Shepard Elaine (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon Introduction by Neil Armstrong. A compelling human drama of the sacfices and risks asked of a small but remarkable group of astronauts who put their lives on the line for America's space program. A must have for the history buff or space program fan. Like new condition, bookshelf wear only, would make a very clean collectors copy. Plastic coated DJ in very fine condition. Jacket Design-Elaine Streithof, photos-NASA (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Slightly smaller book, shiny black boards with embossed facsimile signature at bottom front, 301 lightly browned pages, two photo sections. DJ has red background with passports and press passes, b/w photo of Shepard at front left, praise by Walter Winchell as "the female Ernie Pyle." b/w photos with Gary Cooper, Krushchev, Castro and Bob Hope on back. DJ has tiny nicks and tiny tears to most edges, red on back is lightly rubbed. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chips and tears to price-clipped jacket.

dvd. Condition: Used - Good.

Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners and is lightly rubbed on surfaces and on edges with small chips at top of spine and at top back corner. 301 pages plus 18 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. Stated 1962 First Edition with no subsequent printings listed. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. hardcover with dust jacket. Slight shelfwear to book yet boards clean, dust jacket lightly worn along edges, no tears, not price-clipped. Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket.…

HARDBACK YELLOW. Condition: . JACKET: GOOD. General wear, racked spine, bumped spine, liquid stain to DJ spine, creasing to DJ edges and DJ spine edges, loose spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1967 EDITION: 300.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Slightly Worn DJ. First Edition. An outstanding reporter with a world-wide beat, many times the first one out with a story. Often called 'The female Ernie Pyle'. 301pp Illus. with photos. (loc 953/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. COPYRIGHT 1967 EDITION. VINTAGE PRINTING. CLEAN COVER AND CONTENT PAGES. See photos for more information. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The author's foreword to these 260 pages of reporting notes that these people and events have been altered very little form the actual. READ more about : Lieutenant George Lyddane, Dead Bug,LZ, KBA, PACAF, Caravelle Hotel, Buu Mghi, Harvey's Hog Haulers, Nguyen Ngoc Linh, Kham Dum, VN credentials, Smash and Nails. UNilliustrated but with glossary at back. Cond : White paper wrapper with green titling. Volume is beautifully clean, square and bright. No wear, no names, no marks. Collectible ! QUote (p. 67) : " In the savage June battle the South Vietnamese fighting man demonstrated that he could stand up and die with the bravest. Too little is written about the 300,000-man Army of the Republic of Viet Nam, the ARVN, and the ._._._. . ".…

hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Gift inscription inside front cover.?Dust jacket is in good condition with moderate wear, small tears and light chips present.?Pictures available upon request.? dw.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slight wear to dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Third printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Tight binding; Clean pages; Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages completely free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket in Good condition, moderately edge-worn, now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy; Stored and shipped in protective polybag; Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Printing. Good in worn and sunned dust jacket. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. NO markings to text. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

First edn. 8vo, Pp. 301. Fine in dj, Inscribed by author. Shepard was a free lance journalist and was associated with the Women's News Service, filing stories from over 40 countries. A "slice of life from far-away places.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. No additional printings listed. $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket has some rubbing, small tears to edges, put in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. No additional printings listed. Dust ajcket is in a protective cover, some rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Third Printing. 300pp.; HB yellow w/green; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; clean,tight pgs. DJ green w/white&blk.-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; scuff&sun; chips&tears; corner-cut. "I have flown into the jaws of the cat of death." Our guys are more likely to say, "I have seen the Doom Pussy." a narrative about the war in Vietnam and the men who are fighting it. " photo section.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover; 8vo, 301 pages. FIRST EDITION Black cloth hardcovers with white lettering on spine. Lightly worn edges. Faint white mildew on covers. SIGNED by author on ffep. The pages are off-white but bright and clean. The jacket isillustrated ub red with white titles. Lightly sunned spine. Gently bumped edges. VG/VG. By Author. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Pages are clean. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 300pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. A remainder mark on the bottom page edge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and short tears. Female journalist's "narrative about the war in Vietnam and the men who are fighting it.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Cash. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed with some creasing. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Pages appear to be unmarked. A few cracks in the spine throughout the book. Pages still appear to be secure. DJ has rubbing and a few edge tears. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.…

Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket showing some wear to edges, corners, and moderate wear to head and tail of spine. Blue covers with black lettering to spine. Some mild wear noted to tail of spine. Pages browning with age but clean and very readable. Elain Shepard went to Vietnam for the Mutual Broadcasting System and the Nort American Newspaper Alliance. She concentrated on the men who were fighting there, in particular the fliers - ranging from those who manned the big choppers or the huge bombers to the fighter pilots and the unsug heroes of the war, the daring men who flew the tiny FAC spotter planes. But especially she frequented those who winged up over the North at night, tghe only fliers entitled to wear the Doom Pussy Patch. The legend around this animal translates "I have flown into the jaws of the cat of death" known as the Doom Pussy.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Elaine Shepard?s The Doom Pussy is a Vietnam book with a title so gloriously unhelpful that one can only assume several marketing departments fainted and the surviving editor simply pressed ahead. It is not, despite appearances, a work of feline apocalypse, underground erotica, or an experimental novel about a cat with grievances. It is Shepard?s semi-fictional account of American airmen in Vietnam, built from her time as a reporter among the flyers, the bases, the aircraft, the bars, the noise and the peculiar masculine theatre of men going up into the dark with quite reasonable doubts about coming back. The ?Doom Pussy? itself was an aviation patch and phrase tied to those who flew dangerous night missions over North Vietnam: the cat of death, waiting open-mouthed in the sky, which is a surprisingly honest mascot for modern air war. Most units prefer eagles, lightning bolts, heroic animals and other symbols that suggest destiny has nice tailoring. This one appears to say: congratulations, you have flown into the jaws of something with claws, and your reward is a patch, a drink, and possibly a story unsuitable for the chaplain. Shepard follows the fliers rather than trying to package the whole Vietnam War into one tidy parcel, which was sensible, since Vietnam resisted tidy parcels with almost theatrical commitment. Here are helicopter crews, bomber men, fighter pilots, forward air controllers, base life, mission talk, ribald humour, exhaustion, swagger, fear, boredom, bravado and the strange little rituals by which men make danger administratively repeatable. Aircraft take off, men joke too loudly, briefings happen, engines roar, and somewhere between the runway and the target the romance of aviation becomes a very practical argument with geography, weather, anti-aircraft fire and luck. What gives the book its odd flavour is that it comes from a woman reporter moving through a world loudly convinced of its own masculinity. Shepard listens, watches, travels with them, catches the talk, the gripes, the obscene jokes, the affectionate insults, the loneliness, the fatalism and the professional competence hiding under all the noise. War here is not polished into solemn marble. It is sweaty, profane, theatrical, frightened, funny in the wrong places, and full of people using language as armour because actual armour is in short supply at several thousand feet. There is a sharp irony in the air-war setting. These are men with sophisticated machines, advanced weapons, radios, ranks, acronyms and all the expensive apparatus of modern power, yet so much still comes down to nerve, weather, chance, mechanical temper, and whether the night decides to keep its mouth open. The pilots may speak in jargon, but the old truths remain embarrassingly simple: fear travels well, death has excellent range, and courage often sounds suspiciously like a dirty joke told before take-off. For readers of Vietnam aviation, combat reporting, semi-fictional war writing, aircrew culture, or books with titles that can stop a room dead, The Doom Pussy is a genuinely unusual bit of shelf-fodder. It has Skyraiders, Canberras, helicopters, FAC spotter planes, bases, missions, pilots, reporters, and the whole overheated absurdity of a war being fought by men who could be both technically brilliant and emotionally held together with cigarettes, profanity and momentum. Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. No ISBN, because apparently the title had already used up the book?s entire allowance of formal identification. A solid survivor from 1967: aviation, Vietnam, gallows humour, and one of the least forgettable titles ever to loiter on a military-history shelf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 241 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white plates. Bound in blue hardcovers with black titles on the spine. Lightly worn and bumped around the edges. Green dustjacket in very good condition with white and black titles. Worn around the edges with creases and tears. Book Club Edition. VG+/VG. Book.…