Orlando: A James A. Silberman Book / Harcourt, Inc., 2006. Hard Cover.
Pages faintly toned, a few small marks to top page edges. Near Fine.
689 pp. "To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer.....
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co Ltd, 1903. Hard Cover.
Edges rubbed, hinges beginning to loosen, ink name on front endpaper.
333, [3] pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine, who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray.
New York: Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859. Warth, Thomas. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. General light wear, pencil scribble on one page.
355, 4 pp. 21 of 33 chapters previously published in New York Evening Post, other 12 appear first here. True accounts of New York City life, including the.....
New York: Mason Brothers, 1856. Hard Cover.
Former a binder's copy - has been repaired. Loss to spine head, spine base and to front joint; ink name on title page.
404 pp. With numerous illustrative notes and anecdotes. Including Letters from the Time of Their Marriage Until the Death of.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual markings. Rebound. Minor pencil underlining.
xviii, 522 pp. Leather spine over cloth boards, new printed marbled endpapers. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front board lightly cocked.
322 pp. Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One.....
New York: Random House, 2003. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. 1/2 inch tear on dust jacket and book spine, gift note on free endpaper.
ix, 239 pp. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of.....
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1962. Adams, Alexander B. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with small chip, jacket lightly foxed. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 148 pp. Each of the thirty-two photographs is captioned with Thoreau's own words which was the aim of the editor.....
. Little, Brown, 2001. Adams, Ansel. Soft Cover.
Still encased in shrink wrap.
In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents an intriguing new look at this distinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator John Szarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography at New.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1966. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1966 printing, Toledano 076.2, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $2.45 jacket price, beige Rockwell Kent endpapers. Near fine in very good jacket. Ink name and date on front endpaper, spine ends lightly bruised, jacket lightly rubbed.
xvi, 517, [11] pp.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Highlighting, spine base bumped.
xxxviii, 517 pp. Introduction by Edmund Morris. 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams,' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by.....
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. No jacket, bookplate on front endpaper.
xvi, 428 pp. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Discovery and Settlement; The Colonial System Takes Form; The Duel with France; American Life.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
1st printing. Very good. Jacket lightly toned.
340 pp. "John Adams is one of the most respected and loved of contemporary composers, and "he has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he has addressed life.....
Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company, 1857. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket, a few light spots to boards, ink note on front endpaper.
vii, 191, [4] pp. "Reverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 – October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem.....
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1985. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Modern reissue. Ink name on front endpaper, light edge wear.
A Death in the Family is an autobiographical novel by author James Agee, set in Knoxville, Tennessee. He began writing it in 1948, but it was not quite complete when he died.....
New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn.
243 pp. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving.....
New York: Hyperion, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink gift note on front free endpaper.
viii, 254 pp. What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Jacket faintly rubbed.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Faint edge wear to jacket.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you.....
New York: Broadway Books, 1997. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
Reissue with new foreward. Ink marks to front endpaper.
192 pp. "It's been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Press, 2021. Large Hardcover.
Still in original plastic wrap.
232 pp. Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the University of Rochester's.....
New York: Doubleday, 1997. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. An exceptional copy.
In this intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly.....
Massachusetts: Applewood Books, 2010. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased, bookplate on title page.
404 pp. An intimate portrait of one of America's most beloved writers is revealed in this 1889 work from editor Ednah Dow Cheney. Originally published just a year after Louisa May Alcott's death at the age of 55.....
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Crease along spine, 1 inch crease on upper wrapper corner, light blue stain in rear of book.
239 pp. Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a......
Washington Square: New York University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small tear on jacket spine, jacket lightly rubbed. Board edges rubbed, top page ridge lightly foxed, front free endpaper clipped.
260 pp. ...extricates the real Franklin from the myths, misconceptions, legends with which French adoration surrounded him
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