Title first flight (6 risultati)
Editore: Scholastic Book Services
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Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Discreto
EUR 30,06
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloPaperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979, 1979
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- Prima edizione
- Firmato
Da: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.ModernRare
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Ottimo
EUR 294,05
EUR 9,47 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 240 pages. Published in 1979. Rare Harold Bloom and David Lindsay collectible set. A very near-fine copy of "A Voyage To Arcturus" 1968 Ballantine First Softcover Edition, rare in its First Printing and in this condition, with a fine…copy of "The Flight To Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy" First Hardcover Edition, signed by Harold Bloom. The author's debut and only novel. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Harold Bloom's "The Flight To Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy". An epic set in another world, where time has been arrested and where the conflicts of the ancient world still prevail. The animating idea of Gnosticism is the problem of evil because orthodox religion has never been able to address it satisfactorily. Bloom's insight - that what we have in America is an anti-materialistic, Gnostic religion (fully examined in his great book, "The American Religion") - is given narrative expression in his otherworldly fantasy. It is wholly, not just partly, inspired by David Lindsay's "A Voyage To Arcturus", and is his attempt to re-write the latter. Bloom subsequently reaffirmed the superior literary quality and achievement of Lindsay's novel as compared to his only literary endeavor. It is therefore fitting that a copy of "A Voyage To Arcturus" comes with and completes this set, for comparison and illumination. First published in 1920, it was an abject commercial failure that has since been re-discovered to ecstatic praise: "The greatest novel of the twentieth century" (Colin Wilson). Another great Gnostic novelist sums up Lindsay and Bloom succinctly: "How can there be such monstrousness in the world if a Good God created it? The answer is that there is not one Creator but two. The true God is concealed in His realm of light. The affairs of the material world are handled by the secondary Creator God, the Demiurge. The Demiurge is powerful and bars humanity's way to its true purpose. He is the jailer who holds us all captive in the prison of matter. Only escape from the prison of the body leads the soul into the otherworldly realm of light. At most, sparks of this light are scattered in the material world" (Vladimir Nabokov). An absolute "must-have" set for Harold Bloom and David Lindsay collectors. This copy of "The Flight To Lucifer" is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Harold Bloom. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a near-fine and rare copy of David Lindsay's "A Voyage To Arcturus" 1968 Ballantine First Softcover Edition/First Printing, upon which Bloom's novel is based. As far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare set thus. Two of the greatest literary figures of the Modern Age. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BLOOM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374156441. Signed by Author.
Editore: Brighton: Unicorn., 1967
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- Manoscritto/carta da collezione
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Buono
EUR 111,38
EUR 8,65 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. 4to. Stapled Wraps, [7 pp.] Very Good. Illustrated Covers. From the collection of Douglas Calhoun, editor of the literary journal Athanor. The pieces were mailed from various presses and individual authors, generally spanning from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
Lingua: Inglese
- Rilegato
- Print on Demand
Da: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Nuovo
EUR 29,84
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito da India a U.S.A.Quantità: 18 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloLeatherBound. 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: 224. A perfect gif…t for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1970 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. Volume p 4-5 Language: English Pages: 224 Volume p 4-5.
Lingua: Inglese
- Rilegato
- Print on Demand
Da: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Nuovo
EUR 36,52
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito da India a U.S.A.Quantità: 18 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloLeatherBound. 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: 580. A perfect gif…t for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1970 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. Volume p1-5 Language: English Pages: 580 Volume p1-5.
Editore: F. W. Kessler, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1935
Da: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleMembro dell’associazione: ILAB
Condizione: Usato
EUR 222,77
EUR 6,06 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloSmall broadside, printed on one side only. The broadside, printed on white paper stock, is accompanied by a revised version printed on blue paper stock, as well as two printed postcards (one addressed to Donald A. Wollheim) announcing the postponement of the 24 November 1935 rocket mail flight. This ephemera is accompanied by a…tear sheet from STAMPS, 5 October 1935 with a full-page description of the 22 September 1935 rocket mail flight, with a handwritten marginal note by Wollheim noting that the "spectator" mentioned in the article was "me! As assistant engineer, not spectator!" "Hermann Oberth suggested using rockets for mail in a 1927 letter, and he lectured on the topic at a meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt in June 1928. The lecture caused many experimentalists to expect the use of rockets for mail as inevitable . Friedrich Schmiedl launched the first rocket mail (V-7, Experimental Rocket 7) [on 2 February 1931] with 102 pieces of mail between the Austrian towns of Schöckl and St. Radegund. Several other launches by Schmiedl occurred through 1932, and similar experiments occurred in several other countries, usually subsidized by philatelists . One of the first [probably the first] successful deliveries of mail by a rocket in the United States was made on 23 February 1936, when two rocket airplanes that were launched from the New York side of the frozen Greenwood Lake landed on the New Jersey side, less than 100 yards away." - Wikipedia. These broadsides and postcards issued by aerophilately specialist F. W. Kessler refer to this 23 February 1936 flight which was postponed from 24 November 1935 to rebuild a "vital" part of the rocket. This was not the first attempt in America to fly rocket mail. Although both rockets exploded, some mail was recovered from America's first rocket mail flight which took place at Holmes Airport, Astoria, Long Island, NY, 22 September 1935, conducted by "chief engineer" William S. Sykora who built the rockets, assisted by Donald A. Wollheim. The tear sheet has old folds, the two broadsides have mailing folds, but all pieces are in fine condition. Accompanied by a envelope with Kessler return address addressed to Wollheim postmarked 25 November 1935. (#163923).
