Fussell L W (6 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright, pen front endpaper, 96pp with B&W photographs. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 119pp w index. Thirteen indexed illustrations. Wrapper shows tiny splatter front near top, light handling, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Five essays reprinted from the Bulletin of The New York Public Library, June 1962; March, April, May, June, October, 1963; with an Introduction and a Postscript. Essays include: The Literature of Travel and the Mode of Romance in the Renaissance (W.T. Jewkes); Travel Literature and the Rise of Neo-Hellenism in England (James M. Osborn); Patrick Brydone: The Eighteenth-Century Traveler as Representative Man (Paul Fussell, Jr.); Convention and Novelty in the Romantic Generation's Experience of Italy (Herbert Barrows); The Road to Reality: Burlesque Travel Literature and Mark Twain's Roughing It (Franklin R. Rogers). Introduction: Travellers and Travel Books (Warner G. Rice). Postscript: Fact and Fiction in Captain John Smith's True Travels (Philip L. Barbour). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. N/A. x, 96pp, several black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends, mottling on front board. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers just starting to tan, bookseller's label on front pastedown. Otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine tanning, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 404 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0395640229; 9780395640227 LCCN: 92-21716; LC: D773; Dewey: 940.54/5973 ; OCLC: 26095210 ; reprint of the book originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1963 ; Contents: Forward / Samuel Eliot Morison -- The Solomons, October 1942-May 1944 -- The Marianas, May 1944-August 1944 -- U.S.A., August 1944-October 1944 -- The Philippines: Mindoro, Luzon, Palawan, October 1944-June 1945 -- Borneo, June 1945-July 1945 -- China and Japan, July 1945-December 1945. ; "This best-selling diary is one of the most extraordinary documents to emerge from World War II. Despite regulations, seaman James J. Fahey secretly compiled a diary on scraps of paper throughout the long World War II naval campaign in the Pacific. His diary describes an average sailor's daily life during wartime and records a personal view of a major historic event" ; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover in unclipped (7s 6d) dust jacket which is lightly soiled and spotted with several small chips and tears to edges including small losses to spine head and corners. Light edge wear to boards and slight forward lean. Light spotting to endpapers but contents clean without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. 96 pp. 19 b/w plates. Photography by P. B. Lauder and J. G. Restall. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.…

1946. XX Century Pilgrimage To Wellow. Hardback. Book - Good. DJ - Poor, chipped and stained.