Alistair cooke introduction (22 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Sturdy, unmarked copy. LS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Printing. Price corner cut. Dustjacket has wear and tears at the top edge and some creases .

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. London, 1968. Blue cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; light wear; jacket has light wear and discoloration at edges; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 254 pages.

HC. 288pp ISBN 0030428610 American expatriates who lived in and left an indelible mark on England. A study of those aspects of British culture which throughout history have lured some Americans from their homeland. Each chapter deals with a different group of individuals. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustratore).…

Oversized Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Edwardian life comes vividly to life, providing a photographic record of this period of of pre-eminence, from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 until the beginning of the First World War; from royalty and the social elite to ordinary people in the bustling streets, and the Suffragettes.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Beautiful oversized hardback with dust jacket. States First North American Edition. Does have prior owner's information inside the cover, and on the first page. Is embossed (sealed like a notary seals a document) with the prior owner's initials on a few pages. Does not affect the reading of the text, or the appearance of the book as the embossing is the color of the paper.…

Hard cover. Condizione: Fine in fine dust jacket. Trade ed. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 533 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. BB 85.

Condizione: Very Good. 11th impression. Imitation cloth, dj, F/VG+. xx+504pp, 16pp b/w plates, a fine copy in a slightly edge worn & price clipped dustjacket. Transcripts from Cooke's weekly fifteen-minute radio series which was broadcast on BBC Radio between 1946 - 2004. Cooke [ 1908 - 2004 ] would speak of a topical issue in the US, tying together different strands of observation and anecdote and often ending on a humorous or poignant note. 1050 grams.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First American Edition. Black cloth binding with silver colored print on spine. Tight, sound, and unmarked. 208 pages including index. Black and white photographic dust jacket with black print on front cover and white print on spine. Dj in mylar and not price clipped. Photo - Illustrated (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 316 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ decorative blind stamp on front cover and gilt title on spine. Very bright and clean. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is the 1980 First Edition of "On Mencken", which consists of essays by eight men who worked with or knew the great newspaper columnist, and professional curmudgeon, H. L. Mencken in one way or another. The essayists are William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, the book was edited by John Dorsey, who also wrote the Introduction. From the dust-jacket flap : "In essays celebrating the incomparable H. L. Mencken, on the centenary of his birth, eight distinguished writers and editors consider various aspects of the man and his work - telling of his life, his writings, his prejudices, his passions, and his profound influence on American letters in the first half of the Twentieth Century. --- The result is a book that offers much pleasure and new insights to Mencken's admirers, and that will serve, for anyone not familiar with him, as a fine introduction to one of the most colorful and memorable figures in modern Twentieth Century American letters." TITLE : On Mencken SUBJECT MATTER : H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) EDITOR / INTRODUCTION : John Dorsey AUTHORS : William Manchester, Malcolm Moos, Huntington Cairns, William Nolte, Alistair Cooke, Carl Bode, Charles A. Fecher, Alfred A. Knopf IMPRINT : Alfred A. Knopf PLACE : New York YEAR : 1980 EDITION : First Edition, so stated DETAILS : Trade hardcover; approx. 5.5" x 8.25", brown, cloth-covered boards and spine with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorative impression on the front board; Contains an Introduction; xx + 313 pages; photo-pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Compression to spine extremities; a shallow surface wrinkle displays near the foot; slight splay to covers at fore-edge; soft bump to top fore-edge corner tip; small dent to bottom edge of front board; color is not faded. Top edge of text-block is somewhat rubbed, else edges clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There is a minute ink spot to the fore-edge of the first three leaves in the book (this is minute and hardly worth mentioning, but it is there); there are also three minute ink specks arranged in a triangular patter near the bottom of the front free end-paper (again minute and of little real effect) - else the interior is clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET - Small loss to the bottom edge of the front panel; spine panel has a bit of wrinkling to the extremities; front flap top extremity has light wrinkling, corresponding to the bump the corner received; Else the jacket is clean and attractive. It is protected from further wear by a clear mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A square, tight copy with minor age-related dusty edges in a dust jacket with light wear and a small crease across the top right corner.

