Alfred a knoff ny (57 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Thus. A novel of country life in region of Provence in France. Clipped price corner on dj.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The dj is rubbed with edgewear. The cover has light edgewear. The pages are clean and tight to the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pictorial Cover. Condizione: Good. This ex-library copy has typical marks and wear. Conrad, Arthur (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Fourth Printing. In black cloth with gilt titling, 8vo, 77pp. (light toning to page edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard cover. Condizione: Very good in good dust jacket. 6th printing. book is clean and tight, jacket has edge wear and has a tear at the edge on the bottom rear, still a nice copy. book plate, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. VG/VG, used, hc, 454pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slightest of shelf wear to dj, no chips, small tear to top edge of the upper, rubbing along spine, dj not price clipped. DJ enclosed in protective sleeve.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Boards tanning, lightly rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Blue cloth, DJ worn but protected in mylar, 240 pps.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. black and white). Light foxing on the edges of pages, spine is sunfaded (not; 269 pages Very Good- very noticable since it is.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Used. Good/none. Blue cloth binding with black text to spine and upper. Spine sunned. Age discoloration to paste-downs, end papers and contents due to quality of paper. Two former owners names & address' on ffep. Binding started. 605 pages, i-xxi. The author's diary of those days and events leading up to our entry into WWII. He was living in Paris and working for the Paris Herald starting February 7, 1934.…

Hard Cover/Flexible. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Stated First Printing. Chanticleer Edition.BRAND NEW Copy. Black, faux-leather, flexible boards/Fine. Guide to 666 species of 18 phyla of seashore invertebrates of North Amerca. 690 full-color photos, depicting each creature; arranged by shape and color facilitating identification. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Thus. This novel is considered to be a prelude to Bethlehem. It was translated from the Swedish by Walford.

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible - Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; strong & sound w/nips, rubs & faint creasings to edges. A colorful chronicle of early American naturalists, from 1750 to 1850, by journalist and nature writer Joseph Kastner (- 1997); volume nominated for Nat'l Book Award. All the men appearing in this volume are distinguished by having "the subjects of their science --- the flowers, birds, even frogs that they found, classified and brought into the world of naturalists" bear their names. 15 chapters: 1, The Master of Coldengham; 2, An Adam & His Apostle; 3, The Curious Quaker (John Bartram); 4. The Frustrated Physician; 5, Puc Puggy in Xanadu; 6, President of the West; 7, The Natural Showman; 8, A Peddler of Birds; 9, A Chaos of Knowledge; 10, The American Woodsman; 11, The Gullible Geneius; 12, The Inocent Traveler; 13, The Closet Botanists; 14, The Last Adventure; and, 15, A Species of Enternity. Well-illustrated (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. This is hardcover book. The book is clean and tight. It is protected with a mylar cover. The book looks like it was never read. "Cuba and the night is a delight". Richard Bickel and Barbara de Wilde (illustratore). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. Text/As New & Bright. Gilt embossed orange linen boards. DJ/NF; w/scratches to lower back & creasings to inner flaps. PO stamp to lower text edge. A collection of narratives, some previously published, from novelist & historian V. S. Naipaul (1932 - 2018), a Trinidad British writer who wrote more 30 books. Known for his novel "Mr. Biwas" (1961), Naipaul was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad & Tobago's highest nat'l honour in 1989, knighthood in Britain in 1990, and, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His grandparents left India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants and his father became a journalist. 286 pgs. Anthology of essays, linked thematically, of self-exiled people & the perplexities of displacement. The essays in four groups. I, An Unlikely Colonial; II, India; III, Looking Westward; and IV, Columbus and Crusoe. The final essay --- from which the title is derived --- is of Maurtius. A "barracoon" is an enclosure or barracks for temporary confinement of slaves & convicts. A deep, sensitive & powerful volume of trails of economic migration. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of surface wear. Upper text block dyed red. To front cover verso a tidy note suggesting this was in possession of an university, or, meant to be. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of THE BORDER TRILOGY by Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), (following ALL THE PRETTY HORSES of 1992, and before CITIES OF THE PLAIN of 1998). Narrative of the 1930's in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the borders to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd go south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, disappears w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Ed. FOURTH PRINTING. BOOK IN FINE COND WITH PRICE STICKER FROM BK STORE ON ffep. D/J HAS 1 TINY TEAR ON TOP OF BACK O/W PERFECT. A ONE OF A KIND FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST 4 200 MILE EXPEDITION OF THE WHOLE AMAZON RIVER. PROFUSELY ILLUS. 278 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. …

