Introduction d w brogan (12 risultati)

xxiv. + 518pp. Index. xxiv. + 518 pages. Index. Cover art has portrait of Henry Adams. "The American Heritage Library" printed below. LATER 4th Printing of this 1971 edition. Introduction by D.W. Brogan. Editor's Preface (September 1918) by Henry Cabot Lodge. Author's Preface February 16, 1907. of a series: The American Heritage Library. VG+. Covers lightly scuffed/scratched else a clean/tight/bright copy. NO names or writings, NO spine creasing. This edition uncommon. PAPERBACK. (5.5 x 8.25 inches).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition First Printing. 8vo. 228 pages. Hardcover bound in orange cloth. The binding is worn and a bit soiled but sound. The tattered remains of the jacket are laid in loosely inside the book. Faint damping on the outside of the front cover and with heavy damping in the inside of the front pastedown. Front flyleaf is spotted, but the rest of the text appears clean. A sound reading copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 2 volumes, complete in pale red cloth with no dustjackets. Some edgewear to extremities, no marks to text. Heavy item: extra shipping may be required. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1060 pages.

hardback, 8vo, xxiv,517pp, owner's name on endpaper, foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, red cloth, Good condition in scruffy rubbed and torn dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Edition. (1942) 368 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding a bit soiled. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ edge wear. Approx. 1" wide x 1/4" long chip to bottom edge of front panel. Spine a bit sunned. Contents nice.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Adventures of the Mind: From The Saturday Evening Post. Edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Columbia University professor Mark Van Doren. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Fourth Printing, January 1960. 285 pages. A remarkable mid-century anthology bringing together major figures in science, philosophy, literature, history, religion, architecture, modern art, music, linguistics and cultural criticism. Originally drawn from essays appearing in The Saturday Evening Post, the collection provides a compelling snapshot of American intellectual culture at the close of the 1950s. The volume opens with an introduction by Mark Van Doren, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and celebrated longtime Columbia University professor. Of particular historical interest, Mark Van Doren was the father of Charles Van Doren, the Columbia academic who became a national television celebrity as a contestant on NBC's Twenty-One before becoming the central figure in the celebrated television quiz-show scandal. Charles Van Doren publicly admitted before a congressional committee on November 2, 1959, that he had participated in the deception surrounding the program. This copy is the January 1960 fourth printing, placing its production only months after Charles Van Doren's congressional confession and at a remarkable moment in the history of the Van Doren family's public reputation and American intellectual culture. The connection is contextual rather than associative: Charles Van Doren did not contribute to this volume, but his father Mark supplied its introduction. The juxtaposition is particularly interesting because Adventures of the Mind celebrates intellectual inquiry and presents serious ideas to a broad popular audience—the same period in which Charles Van Doren's television fame had transformed a young Columbia scholar into a nationally recognized symbol of intellectual achievement. Mark and Charles Van Doren Historical Context Mark Van Doren was one of the distinguished American literary scholars of his generation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and longtime professor of English at Columbia University. His son Charles Van Doren was likewise a Columbia academic when he became nationally famous through his appearances on the television quiz program Twenty-One. His apparent command of an extraordinary range of knowledge turned him into an intellectual celebrity during the 1950s. The story collapsed during the television quiz-show investigations. On November 2, 1959, Charles admitted before congressional investigators that he had been supplied questions and answers in connection with Twenty-One. His association with the scandal became one of the defining episodes in the early history of American television. The timing gives this particular printing an intriguing historical context: the copyright page identifies it as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, only a short time after Charles Van Doren's nationally publicized confession. No claim of ownership, provenance or direct association with Charles Van Doren is made; the significance is the documented father-son relationship and Mark Van Doren's role as the author of the introduction. Accordingly, this copy is accurately described as the Fourth Printing, January 1960, rather than a fourth edition. Please refer to photographs for additional condition detail; photographs form part of the description. .The January 1960 printing also places the volume at an extraordinary moment in the history of the Van Doren family, appearing shortly after the 1959 congressional testimony of Mark Van Doren's son Charles during the notorious television quiz-show scandal.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First modern printing of 'My Diary North and South'. 1954. 8vo. With jacket. 268 pp. B/w plates. Book and jacket near as-new. FINE / NEAR FINE.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original red cloth covers, cream title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 215 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Spine ends soft, sun fading to the red of the spine, tan age spots to the end papers and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

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

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Vol 1: Undamaged pink boards and spine. Internally foxing to end papers and title page. Vol 2: dark blue boards and spine, top edge faded; internally title page foxed Vol 3: lighter blue boards and spine; internally unmarked. Edge wear and fading to all three unclipped jackets. All three fore edges tanned and foxed. Please enquire postal charge outside UK. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A very good hardcover book with minor wear to covers and some minor discolouration to end papers. Complete with a dust jacket which has a 4 by 3cm piece missing from top of front panel and is otherwise moderately worn.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First British Edition, First Impression. A Very Good Book in a Very Good Dust Jacket, Unclipped (35/- net). Light rubbing, sunning, and dust soiling to extremities. Text block a bit toned and foxed with some spots of thumbing, a few leaves with minor curling. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Striking dust jacket has a small loss at crown, otherwise a few small chips and creased. Panels are a bit toned, scuffed, and dust soiled. Hardcover. Octavo. [xxii], 302pp. [16 Unnumbered Full Color Illustrations]. Publisher's Red Cloth, Stamped Gilt Detailing. Lavishly Illustrated by the Author (illustratore).…