Homan Robert (41 results)

Paperback. Condition: As New. Unread and unopened! Stapled format. 28pp. From item: One of the more widely recognized virtues of the American way of life has been its "official" national philosophy, as set forth in the First Amendment of the Constitution, that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Throughout America's history an independent and competitive press has been regarded as essential to the effective maintenance of her republican form of government. It was the press's responsibility to provide factually the news and information necessary for the maintenance of a conscious and alert citizenry. The obvious importance of this task, and the inherent power and prestige which accompanied it, quite naturally resulted in a recognition of, and a respect for, the institution of journalism in America. American journalism's enormous capacity to organize and arouse public opinion for or against anything or anyone, and also the constitutionally guaranteed immunity from the threat of governmental restriction and suppression, elevated the press to a coveted plane of influence which was appropriately termed the "Fourth Estate." The American press of today is a far cry from that which existed in the days of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. The revolutionary technological advances which the newspaper field has undergone in the last century have been profound.Today the size, material quality, and format of newspapers, as well as the ability to provide a metropolitan area containing hundreds of thousands of readers with several editions a day, would certainly amaze the Founding Fathers. Yet, despite this advance in newspaper technology, they would probably be shocked by the growing monopolistic centralization of American newspapers and disgusted by the kind of managed news which is being presented with a straight face to the American people.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardbound, with the DJ, VG/GOOD+.

First Edition. As New. Paperwraps, 8.5x11.2", vii, 352 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Providence: Department of English / Providence College 1991. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. This copy has been inscribed and signed by one of the book/cover designers, Robert / Bob Booth. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers about 6" x 9" 66 pages, illustrated.Very good with creasing to the bottom corner of the front cover. whb12.

Almost as new: upper front corner bumped, cover slightly wrinkled at corner, else fine. Paperwraps, 8.5x11.2", vii, 308 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Gray cloth, lettered in blind. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows closed cut along upper spine panel, barely noticeable, otherwise as issued, now in mylar. 1st ed. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages clean, off-white. Wrappers have fading at spine, address label on back, general light handling wear. ; Contents: Jorens, Laurence Olivier's Richard III. Litton, Glenn, Diseased Beauty in Tony Richardson's Hamlet. Mullin, Tony Richardson's Hamlet: script and screen. Wilds, On film: Maximillian Schell's most royal Hamlet. Duffy, ade, Olivier, Richardson: visual strategy in Hamlet adaptation. Welsh, To see it feelingly: King Lear through Russian eyes. WIlds, One King Lear for our time: a bleak film vision by Peter Brook. Anderegg, Shakespeare on film in the classroom. Homan, A cinema for Shakespeare. Reviews. Film notes and queries. ; 9.0" tall; 94 pages.

Condition: Good. 1966. No Edition Stated. 287 pages. White pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Orange hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. Slight lean to spine. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 287pp.

Softcover. 161-341 pp. Volume 6, Number 2 (Summer 1998). Softcover. Very good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. Publisher: W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd., London, 1962.First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD hardcover book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.

Softcover. 161-341 pp. Volume 6, Number 2 (Summer 1998). Softcover. Very good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Original Red Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1962. 190pp. "Four white men, who think differently on almost every subject and who detest one another, are the only Europeans living in an East African backwater. David Irving, a thwarted and disillusioned man, has been District Commissioner for twelve years. His companions are a brutal policeman who had been thrown out of the army; a drunken doctor; and an old game warden. The four men seem to wage a desperate battle of nerves, each trying to destroy the others in order to obliterate his own sense of futility. Then there is of course the tribe - in this case the wild, treacherous and undisciplined Galla, who are believed to be holding a barbarous ceremony, Gadamoji, encouraged perhaps by the dangerous activities of the Godna Duba. The climax of the book is the trial of this man on a charge of witchcraft. The white men believe their duty is to convict him, but what if the evidence is inconclusive?" Book and unclipped jacket are in excellent condition with no inscriptions.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 5.25 x 8"; 287pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; very good copy; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 223pp. 300g. A novel with the action set on a construction site in Labrador Blue cloth boards a little faded to small area of spine, and with contents tight and clean. V.G. in near V.G edge-rubbed d/w with darkened spine, in removable clear protective wrap. Scans available on any of our books on request.

