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From Rocks to Rockets - Arms and Armies Through the Ages
Osprey Publishing/Random House, 2008. Hardcover. 9781846034237. pp.64 previously published as Gilkerson on War:From Rocks to Rockets - clean tight copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Fine/Fine.
Judith Patton BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 018448
CAD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 US$ 9.45 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1375]
Catalogue: WAR, YOUTH/CHILDREN LITERATURE
Keywords: 9781846034237
From Rocks to Rockets Arms and Armies Through the Ages
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2008. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 184603423X. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, by the author on the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid-in is a typed letter, signed in ink by the author noting that the book is a gift. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. "William Gilkerson (25 July 1936 — 29 November 2015) was an American-Canadian writer, editor and artist. Between the 1960s to 2000s, Gilkerson wrote over ten books including Pirate's Passage, which won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Years later, he was nominated for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and Norma Fleck Award for his 2010 book A Thousand Years of Pirates. Outside of literature, Gilkerson was an editor at the St. Louis Magazine in 1964 and held multiple jobs at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1964 to 1970. As an artist, his artwork was shown at the U. S. Naval Academy Museum in 1987 and the Independence Seaport Museum in 1998. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 42443
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.5 | £UK 15 | JP¥ 2908]
Catalogue: Young Adult
Keywords: 184603423X Young Adult William Gilkerson Armies Armour General Military
The Scrimshander
San Francisco, Troubador Press, 1975. 1st Edition. Paperback. 119p. A softcover book in fine condition. An illustrated history of scrimshaw, or artwork done on ivory and whalebone. .
Kubik Fine Books Ltd.Professional sellerBook number: 172626
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 | £UK 11.25 | JP¥ 2181]
Catalogue: Art
Ulimate Voyage: A Book of Five Mariners
Boston, Shambala, 1998. 1st edition . Hardcover. 314p. illus. Very good condition/good.
Brookline Village BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 014205
USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2327]
Catalogue: Fiction
Keywords: Literature Fiction First Editions Nautical Fiction
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