Viking press penguin group (50 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. A fine book save for black marker line on bottom page edge in a dustjacket sans tears, stains and discoloration. "In "Jerusalem 1913" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Dockser Marcus has written the first popular account of a key era in Middle East history, an era that was a critical juncture for the future of Arab-Israeli relations." 225 pages. GB12.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Mylar jacket cover. Clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Jen, Del, Jen's father Mike, and her friend Penny head out to Los Angeles to do something about the LA riots, people getting bashed, the fires. They are fired up about this. They journey from Biloxi, Mississippi to Dallas to tourist sites in New Mexico and Arizona. When Jen sets up a scourge of email spamming to attract interest in their 'mission', she hears from a strange guy, Dobson, who believes anarchy is the only game in town. Meanwhile Jen and Del begin to think maybe the spectacular world around them is really more important. Dobson causes trouble--he has an agenda and it is not good. 243 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Viking Press/Penguin Grp, New York, 1995.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with minor shelf wear and a vertical crease to the inside flap, else fine. Jonathan Exley (Author photo); Macduff Everton (Jacket/flap photos); Paul Buckley (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. Type: Hardback Collectible. First Edition Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Rasputin's final days as told by his daughter. A fascinating time period, after Russian Revolution of 1917 and the the fall of the Romanovs. 304 pages with chronology and glossary. Viking Press/Penguin Group, New York, 2006.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition first printing of a near fine hardcover which has a remainder mark on the bottom of the text block near the spine, in a near fine dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities and 2 small closed tears one at the top of the front cover and one at the bottom of the front cover. the 3rd novel in the Hector Belascoaran Shayne Mystery series, An one-eyed Irish/Basque P.I. operating in Mexico City, Mexico. Originally published in Mexico in 1985.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Archival protective jacket cover. 45 Illustration Plates, b/w and color. The Ottomans --not Turkish, not Middle Eastern, not a shadow of the West-- were they the legendary savages, sybarites? Andrew Wheatcroft explores the qualities that were uniquely Ottoman, those warriors from the steppes of Central Asia. And today, there is still a pervasive influence of Ottoman style, from the four hundred years of Ottoman culture. The book is bound in red and black boards with gilt outlined panel on spine w/gilt titles within. Red panel from and back have spotting, lower edges rubbed, spine heel compressed. Binding tight and solid. Internals very clean, no markings. Clean, bright jacket with illus of "Cairo Bazaar, 1856" by J.F.H.Lewis and on back: "Women and Children Entering a Bathhouse", by Camille Rogier; spine head chipped, spine heel wrinkled with a slit up the rear hinge half way up, protected and quite attractive in archival cover. xxix + 322 pages including Notes on the Illustrations, Notes on the Text, Bibliography, and Index. 9.6 x 6.25 inches. 1994, Viking Press/Penguin Group, England and New York, New York, USA.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 4th printing. Crinkling/creasing on rear interior flap of dustjacket, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans tears, stains, discoloration, etc. with all text and illustrations clear/unmarked. "Part biography - both of the doll and of her inventor, Ruth Handler - and part exploration of the cultural phenomenon that is "Barbie, The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie" is filled with personal anecdotes, memories, and opinions from people of all ages. Featuring original color and black-and-white photographs, this book is for everyone who understands that we're all living in a Barbie world." GF2. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Mylar jacket cover. Immaculate burgundy cloth binding, gilt titles to spine. Clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. The ruffian on the stair, is, in Henley's poem, death. We have here thought-provoking interviews in which the author presents the attitudes to death--and therefore inevitably to life, from 25 people from completely different social backgrounds. 291 pages. 5.5 x 8.8 inches. Viking/Penguin Group. London, England, 1990.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 1st American Trade Edition, 1989. 472 pp. Flawless book and dj. Bascove (Jacket Design and Illustration) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 417 pp. Solidly bound copy with clean text and minimal external wear. Dj has minor cuts and tears around edges. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge. Evan Gaffney (Jacket Design); Kathryn Parise (Design)Alex Webb and Tria Giovan (Jacket Photos) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 368 pp., xiv. '1' in number line. Cream boards with brown backstrip and brilliant gilt lettering; Author initials blind-stamped on upper middle front cover. Following the List of Illustrations [50 unnumbered], Contents divided into 2 Parts and 26 Chapters: Part I: HOW SHALL WE REACH GOTHAM? (1) " ' We Must Find a Way to Cross '"; (2) "Haskin's Tunnel and Lindenthal's Bridge"; (3) " ' The Ablest Man This Railway Ever Produced ' "; (4) The North River Bridge Matter; (5) A Severe Disappointment; (6) It Might Offer the Solution; (7) Get a Little of the Tenderloin; (8) Crooked and Greedy; (9) Someone in the Penn is Leaking; (10) The Town Is On Fire; (11) We Shall Make Our Fight Aboveboard; (12) Ugly Rumors of Boodle; Part II: THE CROSSING (13) We Are Not Making a Mistake; (14) A Work Unsought; (15) Drilling of First Hole; (16) The Shield Is Ready to Be Shoved; (17) Slow Progress Has Been Made; (18) Disturbed about North River Tunnels; (19) Would Mr. Cassatt Be Resigning?; (20) Death Stalks Alongside Them; (21) The Shields Have Met Exactly; (22) The Only Railroad Statesman; (23) New York City Shaken; (24)The Way Is Stony and Wet; (25) Officially Declare the Station Open; (26) Coda; Acknowledgments, pp. 317-318; Notes, pp. 319-352; Bibliographic Notes, pp. 353-354; Index, pp. 355-368. (NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Appears UNREAD.…

