Norman r bowen (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Unclipped, some edge wear. 2nd Printing. Stated second printing; ex-lib.with neat bookmobile stamp on front end page, and partially erased penciled call number & crease at at corner of copyright page; 187 p., clean and otherwise unmarked;many fascinating photos of many of the celebrities of his age, from all over the world; binding firm; unfaded boards very fine; pictorial d.j. shows rubbing along edges, with some chipping at upper corner of front panel, and label ghost on lower spine where call no. was removed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Boards are moderately bowed, but not severely. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Later. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dustwrapper slightly shelf rubbed. Minor little cuts on corners of dust jacket.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good-. Vol. XVII, no. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Lieut. Edward McCrae. Cover art by Eugene M. Franzden for "The Tough Don't Pray" (novel) by Frederick C. Painton. Includes "Born to Fly" (novelette) by George Bruce; "Blunder Flight" by F. E. Rechnitzer; "Traitor Patrol" by Peter Barrett; "Ace killer" by Bruce McAlester; "Hellion's Wings" by Robert Sidney Bowen. Special Flying Features: "Caterpillar Club - Story of Lieut. Norman R. Nurnett"; "Famous Sky Fighter" (illustrations"; "The Ships on the Cover" by Eugene M. Frandzen; "Scrambled Ships'; "Learn to Fly" by Lieut. Jay D. Blaufox; "Ack Emma's Brain-teaser"; "Library of War Planes"; "Tarmac Talk" by Eddie McCrae. Illustrated by Franzden. A little over 2" lost at spine head; 1/2" loss at heel; creasing; a little soiling, first page. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Second Printing. Tan cloth with brown pictorial of Thomas seated by a radio broadcast microphone on front cover, brown lettering on spine, color frontispiece, xx, 187 pp., vintage b/w photos, uncliipped illustrated jacket. SIGNED by the author in green marker on the half-title page with inscription: "For your Don't Bother to Read Shelf -- except maybe P's X and 58 -- Lowell Thomas" Previous owner's name not cited. Light wear, clean text, tight binding. Jacket is edge worn with chips at top of spine and bottom edge of front panel. Color images of Thomas on front and rear panels in nice condition overall. Signed by Author(s).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. UK edition. Contains 'The Convention Murders' by Daniels, 'Death has its Points' by Bowen, 'Mr.Wong Goes South' by Fredericks, 'Destination Death' by Shelton and 'No More Brains' by Goodis. The Daniels and Goodis stories have a half-page illustration. Chipping to the spine at the top and bottom with some surface and edge wear. Creasing around the edges of the covers with some small closed edge tears. The contents page is missing. Browning to the pages with small edge tears in several places and creasing to the top corners of a number of pages. The pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Journal of the woman who wrote "Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah" a sympathetic look at Mormon's by a nonMormon. "Review Copy" blindstamp on half-title page. Limited to 1000 copies; 184 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First U.S. Edition. xx, 187pp. bw and color photos, ports. Inscribed by Lowell Thomas on half-title page. Tan endpapers. Light brown cloth w brown-stamp figure to cover, brown lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean, showing very light surface wear at fore edges and hinge, light wear to head. DJ now preserved in archival cover. Octavo. Second printing, stated. "America's most illustrious newsman as colleagues and others have seen him through the last five decades" (from title page). Signed by subject. …

Hardback. Condizione: VG. VG DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age. BUT book covers a bit warped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good -. Second Printing. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Inscription appears on half title page and is signed at the bottom. Photocopied newspaper article on the author is taped to front end papers. Some scuffs, edge wear, and minor creasing on dust jacket; some folded page edges; minor bow in front board; a nice copy of book. "America's most illustrious newsman as colleagues and others have seen him through the last five decades." From title page. Profiles by Russel Crouse, Francis Yeats-Brown, H. Allen Smith, Maurice Zolotov, Eleanor Harris, Dale Carnegie and others. Extensively illustrated. 187 pages. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First edition. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xxix, 184 p. w/ a few b&w illus., map, footnotes, bibliography. The memoir of an English woman who had moved to the US, and accompanied her husband to visit Mormon friends in Utah, and then moved to the southern part of the state with him as he recoved from Illness. Of particular interest are her virews of Brigham Young and Morom polygamy. Uncommon. Section B.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: In Search of the Lost Oases - Part I of a wonderful trip across the desert from Sollum, on the Mediterranean, to El Obeid, in the Sudan, mostly through unexplored territory, with photos; Smugglers Three - Poaching swan eggs; Azizun the Dancing-Girl - Sir George MacMunn owned an uncanny little "frog-girl" in India; The Odyssey of the "Olga" - A trip from Nome, Alaska to Seattle ended up taking over three months!; Photo of sixty-foot-tall statue of the god Gomateswara being annointed with oil on the great hill of Sravanbelgola; Left Behind - A young white woman is left behind at a lonely wayside station in the heart of Rhodesia; Lost in the Heart of Peru - Part I - G.M. Dyott was abandoned by his guide in the trackless upper reaches of the Amazon and endured an ordeal to return home - with photos; The Thirteenth Sample - A nerve-trying adventure in the depths of an abandoned mine in Northern Mexico; A Bird-Hunter in the Wilds - G.L. Bates describes a seven-month journey in the remote Cameroon country of Central Africa - with great photos; The Voice in the Darkness - A tragic story of an encounter between a bootlegger and the law during prohibition in Brigson, Alberta; "Sinbad the Sailor" - An American university professor becomes a swindler in Winnipeg; Tiger Tales - Tales from Assam and Sumatra by W.J. Brands; What Was It? - Patrick Brown encountered a mysterious monster in South Africa which appeared to be a survivor of some prehistoric species; The Crocodile Charmers of Java - Javanese witch-doctors 'make love to them, induce them to follow them like pet dogs, and lead them to their deaths'; The Two Strangers - Dr. C.E.Ellis thought he knew a 'bunco man' but then he met two harmless prospectors. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, October 1925, Rosita Forbes, Kufra, Rohlfs, Senussi, Siwa, Sayed Idris Sennusi, Qayi-m-qana, In Search of the Lost Oases, Sahara desert, Sollum, El Obeid, Sudan, Smugglers Three, Swan eggs, Swan Egg Poaching, Azizun the Dancing-Girl. Illustrated by Woodville, R. Caton; Gillett, F.; Leigh, Conrad; York,W.G.; Sutcliffe, Norman; Somerfield, T.; Eyles, D.C.; Brock, H.M.; Holmes,Fred; Briault, S.; Prater, E.; Goss, G.W.; Peddie, Tom; Lloyd, Stanley (illustratore).…