Preston Ian Editor (9 results)

Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Very Good+ (in mylar). 2nd Printing. Textblock is clean and tight. Colored plates, b&w phtographs, maps. Blue paper-covered boards, reading crease along the spine on front cover, bumped head and foot of spine, faint rubbing to covers. Unclipped dust jacket, light wear to top edges, minor wear to head and foot of spine and to the corners. 400pp., including biographies and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&W Photographs/Color Plates/Maps (illustrator). Hardcover.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Taschenbucher Series.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing March 1992. 334 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Michael Ian Kaye (Cover Design) (illustrator).

4to, 87pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good paperback copy.

Magazine. 84p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good magazine in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. All-Star issue! Edward Mycue, Ian Young, John Preston - wow! Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest.

4to, 87pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

4to, 87pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy. From the library of Neil Clerehan with his bookplate.

86pp. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers, edges a little yellowed. Colour plates and black and white photographic illustrations. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The format is approximately 8.625 inches by 12 inches. 255, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Index. Among the contributors are A. J. Barker, Ronald Heiferman, Ivan V. Hogg. John Grayson Kirk, William Koenig, and Antony Preston. Sydney L. Mayer was a British Publisher and historian. He was named to Chancellor's Court of Benefactors, University of Oxford, 1991; honorary fellow Oriel College, University of Oxford, 1993 and was a Fellow Royal Geography Society. Sydney L. Mayer was born on August 2, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He earned his Bachelor, University of Michigan, 1962; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1986. He was a Lecturer in history, U. Maryland., London, England., 1966-1977; visiting assistant professor international relations, University of Southern California, London, 1969-1977; executive editor History of The Purnell's Second World War, First World War, British Printing Corporation, London, 1968-1969, 69-72; consultant editor, History of the Violent Century, Ballantine Books, London, 1969-1973; publisher, Bison Books, Ltd., London, 1974-1995; president, Brompton Books Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, since 1982; president, Twin Books Corporation, Greenwich, since 1985; director, Twin Books (United Kingdom) Ltd., London, 1987-1995; chairman, Mayer Music Company, since 1996; managing director, Marlborough Productions, since 1997. In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummeled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific - the Japanese War Machine. The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world's leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing.…