Editore: Viking - Penguin Group - Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1993
ISBN 10: 0670849332 ISBN 13: 9780670849338
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hard cover, glossy pictorial boards, unpaged, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 1st edition fine book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Puffin Books of Penguin Group Viking Penguin division of Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140541586 ISBN 13: 9780140541588
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
soft cover, unpaged, 7 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches, very good book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Puffin Books from Penguin Group Viking Penguin division of Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1993
ISBN 10: 0140548297 ISBN 13: 9780140548297
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Moss, Marissa (illustratore). soft cover, new book, unpaged, 8 5/8 x 9 inches, Golden Book Club edition, very good + book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Puffin Books from the Penguin Group Viking Penguin division of Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140544755 ISBN 13: 9780140544756
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Cooney, Barbara (illustratore). soft cover, small name in a stamped box on the title page, unpaged, 9 5/8 x 8 inches, very good + book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Viking published by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA Inc./New York, 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0670844195 ISBN 13: 9780670844197
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Rudy Gutierrez (illustratore). hard cover, as new book condition, reinforced binding, 29 pages, 8 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches, fine book condition, fine dust jacket condition, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Viking from the Penguin Group/Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1997
ISBN 10: 0670874582 ISBN 13: 9780670874583
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hard cover, unpaged, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 1st edition, fine book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile flap book,
Editore: Viking Studio Books of The Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1994
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
hard cover, 85 pages including acknowledgements, 9 3/8 x 14 7/8 inches, extra postage for priority and international shipping for size, very good book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Viking by the Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1995
ISBN 10: 0670858870 ISBN 13: 9780670858873
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
hard cover, ex library, rebound by Bound to Stary Bound with pictorial boards, bar code and stamp, unpaged, 8 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches, very good book condition, very good + dust jacket condition, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Viking published by the Penguin Group, Viking Penguin division of Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1990
ISBN 10: 0670833592 ISBN 13: 9780670833597
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
hard cover, unpaged, 9 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches, very good + book condition, very good dust jacket condition, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Puffin Books/Published by the Penguin Group/Viking Penguin/A Division of Penguin Books (USA), Inc., New York, London, et al., 1991
ISBN 10: 0140345825 ISBN 13: 9780140345827
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Linda Thomas (Cover Illustration); Rebecca Laughlin (Cover Design) (illustratore). 169 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.
Editore: Penguin Books/Published by the Penguin Group/Viking Penguin/A Division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., New York, London, et al., 1992
ISBN 10: 014019939X ISBN 13: 9780140199390
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Melissa Jacoby (Cover Design) (illustratore). 259 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate internal and external wear and use. Occassional pen markings on text. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.
Editore: Penguin Books/Published by the Penguin Group/Viking Penguin/A Division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., New York, et al., 1991
ISBN 10: 0140147381 ISBN 13: 9780140147384
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 275 pp. A Jonathan Gash "Lovejoy" mystery. Clean, unmarked pages; smooth cover with only minimal wear to edges.
Editore: Viking Penguin, Inc./A Division of Penguin Books (USA), Inc./Published by the Penguin Group, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0670841897 ISBN 13: 9780670841899
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Bascove (Jacket Design & Illustration) (illustratore). Copyright © 1991. 357 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly skewed spine. Minimal wear to dust jacket.
Editore: Puffin Books from Penguin Group Viking Penguin division of Penguin Books USA Inc./New York,, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140542620 ISBN 13: 9780140542622
Da: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, U.S.A.
soft cover, all flaps present and good, unpaged, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, good + book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book,
Editore: Penguin Books - the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0140481346 ISBN 13: 9780140481341
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Thus 32nd Printing. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. FRONT-COVER PHOTOGRAPH: shows Dustin Hoffman in the 1984 Broadway revival; Staged by Elia Kazan. MOVIE/TV TIE-IN: This play was the basis for the 1951 feature film, the 1966 Made-for-Television film, the 1985 Made-for-Television film, the 1996 Made-for-Television film, and the 2000 Made-for-Television film of the same name. CONTENTS: Act One; Act Two; Requiem. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968) and The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972). He has also written two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969) and In the Country (1977), two books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His most recent works are Timebends, a memoir, and Danger: Memory! Two Plays. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "One of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater" - Brooks Atkinson. "A tremendously affecting work" - The New Yorker. "Miller's play continues to reach the secret recesses of our hearts, even as it welcomes Hoffman's decidedly original portrayal." - The Washington Post. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Editore: Viking Penguin/Pubhlished by the Penguin Group/A Division of Penguin Books (USA), Inc., New York, London, et al., 1993
ISBN 10: 0670849936 ISBN 13: 9780670849932
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Evan Gaffney (Jacket Design); Michael Crampton (Jacket Illustration); Neil Stuart (Art Direction); Brian Mulligan (Design); Michael Reece (Author Photo) (illustratore). 335 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: From Publishers Weekly Key West tour operator Ebensten has been escorting travelers on imaginative expeditions for 40 years. In his early days, his appetite for off-beat adventure took him around the world as he lived in private castles or YMCAs, w ent beachcombing, or sybaritically covered himself with hot mud in the ancient stone troughs of Italy's Lacco Ameno. He enjoyed a wild night in a dorm itory with 98 armed and priapic motorcycle cops and accepted the casual hos pitality of the rich or famous,partying with Lady Diana Cooper and tutorin g Bertrand Russell's granddaughters. As a tour operator, Ebensten attracted a clientele of artists, scholars, playboys, gays and the more intrepid of the general run of travelers. Under his guidance they tended either to rough it or to live high. In Peru, for example, while others might have satisfi ed themselves with the standard visit to Machu Picchu, his groups trekked t o Vilcabamba, the true Inca capital; in Greece they not only viewed sacred Mount Olympus but climbed it. Stylish, cultivated, witty and frankly gay, Ebensten draws often hilarious portraits of travelers whom readers would not otherwise meet, and places rarely visited. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal The author, whose name is synonymous with gay travel, regales the reader with stories from decades of world exploration. Armchair travelers of any sexual orientation will delight in the vividly picturesque and often humorous accounts of the pleasures and travails of tour conducting in the far reaches of the planet.
