1982, ISBN: 9780855001292

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Collector's Edition and an EXCLUSIVE to W.H. Smith. Complete numbe 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,coloured de… Mehr…

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Collector's Edition and an EXCLUSIVE to W.H. Smith. Complete numbe 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,coloured design to a white background,illustrated dw/dj,with multi-coloured lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Complete with circular mauve+white adhesive label 'Collector's Edition EXCLUSIVE TO W H Smith' to front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - near pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - a couple of consecutive accidental tiny corner creases to bottom corners of pp359-362,else appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-483pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,anthology of 20 short stories,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,author's note,an epigram,contents list/table,and title separator page. The No. 1 bestselling writer presents a generous collection of stories - some brand new,all assembled together for the first time in one book - each with a revelatory introduction.                                                                                              Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of novellas and short stories ever since his fist collection 'Night Shift' was published.'There's something to be said for a shorter,more intense experience,' writes King.'It can be invigorating, sometimes even shocking,like . . . a beautiful curio for sale laid out on a chea[ blanket at a street bazaar.'                                                                              In 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams' there is a urio for every reader - a man who keeps reliving the exact same life,repeating his mistakes over and over; a columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries; a poignant tale about the end of the human race and a firework competition between neighbours which reaches an explosive climax.                                                                                                          There are also intriguing connections bewteen the stories - themes of morality, guilt,the afterlife and what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past.                                                                 Effervescent yet bittersweet,juxtaposing the everyday against the unexpected,these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to both his 'Constant Reader' and new audience.King introduces each with a fascinating autobiographical passage about its origins or his motivation for writing it,giving a unique insight into his craft which will delight the millions inspired by his celebrated non-fiction title 'On Writing'.        'I made them especially  for you',says King.'Feel free to examine them,but please be careful.The best of them have teeth.'                                                       Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2015., Newport 1995 1st Naval War College. Hardcover. Octavo, 387pp., dark blue gilt printed clothg. Institution stamps on fore-edges, numbers at heel of spine. One or two internal stamps. Good plus. ., New York: Doubleday, 2006. First Edition [stated], First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. [10], 390 pages. Illustrations. Index. Minor wear, soiling, and sticker residue on DJ. Leigh Montville (born July 20, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a newspaper columnist who currently writes a weekly column for The Boston Globe, a sports reporter and author. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut. Montville was a longtime print journalist as a columnist for The Boston Globe as a senior writer with Sports Illustrated. He spent 21 years at the Globe, many of them with other legendary Globe sports writers Peter Gammons, Bob Ryan, and Will McDonough. On Nov. 11, 2013, he rejoined The Globe as a part-time columnist. He has authored many books, including best-sellers such as The Big Bam, a biography of New York Yankees baseball legend Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, about the Hall of Fame left fielder for the Red Sox, which won the 2004 CASEY Award for best baseball book of the year. George Herman Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), better known as Babe Ruth, was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed The Bambino and The Sultan of Swat, he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand today. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.In 1914, Ruth was contracted to play minor-league baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but was soon sold to the Red Sox. By 1916, he had built a reputation as an outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any player in the pre-1920 dead-ball era. Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a member of three World Series championship teams with Boston, he wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an outfielder. With regular playing time, he broke the MLB single-season home run record in 1919.After that season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee controversially sold Ruth to the Yankees. In his 15 years with New York, Ruth helped the Yankees win seven American League (AL) championships and four World Series championships. His big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew fans to the ballpark and boosted the sport's popularity but also helped usher in the live-ball era of baseball, in which it evolved from a low-scoring game of strategy to a sport where the home run was a major factor. As part of the Yankees' vaunted "Murderer's Row" lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, extending his MLB single-season record. He retired in 1935. During his career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season twelve times.Ruth's legendary power and charismatic personality made him a larger-than-life figure in the "Roaring Twenties". During his career, he was the target of intense press and public attention for his baseball exploits and his often reckless lifestyle, which was tempered by his willingness to do good by visiting children at hospitals and orphanages. In his final years, Ruth made many public appearances, especially in support of American efforts in World War II. In 1946, he became ill with cancer, and died two years later., Doubleday, 2006, 392 pp. including six appendices, index, 23 photographic plates, 11 maps and diagrams in text. Taffrail was the pseudonym of Captain Henry Taprell Dorling who served in the Royal Navy during World War I and II; he was a prolific writer of naval fiction and non-fiction. Presentation copy with author's inscription to front free endpaper: "His Royal Highness, The Master of the Merchant Navy and of the Fishing Fleets, with the respectful duty of the author Taprell Dorling. September 1935." With sales plate on front pastedown, from Sotheby's Duke and Duchess of Windsor New York auction (11-19 September 1997).In two world wars starving Britain by cutting her shipping supply lines was a prime objective of enemy navies. In the First World War (1914-18) the mine was a comparatively new maritime weapon and little in the way of specilised counter-measures equipment or training was available to the RN. This is the story of the "minesweepers war", how naval ships were developed to carry out the work, while fishing and other civilian craft were pressed into service to combat the mine menace. RN losses to mines during the war totalled 46 including five battleships, 225 naval auxiliaries were lost, 214 minesweepers, 259 merchant ships with a tonnage of 673,417, plus 63 fishing craft. Minesweeping was intensely hazardous, so losses in personnel were tragically high. With war's end minsweeping went on for some years, for not only did those mines set by the Allies have to be removed to make peace-time shipping safe, but also the fields that were laid by the enemy nations. Taffrail's book on minesweeping is a tribute to brave and determined men whose service did not bring battle honors, but was vital to Britain's survival. Hard cover's edges are frayed in two corners. Spine is worn to the upper edge., Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1935, UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition and generally believed to precede UK trade issue/distribution.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel+spine of dw/dj,with orange and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-288pp [paginated] includes verso of contents list/table,illustrations list/ table,acknowledgements,author's introduction,Pts I + II comprising 6 and 4 chapters respectively,36 b/w  photographs,a mixture of 78 b/w location maps and diagrams - all interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices (A- H), notes (A-C),text notes,key to diagrams,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and recto of contents list/table. A field guide to and analysis of Cornish stone circles,chambered tombs,barrows, standing stones and other ancient monuments.This is probably the most comprehensive fielfd guide to and explanation of the prehistoric ceremonial monuments of Cornwall yet published (then 1982).It provides complete details regarding the location and disposition of the county's prehistoric remains and in addition offers an overview of prehistoric structures in general and an explanation of their original functions based on the latest orthodox and alternative archaeological thought.                                                                                   This detailed and intensively researched guide sets out to describe the major ceremonial sites of the prehistoric era in Cornwall,which is particularly rich in impressive monuments of all kinds. John Barnatt has painstakingly visited every Cornish monument and his survey offers fascinating insights into a time when man exerted more effort on erecting ceremonial monuments than on his dwellings.He debates at length the arguments for and against the geometric and astronomical functions of stone circles and discusses the ley line theory in relation to menhirs. Copiously illustrated with maps and photographs,this comprehensive field guide will appeal to both specialist and holiday visitor alike,indeed to anyone who has fallen under the spell of the Cornish landscape.Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances, dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, UK.WELLINGBOROUGH,NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.TURNSTONE PRESS LIMITED,1982.<

ISBN: 9780855001292

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