Warrington frank (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 2nd printing ; ix, 310 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780760739549, 0760739544 OCLC 54409153 ; brown abd maroon cloth in color illustrated dustjacket ; Visions of Ghost Armies introduces you to a side of war you might never have imagined possible. In more than one hundred true stories--reported by eyewitnesses and sometimes verified by the media--you will read eerie and haunting accounts of spirit soldiers and armies of the night who still fight battles decades to centuries after their wars have ended. ; "From the files of FATE magazine." ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

An ephemeral textbook for Meiji Japan's growing crop of English-language learners. While this is a fifth edition, published two years after the first, all editions are surprisingly elusive institutionally. We have traced one copy of the first at the National Diet Library, while the Osaka Prefectural Library possesses a copy of the fourth or fifth. The contents presents texts from Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Parker and others, as well as situational dialogues with strong nationalist and moral overtones. Frank Warrington Eastlake (1858-1905) was an American raised in Japan and Hong Kong who wrote a plethora of works on Japanese and Chinese language and history, including a number of dictionaries and phrase books. He was said to be fluent in 23 languages and spent the majority of his life in Japan teaching English. Small octavo. With folding frontispiece. Text in English and Japanese. Original illustrated wrappers, spine lettered in yellow, front cover lettered in white and yellow, rear wrapper lettered in Japanese in brown. Losses to spine, wrappers bright with a few creases, rear inner hinge expertly repaired, frontispiece and text clean. A very good copy of a fragile work.…