Wilson Calder (43 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. With 470 black & white illustrations and 31 color plates. 472pp 4.15lb 11.0x9.0x1.2in.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trade paperback, xiv + 472 pages; very light bump to spine bottom, just a hint of shelf scuffing to bottom edge, but very tight in binding, very gently read if at all, spine and covers flat/uncreased, interior very clean and unmarked. PLEASE NOTE: the section "About this Item" is written by me and my copy ships from beautiful Newfoundland, Canada, NOT the UK, and the section "About this title---Synopsis" is nonsense and gibberish provided by Abebooks and does NOT relate to my copy. See also our listings for The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It, edited by James Owen, and also for James Merrill's Uncommon Valor: The Exciting Story of the [US American] Army by the Men Who Served.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stiff unmarked book, about new but for tiny lower corner bump.; 116 pages. B/w And Color Illustrations (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 314 Pp. Complete Text With Introductory And Supplementary Material. Near Fine. Inscribed By The Editor Arthur J Cox. Inscribed by Author(s).

Card Wrappers. Condition: Fair. 88pp. Text-block foxed at head & fore edges with a few light spots at head of prelims otherwise clean within. Covers foxed at spine, head & fore edges. Peter & Sian Bailey; Peter Wilson; Cathy Wade (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Black boards with green topstain, lacking the dust jacket. A tear to the spine, and an owner name to the front pastedown endpaper. Hinges cracked. ; 320 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 116 pages 22.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Light wear to the edges and corners. Shelf rubbed. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. The story of Arctic explorer John Rae, published to mark the centenary of this death. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Published jointly with McGill University Press.…

Condition: Good. Later binding: professionally bound in cloth with original cover and spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by H. J. Ward and Harry Lemon Parkhurst. This story collection contains: The Monster Wants More than a Mate by Brent North; Betrothal of the Thing by Gabriel Wilson; Bride for the Half Dead by Charles Marquis Warren; Doomsday Fate by Jeffry Strictland; Beautiful as Death by William B. Rainey; Mesa of Madness by Robert Leslie Bellem; and Death Orchids by Ellery Watson Calder. Size: 8vo. H. J. Ward; Harry Lemon Parkhurst; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Softcover. Clean, tight, and completely unmarked. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. xii,116pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Black cloth binding slightly cocked, rubbed at extremities; backstrip lightly paint speckled & sunned; boards a bit smudged; one spot in textblock cracked; leaf edges, endpapers lightly foxed. No dj. ; 12mo; 320 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Good. NULL. Not paged. Tiffany Calder (illustrator).

Paperback. Printed pages: 151. Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Rubbing to covers. Crease to lower corner of rear cover. Light crease to upper corner of first two pages. Browning to pages. A scarce vintage sleaze title. We have many more similar items in stock. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches (10.5 x 17 cm). …

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 4to, 457 pp. Profusely illustrated (illustrator).

