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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. the era of Theodore Roosevelt Former library book. Mylar protector included. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. illustrated with black-and-white photographs of the contributors, index. Light page edge foxing and some spine toning. See photo clph.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First American Edition. BX3 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth with gold lettering on the front and the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps and pocket on the top, bottom and right outside paper edges, title page and back endpaper plus tape stains on the boards from where the dust jacket endflaps were taped down to the boards. The dust shows some light creasing on the front at the top right and is in the original library sleeve with the usual library label on the spine. This is a title in the publisher's Library of the 20th Century series. A book that examines the history of the United States during the first decade of the 20th century. The country was about to translate its economic strength into world-wide influence and was fortunate to have a leader in Theodore Roosevelt. He was a statesman who reflected many of the national virtues as well as some of its shortcomings. By the author of "Great Britain and the United States, 1895-1903." Chronology, indexed, suggested reading, 126p. Size: 5.5"x8.75". Ex-Library.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. clean well kept hardcover copy with dust jacket, price tag uncut no markings, stickers or stains. fast shipping with tracking number.

Paperback. Condizione: Good/very Good. Faint tea stain at bottom of spine area, and very slight shelfwear. Internally clean.

Paperback. Condizione: Good/very Good. Very small tea stain at bottom edge of front cover, and very slight shelfwear. Internally clean.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paper Back. Condizione: Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. pp.128 b/w & color photos, illustrations. Library of the 20th century. clean tight copy but faint small abrasion where former price sticker was on top right corner of front cover Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback digest. First thus. Good with one-inch loss to head and foot and chip to outside cover edge.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Canedo (front cover) (illustratore). First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories this issue are the 3rd concluding part of Russell's Dreadful Sanctuary, Harness's FIRST story Time Trap, and The Monster by Van Vogt. Unnecessay spine taping has been removed but has left staining and residue, cover crease, small split to spine bottom, wear to spine extremities, a VG copy. Back cover advertisement is for Audel's Carpenters and Builders Guides (Theo. Audel & Co).

Soft Cover. Condizione: Poor to Fair. Hubert Rogers (front cover) (illustratore). First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories this issue are part 1 of The Players of Null A (later also known as The Pawns of Null A) by Van Vogt, and Unite and Conquer by Sturgeon. Spine torn and clear-taped, cover creases, chips and tears, a poor-fair copy. Back cover advertisement is for Audel's Carpenters and Builders Guides (Theo. Audel & Co).

Soft Cover. Condizione: Fair to Good. William Timmins (front cover) (illustratore). First Edition. ----------pulp magazine, digest size. Notable stories this issue are The Mixed Men (Van Vogt) and The Waveries (Brown). 2 pieces of clear tape on spine, small piece out of front cover at spine, cover creases, wear/splits to spine extremities, a fair-good copy. Back cover advertisement is for Calvert Distillers Corp.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1964, 2nd EDITION PRINTING. CLEAN CONTENT PAGES. PREVIOUS OWNER NAME WRITTEN ON TOP AND BOTTOM EDGE OF TEXT BLOCK. SEE PHOTOS FOR MORE INFORMATION. This book is in acceptable condition and is a reading copy. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good to Very Good. Richard Powers (front covers) (illustratore). ----------2 vintage paperbacks, Tales is a Canadian printing. These 2 books reprint several stories from The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology hardcover edition. Science Fiction has spine and cover creases, edgewear, pen tick-marks on the title page, and is good. Tales has spine and cover creases, edgewear, and is VG.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 3rd printing. A nice, smooth, unread copy with a spine that is lightly age toned. Pages and covers are clean and bright.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 4th printing, Sept. 1974. Trade-sized. Includes "Introduction"; "On the Writing of Speculative Fiction" by Robert A. Heinlein; "Writing a Science Novel" by John Taine; "The Logic of fantasy" by Jack Williamson; "Complication in the Science Fiction Story" by A. E. van Vogt; "Humor in Science Fiction" by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Epic of Space" by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.; "The Science of Science Fiction Writing" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Mild tanning; slight wear. Book.

