U s press edition (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First U. S. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First U. S. 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.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 1. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, x, 438 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her "bloody nest," James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumored that his father, Henry , had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed lover, Dvid Riccio. by the time James was one year old, Henry was murdered (possibly with his mother's aid), Mary was in exile in England, and James was King of Scotland. By the age of five, he had experienced three different regents as the ancient dynasties of Scotland battled for power and made him a virtual prisoner in Stirling Castle. In fact, James did not set foot outside Stirling until he was eleven, when he took control of the country. But even with royal power in his hands, he would never feel safe. For the rest of his life he was caught up in bitter struggles between the warring political and religious factions who sought to control him -- mind and body. Nevertheless, he eventually became an accomplished political operator, carefully avoiding controversy, even when his mother was sent to the executioner by Elizabeth I. His cautious politics won him the English throne on Elizabeth's death in 1603. British History, Scottish History, European History, England, Political Science, Political Biography, British Biography bslic. …

Square quarto, charcoal boards (hardcover), silver letters, map illus. endpapers, 190 full-color illustrations, 193 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: More than four thousand miles in length, the Niule is the longest river on Earth. Its power and mystery have held mankind in thrall from the dawn of history, and Kazuyoshi Nomachi not only has photographed the splendors of the Egyptian Niule -- from the mysteries of the pyramids at Aswan and Luxor to the bustle of Cairo and Alexandria -- but has also traveled in the footsteps of explorers, from Hrodotus to Livingstone and Stanley, who have sought to chart its course. He followed the Nile to its upper reaches, along its two great tributaries, the Blue Nile and the White Nile, into the Sudan and Ethiopia and beyond the Ruwenzori Mountains, where the White Nile starts as a spring trickling down a gully in the highlands. Nomachi has recorded here his own personal odyssey and his unique vision of these mysterious p[laces. He captures with marvelous authenticity both the changing worlds of the great river -- its deserts, its marshlands, its highlands -- and the vibrant diversity of the peoples who live along its banks. The Dinka herdsmen, the pilgrims who celebrate Christmas at Lalibela, Arab women traveling by felucca, a camel caravan in the desert, and the whirling dances of the Islamic mystics at Omdurman are all brilliantly portrayed. These photographs represent a superb artistic achievement. **This large volume will require additional shipping fees for Priority or International orders. African History, Africa, Nile, Ancient Civilization, Natural History, Civlization, Anthropology. yslic.…

Octavo, blue & white boards (hardcover), white letters, xxiii, 264 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: If there is one image that conjures up the idea of the Mystical East, it is the Indian rope trick: A rope snakes into the air. A boy climbs the rope and when he gets to the top -- he vanishes. At once homespun, philosophical, and free of apparent gadgetry, the trick has enthralled generations of magic-lovers in the West. Photographs and eyewitnesses have attested to its ability to amaze. There is one problem. It never existed. The rope trick is one of the most successful hoaxes of all time, created by an amateur magician and printed in the Chicago Tribune in 1890. Despite a later admission that the story was false, it continued to spread in newspapers and journals throughout the world. Some claimed to have seen the trick performed on trips to India. Others added their own spin to the tale. Using the original legend as a starting point, Peter Lamont, himself a magician, explores how easily people will believe stories that are fed to them as truth despite experience, intuition, and the laws of nature. Debunking, Performing Arts, Magic, Philosophy, Human Nature. bslic.…

Octavo, burgundy boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, 225 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket in protective mylar wrapper. From dust jacket: "I never saw the second salvo. Under my feet there is a gaping hole. The stick, cut off at the base, hangs uselessly in my right hand. The engine is running wildly. My kite, mortally hit, rears up to the sky; then, howling like a wounded beast, the engine explodes." Charles Demoulin's luck had at last run out, after he had flown more than 500 ops with 609 Squadron during the last three years of World War II. When Germany invaded Belgium -- his native country -- Demoulin was barely 20 years old, determined to subdue Hitler from the cockpit of a fighter. During his escape to England, he was badly wounded, with a shattered right elbow. A lesser man might have given up any attempt to realise his ambition but, after in as mobile enough to allow him to fly. Even after having been accepted into the RAF, though, Demoulin had another battle to fight against those who wanted to post him overseas before he finally joined his dream squadron, No. 609 (West Riding of Yorkshire). In Firebirds Demoulin vividly recounts his experiences as a fighter pilot in the RAF: training on Spitfires; his first engagement with the enemy soon after joining 609, flying Typhoons; the colourful and legendary characters whom he saw fly -- and die; the day when he benefited personally from the heroic work of the Air/Se Rescue lads; Normandy; Arnhem; night sorties; anti-shipping strikes; attacks on flak-ships and V1 launching sites; dogfights; bomber escorts -- in short, not much less than 1000 hours of operational flying, until that inevitable day when the enemy found him at last, and Demoulin was forced to accept German 'hospitality.' Even then, his adventures were not over for, when liberation came, he found himself under Russian authority. Aviation, Military History, World War II, Second World War, WWII zslic. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. ISBN: 0226470806, hardcover, orange cloth, silver spine lettering, ex-library w/ usual markings, GOOD, 384 pp. including notes, bibliographies, appendixes, and index; six pp. have small to medium-sized stains largest of which is 1 7/16" X 5/8", all print legible; front cover lightly scratched w/ two moderate bumps. A collection of articles by Le Goff which are divided into 4 main sections entitled: "Time and Labor", "Labor and Value Systems", "High Culture and Popular Culture", and "Toward A Historical Anthropology". A scholarly work.…

Octavo, black boards (hardcover), 295 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Through the course of his eight unforgettable novels, Jonathan Carroll has earned comparisons to writers as diverse as Herman Hesse, Stephen King, Mark Helprin, Shriley Jackson, C. S. Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and John Milton. As this volume of shorter fiction demonstrates, however, Jonathan Carroll is one of a kind. The twenty stories collected here transmit the same intense charges of intellect and emotion that characterize Carroll's longer works. Literature, Horror, Anthology, Macabre, Fiction.…

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. 1981-08-06.