E p dutton edition new edition (76 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in lightly edgeworn orange pictorial dj. 278pp. with black and white photographs. "Exclusive behind-the-scenes story of the world's favorite T.V. show.".

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED by author. Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine pictorial dj.; Decorated endpps. Giftable; "signed copy" sticker on front of jacket. 501 pp. By the author of Tara Road. Scarlet Feather is the catering company newly formed by cooking school friends; they are young and talented and they start their business in Dublin. Story takes place over one year from N Y's eve to NY's eve. Signed by Author(s).…

Octavo, green pebbled cloth (hardcover), 221 pp. Photos, map endpapers. Small gift inscription, otherwise Fine. Aviation, Military History, World War II, Aircraft, Aeroplanes, Air Planes, WWII. yslic.

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 386 pp. Near-Fine, in a badly torn dust jacket. Books about Books, Publishing, William Randolph Hearst, Biography.

Octavo, buttery yellow cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 176 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. A seamless series of anecdotes that resound with generosity and brio, a literary entertainment about life among the privileged, the creative, and the famous. There are tributes to Billie Holiday and Jean-Paul Sartre; revealing cameos of Orson Welles, Rudolf Nureyev, Carson McCullers; a wistful evocation of Tennessee Williams. Literature, Bonjour Tristesse, Autobiography.…

Large, square octavo; gold illustrated cloth (hardcover); illus. endpapers, 45 pp. Very Good, with former-owner inscription and light edgewear; in a Fair dust jacket with edgewear that includes chpping and one cellow-tape repaired rip. From dust jacket: The talented creator of Peter Churchmouse now introduces the equally beguiling Cousin, a small, wistful bear, who lives with Uncle. Cousin decides to hunt for buried treasure one day when Uncle is away on big bear business. Armed with a shovel and pail and a treasure map he has made himself, complete with an X to mark the spot, Cousin sets out on his search. But marking the X is easier than finding the spot! While his friends advise, Cousin digs, even agreeing to share the treasure. But when each X spot yields only stones, Cousin doesn't blame his friends for losing interest. Who wants to share stones? By the time two wily promoters appear on the scene, Cousin is exhausted and easily convinced that they know the real X-spot. The surprising treasure he unearths at their direction leaves Cousin a sad, but wiser, bear. His discovery that some "friends" can be false, and that some bears (not to mention any names!) are downright gullible, teaches a wry wisdom spiced with humore. For all who share his adventure, the name Cousin will hold its own rare magic. Children's Literature, Illustrated, Bears, Picture Books. bb/lh.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. No dj. First Edition. Near fine, tho ex-elem school book, appears as new, except for stamps. (uncirculated) The Creole City Its Role in American History, 1718-1803. 192 pp. including index. Victor Lazzaro (ilustrador). Book.…

Signed by Harold S. Latham. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, 256 pp. Near Fine, with light shelfwear a a touch of foxing to upper edges, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Here are the delightfully informal reminiscences of a major figure in the world of publishing -- memoirs which let the reader share, via vignettes, anecdotes, and behind-the-scene episodes, forty-two years in a fascinating profession. Harold S. Latham's life with The Macmillan Company began with a telegram on his graduation day from Columbia. Books about Books, Publishing, Business, Business Biography, American Biography bslic.…

Octavo, cream cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, viii, 364 pp. Former owner inscription; otherwise, Fine; in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with some rumpling. From dust jacket: The Russian-born biographer Henri Troyat presents the lives of the Russian novelists with the vividness and drama they brought to their own fiction. With Chechov, his first return to a literary subject in fifteen years and the winner of the Grand Prix de la Critique Litteraire 1984, he creates an indelible portrait of the writer closest to his own temperament, and the most modern of the Russian masters. To endure a nightmarish childhood ruled by a tyrannical father, Anton Checkhov forged for himself a stoical code of self-mastery, and at a young age was serving as counselor to his large family and entertaining them with stories. A doctor inspired him to take up medicine, a critic to rewrite his stories, and by his early twenties medicine and literature were established as the twin pillars of his life -- shadowed by the progressive tuberculosis that would haunt his every achievement. Pivoting between commitment -- to family and medicine -- and freedom -- from politics, religion, any form of cant -- Checkhov was always the man caught in the deadly middle. "I am as bored as a sturgeon," he wrote, and fled to Sakhalin Island to observe the life of convicts, then journeyed through Europe. Returning to Russia, he sold his dacha in the Moscow suburbs for a healthier seaside property in Yalta. He remained skeptical of his own success and fearful of women, fending them off until the end of his life when, truly in love for the first time and marrying a young actress, he could not live with her because of her career and his worsening health. With his novelist's talent for presenting his subject's life from the inside, Henri Troyat has written a rich biography of the engaging pessimist that will send us all back to Chekhov's work. Literature, Biography, Russian Biography, Literary Biography, Author Biography. bslic.…

Octavo, cloth-backed illustrated boards, illus. endpapers, unpaginated [50] pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Children's Literature, Illustrated, Animal Stories. bb/lh.

