2010, ISBN: 9780061969638

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Small, Maynard & Company. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Boston, 1904. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; illustration embossed on front board; edges and covers worn, heavi… Mehr…

Small, Maynard & Company. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Boston, 1904. Green cloth covered boards with gold titles; illustration embossed on front board; edges and covers worn, heavier at corners and spine ends with boards exposed and tearing along crown and foot of spine; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; front and rear hinge cracked; free front endpaper missing; Previous owner's name on half title page; no internal markings; 252 pages., Small, Maynard & Company, 2.5, Boston: Little Brown. VG PB. (1997). 1st ptg thus. In 1873 2 Norwegian immigrant women are murdered on the Isle of Shoals off NH coast. A 3rd woman survives & hides in a sea cave ., Little Brown, 3, Boston, MA: The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1975 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. This illustrated issue discusses Daniel Raynerd - Stucco worker, Ebenezer Clifford - architect and inventor, and has the index to Volumes LXIV-LXV. Spine edge is lightly faded.., The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1975, 3, Boston, MA: The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1974 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. This illustrated issue discusses influences of early Greek revival, the Yankee social historian John Pierce, and Vose and Coats Cabinetmakers. Faded along the spine edge.., The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1974, 3, Boston, MA: The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1976 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. This illustrated issue includes the Society's Annual report, and discusses the historic district discovered - the enduring colonial image in Newbury, Massachusetts; and Beacon.., The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1976, 3, Boston, MA: The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1979 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. This illustrated issue discusses Thomas Dawes's Church in Brattle Square, Baldwin Coolidge and William Sumner Appleton, twin-porch versus single porch stairwells in rural meetinghouse architecture, and the great stone dwelling of the Enfield New Hampshire Shakers. Minor exterior marks.., The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1979, 3, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. Second printing. No jacket. Top page ridge lightly chewed, ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front endpaper. 1924 Hard Cover. 342 pp. The main characters are Rosina, Philip and Matthew, all of whom drudge away in rural England, in the glass factory owned by Rosina's uncle. Rosina wants to be an actress, Philip is the would-be poet, and Matthew hopes for a career in high finance. All three go off to London in "the passionate quest" for their respective hearts' desires. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers., Little, Brown, and Company, 1924, 3, BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1917 Green Cloth Boards with black blocked decs and gilt titles, 180 x 105 mm approx. Maps to end papers, [viii] + 188 pp incl appendix. Frontis + 4 b/w photo plates as called for. First published in 1915 the copy offered is of the seventeenth impression 1917. The author, an American national moved to France in 1892 and worked as a translator and as foreign correspondent for the Boston Journal for whom she had worked previously as a journalist. As suggested by the title her home overlooked the Marne and the book provides a moving account of the first few months of WWI. Fair ( Boards - shelf wear - mainly colour rubbing to cloth with some fraying to head of spine. Ink stains and biro marking to spine. Book block - no previous owner name or insc. Liquid spillage stains to top edge of up to 2.5 cm approx and consequently extending into text). A sound reading copy. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale., HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, 1917, 2, Harper / HarperCollins, USA, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scots—the only British troops between Canada and New York—harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists.In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to “captivate, kill or destroy” the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders.But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat—and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. 468 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780061969638. Inventory No: 257600. . 9780061969638, Harper / HarperCollins, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 006196963X

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[EAN: 9780061969638], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Harper / HarperCollins, USA], FICTION BZDB43 FICTION; UNBRANDED EAN: 9780061969638 BERNARD CORNWELL THE FORT, Jacket, While the m… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780061969638], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Harper / HarperCollins, USA], FICTION BZDB43 FICTION; UNBRANDED EAN: 9780061969638 BERNARD CORNWELL THE FORT, Jacket, While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scots—the only British troops between Canada and New York—harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists.In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill or destroy" the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders.But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat—and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. 468 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780061969638. Inventory No: 257600., Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780061969638

Harper / HarperCollins, USA, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British fo… Mehr…

Harper / HarperCollins, USA, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the desolate and fog-bound coast of New England. Establishing a garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay, in the eastern province of Massachusetts that would become Maine, the Scots—the only British troops between Canada and New York—harry rebel privateers and give shelter to American loyalists. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to “captivate, kill or destroy” the foreign invaders. Second in command is Peleg Wadsworth, a veteran of the battles at Lexington and Long Island, once aide to General Washington, and a man who sees clearly what must be done to expel the invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat—and have stunning repercussions for two men on opposite sides: an untested eighteen-year-old Scottish lieutenant named John Moore, who will begin an illustrious military career; and a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere, who will face court-martial for disobedience and cowardice. 468 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780061969638. Inventory No: 257600.. 9780061969638, Harper / HarperCollins, 2010, 3<

2010, ISBN: 9780061969638

USA: Harper. Very Good. Hardcover. 2010. 480 pages. light wear, marks<br><br><p><strong>THE FORT</strong ><br /><br /><em>A Novel of the … Mehr…

USA: Harper. Very Good. Hardcover. 2010. 480 pages. light wear, marks<br><br><p><strong>THE FORT</strong ><br /><br /><em>A Novel of the Revolutionary War</em><br /><br / >by Bernard Cornwell<br /><br />Harper, USA, 2010<br />ISBN 97800 61969638<br />royal hb, dj, 480pp, deckled fore edge<br /><br />V ERY GOOD: light wear, marks<br /><br />Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Na vy. Their orders: to build a fort above a harbour to create a bas e from which to control the New England seaboard. Forty-one Ameri can ships and over nine hundred men. Their orders: to expel the B ritish. The battle that followed was a classic example of how the best-laid plans can be disrupted by personality and politics, an d of how warfare can bring out both the best and worst in men. It is a timeless tale of men at war, written by a master storytelle r.</p> ., Harper, 2010, 3<

ISBN: 9780061969638

Paperback. Good., 2.5