1991, ISBN: 9780670826308

London: The Children's Press Fictional autobiography of a castaway who is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Americas and who spends 27 years before finally being rescued. … More...

London: The Children's Press Fictional autobiography of a castaway who is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of the Americas and who spends 27 years before finally being rescued. Attractive copy bound in decorated paper boards with cloth spine. Boards are rubbed to edges and corners. 8 colour illustrations and numerous b/w line-drawings by J. Finnemore. Previous owner has written on blank front endpaper "Robinson Crusoe - The author, Daniel Defoe, is supposed to have based his story on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk who had lived alone on the island of Juan Fernandez in the Pacific Ocean for 4 years". A little foxing to edges and endpapers but generally a very good clean copy. Undated. Unpaginated. . Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Finnemore, J. . 4to., The Children's Press, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1986. First Edition. Black Boards. Fine/Fine. Illustrator: Rico, Ul De. gilt titles spine; illustrated in colour & b/w.; "Three tremendous figures from the legendary world of the ancient Polynesian gods and heroes: Hina, beautiful goddess of the sky, the Polynesian Aphrodite, self-willed and shameless in the pursuit of her desires; Maui, the trickster-hero, half-human, half-divine, who, long ago, with his magic fish-hook, drew up the Pacific Islands out of the ocean and then, Prometheus-like, caught the sun in a snare and tied it fast to circle the earth for ever as the source of life; and Te Tuna, the terrible giant eel of the ocean depths, the most feared creature in the world. Te Tuna, ruling the ocean from his submarine coral palace, was the lover of Hina - for as long as he could keep her love from straying. When he learned that Maui had supplanted him, his wrath was more terrible than storm and earthquake. 'The legend fascinated me,' says bestselling author Richard Adams, 'from the moment I first heard it, some years ago, in Tahiti. I felt I had to try to write it for people this side of the world.' In this narrative poem he has retold unforgettably the greatest of South Sea legends, the tale of the duel to the death between Maui and Te Tuna, and of the harvest of that death, Te Tuna's divine gift from the grave. UI de Rico's superb illustrations, many in colour, form the perfect setting for Richard Adams' poem."; a mint condition copy; 71 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Rico, Ul De. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Polynesia; Polynesian Myths; Polynesian Legends; Myths, Legends & Folklore. ISBN: 0283993936. ISBN/EAN: 9780283993930. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: PTY00010. . 9780283993930, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986, New York: Viking Penguin - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Here, powerfully portrayed in the words of novelists, poets, and journalists who lived through it - and in memoirs, diaries, and letters - is the full sweep of the Second World War, as it was experienced around the world by combatants and by civilians. From September 1, 1939 ("At dawn this morning," William L. Shirer, in Berlin, writes in his diary, "Hitler moved against Poland"), to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (in a scene from James Jones's From Here to Eternity); from the arrival of a sealed trainload of Jews at Auschwitz station (in Elie Wiesel's Night), to the ordeal of Leningrad, enduring the longest siege of a city in recorded history (in Harrison Salisbury's The 900 Days), to Dresden, just before its firebombing, perceived as Oz by an American prisoner of war (in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five), to the dropping of the first atomic bomb (an excerpt from John Hersey's Hiroshima) and V-J Day, the epic story unfolds. Scenes of stunning intensity - among them episodes from Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (a confrontation on a Pacific island) and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 - penetrate to the heart of the individual experience of war. Primo Levi, Yukio Mishima, and Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (projecting the life of a German U-boat crew in his autobiographical novel, Das Boot), among others, allow us to perceive the Italian, Japanese, and German experience of the war as if it were our own. From W. H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, George Kennan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jessica Mitford, to Gunter Grass, William Styron, Farley Mowat, Natalia Ginzburg, Thomas Bernhard, and Philip Roth - magnificent writers from many countries immerse us in the immeasurable range of circumstance, feeling, and experience that was World War II. From American soldiers on leave (cheeky G.I.s astonishing the shy British girls), to Kamikaze pilots writing home before their final missions; from A. J. Liebling on a landing craft approaching the French coast on D-Day, and Genet (Janet Flanner) celebrating the liberation of Paris, to William Manchester on MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender ("Tomioka was struck by the general's lack of vindictiveness"), Mordecai Richler has brought together a commemorative mosaic that, from first to last, engrosses, surprises, and moves us. Mordecai Richler is the author of nine novels and numerous articles and screenplays. Born and raised in Montreal, he was eight years old at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, yet he and his generation were deeply affected by the war as news of it permeated the life of the times and as older friends and relatives left home to fight overseas.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Viking Penguin - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991<

