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2024SKU1735640Word on Fire 2024-06-11. hardcover. New. 7x1x9. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Word on Fire hardcover
20201679761786Word on Fire 2020. Leather Bound. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Binding is sound. Page edges have light scuffing and chipping. Text is clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Word on Fire hardcover
2006SONG1943243530Word on Fire 2020-06-15. leather_bound. Used: Good. 6.88x1.43x9.63. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Word on Fire hardcover
2006DADAX1943243530Word on Fire 2020-06-15. leather_bound. New. 6.88x1.43x9.63. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Word on Fire hardcover
1943243530.Gleather_bound. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
194324393X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with endpaper charts; blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises The Wind Singer (2000), Slaves of the Mastery (2001), Firesong (2002).
Stories: The Great Porcupine Fire; Asking for Trouble; Singing Our Way Through Europe; Feats of Indian Fakirs; The Wyoming Outlaw; Worms that have Turned; Our Township; The Road-Makers; A Californian Lion Farm; Vanished Ivory; Pieces of Eight; Bird of Bad Luck; Two Collisions. Average wear. Book
Stories: Sea-Wolf of the Arctic; The Dam that Didn't; The Odyssey of the Olga; Fire in the Forest; Some Adventures with Grizzlies; An Eventful Inspection; The Purser's Tale; Adventure Ahoy; Find the Woman; A Little Oversight; The Horns of a Dilemma. Covers detached but present. Above-average wear. Book
Pages 482-576 + 30 pages of ads. Features: The "Brides" Special - when Swiss girls were regularly shipped to southern Chile to marry ranchers; Winter-Sport Mountaineering - how to avoid its dangers - article with photos; The Wreck of the 'County of Anglesea' - fight for the life of a capsized ship; Wanderings in Northern Persia - II - article with first-ever published photos of Kelat-i-Nadiri, the Gibraltar of Persia, and many other photos; A Fiery Ordeal - surviving a 1904 volcano on Mount Kloet on the island of Java; Down the Amazon from Source to Mouth, part VII; From Job to Job Around the World, Part II - fantastic travelogue of two young Americans in Japan and Korea with wonderful photos; The Saving Shadow - Rev. Wm. F. Rigge of the Creighton University Observatory uses shadows to help acquit a man facing serious charges; A Motor-Boat in Mexico - the villagers had never seen anything like it;; The Marchwood Ghost Mystery - A Highland Regiment soldier committed suicide in 1885 and his ghost was supposed to haunt the sentry's beat;;"The Heathen Chinee" - principally concerned with the Chinaman's attitude towards railways - also tells some quaint stories about the 'spirits of wind and water' which rule his actions during and after his life - article with great photos, especially all the Chinese aboard a Shanghai-Nanking Railway engine they had fled only a week before; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Cycling Round the World - Part I - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years travelling over 20,000 miles on his own!; Akimaldo's Great Idea - A story which proves West Africans have a sense of humour "even if in a somewhat perverted form"; The Girl Stowaway of the 'Cecilie' - Part I - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; The "Teak-Wallahs" of Northern Siam - A fascinating photo-illustrated look at the teak industry of northern Siam; Two Men and a Donkey - Part III - The adventures of two young artists walking from the South of France to Spain; Europeans Walk Through Fire! - An amazing photo-illustrated account of two Europeans who traversed white-hot coals barefoot with Hindu devotees, emerging apparently unscathed!; Hide-and-Seek With a Lion - A rare time when a can opener saved a life; All in the Day's Work - J.A. Browne, a policeman at Antler, Manitoba, heads out to gather a tough character - with photo of Browne; The Secret Pass - "Slippery" Wiley continues his misdeeds in the West Australia goldfields; The Yok San Mystery - Ning Wo solves another puzzling mystery in the Malay States; The Avenger of Blood - A curious case of Eskimo blood-vengeance from Alaska; "The Land of Opportunity" - Part II - Arthur W. Upfield provides readers with an idea of what lies in store if they elect to 'try their luck' in Australia, with photos; An African Man-Hunt - E.E. Stuart-Reid chased a rogue native constable of the Northern Rhodesia Police through the forest for three weeks; 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. Square inch of loss to upper corner of front cover. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Illustration Features: Surrending Germans pass through the French lines; The Battle of the Nieuport Dunes - Matchless story of the Northamptons and the King's Royal Rifles (article by Max Pemberton); Canadian Pioneers at work and at Liesure (5 photos); Men of many climes who fight for France; Italians in the Alps and in the air; These Three historic years - article by Lovat Fraser; Aerial activity of four warring nations; Immortal Heroism of K.R.R.C. & Northamptons; Incidents in the Battle of the Nieuport Dunes; British Women's Mission of Mercy in France; How the Hun encourages neutral powers; 'Pipsqueaks' that served to alarm all London - 5 photos of air raid sound rockets; When Paris was in Peril - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Fire and Fury Flaming upon the foe in France. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
1535455217.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
