Publicado por A Mariner Book. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996
ISBN 10: 0140587861 ISBN 13: 9780140587869
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company - A Mariner Book, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1992
ISBN 10: 0395572304 ISBN 13: 9780395572306
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Back. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Third Printing. 238 Pages. Contents in Twelve Chapters: Horace's Compromise, Putting It Right, Horace's Committee, Kids Differ, Places Matter, Habits, Learning by Using, Sustance and Standards, Thoughtful Places, The Committee's Report, Policy and Power, and Will Horace Get His School. Plus Introducton, Appendices on Coaliton and Budget, and Notes. A dialogue continues from the author's previous books about what it means to be well-educated in this country, who the receipients of that education should be, and how best to provide that education.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company - A Mariner Book, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 0395741777 ISBN 13: 9780395741771
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Back. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Printing. 256 pages. White boards with white cloth quarter spine and gold lettering. Dust jacket price 21.95 is unclipped. This is about Mavis Black returning to the loamy soil of her South Carolina home and to her large, eccenctdric family. Blessed with a bewitching way with words and a powerfully loving hear, Mavis has come home to the be the accountant for her grandfather's preposterous vineyard. But her homecoming also sparks an accounting of a different kind, as Mavis chrts the emotional distance she has traveled from the people she loves most. A glorious celebrtion of young womanhood and the strength of loving ties. Ashley Warlick was the youngest recipient of the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. This is her first novel.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company - A Mariner Book, Boston - New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 0618565868 ISBN 13: 9780618565863
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Diercks, Lisa - Book Design Ilustrador. Third Printing. 152 Pages. Front endpaper has "$4 2903-11" in the top margin. A quick thumb-thru did not disclose any other marks. A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers s best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South's finest writers. Contents: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Wunderkind, The Jockey, Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland, The Sojourner, A Domestic Dilemma, and A Tree A Rock A Cloud.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company/A Mariner Book, Boston, MA, 1999
ISBN 10: 0618082492 ISBN 13: 9780618082490
Librería: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft Cover. Condición: Fine as New. No Jacket. First Edition Paperback. 102pp. Yellow Soft Cover. Poetry. Poems. Soft Cover.
Publicado por A Mariner Book/ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0395956196 ISBN 13: 9780395956199
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Steven Cooley (Cover Design) Ilustrador. 1st Mariner Bk Ed.1999. 189 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company / A Mariner Book, Boston, 2008
ISBN 10: 0547085907 ISBN 13: 9780547085906
Librería: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: MWABA
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Soft Cover. Condición: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's glossy wraps. An ingenious blend of biography, criticism, and first-rate science writing, Proust Was a Neuroscientist urges science and art to listen more closely to each other, for willing minds can combine the best of both, to brilliant effect. This volume is in perfect condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. x, (ii), 241, (1) pp.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company [c.1997], Boston / New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395850851 ISBN 13: 9780395850855
Librería: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Later Printing. Boston / New York: A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company [c.1997]. Later [6th] printing. 63+ pages. Near Fine copy.
Publicado por A Mariner Book/Mariner Books/Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York & Boston, MA, 2004
ISBN 10: 0618485228 ISBN 13: 9780618485222
Librería: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. Melissa Lotfy (Book Design); Phillippe Lardy (Cover Illustration); Sanjay Kothari (Author Photo) Ilustrador. 1st Mariner Books Edition: 2004. 291 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Except first front-end page torn.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company - A Mariner Book, New York, 1994
ISBN 10: 0395515955 ISBN 13: 9780395515952
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Back. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket cover price was $32.50. Illustrated endpapers of Donleavy's Trinity. Autobiography of the author of a modern classic recalling how it was writen over several years in Ireland and America and the characters in Donleavy's life that were the basis for the story. Follows the legal battle over publication that lasted several decades. It is history combined with autobiography: from his childhood in the Bronx, education at Catholic schools, service in the US Navy and travels.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company [A Mariner Book], Boston, MA, 2001
ISBN 10: 0395779278 ISBN 13: 9780395779279
Librería: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Estados Unidos de America
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Trade paperback. Condición: Good. First Paperback printing. xii, 756 pages. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Novelist James Carroll has compiled a sweeping history of anti-Semitism in the Christian tradition. Carroll, himself once a priest, describes incidents of both active and passive aggression against the Jewish faithful from the Crusades to the Inquisition to the Holocaust. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. James P. Carroll (born January 22, 1943) is an American author, historian, and journalist. A Roman Catholic reformer, he has written extensively about his experiences in the seminary and as a priest, and has published, besides novels, books on religion and history. Carroll's plays have been produced at the Berkshire Theater Festival and at Boston's Next Move Theater. In 1976 he published his first novel, Madonna Red, which was followed by nine others. He has written for numerous publications and his op-ed column appears weekly in The Boston Globe. He won the 1996 National Book Award for Nonfiction for An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us, a memoir about the Vietnam War and his relationships with his father, the American military, and the Catholic Church. Carroll wrote a history of Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism, anti-Semitism and treatment of Jews, titled Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews. In this work, he connects many personal experiences, especially his boyhood trips to Catholic pilgrimage sites in the Rhineland, and as a seminarian and priest, to the places and events that he analyzes. The book was a New York Times Best Seller, although it got mixed reviews. The book also earned Carroll several accolades from national newspapers, including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Carroll co-wrote and presented the 2007 documentary Constantine's Sword with filmmaker Oren Jacoby.
