David Stevens Editors (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Martha Powell Setchell, Art Editor (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing - First Thus. 383 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear at the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg. This anthology contains: The Winter Market - a novelette by William Gibson; Pity the Monsters by Charles de Lint; Under Another Moon - a novelette by Dave Duncan; Carpe Diem by Eileen Kernaghan; We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) - an essay by Judith Merril; Mother Lode - a novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb; Home by the Sea by Elisabeth Vonarburg; User Friendly by Spider Robinson; Just Like Old Times by Robert J. Sawyer; The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind by Terence M. Green; Outport by Garfield Reeves-Stevens; The Byrds by Michael G. Coney; A Niche - a novelette by Peter Watts; Remember the Dead Say by Jean-Louis Trudel; One - a novelette by Heather Spears; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer by Lesley Choyce; Distant Signals by Andrew Weiner; Soluble Fish by Joel Champetier; The Reckoning of Gifts - a novelette by James Alan Gardner; The Cauldron by Donald M. Kingsbury; Happy Days in Old Chernobyl by Claude-Michel Prevost; Xils by Esther Rochon; Stolen Fires by Yves Meynard; Retrieval by John Park; Stardust Boulevard by Daniel Sernine; Ballads in 3/4 Time by Robert Charles Wilson; (Learning About) Machine Sex by Candas Jane Dorsey; and Memetic Drift by Glenn Grant. Size: 8vo. Nicholas Jainschigg; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 383 pp. Red boards lettered in silver on the spine. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with some rubbing on the lower right of the front panel; price intact; initialled by a previous owner on the front free endpaper; ink mark on the lower edge of the text block. Dj art by Nicholas Jainschigg. This anthology contains: The Winter Market - a novelette by William Gibson; Pity the Monsters by Charles de Lint; Under Another Moon - a novelette by Dave Duncan; Carpe Diem by Eileen Kernaghan; We Have Met the Alien (And It Is Us) - an essay by Judith Merril; Mother Lode - a novelette by Phyllis Gotlieb; Home by the Sea by Elisabeth Vonarburg; User Friendly by Spider Robinson; Just Like Old Times by Robert J. Sawyer; The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind by Terence M. Green; Outport by Garfield Reeves-Stevens; The Byrds by Michael G. Coney; A Niche - a novelette by Peter Watts; Remember the Dead Say by Jean-Louis Trudel; One - a novelette by Heather Spears; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer by Lesley Choyce; Distant Signals by Andrew Weiner; Soluble Fish by Joel Champetier; The Reckoning of Gifts - a novelette by James Alan Gardner; The Cauldron by Donald M. Kingsbury; Happy Days in Old Chernobyl by Claude-Michel Prevost; Xils by Esther Rochon; Stolen Fires by Yves Meynard; Retrieval by John Park; Stardust Boulevard by Daniel Sernine; Ballads in 3/4 Time by Robert Charles Wilson; (Learning About) Machine Sex by Candas Jane Dorsey; and Memetic Drift by Glenn Grant. Size: 8vo. Nicholas Jainschigg; (illustrator). Book.…

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1947. 256 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Slightly bumped cover board corners. Light foxing on page edges. No dj. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Martha Powell Setchell (Art Editors) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. David Lodge "The Novelist at the Crossroads" / A E Dyson "Edwin Drood" / David Hirsch "The Reality of Ian Watt" / Doris L Eder "Wallace Stevens".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 320 pages. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Southern Trident examines the influences on the rise of Australian naval power and discusses current international and strategic issue in te light of history. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian history, of navel issues and of international and strategic studies as well as to the general reader.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With its ancestry in the Royal Navy and the former colony-based navies, the Australian Navy was established in 1901. Since that time it has helped Australia enter the international community as a modern, self-reliant nation and has been indispensable in protecting Australia's sovereignty and national interests.…

Condition: Fine unmarked. First Thus. A glimpse at the history of the NCWA, a group that reenacts the Civil War era. Filled with photos of members at various events. Nice bright crisp copy of rare item. 8-1/2 x 11, approx 140 pp, b/w photos. Oversize Trade Paperback in off-white illus wraps.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Despite the navy being one of Australia's oldest and most important institutions, the links between nation-building and the Navy have never before received detailed study. Bringing together scholars from Australia and overseas, The Navy and the Nation examines the extent of the Navy's contribution to our national development and shows how the Navy has played a vital role in defining our independent national identity.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Trafalgar, Tsushima, Midway, and other epic blue-water fleet actions are not likely to have their counterparts in the early twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased interest instead in the way that navies directly influence events where sea, air and land interact. Yet, in the broad sweep of military history this is nothing new. In Sea Power Ashore and in the Air leading historians look back over more than a hundred years, to show how navies have often made a critical difference to the fighting ashore and the contest for mastery in the air.…

