Stephenson Foreword (34 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean sturdy hardback. Dust jacket is still firmly intact.There is no writing on any of the inside pages leaving this book in ideal reading condition. "The networking system that produces bottom line results. Everyday!".

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback book in good condition. Black x inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In Battlegrounds, Michael Stephenson assembles an impressive roster of the worlds best military historians and writers, including Dr. David Chandler, Richard Holmes, John Warry, and Brendan Morrissey, to discuss the impact of geography on military strategy and history. This collection of essays, illustrated with vintage and modern maps, offers geographic adventure around the world, across centuries, and through every kind of terrain, shedding new light on famous battles and introducing less well-known but nevertheless significant moments in military history.Throughout military history, battles have often been determined by certain geographic imperatives characteristics of the terrain that significantly affect the nature of the fighting. Confrontations, therefore, have essentially been decided by an armys ability to adapt to geographical features, giving rivers, mountains, and beaches lead roles in the political shaping of the world.From Alexander the Greats attack across the Granicus in 334 B.C. to the U.S. siege of the mountains of Afghanistan in 2001, geography has been a permanent and crucial factor in battle. Battlegrounds provides an unprecedented and fascinating look at this most formidable of adversaries throughout the history of warfare.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, EVERYTHING AND MORE is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes readers from Aristotle to Newton, Leibnitz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cantor and his set theory. Through it all, Wallace proves to be an ideal guide - funny, wry, and unfailingly enthusiastic in puruit of the undeniable strangeness of the infinite. Scholarly Boilerplate, Bibliography, Index. 344p. …

PAPERBACK. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 305pp, octavo. signed by author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No date.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are lightly bumped at spine tips and bottom back corner. 355 pages with index, bibliography, six maps, and 58 illustrations.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 126 pages. 5.50x0.44x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1993). 352pp. VG+/VG+ copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 132 pages. 6.00x0.52x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages lightly age toned. Stamped by seller inside front cover. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. 1st. 375 illustrations, including 76 plates in color.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Nick to spine. ; Inside clean, binding tight. ; Colour and B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 280 pages; Cricketing facts and statistics, many pages of advertisements.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (1936) 340 pp. Original green cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light fraying to corners and spine ends. Light scattered foxing. Previous owner's stamp on front blank endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, small octavo, blue cloth, spine sunned, light wear, no dust wrapper, occasional foxing, neat previous ownership on front free end paper, illustrated with diagrams and photographs, 179 pages (date of publication deduced from photographs of 1938 games). [QP].…

Octavo softcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

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

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. N.p.: Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Privately printed, 1996. RARE / AS NEW (see scan). Orginal S.R.I.A. price sticker. First Edition/First Printing. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo size - over 8¼" tall.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 378 pages. 6.00x0.88x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

227 pp including index, map on end-papers, line drawings: frontispiece and numerous illustrations, else very fine copy in near mint, illustrated d/j. Illustrations by the author. First published 1956.

First edition (not stated but per matching dates upon title and copyright pages) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [18], 130 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket missing rear panel; chipping to spine and surviving front panel; rear flap detached but present; front flap blurb by Clayton Torrence with publisher's printed price present at bottom left; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector for preservation's sake as this dj, like most Dietz examples, utilized thin paper. Blue cloth rubbed; gilt stamping to spine and front board remains bright. Endpapers toned; stray ink mark on frontispiece's blank recto; author's four-line ink inscription "To | George Mark Wood Jr. | A bit of Old Virginia | Mary A. Stephenson" followed by ink signature "Frances Stringfellow Gray" who contributed the Foreword. Inscribee George M. Wood, Jr. (1925-2010), a Korean War veteran and Montgomery, Alabama investment banker, would have only been seventeen at the time of the book's publication; his father George Mark Wood (1898-1974) would likely have been more contemporaneous to the author Mary Augusta Stephenson (1895-1976). Also laid-in is Dietz Press' promotional four page brochure "What They Say About 'Old Homes in Surry & Sussex.'".…