Carole lowenstein design (39 risultati)

Hard Back. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Assumed First Edition. 373 Pages. This is a used book in As New condition. Maybe read once carefully. Dust jacket has a small chunk out of the back top corner. Thomas Perry's novels of suspense have been celebrated for their dazzling ingenuity and for writing that is as sharp as a sushi knife. By turns horrifying and erotic, Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: A beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her. When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found shot to death in his Portland, Oregon home, police find nothing at the scene of the crime except several long strands of blond hair hinting that a second victim may have been involved. Hotel security tapes from the victim's last vacation reveal an out-of-focus picture of a young blond woman entering and leaving his room. Could she also be a murder victim? Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is determined to solve the case and locate the missing blonde, but her feelings, and the investigation, are complicated when Hugo hires private detective Joe Pitt to perform a parallel investigation. As the Joe and Catherine form an uneasy alliance, the murder count rises and both realize that the pretty young woman in the security tapes is not a victim at all. As Catherine follows the evidence, she finds herself in a deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each crime. Lowenstein, Carole - Book Design (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Spine curved, some chipping on corners & edges, ex-library with usual stamps, back board scuffed. DJ in protective cover taped to boards. Front pastedown has map of Mexico, back has "Environs of Toledo." Text is bright, clean, and attractive. "Moving between the past and the present - from important events in Mexico's history to the excitement of a modern-day bullfight - and ranging from the arid plains of Mexico to Inquisition Spain and Civil War Virginia, here is the stirring saga of a man and a nation searching for their identities. Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico not only to report on the decisive duel between two celebrated matadors but also to learn more about his family's past. As he uncovers the story of his Mexican ancestors - among them an indomitable Indian queen, a conquistador priest, and a Confederate expatriate - the dramatic history of Mexico unfolds."; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated by Lowenstein, Carole [book design] (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition: 2007. 78 pp. Stated first edition: 2007! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Carole Lowenstein (Book Design); Robbin Schiff (Jacket Design); Alice & Calvin Trillin Leaving the London Registry Office (Back Jacket Photo) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Bantam Trade Edition: September 1998. 145 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Carole Lowenstein (Book Design) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 244 + pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Carl D. Galian (Jacket Design by); Carole Lowenstein (Book Design); Rick Dembow (Front-Jacket Photo); NBC Photo/Scott Duncan (Back-Jacket Photo) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 244 + pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Carl D. Galian (Jacket Design); Carole Lowenstein (Book Design); Rick Dembow (Front-Jacket Photo); NBC Photo/Scott Duncan (Back-Jacket Photo) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 297 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Minimal external wear. Janet Perr (Cover Design by), AFP/Corbis (Cover Photo by); Carole Lowenstein (Book Designed by) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 373 pp. Stated first edition! A true collectible gem! Copy and dj in mint condition. Carole Lowenstein (Book Design); Tony Greco (Jacket Images & Design) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 40 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Carole Lowenstein (Design) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 241 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Ink stamp on first front end page and bottom edge. In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself. Allison Saltzman (Jacket Design); Andrew Southon (Jacket Photo); Joyce Ravid (Author Photo); Carole Lowenstein (Book Design) (illustratore).…

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 200 pp. Solidly bound copy with clean text and minimal use use. Minimal external wear. Ex-Library (New York Public Library)-Book with all the typical signs (stamps, stickers, and envelopes, etc.). Extra mylar dust jacket. Roger Muhl (Jacket Portrait); Carole Lowenstein (Book Design) (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. New condition photographic softcover wraps. Includes Praise for Jim Henson; Author Dedication; Prologue: Blue Sky 1973; Epilogue LEGACY; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Photographic Credits and About the Author. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "For the first time ever - a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's mosts innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. Named one of the best books of the year by Bookpage." - from the rear outer cover. "An exhaustive work that is never exhausting, a credit both to Jones' brisk style and to Henson's exceptional life .Brian Jay Jones tells the story of how Henson turned a quaint art form int oan entertainment empire." - The New York Times. "[A] sweeping portrait that is a mix of humor, mirth and poignancy." - Washington Independent Review of Books. "Superlative .Jones draws upon new interviews with family and friends, reams of archival material, and Henson's own journals to provide a nuanced study of a preternaturally gifted, relentlessly driven artist." - Los Angeles Review of Books. "A meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted." - Associated Press. "Jim was one of my closest friends. And yet I found out things about him in Jim Henson that were new to me. Brian Jay Jones has captured the layers of Jim's genius and humanity, as well as the flaws that made Jim, like all of us, so delightfully imperfect. I thank Brian for giving Jim life again. This book has captured the spirit of Jim Henson.' - Frank Oz. Goretsky, Tal (cover design); Mollica, Greg (cover design); Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 5th Printing. 