alfred a knopf borzoi books random house new york (81 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. David Scull (Jacket Photo); Carol Devine Carson Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Faint crease to top edge of jacket's spine, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Sale includes an extra dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Mark Leithauser [Cover Art]; Carol Devine Carson [Jacket Design]; Jerry Bauer [Author's Photo] Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First Printing of the stated First Edition. Book in fine, as new condition; dust jacket with a touch of creasing to spine ends, else in fine condition. A lovely copy.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated advanced reading copy uncorrected proof issued prior to the 2007 hardcover release first printing of a near fine softcover with minimal curling to the front cover with no jacket as issued. The story of 14-year-old Isabel searching for her brother in an unnamed large country.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus (preceded by the 1997 U.K. softcover release) first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with a bit of wrinkling to the front cover at the bottom. Featuring Tim Kearney released from prison by the DEA to impersonate deceased drug dealer Bobby Z, to help get back a DEA agent. Of course things don't go as planned and the adventure begins. Finalist for 1998 Barry Award for Best Novel and finalist for the 1998 Lefty Award. This novel was the basis for the 2007 film of the same name starring Paul Walker.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. The 3rd novel in the John March mystery series, an ex-cop now a P.I. operating in Manhattan New York City NY USA. Finalist for 2008 Barry Award for Best Novel. Also published as "The Alibi League".

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated first printing of a fine hardcover with a remainder mark on the lower textblock, in a near fine dustjacket with two small closed tears, one the front at the bottom and one on the rear at the bottom. The 2nd novel in the Burke mystery series, a freelance investigator operating in New York City NY USA.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Britt-Marie Trensmar (Author photo); Peter Mendelsund Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first U.S. edition. Upper front hinge slightly shook, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. George Disario (Author photo); Sara Eisenman Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book with slight lean, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to spine and cover margins and faint sticker-ghost shadowing price on the inside, front flap, else fine.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st American Edition. MASTERPIECE: CLASSIC: PANORAMIC: FASCINATING: SWEEPING: UNCONVENTIONAL: INSIGHTFUL: STIMULATING: ENLIGHTENING: AWESOME: TOUR DE FORCE: NEAR FINE Stated First American Edition (November 1, 1993) First Printing: FINE mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT w/ neatly price-clipped top-left front flyleaf corner, new cover w/ dark brown linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in superb brown laid-paper w/ titles elegantly gold-stamped on spine & author's initials JK gilt-stamped at center-top of front panel, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page style "deckle" side-edging, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & brown & white cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE end-papers on heavy cream-white paper BUT MARRED w/ the neat removal of front-right (blank) end-paper, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * ILLUSTRATIONS: 10 maps & 24 pp. of choice b-w illustrations reproduced on excellent gloss-laminated paper in two 12-pp. inserts between pp. 144-145 & 272-273 * CONTENTS: Illustrations (ix), Acknowledgments (xi), Introduction (xiii), Conclusion (386), References (393), Select Bibliography (411), Index (418) * 6.25" x 9.50" x 1.36", 0.88 kg, xvi+432 (448) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: PANORAMIC & full of FASCINATING & UNCONVENTIONAL INSIGHTS, 'A History of Warfare' is based on the author's 30 years of researching, teaching about & commenting upon military affairs. It also draws upon a lifetime of exploring many of the world's major battlefields, as well as friendships w/ soldiers of many different armies. This is John Keegan's MASTERPIECE. It is destined to become a CLASSIC on one of the most troubling subjects in human experience. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written. John Keegan is at once the most remarkable & the most original of living historians." - Michael Howard, NYTBR -- "A masterpiece . . . This is one of those rare books which could still be required reading in its field a hundred years from now." -New Yorker -- "'A History of Warfare' is an intellectual tour de force . . . It is impossible in a brief review to convey [its] awesome sweep or the breadth & depth of argumentation . . . consistently stimulating & enlightening." - Clay Blair, Washington Post Book World * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

