Roger cowles (7 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Green hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in Very good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked. Pages browning. Ink inscription on fep. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 246pp + 8ads.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 156 pages, 560g. Blue cloth boards FINE in a FINE d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. Fascinating history of the design and construction of the Severn Tunnel by the Great Western Railway, a massive engineering undertaking that took thirteen years and produced the UK's longest tunnel (until the Chunnel). The book chronicles the triumphs, frustrations and disappointments faced by the engineers, the innovations that were developed, and the eventual successful completion of a tunnel that is still an important lynchpin in Britain's rail network.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1989. Quarto, [x], 150 pages with numerous illustrations. Papered boards; a fine copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly creased, with the corners of the flaps lightly clipped).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First American Edition. (no dust jacket) [good solid copy, with light wear at extremities and some very light staining on the front cover; bookplate on front pastedown, one-time owner's signature on ffep (same name as on bookplate)]. Episodic novel set in a coastal California city (a fictionalized Santa Barbara), narrated in 28 episodes, most of which are posited as entries from "the private papers of Mrs. Philip Crollivar," a wealthy and charming San Felipian, and from the diaries, notebooks, or journals of six of the nine house-guests at her seaside estate, a motley and varied crowd of generally upper-crust individuals. Don Napoli, in his discussion of the book on his excellent "Reading California Fiction" blog, describes them well: the hostess's "skeptical scientist cousin, Basil Jettison; an imperious but impecunious dowager, Madame Bustinobe; a twenty-something visitor from England, Dick Speythe; a rouguish East Coast blueblood, Le Grand Dorkington; an aging Irish revolutionary, Dr. Cadmus O'Toole; a virginal romantic in her late teens, Mary Vestal; an observant Japanese nobleman, Baron Toyo; and a set of good-looking twins, Polly and Dolly Palmister." Of these, the Englishman Speythe functions as a kind of intermittent narrator, with his letters home to his brother Holly opening and closing the book and dropped into a few places among the other characters' entries. Although the blogger cited above found the book's send-up of the idle rich to be on the mild side, at least one contemporary reviewer had quite a different reaction, characterizing it as "a book of such pungent and searing satire that even Dean [Jonathan] Swift might envy him the achievement." Its arrival and reception in Santa Barbara itself occasioned several articles in a local newspaper, commenting on the community's "heated and immediate criticism" and the author's depiction with "irony and malice such affairs as the California Fiestas and a good many other things which hitherto have been only subjects of pride and praise amongst Californians." The book first arrived in the city when a number of copies of the British edition (published in February 1932 under the title "Distant Drums") were received, and (unsurprisingly) sold out quickly; still more attention was achieved when the Scribner's edition came out in August -- by which time, the author could report, he had already received "some rather heated letters and threats which were calculated to intimidate me." Despite its initial appearance in England, Cowles was a resident of Santa Barbara, where he had worked as a newspaperman; this was his only published book, as he committed suicide in January 1934, at the age of 32.…