Aitken Alex (47 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. SCOTLAND-This regular size trade PB is in FINE condition. Clean, bright pages. yellow w/blue lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 192 pages. Elephant a quarterly magazine from the makers of Frame focuses its keen eye on art and visual culture. Lately, creative individuals have been protesting against the corporate nature of things, often taking the initiative and setting up new independent ventures. Elephant looks at how it's done. Elephant visits art and design studios, peers over shoulders, steps on graffiti artists' toes, disturbs rehearsals, interrupts takes, rides fixed-gear bikes, and plays the latest computer games. Elephant's tone of voice is direct, sincere and multidisciplinary. Elephant believes it's time for less cynicism and more encouragement for outbursts of spontaneity think of those that gave birth to futurism, dadaism and surrealism. (K2/2).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Canadian Edition. 239pp. Inscribed by the author To title page. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: New. Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers of memory were dazzling. When a vital roll-book was lost with the dead, he was able to dictate the full name, regimental number, next of kin and address of next of kin for every member of his former platoon-a total of fifty-six men. Everything he saw, he could remember. Aitken began to write about his experiences in 1917 as a wounded out-patient in Dunedin Hospital. Every few years, when the war trauma caught up with him, he revisited the manuscript, which was eventually published as Gallipoli to the Somme in 1963. Aitken writes with a unique combination of restraint, subtlety, and an almost photographic vividness. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature on the strength of this single work-a book recognised by its first reviewers as a literary memoir of the Great War to put alongside those by Graves, Blunden and Sassoon.Long out of print, this is by some distance the most perceptive memoir of the First World War by a New Zealand soldier. For this edition, Alex Calder has written a new introduction, annotated the text, compiled a selection of images, and added a commemorative index identifying the soldiers with whom Aitken served.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library copy. Hardcover. Unmarked text. Thanks for looking.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. A near fine reprint copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Very slight scuffing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A historical novel set in Ruperts Land, Canada in the mid nineteenth century and based around the real-life story of Sarah Ballenden, the Meti (mixed-race) wife of John Ballenden, Chief Factor of the Hudson Bay Company. 239pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Edition. Third edition, hardcover, has a lean to the binding, rubbing with light smudges to the cloth, bumps to the spine ends, mild dulling to the head of the text block, and faint toning to the endpages with a previous owner's name inked to the head of the first free endpage. Overall, this is a solid, Near Very Good copy in a Good only, unclipped dust jacket, which has short losses at the spine ends, a 2" tear to the tail of the front hinge that crosses the spine, smaller chips to the corners with shorter tears to the edges and other hinges, heavy sunning and light spots of soiling to the spine, and slighter toning and smudging to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.…

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED "BEST WISHES, ALEX AITKEN on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; The saga of two families in different eras; a story of love and war, bigotry and envy, tragedy and hope in their changing worlds. Signed by Author(s).

Card coves. Condition: Very Good. 434 pages. As new. Signed "Best Wishes / Alex Aitken" on half title. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: New.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. This signed copy of this book is in very good condition. The cover only shows very minimal signs of wear around the edges. The inside is neat and clean. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

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

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Condition: New.

Condition: New. The most vivid and moving memoir of World War I by a New Zealand solider.KlappentextrnrnAlexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. Aitken began to write about his experiences in 1917 as a wounded out-patient in Dune.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. New Book, Direct from Publisher.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 9-10 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New. pp. 388.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers of memory were dazzling. When a vital roll-book was lost with the dead, he was able to dictate the full name, regimental number, next of kin and address of next of kin for every member of his former platoon-a total of fifty-six men. Everything he saw, he could remember. Aitken began to write about his experiences in 1917 as a wounded out-patient in Dunedin Hospital. Every few years, when the war trauma caught up with him, he revisited the manuscript, which was eventually published as Gallipoli to the Somme in 1963. Aitken writes with a unique combination of restraint, subtlety, and an almost photographic vividness. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature on the strength of this single work-a book recognised by its first reviewers as a literary memoir of the Great War to put alongside those by Graves, Blunden and Sassoon.Long out of print, this is by some distance the most perceptive memoir of the First World War by a New Zealand soldier. For this edition, Alex Calder has written a new introduction, annotated the text, compiled a selection of images, and added a commemorative index identifying the soldiers with whom Aitken served.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.