1st Ed. XX, 363 PP with 4 maps, 4 tables and 45 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 15. Collection of 19 essays: The rise of modern Naval Strategy c.1580-1880 by John Reeve. Imperial Naval Defence, a Canadian perspective by Nicholas Tracy. A strategy for the lower deck of the early Royal Australian Navy, by Kathryn Spurling.…

Newspaper. First Edition. 24p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, news, editorials, services and resources, reviews, ads, photos, wear at folds, toning else good on newsprint. Also two big articles on the Divine Miss M with photos. Second part of a piece on Janet Alecto Rivera. Clarke and Nichols were lovers who worked together on this long-running tabloid and several books. Clarke was murdered in Mexico in 1975. The newspaper, with stringers across the country and national distribution, lasted until executive editors Lige Clarke and Jack Nichols resigned after issue 105. While the publishers planned to continue, 105 appears to have been the final issue.…

Hardcover in Dustjacket. Condition: FINE. The development of Australia's navy has been a vital factor in its history and evolution as a nation in the century since Federation. Australia has a maritime environment and its national interests stretch far beyond its coastline.Southern Trident examines the influences on the rise of Australian naval power and discusses current international and strategic issues in the light of history. The authors show how the creation of the Australian navy was no simple display of nationalism, but rather the culmination of various complex and often revolutionary developments in such areas as politics, diplomacy, strategy, economic relations and technology in the Asia-Pacific region and far beyond.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian history, of naval issues and of international and strategic studies as well as to the general reader. xix, 363 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.First Edition #0520/090724 Australia. Royal Australian Navy -- History Sea-power -- Australia -- History Australia -- History, Naval Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral C. A. Ritchie. XX, 363 PP with b/w ilustrations (5 figures and 52 photos). Fp: RAN ships paste Japanese posts. Hard cover, pictorial boards, dj. Discreet rubbed patch at corner of front endpaper, otherwise fine. 21.6 x 14.6. Collection of 17 essays - Operational command at Sea, by Andrew Gordon. . Western advisors and Chinese sailors in the 1894-95 Sino Japanese War. . Command at sea in war and peace: and Australian experience during the Gulf War and after.…

1st Ed. 320 PP with 3 maps, 1 table and 42 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 23.8 x 16. Collection of 19 essays - Naval power projection : (5) Beginning of the 20th century (Gallipoli, Weihaiwei blockade). (4) World War II. (7) Cold War era. (3) Contemporary World (Unitaf in Somalia.).…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers, xxvi/438pp, b&w photos. Light wear on card edges; a very good copy. This collection of contributions from key naval and military commentators examines the extent of the Navy's contribution to our national development and shows how the Navy had played a vital role in defining our independent national identity. Major themes are: concepts and contexts; the navy and the nation; ships, industry and technology; and naval people and the nation. Essays include seapower and imperial endeavour (Geoffrey Till); naval medicine and European settlement of Australia (Neil Westphalen); naval hydrography and the Great Barrier Reef (Colin Jones); popular depictions of naval imagery in the press 1908-18 (Robert Crawford); the navy and Diplomacy (Peter Edwards); HMAS Australia (David Stevens); HMAS Sydney III (David Hobbs); naval men and Australia from 1788-1914 (Bob Nicholls); Vice Admiral Sir William Clarkson (Chris Clark); and Admiral Sir Francis Hyde (James Goldrick).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Another of these massive volumes reprinting transcripts, documents, letters, and relevant excerpts regarding the debate before and convention ratifying the Constitution in South Carolina in 1788. Stout hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; near fine. Text clean; lxxv, blank, 614 pages; color map endsheets, editorial procedure, chronologies, list of SC state officers. Size: Large Octavo.…

[3-7913-1734-2] 1996. (4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 160pp. Color frontispiece, black and white and color illustrations and photographs, bibliography. The pages are slightly rippled. Contributors include David Cadman, Jean Dethier, Ruth Eaton, Stuart Lipton, Peter Murray. (Architecture, Architecture, Bridges, Exhibition Catalog--England, Exhibition Catalog--Royal Academy of Arts). …