92 pp. Text in English & Latin. Bi-Lingual-Book. Clean, fresh copy and dust jacket with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dale Fiorillo (Jacket Design); Jonathan Becker (Author Photo); Carole Lowenstein (Design) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Copyright © 1975. 406 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly bound and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Small stain on fore-edge. Carole Lowenstein (Design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new unread condition red boards, blue spine with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Generations; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Fifth Printing. "In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values - duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired Old Men Eating Out), friends for life. Through these and other stories.you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Full of wonderful, wrenching tales of a generation of heroes. Tom Brokaw reminds us of what we are capable of as a people. An inspiring read for those who wish their spirits lifted." - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell "Entirely compelling." - The Wall Street Journal. Lowenstein, Carole (book design); Carpenter, Andy (jacket design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st Edition. 462 pp. Stated first edition! Clean, fresh copy and dj with very minor shelf wear on front and back cover, crisp pages and clean text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Carole Lowenstein (Book Design) (illustratore).…

Hardbound Clothbinding. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 406 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Carole Lowenstein (Design); Charles Aadams (Jacket Illustration) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition white boards, gold front cover decoration and lettering, gold spine lettering, and blue cloth spine contained in a fine condition price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James Michener; Index and Editors Note. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and color map illustrated front and rear endpapers. "In this exceptional memoir, James A. Michener, one of the world's best-selling authors, tells the story only he can tell - the story of his life. A small-town Pennsylvania boy, brought up in a foster home, who hitchhikes around the country beginning at age thirteen. A young man with a thirst for learning who educates himself in the arts. A naval officer during World War II who island-hops across the South Pacific on a set of papers forged by an officer friend and becomes the high command's official expert on scandals and shenanigans in the Pacific theater. A textbook editor who publishes his first book at age forty and wins a Pulitzer Prize. A best-selling author who feels at home anywhere in the world and is blessed with a singular gift for making the most exotic people and places come alive on the page. James A. Michener is all of these people, and in this vivid and unorthodox memoir he decribes the people, events, and ideas that have shaped his life. Moving backward and forward across time, he writes about the many strands of his experience: his passion for travel; his lifelong infatuation with literature, music, and painting; his liberal credo and his adventures in politics; and the hard work, headaches, and rewards of the writing life. Plainspoken, wise, and enormously sympathetic, here at last is the real James Michener, a man who can truly say, "The world is my home." - from the inner front jacket flap. Campbell, Kelly (photograph); Minor, Wendell (jacket design); Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition maroon boards, maroon spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Alan Alda and About the Author. Illustrated with a blakc-and-white portrait frontispiece. "On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off - having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile - Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searching for a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Looking for a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, he listens in on things he's heard himself saying in private and in public at critical points in his life - from the turbulence of the sixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing - art, activism, family, money, fame - that could lead to a "life of meaning." In a book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive, Alda amuses and moves us with his unique and hilarious meditations on questions great and small. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself is another superb Alan Alda performance, as inspiring and entertaining as the man himself." - from the inner front jacket flap. Lau, Karen (jacket design); Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Fine unread condition black cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication and About the Author. The upper left corner of the inner front board contains former owner initials and date (1994). All pages are in as new condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "These four poems, "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers," are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelou's poems. They celebrate women with a majesty that has inspired and touched the hearts of millions. These memorable poems have been reset and bound in a beautiful edition -- a gift to keep and to give." -- from the inner front jacket flap. Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition red cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James A. Michener and a rear section consisting of The Constitution of the United States. Illustrated front and rear endpaper two-color illustrated magnified image of The Constitution of the United States. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "In the year of his eightieth birthday, and the two-hundredth anniversary of our Constitution, James A. Michener contributes a short novel of great impact. Major Norman Starr, attached to the National Security Council, is told that he will shortly be called before a congressional committee. Through a tense, reflective weekend, the officer talks over the situation with his wife and a streetwise Washington lawyer - and begins to think back to the long line of Americans from whom he is descended. One was a Supreme Court justice, another figured importantly in the unofficial nightly debates about drafting a new document to unify and help guide the affairs of the young United States, another was an unlikely but courageous and effective suffragist. One by one, these and others parade through the officer's mind - the soldier, the Roosevelt-hater, the slave-owner. Legacy is a novel as timely as today and as timeless as truth and justice - its biographical portraits an eloquent lesson in American history. Here, in a powerful story that can be read in an evening and remembered for a lifetime, James A. Michener demonstrates once more why he has become one of the most widely read and respected of American writers." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Minor, Wendell (jacket design); Lowenstein, Carole (book design and calligraphy) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Trade Ppbk Ed: June 2004. 784 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Water warpage in latter third of book. Minimal writing on last free end page. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Allison Saltzman (Cover Design); David Burnett (Cover Photo); Carole Lowenstein (Design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition dark green boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Jame A. Michener; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. "Of all the forms of government operating today, ours is the longest-lived. We are an outstanding success. In the next half century we can light new candles of excellence, we can protect the ones we already have, we can gain an extension. The next years are ones of decision, as we face one crucial choice after another. I hop our genius for doing the right thing will guide us." - From This Noble Land by James A. Michener and the rear outer jacket. "James A. Michener has been one of the great chroniclers of the American experience for almost fifty years. In such perennial bestsellers as Hawaii, Texas, Centennial, and Chesapeake, he has brought millions of readers to a deeper understanding of the country he loves. Now, in a provocative work of nonfiction, he examines nine fundamental problems he believes America faces today, and he offers recommendations for solutions that can help ensure America's survival as a "noble land" into the next century. Deteriorating race relations, a growing disparity between rich and poor, the decline of education and a growing anti-intellectualism, inadequate health care - these are among the fracture points that Mr. Michener believes threaten America's vitality and its future. As a scholar of world history, a dedicated, lifelong public servant, and a student of his own and other cultures, Michener offers a broad and learned perspective on these much debated issues. He compares America's shift from a producer to a consumer nation to a similar movement in sixteenth-century Spain - a movement that presaged the decline of the Spanish empire. In today's control of vast wealth by a tiny handful of people, he sees parallels with the Catholic Church's monopoly on wealth in pre-Reformation Europe. He evaluates the Contract with America and other current political initiatives in light of the Founding Fathers' understanding of the social contract and the responsibility the more fortunate have to those who are less privileged. And as a lifelong practitioner and patron of the arts, Michener writes movingly of the arts as agents for change - for transforming the soul and ensuring a civilization's greatness - even as he condemns the anti-art stance of many politicians today .in this wise, opinionated, and impassioned book he calls on Americans to hold fast to America's sound historical standards and principles as we struggle to solve today's crises and to meet the challenges of tomorrow." - from the inner front jacket flap. Lowenstein, Carole (book design); Woodworth, Woody (jacket photograph) (illustratore). …

