edwin olmstead (6 Ergebnisse)

Unknown. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Revised Edition. B&W Photgraphs and Diagrams; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 322 pages; 1989 University of Delaware Press Oversize HC/DJ. Revised Edition. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Contentst bright, fresh, and unmarked. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs and technical diagrams of military hardware. Looks and feels unread and about as new. NF/NF . Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 11.25x8.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

1. edition. 322 pages, with many illustrations Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1400 4°, Clothbound, dust jacket used, good copy.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good+ in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately shelfworn, edgeworn, and rubbed, but is overall good and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); Red dust jacket with photo of a cannon with title in yellow lettering; 1997, Museum Restoration Service; 360 pages; "The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast, and Naval Cannon," by Edwin Olmstead.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [tight clean copy, light wear to extremities, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; text from jacket flaps affixed to ffep with tape]. Very scarce novel inspired by the life of Mrs. J.J. ( Molly) Brown, lauded by the authors in their Foreword for her "splendid courage, pioneer spirit, adventurous and romantic achievements." "Women give an age its color," they go on to say, and "Mrs. Brown was a glowing character whose career ran through the history of our country for the past twenty-five years. All of the characters in [this book] are fictitious, and all of the events narrated, pure fiction; but the story has its fount and inspiration in the life of a very noble woman [who embodies] the highest spiritual qualities of modern women; emancipated; individual; independent." This book, published just two years after her death, undoubtedly attributed to Mrs. Brown's legendary status, not that she needed any help -- she was her own best publicity agent, once having been quoted as saying that "I don't care what the newspapers say about me, just so they say something." The book spans her life from childhood, through Colorado gold rush days, her survival of the Titanic disaster, her subsequent political activities (she ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1914), and ends with an account of her service entertaining the troops in France during World War I. (Despite the authors' "fictional" disclaimer, by the way, the book contains plenty of reference to real-life figures and events, and is probably no more fictional than the tall tales Mrs. Brown perpetuated about herself.).