Publicado por Houghton Mifflin Company - A Mariner Book, Boston, 1980
ISBN 10: 0395083745 ISBN 13: 9780395083741
Librería: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, Estados Unidos de America
Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Miller, Alfred Jacob; Bodmer, Charles Ilustrador. Second Printing. 450 Pages Indexed. Very minor, barely noticeable wear to cover edges. Interior text pages are flawless. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West. Contents in 13 Chapters: The Prairie Traveler 1833, The Brass Knuckles 1832, Massacre: Sport and Business 1832, Paul Bunyan's Fair 1833, Absaroka 1833, The Theme of Wonder 1833 -1834, The Winter Lodge, To Men Benighted 1834, Parable of the Samaritan 1835, The Meridian Passage 1836, The Conqueror 1837, A Painter on the Trail 1837, and Away You Rolling River 1838. Plus Appendices: Chronology of the Mountain Fur Trade, Notes, and Bibliography.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2000
ISBN 10: 0618526412 ISBN 13: 9780618526413
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Spine crease, corners rubbed, a very good copy. The novel was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club in 2004.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2003
ISBN 10: 0618340750 ISBN 13: 9780618340750
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, fine. Poetry.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2002
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. Reprint. Trade paperback. Pages lightly age-toned, spine slightly faded, else near fine.
Publicado por A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 0618257349 ISBN 13: 9780618257348
Librería: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
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Trade Paperback. 1st Paperback Edition. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's blindstamp to half title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 418 pages.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0395929741 ISBN 13: 9780395929742
Librería: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, Estados Unidos de America
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Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1998. A Near Fine copy. Inscribed to fellow author BURKE DAVIS on half title page, dated May 4, 2003. 8vo., 308 pp., with black & white images. Bound in publishers stiff illustrated wraps.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2000
ISBN 10: 0618001883 ISBN 13: 9780618001880
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. 228pp. Pages lightly age-toned, corners slightly curled, spine and edges sunned, very good. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.
Publicado por A Mariner Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0618001905 ISBN 13: 9780618001903
Librería: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Trade Paperback. Reprint. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Black & white map. 376 pages. A horrifying account of a meglomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also a depply moving account of resistance by African rebel leaders, some missionaries and travellers, and young idealists. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1995
ISBN 10: 0618340726 ISBN 13: 9780618340729
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Fine. Later printing. Trade paperback. 263pp. Illustrated by David Allen Sibley. Fine.
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, New York Boston, 2007
ISBN 10: 0618919899 ISBN 13: 9780618919895
Librería: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. 622 pp., xvi. Stated: "First Mariner Books edition, 2007" with '1' in number line. Following the Preface andProogue, Contents divided into 5 Parts: I. "Growing Up Zigzag"; II. "The Action of Consciousness"; III. "The Principles of Psychology"; IV. "The Varieties of Religious Experience"; V. The Philosopher"; Epilogue, pp. 521-524; Chronology, pp. 525-527; James Family Genealogy, pp. 528-529; Notes, pp. 530-585; Principle Sources, pp. 586-589; Index, pp. 590-622. Very thick wrappers with full front cover black and white photo-portrait of James, in profile, outlined ; Title and Subtitle and Author name lettering in white circumscribed by thin, white rectilinear border superimposed upon illustration at center, lower third front cover. FLAWLESS copy. (NO previous owner names; NO remainder marks; NO bumps or curls; tight binding.) Looks unread. (Heavy and will not fit standard USPS Priority Envelope: Postage to be determined at time of order).
Publicado por A Mariner Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000
Librería: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de America
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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition glossy photographic softcover wraps. Includes Acknowledgments 1966; Acknowledgments 2000; Dedication; Preface; Introduction; Illustrations and Sources; and Index. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Nominated for the National Book Award. First edition/first printing of this edition, with the full number line, beginning with "1" present on the copyright page. "When it was first published in 1968, the critically acclaimed Lost New York became an instant classic for the way it reawakened a lost city. Now expanded and updated, with 118 new photographs, the book reveals a fresh, true picture of New York as it has lived and grown, with startling reminders of how much that has vanished remains part of us. From the grandeur of the old Metropolitan Opera and Pennsylvania Station to the fabulous lost nightclubs of 52nd Street and Harlem, from the opulence of the old Vanderbilt mansions to the Madison Square Garden rooftop where architect Stanford White was shot, this is both a unique testament to New York's past and a story of the vitality that makes the city continue to connect with us. Illustrated with rare and stunning photographs and marked by engaging, lively text, this new edition of Lost New York provides a unique and unforgettable look at the places in New York that are no more. Beyond that, it evokes the significant moments in time and memory that make us reflect on our passions about change and the reasons we remain concerned about the future of cities." - excerpt from the rear outer cover.