Peter Crampton (15 results)

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 539 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Pen markings on inside of back cover. Creased front cover. Light foxing on page edges. Dennis Stock/ Magnum Photos (Cover Photo); Megan Wilson (Design); Nancy Crampton (Author Photo) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Card wrappers are bright and unmarked; binding is tight; pages are faintly age-toned at outer edges but unmarked with colour plates. In 1993, Howson was comissioned by the Imperial War Museum to be the official war artist for the ongoing Bosnian War. ; 8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches; 48 pages.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Uninscribed. No wear. Peter Howson (illustrator).

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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition/5th Printing. 432 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lesniak/Crampton Design, Inc. (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Zustand nach AbeBooks: Gut (Good). Vollständiges und gut lesbares Exemplar mit sichtbaren Gebrauchsspuren. Het Gouden Treinenboek is een boek vol vaart. Stap aan boord van de trein naar Timboektoe. Maak een ritje met Heintje en het rode wagonnetje. Ga met Oetel naar school in Wisseloord. Of trein mee met Thomas, Bas en Jolijn. Tjoeke tjoeke, tuut tuut. Gergely, Tiborg; Jan Cleijne, Jan; Giannini; Seiden, Art; Zweig, Pablo (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. 125 pages. clean tidy copy.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. [1966 - 1974]. Each volume is tall 12mo, illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, paperback, in very good condition. Two volume have the bookplate of Dan E Mayers. [Price is for the six volumes]. {From the library of Dan E. Mayers, plantsman, chess-master, limerick-lover and eccentric, with bookplate showing his Arts & Crafts house "Lorien" in Wadhurst.}. …

Exhibition catalogue. 280x215mm 48 pages. Illustrated mainly in colour. Card covers. Very good indeed. Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Imperial War Museum, London, and held there 15 September-13 November 1994 ; and at Flowers East, 15 September-30 October 1994. Essays by Robert Crampton and Richard Cork. The artist's work is part of the official War Artists' Programme supported by the Imperial War Museum. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Large 4to in colour printed stiff card self wrappers. 47pp, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Quarto, illustrated light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. [14], 539, [7] pages. Endpaper maps. Author's Note. Signed by the author on the title page. Slight weakness noted between verso and Author's Note that has been restrengthened with glue. Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 - April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably The Snow Leopard (1978) and American Indian issues and history, such as a detailed and controversial study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). His fiction was adapted for film: the early story "Travelin' Man" was made into The Young One (1960) by Luis Buñuel and the novel At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) into the 1991 film of the same name. In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for Shadow Country. According to critic Michael Dirda, "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea." Peter Matthiessen is one of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction. When his novel Killing Mister Watson was published in 1990, the reviews were extraordinary. It was heralded as "a marvel of invention . . . a virtuoso performance" (The New York Times Book Review) and a "novel [that] stands with the best that our nation has produced as literature" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now Peter Matthiessen brings us the second novel in his Watson trilogy, a project that has been nearly twenty years in the writing. A story of epic scope and ambition, Lost Man's River confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death has shaped their lives. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a cold-blooded murderer and amoral opportunist? Were his neighbors driven to kill him out of fear? Or was it envy? And if Watson was a killer, should the neighbors fear the obsessed Lucius when he returns to live among them and ask questions? The characters in this tale are men and women molded by the harsh elements of the Florida Everglades--an isolated breed, descendants of renegades and pioneers, who have only their grit, instinct, and tradition to wield against the obliterating forces of twentieth-century progress: Speck Daniels, moonshiner and alligator poacher turned gunrunner; Sally Brown, who struggles to escape the racism and shame of her local family; R. B. Collins, known as Chicken, crippled by drink and rage, who is the custodian of Watson secrets; Watson Dyer, the unacknowledged namesake with designs on the remote Watson homestead hidden in the wild rivers; and Henry Short, a black man and unwilling member of the group of armed island men who awaited E. J. Watson in the silent twilight. Only a storyteller of Peter Matthiessen's dazzling artistry could capture the beauty and strangeness of life on this lawless frontier while probing deeply into its underlying tragedy: the brutal destruction of the land in the name of progress, and the racism that infects the heart of New World history. First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [per Random House printing convention]. Nancy Crampton (Author photograph) (illustrator). Signed.…