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 169 pp + 6 pp ads. Near-Fine, with light foxing to endpapers, in a Good dust jacket with heavy foxing (age darkened spotting) & edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: A melancholy interest attaches to this volume of Lady Thackeray Ritchie's final reminiscences. These sketches were brought together and revised during the very last months of her life, and present some of the most charming of the author's far-ranging memories of people great and small whom she encountered during her long and active literary and social career. Literature, Literary Biography, European History.…

Octavo, softbound, vii, 262 pp. Photographs, illustrated. Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting), and former-owner inscription. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Marine Biology, Gulf Coast yslic.

Octavo, softbound, vii, 262 pp. Photographs, illustrated. Near-Fine. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Marine Biology, Gulf Coast yslic.

Octavo, red boards (hardcover), black lettering and illustrations to spine and upper cover, 383 pp. Very Good in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The author has written this new book in order to reveal the many sides of native art which have been building toward an American Art since long before the Pilgrims came. The book is an index to our means of expression, whether crude or finished, and covers as well the struggle for the recognition of our genuine, traditional American Art. Written in a clear, understandable style, showing how much of our Art has been unconsciously developed through the needs of the people and their desire to beautify their clocks and name-plates, tableware, glass and silver, and early furniture. American pottery and glass-making are discussed thoroughly; there is an excellent chapter on the Graphic Arts, and one on architecture. The whole field of painting is gone into, including the question of European influence as opposed to native talent, and there are many personality highlights. In the section on Art and Near-Art, many oddities are taken up which also have come down to us as antiques and which individualize America distinctly. Under the art headings come all kinds of fascinating things -- the early portraiture when men came around carrying prepared canvasses with them, asking to "limn your effigy" or make a "counterfeit presentment". (Mrs. Rawson's collection of old sayings is one of the most delightful things about her work.). Candleday Art is the only book that makes this material available to old and young, to student and layman. Like all of Mrs. Rawson's other books, it is remarkably rich in material from every possible source. The illustrations are delightful and diverse. Art, Arts & Crafts, Antiques & Collectibles, Americana, U.S.-iana aslic.…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. New edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, 319 pp. Fine in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping, especially to tip of spine. From dust jacket: The fresh, gallant, youthful quality so evident throughout American history is present in the story of the first hundred years of an isolated New Hampshire town from 1753 to 1853, just before important years in the settling of the whole country, were the outgrowth of the urge to create a better way of living. Mrs. Rawson has cone to the actual sources for her material -- the old records of the Town, to the Town Meeting minutes, to old letters and word-of-mouth memories, as well as to cellarholes, old maps and pictures, and has assembled her facts in the manner of the logical New Englanders themselves. First things come first, just as they appear in the old leather books, meeting by meeting, minute by minute, need by need; and Mrs. Rawson tells the story of why the site was selected, how it fourished as Town and why, and how its relations with its neighbor towns developed. The date for the first Town Meeting was the last Tuesday of November in 1763, a famous New England expression of democracy which still persists. Mrs. Rawson is concerned, too, with the records of the first settlers who came pioneering from Connecicut and Massachusetts. Their story offers interesting genealogical information; their work -- they were blacksmiths, taverners, cordwainers, tanners, stone-cutters, millwrights -- she finds a fascinating subject; and their early concern with education, she points out, is the story of all New England, an inspiring record of courage and ambition. A rich, full book, bristling with Americana, New Hampshire Borns a Town will be welcomed not only by those Americans who stem from New England families, but by all those others interested in the early attempts to formulate our ideas of popular goverment in this country. New Hampshire, New England, United States History, U. S. History, American History, Americana, U.S.-iana nslic.…

Oblong quarto, russet cloth (hardcover), black letters, [38] pp. Very Good, with small former-owner signature to upper corner of ffep., and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers; in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light foxing. From dust jacket: A ship coming safely home to Nantucket Island was a great event. So great that the captain's wife might giver the person who first brought her the news a silver coin. Rachel Starbuck wanted more than anything to be the one who was sent with the news. But so did her brother Obadiah. And he was older. And bigger. And a faster runner. And Obadiah said a girl would not be chosen. What happened when the Speedwell was sighted makes a fine story. It will be enjoyed by the many, many Obadiah fans and make new ones for his stout-hearted sister Rachel. Children's Literature, Illustrated, Children's Books, Massachusetts. yslic.…

large 4to [31 x 32 cm]; 168 pp, colorfrontis, 87 color plates & illus, ep maps. original cloth, dj (short tear), fine. A superb production with very fine photographs by one of the best nature photographers, with much on nature, bird life, scenery, Shakleton's base, etc. Spence 932. One of the finest photographic works on the Antarctic. A picture of this book is available on request.…