Hardcover. Condizione: NEAR Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good +. First U.S. EDITION. EX LIBRARY SOLID AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIBRARY MARKINGS, VERY CLEAN. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. QUENTIN BLAKE (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. RATES FINE ALL AROUND. SOLID & VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. 831 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. BOOK & D/J RATE FINE COND. STATED FIRST AMERICAN TRADE EDITION. 635 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of discoloration & faint creasing to front inner flap. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to front & rear endpapers. Upper text edge dyed red. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (following All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998) in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle; the two journey to re-settle her back Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. BOOK AND D/J RATE FINE COND. ENGROSSING AND WELL RESEARHED. FULL OF ANECDOTES. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN BIOGRAPHIES. PROFUSELY AND UNIQUELY ILLUS. 465 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: NEAR FINE +. First Edition. BOOK RATES FINE ALL AROUND. D/J HAS A FEW VERY TINY NICKS AND A MINISCULE TEAR. 435 pp. GREAT ANTHOLOGY COVERING MANY FAMOUS TRAVELLERS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condizione: NEAR FINE +++. Condizione sovraccoperta: NEAR FINE +. First Edition. STATED FIRST ED. RATES NEAR FINE + ALL AROUND. SOME KIND OF CLEAR PLASTIC POUCH ON fep, LOOKS LIKE A CARD HOLDER BUT NO OTHER MARKINGS OF ANY KIND. BIO OF MAY SARTON, AN OUTSTANDING LITERARY FIGURE , A HIDDEN LIFE. PROFUSELY AND UNIQUELY ILLUS. 474 PAGES. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: NEAR VERY GOOD. First Edition. BOOK IN N/F COND HAVING 3 STAMPS FROM FORMER OWNER INDIDE. O/W SUPER CLEAN AND VERY TIGHT BINDING. D/J HAS A 1 1/2 TEAR ON FRONT, A 1 INCH TEAR ON BACK AND A FEW SMALL CHIPS and a tiny CRAYON MARK ON FRONT. CLASSIC CHILDREN'S STORY TWO+ TWO + TWO.84 pp. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. FRITZ WEGNER (illustratore). …

Hb. Dj. Vg.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Used in Near New Condition. Publisher: Alfred J.Weichmann, NY, 1975 First Edition/Printing Description: Extraordinary eyewitness account by the young friend of John Surratt who was a boarder at Mary Surrat's rooming house in Washington during the months when Mrs. Surratt, John Wilkes Booth, and the others shaped their plot. Black cloth spine with bright gilt lettering. Black boards with gilt name of Louis J.Weichmann on the front board. Red colored page top edges. All board edges and corners are straight and show no wear. Dust Jacket show minimal signs of shelf/storage scuffing. Slight chipping of the DJ at top and bottom of spine edge. Janusz Grabianski (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Excellent condition. 200 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

DECORATED CLOTH. Condizione: Very Good +++. Condizione sovraccoperta: SLIP CASE. SECOND E DITION. SPLENDID ORANGE CLOTH BOARDS WITH CHINESE WOODCUT DRAWING. BLACK PANEL BLOCK ON SPINE WITH VIVID GOLD GILT LETTERING. VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS OF ANY KIND. SUPER SOLID BINDING . VERY TIGHT. CONTAINS 10 UNIQUE, DETAILED AND MOST HANDSOME FULL PAGE COLOURED PLATES AND NUMEROUS OTHER WOODCUTS & B/W ILLUSTRATIONS. DEALS WITH CHINESE POETRY ANCIENT AND MODERN. A GEM OF A BOOK IN VERY GOOD AND SOLID BLACK SLIP CASE HAVING A BIT OF RUBBING. DIGITAL PHOTOS ON REQUEST. THANKS. CYRUS Le ROY BALDRIDGE (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +++. No Jacket. First Edition. BLACK CLOTH BOARDS WITH EMBOSSED TITLE AND INITIALS T, M. ON FRONT BOARD. BRIGHT GOLD GILT TITLES AND DESIGNS ON SPINE. VERY TIGHT AND CLEAN, NO MARKINGS EXCEPT FORMER OWNER'S NAME ON ffep. 509 PGS, + LIST OF MANN'S WOKS AT THE END. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS. …