My little treasury of stories and Rhymes
- Taschenbuch2015, ISBN: 9781900465045
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Bantam Books. Good. 1973. Fifteenth Printing. Paperback. Both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The spine is not creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or… Mehr…
Bantam Books. Good. 1973. Fifteenth Printing. Paperback. Both covers, next to the spine, are creased from reading. The spine is not creased from reading. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. All three page edges are yellow stained. The front cover has been repaired on the end paper with clear tape and the lower right corner is creased. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 183 pages; Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes-for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, thirty-one of Bradbury's most arresting tales-timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Will combine shipping on more than one book. ., Bantam Books, 1973, Golden Books, 1992, 1992. Quarto, hardcover, good in blue pictorial boards, gold spine. Includes My First Counting Book; The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse; Home for a Bunny with great illustrations by Garth Williams, noted artist. . Hardcover. Good/No Dj. Illus. by Garth Williams., Golden Books, 1992, 1992, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1974. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages are tight. The binding is a bit loose but nor cracked. The covers and spine are scuffed and a bit faded. ; Book Club Edition; Color Illustrations; Thick Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 734 pages; The stories are: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John Buchan. England 1914. A mood of uneasiness prevails. In Germany the Kaiser is rattling his sword and war drums are rumbling over the Continent. Into this setting comes Richard Hannay, an attractive young man but footloose and bored. He was bound to get into trouble and Scudder was trouble. First it was murder. Then not only was Scotland Yard on Hannay's tail, but there was that band of ruthless men known simply by the code name "Black Stone" -- men who were determined to deal England a fatal knockout blow on the Eve of war with Germany. This story is illustrated by Guy Deel; OPERATION CICERO by L. C. Moyzisch, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon and Heinrich Fraenkel. During the tense final phase of World War II, the German embassy in neutral Turkey paid a fortune for quantities of stolen "most secret" British documents -- documents that revealed crucial Allied war plans to the enemy only days after they had been made. It was the author L. C. Moyzisch, an attaché at the German embassy, who effected these transactions, meeting regularly with a mysterious Albanian undercover agent employed as a valet at the British embassy and known by the code name "Cicero. The story is illustrated by Allan Mardon; FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE by Ian Fleming. At the highest level of Soviet intelligence a sinister plot is set in motion to shake the British Secret Service to its foundations. One of its top agents, 007, the redoubtable James Bond, is to be the victim of a murder so sensational that it will embarrass Her Majesty's government. The bait that will lure the English operative into the trap prepared for him in Istanbul is he beautiful Tania. But waiting in the wings is the cold-eyed Granitsky, chief executioner for SMERSCH, Soviet intelligence's most dreaded and secret department. And behind Grainitsky is the malevolent, toadlike woman, Colonel Rosa Klebb, head of Otdyel II, in charge of operations and executions. The story is illustrated by Richard Harvey; I, BENEDICT ARNOLD The Anatomy of Treason by Cornel Lengyel. Benedict Arnold nearly -- nearly one hundred and seventy-five years his death that name still stands as the most famous synonym for traitor in the English language. Washington's most brilliant field general, Arnold was an officer of extraordinary bravery, military prowess, and personal magnetism. From Ticonderoga to Saratoga, in battle after battle, he led the attack, inspiring the ragged American troops with his own fierce courage. Twice he was wounded. The country rang with his praise; he was called the Hannibal of America. There seemed no limits to the heights of success, happiness, and personal glory he might reach. He had a young wife of impressive family background, great beauty, and charm. They had a lovely child. Then when American fortunes were in doubt, he performed the one unforgivable act: he tried to deliver into the hands of the enemy his comrades, his commander in chief, and his struggling country. And he very nearly succeeded. Benedict Arnold's treachery can probably never be fully explained or understood. To the extent that it can, here is the whole incredible tale, based on firsthand evidence and told with a compelling dramatic sweep. The story is illustrated by David Blossom: BACKGROUND TO DANGER by Eric Ambler. Kenton was broke; worse even, he was hungry -- a down-and-out journalist with nothing to write about. So when the odd-looking little man on the train offered him a sizable sum of money to carry a harmless-looking parcel of papers