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1963rif. 147126MacMillan. Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1963. Hard Cover. Ex-Library N315 . MacMillan hardcover
1963rif. 67035New York: The Macmillan Company 1963. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling. 303 p. illus. part col. ports. part col. maps part col. 33 cm. The most dramatic and significant moments in naval conflicts from Lepanto to the Second World War. All the main naval powers are here represented in victory or defeat-Venice Turkey England Spain France Holland Germany Russia Japan and the United States. Illustrated in color and b/w by some of the finest naval artists the world has known. From Wikipedia: "Oliver Martin Wilson Warner 1903-14 August 1976 was a well-known British naval historian and writer.Warner was born in 1903 and educated at Denstone College and Caius College Cambridge. In 1926 he succeeded Frank Swinnerton as staff reader at the publishing house of Chatto and Windus. In addition to his work as staff reader he also wored on the company's advertising material. As a young man he made contributions to magazines such as The Spectator and Time and Tide some of which were later reproduced in his 1947 book Captains and Kings. In 1939 he published an account of his visit to an "unworldly" relative in Canada entitled Uncle Lawrence. 1 During the Second World War he joined the Admiralty secretariat initially serving in the Commission and Warrant C.W. branchcitation needed before serving on the war artists advisory committee. He later served as secretary to the naval honours and awards committee. After the war he became deputy director of publications of the British Council where he remained until his retirement in 1963. he worked thereafter at Chatto and Windus for another year before concentrating on writing. By the time of his death he had more than twenty books in print. He married twice first to Dorothea Blanchard who died in 1937 by whom he had one daughter. He was married secondly to Elizabeth Strahan with whom he had one son and one daughter. Warner died at his home Old Manor Cottage Haslemere on 14 August 1976. A memorial service was held on 21 October Trafalgar Day at St. Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall church. As well as family members the naval historians Professor Christopher Lloyd and Captain Stephen Roskill were in attendance among others. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1963rif. 14190London 1963. 1st edition. Near Fine. dust jacket 303pp. col. & b/w pls. maps plans Three Hundred Years of Warfare at Sea. Impressive volume nice copy unknown
1963rif. 4987New York. The Macmillan Company. 1963. Square 4to. Profusely illustrated with colour plates maps charts etc. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. The Macmillan Company. unknown
rif. 1576234622.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rif. 1020930160.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1909rif. 075090New York: Century 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5" x 3. 36 hymns - lyrics only. 122 pp. Two owners names writ large. Full refund if not satisfied. Century hardcover
rif. B98790-3New Haven Yale Center for British Art 2001. 262pp. 81 color plates 41 text illus. 4to. Wraps. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art New Haven Sept.-Dec. 2001. New Haven (Yale Center for British Art), 2001. paperback books
2001rif. 33126New Haven Conn: Yale Center for British Art 2001. Softcover. VG- Light wear to wraps. Color illustrated wraps. ix 262 pp. 81 color plates. Works by van Dyck Jan Siberechts William Hogarth Gainsborough Richard Wilson Joshua Reynolds Thomas Lawrence Henry Raeburn John Constable Joseph Mallord William Turner John Martin Frederic Leighton Ben Nicholson Stanley Spencer Francis Bacon Jenny Saville and many others. Published on occasion of the exhibition held at Yale Center for British Art New Haven Conn. Sept. 27-Dec. 30 2001 and Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens San Marino Calif. Feb. 3-May 5 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index. Yale Center for British Art paperback books
2001rif. Q-0300092229YC British Art 2001-10-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! YC British Art paperback
2001rif. 101608YUP. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 262 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Outside Britain itself the richest holdings of British art are found in American collections. This extraordinary presentation of some 85 works pays tribute to this strength of American collecting while offering a fresh and engaging account of the history of painting in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present. The selection is drawn from collections from around the United States both public and private and includes spectacular pictures from the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Collections in California the two leading collections of British art in America. Among the highlights are such masterpieces as Sir Anthony Van Dyck's portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria with her dwarf Sir Jeffrey Hudson William Hogarth's Beggar's Opera Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy Henry Fuseli's Nightmare John Constable's Hadleigh Castle J. M. W. Turner's Staffa Fingal's Cave and William Holman Hunt's Lady of Shalott. Following introductory essays by Malcolm Warner on anglophilia and art and by Robyn Asleson on the history of collecting British art in the States each painting is reproduced in colour with a discussion of its artistic importance and the circumstances of its crossing the Atlantic. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art on view from September 27 to December 30 2001. The show then travels to the Huntington Art Collections in early 2002. . 2001. 0300092229 . YUP paperback
