Cook Louis D (14 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The North American Review Vol. 231 No. 2 February 1931. Various (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. First Edition. The hardcover is in good condition, with a decorative cover and no dust jacket. The binding remains intact, though there is some wear on the edges and slight discoloration on the pages due to age. No inscriptions or library markings are present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Hardcover and dust jacket in next-to-pristine condition, with a single blemish: there are foxing spots on the top page edges, otherwise this book is unmarked. The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 378 pages. [1.6 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1979 hardcover used,Sphinx by Robin Cook, Cold Is The Sea by Edward L. Beach, Words By Heart by Ouida Sebestyen, The North Runner by R. D. Lawrence, Intruder by Louis Charbonneau.

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kart., Broschiert. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Aufl. 72 S. zahlr. Ill. Einband leicht berieben/ etw. gebräunt, ansonsten sehr gut erh. ISBN: 0898021316 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 290.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. A selection of one hundred quality etchings and lithographs by the foremost then living American artists, each print on a full quarto page of laid paper with historical description on the back, bound in Optak wire binding so that they can be removed for framing and replaced as desired. Tall 4to, quarter black cloth over green boards with ivory title label, unpaginated but with over 200 pages. A very well preserved copy, clean and unmarked.…

blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good or better condition, neat gift inscription inside front cover. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.…

paperback. Condition: Befriedigend. Seiten; 9781559883375.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R200114161: 2004. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 365 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 370-Education.