K Dick could produce a novel as comically disturbing as "Valis" (1981), grappling with troubled, off-sane episodes of his own life and triumphantly resolving them through SF. \n Early in 1974 Dick felt a "pink beam" flashing through his head, a religious experience--or mild stroke--which inspired him to write his vast theological "Exegesis". In "Valis" the pink beam illuminates Dick's mentally unstable friend Horselover Fat; Philip is Greek for lover of horses and Dick is German for fat. \n Dick's alter ego Fat duly creates the weird Gnostic theology of the Exegesis, with its visions of salvation from the insane side of reality--the Empire, whose Black Iron Prison cages us all. "The Empire never ended." Also there's a three-eyed race among us and all time between AD 103 and 1974 may be a divine illusion... \n The resulting debates between Fat and friends, including Dick, are often hilariously insane. It's clear that Fat is deluded--until they all see the SF movie "Valis", whose rock star actor-director suggests David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" and which uncannily features Exegesis code phrases, timeslips, third eyes, early Christian symbols and pink beams. \n Maybe the film's Vast Active Living Intelligence System, a satellite which controls minds via lasers, is the same as the messiah imagined by Fat? Naturally he and friends contact the director, leading to an unexpected interview with VALIS itself. \n Dick was the supreme SF master of booby-trapped reality and "Valis" celebrates his own escape from the trap that claimed him in 1974. Chilling, moving and acknowledged by the "SF Encyclopedia" as the finest novel of Dick's last years. --"David Langford", Vintage Books, 0, London England: Chatto & Windus, 1989. Hardback. In January 1979 the Shah of Iran flew out of Teheran, taking with him members of his family, loyal retainers, and a planeload of household effects. Some months earlier widespread rioting had broken out, fermeneted by supporters of the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shah was - ostensibly- taking an extended holiday: in fact he was leaving iran for the last time, an ill, uncomprehending man, baffled by the ingratitude of a people he had ruled with increasingly absolute power since 1941. The author combines his account of the Shah in exile with a vivid evocation of Iran as it was before life began to go sour for the Shah, from the celebrations at Persepolis to mark the climax of his rule to the torture cells of Savak, from the corruption of the royal court and the call-girls flown in from paris to the revolutionary puritanism of the Shi'ite mullahs, from Mossadeq's defiance of the British to the cheque book politics of Kissinger and Nixon. At once comical and tragic, sumptuous and seedy, this book is the most bizarre and terrible of cautionary tales. Illustrated. 463 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback., Chatto & Windus, 1989, 4, Vertigo, DC Comics, New York, 2008. 256 pp, small quarto, black end-papers, coloured comics throughout, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.. Collects the first 10 issues of the series. Second edition., Vertigo, DC Comics, New York, 2008, 0<

2002, ISBN: 156b002ff71dc323b33e5081a68f2917

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Vertigo Publishing -], ARTIST, STORY, FICTION, GRAPHIC NOVEL, LITERATURE, MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, ADVENTURE,, Gd. condition - Graphic Novel. , (KH2)

2009, ISBN: 156b002ff71dc323b33e5081a68f2917

Hardcover, Gebraucht, guter Zustand, VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents., [PU: DC Comics]