First US edition. Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with silver-gilt spine titling; 288pp. untrimmed. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. 9780307957054.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Visual Key by Susan Rayfield Ilustrador. 1st Edition. NEAR FINE to FINE First Edition (Orig. July 26, 1977) Seventeenth Printing (October 1988), EXCELLENT British-green field-durable vinyl cover w/ gloss-laminated illustrated title wrap in EXCELLENT condition, UNBLEMISHED cream-white card-stock end-papers, AS-NEW perfect binding w/ tightly gathered sheets, VERY-GOOD text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut edges BUT w/ moderate shelf-soiling to bottom edge, PRISTINE interior w/ 262 gloss-laminated plates displaying 584 living birds captured in BRILLIANT full-color field-photography (456 Eastern breeding males plus 128 seasonal males, females, & immatures) * 498 pages of text presented w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper + 262 gloss-laminated plates (760 pp).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Stated First Edition. SUPERB: VG-NEAR FINE Stated First Edition hardcover (March 1973) First Printing: VG-NEAR FINE handsomely-designed unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ VG edges & corners & showing orig. $15.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, FINE imperial-purple linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners showing only slightest incidence of micro-chipping & tears & Macaulay ELEGANTLY stamped purple-on-purple at top of front panel & titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson-gold-checked linen bands at spine caps, VG-NEAR FINE unmarked text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges w/ top edge stained in faded-rose & w/ cut-page-style "deckel" side-edging w/ side & bottom edges showing only slightest incidence of age-dust-rusting, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED only by the signature of the orig. owner w/ date neatly scripted at top-center inside-front right end-paper, PRISITNE interior SUPERBLY printed in Linotype-Baskerville on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50 x 9.56" x 1.96", 1.26 kg, xvi+502+xxxvi (554) * Illustrated * ABOUT THE BOOK: From Clapham to Cambridge to the House of Commons to Calcutta & back to England, Macaulay is seen not only as a man of extraordinary intellect & vision in search of himself but as the product of a family, a class, a time, & a place. The man & his works are made immediate & are fully understood in this SUPERB full-scale portrait. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A long-time student of history & a prolific & distinguished editor & writer, John Clive taught for many years at Harvard as Professor of History & Literature. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated advanced reading copy uncorrected proof issued prior to the 2003 hardcover release, first printing of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. The publisher's un-used review card is mint and laid in The 1st novel in the John March mystery series, an ex-cop now a P.I. operating in Manhattan New York City NY USA. Winner of the 2004 Shamus Award for Best First Novel.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Adam Elder (Autho photo); Archie Ferguson Ilustrador. 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first American edition, preceded by the Canadian edition. Signed by Michael Ondaatje directly on the title page. Light shelf wear and crease to bottom corner of back flap, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Stated First Edition. COLLECTIBLE: EXQUISITE: INDISPENSABLE to ANY LOVER of LITERATURE & The TRADITIONS of AMERICAN PUBLISHING: VERY GOOD: Stated First Edition (October 1965) First Printing: No Jacket , EXQUISITE VERY GOOD cover w/ library-durable black fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.28" over front & back panels covered in silk-finish emerald linen w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & w/ titles-&-AK-design-motifs ELEGANTLY stamped in gilt & emerald-green on spine & w/ Borzoi hound boldly gilt-stamped over gilt "50 Years / 1915-1965 " & green-stamped wreath on front panel, EXCELLENT sewn binding w/ tight signatures & faded-yellow-green-checked linen bands at spine-caps, VERY GOOD unmarked but time-blemished text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges (w/ top edge stained in faded ocher-yellow) & w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE gorgeously-patterned "AK-Borzoi- hound-patterned" card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior SUPERBLY printed in Linotype-Janson on EXCELLENT archival paper showing minor-moderate degree of "aging" w/ faint water-markings on the outside side edges of a few pages--OVERALL for the book-lover this is a volume worthy to keep and to treasure. * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.0", 1.42 kg, xxxvi+1092 (1128) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: This volume SPLENDIDLY Commemorates 50 years in the life of THE Great American Publishing Institution that is Alfred A. Knopf. Within its pages--drawn from the more than 5,000 books published in AK's first 50 years--are gathered more than a half-million words: 51 writers of prose & verse (representing the United States, Russia, France, Germany, England, Spain, Ireland & China), 6 Nobel Prize laureates, 7 complete novels & novellas, 12 short stories (including several very long ones), a complete play, 23 shorter pieces of non-fiction of various kinds, & a rich selection of poetry. Surveying this retrospective collection one can discern towering peaks of literary achievement, classic, enduring work by such titans as Camus, Sartre, Mann, D.H. Lawrence, Gide, Eliot, Pound, Spengler, Conrad, Stevens, by such masters as Bunin, Cather, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, W.H. Hudson, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Clarence Day, H.L. Mencken, Romains, Unamuno, Belloc, A.E. Houseman, Elinor Wylie, & yes, by such brilliant representatives from more recent years as Roald Dahl, Alan Sillitoe, John Updike, John Hersey, & William Snodgrass, &, yes, by an extraordinary virtuoso only more recently included within the domain of high literature, Raymond Chandler. This vast & varied library--for it is a library rather than a mere anthology--is supplemented by a lengthy & refreshingly personal introduction plus informal commentaries by the editor, the inimitable Clifton Fadiman who selected the contents entirely w/o consultation w/ the publisher or his associates. "Fifty Years" offers a striking view of a broad literary terrain, concentrating on those first order names which Alfred & Blanche Knopf so wisely & so fortunately sponsored over a half-century of lively & distinguished publishing. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: CLIFTON FADIMAN, educated in New York City schools & at Columbia University, enjoyed a long & distinguished career in American letters, first as book editor at the New Yorker & then as editor & editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster. He edited many anthologies & authored innumerable books & articles & essays, all of which celebrated humanity & the greatness of the written word. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for A below-cost additional fee of $16.00) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: NEGLECTED SPLENDOR: FINE First Edition hardcover (Orig. January 1988) Third printing (March 1988): NEW "art-deco" styled gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ celebrated photo of Oscar Wilde on the front panel & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $24.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf BUT w/ interior flyleaf corners neatly & uniformly clipped c. 0.5" on the diagonal, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text-block exterior w/ slightest shelf-dust soiling & faintest spotting apparent on the top edge only, NEW library-durable lavender-brown linen-over boards cover ornamented on front panel & spine w/ titles silver-stamped & black-stamped "art deco" design motif, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.26" x 9.52" x 1.76", 1.22 kg, xviii+680 (698) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: 'How ridiculous of you to suppose that anyone, least of all my dear mother, would christen me "plain Oscar",' he once replied to someone who so supposed. 'I started as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.' Indeed nothing about Oscar Wilde was "plain". And in this most pyrotechnic, enchanting, and extravagantly outrageous of 19th-century literary men, Richard Ellmann, one of the great biographers of our time, found his most compelling protagonist. Ellmann devoted his last 20 years to "Oscar Wilde", and it will stand, like his universally admired "James Joyce", as the DEFINITIVE life. The book's emotional resonance, its riches of authentic color & conversation, & the subtlety of its critical illuminations give dazzling life to this portrait of the complex man, the charmer, the great playwright, the daring champion of the primacy of art. And always we sense how he was doomed by the very nature of his powerful intellect, & by that Wildean playfulness that so easily became teasing, to goad the forces of convention into a lethal attack on him at the very moment when he was in most command of is art &--w/ the triumph of "The Importance of Being Earnest"--of his audience. Wilde moved among the great & notorious of his day, & the narrative rings w/ their voices & his own--heard in brilliant discourse, in passion, in conflict, in scintillating thrust & riposte. Drawing on a wealth of documentation, much of it tapped for the first time, & discovering in "Salome", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Earnest", & other works new aspects of their author--Ellmann reveals a Wilde greater & more moving than his legend has allowed, a Wilde who is the 1880s & 1890s incarnate & even today challenges our assumptions w/ his provocative intelligence. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: RICHARD ELLMANN, during a long & distinguished career, won international recognition as scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, & biographer. His magisterial life of James Joyce is wide acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. He studied at Yale & at Trinity College, in Dublin. He taught at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, & Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English literature & Fellow of New College. His "James Joyce" (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by "Yeats: The Man & the Masks" & "The Identity of Yeats" & was followed by--among other greatly praised books two volumes of Joyce letters, "Eminent Domian", & "Four Dubliners". Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing "Oscar Wilde" to which he had devoted some decades of study, research & writing. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this great book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for an additional fee) & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. Stated First American Edition. SUPERB: BOLD: ENTHRALLING: VIVID: WONDROUS: SHIMMERING: BEAUTIFUL: TENDER: BREATHLESSLY IMAGINATIVE: DEVASTATING: SHATTERING: UNFORGETTABLE: LUMINOUS: MAGNIFICENT: VIVID: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. July 21, 2020) Third Printing (July 2020): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $26.95 pub. price at top-inside-front-flyleaf, NEW cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & ocher-gold library-durable fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in EXCELLENT rich-oxblood-brown paper, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding (BUT w/ slightly creased spine) & w/ pale-yellow cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper. * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.14", 0.66 kg, x+310 (320) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old, & the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor--penniless & bullied by a violent father--falls in love w/ a extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land w/ a falcon on her glove & is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants & potions better than she does people. Once she settles w/ her husband n Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother & a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. A LUMINOUS portrait of a marriage, a SHATTERING evocation of a family ravaged by grief & loss, & a TENDER & UNFORGETTABLE reimagining of a young boy whose life has been all but forgotten, & whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, 'Hamnet 'is impossible to put down--a MAGNIFICENT leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A thing of SMIMMERING wonder."" -David Mitchell "'Hamnet is a