Mcbride William M (94 results)

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The Moluccas Islands; the invasions of Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon; Iwo Jima; Okinawa - these and other important naval actions of World War II are recounted in this work by an enlisted sailor and former journalist, Orvill Raines, in poignant and graphic letters to his wife.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The Moluccas Islands; the invasions of Leyte, Mindoro and Luzon; Iwo Jima; Okinawa - these and other important naval actions of World War II are recounted in this work by an enlisted sailor and former journalist, Orvill Raines, in poignant and graphic letters to his wife.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and the United States Navy, William M. McBride examines how the navy dealt with technological change-from the end of the Civil War through the "age of the battleship"-as technology became more complex and the nation assumed a global role. Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them. Early in the twentieth century the large dreadnought battleship at first met similar resistance from some officers, including the famous Alfred Thayer Mahan, and their industrial and political allies. During the first half of the twentieth century the battleship exercised a dominant influence on those who developed the nation's strategies and operational plans-at the same time that advances in submarines and fixed-wing aircraft complicated the picture and undermined the battleship's superiority. In any given period, argues McBride, some technologies initially threaten the navy's image of itself. Professional jealousies and insecurities, ignorance, and hidebound traditions arguably influenced the officer corps on matters of technology as much as concerns about national security, and McBride contends that this dynamic persists today. McBride also demonstrates the interplay between technological innovation and other influences on naval adaptability-international commitments, strategic concepts, government-industrial relations, and the constant influence of domestic politics. Challenging technological determinism, he uncovers the conflicting attitudes toward technology that guided naval policy between the end of the Civil War and the dawning of the nuclear age. The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy," he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition; First Printing. Small stain along top edge of page block which extends only into the front free-endpaper. Dustjacket has very minor edge wear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 307 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and the United States Navy, William M. McBride examines how the navy dealt with technological change-from the end of the Civil War through the "age of the battleship"-as technology became more complex and the nation assumed a global role. Although steam engines generally made their mark in the maritime world by 1865, for example, and proved useful to the Union riverine navy during the Civil War, a backlash within the service later developed against both steam engines and the engineers who ran them. Early in the twentieth century the large dreadnought battleship at first met similar resistance from some officers, including the famous Alfred Thayer Mahan, and their industrial and political allies. During the first half of the twentieth century the battleship exercised a dominant influence on those who developed the nation's strategies and operational plans-at the same time that advances in submarines and fixed-wing aircraft complicated the picture and undermined the battleship's superiority. In any given period, argues McBride, some technologies initially threaten the navy's image of itself. Professional jealousies and insecurities, ignorance, and hidebound traditions arguably influenced the officer corps on matters of technology as much as concerns about national security, and McBride contends that this dynamic persists today. McBride also demonstrates the interplay between technological innovation and other influences on naval adaptability-international commitments, strategic concepts, government-industrial relations, and the constant influence of domestic politics. Challenging technological determinism, he uncovers the conflicting attitudes toward technology that guided naval policy between the end of the Civil War and the dawning of the nuclear age. The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy," he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine, As New condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Small crease on front flap. The World War II letters of James Orville Raines to his bride, Ray Ellen. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 307 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slight shelfwear and bumping to boards and unclipped DJ. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 487 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine -. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine-. 1st Edition. Shelf 1137 Text clean; book tight; some foxing to top edge of paper; signed by author on title page; DJ covered by mylar and has some light general wear mostly light rubbing to surface edges and corners; Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder, smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS . Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. William C Brown Pub 1981 Very Good/ William M. (Nihil Obstat); Byrne, James J. (Imprimatur). Light wear to bright cover, Pos penned inside cover, tight unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; grey c w/black titles; illustrated end papers; 321 clean, unmarked pages. b/w Illus (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 487 pp. Profusely illustrated (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good condition, minor wear to edges; The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor. The Letters of Yeoman James Orvill Raines; 8vo; 307 pages; FSA.

