Ny knopf 1992 (93 resultados)

Very Good/Very Good. Fiction. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-679-41084-8. This large tall hardcover novel by Hyde with a dustjacket is in excellent condition with only minor wear. The dustjacket is dark blue and has only minor wear. The brown and dark blue hardcovers with gold lettering look new with almost no wear. The spine is tight but has a very light tilt. The pages are white with no wear or marks. Excellent story. 338 pages. The book is a stated first edition. Cheap shipping with media mail.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN:0-679-40434-1. This hardcover has a dust jacket. It is in great shape and excellent enough to be given as a gift. We have cheap media mail rates. We ship daily and we even ship on saturdays.

Soft cover. 138 pages. Text clean. Book tight. Condition of Book Fine+. Signed by Author.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Crease on spine, Fine interior.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. First American edition. Llight margin stain on 2 index pages, else VG+ in NF DJ.

Hardcover. Condición: Used.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN: 0679404627, Hardback, 1st Edition, Near Fine in Fine Minus DJ; 8vo., 310 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

red & dec. gilt 1/2 cl. 8vo. dw. fine cond. xi+575p.illus. biblio. index. spanish history. history of barcelona. travel. medieval history. european history. christianity. reconquista. saracens. spanish civil war. spanish~american war. napoleonic wars. ramon llul. jacint verdaguer. pablo picasso.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN:0679832572, hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine in a Near Fine DJ; trace of bumping to book spine ends, slight wear to DJ and DJ edges, a nice, tight copy with no inscriptions or names, book is sequel to the Tiny Parents, 8vo., 166 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. Fifth Printing. Shelf 83 Text clan; book tight; very minor spine slant; signed by author; DJ has a bit of very light general wear; Not a book club (BC)copy. No previous owner name, not ex library, not a remainder smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS. Signed by Author(s). …

olive green full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with black & gilt decorative spine label and olive green silk marker ribbon. 1/2 of the dustwrapper in protective plastic cover. ink marked copy in good cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. this book has one line (!) of underlining on page 362, otherwise contents free of markings. partial dustwrapper is only the front cover and flap, has scratches , not price clipped. nice reading or study copy (if not for the one line of inking, this would be in fine cond). no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, no remainder markings. decorative endpapers, 1/2 title, frontis. & title pg. xxxi+411p.+ list of publisher's other titles & colophon. bibliography. glossary of names. religion. philosophy. ancient literature. theology. psychology. poetry. ancient history. ancient india. vedas. upanishads. bhagavad gita. ~ Professor Zaehner has newly translated this important Everyman collection of representative writings from the main Hindu scriptures, and there are considerable differences between the original Everyman and the present edition. Professor Zaehner has varied the style of each translation to suit the genre translated throughout. He has also compiled this new selection with a view to easier comprehension, and giving relevance to the overall development of Hinduism from these canonical texts. It is a constantly repeated truism that all wisdom came from the East, and a great deal of it is embodied in the philosophy associated with religious belief. For a Western mind the most significant benefit emerging from a reading of these writings is that the hymns of the Rig~Veda do not read so much as 'commandments' enjoined by priests and prophets (identified in the European mind with oriental religions), but as 'a poetic testament of a people's collective reaction to the wonder and awe of existence'. The selections represent three successive stages in the history of ancient Hinduism. First are the eight translations of hymns from the Rig~Veda which in original sequence range perhaps from 1500 B.c. to 1200 B.c. They reveal a close contact with nature, and show early attempts to seek and discover the significance of the world and his life and existence within it. Professor Zaehner's selection is confined to those which are formative of later thought, and he has also added four hymns from the Atharva~Veda which bear out the same principles. The next stage, represented by the Upanishads, is the real core of all subsequent Hindu religion, for the Upanishads are the classic formulation of pantheistic mysticism which sees the cosmos as a unitary whole suffused and held together in and by One Reality which both transcends and indwells all things. Moreover some of the Upanishads have a tinge of irony, giving them an unexpectedly modern feeling. The final contribution is the Bhagavad~Gita ('The Lord's Song'), where a new religious environment is immediately sensed. Its hold on tradition is maintained through the form of the Vedic deity Vishnu, the Absolute manifesting itself in its incarnation as Krishna. For centuries the work has proved to be a 'spring of living religious emotion'. While its teaching is theistic, it is not unreservedly so~' it is a garland of many coloured beauties rather than a well~knit harmony of the truth'.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author. Octavo, hardcover, 635 pp. fine in near fine gold and white dj. (very light edgewear at top) Talese tells the story of his father Joseph, an assimilated American until World War II comes; then he is torn by his devotion to America and to his brothers in the Fascist army. Meanwhile his son reacts against his father, upset that he is an outsider in Protestant, freckled America. Only later did he realize the meaning of the people to whom he belonged. Signed by Author(s). …