Editore: Viking Penguin/The Penguin Group/A Division of Penguin Books (USA), Inc., New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 067086675X ISBN 13: 9780670866755
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Mary E. O'Boyle (Jacket Design); Princeton University Archives (Author Photo); Brian Mulligan (Design) (illustratore). 608 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.
Editore: Viking Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Probable Book Club (BCE/BOMC). BOOK: Previous Owner Alterations (Dust Jacket Has Been Cut Narrower, Removing Most of the Front Overleaf Panel and All of the Rear Overleaf Panel, Then Glued Completely to the Book All Around, Capturing and Gluing Down the Front Free Endpaper as Well); Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Alterations, As Noted Above; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; NOT In Archival Quality Jacket Cover (Previous Owner Alterations Make This Impossible). The Story of a Mother's Death and a Daughter's Renewal. BOOK NUMBER: 16084. DESIGNED BY: Fritz Arnold Metsch. CONTENTS: Midstream; Glints; Fear of the Dark; Available Light; Open Eyes; Dreams; Epilogue. REVIEWS: "A useful and beautiful book that resists all temptations to oversimplify. It illumines new areas of women's lives."--Mary Gordon. "Here, in Midstream, are the usual confusions of anxieties, angers, denials, and solicitude of children and husband as a mother dwindles inexorably into death. Behind and dancing around her shadow, the insistence of life as a house to rebuild, as the response to the seductions of a new other country. Le Anne Schreiber has written of this eternal pas-de-deux of life and death with a clear eye, with compassion, with verity, and with high skill."--Kate Simon Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Penguin Books - the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0140172548 ISBN 13: 9780140172546
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Leon Golub (illustratore). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. COVER PAINTING: Leon Golub, White Squad II (detail), 1982; Collection: Seattle Art Museum; Photograph: Courtesy of Josh Baer Gallery, NY. CONTENTS: Introduction; ONE Quijote; TWO The Good Sailor; THREE Dialectic; FOUR The Laboratory; FIVE The Triumph; SIX The Pig's Tail; Selected Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: Drinking coffee with hit men, sunbathing with death-squad financiers - an award-winning journalist goes behind the scenes to present six vivid and haunting portraits of violence in Latin America. An honest just in Medellin, a Maoist guerrilla of Peru's Shining Path, the fair-haired Angel of Death in Argentina's Dirty War, the pool-party rich of El Salvador, the disabused revolutionaries of Nicaragua, and the ordinary Chileans who became silent partners in Pinochet's dictatorship - these people live in Latin America, but their stories illuminate the human face of violence all over the world. Tina Rosenberg spent five years trying to understand their world and learning to live with these "children of Cain." Their stories are disturbing precisely because these people are not monsters; the faces in Children of Cain are not those of strangers. Journalist Tina Rosenberg lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: Viking/Published by the Penguin Group/A Division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., New York, et al., 1997
ISBN 10: 0670874493 ISBN 13: 9780670874491
Da: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Nancy Tolford (Illustrations); Daniel Rembert (Jacket Collage & Design); Antonio Allegri Correggio, 'Rest on the Flight to Egypt', 1516-17 (Jacket Art Detail, Right) (illustratore). 1st American Edition Published in 1997 b. 295 + viii pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Relevant newspaper articles placed by previous owner included.
