Calder Alex (135 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. illustrated edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 17 essays by scholars from European, Polynesian, and Settler backgrounds on the meeting of Europeans and peoples of the Pacific and the consequences of those meetings. Writers include I. Futa Helu, Pat Hohepa, Okusitino Mahina, Malama Meleisea, Paul Turnbull, and others. 344pp. Index. B/w illus. **.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and owned by famed historian John Pocock Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780718501969.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. **PAPERBACK**.

Pamphlet. This is not a book. The Whitney Museum of American Art's Gallery Guide for late 2008-early 2009 with short illustrated pieces on the current and upcoming exhibitions at the New York museum. Includes: Alex Bag; Elad Lassry; Synthetic; William Eggleston Democratic Camera; Sites; Alexander Calder Paris Years; Jenny Holzer Protect Protect; Artists Making Photographs; and the permanent collection. Staple-bound, self-wrappers; 24 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 4 x 6.5 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. International postage may be less than quoted.

1st edition. Pages clean; binding tight. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "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 platoona 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 worka 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"--Publisher information. The most vivid and moving memoir of World War I by a New Zealand solider. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages; Description: viii, 344 p. : ill. , map ; 24 cm. Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Oceania --Discovery and exploration --Congresses. Summary: Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Handsomely bound in publisher's light brown linen cloth over boards, with gilt titling to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Contributions by each of the three editors and by J.G.A. Pocock, T.F. Helu, Malama Meleisea, 'Okusitino Mahina, Stephen Turner, David Mackay, P.G. McHugh, Nicholas Thomas, Ian G. Barber, Pat Hohepa, Paul Turnbull, Rod Edmond, Leonard Bell, Sarah Treadwell, Simon During, Mark Houlahan, Margaret Mutu and others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Couverture différente. Edition 2005. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Different cover. Edition 2005. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840. University of Hawaii Press, 1999. 352pp. Language: English.

8vo, 344pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

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

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.

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

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages; Description: viii, 344 p. : ill. , map ; 24 cm. Papers presented at the 9th David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, University of Auckland, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Oceania --Discovery and exploration --Congresses. Summary: Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by such homogenizing metropolitan myths as the introduction of civilization to savage peoples, the general ruin of indigenous cultures by an imperial juggernaut, or the mimicry of European models by an abject population. 1 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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24.0 x 16.0cms b/w illusts fine hardback & dustwrapper These 16 essays cover such topics as: postcoloniality; European perceptions of world history in the age of Encounter; South pacific mythology; a warrior goddess in modern Samoa; myth & history; Captain Cook; the British construction of the Pacific; commonlaw language in the discourse of colonization in the early modern period; the Forsters' accounts of New Zealand sociality; the Cook accounts of the Grass Cove conflict; the ancestral remains of the Australian Aboriginal peoples; missionaries in Tahiti; Augustus Earle's depictions of New Zealand encounters; European representations of the Hakari; Pacific colonialism & the formation of literary culture; H T Kemp translating Robinson Crusoe & The Pilgrim's Progress; Tuku Whenau & land sale in 19th century New Zealand.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xxxiv 213p With maps, a year in the life of a New Zealand soldier, 1915-16, serving from Egypt to Lemnos to Gallipoli to the Western Front.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Condition: New. pp. vi + 603 99 Illus.

Condition: New. pp. vi + 603.

Condition: Good. Sewn, 232pp. Index, bibliography, editor's notes. Illustrated. 15,5x23x1,8cm. A few pencil underlinings in the appendix. In very good conditon.