ny knopf 1996 (75 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. A fine book in a near fine,slightly rubbed, dust jacket.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

A Hardbound Book. Condición: Fine. First Edition First Printing.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. ISBN: 0679446206, Hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine in Near Fine DJ; 8vo., 69 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hb. Condición: VG+. 1st. Hb. VG+. 1st. 155pp. Light wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. shelf 27A , signed by author, no dust jacket Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Hb. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG+. 1st. Hb. VG+/VG+. 1st. 203pp. Light wear, DJ: wear extremities.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Illustrated by KONINCK, PHILIPS CORNFIELD COVER ART Ilustrador. Paperback Ed; SIXTH PRINTING stated. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT.; Gold spine & cover titles onBLACK paper covers.cover PAINTING shows TALL GRAIN FIELD.WHITE SKY.Author is a winner of NATIONAL BOOK AWARD" ; 292pg pages; New Selected Poems improves on Selected Poems (1984) by adding to it a generous choice of major work from each of the two volumes that followed it: Sweet Will (1985) and A Walk With Tom Jefferson (1988).

Soft cover. First Edition. Trade paperback, 1st edition, Advance Reading Copy (ARC), Fine Minus/pictorial wraps; small amount of light wear, rubbing, and minor creasing to covers and cover edges, faint small discoloration spot to bottom edge of page block, 8vo., 269 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. Shelf 73 Test clean; book tight; signed by author at my request; 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).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Brown half cloth and brown paper-covered boards. NF in NF DJ. Attractively made book.

Near fine in a fine dustjacket.(remainder dot on top edge).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. blue & silver metallic decorative (spine decoration) hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiny nick bottom edge of rear cover. front bottom corner bumped. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. faint creases to front & rear flaps inside, 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). xi+419p+about the author & colophon. double page b&w map. 16 pages of glossy b&w photos & illustrations. notes. sources index. american history. american civil war. history of virginia. military history. ~ In April of 1865, as Union troops strode unimpeded into the charred city of Richmond, thirteen~year~old Emmie Sublett gazed upon "the horrible stars and stripes" flying from the Capitol building and likened them to "so many bloody gashes"~a fitting (and properly gory) metaphor for the average Virginian's altered sentiments toward the country her forefathers had been so instrumental in founding. The cause of that bitter alteration is known to all; but the particular fortunes of the Confederacy's capital city from the heady early days through the crushing surrender have received scant attention until now. In Ashes of Glory, Ernest B. Furgurson conjures up wartime Richmond in vivid detail. We meet not only with such luminaries as Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson but with a strikingly broad spectrum of the community: preachers, nurses, newspapermen, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, slaves, slave dealers, bootleggers, actors, spies, prostitutes, prisoners of war, refugees, handsome widows, eager debutantes, and swarms of enlisted men and officers from all over the South. Furgurson ushers us into the legendary Spotswood Hotel, where generals and gentry communed amid gossip and bourbon. He admits us to the hospitals crammed with amputees and infested by rats. He plunges us into a bread riot involving several hundred citizens and spurred by a "woman huckster." He shows us that, despite universal hardship, Richmond fairly crackled with spirit: theater manager John Hill Hewitt kept melodrama flowing on the city's popular stages; taffy parties, faro parlors, and sewing circles kept various other constituencies entertained; Colonel Thomas E. Rose of Pennsylvania and dozens more tunneled out of notorious Libby Prison; the genteel Union sympathizer Elizabeth Van Lew conducted an elaborate and extraordinarily successful campaign of espionage. Meanwhile, beneath the surface, a compound of defiance, despair, and paranoia preyed on the nerves of everyone from President Davis on down, turning a stunned and battered, once~glamorous society virtually inside out. In this work of great verisimilitude and potency, Furgurson resurrects a city in crisis and dramatically personalizes the conflict that was our nation's coming~of~age. Ashes of Glory will stand as the classic account of life in the Southern capital at this decisive moment in American history.

black, brown & bronze metallic decorative 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). deckled foredge. decorative title pg. xxi+471p+about the author & colophon. 8 pages of glossy full color plates. 38 b&w maps & diagrams. b&w photo illustrations throughout. notes. bibliography. index. world history. ancient history. middle east history. history of israel. medieval history. ottoman empire. british empire. religion. ~ JERUSALEM has been venerated for centuries as a Holy City by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. How this came to be and what it means both to the people of Jerusalem and to millions around the world is now richly told by the author of the bestselJing and widely acclaimed A History of God. In every major religion, a "holy place" has helped men and women define their own place, indeed their own importance, in the world. Karen Armstrong shows how Jerusalem has become that defining place for adherents of the three religions of Abraham. She makes us see that the city has been not only a symbol of God but also a deeply rooted part of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity. She traces Jerusalem's physical history and spiritual meaning from its beginnings during the third millennium BC to its politically troubled and violent present. She explores the underlying currents that have played a part in Jerusalem's long and turbulent past, and she considers as well its archaeology and ever~changing topography. Armstrong makes it clear that the emotions binding each of the faiths to Jerusalem have grown even more powerful when a community's link to the city has been reestablished after being in some manner lost. This happened when the Jews returned to Jerusalem in 539 BC and rebuilt the Holy Temple after having been deported to Babylon following the destruction of the Temple by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC; when Christians in 629 watched Emperor Heraklius reenter Jerusalem in splendid procession, carrying a relic of the True Cross, after having lost control of the city to the Persians in 614; and when Muslims in 1187 reclaimed Jerusalem peacefully after having lost it to the Crusaders in a 1099 bloodbath. It occurred again and again as a result of the reclamations and rebuildings that followed the many other destructions of the city. The strong emotions released by the Jewish repossession of the Western Wall in 1967 and the current longings of the Palestinians for Jerusalem are modern manifestations of the same pattern of passionate attachment strengthened by prior dispossession. The result, Armstrong says, is that Jerusalem is now such a deeply embedded ideal that objectivity has become virtually impossible. Throughout, Armstrong helps us understand the profound mythic sources of Jerusalem's holiness, its continuing power to arouse passions, and why the primal ideal of sacred space is once again a vital issue in Middle Eastern politics.