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 402 pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Janet M. Chase (Cover Design); Brian Smith (Cover Photo); Carole Lowenstein (Book Design) (illustratore). ***SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!!***. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition dark blue cloth boards with gold front cover decoration/lettering and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James A. Michener. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic frontispiece, two preliminary page maps, and color illustrated front and rear map endpapers. A small neatly printed former owner initials and date at the upper right corner of the blank front endpaper. First American Edition, as stated on the copyright page, first printing. "In 1897 gold fever infected sane men around the world. The chance for untold riches sent thousands scurrying to one of the most forbidding areas on the map: the Klondike. For a few, the riches became reality; for the vast majority, they became no more than a lost hope - and for hundreds their hapless journeys ended in death. This novel, by America's master storyteller, recounts the adventures of the strangest group of all, a band of four aristocratic Englishmen and their Irish servant, Tim Fogarty. In the privileged enclave of his exclusive London club, Lord Evelyn Luton plans the moves that will take his cousin Harry Carpenter, his nephew Philip Henslow, and Philip's young poet friend Trevor Blythe on a perilous journey to Canada's treasure fields. Carpenter has already faced down some of the wildest parts of Afghanistan, Luton is a veteran African explorer, and the two younger men have been rigorously schooled in the obligations of personal fulfillment demanded by their privileged background. For Fogarty, an aspiring gamekeeper and accomplished poacher, his presence is a duty of service he cannot refuse. The group chooses the most difficult of routes to the gold fields, north from Edmonton down the forbidding Mackenzie River. They do this through a misguided patriotism on Lord Luton's part that demands they travel all the way on British soil, avoiding the much easier route through American territory. That decision is symptomatic of the later wrong judgments that beset them. Set in the bleak reaches of Canada's arctic terrain, Journey offers a probing insight into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, of blind obedience to rigidly entrenched values, and of ultimate compromise with the demands of nature. It will take its place as one of James A. Michener's most memorable novels." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 418 pages ; 25 cm. ; ISBN 9780345505477, 9780340977415, 9780345505484, 9780345525536, 0345505476, 0340977418, 0345505484, 0345525531 ; OCLC 316835891 ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page to the son of Chief Justice George Holmes Carley (1938-2020). Carley's father, Maj. George L. Carley, Jr. (1908-1986), was a member of the United States Public Health Service and while posted in Rangoon, Burma, His son, George Carley, attended the eighth and ninth grades at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, from 1951 to 1953. He himself served in the United States Army, on active duty in 1956 and then in the Reserve until 1960. He received his A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1960 and his LL.B. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1962, becoming a "Double Dawg". He married Sandra Marie Lineberger (1940-2025), a well-known Atlanta interior designer. George H. Carley was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. In May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice, serving as leader of Georgia's judicial system until Dec. 31, 2012 ; Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally--an American Secret Service agent--and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging into a desperate hunt for the legendary lost treasure of Napoleon Bonaparte can Malone hope to avert international financial anarchy. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine condition navy blue cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James A. Michener; Author Acknowledgments; and a rear endpaper consisting of The Four Families, The Solid Six Astronauts, and The Others. Illustrated with color illustrated front and rear endpaper maps. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is tight and square (see photographs). "The countless readers who are familiar with such great Michener works as Hawaii, The Source, Centennial, Chesapeake and The Covenant will recall that they are all set in vast time frames, ranging from hundreds to millions of years, and that their actions take place in settings all around the world. The action in Space is confined to a tight frame of only forty years, but in a scene that extends for billions of miles beyond the surface of Earth. The American explorations and discoveries in space provide the principal subject matter of this engrossing and informative novel based on the activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the fascinating people and intricate machines connected with it. The story bewgins in October 1944 and introduces four men: Stanley Mott, U.S. engineer in England on a secret mission; Norman Grant, naval hero in the Battle of Leyte Gulf; John Pope, high-school football star and student of astronomy; Dieter Kolff, rocket engineer associated with Wernher von Braun. These four, who will be crucial to the space program, and their wives are principals in the enormous cast of characters, which also includes Randolph Claggett, Texas, Marine, astronaut, and his wife, Debbie Dee; Cynthia Rhee, glamorous Korean reporter and writer; Tucker Thompson, ebullient editor of Folks magazine; Leopold Strabismus, self-named confidence man who operates on the fringe. The incredible successes of the Gemini and Apollo manned flights, the Viking landings on Mars, the breathtaking performance of the Columbia, the encounters with Jupiter and Saturn by Voyagers 1 and 2 -- these awesome achievements did not sprint full-blown from a presidential edict. The story of what was behind them is vividly, dramatically and clearly told here: the complicated experimentation, invention and planning by scientists and engineers, and their debates about means and ends, their speculations about future accomplishments in space and the possibility of life in other galaxies; the personal rivalries; the political maneuverings in Washington; the selection and training of the astronauts; the excitements and anxieties of the flights and landings; the public relations and media confrontations. Space is a compelling narrative, fiction for the most part, but solidly built on the factual and the possible." