pilgrim de john masters (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with a slight tone. Good DJ with toning.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with minor age tone. Owner name to end paper. DJ with some edge wear and age tone.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 396pp; central section of labelled black and white photographic plates. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed corners and spine ends, quite cocked. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Free endpapers just starting to fox and tan; previous owner's name on front free endpaper; pages just starting to age. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has water stain along bottom, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Dust jacket and book are clean with minor wear. Has a good binding, no marks or notations. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket front inner flap has a little sticker remainder, if there was a printed price it has been clipped.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good Jacket. First Edition. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in 1971'. No additional printings are indicated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. First edition first impression hardback, 1971, with price-clipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - white dust jacket slightly rubbed and tanned to spine and edges (now protected); boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature to front pastedown; light tanning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a good mylar wrapped dust jacket. No markings.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. First US Edition. Fine first edition housed in good dust jacket. DJ has chipping and small tears throughout. Light tanning on page edges. Former owners book plate on paste down. ; John Masters tells his story of a personal odyssey--from his early days in Cape Town, South Africa, to his years as a missionary in the Philippines, to his later years in Hawaii. The book is both a personal reflection and a story of faith.; 8vo ; 383 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Fine first edition housed in very good dust jacket. DJ has light tanning on top edges. Light tanning on page edges. ; John Masters was born in 1947 in the small town of Midland, Michigan. He was raised by his widowed mother and stepfather. In 1968, John enlisted in the United States Air Force and served for three years. After leaving the Air Force, he attended college and earned a degree in psychology. In 1984, John and his wife, Laurie, moved to Hawaii to begin a new life. John began a new career as a therapist and began writing about his experiences. He wrote the book, Pilgrim Son, in 2003.; 8vo ; 396 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Book has very light bumping to the top and bottom edges of the spine. Unclipped DJ has minor creasing to the edges. 'Pilgrim Son' is uniquely John Masters' own story: the autobiography of a man who through hard work and natural genius made himself into a household name. Masters was from the start determined to break through, and his admirers will be fascinated to read of the struggle that went into the creation of the author who wrote 'Night runners of Bengal', his first novel and the first of the great series set in British India. ***** Free shipping available to UK buyers. For customers located outside the UK, if the actual cost of shipping your order is lower than the price paid, then a refund of the difference will be issued.

Soft. Condición: Good. 'Uncorrect Proof Copy'. Good. Slightly foxing. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on FEP. Rubbing along panel edges.

Hard Cover. Three hardcover books---Bugles, 1956, Viking, Book Club Edition, hardcover with dust jacket, 312 pages including map, drawings and seven black-and-white photographs; light shelf wear to covers, but clean and unmarked, Very Good condition; DJ has numerous chips, but is intact, about 90% complete, Fair condition---The Road, 1961, Companion Book Club Edition, hardcover without dust jacket, 335 pages including two maps and drawings, plus black-and-white photographs; very light shelf wear to covers, tiny corner bumps, gilt spine lettering very bright and clear, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked, Very Good + condition---Pilgrim, 1971, Putnam, First American Edition, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 383 pages; light shelf wear to covers, but clean and unmarked, Very Good condition; DJ has numerous tiny chips, tape repaired tears, still Fair.

3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper of second volume; cloth (brown/green/red respectively), a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Bugles and a Tiger (first Book Society edition, 1956); The Road past Mandalay (first US edition, 1961); Pilgrim Son (first edition, 1971). Masters' autobiography takes us from his well-known war service in the Far East, his re-entry into civilian life and his transition 'from English fighting man to American writing man'. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.