Miller, William H.; Correia, Luis Miguel:RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 of 1969
- cópia assinada 1969, ISBN: 9789728536015
Livro de bolso, Edição encadernada, primeira edição
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth 173pp., b/w pls., US Navy & Coast Guard in the Normandy invasion, Whittlesey House, 1945, 3, New York: Sim… mais…
New York: Whittlesey House, 1945. 1st edition. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth 173pp., b/w pls., US Navy & Coast Guard in the Normandy invasion, Whittlesey House, 1945, 3, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. With a 'Compliments of the Author" card laid in. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips.. 65 p. 22 cm. Illustrations. "Originated as a Profile in the New Yorker, published May 13, 1950." From Wikipedia: "Lillian Ross (born June 8, 1926) is an American journalist and author who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1945. She was born in Syracuse, New York, the daughter of Louis and Edna (Rosenson) Ross. With the exception of her memoir Here but Not Here, about her relationship with William Shawn, she has been extremely reluctant to make the details of her life public. In her writing she makes the narrator as invisible as she can. Her birth date is unconfirmed, but in a May 7, 1998 New York Times article by Janny Scott, Shawn is said to have been about 20 years her senior. Ross departed from the rules regarding her private life in personal comments in The Talk of the Town following the death of J. D. Salinger, making her position as narrator clear and including information about her long friendship with Salinger and photographs of Salinger and his family with her family, including her adopted son, Erik." From Wikipedia: "Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926. After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He was present at the Normandy Landings and the liberation of Paris. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.", Simon and Schuster, 1961, 2.5, London: Michael Joseph. As New in As New dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0718133285 . Grey boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. In the original publishers pictorial dustjacket. No Inscriptions or Marks. (xvi) + 496 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs and map endpapers. Notes; Bibliography; Index. This is an Excellent, Clean, Tight and Bright , 'As New' copy. " D-Day was the greatest amphibious operation the world has ever seen, and one that changed the course of the Second World War. This is the authentic story of D-Day as it has never been told before- entirely by those who took part, on both sides." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall ., Michael Joseph, 1993, 5, New York and London: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Company (1945) 174 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Modest rubbing to corners. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MAX MILLER ON FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ chipping to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ b/w photos.. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Company, 2.75, Used. Tight binding, light wear, text clean, dust cover: heavy wear , tears on edges, creasing, Little, Brown and Company, 1962, 0, Lisbon, Spain: Liner Books, 1999. 96 Pages. No defects noted to this used book in Near Fine condition. Interior text and illustration pages are flawless. Color photographs on every page. In May 1996, over 700 ocean liner enthusiasts boarded the legendary Queen Elizabeth 2, the QE2 to almost everyone, at New York City's Passenger Ship Terminal. Most of them were filled with enthusiasm, that certain spark of life's excitement when a ship is about to sail, no matter how short the voyage. Many brought all sorts of photographic equipment to record the ship and her voyage, a 5-day long holiday weekend down to Bermuda and back. A few brought cherished items of maritime memorabilia: photos and post cards, china ashtrays and those extendable deck plans, teacups and miniature models. A few brought along notes and slides for the lectures they would give about the ship herself, her owners, immortal predecessors like the Queen Mary and her great rival, the Normandie, and another on New York harbour itself. It was a gala affair, one that succeeded beyond expectations, and was perhaps the largest gathering of ocean liner aficionados aboard one ship yet. While the purpose was a commemorative, the sixtieth anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Mary back in 1936, it was also celebrating the extraordinary QE2. At twenty-seven, she herself had become an aging legend - the last trans-Atlantic superliner, the last big Cunarder on the same route. The Liverpool-based Cunard Steamship Company Limited dominated the prestigious North Atlantic route between Northern Europe and North America. 1958 was the pinnacle for them and all others. That same October, the first commercial jet flew to Europe. It was the beginning of a quick end. Within six months, the airlines had two- thirds of all Atlantic clientele. Cunard's fleet went into rapid decline. By 1968, all that remained was the original and faded Elizabeth. This book is a photographic history of that rise and fall. Contents: The Greatest Ship in the World, The Legendary Queen Elizabeth 2, Facts an Figures QE2, Chronological History, Ship's Particulars, Acknowledgements, Photographic Acknowledgements, and Bibliography. . First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 9 1/4" x 6 1/2"., Liner Books, 1999, 4<