cream & light blue hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). . xxiv+421p. 2 b&w maps. 3 genealogical trees. 23 glossy b&w illustrations & photos. archives. source notes. bibliography. index. biography. world history. history of italy. ~ The very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance ~ incest, political assassination, papal sexual abuse, poisonous intrigue, unscrupulous power grabs. Yet, as bestselling biographer Sarah Bradford reveals in this breathtaking new portrait ~ the first full~scale biography of Lucrezia since before World War II ~ the truth is far more fascinating than the myth. Neither a vicious monster nor a seductive pawn, Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd, determined woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Born the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Cardinal Borgia and his scheming mistress, Vannozza Cattanei, Lucrezia was twelve when her father became Pope Alexander VI and thirteen when she was forced into her first marriage. She would marry twice more, gaining increasing power with each match, until she came into her own as duchess of the city~state of Ferrara. Bradford argues that in her maturity Lucrezia was an enlightened ruler, kind and decisive in time of war, generous to the poets and artists of her court, passionate in love and utterly indifferent to sexual morality. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating firsthand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create. Bradford is an expert on the Borgia family and in Lucrezia she has found a subject ideally suited to her gift for narrative and psychological insight. Sex, gossip, murder, astonishing beauty and ambition ~ this is the Renaissance at its most irresistible.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 276 pp. Fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy save light pencil markings on text. Newspaper articles from previous owner included. Carla Bolte (Book Design); Roseanne Serra (Jacket Design); Gregory Heisler (Jacket Photo) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 418 pp. Almost a 'like new' copy save for minimal edge wear on top corners. Otherwise, a solidly bound copy without any visible damage. Dj shows minimal wear around edges and near spine. Kathryn Parise (Design); Paul Buckley (Jacket Design); Diane Fraser (Jacket Painting) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 414 pp. Flawless book and dj. Daniel Lagin (Design); Paul Buckley (Jacket Design); Gary Isaacs (Jacket Photograph) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with some spine fade. The 1st novel in the Streeter mystery series, a P.I. and bounty hunter operating in Denver CO USA. Finalist for the 1997 Shamus Award for Best First Novel.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: RAVISHING: AUTHORITATIVE: NEW: Stated First Edition hardcover (Nov. 1999) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price printed at top-right on inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ black library-durable fabric wrapping spine & extending over front & back panels w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures, IMPECCABLE cream-white end-papers on heavy stock, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished acid-free paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.24", 1.24 kg, xxxv+688 (723) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Henry James, author of such classics as "The Portrait of a Lady" & "Wings of the Dove", remains one of America's greatest & most influential writers. This fully annotated selection from his eloquent correspondence allows the writer to reveal himself & the fascinating world in which he lived. James numbered among his correspondents the writers William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells & Edith Wharton, as well as presidents & prime ministers, painters & great ladies, actresses & bishops. These letters provide a rich & fascinating source for James' views on his own works, the literary craft, sex, politics & friendship, & collectively constitute, in Philip Horne's own words, James' "real & best biography". Horne's system of introductory head-notes & accompanying footnotes helps readers to feel & understand how fully James himself was connected with his world, providing a "a narrative of passionate creation". More than half the letters in "Henry James: A Life in Letters" have never before been published, whilst many previous errors of transcription have been corrected. This landmark in James scholarship offers unique insights into this complex & compelling artist & individual. * HIGH PRAISE: "Philip Horne has set before us a feast. The letters themselves are ravishing enough, but there is much, much more . . . We owe a considerable debt of gratitude to Philip Horne for this immense achievement. I cannot remember when I read a work of scholarship w/ more pleasure . . . truly awesome & imaginative." -Tony Tanner, Professor of English, King's College, Cambridge * PHILIP HORNE, a preeminent authority on Henry James, was educated at Cambridge University. In addition to this superbly edited & presented collection of James' letters, Horne has published "Henry James & Revision: The New York Edition" (1990), & has edited James' "A London Life", "The Reverberator", & the Penguin edition of "The Tragic Muse". * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee) & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 340 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. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Chin Yee Lai (Jacket Design); George G. Rockwood & Company (Jacket Photo); Erin Benach (Desgin) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First Edition. first printing, hardcover. SIGNED by Dobyns on the title page. A fine tight copy in a fine unflawed dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover. No remainder marks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 787 pp. Book is very clean. Binding is solid and tight. Pages are bright and unmarked. Dj has a small tear/ rip on top corner near flap. Minimal wear to both book and dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Published 1990/ 1st Printing. 230 pp. Flawless book. Dj shows minimal wear around edges. Paul Gamarello/ Eyetooth Designs (Jacket Design); Jacket Photo Courtesy of Viero (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. 243+ pp. Flawless book. Lew Betty (Book Design); Elegant Jewelry (Caduceus sculpture); Jim Cooper (Caduceus Photo); Jerry Bauer (Author Photo) (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 124 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Dust jacket shows minor wear and cuts around edges. Neil Stuart (Jacket Design); Lagoon Nebula (Jacket Photo); Liney Li (Design) (illustratore).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Like New. 1st American Edition. 372 pp. Flawless book. Relevant newspaper article included.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. First Published in 2002. 309 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.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. NEW First edition hardcover (Orig. 2003) First Printing: * * ABOUT THE BOOK: A complete posthumous collection of poems includes 120 previously unprinted works that were omitted from earlier definitive publications, as well as original notes, and is organized chronologically to enable readers to follow her development as a poet. * ABOUT THE POET: MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972) was awarded the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. Grace Schulman is the recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Poetry and author, most recently, of Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2002). She is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York, poetry editor of The Nation, and former director of the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.

