1997, ISBN: 9781862070356

UK: Airlife, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 143 pages. A pictorial history of the Luftwaffe that utilises original German postcards produced between 1933 and 1945,… Meer...

UK: Airlife, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 143 pages. A pictorial history of the Luftwaffe that utilises original German postcards produced between 1933 and 1945, ranging from the better known aircraft and personalities to nameless air and ground crew and more obscure machines. 181 mostly b/w images.; 8 1/2 x 12, Airlife, 1996, 4, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - tiny closed tear to bottom, rear corner - no other nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Bright,clean, blue- green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain light grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-296pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list and 19 chapters. Gabriel Emerson seemed a magic child.He dreamed dreams beyond the reach of his older brother.His father,Walt,who brought the boys up alone in the Cumbrian town of Laing,loved Gabriel with a sense of bewilderment and awe.But during the Second World War,Gabriel was witness to a terrifying act of collective violence which left him traumatized, amnesiac and mute,and some time after the war he was admitted to a colony for the feeble-minded out on the fells.But now,the colony is closing down,its grounds have been sold for redevelopment,and each week more residents disappear.Gabriel knows that he has little time left,and,accompanied by three other residents,he begins an extraordinary journey.Haunted since childhood by the story of his namesake,the 17thC scholar and explorer,Gabriel re-dreams and retraces the Arctic voyage on which Emerson died after sailing from Laing.In the last weeks that they have,the four men breathe life into a lost world as they re-enact Emerson's disputed discovery of the North- West Passage.This is a novel in which a man can live in two worlds,in which a nameless,third-class hotel can be seen to be Heaven,and a man's interpretation of the Word of God can sometimes be Hell,in which a group of abandoned and forgotten men set out to reclaim their lives, because every man is a story and has an end to fashion,and even the smallest leaning into the light can sometimes be enough.Author's 3rd novel. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.GRANTA BOOKS,1997., 5<

1997, ISBN: 9781862070356

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - ti… Meer...

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - tiny closed tear to bottom, rear corner - no other nicks or tears present.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Bright,clean, blue- green paper-covered boards with bright,crisp stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain light grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vpp+1-296pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents list and 19 chapters. Gabriel Emerson seemed a magic child.He dreamed dreams beyond the reach of his older brother.His father,Walt,who brought the boys up alone in the Cumbrian town of Laing,loved Gabriel with a sense of bewilderment and awe.But during the Second World War,Gabriel was witness to a terrifying act of collective violence which left him traumatized, amnesiac and mute,and some time after the war he was admitted to a colony for the feeble-minded out on the fells.But now,the colony is closing down,its grounds have been sold for redevelopment,and each week more residents disappear.Gabriel knows that he has little time left,and,accompanied by three other residents,he begins an extraordinary journey.Haunted since childhood by the story of his namesake,the 17thC scholar and explorer,Gabriel re-dreams and retraces the Arctic voyage on which Emerson died after sailing from Laing.In the last weeks that they have,the four men breathe life into a lost world as they re-enact Emerson's disputed discovery of the North- West Passage.This is a novel in which a man can live in two worlds,in which a nameless,third-class hotel can be seen to be Heaven,and a man's interpretation of the Word of God can sometimes be Hell,in which a group of abandoned and forgotten men set out to reclaim their lives, because every man is a story and has an end to fashion,and even the smallest leaning into the light can sometimes be enough.Author's 3rd novel. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.GRANTA BOOKS,1997., 5<

1997, ISBN: 9781862070356

Granta Books, 1997-04-14. Hardcover. Good. Book is in good condition. Cover has some wear. Fingermarks present. Page discolouration present. Creasing present. Sloping spine., Granta Boo… Meer...

Granta Books, 1997-04-14. Hardcover. Good. Book is in good condition. Cover has some wear. Fingermarks present. Page discolouration present. Creasing present. Sloping spine., Granta Books, 1997-04-14, 2.5<

ISBN: 9781862070356

Hardback. Very Good., 3