Bowie beverley (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Photos, 10 x 6.75", wraps, 146pp + ads, covers rubbed and soiled, some creasing but overall a fairly nice copy. Volume CXIV Number One. The article runs from page 96 through page 127, and includes photos and a two-page map; whole issue present.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Near Fine. First Edition. Sturdy copy, inside and out, no discernible wear to exterior, light waffling of paste-downs, probably owing to glue, else unobtrusive, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct silver lettering to cover and spine. Introduced by C.L. Barker, and illustrated. 63 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. (poetry).

Broschur. , Supplemental map of Poland and Czechoslovakia is present and folded in volume. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. ; Contents: Fisher, You and the obedient atom. Kuhn and Lessing, Poland opens her doors. Bowie and Wentzel, The white horses of Vienna. Condon and Boyer, Blossoms that defy the seasons. Gilliard and Truslow, Feathered dancers of little Tobago. Severy, The book of dogs: GOOD Size: 25 x 17 Cm. 550 Gr.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, lower front corner bumped, minor white stain at bottom of front cover; the jacket is well-worn, somewhat scraped and scuffed, with an M-shaped chip at the bottom of the front panel, some mostly-internal dampstaining surrounding the base of the spine, and a number of small chips and nicks along the top edge]. A "fast-moving, hilarious satire of the cloak-and-dagger business," set in the late stages of World War II, involving one Lt. Holliday "of America's oh-so-secret Force 99," who is dispatched to the fictional Russian-occupied Balkan nation of "Carpathia," where he is charged with ferreting out a document "vital to the Joint Chiefs of Staff" and finds himself getting entangled with a sexy Baroness, among other wacky adventures. The author certainly knew the territory: from 1942 he served in the O.S.S. under the legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan; per his NYT obituary, "he was the first United States soldier to enter Rumania in the closing days of World War II, [parachuting] into Bucharest several days before the [Russian] troops arrived." The jacket blurb further elaborates on this exploit, which (despite its deadly serious nature) clearly provided much of the inspiration for his novel: "He flew into the Balkans in August, 1944, the day the Russians marched in, and there combed P.W. camps, blew safes, hunted holed-up Germans and interrogated internees," all of which earned him a decoration from Col. Donovan. His only novel, this might well be the earliest example of a satirical take on World War II espionage activities (one has to wonder what Donovan thought of it!); its farcical tone qualifies it (in my opinion) as a kind of spiritual precursor to Heller's "Catch-22," and its scarcity today suggests that it may have a bit of an underground reputation amongst spy-fans. Following the war, Bowie worked in various capacities in the federal government (as he had before his wartime service), and in 1951 became an editor at National Geographic Magazine, a position he still held at the time of his death in 1958 at age 44. Illustrated by (dj) Herbstman (illustrator).…