Shipwreck publishers (5 risultati)

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Dark Knights. Book.

Condizione: New.

Octavo, red illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 258 pp. Near Fine, with tiny ding to upper cover. From Introduction: Ernest Hemingway once said that there is only one great American novel: Huckleberry Finn. Well, if it was good enough for Papa, it's good enough for me. My earliest recollections of my favorite stories were about pirates, which I recounted in my foreword to Treasure Island, the first volume of The Shipwreck Editions. Oh yeah, the pirate stories were full of adventure and excitement, but it always seemed to me that I would have to grow up to be a pirate. Huckleberry Finn, on the other hand, was about people my own age -- kids. I knew kids in my own neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama, who were just like the characters in the book. We had caves and hideouts and tree houses and secret handshakes just like Tom and Huck. We had no Mississippi River flowing through the suburban subdivision of Sunset Hills, but that was the magic of this book. We made it up. In the real world of parents and rules, our raft was nothing more than a few two-by-fours and some corrugated tin lifted in the middle of the night from the construction site at the E. R. Dixon School and nailed together in a haphazard fashion with no thought of design or structure. The most important part of our vessel was not the tiller or keel or superstructure; it was the flagpole from which dangled our skull and crossbones. Our raft plied the protected shallow waters of a spillway from the man-made lake on the Mobile Country golf course. It was a far cry from the Mississippi, and the only reason we were allowed by our parents to play there was because it was shallow, safe and void of water moccasins. Literature, Limited Edition, Shipwrecked Edition, Americana, Adventure bxsli.…

Octavo, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 177 pp. Fine. From Introduction: What books would Jimmy Buffett have with him to read if shipwrecked on on a desert island? This was the challenge presented to me by Don Davidson of The Peninsula Press on Cape Cod. His concept is The Shipwreck Editions, a collection of books that have entertained and sustained me over the years. Literature, Limited Edition, Shipwrecked Edition, Jimmy Buffett, Pirates, Adventure bxsli.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. It has happened at last. Queen Nefasti's friends are deserting her on all sides, treachery threatens from inside her own castle, and an invasion led by an old and angry acquaintance is knocking at the very gates to the Kingdom of Vadio.Dark Magic has stirred up things best left alone. Nefasti has been given a final choice, marry The Lord High Protector's son, or suffer dire consequences.All of this threatens to ruin her 16th birthday celebrations, and probably end her life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…