4to [28.5 x 21 cm]; viii, 344 pp, numerous illustrations from original sources, bibliog, index. original cloth with gilt spine title lettering, spine edges worn, ex-library with bookplate on endpaper and small inkstamps, solid complete good copy. Notable for its many illustrations from old sources. A picture of this book is available on request. …

8vo [21 x 15 cm]; [xvi], 190 pp, illustrations from drwgs by Stuart Tresilian, colorplates from photos, 9 maps including double page. original cloth, dj, fine. Spence 489. The stirring and fast-paced story of the first crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, illustrated endpapers, uncut, xvi, 308 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges and slight sunning to spine; in a torn, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: In this rich book of antiquarian reminiscences, Mrs. Rawson, well-known authority on the life and scenes of early New England, has unfolded another series of memorable pictures of the days when roads and highways connected towns far and distant from each other. Along these roads the reader travels in company with the author -- sometimes walking, sometimes riding in the old-fashioned stagecoach, and listening to her point out the meaning of the fascinating things which they see on the journey -- taverns and inns, mail coaches drawn by "lifey" horses, farmers on their way to mill, powerful oxen lazily pulling the plough, and shrewd, straightforward, honest citizens carrying on the affairs of the early town business and government. We see snowbound New England, with frozen noses and joyous sledding; we look into the inns with their quaint fireplaces and hardy bedrooms; we read fragments of old diaries in the quaint manner of old New England farmers. This fascinating world Mrs. Rawson recaptures -- a whole vanished world caught just as it disappears, over the horizon. The volume is distinguished, as all of Mrs. Rawson's work is, by the exact transcriptions of old New England language which she has preserved in the homely words and phrases just as they were spoken in the old days, and as they have come down in the speech of old people who still tell her their inherited lore. New England, Americana, U.S.-iana, American History, U. S. History tslic.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Blue cloth, covers firm and clean except that cloth over rear joint is split along whoe length and spine darkened, binding is otherwise sound, end-papers and pages clean. Everyman Library No. 261 No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05319101016. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xii, 213 pp, frontis from photo, plates from photos, diagrams, plans. original green cloth, silver spine lettering, lightly foxed on endpaper, else clean, very good, sound and tight copy. Neate I17. The popular writer and mountaineer provides the climbing history and topography of each of the mountains. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good condition: clean, solid, straight, no wrinkles; spine gilt dull; library stamp at bottom of title page, pocket traces at rear, else unmarked, contents fine. HB in green cloth with gilt scene of Billy strumming a guitar and gilt titles; 8.5", 246 pp. 7 colour plates by Bedford. …

8vo [22 x 15 cm]; 271 pp, frontis map showing the author's route, other maps including double-page, photo illustrations plus numerous illustrations from drawings by the author. original pictorial cloth, spine title lettering, dj (lightly worn at edges, not price clipped), fine and clean in vg dj. The author, who at one time owned an art shop in Mombassa, travelled extensively in over 20 countries in Africa. An interesting work describing the local art in many parts of Africa with good illustrations. A picture of this book is available on request. …

4to [25 x 20 cm]; 224 pp, color frontis, many color plates, other illus, bibliog, chronology, pictorial endpapers, index. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (not price clipped), fine, unmarked, with a loose review of the book inserted. The story of the 16th century search for gold in Central and South America, well written and well illustrated. With the development of El Dorado legend, much exploration resulted in the search for riches, intrigues, adventures, tragedies, etc, including many recent expeditions. Lake Guatavita is commonly believed to the be the lake of the El Dorado legend. Excellent illustrations, including many of the gold found and historical as well as current photos. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Condición: Very Good. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Some foxing to page edges. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

xviii, 462 pp. Later full brown calf, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, single gilt ruled border to sides, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 18 cm x 12 cm. Wear with some loss of leather to joints, minor rubbing to board edges, contents lightly age browned.

8vo [21.5 x 14.5 cm]; x, 375 pp, illustrations from photos, endpaper maps showing author's route, profile of Serra Acarai Rain Forest, index and glossary. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, corner slightly bumped, clean and near fine in good dj (rubbed, spine end chipped, but not price clipped). The author was the first white man to penetrate these forests of Amazonia drained by the upper parts of the Rio Trombetas in British Guiana near the Brazilian border, where he found tribes of Indians whose existence was only legendary up to then. He describes the native peoples, their activities, customs, beliefs, religion, as well as the botany and the rain forests, based on two expeditions over a four year period. Guppy, the first to write of the people there, describes their art as becoming increasingly abstract and the reasons for it. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Condición: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original charcoal paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 244 printed pages of text. True First Edition published one year before the U. K. Edition. Light sun fading to the cover edges, foxing and light dust marking to the page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with minimal rubs and creases, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0841503532 DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…