Pierce peter editors (8 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace wear & light discoloration to back. PO name to fEP. 104 pgs. Chosen for supplementary school readings. Anthology of 30 narrative poems, or, story telling in verse including Jesse James (Benet), Cinderella (Sexton), The Ballad of Father Gilligan (Yeats), and Malcolm X - An Autobiography (Neal). In this 1973 illustrated volume, selections that have been recorded are circled in red on contents page, separately available for order from Narrative Poetry, the Listening Library. German born, editor & poet Peter F. Neumeyer (1929 -) taught one of the first literary courses on children's books at Harvard in the late 1960s, and since then at many institutions of higher learning as well besides publishing in the field, w/author E.B. White (The Annotated Charlotte's Web), and, in collaboration w/illustrator & friend Edward Gorey on three books. Multiple Illustrator (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: UsedGood. Hardcover; proceedings of the 7th annual Mid-West Autumn Immunology Confere nce, Dearborn, Michigan, November 5-7, 1978; fading and shelf wear to exter ior; bump to top end of spine; former owner's stampings on front endpaper; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding.…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 350 pages. Examines the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1979. Published by Elsevier/North Holland, NYC. Hardcover without DJ as issued. Condition as new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, small name on front pastedown, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not an ex-library, not a reminder. 8vo, 266 pages.…

8vo, 324pp. Maps. B/w illustrations. Original wrappers, a near fine copy. . From the collection of Australian academic and art historian Leigh Astbury with his signature. Sometimes with a little unobtrusive marginalia. First edition.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade paperback size 350pp. A little wear on edges, former owner's name on fly (Jeffrey Grey) else very good. This anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. The connection of war to travel is illustrated in the observations of writers as varied as 'Banjo' Paterson, George Johnston, Nancy Wake, John Pilger, Lily Brett and Peter Weir. Selecting writings from combatants abroad as well as the reflections of sightseers who travel to foreign battlefields and war sites, reveal how the experience of war has both broadened and refined Australian views of the world. Covers observations on the Colonial Wars; the First World War; the Second World War; the Asian and Pacific Wars; and Battlefield tourism.…

224 pp including index of first lines, tinted end-papers, mint copy in like, illustrated d/j.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, 323pp, some b&w photos. A little wear on edges and corners, page edges lightly browned, inscribed by Doyle to former owner at top of title page; a very good copy. 6 essays which present a bold reassessment of the myths, history and culture of Australia's longest war. Ian McNeill: The Australia Army and the Vietnam War; Jeffrey Grey: Vietnam, Anzac and the Veteran; Jeff Doyle: Bringing whose war home? Vietnam and American myths in Australian popular culture; Anne Grey: Artists' visions of Vietnam; Robin Gerster: Occidental tourists. The "Ugly Australian" in Vietnam War narrative; and Peter Pierce: Australian and American of the Vietnam War.…