alfred a knopf edition first edition (568 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.41.

cloth, dustjacket, 8vo 335 pp. culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America's leading scholars; nearfine condition (unused).

Hard Cover + DW. 8vo. Near Fine/Etat proche du NEUF. [CA-9].

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.02.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.02.

Thick 8vo xviii, 560, xlvi pages. Cloth in d/w, both slightly bumped and d/w chipped at edges. Colour frontis. and plates in black and white.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. cloth.8vo.charts.196 pages.very good copy.No Jacket.

Cloth, 8vo, 26 cm, xix, 276, [5] pp, 46 ills. From the blurb - "In a time rich in unlikely characters, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1847) was one of the strangest of all. A painter, writer, well-known London dandy and friend of most of the major figures of the Romantic era (from Blake to Byron, from John Clare to John Keats, Lamb, De Quincey and Hazlitt), he was also almost certainly a murderer, possibly several times over. Arrested and convicted of forgery-evidence was lacking to prove the murders-he was transported for life to the barbarous penal colony of Tasmania, where, years later, he died in obscurity. Behind him he left only rumors and fragments of documents, and a legend of evil that fascinated such writers as Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. With a brilliant blend of creative imagination and scholarly sleuthing, Andrew Motion evokes Wainewright' s double life in a tour de force of the biographer' s art. Cast in the form of a partly fictional "confession" written by the subject himself, buttressed (and sometimes contradicted) by the notes, background essays and other commentary setting out the known facts, it reveals the man as no straightforward history could do-his distinctive voice, his wit and charm, his callousness and unreliability, his pathos and, perhaps, his capacity for murder. As a distinguished biographer (of Philip Larkin and John Keats, among others), Andrew Motion has been notably successful in pinning down the often- elusive details of Wainewright' s life. As a first-rate poet (he succeeded Ted Hughes as Britain' s Poet Laureate), he shows himself equally skilled in the imaginative investigation of Wainewright' s bizarre psyche. The result is a richly memorable exploration of the darker side of human nature, of the roots of crime, of the nature of biography itself. " Purple booklabel of Stuart Schimmel, the literary forgery collector, on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Very Good in slightly ingersoiled else Very Good dustwrapper.

8vo, 369pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Very Good/Good: book is solid, straight, unmarked, the only flaw is a piece of newspaper stuck to the top margin of page 88; jacket much rubbed along edges, small chips at corners, tears closed internally along folds; but in new mylar protector. Hardcover in jacket, xiv, 383, xxv index. A history from Indian times to present.

Illustrated printed wrappers, 8vo, 23 cm x, 290, [2] pp, ills. Contents include: Books on bookshelves; From scrolls to codices; Chests, cloisters, and carrels; Chained to the desk; Press of books; Studying studies; Up against the wall; Books and bookshops; Bookstack engineering; Shelves that move; Care of books. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. cloth.hard cover.tall 8vo.309 pages.index.very good copy.no jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a sticker removal stain near bottom front edge and has a damp wrinkle near bottom back edge. Red dot on bottom page edge. 516 pages.

Two-tone paper-covered boards, 8vo, 25 cm, x, 290, [2] pp, over 60 ills. From the blurb - ".Petroski turns to the subject of books and bookshelves, and wonders whether it was inevitable that books would come to be arranged vertically as they are today on horizontal shelves. As we learn how the ancient scroll became the codex became the volume we are used to, we explore the ways in which the housing of books evolved. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, where books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security. He explains how the printing press not only changed the way books were made and shelved, but also increased their availability and transformed book readers into book owners and collectors. He shows us that for a time books were shelved with their spines in, and it was not until after the arrival of the modern bookcase that the spines faced out. In delightful digressions, Petroski lets Seneca have his say on 'the evils of book collecting'; examines the famed collection of Samuel Pepys (only three thousand titles: old discarded to make room for new); and discusses bookselling, book buying, and book collecting through the centuries. Richly illustrated and wonderfully written, this is the ultimate book on the book: how it came to be and how we have come to keep it." Name on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

8vo, 295pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

8vo, 254pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Couverture rigide. Condición: bon. RO20255165: 2016. In-8. Cartonné. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 29 pages, cartonnées, illustrées en couleur - en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth in Dj. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 8vo, 422 pp. A history.p/o name on fep. Richly detailed and comprehensive narrative tapestry, a superb historical portrait of generations of women in full flower.

8vo, 314pp. Very good hardback copy, in edge worn dust jacket. Spine faded. Remainder mark.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good to very good condition. Spine tips are bumped. Cover corners are lightly worn. A few light stains on covers. Bookplate on front endpaper. Name and address and four other names on front free endpaper. 451 pages. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is mildly bumped along top edges, is creased at bottom of front flap, and is stained at bottom of back flap. A few pages have paper clip dents and a few more pages are creased at top corner. A few spots on pages 58-59.

8vo. 638pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

8vo 613 pages. Quarter cloth in worn d/w. Internally VG.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 150 pp. Small bookplate to the front paste down and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. IRAN [Persia].

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. - Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Fine in Good jacket; jacket has wear around corners and tiny chips about 1 mm along top of spine, is in new archival protector. Hardcover in jacket, 204 pp. Largely set in and around a Presbyterian mission school at Kuling, in the mountains above the Yangtse, A very good read. . We ship all books well protected, cardboard plus.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is also lightly bumped at top of spine. 441 pages with index plus 38 illustrations.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. This is a 4to size softcover book. Long moderate crease on front cover. Spine tips, top front edges, and cover corners are lightly bumped. One light spine crease. 243 pages with index. Illustrated with color photographs.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. cloth hard cover.8vo.323 PP.fine copy in fine Dust Jacket.original price present.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.8vo .156 PP near fine copy in near finne dust Jacket.Stated first edition.original price present.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.large 8vo.illustrated.300 PP fine copy in fine Dust Jacket.original price present.