BEAUTIFUL read, a DEVASTATING one, intricate & BREATHTAKINGLY IMAGINATIVE. It will stay w/ me for a long time." -Rachel Joyce "Grief & loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it." -Sarah Moss "The story of Hamnet Shakespeare has been waiting in the shadows for more than 400 years. Maggie O'Farrell brings it dazzlingly, devastatingly into the light." -Kamila Shamsie "A BOLD undertaking, BEAUTIFULLY IMAGINED & written." -Claire Tomalin "The raw physical life of O'Farrell's Renaissance England is ENTHRALLING. But the beating heat of this book is Hamnet's mother--an indelible, dauntless woman. What a sensual, full-throated love song to the lost child." -Amity Gaige "The world of this novel is so VIVID I could nearly smell the grass in the fields.One of the best novels I've ever read." -Mary Beth Keane * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, Maggie O'Farrell grew up in Wales & Scotland & now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of "The Hand That First Held Mine" (Winner of the Costa Novel Award); "Instructions for a Heatwave"; "This Must Be the Place; ''I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death", & "The Marriage Portrait, A Novel". * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 32 pp of illustrations in two 16-pp gloss-laminated inserts (after pp 148 & 340) Ilustrador. Stated First Edition. COMPERHENSIVE: PERSONAL: BRILLIANT: ENGAGING: REVEALING: AS-NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. November 2011) First Printing: AS-NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT neatly price-clipped orig. at top-inside-front-flyleaf, IMMACULATE text block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ gray cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper. * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.62", 1.0 kg, 512 pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art & cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, & deeply personal history of Rome?as city, as empire, &, crucially, as an origin of Western art & civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing & thinking. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry 21-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than 2,000 yrs to the city's foundation, one mired in mythologies & superstitions that would inform Rome's development for centuries. From the beginning, Rome was a hotbed of power, overweening ambition, desire, political genius, & corruption. Hughes details the turbulent years that saw the formation of empire & the establishment of the socio-political system, along the way providing colorful portraits of all the major figures, both political (Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula) & cultural (Cicero, Martial, Virgil), to name just a few. For almost 1,000 years, Rome would remain the most politically important, richest, & largest city in the Western world. From the formation of empire, Hughes moves on to the rise of early Christianity, his own antipathy toward religion providing rich & lively context for the brutality of the early Church, & eventually the Crusades. The brutality had the desired effect?the Church consolidated & outlasted the power of empire, & Rome would be the capital of the Papal States until its annexation into the newly united kingdom of Italy in 1870. As one would expect, Hughes lavishes plenty of critical attention on the Renaissance, providing a full survey of the architecture, painting, & sculpture that blossomed in Rome over the course of the 14th through the 16th centuries, & shedding new light on old masters in the process. Having established itself as the artistic & spiritual center of the world, Rome in the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries saw artists (&, eventually, wealthy tourists) from all over Europe converging on the bustling city, even while it was caught up in the nationalistic turmoils of the Italian independence struggle & war against France. Hughes keeps the momentum going right into the 20th century, when Rome witnessed the rise & fall of Italian Fascism & Mussolini, & took on yet another identity in the postwar years as the fashionable city of "La Dolce Vita." This is the Rome Hughes himself first encountered, & it's one he contends, perhaps controversially, has been lost in the half century since, as the cult of mass tourism has slowly ruined the dazzling city he loved so much. Equal parts idolizing, blasphemous, outraged, & awestruck, "Rome" is a portrait of the Eternal City as only Robert Hughes could paint it. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. Since 1970 he has lived & worked in the United States, where until 2001 he was chief art critic for Time. His books include "The Shock of the New", "The Fatal Shore", "Nothing If Not Critical", "Barcelona", "Goya", & "Things I Didn't Know". He is the recipient of numerous awards & prizes for his work. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. UNFORGETTABLE: EMOTIONALLY RESONANT: GLORIOUS: POWERFUL: ENGROSSING: A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CLASSIC: COLLECTIBLE: * National Best Seller, Named a Best Book of the Year by The NYT, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, & Newsday * "A novel of head-snapping ambition & heart-stopping power: a novel that attests to its young author's boundless & unflagging talents." -Michiko Kakutani, NYT * NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. October 2015) First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected handsomely color-illustrated dust-jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $30.