Wead frank w (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition. Minor scuffing along cover edges. Inner hinge of cover is slightly detaching. Pages are tanned.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Cover. First Edition. Small Hardcover 1936, school stamp on endpaper (Our Changing World). Laune, Paul (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket. Yellow-stamped navy cloth boards have light wear and shelf stress to edges; softening at spine ends; spine is slightly cocked; toning to interior. Property stamps and plate on front endpaper; blacked out stamp over plate. No marks in text; no loose pages. A well preserved copy of this scarce title. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy, nice and clean with very slight wear to a couple of corners and a tiny white stain at the bottom edge of the rear cover; one-time owner's name and date of purchase written at top of front pastedown]. Novel centered around the building of a mighty dam in the American west, to tame the waters of a mighty river. Obviously inspired by the construction of Hoover Dam, which was dedicated and already functional (although not 100% completed) on September 30, 1935, the novel was not especially well-reviewed (one reviewer called it "a hodge-podge so bewildering and repetitious that the plot becomes inarticulate), although the power of its imagery and the treatment of details attendant to the construction of the dam were generally recognized. One reviewer perhaps nailed its problems when he wrote that "in this story the individuals are unimportant [but] the canyon, the treacherous river and the toil of men to conquer both are engrossing." (Another commented that the authors "write like engineers"; I don't think it was intended as a compliment.) The authors had both done some screenwriting, and according to several reviews they had collaborated on the script for HELL DIVERS (1932) -- but the only problem with that "fact" is that although the movie was based on an original story by Wead, River isn't among the film's half-dozen or so contributing writers. (It's.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 424. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 424.…