2007, ISBN: 9780252005879

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NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 314 pgs. First Printing. Black cloth w/red metallic letters to spine. DJ design by Pete Gar… Mehr…

NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 314 pgs. First Printing. Black cloth w/red metallic letters to spine. DJ design by Pete Garceau. Author photo Dennis Keim. DJ photo c Bettmann/Corbis. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (w/price), & unmarked. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. The book opens in 1943 as an American fleet assembles off Tarawa, and the Marines prepare to land. Observing from the deck of a transport, Thurlow points out flaws in the attack plan and predicts the disaster that follows. Although only a spectator, Thurlow cannot resist the lure of battle; he leaps into a landing craft, struggles to shore and rallies the few surviving Marines until reinforcements arrive. Wounded during the melee, Thurlow loses consciousness only to awaken in a caravan of outriggers with a beautiful young nun, a dozen Polynesians and three nondescript Marines. The nun and her flock had endured the invasion as prisoners of the Japanese and are returning to the Far Reaches, their home islands, now occupied by Japanese troops. The nun has near-impossible plans., Thomas Dunne Books, 2007, 5, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good+. Lowenbein, Michael. Another in Whitman's series of collectible books for children, most based on popular 1950s-1960s television & culture! This is the second of two from the popular "Mission Impossible" series (please see our listing #020274 for the first book). Hardcover 12mo with matte illustrated paper-over-boards features images of the show's stars on the front cover--with Leonard Nimoy front & center!--in a design by Michael Lowenbein. A FIRST EDITION, in 210 pages, + extra ads for other Whitman books in rear, this one (#1512) is in VG+ condition: very clean & bright, with slight wear/rubbing/short tears to both ends of spine. Binding straight & strong, both hinges intact. All pages show moderate-heavy tanning, especially around edges, in line with age & paper quality, but completely unmarked. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day., Whitman Publishing Company, 1970, 3, New York: Main Street; Sterling Publishing Co., 2004. Pictorial boards, 160 pages, colour illustrations; 21 x 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just dont trust anything you see at first glance, because it's impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hats - two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: are they taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same dimensions? Or try climbing the wild set of stairs: they'll have you going in circles and in squares. Theres plenty of beautifully intriguing fun on these pages." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong. Collectible., Main Street; Sterling Publishing Co., 2004, 5, New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Analyzes the collision of architecture and culture in the controversial realm of contemporary museum design since the opening of the Pompidou Centre in 1977. The author assesses the extent to which architects satisfy the requirements of the modern museum." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The museum impossible; Paris: the palace of pleasure; The museum after Pompidou: imperialism, populism, contradiction; Adding, reclaiming, revising: the museum grows; The antimuseum: alternatives; The museum in the next century; The billion-dollar painting and beyond.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible., Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990, 5, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (9.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. From the Dust Jacket: "In this first thorough examination of fantasy as a literary genre, W. R. Irwin attempts to bring order to this phenomenon of cultural history by examining the common characteristics of fantasies written between 1880 and 1957." Looks at works in the genre, some well-remembered and some almost forgotten, by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Franz Kafka, Ronald Firbank, David Garnett, Sir Herbert Read, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Hudson, and Virginia Woolf. Cited (with an asterisk to designate importance) in Fantasy Literature, A Reader's Guide, Neil Barron (editor), 7-24: "One of the earliest important works which defined the emergence of fantasy scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s... An important and influential contribution to the literary theory of fantasy." Also cited in Fantasy Literature, A Core Collection and Reference Guide (Tymn, Zahorski, and Boyer) p202. With a Suggested reading list. Index. Original green cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 215pp ., University of Illinois Press, 1976, 4<

1980, ISBN: 9780252005879

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (9.95). No owner's name or bookp… Mehr…

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (9.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. From the Dust Jacket: "In this first thorough examination of fantasy as a literary genre, W. R. Irwin attempts to bring order to this phenomenon of cultural history by examining the common characteristics of fantasies written between 1880 and 1957." Looks at works in the genre, some well-remembered and some almost forgotten, by J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Franz Kafka, Ronald Firbank, David Garnett, Sir Herbert Read, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Hudson, and Virginia Woolf. Cited (with an asterisk to designate importance) in Fantasy Literature, A Reader's Guide, Neil Barron (editor), 7-24: "One of the earliest important works which defined the emergence of fantasy scholarship in the 1970s and 1980s... An important and influential contribution to the literary theory of fantasy." Also cited in Fantasy Literature, A Core Collection and Reference Guide (Tymn, Zahorski, and Boyer) p202. With a Suggested reading list. Index. Original green cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 215pp ., University of Illinois Press, 1976, 4<

ISBN: 9780252005879

University of Illinois Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., University of Ill… Mehr…

University of Illinois Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., University of Illinois Press, 2.5<