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW black buckram cover ornamented w/ triple-star-burst-firework image crimson-engraved on front panel w/ NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY & BOLDLY gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE jet-black card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & crimson-black-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ BEAUTIFUL clarity in Janson on SUPERB silk-finish unblemished archival paper * 6.24" x 9.36" x 1.76", 1.38 kg, 453 pp. * New York City, 1976. Meet Regan & William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith & Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie & Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter & his idealistic neighbor, & the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do w/ a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, & the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. 'City on Fire' is an unforgettable novel about love & betrayal & forgiveness, about art & truth & rock 'n' roll: about what people need from each other in order to live . . . & about what makes the living worth doing in the first place. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: GARTH RISK HALLBERG was born in Louisiana & grew up in North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The New York Times, Best New American Voices, 2008, &, most frequently, The Millions; a novella, "A Field Guide to the North American Family"', was published in 2007. He lives in New York City w/ his wife & children. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First American Edition. MASTERFUL: DAZZLING: MOVING: PLAYFUL: RADIANT: PRECISE: WITTY: PROVOCATIVE: NEW First American Edition hardcover (Orig. September 2007) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $27.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW binding w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interior printed in Times New Roman w/ handsome clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 1.48", 0.82 kg, xii+434 (446) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Orhan Pamuk's first book since winning the Nobel Prize, "Other Colors" is a DAZZLING collection of essays on his life, his city, his work, & the example of other writers. Over the last 3 decades, Pamuk has written--in addition to his stories & novels--scores of pieces--personal, critical, & meditative--the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He opens a window on his private life, from his boyhood dislike of school to his daughter's precocious melancholy, from his successful struggle to quit smoking to his anxiety at the prospect of testifying against some clumsy muggers who fell upon him during a visit to New York City. From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal w/ relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes & fears. Again & again Pamuk declares his faith in fiction, engaging the work of such predecessors as Laurence Sterne & Fyodor Dostoyevsky, sharing fragments from his notebooks, & commenting on his own novels. He contemplates his mysterious compulsion to sit alone at a desk & dream, always returning to the rich deliverance that is reading & writing. By turns WITTY, MOVING, PLAYFUL, & PROVOCATIVE, "Other Colors" glows with the energy of a master at work and gives us the world through his eyes, assigning every RADIANT theme and shifting mood its PRECISE shade in the spectrum of significance. * ABOUT ORHAN PAMUK: ORHAN PAMUK won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel "My Name Is Red" won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. "PAMUK has made his native city an indispensable literary territory, equal to Dostoyevsky's St. Petersburg, Joyce's Dublin, or Proust's Paris--a place where readers from all corners of the world can live another life, just as credible as their own." -from the Nobel Presentation Speech. * HIGH PRAISE FOR ORPAN PAMUK: "Essential reading for our times: In Turkey, Pamuk is the equivalent of a rock star, guru, diagnostic specialist, & potential pundit. The Turkish public reads his novels as if taking its own pulse. -Margaret Atwood, NYTBR. "Pamuk in his dispassionate intelligence & arabesques of introspection suggests Proust." -John Updike, The New Yorker. "Pamuk's is an astonishing achievement." -TLS (London) * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Benita Eisler's Byron is a masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era & prefigured the modern age of celebrity: an absorbing, illuminating, & wonderfully entertaining account of Lord Byron's spectacular life, monumental work, & lasting heroic legacy. Drawing on previously unavailable material -(including family papers only recently brought to light)- Eisler offers us a more complex vision of Byron than any we've had before: a man who rose from the depths of poverty & the humiliation of childhood lameness to a pinnacle of success & fame unlike anything the world had ever seen, & whose bravura identity as renegade aristocrat, political revolutionary, mythic lover, & Romanticism's galvanizing hero & antihero was surpassed in brilliance only by his poetic genius. W/ grace, erudition, & insight, Eisler captures the passions & obsessions that consumed Byron, the fierce devotions & the outsized ego that fired his work, & the despair & self-loathing that plagued his short life. Eisler gives us a richly detailed drama of a childhood of abandonment & shame; of Byron's early days at Harrow & Cambridge; of his humiliating entry into the House of Lords at 18; of his adventures in the East, where he consorted w/ pashas & prostitutes; of his relationships w/ his contemporaries, among them the 24-year-old Shelley & his wife, Mary; of the instant celebrity that attended the publication of the first cantos of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"; & of the almost vengeful determination w/ which Byron recast himself as the elegant figure that glided through Regency drawing rooms, plotted w/ Italian Carbonari, loved men & women, & drew sensation to him like a cloak until his death, alone & in exile, at the age of 36. Here also are the first in-depth portraits of the women -(and men)- Byron loved: his guilty relations w/ John Edleston, a young Cambridge chorister; his tempestuous affair w/ Lady Caroline Lamb, who was driven to madness by her love for him; his catastrophic marriage to the lovely Annabella Milbanke; his passionate incestuous relationship w/ his half sister, Augusta, & the tormented menage a trois they shared w/ his young wife; & the gentler love of his later life, Teresa Guiccioli, whom he abandoned for his life's last adventure in Missolonghi. Throughout, Eisler offers incisive analysis of Byron's poetry in the context of his extraordinary life -(as hero & martyr, aristocratic aesthete & dandy, transgressive rebel fueled by forbidden substances & exiled for forbidden passions)- examining in detail the stanzas that inspired his own & succeeding generations as no other writer has since Shakespeare. A magnificent record of a towering figure, sure to stand as the definitive biography for years to come. HIGH CRITICAL PRAISE: "Quite simply the best life of Byron we have." -David Crane, Literary Review . . . "Benita Eisler's biography of Byron is a fascinating portrait, filled w/ vivid details, of a dramatic life & her incisive analysis of his work reminds us of his greatness as a poet." -Robert A. Caro.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. GROUNDBREAKING: RIGOROUSLY RESEARCHED: ELOQUENT: EYE-OPENING: NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. September 2018) First Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners showing orig. $30.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ royal-lavender library-durable fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in lemon rag paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles & design elements handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & gold silk bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Schneidler typeface on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.50", 0.80 kg, xiv+352 (366) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this GROUNDBREAKING biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life & work. W/ the RIGOROUS RESEARCH of a scholar & the ELOQUENT prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann's 19th-century Romantic milieu, where he wore many "masks" that gave voice to each corner of his soul. The son of a book publisher, he infused his pieces w/ literary ideas. He was passionately original but worshiped the past: Bach & Beethoven, Shakespeare & Byron. He believed in artistic freedom but struggled with constraints of form. His courtship & marriage to the brilliant pianist Clara Wieck (against her father's wishes) is one of the great musical love stories of all time. Chernaik freshly explores his troubled relations w/ fellow composers Mendelssohn & Chopin, & the full medical diary (long withheld) from the Endenich asylum where he spent his final years enables her to look anew at the mystery of his early death. By turns tragic & transcendent, Schumann shows how this extraordinary artist turned his tumultuous life into music that speaks directly (& timelessly) to the heart. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JUDITH CHERNAIK was born & grew up in Brooklyn. She graduated from Cornell University & received a Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught at Columbia, Tufts, & Queen Mary College in London. Her books include "The Lyrics of Shelley" & 4 novels. She has also written a play, & most recently has published essays on Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Mendelssohn, & Chopin in the British academic journal The Musical Times. She & her husband, Warren Chernaik, have been living in London for the last 40 years, where she founded Poems on the Underground, which under various names, has since spread all over the world. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with illustrated boards; 342pp., with 4pp. of monochrome plates and other decorations likewise. Minor wear; a small tear to the fore-edge of page 145; previous owner's ink inscription to the flyleaf. Dustwrapper mildly rubbed and edgeworn; lightly sunned along the spine panel. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. Chris Wormell Ilustrador. 1st Edition. A Borzoi Book from Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a divison of Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2017. First (1st) Printing (full number line to "1") of the "First Edition October, 2017" (stated). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is white quarter paper to white, textured cloth, colors uniform throughout, with author's signature and design debossed on front board, bright white and black title, etc., to the spine, unmarked pictorial endpapers in blue tones, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform, with the original prices (US $22.99 CAN $29.99) intact on the rear panel. See photos. 449 + i pages. 6 5/8" x 9 1/4". The first of a second trilogy of fantasy novels, La Belle Sauvage, Volume One of The Book of Dust, is set 12 years before the start of His Dark Materials, and describes the events leading to the arrival of the infant Lyra Belacqua at Jordan College, Oxford. ISBN 10: 0375815309 / ISBN 13: 9780375815300.

First US edition: octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with bronze spine titles; 342pp., untrimmed. Minor wear. Dustwrapper very lightly sunned along the spine panel. Very good to near fine and wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Octavo; hardcover, quarter-bound in papered boards with gilt spine-titling and illustrated endpapers; 486pp., untrimmed, with maps, diagrams, many monochrome illustrations and 8pp. of full-colour plates. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Built in the fifth century B.C., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West's ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon's legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century), along with the Elgin marbles. The frieze's vast enigmatic procession a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book's intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city's mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon's full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze's dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent. 9780307593382.