Oversized paperback. Condition: Fine. University Press of Virginia, 1992. 457pp., index, bibliography, black and white, color photographs and illustrations. Oversize 4to. Uncreased spine, fine unread oversize paperback.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Minor creasing to outer corners of cover, very slight bumping to spine ends, school ink stamp on half-title along with a small mark where a label has been, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Brought out to accompany the museum exhibition dealing with the life and work of the Orkney born Victorian explorer John Rae who travelled in Arctic Canada in the 1840s and 1850s. Contains pieces by several authors, namely: ''Childhood in Orkney'' by Bryce Wilson, ''Early Arctic Exploration'' by Ian Bunyan, ''Rae in the Arctic'' by Jenni Calder, ''Rae and the Native Canadians'' and ''Rae as Collector and Ethnographer'' by Dale Idiens. 116pp, colour and b&w illustration throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Trade paperback, second printing, xiv + 472 pages; very tiny traces of shelf wear, but very clean and unmarked, unread condition;------CONTENTS: Setting the Agenda - Towards a Theory of Combat Motivation, by John Keegan;---Reflections on the Sharp End of the War, by John Ellis;---The British, The Scottish Soldier - Reality and the Armchair Experience, by Diana Henderson;---The Shadow of the Somme - The influence of the First World War on British Soldiers Perceptions and Behaviour in Worl War II, by G. D. Sheffield;---British Field Force in France and Belgium, 1939 - 40, by Brian Bond;---The Real Dad's Army - The British Home Guard, 1940 - 44, by S. P. MacKenzie;--- British Soldiers on the home front - Army morale Reports 1940 - 45, by J. A. Crang;---Commonwealth Contingents, 'Twas England Bade Our Wild Geese Go': Soldiers of Ireland in the Second World War, by Ian Wood;---'If I Fight for Them, Maybe Then I Can go Back to the Village' - African Soldiers in the Mediterranean and European Campaigns 1939 - 1945, by David Killingray;---Matters of Honour - Indian Troops in the North African and Italian Theatres, by Gerald Douds;---Mr Wu and the Colonials - British Evacuation from Crete 1941, by Angus Calder;---'If This War isn't Over, and Pretty Damn Soon, There'll be Nobody Left in This Old Platoon' - First Canadian Army February - March 1945, by Terry Copp;--- Seven Armies in Europe, French Combat Performance in 1940 and the Politics of the Fall of France, by Martin S Alexander;---Italian Soldier in Combat - Myths, Realities and Explanations, by Brian R. Sullivan;---The Italian Job - Five Armies in Italy 1943 - 45, by Richard Holmes;---Peasant Scapegoat to Industrial Slaughter - The Romanian Soldier at the Sige of Odessa, by Mark Axworthy;--- Red Army Battlefield Performance - The system and the Soldier, by John Erickson;---Offensive Women - Women in Combat in the Red Army, by Reina Pennington;---Motivation and Indoctrination in the Wehrmacht, by Jurgen Forster;---The German Soldier in Occupied Russia, by Theo Schultz;---Who Fought and Why - The Assignment of the American Soldiers to Comabt, by Theodore Wilson;---The GI in Europe and the American Military Tradition, by Reid Mitchell;---Two Memoirs: 'Puir Bluidy Swaddies are Weary' - Sicily 1943, by Hamish Henderson;---Infantry Combat -A G I in France 1944, by Steve Weiss;---Reflections: Trauma and Absence - France and Germany 1914 - 1945, by Omer Bartov;---Oral History and British Soldiers Experience of Battle in WW 2, by Nigel De Lee;---Soldiers Experience in Two World Wars - Some Historiographical Comparisons, by Hew Strachan.------"In the 50 years since the end of the Second World War, much has been written about the men at the top, but little attention has been given to what soldiering was like for the 'dog-face' and 'squaddy', the NCOs and junior officers. Redressing the balance, this original and powerful book explores the conditions in which the soldiers of many different countries lived and died, as well as their hopes and fears, and their experiences of battle. John Keegan, Brian Bond, Richard Holmes, John Erikson, Theodore Wilson, John Ellis and Omer Bartov are among the distinguished cast of historians whose subjects range from GIs in Europe to Indian troops in North Africa, and from the comic overtones of Dad's Army in Britain to the grim earnest of the war on the eastern front, where Russian women fought as full combatants." PLEASE NOTE: the section "About this Item" is written by me and my copy ships from beautiful Newfoundland, Canada, NOT the UK, and the section "About this title---Synopsis" is nonsense and gibberish provided by Abebooks and does NOT relate to my copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar. Inscribed: "To William & Audrey Woodson in honor of your Uncle William Dew! With high regards, Richard Guy Wilson". Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Original wrappers. John Calder-Wilson (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Trade paperback, xiv + 472 pages; very tiny traces of shelf wear, but very clean and unmarked, unread condition;------CONTENTS: Setting the Agenda - Towards a Theory of Combat Motivation, by John Keegan;---Reflections on the Sharp End of the War, by John Ellis;---The British, The Scottish Soldier - Reality and the Armchair Experience, by Diana Henderson;---The Shadow of the Somme - The influence of the First World War on British Soldiers Perceptions and Behaviour in Worl War II, by G. D. Sheffield;---British Field Force in France and Belgium, 1939 - 40, by Brian Bond;---The Real Dad's Army - The British Home Guard, 1940 - 44, by S. P. MacKenzie;--- British Soldiers on the home front - Army morale Reports 1940 - 45, by J. A. Crang;---Commonwealth Contingents, 'Twas England Bade Our Wild Geese Go': Soldiers of Ireland in the Second World War, by Ian Wood;---'If I Fight for Them, Maybe Then I Can go Back to the Village' - African Soldiers in the Mediterranean and European Campaigns 1939 - 1945, by David Killingray;---Matters of Honour - Indian Troops in the North African and Italian Theatres, by Gerald Douds;---Mr Wu and the Colonials - British Evacuation from Crete 1941, by Angus Calder;---'If This War isn't Over, and Pretty Damn Soon, There'll be Nobody Left in This Old Platoon' - First Canadian Army February - March 1945, by Terry Copp;--- Seven Armies in Europe, French Combat Performance in 1940 and the Politics of the Fall of France, by Martin S Alexander;---Italian Soldier in Combat - Myths, Realities and Explanations, by Brian R. Sullivan;---The Italian Job - Five Armies in Italy 1943 - 45, by Richard Holmes;---Peasant Scapegoat to Industrial Slaughter - The Romanian Soldier at the Sige of Odessa, by Mark Axworthy;--- Red Army Battlefield Performance - The system and the Soldier, by John Erickson;---Offensive Women - Women in Combat in the Red Army, by Reina Pennington;---Motivation and Indoctrination in the Wehrmacht, by Jurgen Forster;---The German Soldier in Occupied Russia, by Theo Schultz;---Who Fought and Why - The Assignment of the American Soldiers to Comabt, by Theodore Wilson;---The GI in Europe and the American Military Tradition, by Reid Mitchell;---Two Memoirs: 'Puir Bluidy Swaddies are Weary' - Sicily 1943, by Hamish Henderson;---Infantry Combat -A G I in France 1944, by Steve Weiss;---Reflections: Trauma and Absence - France and Germany 1914 - 1945, by Omer Bartov;---Oral History and British Soldiers Experience of Battle in WW 2, by Nigel De Lee;---Soldiers Experience in Two World Wars - Some Historiographical Comparisons, by Hew Strachan.------"In the 50 years since the end of the Second World War, much has been written about the men at the top, but little attention has been given to what soldiering was like for the 'dog-face' and 'squaddy', the NCOs and junior officers. Redressing the balance, this original and powerful book explores the conditions in which the soldiers of many different countries lived and died, as well as their hopes and fears, and their experiences of battle. John Keegan, Brian Bond, Richard Holmes, John Erikson, Theodore Wilson, John Ellis and Omer Bartov are among the distinguished cast of historians whose subjects range from GIs in Europe to Indian troops in North Africa, and from the comic overtones of Dad's Army in Britain to the grim earnest of the war on the eastern front, where Russian women fought as full combatants." PLEASE NOTE: the section "About this Item" is written by me and my copy ships from beautiful Newfoundland, Canada, NOT the UK, and the section "About this title---Synopsis" is nonsense and gibberish provided by Abebooks and does NOT relate to my copy.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrator: Tiffany Calder. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children's; Children; ISBN: 1875676015. ISBN/EAN: 9781875676019. Inventory No: 280145. Tiffany Calder (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. [xii] 116pp. with colour and B/W images and illustrations throughout. Binding firm, with minor wear to the soft cover. Spine remains uncreased. Brown speckling along the top edge of the textblock but otherwise the pages are clean with inscriptions or annotations. Size: 225mm x 253mm. Weight: 590g. …

