Spine somewhat creased, slanted, a little edge wear. Cover and a number of pages have top corner crease. Some browning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid reading copy. "Becoming a first-year law student - a One-L - at the oldest, most esteemed law school in the United States threw Scott Turow into a physical, emotional and intellectual combat zone. An ultimate test by fire of his own honesty and principles, it was a time of hazings, betrayals, challenges, and triumphs. Here in the book that became a national bestseller, a law school primer, and a classic autobiographical account of... View More...
Front endpaper creased, foxing on edges. Shelf wear/some scuffing at top edge of boards. Jacket is chipped and scuffed in several places and shows darkening on spine, but is otherwise intact.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall View More...
262 pp., glossy frontispiece of the author tipped in, index. Green cloth boards with faded gold lettering. Spine slightly slanted, some wear at spine ends and corners. DJ quite worn, taped together at spine, several tears and chips. Text is on wartime paper, but still shows very little yellowing. "In this fascinating autobiographical volume, George Santayana, famous philosopher, and author of The Last Puritan, brings together the threads of his background to give a charming yet profound picture of the various people and places that have formed his character and made him the man he h... View More...
495 pp., 4 appendices, refferences, index, 25 pages of photographs, paintings, and drawings. Light brown cloth boards with gold lettering. Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear. DJ has 2 1/2" tear, 1/2" chip at bottom of spine and a couple of small tears and chips. Text is bright and clean. "Cecil Woodham-Smith's essential achievement is to give us, amply and convincingly, both Victoria herself - the complexities of her emotional life, the nuances of her temperament, her directness and strength, her private and her ceremonial presence - and the central experience of the Engla... View More...
Green cloth boards, xvii + 243 pp, index, bibliography, appendix listing works of Richard Upjohn, 109 b/w illustrations and photographs of his work and designs. Spine slightly slanted and sunned, corners bumped, slight edge wear, postcard sized area on right hand side of front board is a lighter green. Small stamp with owner's name on front end paper and title page. End paper has 3 1/4" stamp with owner's initials against a black background. Jacket has slight edge wear, spine heavily sunned, edges lightly so. Two magazine articles laid in: Time, November 12, 1956 on "Louis Sullivan: Sk... View More...
151 pp, numerous b/w drawings. Corners bumped, slight spine slant. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing, some sunning to spine, small area of dampstaing at top of front jacket. An attractive copy. "Richer By India brings missionary work to life with direct personal impact. Here are the faces, the daily frustrations and rewards, the down-to-earth human realities of an American family's experiences in a far off land, told with beautiful simplicity and with a rare poetic awareness. Some of the situations Myra Scovel describes are frightening, some are hilarious, all are of absorbi... View More...
Black cloth with gold lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, a little speckling on leading edge. Jacket in new Brodart, Sunning to spine, along top edge, and down leading edge. Minor edge wear and chipping, primarily at top and base of spine and along leading edge. A nice copy. ; Inscribed by author on front free end paper. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 334 pages; " Henderson, North Carolina was in 1959 the scene of one of the country's ugliest and most protracted labor strikes, brought about by the attempt of the Harriett-Henderson Cotton Mills to break the back of the Textile ... View More...
A bright, tight, attractive copy. " McCourt tells us how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years. We meet the woman who stood by his side all those years, watch as they build a family together, and .listen as McCourt pursues a career of surprising successes and comic missteps, But while becoming the host of television and radio talk shows, appearing in dozens of movies and plays, and establishing himself as a well-loved regular on Ryan's Hope and One Life T... View More...
Light reading crease, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. A couple pages with light dampstains. Overall, an attractive copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 238 pages; An engaging account of the author's early life up to and including his conversion from atheism to theocracy to Christianity. In the Preface Lewis says: "The story is, I fear, suffocatingly subjective; the kind of thing I have never written before and shall probably never write again. I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are in for and close the book... View More...
vii-xiv, 400 pp, index, 41 black and white photographs. Pastedown has map depicting route followed on the journey depicted in the text which covered the lower two-thirds of Africa. Spine is sunned. Text is clean and unmarked. A very nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View More...
