1978, ISBN: 9780333070635

Rupa. Softcover. Brand New. We ship fast via USPS/FedEx/DHL/Aramex Express Services. No shipping to PO BOX, APO, FPO addresses. Kindly provide day time phone number in order to ensure s… More...

Rupa. Softcover. Brand New. We ship fast via USPS/FedEx/DHL/Aramex Express Services. No shipping to PO BOX, APO, FPO addresses. Kindly provide day time phone number in order to ensure smooth delivery. We may ship from Asian regions for inventory purpose. 100% Customer satisfaction guaranteed! We use Fast Shipping via DHL/FEDEX/UPS, Rupa, 6, Bison Books, 1978. Trade paperback. Very Good. The real achievements of William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody as a plainsman, hunter, scout, and Indian fighter have tended to be obscured by his fame as a showman. From its opening performance in 1883, Buffalo Bill's Wild West (it was never advertised as a show or circus) enthralled audiences in America and Europe, urchins and crowned heads alike; and probably no one man did more to establish and ro-manticize the tradition of the old West of cowboy and Indian. Because he personified this tradition, Cody inspired an ocean of literature—dime novels, stories, melodramas, allegedly true accounts of his exploits—which tarnished the credibility of his legend even as it increased his renown.This Bison Books edition is the first complete reprinting of the original autobiography since it was published in 1879. It covers the years from Cody's birth in 1846 until his thirty-fourth year—the years during which he grew up on the plains, worked for Russell, Majors & Waddell, rode the Pony Express, went on fourteen expeditions against the Indians, and participated in fifteen Indian fights—the years that underpin the legend of Buffalo Bill and earned him the status of an authentic American Hero., Bison Books, 1978, 3, -: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England`s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters` loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The result is a novel which both utilizes and evades historical fact in a complex manipulation of genre which was later to find its fullest expression in Hardy`s great verse-drama The Dynasts. This edition is the only one to be based on the novel`s manuscript, and it restores Handy`s original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon him by the editor of the magazine in which it first appeared., pan, 1972, 2.5<

1972, ISBN: 0333070631

[EAN: 9780333070635], Gebraucht, [PU: Macmillan], HISTORICAL, Literary Collections, Synopsis:- This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nin… More...

[EAN: 9780333070635], Gebraucht, [PU: Macmillan], HISTORICAL, Literary Collections, Synopsis:- This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England`s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters` loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The result is a novel which both utilizes and evades historical fact in a complex manipulation of genre which was later to find its fullest expression in Hardy`s great verse-drama The Dynasts. This edition is the only one to be based on the novel`s manuscript, and it restores Handy`s original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon him by the editor of the magazine in which it first appeared.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Macmillan in 1972 booksalvation have grade it as Acceptable and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Books<

1972, ISBN: 9780333070635

London: Pan Books Ltd , 1972. Slight edge wear to spine.. First Edition Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket As Published. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾&q… More...

London: Pan Books Ltd , 1972. Slight edge wear to spine.. First Edition Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket As Published. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped., Pan Books Ltd, 1972, 3, -: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England`s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters` loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The result is a novel which both utilizes and evades historical fact in a complex manipulation of genre which was later to find its fullest expression in Hardy`s great verse-drama The Dynasts. This edition is the only one to be based on the novel`s manuscript, and it restores Handy`s original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon him by the editor of the magazine in which it first appeared., pan, 1972, 2.5<

1972, ISBN: 9780333070635

-: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history… More...

-: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England`s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters` loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The result is a novel which both utilizes and evades historical fact in a complex manipulation of genre which was later to find its fullest expression in Hardy`s great verse-drama The Dynasts. This edition is the only one to be based on the novel`s manuscript, and it restores Handy`s original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon him by the editor of the magazine in which it first appeared., pan, 1972, 2.5<

1972, ISBN: 9780333070635

-: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history… More...

-: pan, 1972. None. Paperback. Acceptable. -. This is a vintage edition and will be subject to the effects of aging >>Hardy distrusted nineteenth-century efforts to systematize history, and in The Trumpet-Major he presents the qualities of desire and conflicting loyalties which he saw as constantly undermining such attempts. The courtship of Anne Garland by her three suitors, the trumpet-major John Loveday, his sailor-brother Bob, and Festus Derriman of the yeomanry cavalry, takes place against the backdrop of England`s conflict with Napoleon. Yet for Hardy his characters` loves and sorrows are as much the material of history as any record of emperors and generals. The result is a novel which both utilizes and evades historical fact in a complex manipulation of genre which was later to find its fullest expression in Hardy`s great verse-drama The Dynasts. This edition is the only one to be based on the novel`s manuscript, and it restores Handy`s original punctuation and removes the bowdlerisms forced upon him by the editor of the magazine in which it first appeared., pan, 1972, 2.5<