Search Results: Survival from The Mortuary Korps

94 p.; ill.; 18 cm.
Vintage book in Near Fine condition: very minor shelfwear/aging. Pristine inside, tightly bound and obviously unread.
From the covers:
Fame! Fortune! Adventure! All are yours IF you survive the ... CRASH LANDING!
Choose from over 30 different endings!
You gasp in terror as you hear the pilot announce those terrifying words! You can't believe that your free vacation is about to end in flames! Will you become a newspaper statistic? Or will you use your wits to face the danger...and survive!
On page 6, you learn how to guide a parachute over perilous mountains and deserts!
Deadly piranha fish threaten your survival on page 41!
And if you ever get home, what will you do with all the gold you discover on page 52?
In a TWISTAPLOT Book, you are the star of the story! You face the danger! Your survival depends on the choices you make and the pages you turn. So fasten your seatbelt. Your flight is now departing!

Advance uncorrected page proof. 197 p.; ill. (maps). Includes Appendix, Notes, Glossary, and Bibliography. Mild shelfwear, including but not limited to impressions and sticker residue, but internally Fine, seemingly unread. From the back: Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships.The author contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were forced to seek a longer way home, resulting in bitter confrontations with rival Portuguese. Kelsey's enthralling history, based on more than thirty years of research in… Read More

156 p. Illustrated.Dust jacket is unmarked with only mild shelfwear to corners and faint sunning. The book is ex-library with internal stamps, stickers, and pocket remnant, and the covers have minor tape residue to cloth side (from previous jacket sleeve) but otherwise the book is in Fine condition.Edited and with an introduction by Ronald A. Wells. From the dust jacket flap: Letters From a Young Emigrant in Manitoba, first published in 1883 and long out-of-print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life. The letters were written by Edward ffolkes, who left England in 1882 study at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph and later to homestead in southern Manitoba. They describe with rare insight the daily struggles and expectations of an "ordinary man" who had the courage to take up a new life on the frontier. Ronald A. Wells has introduced the volume with a wide-ranging essay on the role of popular knowledge about Canada in Britain and the significant shift of British migration from… Read More

356 p. Mild page curl and minor shelfwear, otherwise Near Fine. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. From the back: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, an orang-utan, a zebra with a broken leg, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi Patel, a 16-year-old Indian boy. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years, a novel of such rare and wondrous storytelling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God. Can a reader reasonably ask for anything more? May require small amount of extra shipping due to thickness of book.

First Edition. 252 p.; ill.; includes Appendices (p. 240-6) and Bibliography (p. 247-52). Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine exhibits mild dent/bumping to tip and heel of spine and a small bit of minor damage to the edge of page near end of book, but otherwise Fine, being clean, clear, and tightly bound, with no other evidence of wear and endpapers illustrated in blue. Please see listing images for detail of damaged pages and list of illustrations. Dust jacket exhibits some sunning and very minor shelfwear, including small (1cm) closed tears, otherwise Very Good+ From the dust jacket: In 1884 an editorial in the Daily Spray, a journal circulating in the Asbury Park area of New Jersey, suggested one way for Asbury Park to improve its resort status. We want a first-class shipwreck. Why ? To make Asbury Park a famous winter resort. There is a very comfortable berth for a big ship between the fishing pier and the Asbury Avenue Pavilion. She should strike head-on, so that her nose would ram… Read More

First printing, stated.
151 p.; 18 cm. Some shelfwear, binding at first and last pages cracked, large closed tear on page 25, otherwise Very Good.
Rare. At time of listing, only one copy available online.
From the back cover:
Directly ahead of us a wall of rock and mud blocked half the road. Where the other half should have been was nothing—black, yawning nothing... After their car plunges down a steep cliff into Suicide Gulch, five students try to survive in the bleak British Columbia mountains until one of them can climb back up the cliff to get help. For shy Karen the days in the bush seem like years. Shelley, Karen's "big sister" friend, is badly injured and needs help herself. Stanley can't seem to knock off his clown act, even in an emergency. And Dave doesn't seem to notice that Karen's around. Then there's Ward, who looks as if he could be triggered into one of his black rages by anything at all. Suddenly it's Karen who has to handle everybody else's problems ... but who is there to care about her?

English language. 189 p.; ill.; 18 cm. Vintage paperback with red foredges and green pictorial cover, shows moderate external wear, including spine creasing, and the spine is starting in a few places, but otherwise in Very Good+ condition, with bright, clean, and clear text, liberally illustrated with over 80 photographic images from the film. A screenplay translated from the French original. "Nearly four decades after its release, "The Wild Child" remains startling for its humane clarity, for Nestor Almendros's brilliant black-and-white photography, and for the sense that Truffaut is achieving filmmaking mastery on a very small scale." —Ty Burr From the rear: "....The extraordinary quality of this film comes from its restraint, its pathetic simplicity.... A picture of indescribable purity which places Truffaut among the biggest idealists.... A gust of human kindness which restores hope." —Combat (Paris) "Perhaps it is simplistic to draw easy parallels between Victor and our own kids who yearn… Read More