Softcover. Condition: Gut. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. X4464 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 230.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Crime. Black cloth, titled red. Slight foxing on prelims & page edges.

1st Edition. Library label and stamps on rear pastedown. Remnant of Boots library label on front board. Light foxing on page fore-edge. Binding tight. Black cloth faded with red lettering on front board and spine. Used - Acceptable. Fair ex-lib hardback (no dust jacket).

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Excellent account of John Rae's Arctic journeys. National Museums of Scotland. pp.xi.128. Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books sent tracked.Paypal accepted. A mystery novel set in Monte Carlo. Original black cloth with orange type to front and spine. Some edge wear and browning to end papers.

1st.ed. Front end paper and fore-edge slightly foxed; spine badly faded, with white flecks to red cloth on boards, dj chipped at edges. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dustjacket Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dustjacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2009 Geological Society hardover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. The legacy of George Walker to volcanology' by Sparks, R. S. J.; 2. 'The endogenous growth of pahoehoe lava lobes and morphology of lava-rise edges' by Walker, G. P. L.; 3. 'Effusion rate controls on lava flow length and the role of heat loss: a review' by Harris, A. J. L. and Rowland, S. K.; 4. 'Effusive activity in the 1963-1967 Surtsey eruption, Iceland: flow emplacement and growth of small lava shields' by Thordarson, T. and Sigmarsson, O.; 5. 'Segregations in Surtsey lavas (Iceland) reveal extreme magma differentiation during late stage flow emplacement' by Sigmarsson, O., Thordarson, T. and Jakobsson, S. P.; 6. 'Pyroclastic deposits and lava flows from the 1759-1774 eruption of El Jorullo, Mexico: aspects of 'violent Strombolian' activity and comparison with Paricutin' by Rowland, S. K., Jurado-Chichay, Z., Ernst, G. and Walker, G. P. L.; 7. 'Eruption mechanisms during the climax of the Tarawera 1886 basaltic Plinian eruption inferred from microtextural characteristics of the deposits' by Sable, J. E., Houghton, B. F., Wilson, C. J. N. and Carey, R. J.; 8. 'An investigation of Vulcanian eruption dynamics using laboratory analogue experiments and scaling analysis' by Clarke, A. B., Phillips, J. C. and Chojnicki, K. N.; 9. 'Patterns of explosive activity deduced from fall deposits in frequently active volcanic regions' by Wilson, L. and Walker, G. P. L.; 10. 'GPR-derived facies architectures: a new perspective on mapping pyroclastic flow deposits' by Cassidy, N. J., Calder, E. S., Pavez, A. and Wooller, L.; 11. 'Assessing the pyroclastic flow hazards from dome collapse at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat' by Wadge, G.; 12. 'Volcanism in the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: tempo, styles and controls' by Wilson, C. J. N., Gravley, D. M., Leonard, G. S. and Rowland, J. V.; 13. 'A genetic classification of collapse calderas based on field studies, and analogue and theoretical modelling' by Marti, J., Geyer, A. and Folch, A.; 14. 'Hydrostatic principles of volcanic systems' by Canon-Tapia, E.; 15. 'Physical volcanology of continental large igneous provinces: update and review' by White, J. D. L., Bryan, S. E., Ross, P.-S., Self, S. and Thordarson, T.; 16. 'Central volcanoes as indicators for the spreading rate in Iceland' by Hjartarson, A.; 17. 'Effects of dyke emplacement and plate pull on mechanical interaction between volcanic systems and central volcanoes in Iceland' by Gudmundsson, A., Friese, N., Andrew, R., Philipp, S. L., Ertl, G. and Letourneur, L.; 18. 'The infrastructure of Geitafell Volcano, Southeast Iceland' by Burchardt, S. and Gudmundsson, A.; 19. 'A pictoral summary of the life and work of George Patrick Leonard Walker' by Rowland, S. K. and Sparks, R. S. J. …