Holmes Richard Editor (73 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Binding tight.Cover clean.Hardcover.Minor wear to page edges and corners. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. In dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous reader's name written in ink fep. [102 pages].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. Paul Moorcroft "Rhodesia's War Of Independence" / W R Ward "The Protestant Frame Of Mind" / Colin Holmes "Enemy Aliens?" / Michael Burleigh "'.And Tomorrow The Whole World'" / Richard Goy "Venice's House Of Gold" (SL#282/1).

Hardcover. Condition: New. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, No Black Remainder Mark, 400-209Fast Shipping With Online Tracking, International Orders shipped Global Priority Air Mail, All orders handled with care and shipped promptly in secure packaging, we ship Mon-Sat and send shipment confirmation emails. Our customer service is friendly, we answer emails fast, accept returns and work hard to deliver 100% Customer Satisfaction.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 256 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son by Saul Bellow; Starting Out in Chicago - Saul Bellow by James Atlas; Dreams for Hire by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; When Did You Last See Your Father by Blake Morrison; A Very Young Dancer by Todd McEwen; The Names of Women - Virginia Grandbois - Elise Eliza McCloud - Justine Gourneau by Louis Erdrich; The Contents of Pockets by Luc Sante; Breaking In - Philip Larkin by Andrew Motion; Among the Tulips - James Boswell by Richard Holmes; A Colossal Hoard - The Descendants of James Boswell by Ian Hamilton; Life and Art - Jean Vaublin by John Banville; and Death of the Author - Angela Carter by Lorna Sage. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. ---Red cloth covers, book is larger than 10" x 7", with gilt spine lettering. 237 pages, with very many maps.FINE CONDITION- - dust jacket fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. MAGAZINE. NICE COPY. stapled binding.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy, and unmarked copy in very good condition. DM.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "First Published 1998," no additional printings are listed. Unclipped, mylar protected dust jacket. Like new. The DJ has no tears or chips. Not a remainder.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book has 354 heavily illustrated pages. Light wear to edge of dj. This excitingly illustrated book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the 'military revolutioin' of the seventeenth century to the present day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition indicated. Near fine with no markings and slight wear in a near fine jacket with slightest of edge wear. Maps and many historic photos and etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Richard Holmes, editor. Oxford Companion to Military History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. Hardcover without jacket. Condition: VG. Cover shows very little wear; corners sharp. Withdrawn from library collection; sticker with call number on lower spine; library book plate inside front cover; stamp in red ink lower edge title page; similar stamp subtly visible tail of text block. Large octavo; xxii+1048 pp. First edition, first printing. Black buckram binding; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations include many b/w maps of campaigns and troop movements, and numerous b/w photos. Bright, clean copy; no markings. This alphabetical encyclopedia documents military history across time, from antiquity to the modern age, and on all continents. It represents the contributions of nearly 150 scholars and researchers. Oversize; supplemental postage required.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition/1st printing with full number line, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Folio, navy blue cloth (hardcover), 304 pp. Full-color illus. Fine (As New), in a Fine dust jacket. Includes more than 150 original maps, along with numerous rare photographs and original artworks. Stresses the geographical importance of war, but it also emphasizes a crucial fact: major turning points in military history very frequently stem from the first effective use of new techniques, from the Bronze Age war chariot to the helicopter gunship. Book features minutely accurate illustrations of these turning-point innovations, providing a fascinating conceptual framework for the book. Military History, Technological Innovations, Military Art, Military Science.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition. Softcover in illustrated wraps. First softcover printing, 2001. As New condition, crisp, clean, and unread. A book in Cassell's Fields of Battle series, Richard Holmes, editor, this one about the British defeat in Zululand in 1879. B&W and color photographs throughout. 216 pp. Including index. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; Cassell's Fields of Battle; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Hook, Adam (illustrator).…

Original decorated wrappers. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Covers plasticised. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. Text block edges somewhat soiled.; 247 pages. Covers plasticised. With library stamps and labels. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. Text block edges somewhat soiled.; 22.5 x 13.8 x 1.8 cms; 247 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. As new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 255 pp. Brown tweed boards decorated in black on the front panel and spine; red upper edge. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a short tear on the lower right of the front panel; some discolouration around the edges of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Frank Vaughn. This anthology of short fiction contains: One Mighty Clout by C. W. Whittemore; The Pitch Out by H. C. McFadyen; Speed Ball Porter by W. T. Person; Now in October by Holmes Alexander; Sacrifishial (sic) Play by W. T. Person; Headline Happy by H. C. McFadyen; God Bless America by W. T. Person; Weird Windup by Richard Hooker; Four Legged Baseball by Nathan B. Lincoln; An Ump Goes West by Herbert McNary; The Wrong Game by John O. Hubler; Surprise Pitch by Jack Anderson; Pitching Secret by W. T. Person; We Go Together by Gertrude Schweitzer; Winning Pitcher by John Gartner; and Baseball Ghost Walks Again by W. T. Person. Size: 8vo. Frank Vaughn; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Large format hardcover in publisher's unpriced and unclipped dust-jacket. viii-xvii, 1048 pages. Introduction, List of Editors and Contributors, Abbreviations, Key to Maps and an Index. Illustrated with vignette black and white photographs and maps throughout. Printed in double-column format with entries presented alphabetically. First edition, first printing with full number line. A comprehensive overview of military history from classical times to the present day. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight and fresh copy. Dust-jacket shows mild wave to top edge but is bright with no chips or tears. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A large, quite heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, charged at actual cost.…

Condition: Good. Paperback, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. F/VG, used, hc, black boards with gilt text on spine, viii-xvii, abreviations, key to maps, 1048 pages. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight edge wear to dj at corners, no chips or tears.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original stiff card covers; in very good shape; no tears, chips or creases, just mildly rubbed and edge-worn. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. gift condition, clean, tight andsquare, no markings, B&W illustrations and maps throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Blue cloth boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket clean and bright. As New. Book is firm in binding, numerous b&w and color historic photographs and illustrations, 304 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W and Color photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages. …

64 pages plus covers. Staple-bound paperback: H 27.25cm x L 21.25cm. Paper covers rubbed; small stain at front cover's upper center; slender scuffing along spine fold. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Documents the damage via text and photos inflicted by September 1979 Hurricane Frederic along the Gulf Coast particularly in Mobile, Alabama and cities east to Pensacola, Florida and west to Gulfport, Mississippi. B/w map on front cover verso; b/w photographs throughout; pages 59-62 feature edited version of "The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900" reprinted from Weatherwise Magazine.…

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.…