Title first contact (5 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dust Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. New, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and dated on the RELEASE DATE by the author on the title page (signature and date only). 1st edition,1st printing, complete numberline. New, unread copy. "New York Times Book Review Best 10 Books of 2024" medallion. By the PEN USA Award- and Discover Award-winning author of "Hellhound on His Trail" and "Ghost Soldiers". Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First printing of the first UK edition, this copy SIGNED by the author on the title-page. ***Near fine in tan cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions other than the author's. Pages clean, just slightly tanned (cheap paper stock used). No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £7.95. The dustwrapper is complete, with just minimal rubbing and creasing to the extremities, with a small scuff to the top corner of the front panel. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. No chips or tears. No significant creases. Dustwrapper bright. ***230 pages. 204mm x 120mm. ***'This is a tough thriller, full of action and surprise and with an evocatively drawn background of New York.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Stripped for speed and fueled by his best dialogue yet, Randisi's "Full Contact" races in high gear from start to finish.' Loren E. Estleman - (Review quote taken from the back panel). ***A first UK edition of this American private eye crime novel - uncommon to find signed by the author. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 48 pages. Published in 2001. Collection of black-and-white photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Andrea Modica: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with white title on the cover, as issued. Photographs and text by Andrea Modica. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Andrea Modica's "Contact Sheet 111". Some of the finest images by one of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. An artist who has explored nothing less than the mysteries of life in her work, Andrea Modica deserves a much larger mainstream audience than the devoted cult following she enjoys. A Guggenheim Fellow, Modica has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is featured in the Permanent Collections of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An absolute "must-have" title for Andrea Modica collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Andrea Modica. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDREA MODICA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 093544520X. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. INCREDIBLY SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION STATED, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed, dated, and located directly to the full title page by the author, Mr. Hampton Sides "May 7, 2024 Washington, DC". NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. "Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook's story and retells it for the 21st century."Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain's imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook's intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook's overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. INCREDIBLY SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION STATED, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed, dated, and located directly to the full title page by the author, Mr. Hampton Sides "May 7, 2024 Washington, DC". NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. "Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook's story and retells it for the 21st century."Los Angeles Times On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment? Hampton Sides' bravura account of Cook's last journey both wrestles with Cook's legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment. Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain's imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook's intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook's overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter. At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers. Signed by Author(s).…