Pp. Condizione: Gut. 24 cm ; Englischsprachige Hardcoverausgabe, XV, 702 Seiten mit zahlreichen Fotos. Gutes Exemplar (good Condition). hw525 ISBN: 0670037966.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. ADMIRABLE: SWEEPING: FAIRMINDED: REFLECTIVE: ESSENTIAL: AUTHORITATIVE: EPIC: WISE: NEW: First Edition hardcover (Orig. May 2000) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW handsomely illustrated unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing orig. $34.95 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ NEW black laid paper wrapping spine & extending 1.25" onto front & back panels handsomely covered in charcoal-black paper w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine, IMPECCABLE unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW uncreased binding w/ tight sheets & imperial-purple cloth banding at spine-caps, IMMACULATE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Acknowledgments (xi), Maps (xiii-xx), Introduction (xxi), Glossary (663), Notes (667), Bibliography (687), Index (701) * 6.25" x 9.36" x 2.24", 1.18 kg, xxvi+726 (752) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this brilliant, passionate survey of Balkan history since the early 19th century, Misha Glenny provides the essential background to recent terrible events in this war-torn region. No other book covers the entire region & offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, & Albania. Many reader's have welcomed the author's insights into the final century of Ottoman rule, a complex & colorful period, knowledge of which is essential for understanding recent conflicts that have so troubled the area. Glenny's account of ea. national group in the Balkans & its struggle for statehood is lucid & fair-minded, & he brings the culture of different nationalisms to life. The narrative is permeated w/ sharply observed set pieces of kings, guerrillas, bandits, generals & politicians. He interweaves a narrative of key events w/ the story of international affairs--the relations in states in the Balkans & between them & the great powers. It is the latter relationship that lies at the heart of this compulsively readable book. Glenny shows how the great-power interference in the region has been catastrophic for the peoples of the Balkans & how so-called "ancient hatreds" & "tribal rivalries" have often been intensified by ignorant diplomats in distant capitals, creating states, allocating populations & redrawing borders--w/ deadly consequences. It remains to be seen, Glenny argues in a terse epilogue, whether the recent Western intervention will have a more benign outcome. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "As readers are reminded by Misha Glenney's SWEEPING, FAIRMINDED & AUTHORITATIVE history, the demise of multinational empires (Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, & finally Soviet) has often re-exposed ancient fault-lines--rarely making conflict inevitable, but often making conflict possible. Mr. Glenney's book is ADMIRABLY full of uncomfortable passages for nationalist historians who try to view the region's history as a Manichean struggle between one neatly defined ethnic & religious community (Ottoman Greeks, Bosnian Muslims, Croatian Catholics) & their abiding enemies." -The Economist "Misha Glenney is the WISEST & most REFLECTIVE of all the Western journalists who have covered this part of Europe in the past two decades." -Neal Ascherson, The Observer "Glenney has written an EPIC book, ESSENTIAL reading for all who want to understand tie extraordinary complex region." -The Scotsman * SHIPPING: We custom-wrap, label & securely package this fine book w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS MEDIA MAIL (or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost charge), or for prompt delivery to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL MAIL at our posted below-cost rates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 375 pp. Stated: "First American Edition" with '3' in number line. Medium blue boards with black cloth spine and irridescent light blue lettring on spine; Author initials blind-stamped at lower right front cover; light blue mottled endpapers. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped ($21.95) with full front cover illustrated background in black, white and several shades of blue for large whiteTitle letters at top front cover,just above Author name lettering in smaller white letters; two book titles included are in small white letters at bottom front cover; '0991' at lower right corner front panel. Micro-crinckling across top spine and at front cover bottom right corner; 1" diagonal crease at top left rear panel (now essentially flat); micro-age-toning across inside dw top edges: describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Book is essentially As New: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text.…