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. POETIC PERFECTION: ESSENTIAL: NEAR FINE to FINE: Stated First Edition (April 1993) 1st Printing, NEAR FINE to FINE unclipped gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ FINE virtually AS-NEW edges & corners, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ yellow-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, EXCELLENT smooth-cut text block exterior w/ top edge stained spinach-yellow & w/ side & bottom edges showing only slightest faint rust-spotting, EXCELLENT cream-white front & back card-stock end-papers w/ front showing slightest faint incidence of rust-spotting, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed w/ SUPERB clarity on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free archival paper * 6.12" x 9.24" x 1.06", 0.71 kg, x+338 (348) pp. * This varied & far-reaching volume contains a substantial selection from the work of one of our most distinguished poets. From his first book, "A Crackling of Thorns", chosen by W.H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, to "Harp Lake" (1988), "Selected Poetry" provides an overview of the brilliant career in poetry celebrated by John Hollander's appointment as a MacArthur Fellow. It includes work from 11 volumes, almost all out of print, & is published simultaneously w/ a new collection, "Tesserae and Other Poems". Harold Boom has said of Hollander's last book, "It confirms his authentic eminence, comparable in my judgment to Merrill, Ashberry, Ammons & only a few others in his generation of American poets." * CRITICAL PRAISE: "Perfection is a rare accomplishment, particularly in American poetry, & the perfection of much of Hollander's work makes it essential reading for anyone who genuinely cares for the craft of poetry. But in our fallen world we seem fated to value power of perfection, & John Hollander's poetry has shown a visionary power just often enough to secure him a place as one of the major figures of our moment." -Vernon Shetley, The New Republic * JOHN HOLLANDER: A preeminent American poet, John Hollander composed more than 16 volumes of poetry, published 8 volumes of literary criticism, & edited more than 20 anthologies, including "The Oxford Anthology of English Literature." His many honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Levinson Prize, & a MacArthur Fellowship (1990). His first poetry collection, "A Crackling of Thorns", was chosen by W.H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Professor Hollander studied at Columbia & Indiana Universities & was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College, & was a professor of English at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY. He served as A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University, where he was later named Sterling Professor of English & retired as Sterling Professor of English Emeritus. He died in August 2013.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 24 pp. of photographs, 2 end-paper maps, 15 line-maps Ilustrador. 1st Edition. COMPELLING NARRATIVE: LUCID: LEARNED: DETAILED: OMNISCIENT: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. June 5, 1999) Fifth printing (July 1999): NEW handsomely-illus. gloss-laminated mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE illustrated end paper maps on heavy stock (front "Europe at War 1914", back the "Imperial World"), PRISTINE interior printed w/ handsome clarity in Adobe Garamond on EXCELLENT unblemished paper * 6.74" x 9.52" x 1.64", 0.94 kg, xvi+475 (491) pp. * 24 pp. of photographs, 2 end-paper maps, 15 line-maps * ABOUT THE BOOK: The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace & prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the 20th century as mechanized warfare & mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times --modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology & medicine, radical thoughts about economics & society--& in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism & liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With "The First World War", John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) & ministers, & their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy & communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. W/ unequaled authority & insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend (Verdun, the Somme, Gallipoli among them) & sheds new light on the strategies & tactics employed, notably the contributions of geography & technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us w/ the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe, from heads of state like Russia's hapless Czar Nicholas II to renowned war-makers such as Haig, Joffre & Hindenburg. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded: "the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable." By the end of the war, three great empires (the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian & the Ottoman) had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation extended over the entirety of Europe, & still profoundly informs the politics & culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JOHN KEEGAN was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, & has been a fellow at Princeton University & a professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of 13 previous books, including the acclaimed "The Face of Battle" & "The Second War." He lives in Wiltshire, England. