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New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First… Altro …
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to all leading edge & surface, & light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. PO name to first title page. Stimulating study of sociological class structure of modern societies by prominent British scholar Anthony Giddens (1938 - ). Critical examination of classic writings of Max Weber & Karl Marx on social classes & economic issues versus Capitalism. 336 pgs. in 15 chapters. 1, Marx's Theory of Classes; 2, The Weberian Critique; 3, Some Later Theories; 4, Marx's Critics A Critique; 5, The Marxian Standpoint Reassessed; 6, Rethinking the Theory of Class (I); 7, Rethinking the Theory of Class (II); 8, The Problem of Capitalist Development; 9, The Institutional Mediation of Power & Mediation of Control; 10,The Growth of the New Middle Class; 11, The Working Class in Capitalist Society; 12, State Socialism & Class Saturation; 13, Class & Party in State Socialist Society; 14, Classes in Contemporary Society; and 15, The Future of Class Society., Harper & Row, 1975, 3, ALLEN LANE. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0713996994 . Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings. Wear is minimal other than one very bottom edge has some roughness and minor paper loss and minor edge bumping. Jacket has light edge crinkling, one small edge tear and a couple tiny edge tears, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago -- and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have we reached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to accept explanations that previously remained in the realm of science fiction? Lisa Randall is herself making these extraordinary breakthroughs, pushing back the boundaries of science in her research to answer some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature. For example, why is the gravitational field from the entire Earth so defenseless against the small tug of a tiny magnet? Searching for answers to such seemingly irresolvable questions has led physicists to postulate extra dimensions, the presence of which may lead to unimaginable gains in scientific understanding. Randall takes us into the incredible world of warped, hidden dimensions that underpin the universe we live in, describing how we might prove their existence, while examining the questions that they still leave unanswered. Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of today's particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. In a highly readable style sure to entertain and elucidate, Lisa Randall demystifies the science and beguilingly unravels the mysteries of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond the one we are only now beginning to know. [895] ., ALLEN LANE, 2005, 3, Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry, 1962-01-01. Staple Bound. Good. Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry [Published Date: 1960, 1962]. Paper covers, staple bound, 80 . pp. 1965 reprint. Black and white illustrations throughout, with some color added to a few illustrations. Contents include: ELEMENTARY ELECTRICITY; MAGNETISM; ALTERNATING CURRENT; RADIO WAVES; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. In good condition. Orange illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light to moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight(staple bound). Pages A few pages have some very light pencil markings. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From Preface] This book has been written with the syllabuses for Electricity and, Magnetism the Ministry of Transport Masters and Mates examinations in mind and, for these, the subject matter will be found to be adequate. The basic ideas have been explained and very fully illustrated so as to be easily followed by the reader to whom this is a new subject. In the more advanced work only the general principles have been brought out. These are generally simple although the circuitry necessary to put them into practice is often extremely complicated and no attempt is made to discuss this. Many of those now at sea did not require electrical knowledge when taking their examinations. It is hoped that this book will enable them and others, to understand the principles of the electrical and electronic devices now being fitted in various departments aboard ship., Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry, 1962-01-01, 2.5, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". viii, 364pp. Light rubbing to covers of pictorial paper wraps. Edges of covers are slightly curled. Previous owner's name in pencil at half title page. Penciled underlining and notation to Introduction. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, Banana Wars advances the growing body of scholarship focusing on export commodities from historical and social scientific perspectives. Bringing together the work of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and geographers, this collection reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages and, in so doing, created unprecedented potential for conflict throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. The frequently abusive conditions that banana workers experienced, the contributors point out, gave rise to one of Latin America's earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers' organizations and the power of U.S. capital, Latin American governments were inevitably affected by banana production. Banana Wars explores how these governments sometimes asserted their sovereignty over foreign fruit companies, but more often became their willing accomplices. With several essays focusing on the operations of the extraordinarily powerful United Fruit Company, the collection also examines the strategies and reactions of the American and European corporations seeking to profit from the sale of bananas grown by people of different cultures working in varied agricultural and economic environments.(Publisher)., Duke University Press, 2005, 2.5, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 261pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse--very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the "culture wars" in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.(Publisher)., Harvard University Press, 2003, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping to foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half- title+title pages,b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town, he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. 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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing; top,front+rear corners minimally bumped. Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,green paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,b/w map,10 chapters,an epilogue and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town,he has both a girl he worships . . . and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course, impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear.But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 4<
