gallacher tom (67 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. 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.

Condición: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Survivor This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Apprentice (Coronet Books) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Paperback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Published. A nice copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1986-12-31 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of all books, please just ask! British first edition, first printing. Virtually no wear to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Jacket is in a Mylar cover. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. Pages are browning. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. London, United Kingdom: H. Hamilton. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. The book is in very good condition with age toning to pages and light wear in a fine dust jacket that is in a mylar protecter. A 6 by 9 inch, 195-page Hard Cover. See photos; "Surviving, it seemed, was a very dubious course of action which would be punished. When the tanker on which Bill Thompson is chief engineer explodes in the southern Baltic with the loss of five lives, his relief at his own survival is temporary, soon replaced by the certainty that the charge of negligence hangs over no one's head more than his own. Tom Gallacher's impressive climax to the Bill Thompson trilogy, Thompsons life suddenly becomes fraught with absurd complications - and danger. Unable to prove that he was not negligent (you cannot prove you are not something) , he sets out to discover why the ship did sink.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages. cel.

paperback. Condición: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Wind on the Heath This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1983. Hamish Hamilton. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0241109973. 156 pages. hardcover. Jacket artwork by Roy Knipe. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - We all, at one time or another, want to educate people. Billy Thompson is no different. Sent by his English middle-class parents to be a shipyard apprentice on Clydeside in the 1950s, he is an innocent abroad. The proud and private Scots with whom he throws in his lot on the steep streets of Greenock are something of a mystery to him - stubborn, unsophisticated and in many ways ignorant. But he has just what they need. He has an education. In each of these five connected stories Billy tries hard to pass on that education, to help those less fortunate than himself. So why can he not save the gentle Mrs. Mulvenny, his landlady, from the terrible consequences of her husband's pride? What has gone wrong when the girl from the ropeworks, red-haired Elsie, cannot be persuaded that having perfect pitch is more important than getting married and having a 'squaad o' weans'? And what sort of a world is it when you give your savings to a friend in need and he unrepentantly swindles you? Tom Gallacher, with an unerring instinct for the flavour of his Scottish setting and the clash of culture and personality, paints an extraordinarily true-to-life picture of Billy's initiation not only into ships and their building, but more importantly into the world of what he calls 'those spirited, funny and maddening people.' inventory #603.

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. . Ilustrador. 1st Edition. CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Fine jacket; REMAINDER mark bottom edge; unclipped 7.95 pounds. Juvenile hardback. Five connected stories about Billy Thompson, a middle class English boy sent to Scotland by his parents to become a shipyard apprentice and how Billy attempts to share his educated point of view with "those spirited funny and maddening people." ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .

Grey hardback cloth cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in Very good condition with dust jacket. Pages browning. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 195pp.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1985. Hamish Hamilton. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0241115221. 195 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Paul Wright, typography by Mon Mohan. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'Surviving, it seemed, was a very dubious course of action which would be punished.' When the tanker on which Bill Thompson is chief engineer explodes in the southern Baltic with the loss of five lives, his relief at his own survival is temporary, soon replaced by the certainty that the charge of negligence hangs over no one's head more than his own. Whatever caused the Niome to sink bad its source in the engine room. In SURVIVOR, Tom Gallacher's impressive climax to the Bill Thompson trilogy, Thompson's life suddenly becomes fraught with absurd complications - and danger. Unable to prove that he was not negligent (you cannot prove you are not something), he sets out to discover why the ship did sink. Was she 'cast away' - sunk on purpose - to claim the insurance payout of 15 million pounds? Can he prove 'destructive diligence'? If so, on whose part? Even when the inquiry is over, the ripples it has spread still pursue him. His 'damnable detachment' crumbles when he falls in love with Barbara, vigorous, energetic, a successful actress. But what of her relationship with the engineer officer who is Bill's sworn enemy? He begins to doubt his powers of survival on dry land. London is a hard place to be the captain of your soul. SURVIVOR takes Bill Thompson full circle. In the end it is Isa Mulvenny, his landlady who looked after him during his Clydeside years as an apprentice twenty-five years before, who provides him with his key to the future in a particularly poignant way. What started out as five short stories in APPRENTICE has borne fruit in three outstanding books, of which SURVIVOR, with Gallacher's unerring eye for the dramas of everyday life, is the unexpectedly moving finale. inventory #604.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1984. Hamish Hamilton. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0241112656. 175 pages. hardcover. Jacket artwork by Paul Wright. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - 'For reasons that I'm ashamed of now, I was living in Montreal in the spring of 1967': thus begins Bill Thompson's account of life in his twenty-seventh year. A decade after beginning as an apprentice in a Clydeside shipyard, he had a secure job as an engineering officer and a certain partnership in his father's firm to look forward to. Now he is on the run, hiding out in scruffy digs on Montreal's lower east side. His twenty-seventh year is crucial, decisive for his future, a time of double or quits. But there are crises in the lives of other young men too, and Bill's relationship with the tough Glaswegian Hugh Gillespie with whom he shares a room exposes a parallel predicament. Where Bill is pursued, Hugh is the pursuer, seeking after an old friend who was once the 'witness' to his life. What each of them has to come to terms with, amid the blaze and youthful optimism of Montreal's great World Fair, is the discovery of their own loss of youthful ideals. Tom Gallacher's stories in APPRENTICE introduced Bill Thompson and the earthy Scots he lived with to a wide and appreciative audience. Now, in more cosmopolitan vein but just as fresh, JOURNEYMAN reinforces Gallacher's reputation as a master of acute, funny, cannily crafted storytelling. inventory #599.

Condición: New.

Hard Cover. First Edition. 1st UK edition. 1st printing. NF/F.

Paperback. Condición: New. Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M. Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE. Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s.Poor Tom tells of a young man's struggle to come to terms with the slow death of his brother in the city slums of a culturally impoverished Scotland. Fernie Brae celebrates the growth and education of a sensitive in a novel reminiscent of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Gordon Williams's novel tells a grimmer story as its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl: 'From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs.' Set in the Clydeside shipyards, the wryly observant and humorous style of Apprentice strikes a happier note from the 1960s.

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Paperback. Condición: Good. 190 pages.

Condición: NEW.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.