Paperback. Condition: VG. paperback/SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Some color, mostly black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. ; 487 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth backed hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition with very lightly bumped top corners; very light shelf wear to top/bottom of spine; back cloth with a couple very light scuffs; face edge of pages with a couple very tiny dings; otherwise the book is vg+, very clean and tight, overall very lightly used. The jacket is in very good condition with light shelf wear to top of spine; very light shelf wear to edges and corners; very lightly rubbed with a few small dings; very lightly aged; otherwise the jacket is vg+, very lightly used, wrapped in mylar cover.…

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

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 4to. 217 pages. Softcover bound in pale blue wrappers. Spine is faded. Wrappers are rubbed and worn, corners are bumped and creased. EX-LIBRARY with full markings. Small stain on page 255, otherwise clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 349pp. '1' in number line. "[A] publication of selections from the first three issues of Hypatia". Foreword by Joyce Trebilcot; Preface by Founding Editor, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri. Lavender cloth with black title lettering on spine and front cover. Just 4 small dot stains on rear cover, tiny dog-ears (by accident) on just a few pages near middle top fore-edge, and mere hint of wear at top right spine corner (else no wear) keep book from being New: Binding tight, corners sharp, no previous owner names. Clean text.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ if issued. Good condition. Pages look free of notations.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 34, No 1, January, 1944, pp. 1-35 + 36-56, Maps, Photos, Extracted from orig vol, then Recased in Orig Journal Covers, name on cover else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Number 309 of 1000 copies of the Deluxe Edition specially bound. Profusely illustrated throughout with facsimiles of books and manuscripts including 16 full-pages in color, and with photographic portraits. 487 pages. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxi+487 pages with frontispiece, plates, photographs, facsimiles and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and facsimile signature of Twain to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition limited to 1500 copies. William McBride's indispensable work, covering the full breadth of Mark Twain's writings after Merle Johnson's first Twain bibliography in 1910 and the entries in Jacob Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature in 1957. Shows cover and title page photographs for most entries in addition to occurring points of entry, further includes summaries of every letter owned by the Mark Twain Memorial And The Stowe-day Foundation. Condition: A near fine copy in a fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's rust color cloth. Jacket not priced or clipped. First Printing of the First Edition. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994. Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with maps and photos. WW2 letters to his young bride from James Orvill Raines, a newspaperman turned Yeoman Second Class, aboard the USS Howarth in 1944-45. Glossary. Chapter notes. Bibliographic Notes. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "The letters are carefully edited and superbly set in their historical context. GOOD NIGHT OFFICIALLY is a tribute to the genuine heroism of the millions of ordinary men who served their country in World War II and a fitting remembrance of the squandered potential and tragic sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of Americans in a war of unparalleled ferocity.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's rust color cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. xvi, 307pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. very light wear to the book and jacket. "The first fully illustrated bibliography of Mark Twain, which includes descriptions of 761 books by Twain, 169 works about him, and 327 items of his correspondence." First printing of the Deluxe Edition. Browse my books: www.abebooks.com/The-Book-Shed-Benson-VT-U.S.A/602765/sf Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Tracking number and estimated delivery date always provided. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed, an ABE Heritage Seller, has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997 An on-line bookseller with a bookshop sensibility.…

Stated First Edition; small 4to., 487 pages; cloth covered boards; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws in a lightly sunned dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New DJ & publishers shrinkwrap. Deluxe edition limited to 1000 numbered. Hartford, Connecticut: McBride/Publisher, 1984. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. 1984 "First edition" is so stated. This is part of the "Deluxe" edition "specially bound" and limited to 1000 NUMBERED copies. [There were also 1,500 unnumbered and 52 lettered copies]. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Described here are 761 books by Mark Twain in various editions, 169 works about him, and 327 items of his correspondence. Identified for each book are title, first issue points, date and place of publication, publisher, binding color, etc. The content of each of the 327 Twain letters is summarized. Especially valuable are the nearly 1000 photos of Twain himself, his book covers, title pages, etc. Numerous bindings are reproduced on beautiful full color plates. Bound in the original "deluxe" gilt-stamped blue leatherette. Complete with pristine dust jacket. Deluxe edition limited to 1000 numbered. Hardcover. New/New DJ & publishers shrinkwrap. Illus. by Deluxe edition of 1000 numbered copies. 8vo. xxi, 487pp. [508 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Deluxe edition of 1000 numbered copies (illustrator). …

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition.