Life locals (16 resultados)

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

Condición: New.

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.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No jacket. Hervey Benham Charitable Trust, 1996. Paperback, 8vo, x,135pp, illust. Spine faded. A good copy. 0952936003/0.4uk.

paperback in very good condition; 241 pages, colour and b/w illusts, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy: firm, clean, square and tight with no underlining or splits.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Paperback. Condición: Like New. First Edition. A nearly new copy, in bright fresh condition: very clean, square and tight with no pen-marks, no underlining and no splits.

105 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 68. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1977 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 68.…

paperback. Condición: New. Paperback. Pub Date: 2015-09-10 Pages: 256 Language: Traditional Chinese Publisher: Shangzhouwenhua Corporation each flavor is a piece of emotional memory. every encounter all of life is a confession. breaking down barriers. exotic and depth strangers were eating at the same table. and delivered to friends. listen to moving story . food traveler Zhang Jianfang Rebel world. through diet and interact with the locals. get exotic dining table. listen to sounds stranger confided mood: in Turk.…

None. Condición: None. Oblong Quarto album ca. 18,5x28,8 cm (7 ¼ x 11 in). 36 card stock leaves. With 272 mounted original gelatin silver photographs, with one larger photo ca. 24,6x17,4 cm (9 ¾ x 6 ¾ in) and the rest from ca. 10,2x12,8 cm (4 x 5 in) to ca. 5,1x4,2 cm (2 x 1 ½ in). Several dozen photographs with period English captions and/or period ink stamps "Passed by Naval Censor" on the verso; with three period newspaper clippings from ca. 26,5x20,2 cm (10 ½ x 8 in) to ca. 7,8x25,5 cm (3 x 10 in) and one leaflet ca. 10,5x15,8 cm (4 x 5 ¼ in). Period brown faux leather album fastened with a string; with decorative strap hinges and lock plate on the front cover. Binding with worn edges, mild silvering of the photos, but otherwise a very good album with strong, interesting photos. Historically important collection of original photographs likely compiled by an American Mess Officer of the 11th Special Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) during his service in the Pacific Theater of WWII.  The Battalion was commissioned in September 1943 as a specialized combat stevedoring unit. Arriving first at the Allied command hub of Nouméa, New Caledonia, the battalion was quickly pushed forward into the Solomon Islands, spending the entirety of 1944 performing cargo operations on the Russell Islands. As the Pacific War reached its climax, the unit was split into two tactical echelons and attached directly to the 1st Marine Division in the Russell Islands and the 6th Marine Division on Guadalcanal. On April 1, 1945, the two halves reunited on the beaches of Okinawa on "L-Day," remaining on the Passed by naval censor until October 25, 1945 The album contains 272 well-preserved amateur photographs, including about eighty images of Okinawa taken in the immediate aftermath of the Allied invasion in April 1945. The operation aimed to secure the island as a staging base for the planned invasion of mainland Japan. As members of a Special Construction Battalion, the compiler and his companions were apparently responsible for unloading large quantities of ammunition and heavy equipment. The most important photographs show post-battle cityscapes with ruined buildings and shrines, a wrecked Imperial Japanese aircraft, and scenes of wartime atrocities. About fifteen lively street scenes feature French signage reading "Postes Télégraphes Téléphones" and "Fruit ou Soldat," French and American flags flying from local buildings, automobiles with visible license plates, and Allied militaries flocking the streets. Especially interesting are photos of Seabees unloading pontoon structures and building shoreline encampments, a vast pontoon pier under construction amid heavy equipment, an aerial view of invasion ships densely assembled offshore, as well as Allied aircrafts and tanks. Other photographs depict a First Marine Division cemetery in Okinawa, portraits of locals, and servicemen posing with Japanese civilians. The Okinawa series is supplemented with four pieces of period ephemera, including a South Japan edition banner of Yank, the Army Weekly; a WWII news sheet from The New Okinawan dated August 9, 1945, reporting the Soviet declaration of war on Japan and analysis of the atomic bomb; Allied propaganda leaflet likely dropped over Japan in 1945, blaming Japanese militarists for the war and predicting imminent defeat; and a "Restricted Extra" issue of The New Okinawan (August 15, 1945), marking V-J Day and Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration. Most of the other identified photographs were apparently taken and collected by the compiler during his service in the Russel Islands in 1944. Especially interesting are the photos of locals wearing traditional jewelries and crosses, posing by their huts, smoking pipe, reading Life magazine, washing clothes, building canoes, etc. Some of their portraits are accompanied by the compiler's curious captions on the verso, including "a girl of about 8 years old. No matter how awful the natives are the little ones are very cute;".…