Gravett William (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Revised edition. Originally published in 1954. 22pp. Stapled wrappers. Small stain on front wrapper through to title page, near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; crease to upper inside corner of back corner; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; This book is a collective effort on the part of many of the NASA flight controllers who "manned" the front row of consoles in Mission Control during the preeminent days of America's Manned Spaceflight Program. These controllers were the singular group in Mission Control Houston that was formed to work as a team. They were known as The TRENCH. In that same team spirit, this book about them and by them has been a collective endeavor. They have contributed their own mini autobiographies of life events that shaped their character and their roles and contributions that carried Man to the moon.

Condition: New. Miss Ravenel s Conversion is important in American literary history as the first novel to depict the Civil War with realism. Its battlefield scenes owe much to John W. De Forest s own experience as a captain in that conflict. But in 1867 genteel readers w.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gravett, Guy (illustrator). First Edition. Bound colour printed limp wraps, with black titles to illustrated wraps, this 1956 softcover First Edition is Good. 125pp with Complete Catalogue of Penguin Books and 8 Chapters. Many illustrations of book covers, bookshop interiors, distribution activity, Pelicans, icons, Penguin Specials, Puffins, King Penguins etc. etc. Wraps are rubbed and dirty in places, some creases to wraps,corners curled, dirty marks to rear endpapers. In general Good, and rare.