Barker Ronald S (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover. First edition. Worn and grubby dust jacket with some age-spotting and several nicks and tears. Jacket spine head has been torn off. Upper leading corners of jacket are worn. Penned dedication on front endpaper. Boards are faded around edges and have a little patchy fading in general. Hardcover spine ends and leading corners are faded and worn. Some age-fading on endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Contents are clear. AF. Dance, Kathleen (illustrator). Used.…

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: 172pp., richly illustrated, notes, bibliographical notes, list contributors, epilogue, table of contents. Contributors: Jeffrey Chartrand - Timothy Darvill - William Keithley - Martin Papworth - David Thackray - Ronals Hutton - Barbara Bender - Hamish Beeston - and others. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1988 reprint. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. Illustrated in b/w and colour with photos, diagrams and maps. End papers are maps . Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 255 pages. Item Type: Book. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; . ISBN: 0861241428. ISBN/EAN: 9780861241422. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 029779. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. These are four of the booklets published by Profile Publications bound together with a metal clasp. All booklets are in excellent condition with only some light rubbing to the edges. ; Profile Publications; Color & B&W Illustrations and Photos; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 255 pp. : illustrated (some color illustrations) ; 31 cm. ; black cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; ISBN: 0517423138; LCCN: 84-135505 ; OCLC: 10824531 ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 12 inches. 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Index. Among the contributors are A. J. Barker, Ronald Heiferman, Ivan V. Hogg. John Grayson Kirk, William Koenig, and Antony Preston. Sydney L. Mayer was a British Publisher and historian. He was named to Chancellor's Court of Benefactors, University of Oxford, 1991; honorary fellow Oriel College, University of Oxford, 1993 and was a Fellow Royal Geography Society. Sydney L. Mayer was born on August 2, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He earned his Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1986. He was a Lecturer in history, U. Maryland., London, England., 1966-1977; visiting assistant professor international relations, University of Southern California, London, 1969-1977; executive editor History of The Purnell's Second World War, First World War, British Printing Corporation, London, 1968-1969, 69-72; consultant editor, History of the Violent Century, Ballantine Books, London, 1969-1973; publisher, Bison Books, Ltd., London, 1974-1995; president, Brompton Books Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1982; president, Twin Books Corporation, Greenwich, since 1985; director, Twin Books (United Kingdom) Ltd., London, 1987-1995; chairman, Mayer Music Company, since 1996; managing director, Marlborough Productions, since 1997. In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummeled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific - the Japanese War Machine. The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world's leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Study Books series. Brown illustrated boards with black lettering, in the pictorial dust jacket. Near fine copy in a price clipped dust jacket with a few small nicks and some darkened spots. Illustrated history of money with pictures in black, white and red by Margery Gill.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 6.75" x 8" Orig. tan paper with stamped vignettes to boards. 48 pp. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket price clipped, lightly soiled. About fine. Gill, Margery (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.72. Publisher's card wraps, stapled. Cover illustration by Henry Moore, lithographs by Ceri Richards. Toned to edges, covers lightly handled and marked. Very good.

First Edition. Signed by Ray Bradbury, who contributed a personal essay to the book. An oversize volume with hundreds of wonderful full color reproductions of creepy and horrific movie posters, lobby cards, insert cards and advertisements. Follows the chronology of the posters from the teens and twenties up through the sixties. The finest book on the subject. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.…