Alistair m campbell (6 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: VG++. Stapled wraps, minor wear, clean/unmarked.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Staples have a trace of rust. ; Approx. 6" wide by 9". ; 28 pages.

Condizione: Fine. 28 pp., softcover, fine. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 400 p. illus. 29 cm. ; Book Club Edition ; Contents: Prologue. A passage to America -- The new-found land -- A home away from home -- Making revolution -- Inventing a nation -- Gone west -- Firebell in the night -- Domesticating a wilderness -- Money on the land -- The huddled masses -- The promise fulfilled, the promise broken -- The arsenal -- Epilogue. The more abundant life. ; ISBN: 0394487265; 9780394487267 LCCN: 73-7268 ; LC: E178; Dewey: 973 ; OCLC: 825669 ; "For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s, Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush, the jazz age to Pearl Harbour, with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill, John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King, here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation." ; A tour of American life and history based on Cooke's television series on the nation's growth and development and illustrated with photographs, cartoons, prints, and paintings. ; wine-colored textured boards with beige spine in color photographic dustjacket ; VG/G. Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. 1986 reprint. Paperback. 20x13cm. 575 pages with index. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref dch.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Indeed. A collection of interesting works on Old English, in the publishers' original cloth bindings with the original dust wrappers. A set of interesting works on Old English, from Anglo-Saxon to Norman literature, in the publishers' original cloth bindings with the original dust wrappers (The Peterborough Chronicle and Old English Grammar both unclipped; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman clipped).This set contains:The Peterborough Chronicle 1070-1154by Cecily Clark, first edition, 1958.Old English Grammarby Alistair Campbell, 1962 reprint.A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionaryby J. R. Clark Hall, reprint of the fourth edition with a supplement by Herbert D. Meritt, 1962.Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background by M. Dominica Legge, first edition, 1963.All works are thorough and engaging academic studies for either Oxford or Cambridge. In the publishers' original cloth bindings with the original clipped and unclipped dust wrappers (The Peterborough Chronicle and Old English Grammar both unclipped; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman clipped).Externally, extremely smart with only light shelf wear. Dust wrappers are smart. The odd spot and age toning to front and reverse wraps of all. Chip to top left rear wrap of Old English. Tide marks and damp staining to Peterborough Chronicle. Chips and closed tears to Peterborough Chronicle. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with only the odd spot to Peterborough Chronicle, heavier to the first and last few pages. Spotting to fore edges. Fine. None (illustratore). book. …