Howlett Robert Adams Bruce (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0804809569. Oversized, Heavy, Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dust jacket with chips, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 223 pages. heavy book extra postage required. Bruce Adams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 224pp. Many b&w and some full-colour photograpohic plates throughout. Pre-owned book but in excellent clean condition. Pages slightly dusty around edges but clean and unmarked. Dark grey/green boards fading marginally at top, otherwise fine. Dust jacket in very good condition, very few marks. WW2 laid waste to the beautiful islands of the south Pacific: nature has restored much of it since then. Bruce Adam captures the recovery of these sites as well as relics left by the warring armies who fought over them. Forewrod by Sir Arthur Lee. Heavy book, this will require extra postage, especially outside the UK. Adams, Bruce (illustrator). …

first edition 223pp ills.[b/w and col.] VG+ ) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear and chipping to extrems.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Battleground South Pacific. Adams, Bruce (Photographs) and Howlett, Robert (Text). Published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. pp. 223 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Green cloth boards, red spine titles, mapped endpapers. Foreword by Sir Arthur Lee. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color photographs. Volume is in fine condition without marks, tears or folds, boards have very light fading near edges. Unclipped dustjacket has chipping tail and head of spine and light wear. "The Second World War came to the Pacific and shattered a dream. The battling armies created bleak infernos of the jewelled islands and laid them waste. The armies passed but the material remained: aircraft, tanks, cannon, landing craft, warships, beach defenders . everything that could advance the attack and retard the enemy. Bruce Adams with his camera has caught a hundred moods .in this decay". …

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. 1st. Reminders of the war in the Pacific, particularly in the New Guinea/Solomon Islands area, are recorded photographically here, taken 25 yars after the conflict against Japan had ended. These relics were widespread and evident through the combat areas, representing all aspects of the Pacific war --- partly submerged in the sea, becoming overgrown by the jungle, set aside to recall the ferocity of war, which the wreckge made evident. The book is a co-operative effort by Robert Howlett (text) and photographer Bruce Adams. Locations where the majority of photographs were taken include New Guinea, Lae and Salamaua, Papua, the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert Island and Darwin, with a section devoted to the "Coastwatchers." In addition to the extensive collection of combat reminders--- such as planes, ships, tranks, coastal defences, wrecked harbours and military instillations --- visual attention is also drawn to the civic recovery in an area of the globe that previous to WWII had minimal experience of modern war. This was to be their introduction to the "industrial' age. The major impact of ":Battleground." is its visual presentation, but this is well supported by the text material which effectively summarises cause and effect for this "battle ground." (An interesting adjunct to the book is the inclusion of a NZ Government issue of a 1943 Solomon Islands area map, approx 70 cm by 50 cm, with a nuimber of pencilled apparant flight paths with various notes adjacent those lines. On the map reverse are two pencil passages which are difficult to decipher. This map was included in the book, loosely enclosed, at the time of purchase.) First edition from Reeds, 223 pages, illustrated throughout with colour and b/w relic photographs, many double page spreads, interspersed with attractive civilian scenes conveying post-war recovey progress, colour tone end-paper theatre maps. Green cloth hard covers with red spine titles are VG+, ditto the text block, no inscriptions. A heavy item at almost 1.3kg unpacked; would require additional postage for overseas delivery. Bruce Adams (photographs) (illustrator). …

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Australian Edition. An impressive pictorial of the people, locations and rusting equipment as they are today. Many of the photos are reproduced in Adams' 1976 "Rust in Peace." A fine copy, edges of covers very slightly faded, in slightly soiled dust jacket with lightly worn corners. (223p., 240 photos [89 color], map endpapers.).…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Near Fine lge. octavo 223pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, Military Relics in New Guinea & the South Pacific. Nice copy.

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine lge. octavo 223pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, Military Relics in New Guinea & the South Pacific.

Cloth, h/c. Very Good/Very Good & Protected. First Edition. 9 " x 11 1/2 ". P223, colour and b/w illustrations, endpaper maps, The Second World War came to the Pacific and shattered a dream. The battling armies created bleak infernos of the jewelled islands and laid them waste. Bruce Adams and his camera has caught a hundred moods and arrested in this production the processess of decay.…

1st edition dust jacket Very Good lge. octavo 223pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, Military Relics in New Guinea & the South Pacific.

1st edition dust jacket Fine lge. octavo 223pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, Military Relics in New Guinea & the South Pacific. Nice copy.