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to head of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright, clean,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,a b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively,and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town,he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 4<
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping to foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half- title+title pages,b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town, he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 5<
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New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First… Altro …
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1975. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Inked check marks to pg 1 of Contents & pg 33, else As NEW. 1975 First Edition, 4th Printing. Softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to all leading edge & surface, & light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. PO name to first title page. Stimulating study of sociological class structure of modern societies by prominent British scholar Anthony Giddens (1938 - ). Critical examination of classic writings of Max Weber & Karl Marx on social classes & economic issues versus Capitalism. 336 pgs. in 15 chapters. 1, Marx's Theory of Classes; 2, The Weberian Critique; 3, Some Later Theories; 4, Marx's Critics A Critique; 5, The Marxian Standpoint Reassessed; 6, Rethinking the Theory of Class (I); 7, Rethinking the Theory of Class (II); 8, The Problem of Capitalist Development; 9, The Institutional Mediation of Power & Mediation of Control; 10,The Growth of the New Middle Class; 11, The Working Class in Capitalist Society; 12, State Socialism & Class Saturation; 13, Class & Party in State Socialist Society; 14, Classes in Contemporary Society; and 15, The Future of Class Society., Harper & Row, 1975, 3, ALLEN LANE. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 0713996994 . Hardcover is clean and intact, no markings. Wear is minimal other than one very bottom edge has some roughness and minor paper loss and minor edge bumping. Jacket has light edge crinkling, one small edge tear and a couple tiny edge tears, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages; The universe has its secrets. It may even hide extra dimensions, different from anything ever imagined. A whole raft of remarkable concepts now rides atop the scientific firmament, including parallel universes, warped geometry, and threedimensional sink-holes. We understand far more about the world than we did just a few short years ago -- and yet we are more uncertain about the true nature of the universe than ever before. Have we reached a point of scientific discovery so advanced that the laws of physics as we know them are simply not sufficient? Will we all soon have to accept explanations that previously remained in the realm of science fiction? Lisa Randall is herself making these extraordinary breakthroughs, pushing back the boundaries of science in her research to answer some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature. For example, why is the gravitational field from the entire Earth so defenseless against the small tug of a tiny magnet? Searching for answers to such seemingly irresolvable questions has led physicists to postulate extra dimensions, the presence of which may lead to unimaginable gains in scientific understanding. Randall takes us into the incredible world of warped, hidden dimensions that underpin the universe we live in, describing how we might prove their existence, while examining the questions that they still leave unanswered. Warped Passages provides an exhilarating overview that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of today's particle physics and string theory, unweaving the current debates about relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity. In a highly readable style sure to entertain and elucidate, Lisa Randall demystifies the science and beguilingly unravels the mysteries of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond the one we are only now beginning to know. [895] ., ALLEN LANE, 2005, 3, Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry, 1962-01-01. Staple Bound. Good. Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry [Published Date: 1960, 1962]. Paper covers, staple bound, 80 . pp. 1965 reprint. Black and white illustrations throughout, with some color added to a few illustrations. Contents include: ELEMENTARY ELECTRICITY; MAGNETISM; ALTERNATING CURRENT; RADIO WAVES; PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. In good condition. Orange illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light to moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight(staple bound). Pages A few pages have some very light pencil markings. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From Preface] This book has been written with the syllabuses for Electricity and, Magnetism the Ministry of Transport Masters and Mates examinations in mind and, for these, the subject matter will be found to be adequate. The basic ideas have been explained and very fully illustrated so as to be easily followed by the reader to whom this is a new subject. In the more advanced work only the general principles have been brought out. These are generally simple although the circuitry necessary to put them into practice is often extremely complicated and no attempt is made to discuss this. Many of those now at sea did not require electrical knowledge when taking their examinations. It is hoped that this book will enable them and others, to understand the principles of the electrical and electronic devices now being fitted in various departments aboard ship., Kandy Publications / The Hillside Press, Whyteleafe Surry, 1962-01-01, 2.5, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". viii, 364pp. Light rubbing to covers of pictorial paper wraps. Edges of covers are slightly curled. Previous owner's name in pencil at half title page. Penciled underlining and notation to Introduction. Notation does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Over the past century, the banana industry has radically transformed Latin America and the Caribbean and become a major site of United States-Latin American interaction. Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe. The first book to examine these processes in all the western hemisphere regions where bananas are grown for sale abroad, Banana Wars advances the growing body of scholarship focusing on export commodities from historical and social scientific perspectives. Bringing together the work of anthropologists, sociologists, economists, historians, and geographers, this collection reveals how the banana industry marshaled workers of differing nationalities, ethnicities, and languages and, in so doing, created unprecedented potential for conflict throughout Latin American and the Caribbean. The frequently abusive conditions that banana workers experienced, the contributors point out, gave rise to one of Latin America's earliest and most militant labor movements. Responding to both the demands of workers' organizations and the power of U.S. capital, Latin American governments were inevitably affected by banana production. Banana Wars explores how these governments sometimes asserted their sovereignty over foreign fruit companies, but more often became their willing accomplices. With several essays focusing on the operations of the extraordinarily powerful United Fruit Company, the collection also examines the strategies and reactions of the American and European corporations seeking to profit from the sale of bananas grown by people of different cultures working in varied agricultural and economic environments.(Publisher)., Duke University Press, 2005, 2.5, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 261pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse--very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the "culture wars" in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.(Publisher)., Harvard University Press, 2003, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping to foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half- title+title pages,b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town, he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 5<
2005, ISBN: 9780752857053
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks o… Altro …
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing; top,front+rear corners minimally bumped. Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,green paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,b/w map,10 chapters,an epilogue and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town,he has both a girl he worships . . . and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course, impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear.But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 4<
THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE.** [Uncorrected Proof copy.] - edizione con copertina flessibile
2005
ISBN: 9780752857053
UK,8vo wraps/paperback Uncorrected Proof copy.NMINT.[Wrapped+ protected from day of pre-issue.] No owner inscrptn,no price-removal from card covers,no reading creases to spine/backstrip -… Altro …
UK,8vo wraps/paperback Uncorrected Proof copy.NMINT.[Wrapped+ protected from day of pre-issue.] No owner inscrptn,no price-removal from card covers,no reading creases to spine/backstrip - unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,colour pictorial illustrated front of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.UK,8vo wraps/paperback, Uncorrected Proof copy,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,note for absent b/w map to be printed here,a dedication.Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear. The prequel to 'Jack Absolute.' London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town,he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included.Available UK only. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 5<
2005, ISBN: 9780752857053
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pi… Altro …
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to head of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright, clean,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,a b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively,and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town,he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles,frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 4<
2005, ISBN: 9780752857053
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears p… Altro …
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Miniscule bumping to foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-311pp (paginated) includes half- title+title pages,b/w map,Pts 1+2 comprising 11 and 10 chapters+epilogue respectively and author's historical notes to rear. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy.A scholar at Westminster School,a master with cricket bat or billiard cue,the leader of a gang of bucks about town, he has both a girl he worships . . .and an older courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love.Yet he plans to give up all carousing,sit the examinations for Cambridge and find a career in any field he chooses.All he has to do is stay out of trouble for one more night . . . Which is,of course,impossible. From the taverns and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the battlefield of Quebec,Jack's life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night.Tragedies brought about by the man he has hated since birth,his cousin,Craster.Through duels,battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter,Jack learns the truth of his father's words.A year on,the schoolboy will vanish,a man appear. But first he must learn to kill.To come of age,Jack Absolute must be blooded. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if item is offered P+p included or postage free. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. between 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/ rate - sometimes arriving within a week or so,and sometimes before the quoted 42 days - but not always., LONDON.ORION,2005., 5<
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Informazioni dettagliate del libro - The Blooding of Jack Absolute (Proof Copy)
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780752857053
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0752857053
Copertina rigida
Copertina flessibile
Anno di pubblicazione: 2005
Editore: Orion
Libro nella banca dati dal 2007-11-01T13:46:42+01:00 (Rome)
Pagina di dettaglio ultima modifica in 2023-10-30T10:19:24+01:00 (Rome)
ISBN/EAN: 9780752857053
ISBN - Stili di scrittura alternativi:
0-7528-5705-3, 978-0-7528-5705-3
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Titolo del libro: jack
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