(6)-223 Pp. Novel set in Labrador Vg in worn dust jacket with nick to edges and a few small pieces missing along the edges Blue cloth with gilt to spine in dust jacket.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 10 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13 x 22 cms. Category: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Light erasure mark upper right of the front free endpaper and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear, tears, creasing and the spine is discoloured (text still legible). Actual book for sale pictured. 13.8 x 20.5 x 2.4cm, wt500g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, with some illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Stapled. Condition: Good. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaelogical Society Volume LXXXII. Some rust markings to front cover otherwise in good condition Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pamplet.

Stapled. Condition: Very Good. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaelogical Society Volume LXXXII. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pamplet.

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Printed by Titus Wilson and Son, Kendal. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Volume LXXXII Size: 8vo.

First edition hard back publisher's original light orange paper covered boards, gilt stamping. 8vo 287 pp. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 287p. ; 21cm. Subjects: London (England) -- Fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publisher Allen, London 1962. First edition. Good condition. Red boards with gilt lettering. Wear to corners and ends of spine. Pages tanned, some foxing. Tight binding, some marks on a couple of pages, no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Homan, Mark (cover photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition blue boards, dark blue cloth spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote, ECCL. 9:10; Prologue: The Day I Owned the Sky; Epilogue: Goals, the Past, and the Future and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. Signed (twice by the author), inscribed, and dated by Robert Lee Scott, Jr. with thin black ink on the blank first free front endpaper. "The charismatic author of God is My Co-Pilot - continuously in print since 1947 and an inspiration to generations of flyers - writes a firecracker of an autobiography, a story alive with humor, excitement and the brash honesty that made Robert L. Scott a maverick in the Air Force and, indeed, for all of his life. In a richly generous account of his background and career, he writes of his family's patient forbearance with their son's determination to become a flyer - including the hair-raising episode of young Robert's first flight in a human-powered glider in a leap off a neighbor's roof, and his much later, absolutely last-ditch battle to get into the fledgling U.S. Army Air Corps. Concurrent with the grueling training that followed, Scott set himself to pursue - and won - his beloved lady, Kitty Rix. Once officially accepted by the Air Corps, he seized every opportunity to fly, volunteering for all kinds of extra duties, including danger-filled airmail runs in the dead of winter. By the time World War II broke out, he had built up an astounding number of flying hours, and, desperate to get into combat, was able to talk himself into the Pacific bomber command - though he had never actually flown a bomber (the closest he had come to any bombing experience was hand-dropping watermelons from a fighter plane in the California desert). But Scott was first, last and formost a fighter pilot - and he proved it from his first day in the combat zone of the Burma-China Theater. With Chennault's famed Flying Tigers he earned a reputation as a one-man air force, recording twenty-five kills by the time he was removed from that theater of battle. He writes with utter frankness of his bitter fight with one of Chennault's detractors; much of his subsequent sojourn in the Pentagon was devoted to extraordinary, and certainly extracurricular, maneuvering designed to get adequate weaponry out to the beleaguered command he had had to leave in Buma. Scott's all-out approach to living is the basis not only of his lifelong love affair with flying but of his characteristic commitment to walk the entire length of the Great Wall of China - an ambition achieved at the age of seventy-two, disguised for a good part of the way as an unlikely six-foot-three Georgia-born Chinese. He is a man whose whol life has been, and is, an adventure, from that early leap off a roof, to his motorcycle journey through Europe and halfway across Asia (following Marco Polo's old route), to flying his latest supersonic Air Force jet when well into his seventies and very long after his so-called retirement. He is a man who has always followed his dreams and spoken his mind. His autobiography is rich with the frank anecdotes of a flyer and a man reveling in the challenge of living. Full of vitality and driving energy, Robert L. Scott's story is a testament to the guts and endurance that go into the making of a great fighter pilot." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Edition.

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. INGLESE Volume spillato contenente estratto ristampato. Brossura con leggera tracce di usura al piatto anteriore e minimi segni di usura da scaffale ai margini. Pagine in buono stato anche se già sfogliate. Numero pagine 29.

First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 287p. ; 21cm. Subjects: London (England) -- Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition. 222 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's stamp on the bpdep. Page edges are lgithly darkened and foxed. Bound in blue hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Faded and lightly bumped on the edges and spine. Blue dustjacket in very good condition with beige and black titles. Darkened, lightly worn around the edges and spine. 1ST UK EDITION. PC. VG/VG-. Book.