through the customs check at the border between Germany and Austria, he leaped at the chance. How could he know that the parcel contained political dynamite - enough to set off a worldwide conflagration, plunge him up to his neck in a deadly conspiracy, and make him personally the target of both Soviet and Nazi agents? The story is illustrated by Charles Wilkinson; KLAUS FUCHS, from the book, THE TRAITORS by Alan Moorehead. The extraordinary story of Klaus Fuchs, who betrayed British and American atomic secrets to the Russians, is a classic study of the type of traitor whom the author describes as "the man who is not a professional spy, nor a man out essentially for personal gain, but a self-appointed idealist. " Fuchs was such a man -- a brilliant atomic scientist, a shy, self-effacing man burningly convinced of the purity of his own motives. Moorehead's portrait of Fuchs, coupled with the exciting story of how British intelligence slowly drew its net about him, makes for fascinating and illuminating reading. The story is illustrated by T. Upshur; -THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD by John Le Carré. "We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people can sleep safely in their beds at night, " says the head of British intelligence. For in the field of espionage, the cold war ceases to be cold and is fought remorselessly by both sides. In this case the "disagreeable thing" is a fiendishly subtle murder plan, the unfolding of which will keep the reader rapt and guessing until the very end. The story is illustrated by James Barkley. The book weighs 2½ pounds before packaging, measures 9¼" high by 6¼" wide and 2" thick. Each story is illustrated. Will combine shipping on more than one book. ., The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1974, From Oliver Twist and Great Expectations to A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities, the novels of Charles Dickens are among the best loved and most adapted in English literature. This charming and informative little gift book asks why, what, where, how, and who the Dickens was Charles Dickens? Why did he keep a pet raven that pecked at his children's shins? Why did he have a tunnel built under the road in front of his country house? Find out the answers to these and more questions, learn about his work and his most passionate social causes, and enjoy quirky stories and fascinating trivia about this singularly complex man and consummate artist., 2015, -: Random House, -. Paperback. very good/-. -. Synopsis:-In this haunting and frank account, Donna Ford, bestselling author of The Step Child, returns to the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother. As a tiny girl of five, and for six long years, Donna was physically, mentally and sexually abused. She was starved, beaten and `loaned out` to neighbours who raped and molested her ... and throughout her father stood by and did nothing. When her stepmother finally left the family home, Donna dreamed of a normal childhood in which she would be taken care of by the man who had, up until this point, failed her. But it was not to be. By telling the whole story of her Edinburgh childhood, Donna tries to understand why the man who should have loved her the most - her own father - was the one who deceived her the most, by continuing to allow men to abuse her. Instead of finding a future of love and happiness, Donna was once again thrust into a living nightmare of exploitation and betrayal by those who should have wrapped her up in their love. While this is a true story of appalling child abuse, it is also a tale of how exhilaration, tenderness and self-development can flourish despite childhood horrors. We take a journey with Donna to discover the woman she has become: a devoted mother of three and a talented artist and writer.-> this Paperbackbook the publishing house is Random House in 2009 it has 206 pages we have grade it as very good and Has A Few Scuffs Marks Etc Reasonable used book it will be shipped from our UK warehouse shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Random House, Pella, Iowa, USA: Town Crier Commercial Printing, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Darlys Kaldenberg. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Illustrated by Darlys Kaldenberg. This was her first book as the commissioned book illustrator, and she went on from here to become a well-known artist in her state of Iowa. Meet Mary Bryant, a skinny ten-year with curiosity and persistence who got involved in the mystery of a misplaced father and involved some adults in her search as well. The story is set in a little midwestern town on the banks of the Mississippi River. It is a humorous, heart-warming tale from the great Depression of the 1930s. The book is clean, gently used, unmarked, with former owner name on inside of front cover. 78 pages. 6 x 9. Town Crier Commercial Printing, Pella, Iowa, USA, Town Crier Commercial Printing, 1993, UK: Armadillo, 1997. Contents: Teddy Bear tales - Fairy tales - Animal Tales - A Christmas Treasury - Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated throughout in colour by 12 artists. Hardback: glossy colour pictorial boards, a few page corners creased, else vg. thick 12mo, 320pp.. Repr. Hard Cover. Very Good., Armadillo, 1997<