Green Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Ix, 282 Pp. Green Boards. Apparently The First Printing. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Price Clipped. Gift Inscription. Photographs By Tony Roberts (illustratore).

Condizione: Fine. 2nd impression. Cloth, F. xx+295pp, b/w frontis, 16pp colour & b/w plates, index, a fine copy in the slipcase as issued. Transcripts from Cooke's weekly fifteen-minute radio series which was broadcast on BBC Radio between 1946 - 2004. Cooke [ 1908 - 2004 ] would speak of a topical issue in the US, tying together different strands of observation and anecdote and often ending on a humorous or poignant note. 950 grams.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible; Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Jacket present as described. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is As New, save very mild wear at the edges around the spine. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark. Contains a novel, fables, short stories, and a novelette. …

(245 x 183). pp, xv, (1), 288. Illustrated. Brown and gilt cloth. Torn dustjacket in clear protective wraps else a very good copy.

Hard Back. Condizione: Fine. Very Good (Slipcase). First Folio Edition. 295 Pages Indexed. Published by Allen Lane in 2004, published in Penguin Books in 2005, and reissued in 2007. This special 2009 Folio Edition, beautiful in its slipcase, follows the text of the 2007 Penguin Books paperback edition. Gray boards consisting of wrap-around pictorial of the skyline of Battery Park and the Manhattan skyline. Frontispiece is Alistair Cooke broadcasting for the BBC in 1946. The endpapers are gray. There are 16 Illustrations between pages 92 and 93 and there are 16 Illustrations between pages 236 and 237 and there is a list on pages VII and VIII. The Contents are in Seven Parts (decades) ranging from 1940s thru 2004. No journalist in the twentieth century did more to explain America to the British than Alistair Cooke. He knew the United States when it still echoed to the sounds of the jazz age, then in the depression, watched it through the cataclysms of the sixties and was still telling his story after the earth cracked in New York at the start of another century on 11 September. His brilliance lay somewhere in the gleam of his roving eye, which was attracted to the great characters and the big events, but also picked up the hypnotic rhythms of the day-to-day. As a result, he was both an enthusiastic witness to history and a poet of the ordinary. His Letters from America are precious documents because they make up a picture that was absorbed by two generations, and fit together in the kind of rich mosaic that an ambitious novelist might want to create, each piece casting light on the others and nothing seeming out of place. Read him in the forties and then in the nineties, and he is the same man - acknowledging how much there is still to learn and how the observer can be confounded by the course of events, but nonetheless having the confidence to trust his own sharp lens and what it shows him. From beginning to end he speaks about what he sees in the same voice. He first took to the American roads in the early thirties, when he was a student on a Commonwealth Fellowship at Yale. And so, after twists and turns and some subtle bargaining at the BBC where he'd got work as a film critic, there came the first weekly letter, broadcast on the Home Service in 1946. Fifty-eight years later he was still using it as the fulcrum of his week. It is impossible to read these letters without wishing to raise a toast to Cooke. Imagine what we would have missed if he had never written a letter. Alistair Cooke was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992.…

paperback. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xxix, 306 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Fine (Tiny Area Of Lightening At Bottom Of Spine Cloth, Not Wear); Inscribed By Hirschfeld And Dated 12/5/91. Pages Clean, No Yellowing. Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped, Near Fine, Wear Along Top Edge Of Spine With Some Traces Of Wear On Top Edges Of Front And Rear Panels, Slight Yellowing Along Top Edges. Inscribed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Bright, crisp, unclipped illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid black boards with sharp corners, black cloth spine strip with bright gilt lettering, slight yellowing to front end paper, half title page and rear paste down, otherwise clean and unmarked pages. An interesting association copy signed on half title page by Hirschfeld with a doodle, and a Hirschfeld caricature of Alistair Cooke with an arrow pointing to same on the contents page, and signed by Alistair Cooke at the beginning of his introduction. Possibly Alistair Cooke's copy or perhaps they were both present at a signing event. Illustrated throughout, some full-page color. (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New.