Hard Cover. Condición: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition. Sm DJ tear lower front tip; mild scuffing.

"FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION" stated on copyright page, some board sunning, else NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE dust jacket. 1st US edition.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Small quarto, hardcover, gift note on endpaper else near fine in VG gold pictorial dj. 354 pp. "Beer Itself Is After All A Form Of Food. When Asked About Taxing Beer, One Of Our Founding Fathers Objected, "Sirrah, It Is Liquid Bread!" And Indeed It Is: The First Food Purity Laws Date From The Babylonian Lawgiver Hammurabi's Time And Condemn Brewers Who Make Bad Beer To Be Thrown Into The River.". Great recipes and history of beer in the US. Book.…

8vo. 371 pages with sources. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Royal octavo, hardcover, VG in VG, price-clipped, silver pictorial dj. First edition. 601 deckled pp. Map endpapers. The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the Chinese throne in 1861. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: As New. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with black & gilt spine label and blue satin marker ribbon. no dustwrapper. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. satin marker ribbon in new condition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing of this edition (First included in Everyman's Library, 1992 & nap). decorative endpapers. decorative title pg. xxxiii+299.+ colophon. select bibliography. chronology. 2 appendices. translator's note. fiction. novels. political philosophy. german literature. english literature. ~ Written during 1914~15, the book was published in 1925, a year after Franz Kafka's death. Its translation into English, by Edwin and Willa Muir, which followed in 1935, itself took on a classic aura. This is in one sense regrettable. Max Brod's recension of Kafka's text had been amateurish and at certain points, arbitrary. Despite its famous conclusion, The Trial remains unfinished and there is argument about the order of various chapters. Additional and cancelled matter has survived (and this can be found in the Appendix to the present edition). It is, however, the Muir version, with its stylistic distinction and freshness of encounter, which, so far as the English~language world goes, remains political philosophy.…

grey, black & gilt decorative full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo) with grey silk marker ribbon. no dustwrapper. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. marker ribbon in mint cond. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. 7th printing. decorative endpapers, frontis. & title pg. facsimile reproduction of original 1551 title page. xli+148p. +about the author & translator. chronology. bibliography. glossary. english literature. philosophy. novels. fiction. ~ First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's UTOPIA depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination, and religious intolerance. Its radical humanism has had an incalculable effect on modern history, and the challenge of its vision is as insistent today as it was in the Renaissance.…

red & blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. faint dust specks on top edge, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. spine a little faded,not torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated . first printing (NAP). possible book club edition. deckled foredge. xv+405p.+ about the author & colophon. 16 pages of glossy b&w photos & illustrations. 18 b&w maps. 2 appendices. notes. sources. index. american history. american civil war. military history. ~ IT WAS A LANDMARK ENGAGEMENT IN THE HISTORY of warfare. It served as the single greatest display of Robert E. Lee's tactical genius and Stonewall Jackson's troop leadership. But while it was the high point of Civil War battlefield success for the South, Chancellorsville ultimately turned out to be a devastating blow to the future of the Confederacy. In Chancellorsville 1863, the first book on this great clash in three decades, Ernest B. Furgurson demonstrates why soldiers in America and abroad have studied the campaign as a classic for more than 125 years. Basing his work on extensive new research, including unpublished diaries and letters, Furgurson presents Chancellorsville not as a single episode but as a series of distinct and bloody clashes. He shows how Lee countered Union general Joseph Hooker's brilliant opening stroke with one risky move after another~no other Civil War general in either army would calculate or improvise maneuvers so daring. Furgurson examines why Hooker folded in a glaring display of moral weakness; he tells in detail how Jackson was struck down by friendly fire at his moment of triumph; and he describes the decisions and indecision in Washington and Richmond and army headquarters, and the bravery and terror of individual soldiers in the field. Combining an authoritative military analysis with wrenching eyewitness narratives, Chancellorsville 1863 makes clear why Lee's brightest victory predetermined his defeat at Gettysburg.…

tan & red 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. few faint spots on top edge, other edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. minor scratches not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). deckled foredge. b&w endpaper maps.; xvii+601p.+ author bio note & colophon. glossy b&w photo illustrations. 5 maps. notes. bibliography. index. cast of characters. biography. history of china. world history.~ The last empress of China~Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835~1908)~ is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron~willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars and through the Boxer Rebellion until the collapse of the 2,000~year~old empire, has traditionally been seen as one of murder, poison, and intrigue. But the wicked image is false. In 1974, to the dismay of scholars, Sir Edmund Backhouse~the biographer most responsible for the widespread vision of Tzu Hsi as monster~was revealed to be a con man. And now the author of the celebrated best~seller The Soong Dynasty has undertaken the first complete reappraisal of the empress ~ exposing Backhouse's writings about her as a major hoax and forgery, and establishing that the most important Western correspondent in Peking during her reign~Dr. George Morrison of the London Times~kept a secret diary contradicting his own dispatches about Tzu Hsi. Drawing on many unpublished or long~overlooked contemporary sources, Sterling Seagrave shows us Tzu Hsi as a complex woman whose desperate ~ though often misguided ~ efforts to hold her country together take on a different coloration in the context of unrelenting foreign attempts to colonize and tear it apart. Far from being all~powerful, she was actually a hostage of vengeful Manchu princes who were using her in a power struggle against both Chinese reformers and foreign interference. Here at last is an authentic portrait of this fascinating historical figure, as well as insight into the Western craving to believe in a sinister, dragon~haunted Orient. Dragon Lady is at once a compelling biography and the equally compelling story of how a myth was contrived, how it endured, and how, ultimately, the truth has emerged. Sterling Seagrave grew up on the China~Burma border, the fifth generation of an American family ~ living in the Orient for nearly two centuries (his father was Dr. Gordon Seagrave, author of Burma Surgeon). As an investigative journalist in Asia, he contributed to many major newspapers and magazines. His books include Yellow Rain, The Soong Dynasty, and The Marcos Dynasty. He and his wife and collaborator, Peggy Sawyer Seagrave, live in Europe. With 5 maps and 16 pages of photographs and illustrations.…

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 1992. Hardcover. first thus. 8vo, hardcover, first thus. Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell. Fiction. Seven short stories and a novella. Book is in near Fine condition; dust jacket is sunned, else Very Good. 062798A.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Used: Like New. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Trade. Stated First American Edition.

Condición: Fine. Paperback. As New/As New. Second Printing. 32mo-over 4"-5" tall. pp.191. Illustrated with 80 full page, full-color photos.

FINE IN FINE D.J. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

F/NF. THE VAMPIRE CHORNICLES D.J. IS FINE BUT FOR A TINY TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condición: Near fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. first American Edition.. 8vo. Non-fiction. Ten essays. Review slip laid in. Book is in near Fine condition / dust jacket has very slight sunned spine, else Very Good. 062798A.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good hard cover edition with very good dust jacket. 1st edition. 304 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf's pamphlet type edition of the first opening chapters of White Jazz. This edition is in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.