Language: English
Published by Random House, Random House, 1950
Seller: Cloud Runner Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dj+. 1st Edition. The Saturday Evening Post Stories : 1950 by Conrad Richter; Zora Neale Hurston; MacKinlay Kantor; Paul Gallico; Erik Sjögren; Brooke Hanlon; Basil Heatter; Helen Eustis; Don Tracy; Alec Hudson; Sigman Byrd; Frank Luther Mott; James Norman Hall; Ray Bradbury; Thomas Barlow; Will F. Jenkins; Roderick Lull; Nigel Balchin; Paul Horgan; Kay Boyle. New York: Random House, 1950. 298pp. Language: English. Note: Gently used with some writing inside the cover. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Main. Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
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Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 0571235018 ISBN 13: 9780571235018
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect. An important work of literary scholarship which highlights, for the first time, the achievement of a neglected modernist master - now in paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Woolner Brothers, 1967
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: VG. A VGF or better pressbook with no cuts or missing pages. Size: 11" X 14". Book.
Published by Universal Pictures, 1943
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Photograph
No Binding. Condition: VG+. 1257-17. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.
Paperback. Condition: New. Main. Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
Published by William Blackwood And Sons Ltd, 1965
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
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Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber 2021-10-21, 2021
ISBN 10: 0571235018 ISBN 13: 9780571235018
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Published by NY. 1970. Random House., 1970
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2º (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.
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Language: English
Published by Flood Editions, Not Stated, 2012
ISBN 10: 0983889309 ISBN 13: 9780983889304
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Language: English
Published by Flood Editions, Not Stated, 2012
ISBN 10: 0983889309 ISBN 13: 9780983889304
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