1994, ISBN: 9780670826308

PRC Publishing, Leicester, United Kingdom, 1994. reprint. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photography. Clean copy, no damage to … More...

PRC Publishing, Leicester, United Kingdom, 1994. reprint. Hardcover (Laminated Illustrated boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photography. Clean copy, no damage to the doctor, no damage to the book. The Lancaster was the most successful heavy bomber of World War Two. Lancasters made no less than 156,000 sorties over enemy territory and dropped a total of 608,612 tons of bombs. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 304 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photography. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; World War II; aviation. ISBN: 1856480550. ISBN/EAN: 9781856480550. Inventory No: 0280640. . 9781856480550 THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 1KG WITHOUT PACKING AND EXTRA POST WILL BE REQUIRED FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA. PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR COSTS BEFORE YOU ORDER, THANK YOU., PRC Publishing, 1994, New York: Viking Penguin - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: Here, powerfully portrayed in the words of novelists, poets, and journalists who lived through it - and in memoirs, diaries, and letters - is the full sweep of the Second World War, as it was experienced around the world by combatants and by civilians. From September 1, 1939 ("At dawn this morning," William L. Shirer, in Berlin, writes in his diary, "Hitler moved against Poland"), to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (in a scene from James Jones's From Here to Eternity); from the arrival of a sealed trainload of Jews at Auschwitz station (in Elie Wiesel's Night), to the ordeal of Leningrad, enduring the longest siege of a city in recorded history (in Harrison Salisbury's The 900 Days), to Dresden, just before its firebombing, perceived as Oz by an American prisoner of war (in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse-Five), to the dropping of the first atomic bomb (an excerpt from John Hersey's Hiroshima) and V-J Day, the epic story unfolds. Scenes of stunning intensity - among them episodes from Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (a confrontation on a Pacific island) and Joseph Heller's Catch-22 - penetrate to the heart of the individual experience of war. Primo Levi, Yukio Mishima, and Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (projecting the life of a German U-boat crew in his autobiographical novel, Das Boot), among others, allow us to perceive the Italian, Japanese, and German experience of the war as if it were our own. From W. H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh, George Kennan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jessica Mitford, to Gunter Grass, William Styron, Farley Mowat, Natalia Ginzburg, Thomas Bernhard, and Philip Roth - magnificent writers from many countries immerse us in the immeasurable range of circumstance, feeling, and experience that was World War II. From American soldiers on leave (cheeky G.I.s astonishing the shy British girls), to Kamikaze pilots writing home before their final missions; from A. J. Liebling on a landing craft approaching the French coast on D-Day, and Genet (Janet Flanner) celebrating the liberation of Paris, to William Manchester on MacArthur's acceptance of the Japanese surrender ("Tomioka was struck by the general's lack of vindictiveness"), Mordecai Richler has brought together a commemorative mosaic that, from first to last, engrosses, surprises, and moves us. Mordecai Richler is the author of nine novels and numerous articles and screenplays. Born and raised in Montreal, he was eight years old at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, yet he and his generation were deeply affected by the war as news of it permeated the life of the times and as older friends and relatives left home to fight overseas.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Viking Penguin - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991<