scribners 1974 ny (18 resultados)

brown cloth hardbound 8vo. ~ 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). possible book club edition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ printing # not given. 186p. 11 glossy full color plates. 3 maps. 28 illustations. world history. british empire. biography. american history. travel & exploration. ~ The early Spanish colonization of the Americas is justly famous: England's unsuccessful attempt to colonize the New World during the same century is less well known. Michael Foss's Undreamed Shores is about England's failure, examining why England, acknowledged mistress of the seas in the reign of Elizabeth I, possessed not a square mile of American land at the end of her reign. From the visionary john Cabot, granted a royal patent in 1496 'to discover in any part of the world lands formerly unknown to Christians, to annex, conquer, and occupy them in the kinq's name', to Sir Walter Raleigh, whose 1584 colony at Roanoke Island struggled for some brief years and died, hardly any good resulted from a waste of energy and lives. The story is one of devious policy allied to misplaced idealism, high~flying ambition, and plain greed. The men who thrust themselves into the work of colonization were men with various and suspicious motives: Thomas Stukeley, rogue and pirate, Humphrey Gilbert, the hot~headed idealist, the impractical navigator who had hardly been to sea, and the incalculable Walter Raleigh, the entrepreneur of colonization, to whom Virginia was both a work of patriotism and a stepping~stone for his own ambition. And caught in the visionary or sordid schemes of the great were the ordinary victims of ambition and greed ~ the sailors, the colonists, the Indians. Buffeted by forces they could neither control nor understand they acted as best they could, suffered and died. These attempts, which in the last judgment are dark and tragic, are still illuminated by the extraordinary courage and energy of men like Stukeley, Gilbert, Lane and Grenville, and sweetened by the patient efforts of Thomas Harlot, the geographer, and john White, the painter, to whom we owe so much for our knowledge of early American life.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st. 6 x 9. 148 pages, w/large bibliography. "What fire can mean to certain people, and how it can be exploited for money, power, or sexual gratification." Very small dampstain at bottom spine edge.

. Ilustrador. VG/VG; lower inch of most pages shows light damp wrinkle near corner. HB in jacket; 512 pp. A collection of 65 documents and essays, including two by WC and discussion of Churchill's War Doctrine. . .

Cloth w/DJ. Condición: G/VG. Black & White/Color Illus. Ilustrador. no ed. stated. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. G/VG. (1974). no ed. stated. Cloth w/DJ. Signed by both Authors . Sm 4to., 277 pp., Dj rubbed, frayed, yellowing, cover edges rubbed, frayed, soiling, page toning .

; 62 pp.; DJ; F/F; Appears to be an unread copy._____Not price-clipped._____No remainder marks._____No prior owner's marks of any kind._____. . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. rare childrens kids juvenile young adult picture].

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover 8Vp Illustrated 258 pages.very good copy.small chipping on top spine and corner a very good dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. cloth hardd cover.tall 8vo.illustrated.315 PP.very good copy in very good Dust jacket.price present.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a FINE Dustjacket. First Edition, first Printing. Juvenile nonfiction illustrated with black and white photos by author. Old store stock in unread condition.

First edition with a 1 present in the number line; small 4to.; paper covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 81 pages; color illustrated plates; some light internal foxing else very good in a lightly sunned dust jacket.

1st vg/vg #560V.

good. . LOC:G56 D/j is good Pages - 365. Later printing edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. 134 pages, cloth. FINE in soiled dustjacket. Story of a ten year old boy living in Scotland who father promises him a calf for his birthday. Rob promises to care for her forever, even when the farm is put up for sale.

Photographs (Black & White) Ilustrador. First Printing. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. (1974). First Printing. 4to., 253 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket.

Oblong 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn and foxed dust jacket.

Illus. Hrdcvr in VG jacket w/ price intact; black clth, bright spine gilt; 260 pp.; remainder mark lower p. edges; small amt. of moisture caused 2 sm. damp marks on top p. edges, mild lightening at/near part of top board edges, & less than 1" long surface place (print unaffected) on 2 pp. which were once adhered at that very small place & are now separated & have mild ripple; 260 pages plus 26 captioned plates on pages of semi-glossy paper; in attractive dust jacket with very minimal shelfwear; tight copy; scarce.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. 132 pages, cloth. Rich collection of poems in which the poets record their perceptions of the various seasons.

Photographs (Black & White) Ilustrador. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. (1974). 8vo., 294 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Very light dustiness at top edge of page block. The jacket has some soiling, primarily on the spine, and a shallow chip on the top edge of the front panel that just barely takes off the top 1/8" of the "D" in the title. The book is tight and square, and signed by the author at the top of the front endpaper. $6.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book, except author's signature. Signed by Author(s).