Editore: Penguin Books Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140104011 ISBN 13: 9780140104011
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: As New. First Thus 1st Printing. Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER. COVER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF: The Author. COVER DESIGN BY: Melissa Jacoby. SYNOPSIS: Robert MacNeil first discovered the magic of language as a boy in Nova Scotia, listening as his mother read to him from Treasure Island and other classics. His dawning and growing fascination with words, the worlds they opened up to him, the experiences they enriched, form the subject of this vivid and poignant memoir by the man who would grow up to coauthor The Story of English, and to become a respected television journalist. Recapturing his lost youth, unearthing treasured experiences, and relating them with wit and immediacy, MacNeil creates more than just an autobiography: Wordstruck offers a rare glimpse into the making of a man of letters. Robert MacNeil is co-anchor and executive editor of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. He is the co-author of the bestselling The Story of English. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Editore: Viking Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0670828947 ISBN 13: 9780670828944
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band. BOOK NUMBER: 1190. FRONT AND BACK JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS FROM: the Bill Wyman Archive. JACKET DESIGN BY: Neil Stuart. CONTENTS: Introduction 1 Flash Forward 2 Roots and Routes 3 How the Stones got the Blues 4 Birth of the Legend 5 The 'Great Unwashed' 6 The Selling of a Rebellion 7 The Unholy Trinity 8 Riots and Romances 9 Addictions and Frictions 10 (Drug) Trials and Tribulations 11 De-Klein 12 Little Boy Blues; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Records 1963-69; Awards 1964-69; Shows 1962-69; Film and Television 1957-69; Radio 1963-69; Index. SYNOPSIS: For twenty-five years Bill Wyman has been "the silent Stone," the quiet bass player in the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. This autobiography-of-a-band is a note-by-note rendition of the Stones' tumultuous early years, made possible by Wyman's own meticulously kept diaries. As one critic put it, "The Beatles charmed a nation. The Stones kicked it in the bollocks." Wyman candidly recalls the struggle of the perpetual "bad boys" through their tough years of apprenticeship (once living for weeks on stolen potatoes) as their music evolved. The vision of Brian Jones, an extraordinarily talented musician devoted to American blues and R & B, shaped the group and the raw, gutsy sound that blew open the British music scene. The Stones struck a deep chord among Britain's young, and Wyman describes the hair-raising chaos and violence of their early tours. He is disarmingly frank in describing the wildness and intricacies of the Stones' personal affairs, the dynamics of the musicians in and out of the studio, their scandalous legal problems, financial and management crises, conflicts over songwriting, and the effects of drugs on their music and lives. He sheds new light on the complex story of Brian Jones, forced aside by the triumvirate of Mick, Keith, and manager Andrew Oldham. The book ends with Brian's break with the band and retreat to his beloved country home, only to drown on the eve of the Stones', and Britain's, biggest rock concert. The gathering of 500,000 in Hyde Park became Brian's wake, and marked the end of the first era of the saga of the Stones. A married man with a son, already in his mid-twenties when he met the other members of the band, Wyman was the first person in his family's history to have a job with a pension. To their horror he cut loose to follow the promise of the Stones' new sound. His unique perspective on the journey that followed shows how the 1960s looked from one of its epicenters. Ray Coleman was editor-in-chief of London's Melody Maker for eleven years and traveled with the Stones. He is the author of biographies of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Brian Epstein. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Editore: Penguin Books Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0140131205 ISBN 13: 9780140131208
Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: As New. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Sticker Reside to Front Cover; Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Robert MacNeil, Author of Wordstruck and co-author of The Story of English. COVER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF: The Author. COVER DESIGN BY: Melissa Jacoby. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1/The Reluctant Reporter; 2/White Christmas; 3/Early Days in London; 4/Britain: Political Education; 5/Tangier; 6/The Congo; 7/France; 8/The Berlin Wall; 9/Stories from Britain; 10/Finland: More Adventures in the Cold War; 11/A Guest of Fidel Castro; 12/The Long, Hot Summer of 1963; 13/Did I Really Meet Lee Harvey Oswald?; 14/Travels with Barry and Lyndon; 15/Vietnam Metaphors; 16/Adventures in Fairness with Richard Nixon; 17/The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; 18/The Queen at the White House. SYNOPSIS: There is no one better suited to provide an inside look at television journalism than Robert MacNeil, co-anchor and executive editor of "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." In this provocative and adventure-filled book, MacNeil recalls some of the highlights of his career--the blunders and blind luck as well as the scoops--the dangerous missions, and the exclusive interviews with world figures as diverse as Charlie Chaplin and the ayatollah Khomeini. From a surreal conversation with Yevgeny Yevtushenko in a Havana nightclub during the Cuban missile crisis, to a brief encounter with someone on the steps of the Texas Book Depository who may well have been Lee Harvey Oswald, many of MacNeil's best stories have taken place off-camera. Here is an entertaining and informative look at television the way you've never seen it, by one of its most respected professionals. Robert MacNeil is co-anchor and executive editor of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. He is the co-author of the bestselling The Story of English. His most recent book, a memoir about his youth and his love of the English language, was the bestselling Wordstruck. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.