clarke tom e (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library marks, light wear, yellowing; a solid book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Juvenile; Inventory No: 227210.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Werth, Kurt (illustrator). 1st Edition. 224 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Kurt Werth. An adventure story set in Alaska. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the spine a touch darkened. A beautiful copy!

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine (-). "Vivid details of the adventures of the crew of the ship St. Roch as they coped with murder, starvation, disease, and riotous festivities, it is a chronicle of courage." From the collection of author Lesley Conger (nee Shirley Suttles). The book is inscribed to Conger and signed by author Clarke on the ffep. [the book was published in 1969, but the insciption is dated 1967 - this I cannot explain.] Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 189 numbered pp +1; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: blue, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, white/blue, b/w artwork + blue titles front/spine; v lt edge/shelfwear w/ minor wear to edges of head. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. Apparent First Edition. The story of the Depression through the eyes of Vic Martin, a 17 year-old runaway from the Pacific Northwest. From the collection of author Lesley Conger (nee Shirley Suttles). The book is inscribed to Conger and signed by Clarke on the ffep. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 252 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight. Cover: blue, orange titles front/spine; minimal shelfwear, head crinkled. DJ: unclipped, blue artwork all surfaces, black titles front/spine; lt edge/shelfwear w/ head and tips. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Sayre, Robert E. (illustrator). First Edition. 42 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Pounding Waves and Creaking Timbers - first of three chapters of "Master of the Moonrise"; The Whistle Pig - the marmot that scared the bear did not heed its own warning; Frontier Town - a Ketchikan old-timer who was there in 1898 presents some interesting recollections; No One at Home at Kulukak - Silence, complete, awful silence in a remote place can be a terrible thing; First Impressions - The first of two chapters of "Cannery Village"; and more. Unmarked. Moderate evidence of moisture exposure. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reference copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Machetanz, Frederick and Sara (illustrator). First Edition. 34 pages. Many black and white photos. Features: Editorial - The Future of Alaska's Gold Mining Industry; Indestructible "Pappy" Walker homesteaded on the Kenai Peninsula and survived a bear attack; J.H. Giese, tin-cutter and the first mayor of Nome had problems with dogs, revenues and a fire engine; The Yukon on the Yukon - travelling the treacherous Yukon River in Interior Alaska by comfortable steamboat; Muktuk - butchering a whale anchored to the ever-shifting ice of the Bering Sea is a challenge; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Cleaver, Reginald; ZMoorsom, F.G.; robinson, T.H.; Wightman, W.E.; Prater, Ernest; Peddie, Tom; Brock, H.M.; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.; Tresilian, S.; Piffard, H.; Mills, Reginals (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Through Spain in Disguise - Part I of the story of an odd wager, by the Countess Guerrini Malmignati; The Tiger-Man of the Whynooche - locals of Chehalis and Mason counties in Washington state feared this killer; The Ghost of Ozwatini - a strange story from Natal; "Quarrelsome Mac" - a nautical story; The "Hell-On-Earth" Legion - five years with the French Foreign Legion; Starting Life Afresh in South Africa - Our experiment in orange-growing (with wonderful photos) - part II; Nature's Nightmares - ugly animals; Nurse Warburton's Ordeal - she became lost while tramping from Hope to Princeton, British Columbia; Hunting the Australian Buffalo - article with super photos; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part III of a trip from Shanghai to Copenhagen in a forty-foot yacht; Trial by Jury - an awkward trial in India; Tuk-Took - a little Eskimo girl, her step-mother, and her dog - with nice photos; A Dead Man's Diary - an unknown white man perishes in the African wilds, but leaves his diary; The Mystery of "Dutch Henry" who was wanted "dead or alive" by two governments; nice vintage ads. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Wood, Stanley L.; Pearse, Alfred; Brock, R.H.; Crombie, Chas.; Whitaker, W.G.; Small, A.G.; Peddie, Tom; Elcock, Howard; Soper, G.; Wigfull, W.E.; Wood, Stanley L.; Waddell, J. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 12 pages of ads. Features: A Man's Luck - Hjalmar Rutzebeck's story of life and love in the far north (Part I); Where Men Live Without Water - photo-illustrated article of life in the Kalihari Desert; Photo of the World's Biggest Saws in British Columbia - 9' in diameter with 190 detachable teeth; The Truth About Louis De Rougemont - photo-illustrated article; A Woman Doctor in the Bush - Margaret Lamont in New Zealand; Buried Cities of Asia Minor - IV - adventures of archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley and Colonel T.E. Lawrence investigate the towns of Carchemish and Jerablus, on the Euphrates; A Tug-of-War with an Alligator - extraordinary affair on the coast of Northern Queensland; Photo of a Pergola made of tombstones at Galt, Ontario; Through Central American on Horseback - Part III - Eugene Cunningham and a friend ride through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guatemala - article with photos; After Wild Boar in Anatolia - story with photos; Our Man-Eater - story of a tiger on a tea plantation; A Night Hunt in the Sahara - hunting jackals and gazelles on horseback by night; The Rendezvous of Death - how two tribes of Bedouin Arabs of Palestine finally settled a blood-feud that had cost many lives on both sides; A Fight with a Sea-Tiger (Orca) - Southern California encounter ends badly for veteran fisherman; The Adventures of a Rolling Stone - Part VIII (last instalment) of G.O'Hara's adventures; Ah Kim the Astute - a simple Chinaman allows an employer to 'put one over' on him; A Museum of Odds and Ends - photo-illustrated short write-up of the home of Mr. W.W. Beach on the summit of Mount Parnassus; and more. Back cover missing. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue.

Final Revised Shooting script for the 1958 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil throughout, noting editorial revisions. A scientist transforms into a violent lizard-creature when he is exposed to the sun as the result of an experiment involving a new radioactive isotope. A Z-budget release largely panned by contemporary audiences and critics, today considered a cult film, with an unauthorized sequel, "Wrath of the Sun Demon," released in 1965, and several satirical re-dubbings of the film released in the 1980s. Shot on location throughout Southern California. Brown generic card wrappers with a typed title label dated 1958 affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present, dated October 17, 1957, noted as FINAL REVISED SHOOTING SCRIPT, with credit for screenwriter E.S. Seeley Jr. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with a silver prong.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 5-volume set. Uniformly bound in full leather with gilt decorations. Covers show minor wear and rubbing, some rubbing to the gilt edges, pages clean.