292 pp., 5 appendices, numerous photographs. Spine slanted, minor edgewear/bumping along bottom edge, PO name inside. DJ shows minor edgewear, spine sunned. Text is clean and unmarked. Bookplate tipped in at half-title page stating in green ink in author's handwriting: "I hope you will not find this too depressing (signed) Fran Floore." Profoundly moved by the suffering of the Greek people in the aftermath of the brutal occupation of their country, Frances Berkeley Floore, at the time Director of Dietetics for Eastman Kodak, wrote to the Greek War Relief Association and the United... View More...
Some edgewear. Inscribed by Congressman Price. A bright, attractive copy. "The Congressional Experience combines an engaging, enlightening narrative with photos, figures, maps, and tables to tell the story of congressman David Price's odyssey from ivory tower of Duke University to the citadel of Capital Hill. Along the way, we get a clear sense of the challenge, disappointment, elation and deep concern implicit in serving as a member of Congress - especially the kind of member Representative Price has chosen to be. In an election year filled with name-calling, teeth-gnashing, and Congr... View More...
Corners slightly bumped. Black and white photographs throughout. Text is clean and unmarked.
A Scholastic Biography. "Here, illustrated with more than 50 photos, drawings, and paintings of the time, is the tragic true story of Lincoln's death - and what happened after." Age Level: Grades 4-7; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Mustard over blue boards, Book club edition. Corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; xx + 275 pp, foreword, preface, 3 b/w maps, dramatis personae, index. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 265 pages; "I have to announce in the Knesset that a short time ago one of the greatest Nazi criminals was found by the Israeli Security Services: Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible, together with the Nazi leaders, for what they called the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Problem' -- that is, the extermination of six million Jews of Europe. ... View More...
Mustard over blue boards, Book club edition. Corners bumped, minor edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear and rubbing. A nice copy. ; xx + 275 pp, foreword, preface, 3 b/w maps, dramatis personae, index. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 265 pages; "I have to announce in the Knesset that a short time ago one of the greatest Nazi criminals was found by the Israeli Security Services: Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible, together with the Nazi leaders, for what they called the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Problem' -- that is, the extermination of six million Jews of Europe. ... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, foxing along top edge, yellowing on inner edge of pastedown, PO's name on free endpape & pastedownr, corners very slightly worn. DJ yellowing inside, slight edgewear & very minor chipping along top edge, 1 1/2" tear on back. Text is bright & clean. "With stunning frankness, this partly auto-biographical novel by a postwar German writer renders all the tension and ambivalence of the parent-son relationship. The father's death triggers a flood of recollection which in their force, vividness, and density of narrative are unique in modern writing. The father was ... View More...
Quarter black cloth over gray boards, silver lettering, 320 pp. Spine a bit slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, ex-library with stamps inside covers and neat pocket on back end paper. Pages clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart with a little edge wear, clear tape across spine at top and base. Overall, a nice copy. "The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange -a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield o... View More...
xiv + 242 pp, black cloth with white lettering. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's seal impressed on front end paper. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing and darkening, spine sunned. A nice copy. "Shortly after Mary Tudor ascended the throne of England in 1553, the Archbishop of Canterbury was found guilty of treason, subsequently charged with heresy and in 1556 was burned at the stake. In this dramatic martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer anti-Catholic sentiment reached a new pitch and the compiler of the Book of Common Prayer became a powerful symbol for... View More...
Slight spine slant, light reading crease, corners worn, minor edge wear and rubbing, some soiling and scuffing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A solid copy. ; This appears to be a paperback original, first printing. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 190 pages; "She holds all the records - she wrote over 60 detective novels in 55 years! "She wrote twelve plays, including The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in theatrical history! "Her sales are near the 400 million mark, and she made about $10,000 a week in royalties. "She created some of the world's most popular dete... View More...
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