Digest Softcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Alejandro (illustratore). First Edition, 1st Printing. A nice copy, in poor wraps, of an early Astounding digest from 1946. The cover is faintly attached and near separating. Significant chips to corners and at the foot of the spine. The pages, however, and near perfect. Perfect meaning that they are toned and have a few small chips on a few page corners but are clean and square.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Library of the 20th Century. A minute amount to shelfwear, otherwise immaculate.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Library of the 20th Century. A minute amount to shelfwear, otherwise immaculate.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Chicago: Advent Publishers. Very Good. 1964. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. First printing thus. Pictorial wrappers, 104 pages, illustrated with black-and-white photographs of the contributors, index. Near Fine copy with some age-toning to the spine. .bx121.

Paperback. Condizione: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Welcome to America Comes of Age (1971) by A. E. Campbell (MacDonald), ISBN 0356037703 ? a book with the audacity to look at an entire nation and declare, with calm certainty: Right. This is the bit where America grows up. Which is immediately funny, because nations do not ?come of age? the way people do. There?s no single birthday cake, no neat moment of maturity, no universal agreement that everyone is now sensible and won?t do anything impulsive. But that?s exactly why a title like this is so irresistible: it promises a grand story ? the United States moving from raw, noisy, experimental youth into something recognisably modern, influential, and alarmingly confident. Think of it as a cultural and historical growth spurt, captured in hardback. Written in 1971 , the book has that wonderful period perspective: far enough from the early foundations to see the shape of the myth, but close enough to the 20th century?s upheavals that everything still feels recent, contested, and alive. It?s the kind of history that doesn?t just list dates; it tries to describe a transformation ? how a place becomes an idea, how an idea becomes a power, and how power immediately attracts both admiration and headaches. Expect the big themes: identity, expansion, industry, politics, and the cultural self-invention that America does so loudly it can be heard from space. The irony is that ?coming of age? often involves a complicated mixture of idealism and compromise ? lofty rhetoric alongside messy reality ? and American history is basically a masterclass in that tension. If you like history that treats a country as a character (ambitious, contradictory, brilliant, infuriating), this will scratch the itch. And then there?s the physical charm of a 1971 MacDonald edition: the faintly serious ?this belongs in a study? vibe, the slightly retro confidence of its production, and that comforting sense that you?re reading the kind of book people once bought to understand the world , rather than to decorate a zoom background. Condition: Good , meaning it?s been handled and read, not sealed away like a museum object. It has lived a little ? as a book about America arguably should. Still solid, still readable, still perfectly capable of doing its job: giving you a sweeping narrative you can dip into and emerge from feeling slightly more informed and slightly more aware that ?maturity? is a complicated concept. Perfect for: readers who enjoy broad historical overviews with a clear storyline, anyone interested in America?s development as a cultural and political force, lovers of mid-century/late-60s/early-70s historical writing tone, and people who appreciate the faint comedy of trying to summarise a nation?s ?grown-up phase? in one book. Sold by Crappy Old Books , naturally ? because where else would a 1971 hardback confidently announcing America?s adulthood end up, if not waiting for the next reader to open it and think, ?Ah yes? here is where it all becomes complicated.?

Hardcover. 1067p. A purple cloth hardcover book in near-fine condition. Bookplate inside front cover. Corners slightly bumped. Otherwise clean and tight. An alphabetized reference of students enrolled at King's College from 1919 to 1990.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. MB Book 60-335. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Adaptation by John Wyndham; Wake for the Living by Ray Bradbury; Mother by Philip Jose Farmer; Night by John W. Campbell; Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon; Enchanted Village by A. E. van Vogt; and Huddling Place by Clifford D. Simak. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 188 pp. Award Book A181X. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing at the spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Sam Moskowitz; The Dancing Girl of Ganymede - a novelette by Leigh Brackett; The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell Jr.; The Traveling Crag - a novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; Exile of the Eons by Arthur C. Clarke; Ship of Darkness by A. E. van Vogt; You'll Never Go Home Again by Clifford Simak; and The Star Beast - a novelette by Poul Anderson. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 188 pp. Award Book A181X. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing at the spine and some rubbing on the cover; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Introduction by Sam Moskowitz; The Dancing Girl of Ganymede - a novelette by Leigh Brackett; The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell Jr.; The Traveling Crag - a novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; Exile of the Eons by Arthur C. Clarke; Ship of Darkness by A. E. van Vogt; You'll Never Go Home Again by Clifford Simak; and The Star Beast - a novelette by Poul Anderson. Book.