Cooke alistair 1908 2004 (17 Ergebnisse)

Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004. America observed : from the 1940s to the 1980s. Selected and introduced by Ronald A. Wells. New York: Collier Books / Macmillan, 1989, xv, 232pp., PAPERBACK, very good. Dispatches for the Manchester Guardina, mostly from the late 1940s through the 1960s on cultural and political events: with strong bent towards civil rights - The U.S. Negro and the Constitution (1953), Segregation above the line (1956). Also entertaining pop culture observations: Kennedy, MASH, Miss America, Golf, Frank Lloyd Wright. 9780020311515 ISBN 0020311516.…

First Edition. Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Wrappers dust-toned. Browning to the pages. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xii, 290 p. Subjects: United States Politics and government 1969-1974. United States Social life and customs 1971. Genre: History. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Browning to the pages with light foxing. Wrappers dust-toned. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 287 p.; 19 cm. Subjects: United States Social life and customs 1945-1970. United States Politics and government 1969-1974. United Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland. States Social life and customs 1945-1970. United States Social life 1969-1979 Personal observations. Genre: World Affairs. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 236 pages; Description: 236 p. : ill (some col. ) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Masterpiece theatre (Television program) . Abundantly photo illustrated throughout. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Description: 236 p. : ill (some col. ) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Masterpiece theatre (Television program) . Abundantly photo illustrated throughout. 2 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 277 pages; Description: xiii, 277 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Biography --20th century. Celebrities --Biography. 1 Kg.…

Fourth Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 207 pages : portraits ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cooke, Alistair 1908-2004. Biography 20th century. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). …

Third Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 503p., ill., plates ; 24cm. Subjects: Cooke, Alistair (1908-2004). Letters from America (Radio programme). 1 Kg.

, Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004. Talk about America. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973, 5th printing, 310pp., dust-jacket with light wear around edges, very good red cloth, some light wear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED simply on half-title: Alistair Cooke - for Peg McShane. 40 short essays by the British journalist who lived in and reported from America. He writes about cranberry sauce and thanksgiving: "There are some things in every country that you must be born to to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes" (18).…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 159 pages; Description: 159 p. : chiefly col. Ill. ; 29 x 36 cm. Subjects: London (England) --Aerial views. Copiously illustrated in full, vibrant color. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 400 p. illus. 29 cm. ; Book Club Edition ; Contents: Prologue. A passage to America -- The new-found land -- A home away from home -- Making revolution -- Inventing a nation -- Gone west -- Firebell in the night -- Domesticating a wilderness -- Money on the land -- The huddled masses -- The promise fulfilled, the promise broken -- The arsenal -- Epilogue. The more abundant life. ; ISBN: 0394487265; 9780394487267 LCCN: 73-7268 ; LC: E178; Dewey: 973 ; OCLC: 825669 ; "For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his now classic and irresistibly readable 'personal history' of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the US. Beginning with his own arrival in America as a graduate in the 1930s, Alistair Cooke goes on to write about the explorers who put their new-found land on the map, the pioneers who tamed the Wild West, the soldiers who fought for independence and the tycoons who built fortunes. From the Mayflower to the gold rush, the jazz age to Pearl Harbour, with portraits of figures as varied as Buffalo Bill, John D. Rockefeller and Martin Luther King, here is the American story in all its triumphs and failures, grandeurs and tragedies. It is the defining portrait of a nation." ; A tour of American life and history based on Cooke's television series on the nation's growth and development and illustrated with photographs, cartoons, prints, and paintings. ; wine-colored textured boards with beige spine in color photographic dustjacket ; VG/G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, ; ix, 272 p. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0394503643 :; 9780394503646 LCCN: 79-2218 ; OCLC: 5311048 ; LC: E855; Dewey: 973.92 ; Contents: Telling one country about another -- Making a home of a house -- Pegler -- Liable to get your head broke -- "Eternal vigilance"-- by whom? -- Massacre : an act of war -- La Fayette sí, Pompidou no! -- Now here is the nightly news -- Final health warning -- Judgment Day's a-comin' -- The last of the Romanoffs -- The Acheson plan -- A "frontal attack" on cancer -- The charm of China -- Angela Davis v. the Establishment -- Watergate : act one -- Justice Holmes and the doffed bikini -- Give thanks for what? -- A reactionary at six p.m. -- Watergate : act two -- Intermission : the Agnew wake -- Watergate : act three -- The Duke -- Earl Warren -- Watergate : act four -- Workers, arise! Shout "Fore!" -- The benefits of clergy -- The end of the affair -- The president goes up to the mountain -- Pacific overtures -- Haight-Ashbury drying out -- I'm all right, Jack -- No Cabinet officers need apply -- Christmas in Vermont -- The obscenity business -- The no-food plan for longevity -- The money game -- Mr. Olmsted's park -- The retiring kind -- Two for the road -- A picture on the wall -- The spy that came down in the cold -- A "proper" wedding -- Please die before noon -- The hawk and the gorilla -- A letter from Long Island -- The letter from Long Island -- The presidential ear -- A piece of paper -- In the meantime. ; "Talks selected from Cooke's radio broadcasts reveal his incisive, illuminating, and witty observations on Watergate, Vietnam, and other news events of the last decade" ; "Contains fifty talks from the author's radio program "Letters from America," commenting on American life from 1969 to 1979. " ; extremely popular commentator, and former host of PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" ; VG/G. Book. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Mark of ownership. 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm pbk., facsimiles, portraits (some color) United States--History. Text English Originally published: 1973. Includes index.

Zustand: Near Fine. First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original cornflower blue paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 204 printed pages of text. Age browning to the page edges. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition photographic dust wrapper, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0370301641 AMERICA [History].…

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition hard back publisher's original quarter silver cloth, fine blue cloth boards, white lettering, cornflower blue end papers. Folio 11¼" x 9" 236 pp. Well illustrated. Small bump to lower bottom corner. Near Fine condition book in Near Fine condition dust wrapper with very minor crease line to the spine tip, price clipped, dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. CINEMA, SCREEN & FILMS.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue paper covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. ISBN 0713998792. Contains xvi, 327 printed pages of text with colour illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].…

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