The overlook press first edition stated (7 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A washed -up former player is now a scout. His task to smuggle a potential superstar pitcher out of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The scout is both the narrator and a main character in the book. Now his problem is-it is clear that Cuba is much farther from the Florida Keys that than the miles marked on a map. First Edition stated with all numbers from 1 to 9 present. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have around 215 Baseball Novels and Mysteries, 60 items on International Baseball, and more than 2,500 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order. Jean Carbain (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Baseball fanatic Henry Granville forces his son to use both arms so to excel in baseball. Soon his son Danny can throw perfectly with either arm. He skyrockets into the major leagues. But a reporter hungry for a scoop, exaggerates Henry's obsession and exposes him as a monster. The pressure of the media threaten to destroy the world father and son have created. The book is in NEAR FINE condition, the non price clipped Dust Jacket is in very good condition. First Edition stated with all numbers from 1 to 10 present. I have more than 180 Baseball Novels and Mysteries and over 2,300 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order. Catherine Casalino (ilustrador).…

Octavo, black cloth & boards (hardcover), silver letters, 283 pp. Near Fine, with former-owner signature to ffep.; in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Code breaking has always played an essential role not only in the romance of espionage but, as importantly, in its reality. This reality continues today in an age of electronic banking and the Internet, with its emphasis on the coding and decoding of information. The achievements of cryptography -- the art of writing and deciphering coded messages -- have become a part of our everyday life. Its history, a narrative and a tapestry of fascinating developments, makes for marvelous reading. In this provocative work, Rudolph Kipperhan offers readers both an exciting chronicle of crytography as well as a lucid exploration of the constantly evolving art of coding and decoding languages. Codes have been used throughout history: Caesar sent letters to Cicero and Galileo hid his celestial discoveries in code; various popes resorted to coding messages to their supporters; Francis Bacon and Edgar Allan Poe were both ardent and gifted cryptographers; Thomas Jefferson was such a codemaster that he invented an encryption device named after him -- its modern version was still in use during World War II. Espionage, Cryptology, Codebreaking, Codebreakers, Sociology, Technology. yslic.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth spine, yellow boards, 6 1/4 X 9 1/2 inches, 388 pages indexed. 16 pages of photographs on glossy stock. Near Fine, in unclipped Near Fine jacket. A remarkable undertaking.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. cloth Large 8vo. 318 PP.near fine copy in Near fine Dust Jacket.former owner sticket on endpaper. A Page of NY times with the review of the book inserted.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped along top edges with a one inch tear at top front edge. 206 pages with index. Illustrated with photographs. 4to size opening lengthwise.

Hard Back. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Yes. Collectible hardback book, very nice condition. Previous onwer name on ffep, minor. Clean bright, hardly opened condition. Very slight edge wear/shelf wear, normal for a book of it's age. In nice dust jacket, with some wear at the edges. Previous owenr name on top of ffep, minimal. Features interesting photos and/or illustrations to enhance the text. Excellent source for study. Poignent research material for students and academics. Delves into this subject with fresh ideas and thoughts, a good read. I am an artist, I've read this book twice. It is the best book on creating the look of old master works. Easy page turner, full of brilliant ideas and references. With recipes and tips from vaccum dust to stripping old furniture for it's wood panels, to recipes for tempera, ink, oil paints, size, glue, varnish, as well as ways in which to pass off newly created works as aged relics. If you're an established artist or just a beginner, this is a "must have" book for all those interested in drawing and painting [oil and tempera]. Many of Hebborn's works have gone unquestioned as orginals. This is the follow up to his autobiography "Drawn to Trouble: Teh Forging of an Artist". This books is scarce, because the information it gives is top secret, the book comes with a disclaimer: All the art techniques and practices described in this book are for imformation only and should not be undertaken without full regard to their legal consequence. The legal views expressed in this book are those of an art forger and not a lawyer and readers should proceed with utmost caution. -- Simply brilliant work. -- About the author: Eric Hebborn was born in the London suburb of South Kensington to a Cockney family in 1934, although his mother was a gypsy. According to his autobiography, his mother beat him constantly as a child. At the age of eight, he states that he set fire to his school and was sent to Longmoor reformatory in Harold Wood, although his sister Rosemary disputes this.[citation needed] Teachers encouraged his painting talent and he became connected to the Maldon Art Club, where he first exhibited at the age of 15. Hebborn attended Chelmsford Art School and Walthamstow Art School before attending the Royal Academy. He flourished at the Academy, winning the Hacker Portrait prize and the Silver Award, and the Rome Scholarship in Engraving, a two year scholarship to the British School at Rome in 1959.[1] There he became part of the international art scene and formed acquaintances with many artists and art historians, including the British spy, Sir Anthony Blunt in 1960, who told Hebborn that a couple of his drawings looked like Poussins. This sowed the seeds of his forgery career. Hebborn returned to London where he was hired by art restorer George Aczel. During his employ he was instructed not only to restore paintings, but to alter them and improve them. George Aczel graduated him from restoring existing paintings to "restoring" paintings on entirely blank canvases so that they could be sold for more money. A falling out over Eric's knowledge of painting and restoration destroyed the relationship between Aczel and Hebborn. Eric and his lover Graham David Smith also frequented a junk and antique shop near Leicester Square, where Eric befriended one of the owners, Marie Gray. In organizing the prints catalogued in the shop Eric began to understand more about paper, and its history and uses in art. It was on some of these blank, but old, pieces of paper that Eric made his first forgeries. His first true forgeries were pencil drawings after Augustus John and were based on a drawing of a child by Andrea Schiavone. Graham Smith states [2] that several of these were sold to their landlord Mr Davis, several to Bond Street galleries and two or three through Christie's sale rooms. Eventually Hebborn decided to settle in Italy with Graham, and they founded a private gallery there. Life as a forger When contemporary critics did not. 3. Illustrated with Color Photography (ilustrador). Book.…