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Tremblay, Jean Paul (cartography); Lowenstein, Carole (book design) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 509 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780345485793, 9780345485809, 0345485793, 0345485807 OCLC 216937382 ; coal grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page to Chief Justice George Holmes Carley (1938-2020) and his son. Carley's father, Maj. George L. Carley, Jr. (1908-1986), was a member of the United States Public Health Service and while posted in Rangoon, Burma, His son, George Carley, attended the eighth and ninth grades at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, from 1951 to 1953. He himself served in the United States Army, on active duty in 1956 and then in the Reserve until 1960. He received his A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1960 and his LL.B. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1962, becoming a "Double Dawg". He married Sandra Marie Lineberger (1940-2025), a well-known Atlanta interior designer. George H. Carley was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. In May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice, serving as leader of Georgia's judicial system until Dec. 31, 2012 ; As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.But Malone isn't the only one after the truth.Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father-who died on the same submarine that Malone's father captained.The sisters know something Malone doesn't: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne' s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in "the language of heaven," inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind.In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters-one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica-he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father's death and the distinct possibility of his own. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 509 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780345485793, 9780345485809, 0345485793, 0345485807 OCLC 216937382 ; black cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page to Chief Justice George Holmes Carley (1938-2020). Carley's father, Maj. George L. Carley, Jr. (1908-1986), was a member of the United States Public Health Service and while posted in Rangoon, Burma, His son, George Carley, attended the eighth and ninth grades at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, from 1951 to 1953. He himself served in the United States Army, on active duty in 1956 and then in the Reserve until 1960. He received his A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1960 and his LL.B. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1962, becoming a "Double Dawg". He married Sandra Marie Lineberger (1940-2025), a well-known Atlanta interior designer. George H. Carley was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. In May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice, serving as leader of Georgia's judicial system until Dec. 31, 2012 ; As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.But Malone isn't the only one after the truth.Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father-who died on the same submarine that Malone's father captained.The sisters know something Malone doesn't: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne' s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in "the language of heaven," inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind. In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters-one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica-he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father's death and the distinct possibility of his own. ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 462 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780345485755, 9780345485762, 9780345497246, 0345485750, 0345485769, 0345497244 ; OCLC 73515551 ; black boards in color pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page to Chief Justice George Holmes Carley (1938-2020). Carley's father, Maj. George L. Carley, Jr. (1908-1986), was a member of the United States Public Health Service and while posted in Rangoon, Burma, His son, George Carley, attended the eighth and ninth grades at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, from 1951 to 1953. He himself served in the United States Army, on active duty in 1956 and then in the Reserve until 1960. He received his A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1960 and his LL.B. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1962, becoming a "Double Dawg". He married Sandra Marie Lineberger (1940-2025), a well-known Atlanta interior designer. George H. Carley was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. In May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice, serving as leader of Georgia's judicial system until Dec. 31, 2012 ; Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. State Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: "You have something I want. You're the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don't hear from you, you will be childless." His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has been kidnapped. When Malone's Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria.; price clipped dustjacket , else FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…