editor charge alvin josephy (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. This American Heritage History book features 14 chapters which are illustrated with 427 historical pictures and maps. The book does show some shelf wear with minor bumping on spine and lower edge of cover. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket is in poor condition with cheddaring and rubbing wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. A general history of Native Americans in North and South America, prepared by the editorial staff of American Heritage, "The Magazine of American History." Has a one-page introduction by then President John F. Kennedy. Appears to be an original 1961 edition, not a later reprint. While it probably had a dust jacket or slipcase, the dust jacket is not present with this copy. Burgundy cloth cover with gold foil stamping. Richly illustrated with both color and black & white photos, maps, and drawings/paintings. Covers human settlement in North and South America from its earliest origins, and follows the development of Native American cultures and empires over the millennia. No ISBN, LOC catalog card number 61-14871. 8½ x 11 inches, 424 pages. Heavy book, may require extra postage.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 384 pp., index. Profusely illustrated. Articles by Peter Matthiessen, Wm. O. Douglas, Bruce Catton, Wallace Stegner, George Stewart, Harold Gilliam and Paul Engle. Slight foxing to top of pages. DJ with few creases , slight edge wear and few small tears. Overall very good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good in Good DJ. 8 1/2 x 11, 416 pgs, index, b&w and color historical photos and illustrations. The epic story of the exploration and conquest of the West from 1763, when England won domination over territory stretching as far as the Mississippi, to the twilight of the frontier in the early twentieth century.

Condizione: Very Good. Quarto, hardcover, near fine in lightly rubbed pictorial paste-on sliipcase. Profusely illustrated with photos. American landscape presented in eight regions. Region chapters by various authors; William O. Douglas, Jan de Hertog and Bruce Catton among them. Great selection of illustrative pictorals; old prints, both B/W and color photos, old maps, including works of Ansel Adams. Book.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1965. 4to, 416 pp. Numerous full color and b/w illustrations throughout. Quarter blue cloth, teal paper boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and decoration to upper cover, color illustrated dust jacket. Dust-jacket moderately worn, pages age toned. § The story of the West as stirring American epic.

Grey Cloth. Condizione: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Black & White & Colour Illustrations (illustratore). First Uk Edition. The jacket is taped to the boards and has parts missing (mainly the spine). POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY. Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Signed by a "Joan Hicks".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dk. violet full cloth boards, gilt spine titles, fine. Heavy stock coated pages fine. Black pebbled hard case, slipcase, w/pictorial plate adhered, moderate corner, shelf wear. A history of natives in the Americas. Beautiful pictures, artwork, maps, etc. throughout w/rich, comprehensive text. 424 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Fine condition heavy oversized (11 inches tall) maroon cloth boards with gold spine lettering and embossed blindstamped front cover decoration. Includes Introduction by John F. Kennedy, President of the United States; Endpage entitled Between Two Worlds, Cherokee Memorial to the United States Congress, December 29, 1835; Acknowledgments; and Index. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white paintings, color drawings, color paintings, color maps, and black-and-white photographs. A former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the inner front board. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square condition (see photographs).

with dustjacket, hardcover. Condizione: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; 416 pages; good hardcover with dustjacket; dustjacket clipped by previous owner, few tears, few nicks and chips, some fray, slight stain, slight scuff; stain fore edge; starting to dekled; spine starting to slant; some faint foxing; board tips bumped; spine head and heal bumped; heavier foxing top edge; clean pages; prompt shipping wtih tracking.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 416 p. : illustrated (many in color) ; 32 cm. ; LC: CB351; Q914.031 H; Dewey: 914/.03/1 ; LCCN: 68-27730 ; OCLC: 272326 ; decorative brown cloth, in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; wear to dustjacket ; price-clipped ; all illustrations fully referenced to their original sources ; Contents : The long dark.--The High Middle Ages.--Knights in battle.--The noble's life.--An age of faith.--Towns and trade.--The life of labor.--The life of thought.--The artist's legacy.--End of an era. ; Bishop was a Cornell University graduate who remained as Kappa Alpha Professor of Romance Literature. He was the author of several biographies, wrote a popular survey of French literature, and was known for his limericks and didactic verse, one of which, "How to Treat Elves", has the final quatrain: "It gives me sharp and shooting pains / To listen to such drool / I lifted up my foot and squashed / The God damn little fool." Here, Bishop brings a lucid and knowledgeable commentary on the Middle Ages ; large, heavy volume ; VG/G. Book.