Stephenson E Frank Jr (18 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 212 pages. Wraps feature blue sailing ships on white ground, light amount of browning along top edge and spine. Monochrome photos and illustrations. Clean with no markings. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Oversized Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

paperback. Condition: Good. Murfreesboro Historical Association, June, 1971, 8-1/2"x11", paperbk., 212pp., many photos., G $.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Paperback; Softcover. SIGNED by author E. Frank Stephenson Jr. On title page. Pink illustrated paper covers lightly creased at upper corner. Text pages are clean. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; B/w Illus; 4TO.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. With a gift inscription, otherwise a VG copy in red cloth with gold stamping.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine oversized paperback. Clean and bright, as new. No signs of wear or aging. Illustrated. 130 pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. First Edition. This is a fine first edition paperback copy, rose spine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. edge wear, creasing to cover. production defect on front cover - color is scraped off of portions of bottom edge of cover and a slight bit of the upper left hand corner. text is unmarked. binding crisp, tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition dark grayish black boards, blind-stamped front cover lettering and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. NOTE: The apparent jacket rubbing is actually the jacket design by Gregg Kulick; the jacket is in fine condition! Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Mark Twain, Julia Ward Howe and Theodore Roosevelt; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "With a rat-a-tat pace and a wicked sense of humor, Keller uses the story of Gatling's famous machine gun to take us on an exuberant and entertaining tour through American capitalism in the nineteenth century. This book is a carnival for history buffs - bursting with colorful characters, uncanny connections, and contagious enthusiasm." - Debby Applegate, 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner. "Julia Keller has not only given us the fascinating story of the Gatling gun and its colorful inventor, but has also place it in a valid and original context. She takes us into the middle of nineteenth-century America as it really was: a westward-looking continent packed with dreams, energy, and ambitious practical ideas, a place where mechanical inventions created a vision of limitless power that shaped much of the nation's philosophy and destiny. This is the story of the artfcact as changing history, the early machine gun as bringing about as great a transformation as the simple stirrup did in its era. If you haven't heard of Julia Keller, you'll hear of her now." - Charles Bracelen Flood, author and past president of PEN American Center. "In 1862, with the Civil War lapping at his foorstep, an Indianapolis inventor and businessman named Richard Jordan Gatling created the world's first working machine gun. He naively hoped it would shorten or even eliminate war by reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight. The overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would, he reasoned, cause opponents to throw in the towel. Instead, it kicked off a worldwide escalation in the armaments business and opened a path toward modern gunnery, one that leads all the way to the AK-47. The Gatling gun was the original weapon of mass destruction. Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who brings her investigative as well as literary talents to this provocative work of American history. As Keller observes, we're a country that thinks it's built on peace and freedom, but has blasted and conquered its way to world domination. Gatling is also a durable American type - a foward-thinking businessman who hawked his goods at state fairs and public lectures, recognized early on the possibilities of the global marketplace, and, step by step, helped propell America onto the world scene. The Gatling gun would paly a vital role in protecting and expanding America's overseas interests. Gatling himself, famous in his own time for creating and improving many industrial desigs, from bicycles and steamship propellers to flush toilets, always maintained that his gun would save lives by decreasing the size of armies. The scientists who unleashed America's atomic arsenal less than a century later would see things much the same way. In Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun's invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. She also shows how the gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplified the paradox of America's rise as a world superpower." - from the inner front jacket flap. Kulick, Gregg (jacket design); Stephenson, Jr., E. Frank (jacket photograph) (illustrator).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. First Edition. This is a near fine trade paperback copy. white spine, color photo covers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record.In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 130 pages. Illustrated. Some water staining along the bottom of page edges, involving about the last one third of the book. No effect on readability. Weapons.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First. This is a crisp fresh, like new copy in red cloth with gold stamping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No addtional publishing information found in the book. Pictorial boards show just a little wear. The hinges and the spine are very good. The inside pages are unmarked. A book published in conjunction with the campaign "to preserve, restore and adaptively use Murfreesboro Carolina's twelve (12) block Historic District and related area of the old seaport.".…

paperback. Condition: poor. Murfreesboro Historical Association, 1973, 8-1/2"x11", paperbk., 168pp., many photos., glue binding is shot, first 70 pages are loose, rest soon to follow, so poor. $.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 110 pps, wraps, 4to, presumed 1st, F/none, super clean and binding tight -- NOT EXLIB (1). Signed by Author(s).

STEPHENSON, E. Frank, Jr. Gatling: A Photographic Remembrance. [Murfreesboro, NC]: Meherrin River Press, [1993]. 1st ed. 4to . 130pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, diagrams. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Fine. Signed by the author on the title page. Dornbusch IV:12324. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. 160 page hardcover, clean.