Bess furman (16 Ergebnisse)

Unknown Binding. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows light shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle, photographic endpapers. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs and reproductions. Includes Bibliography and Index. . Former owner's small address lebel on fep, else fine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 368 pp.…

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on flyleaf. Bookplate inside. ( presidents, united states, biography, white house, washington d.c.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; [SIGNED] 1951 Bobbs-Merrill. HC/DJ 1st edition, stated. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Furman on the 2nd free endpage and dated November 1951. Jacket with general light to moderate toning; shelf rubbing to edges and surfaces. Light general toning to page stock; jacket price clipped front flap. B&w illustrations. VG-/VG-; Signed by Author.…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardcover. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. torn). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1951).

Hardcover. Small 4to. Black leatherette with gilt spine lettering and medallion. xi, 487pp. Illustrations. Very good. A tight and quite nice first edition of this hefty 150th anniversary history -- mild and discreet ex-library, the sole markings being an abrasion on front flyleaf, circular blind-embossed imprint on title page and inkstamp on top page edges.…

Zustand: fair. First? Edition. First Thus? Printing. 23 cm, 368, illus., bibliography, index, some weakness to boards. The human side of America's Presidential palace, the colorful and often conflicting personalities who met within the doors. Each President and his family have shaped the mansion and made their way of living in it fit theirown needs and desires.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 368 pages; Very Good condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped. Mylar cover around DJ. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. 1st Edition (Unstated); No Printing Stated.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition. 348 + index pages; First and second printings before publication. Mylar cover around DJ. Light rubbing and a minor tear on DJ. Light yellowing on pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped. ; Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. …

Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, dust jacket. 368pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Early but not first printing and an extraordinary association copy: Inner flyleaf bears the large pencilled ownership signature of Adlai Stevenson's sister, Elizabeth Ives, and another inner flyleaf bears a fine presentation inscription by the author in blue ink: "To Mrs. Ernest Ives / As an historic item of / special interest to you in / this campaign year 1952. / With best wishes, / Bess Furman / Washington, D.C. / Sept. 22, '52." On pages 256-258 Ives' grandfather appears -- Adlai E. Stevenson I, U.S. vice president under Cleveland -- and alongside the text Ives has made a few pencil rules. Elizabeth "Buffie" Stevenson Ives (1898-1994) was the sole sibling of the governor and was involved in his first presidential bid at the time. Quite an unusual copy.…

Zustand: very good. 487, illus., bibliography, index. DHEW publication no. (NIH) 73-369.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Features: Great cover photo of an East German customs checkpoint at Berlin; Berlin Beleaguered - Today the population lives far better than when blockaded a decade ago but it feels a great unease generated by new Communist pressures; West Berlin Moods - photos of Berlin scenes; Labor's House Three Years After - anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger finds the union movement with some notable gains and a closetful of troubles; The 'Overwhelming' Robert Frost - At 84, the new poetry consultant to the Library of Congress looks like the symbol of a poet; What Went Wrong in Pakistan - Its sick parliamentary system has died - photo-illustrated article; How Balanchine Changed Ballet - something special has been achieved by the New York City Ballet, aged ten; The Oval Room - Eisenhoweriana; Messages From the Invisible Universe, by Arthur C. Clarke - Radio waves, reaching the earth from vast distances, are clues to a greater cosmos - with photo of the giant radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank, Manchester; Teaching the Young to Look - and See; Students in Search of Faith - Today's seminarians; Nice two-page color-photo ad for the Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico; Japan Turns Against the 'Gyangu' - crackdown on teen-age toughs; What Should a Man Tell His Wife?; Hottest Fighter in Town - Jose Torres; Lovely one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Mary Martin Halliday; The Care of the Reluctant Schoolboy; Play is Child's Work; Cookie Recipes; The Season for Springerle; Photos of fashionable rainwear for ladies; Photo feature of home designed by Richard Gordon to be child-proof; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.…