320p. + Plus Frontis, Photographs and Drawings. Tall 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, lettered in gold and black. Front board and spine decorated with maps. Spine faded. Hardbound. Covers floods and storms in: Dayton and Columbus, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; New York; Indiana; Pennsylvania; and the Mississippi Valley. AMERICANA BOX 11 x3
19 pages. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Partially yellowed. Damage to top inch of spine. Book
Contributions by many authors, including Round the Fire by A. Conan Doyle, and Seven Dragons by E. Nesbit. Plain red cloth covers. A little wear to cover corners and small nicks at top of spine. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Free endpapers browned. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 176 pages. Poet, editor, and translator Ron Padgett was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a high-school student he founded the avant-garde literary journal The White Dove Review with his friends and fellow students Joe Brainard and Dick Gallup. Soliciting and publishing work from poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, the magazine ran for five issues. Padgett moved to New York City in 1960 to attend Columbia College. Awarded a Fulbright in 1965, Padgett spent a year in Paris studying and translating French poetry. He eventually made his home in New York City?s East Village and became a vital part of the Second Generation New York School Poets, a group that included Ted Berrigan, Brainard, and others. Padgett is the author of over 20 collections of poetry, including Great Balls of Fire (1969, reissued 1990); You Never Know (2001); How to Be Perfect (2007); How Long (2011), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Collected Poems (2013), winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. He has collaborated with the poet Ted Berrigan and the artists Jim Dine and George Schneeman. Of Padgett?s work, poet David Lehman wrote in Poetry: "The great legacy of French Surrealist and Dadaist writing makes itself felt in his poems."Voice Literary Supplement contributor Karen Volkman, reviewing Padgett?s 1995 New and Selected Poems, commented: This is a fine sampling of a restless, hilarious, and haunting lyric intelligence, a ?phony? whose variable voices form a rare and raucous orchestration: the real thing.
380 p. Illustrations. Small 4to. All edges gold gilt. Original decorated leather boards binding, lettered in black and gilt. Spine somewhat crudely taped. This interesting binding deserves restoration. Hardbound. Prefaced by a good history of Johnstown (including its industries such as the Cambria Iron Works), this is perhaps the best popular historical record of the great flood. Deluxe Edition. DISASTER / FIRE/ FLOOD PA 47
248 pages. References. Bibliographical notes. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous high-quality reproductions of excellent archival photos. "From the fire rules of Samuel de Champlain for his primitive first settlement at the site of Quebec City, to the fires in modern subways and highrise buildings, it is all here... Traces the growth of commerce and society in a new civilization in the empty continent and the increased dependence on towns and cities as a nation grows." - from dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy. Book
2020BIBHB0210198362020. Hardcover. New. The aim of the book is to help in teaching history. This little discourse tells the Story of Lanka as briefly and simply as it could be possible. The author has tried to omit everything that was not essential to a right understanding of the course of events and have borne in mind always that pupils in the primary stage cannot be expected to show the same interest and intelligence as �children of a larger growth�. And any capable teacher should be able to separate the legendary from what is purely historical. The Tamil invasion during the reign of Vikrama Bahu III and at the time of the other rulers subsequently have discussed when the Portuguese came to Ceylon. The writer has expressed his views about the reign of different rulers of Lanka and highlights the darkness of the period. The book is the product of the extensive study of Lanka. The subject is quite interesting to make it good for all. Louis Edmund Blaze JP OBE BA was a Sri Lankan educationist and the founder and principal of Kingswood College Kandy. On 4 May 1891 Blaze opened 'The Boys High School' on Pavilion Street in the centre of Kandy with eleven pupils. He modelled the school on the traditional English Public School system even naming the four houses at the school: Eton; Harrow; Winchester and Rugby. As the school did not qualify for government assistance Blaze had to hand over the struggling institution to the Methodist Mission in July 1894. He was responsible for introducing rugby to schools in Ceylon having learnt the game and the rules whilst he was teaching in India he started coaching his pupils in the sport from the year the school was established. The Title 'The Story Of Lanka Outlines Of The History Of Ceylon From The Earliest Times To The Coming Of The Portuguese written/authored/edited by L. E. Blaze' published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121240680 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 150 Pages. The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol: hardcover
1023563630.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
3368926845.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0267503830.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1850mon0000072085J. and D.A. Darling 1850-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. 1850 edition on green cloth with frontispiece plate publsihed by John Darling split down one side seam of spine cover J. and D.A. Darling unknown
1356830374.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
