murphy kenneth james (12 resultados)

Unknown Binding. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Book and cover look really nice. Binding is tight and square. Book is clean as a whistle inside and out.

Condición: New.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine hardback copyright 2009 SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS; NF in VG dj; tight, square text block in clean dj that shows two small closed tears to top edge of front wrap; 281 pages B-33.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good dj. First Edition. [minor shelfwear to book, one-time owner's address label on ffep; jacket is lightly soiled, with small tears at spine extremities and a couple more small closed tears at top of front panel (all somewhat amateurishly tape-repaired), and a long vertical crease in the lower left section of the front panel]. (B&W photos, facsimile documents, maps) SIGNED by both authors on the title page. World War II memoir by a survivor of the Bataan Death March. Signed by All Authors.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Light Edgewear Dj. A lovely copy of the first edition signed by both authors. A compelling true life saga of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of James T. Murphy, who was taken captive by Japanese Imperial Forces on April 9, 1942 in the Philippine Islands, just four months after the outbreak of World War II. This is a story that transcends generations and gender. Follow Murphy's remarkable journey, consider the tragedies and triumphs -- and let them serve as both a caution to societies and an inspiration to individuals. Reawaken your faith in life and in humanity - from the vantage point of one man who defied the U.S. Secretary of War's dark prediction of his fate in early 1942 when that high-ranking government official declared : "There are times when men must die.". Signed by Author(s). Book.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good in wraps. Slight foxing to covers. Some edge wear to exterior. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9"h x 6"w. In this issue: "Biology and the Social Sciences", "Misconceptions of the Social Science", "Scientism, Interpretation, and Criticism", "Theology and the Social Sciences - Discipline and Antidiscipline", Theology as the Queen (Bee) of the Disciplines?".

Softcover. Condición: Fine. Periodical. Stapled wrappers. 112pp. Fine. A collection of poems, letters, essays, and reviews by Simon J. Ortiz, Grey Cohoe, Duane Niatum, Ronald H. Bayes, Sam Ragan, Dan Jaffe, Millen Brand, Sonja Prins, Norman Macleod, Emily Mae Murphy, Carl Rakosi, Soni Martin, Beth Jackson, Eugene Toran, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Margaret M. Shepherd, Kregg Spivey, Ian McDonald, Samuel C. LaFleur, Kenneth Pauli, Kathleen S. Platt, Jay Barrington, James Schevill, Frederick Eckman, Hugh Miller, Van K. Brock, D.V. Smith, Joseph Epolito, Richard Vela, Elvoy Raines, D.M. Pettinella, Mervyn Morris, Don Sears, W.E. Ryan, Mary F. Hatchell, William Lane Hudson, Jr., Grace E. Gibson, R.W. Reising, Gavin Bantock, Jane Mayhall, Murray K. Morton, Dick Barnes, Phyllis Wood, Hugh Macdiarmid, Michael Paul Novak, William Page, Mike Doyle, James Hoggard, Johnnie Herring, Leondard Nathan, Grace Herman, Linda Lloyd, Peter Wild, Walter Griffin, Stephen G. Smith, Paula Rankin, Jean Baptiste, Donald R. Swanson, Vickie D. Green, Tim Tourtellotte, Thomas Michael Fisher, John Filiatreau, William Peden, Brom Weber, Guy Owen, Eric W. Gregory, Joseph Kalar, and Michael R. Brown.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Periodical. Stapled wrappers. 100pp. Spine lightly age-toned, corners rubbed, near fine. Laid in is an Inscribed letter by contributor Norman MacLeod and addressed to poet and contributor Daniel Hoffman. Additionally, laid in is an invitation to the fourth Gregory Award being given to Norman Macleod. An interesting association copy. "Amerindian Poetry by Simon J. Ortiz, Ray Young Bear, West Indian Poetry by Ian McDonald, Faustin Charles, Basil McFarlane, Jean Baptiste, Lights from Galapagos by Kregg Spivey, An Introduction by Thad Stem, Jr. to a Poem by Robert McAlmon, R.J. Rundus on the Fiction of Guy Owen, Henry Berry Lowry: Lumbee Symbol by David K. Eliades, Poems by Arthur Gregor, Philip Levine, Endre Ady, Hugh Macdiarmid, Peter Wild, William Stafford, Daniel Hoffman, Nancy Vodvarka, Margaret M. Shepherd, Stanley Noyes, Kurt Johnson, Macleod: American Bunting by Ronald Vela, Grace Gibson, Art by Kris Hotvedt, Von Lehn, Seymour Tubis, Grey Cohoe, Wenceslaus Riley, and Courtney Moyah.".

Paperback. Condición: FINE. FINE. Privately published. Black lettering to spine and covers, black and white photo illustration to front cover, color illustration of an oil painting by Ben Steele to rear cover. No reading crease to spine. Very clean, tight, bright. Many photos throughout. 282 pp with acknowledgements and about the authors. An intimate first-hand account of three and a half years in a POW camp in Havana, with down-to-earth insights on following one's values, a poignant tale of universal themes like the stuggle of good versus evil. "The compelling saga of the trials and tribulations of one American taken captive by Japanese Imperial Forces in the Philippine Islands shortly after the outbreak of World War II. Forced to make the infamous Bataan Death March under a blistering, tropical sun for nearly two weeks with virtually no food or water, this twenty-one year old lad from southeast Texas encountered countless acts of cruelty contrasted with heroic acts of selflessness and kindness along the way.".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.