Holman Brett (46 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: USED Very Good. First Edition. Stated Artists Proof Edition, First Printing, 1999. Inscribed by editor on title page. Pages (otherwise) clean, binding tight. Inscribed by Author.

Condition: New. Brett, Harold (illustrator).

Condition: New. Brett, Harold (illustrator).

Condition: New. Brett, Harold (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Original green decorated cloth. No dust jacket. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910. A beautiful copy in Fine collectible condition. The binding design, although unattributed, is exceptionally handsome. It's simplicity, restraint, and elegance rival the work of Margaret Armstrong, Amy Sacker, and the other great turn-of-the-century book designers. Bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp. No owner's name or bookplate. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece by Harold Matthews Brett. The novelist, poet, journalist, and filmmaker Holman Francis Day (1865 - 1935) was born in Vassalboro, Maine. After graduating from Colby in 1887, he authored some 25 books, including: UP IN MAINE: STORIES OF YANKEE LIFE TOLD IN VERSE (1900); THE LEGEND OF FRENCHE'S ISLE (1900); AN EDICT IN MODERN ACADIA (1901); PINE TREE BALLADS: RHYMED STORIES OF UNPLANED HUMAN NATUR' UP IN MAINE (1902); KIN O' KTAADN: VERSE STORIES OF THE PLAIN FOLK. (1904); SQUIRE PHIN: A NOVEL (1905); THE SAINTS OF SHILOH: THE STORY OF EVANGELIST SANDFORD. (1905); THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR (1906); KING SPRUCE: A NOVEL (1908); DOES PROHIBITION PAY? MAINE AFTER FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS OF PROHIBITION (1908); THE EAGLE BADGE: OR, THE SKOKUMS OF THE ALLAGASH (1908); MAINE FACES BITTER FACTS (1909); THE RIDER OF THE KING LOG: A ROMANCE OF THE NORTHEAST BORDER (1919); JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS (1922); LEADBETTER'S LUCK (1923); CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE (1925). . First Edition. Hardcover. Original green decorated cloth/No dust jacket. Illus. by Brett, Harold Matthews . 8vo. 353pp. Brett, Harold Matthews (illustrator).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Condition: New. pp. 304.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. pp. 304.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. pp. 304.

Condition: New. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 296 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466. . 2017. Paperback. . . . .

Paperback. Condition: New. In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 290 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 296 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466. . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 'The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber 1908-1941' by Brett Holman. Ashgate Publishing 2014 first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: New. NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Paperback. Condition: New. In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First World War was effectively no longer an island, with its cities attacked by Zeppelin airships and Gotha bombers in one of the first strategic bombing campaigns. Drawing on prewar ideas about the fragility of modern industrial civilization, some writers now began to argue that the main strategic risk to Britain was not invasion or blockade, but the possibility of a sudden and intense aerial bombardment of London and other cities, which would cause tremendous destruction and massive casualties. The nation would be shattered in a matter of days or weeks, before it could fully mobilize for war. Defeat, decline, and perhaps even extinction, would follow. This theory of the knock-out blow from the air solidified into a consensus during the 1920s and by the 1930s had largely become an orthodoxy, accepted by pacifists and militarists alike. But the devastation feared in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, when gas masks were distributed and hundreds of thousands fled London, was far in excess of the damage wrought by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941, as terrible as that was. The knock-out blow, then, was a myth. But it was a myth with consequences. For the first time, The Next War in the Air reconstructs the concept of the knock-out blow as it was articulated in the public sphere, the reasons why it came to be so widely accepted by both experts and non-experts, and the way it shaped the responses of the British public to some of the great issues facing them in the 1930s, from pacifism to fascism. Drawing on both archival documents and fictional and non-fictional publications from the period between 1908, when aviation was first perceived as a threat to British security, and 1941, when the Blitz ended, and it became clear that no knock-out blow was coming, The Next War in the Air provides a fascinating insight into the origins and evolution of this important cultural and intellectual phenomenon, Britain's fear of the bomber.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

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Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.