Title eighth day (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. THE MIRACLE (Original title: THE EIGHTH DAY). Stamp mark. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed, small creases and edge worn. On the second blank page of the book there are minor annotations. The pages are slightly 'browned', the text within the book is clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

hardcover. Condición: Good. Ex-Library hardcover book no dust jacket, usual library marks, has some light reader wear.

Paperback. Condición: Good. photos, 27, [1]p. Original wrapper. 31cm. Moderate wear (corner curl and creasing, light edge-wear, etc.). Maureen Connolly played on Centre Court on July 1st in the Ladies Singles semi-final and in the Mixed Doubles semi-final. She won the Wimbledon Singles Championship three straight years (1952-1954) before her brilliant (and very short) career was ended at the age of 19 when her right leg was accidentally crushed by a cement truck. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 34.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Caulfield, Printed and Published by Edgar H. Baillie for The Herald and Weekly Times Limited, [1950]. Large oblong octavo, 52 pages with an illustrated foreword, 47 pages of comic strips, and advertisements on three sides of the covers. Saddle-stapled colour-pictorial title-wrappers a little foxed, with a few tiny chips to the edges, and a short tear to the rear wrapper expertly sealed; short splits to the ends of the spine; three pairs of staple-holes through the inner margins close to the spine, with slight associated rust-marks to the wrappers (these staples had been added unnecessarily by an early owner, and removed by us); slight loss to the bottom corner-tip of all leaves; minor signs of age and use, but overall, a very good copy. Stanley Cross (1888-1977) 'created perhaps Australia's best-known cartoon, known by its caption "For Gorsake, stop laughing - this is serious". His art portrayed typical Australians, from farmers to jackaroos, doctors and diggers. For The Herald in Melbourne, he created the adventures of Wally and the Major in a comic strip syndicated for decades in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji and celebrated in 18 annual books from 1943 to 1960. His name is perpetuated in the annual Black and White Artists' Club Stanley Awards' (the 'Australian Media Hall of Fame' website). In 1939, 'Cross was asked to create a newly daily strip, and he started his most popular strip, "The Winks" on 20 April 1940. For the first three months, the strip employed a domestic comedy theme and was basically a toned down version of "You & Me". The characters "Mr Wink" reflected the role of Mr Potts, while the tall, thin, long-faced character was similar to "Whalesteeth". In the initial stages, the characters were given their own weekly strip, "Tidley Winks & Wally". "The Winks" was only moderately popular until Cross decided to change the strip's direction and take the main characters into the Army. Mr Winks became Major Winks on 15 July 1940 and the strip was renamed Wally and the Major. Over the next thirty years . readers were able to enjoy the extraordinary, knock-about adventures and lifestyle of Private Wally Higgins, Major Winks, Pudden Bensen, and a company of comedy players - in the army in World War II and, afterwards, on their North Queensland sugarcane plantation' (Wikipedia).…