1973rif. Q-0600339130Hamlyn 1973-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hamlyn hardcover
rif. 1863681914.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1977rif. WALTER-FILM005289Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Burbank: Warner Brothers 1977. Vintage original press kit 12 x 9" printed folder ten photos approximately 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. laid in along with twelve loose inserts between 1 and 4 pp. each. One page of text tanned overall NEAR FINE or better. Richard Pryor starred along with Pam Grier in this film about African American race car driver Wendell Scott. The studio was promoting this as Pryor's first starring role. Warner Brothers books
1977rif. WALTER-FILM005289Warner Brothers. No binding. Near Fine. Burbank: Warner Brothers 1977. Vintage original press kit 12 x 9" printed folder ten photos approximately 8 x 10" 20 x 25 cm. laid in along with twelve loose inserts between 1 and 4 pp. each. One page of text tanned overall NEAR FINE or better. Richard Pryor starred along with Pam Grier in this film about African American race car driver Wendell Scott. The studio was promoting this as Pryor's first starring role. Warner Brothers
rif. 0364021160.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 1025175433.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2013rif. 4848236Elsevier 2013. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item750grams ISBN:9780123945938 Elsevier hardcover
1999rif. T222022Common Ground / Devon Books Tiverton 1999. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. One of a small number of copies signed by both Peter Randall-Page and Chris Chapman on the half title leaf. 1st printing. Landscape 4to in grey boards black lettering to spine 93pp on thick art paper plates in colour and b/w etc. __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends in a FINE complete Dust Jacket looks new in its removable transparent protector. . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Common Ground / Devon Books, Tiverton hardcover
1944rif. 454681Washington D.C.: Aviation Training Division U.S. Navy 1944. Softcover. Very Good. First collected edition. Small quarto. 12pp. Illustrated by Lt. Robert Osborn. Wrappers. Short splits at spine ends moderate wear and soil staples lightly oxidized a very good copy of a relatively fragile volume. Grampaw Pettibone the "Sage of Safety" an old curmudgeon who barks at young pilots for making foolish errors first appeared in a Naval aviation newsletter on January 15 1943. According to the foreword in this collection: "Numerous recommendations have been made that the Grampaw Pettibone section of Naval Aviation News be preserved in more permanent and handy reference form. This reprint from early issues is an attempt to meet those requests. ." OCLC locates 2 copies of this collection. Aviation Training Division, U.S. Navy unknown books
1944rif. 454681Washington D.C.: Aviation Training Division U.S. Navy 1944. Softcover. Very Good. First collected edition. Small quarto. 12pp. Illustrated by Lt. Robert Osborn. Wrappers. Short splits at spine ends moderate wear and soil staples lightly oxidized a very good copy of a relatively fragile volume. Grampaw Pettibone the "Sage of Safety" an old curmudgeon who barks at young pilots for making foolish errors first appeared in a Naval aviation newsletter on January 15 1943. According to the foreword in this collection: "Numerous recommendations have been made that the Grampaw Pettibone section of Naval Aviation News be preserved in more permanent and handy reference form. This reprint from early issues is an attempt to meet those requests. ." OCLC locates 2 copies of this collection. Aviation Training Division, U.S. Navy unknown
rif. 0874749557New. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
rif. a92622City of Washington 1979 first edition. Smithsonian. small octavo wraps. Portrait of Warner as frontispiece. 139p. Near Fine light rubbing on cover; no ownership marks. Hard-to-find title. ISBN 0-87474-955-7. only published in wraps not hardcover. . hardcover
1852rif. 885M2London: T. Nelson and Sons 1852. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A first edition copy of this very scarce novel by the American author Susan Warner. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding with renewed end papers. Susan Warner 1819-1885 was an American Presbyterian writer of religious fiction children's fiction and theological works. She often wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell. Many of her novels went into multiple editions but her first The Wide Wide World 1850 was the most popular. This volume is one of her novels concerning the Glen Luna family; it is a very scarce work to see. A fourteen-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding with renewed end papers. Externally smart with fading to the spine and shelf wear to the extremities. Spine is a little cocked. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for a little offsetting to the illustrated title page. Very Good T. Nelson and Sons hardcover
2021rif. 166679Hobart: Government House Tasmania 2021. 1st edition. As New. quarto. laminated boards 309 310-572pp. colour & b/w plates notes bibliog. index Signed by both authors on the title-age. In a fine sturdy slip-case Government House Tasmania hardcover