blue, orange & gilt decorative (spine) hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (nap). deckled foredge. viii+195p.+ about the author & colophon. notes. suggestions for further reading. index. religion. biblical studies. ancient history. ancient literature. theology. ~ THE AUTHOR of the acclaimed and best~selling A History of God now applies her profound understanding of the religions of Abraham to one of the most familiar yet perhaps least understood books of the Bible: the Book of Genesis, the foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures. The power of Genesis lies in its stories, especially those of the creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph. Armstrong traces the grand design of Genesis and its great themes, examines its stories in fascinating detail, and shows why and how they work so well to illustrate the human quest for meaning. We discover how these ancient tales illuminate our most profound and intractable problems: our struggle with evil, with obtuseness, with cowardice, and particularly with the difficulty of facing up to the consequences of our past actions. Most significantly, Armstrong makes clear how the stories in Genesis can help us to relate~morally~to our own personal histories in our strivings to make ourselves whole, and to grasp why the struggle itself is worthwhile even if its goal is never fully achieved. There are no glib or facile messages in Genesis. Its stories, complex and sometimes contradictory, force us to wrestle painfully in the dark, like Jacob, before we can discern what they tell us about the nature of the divine and the human, and of the relationship between them. Karen Armstrong's new interpretation~lucid, authoritative, inspiring~provides fresh light in the darkness for all who seek both to understand the ancient scriptures and to apply them to our contemporary life.

VG, unmarked Hardback; DJ-VG. x + 577 pp.

"First Edition" stated. fine in fine dust jacket. 1st edition.

Soft cover. VERY GOOD in wraps. Uncorrected proof. 8vo, 294pp, black/brown spine, FICTION.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Third Printing. In a protective Brodart cover.

FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION.

Condición: Fine. - Small octavo, white boards titled in silver & red, in a dust wrapper. [vii], 145 & [4] pages, plus the colophon. Fine. First edition of the author's first novel.Signed by Jane Mendelsohn on the title page.

Hardcover First Ed. Biography; Journalist; Walter Cronkite; The biography of a man who for decades gave us the privilege of getting our news from a gentlemen of the highest caliber. Photos. Also included is a news article by John Pope, Staff Writer, dated, January 5, 1997, regarding this title. (384 Pgs.) Beautiful Pictorial DJ, two photo pages are loose at spine, otherwise, this book is VVG.

FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. THE FIRST BOOK BY THIS CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SINGER/SONGWRITER BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH JUST A TRACE OF COLOR FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON A BLANK PAGE BEHIND THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, AND UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 354 pages. Published in 1996. The author's autobiographical account on his mother's murder. One of James Ellroy's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The DJ design is quite brilliant: It shows on the reverse side a reproduction of the front-page headline news on the murder, with a photograph of the boy James Ellroy. The First Edition is now scarce. "Autographed Copy" sticker pasted in front. Presents James Ellroy's "My Dark Places: An L. A. Crime Memoir". A new twist to both the personal biography and detective thriller genres by being a first-person account of his mother's unsolved murder. An event that has haunted him for the rest of his life, James Ellroy unleashes pent-up emotions in a beautifully written reconstruction that is coolly factual and emotionally harrowing at the same time. As he has repeatedly stated, James Ellroy became a writer - and a great one to boot - as a direct result of his mother's death. His remembrance of her, flaws and all, is a still-grieving son's homage, and as such, is one of the most moving by an author in the confessional mode. An absolute "must-have" title for James Ellroy collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed (initialled/"scrawled") in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by James Ellroy. It is also very boldly and beautifully signed (in a more serpentine version that fills up the page) in blue ink-pen on the title page by James Ellroy. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of relatively few such double-signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online are signed on the tipped-in page only, have serious flaws, or are in subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES ELLROY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0679441859. Signed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Illustrated by Author Photo Back Cover Dj Ilustrador. first edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S30.00) DUST JACKET, clean, solid, bright.; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON WHITE HARD COVERS. WHITE TITLES ON BLACK DJ showing 2" RED CIRCLE & 2 GOLD BARS.NICE, UNCLIPT (S30.00) DUST JACKET. .STATED "FIRST EDITION".; 545pg pages; Eloquent, gifted writer. 28 MAGNIFICENT Short Stories .tales set in western Canada, from the small-town and farm life of the Lake Huron region to the cultivated suburbs of Vancouver.

Fine, unmarked hardback; DJ-VG. viii + 195 pp.

First Edition. fine/fine. IT IS SIGNED (ACTUALLY INITIALED BY THE AUTHOR). Deep dark long memoir about the murder of the author's mom when he was 10 years old. Dj. design by Chip Kidd. 1st ed. Binding is bds.&cl.w.dj. Book.