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. BREATHTAKING: UNFORGETTABLE: MESMERIZING: EMOTIONAL: EPIC: METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED: GLORIOUSLY-TOLD: AS-NEW Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. May 4, 2021) Eighth Printing (October 2021): NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $28.95 pub. price at top-inside-front-flyleaf, NEW cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners BUT MARRED by slight bumping & micro-tear of bottom spine-cap & w/ library-durable ivory fabric wrapping spine & extending 1.48" onto front & back panels handsomely-covered in slate-blue paper w/ titles handsomely copper-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW perfect binding w/ bright-orange cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper MARRED ONLY w/ gift inscription on blank front title-page * 6.24" x 9.50" x 1.46", 0.92 kg, 594 pp * HIGHEST PRAISE: "BREATHTAKING, UNFORGETTABLE: the destinies of every one of these people intersect in ways that reverberate through 100 years of story. Whether Shipstead is creating scenes in the Prohibition-era American West, in wartime London, or on a Hollywood movie set, her research is as invisible as it should be, allowing a fully immersive experience. Ingeniously structured and so damn entertaining, this novel is as ambitious as its heroines--but it never falls from the sky." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * ABOUT THE BOOK: NYT Bestseller. The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an "epic trip?through Prohibition & World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood?and you'll relish every minute" (People). After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian & Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There, after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes, Marian commences her lifelong love affair w/ flight. At 14 she drops out of school & finds an unexpected & dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane & subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North & South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--& their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies & times--collide. Epic & emotional, meticulously researched & gloriously told, "Great Circle" is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels "Astonish Me" & "Seating Arrangements" & the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize & the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, & the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates. Personally Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. NEW unpriced First Edition hardcover (2005), probably from a Book Club extension of the publisher's orig. print run: NEW mylar-protected gloss-laminated illus. cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW slate-chocolate paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW binding w/ tight sheets & black cloth bands at spine-caps, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style deckle side-edging, IMPECCABLE end-papers on heavy cream-white paper, PRISTINE interior printed in Fournier on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Introduction (ix), Acknowledgments (643), Notes (645), Sources (725), Index (739) * 6.50" x 9.50" x 2.24", 1.22 kg, xiii+760 (773) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this first full field study of the remarkable Union army that effectively won the Civil War, historian Steven Woodworth tells the engrossing story of its victorious career by drawing on letters, diaries, & newspaper accounts of the time. The Army of the Tennessee operated in the Mississippi River Valley through the first half of the Civil War, winning major victories at the Confederate strongholds of Fort Henry & Fort Donelson, Shiloh, & Vicksburg. Created at Cairo, Illinois, in the summer of 1861, the army took shape under the firm hand of Ulysses S. Grant, who molded it into a hard-hitting, self-reliant fighting machine. Woodworth takes us to its winter 1863 encampment in the Louisiana swamps, where the soldiers suffered disease, hardship, & thousands of deaths. And we see how the force emerged from that experience even tougher & more aggressive than before. W/ the decisive victory at Vicksburg, the Army of the Tennessee had taken control of the Mississippi away from the Confederates & could swing east to aid other Union troops in a grand rolling up of Rebel defenses. It did so w/ a confidence born of repeated success, even against numerical odds, leading one of its soldiers to remark that he & his comrades expected ?"nothing but victory." The Army of the Tennessee contributed to the Union triumph at Chattanooga in the fall of 1863 & then became part of William Tecumseh Sherman's combined force in the following summer's march to Atlanta. In the complicated maneuvering of that campaign, Sherman referred to the army as his whiplash & used it whenever fast marching and arduous fighting were especially needed. Just outside Atlanta, it absorbed the Confederacy's heaviest counter-blow & experienced its hardest single day of combat. Thereafter, it continued as part of Sherman's armies in his March to the Sea & his campaign through the Carolinas. The story of this army is one of perseverance in the face of difficulty, courage amid severe trials, resolute lessons in fighting taught by equally courageous foes, & the determination of a generation of young men to see a righteous cause all the way through to victory. NOTHING BUT VICTORY is an important addition to the literature of the Civil War. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "Probably the best one-volume history written to date of a Civil War field army. Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review * "Easily the best book in decades about the Civil War beyond the Appalachians. Woodworth skillfully interweaves the letters of semi-literate privates w/ the reports of officers explaining how they won (or why they lost) at places like Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain & Atlanta." - Ernest B. Furgurson, author of "'Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War' * "Detailing the remarkable feats of the Army of the Tennessee --gritty pugnacity, the hard hand of war, a refusal to give up or give in-- Steven Woodworth's NOTHING BUT VICTORY is an invaluable addition to the literature of the Civil War." - Jay Winik, author of 'April 1865: The Month That Saved America' * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for an additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL internationally.