mark doren cairns (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First printing. 8vo, 431 pages, two-tone cloth "The dialogues contained in this volume are transcripts from direct recordings of unrehearsed conversations broadcast weekly by the Columbia Broadcasting System on a coast-to-coast network - Preface." "The twenty-seven books discussed on the following pages are books which the world has not been willing or able to let die. They are classics in the special sense that the ideas and visions which they contain are present in our thought even when we have not read them - Introduction.".

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. No Edition Noted. Blue pebble textured cloth bindings w/gold colored print on spine. Eight book set. Sound and unmarked. Titles, author and pages are as follows: "Mathematics for Everyday Use", William l. Schaaf, 363 pages; " ; "Story of Science", David Deitz, 387 pages; "Today's Etiquette", Lillian Eichler, 316 pages; "Invitation to Learning", Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate & Mark Van Doren, 431 pages; " World History at a Glance", Mark Reither, 425 pages; "The book of Home Economics", Mary Leaming, 507 pages; " The Home Book of Music Appreciation", Helen L. Kaufmann, 324 pages; " Simon Newcomb's Astronomy for Everyone", Robert H. Baker (Ed.), 334 pages. A few books have a softly bumped corner. "Astronomy." has 10 pages near the end where the upper corner has a soft fold. All books has endpaper gluing which has browned to varying degrees. S& H will be $7.00 due to number of books.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First edition. xix, 431pp. Owner name (F. Cudworth Flint) on front pastedown, endpapers lightly toned, near fine. F. Cudworth Flint was Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, and authored *Amy Lowell,* American Writers 82: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. "A clear, concise and inspiring discussion of twenty-seven of the greatest books of all times; why they have endured and why, for generations to come, they will influence mankind.".