Verlag: Owl Books/Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, USA, 1996
ISBN 10: 0805039732 ISBN 13: 9780805039733
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. BZ6 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus a very light crease on the back cover plus some spotting of the front endpaper plus a remainder mark on the top outside paper edges plus some wrinkling of pages 101 and 115. A story told as the journal of a privileged 14-year-old boy, the owner's son, and a captain's apprentice on a slave ship. He is one of the few on board to know before the ship leaves port that its true commission is as a slaver, not as a whaling ship. 290p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Owl Books/Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, USA, 1995
ISBN 10: 0805037896 ISBN 13: 9780805037890
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. BH6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated black wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some light scattered rubbing along the spine edges plus there is some very light yellowing on the outside paper edges. A novel about a writer of spy novels born in the Cold War and working through the 1980s fueled by the conflict between the US and its allies with the Soviet Union and its satellites. When a neighbor admits he is being blackmailed by Seoul gangsters, the writer decides to ride to the rescue and finds himself confronted with questions about why the blackmail is taking place, why secret agents are going after the blackmailers, as well as what kind of people would walk cats. By the author of "The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet," "The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica," "American Falls," and "Father's Day." 301p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Owl Books/Henry Holt & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990
ISBN 10: 0805014632 ISBN 13: 9780805014631
Anbieter: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). Reprint Edition. G/none, used pb, 481 pp. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps with gold, white and orange colored text on upper and orange and white text on spine; slight edge wear; soft diagonal crease on upper; no chips or tears; not spine creased. Interior pages clean, unmarked, most have soft creases. Binding is tight.
Verlag: Henry Holt and Company - Owl Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 0805077731 ISBN 13: 9780805077735
Anbieter: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Seventh Printing. 322 Pages Indexed. A tight bright book with no defects noted. Interior text pages are flawless. A memorable account of combat from the top down and bottom up as the 101 st Airborne commanders and front-line grunts battle their way to Baghdad. For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a mid- night flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat. In this extraordinary account of his odyssey with the 101st, Atkinson presents an intimate and revealing portrait of the soldiers who fight the expeditionary wars that have become the hallmark of our age. At the center of Atkinson's drama stands the compelling figure of Major General David H. Petraeus, described by one comrade as the most competitive man on the planet. Atkinson spent virtually all day every day at Petraeus's elbow in Iraq, where he had an unobstructed view of the stresses, anxieties, and large joys of commanding 17,000 soldiers in combat. And all around Petraeus, we see the men and women of a storied division grapple with the challenges of waging war in an unspeakably harsh environment. With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts us right on the battlefield. A fresh view of the modern American soldier in action. Contents in 15 Chapters: Rought Men Stand Ready, Good for You and Good for Me, This Thing Is Going to Go, The Land of Not Quite Right, The Garden State, The Bold Thing Is Usually the Right Thing, Enemy in the Wire, The Cry of Beasts in Their Desolate Houses, A Man Just Sort of Exists, Alexandria to Zoe, An Army of Bones, Nebuchadnezzar Goes Down, War Is a Bitch, At The Gates of Babylon, and Every Thing Has Its Place. Plus Prologue, Afterword, Author's Note, and Glossary.
Verlag: Owl Books - Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1994
ISBN 10: 0805023038 ISBN 13: 9780805023039
Anbieter: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, USA
Erstausgabe
Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Owl Book Edition. Moderate cover, edge wear. Pages very good, no writing. Full of insight and inspiration that every writer can appreciate as the process is revealed bringing a screenplay to fruitiion. 344 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.