eric t clarke (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. A curiosity. A third volume of short stories by Maugham - The Ant And The Grasshopper, Winter Cruise, Gigolo And Gigolette - published with their screen adaptations, by the authors named. Plates of Maugham and stills from the films. All in VG internal order. Smart red boards lightly worn. D/j well worn to edges with closed tears and loss to top of spine. 8vo. 165pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Discoloration to pages due to age. Dust cover is missing. First edition. - Book is in good overall condition. No writing or major blemishes. Average wear.; - We're committed to your satisfaction. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Various [inc. Augustus John, W. Roberts, Eric Kennington, Cosmo Clarke and S. Carline] (illustrator). The bestselling and abridged edition of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, detailing his heroic participation within the Great Arab Revolt in his own words. The third impression of Revolt in the Desert, the bestselling extended and abridged edition of his original autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written by iconic British archaeologist and soldier T. E. Lawrence. Published by Jonathan Cape in 1927.In the publisher's original cloth, with a frontispiece of Lawrence, and all fifteen other illustrated plates, as well as folding sketch map that shows Lawrence's journeys across the Arabian Peninsula. Collated complete.His personal and inspiring account of his participation in the Great Arab Revolt, Lawrence's participation became part of national legend, inspiring the 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia. Rather famously, despite his mythologised status, Lawrence was sceptical of public life and didn't enjoy his celebrity status. This book puts Lawrence's cooperation with Bedouin tribes and daring exploits in his own words. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, very smart, with minimal marks. Fading to the spine and to the extremities of the boards. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Offsetting to free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. A closed tear to the bottom of leaf p.217. Pages are bright and clean, with the rare spot to the extremities. Very Good. book.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory flights of Admiral Byrd (1940)" by Roger Hawthorne. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.

Hadley Rille Books. Overland Park. KS. 2006 Hardback with DW. A lovely copy in wrapper with only slight signs of use.

Four vintage borderless publicity photographs of writer W. Somerset Maugham, showing Maugham sitting on his garden verandah at his home on the French Riviera, taken to publicize the 1951 film. All four with the stamps of J. Arthur Rank Organization on the verso, and one with a printed mimeo snipe. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A three-episode anthology film based on several short story collections written by Maugham in 1940 and 1947, directed by Pat Jackson, Harold French, and Anthony Pelissier, with each episode introduced by Maugham himself. The final film in Rank's Maugham trilogy, preceded by "Quartet" (1948) and "Trio" (1950). 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.