Foreword james michener (14 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. DJ VG+. Stamps not included. Size: Oblong Folio.

Soft cover. Zustand: Acceptable. Pages unmarked. Staple-bound. Twisted. Ciocers moderately worn. Binding firm. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. [vi, 244pp, with a section of black and white plate illustrations. Quarter bound in tan cloth over orange paper-covered boards, brown lettering on the spine. Beige endpapers. 8vo. Covers are a little tired, gently shelf worn and slightly rounded at spine tips. Hint of toning to text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy, dust wrapper, not price clipped, shelf worn with a few minor indentations, bumped on edges and perhaps a tad faded. A selection on interviews with novelist Truman Capote conducted during the last two years of his life - revealing of his views on the personalities of the day - JFK, Marilyn Munro, Lee Harvey Oswald, J D Salinger, etc - as well as of himself and sources of inspiration.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Third printing. Quarto. 144pp. Foreword by James A. Michener. Photography by Blair Seitz. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition thus. 12mo. 302pp. Foreword by James A. Michener. Ex-library with the usual markings, tape on boards, cloth mottled, thus good only, lacking the dust jacket.

mass market paperback. Zustand: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 432 pages; good mass market paperback; spine slanting; chip and slight tear fore edge front cover and first few pages; slight scuff to face cover; faint tanning to cover edges; tanning to pages; chip to face back cover; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Plume Edition, 1st printing ; 244 pp. illustrated ; ; pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: Fame, notoriety and genius -- Growing up -- Love, sex and fear -- Writing -- In Cold Blood -- Contemporaries -- Hollywood -- Jackie O, Gore Vidal and Joseph Who? -- Impressions -- Answered prayers -- Drugs, booze, depression and death -- Epilogue -- Selected bibliography. ; VG. Book.…

Zustand: FINE. First edition. A title in Fodor's Modern Guide series. A guide book with all the useful information for travelers to each of the Hawaiian islands, plus essays on history (by A. Grove Day), on volcanos and orchids (by Peggy Kai), on the Hawaiian way of life, the language, the people, the hula, flowers and fruits and more. Foreword by James A. Michener. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color, maps and drawings by Nesta Obermer and Kolos-Vary. [8], 302 pp. Fine in in light blue cloth with gilt lettering in a near fine dust jacket with the usual sunning to the spine. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First English Language Edition. 224 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Black, Illustrated Endpapers. First American Printing. Fine In Near Fine Price Clipped Dust Jacket With Tiny Rubs At Two Lower Tips. With An Endpaper Removed From His Later Book On Unicorns, Inscribed By Vavra And Dated In 1983. Color Photographs Throughout (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition thus with the Michener foreword, a reprint of Ferguson's 1956 text. Map endpaper. Slight foxing to the top edge, near fine in fine dustwrapper with a long printed excerpt from Michener's foreword on a label tipped to the rear panel of the jacket, as issued.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 63 p. : illustrations (some in color) ; 29 cm. ; LCCN: 99-480069 ; LC: ML31 ; OCLC: 26457004 ; "A Lehmann book." ; illustrated boards ; collection of back-scene elements in the film production of South Pacific (1958), includes costume designs by Dorothy Jeakins, commentary by all the principal writers, producers and other technicians, choreography of Leroy Prinz, and others ; back pocket missing ; wear to covers, else FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. First edition. Oblong 4to. 76,[2]pp. Half leather over gold-stamped blue cloth in original illustrated dust jacket. "Paintings and 1984 Olympic postage designs by Robert Peak." Profusely illustrated with double- and full-page color reproductions of drawings by Robert Peak, 1983-84 Olympic commemorative issues of stamps & postal cards, all in color. Foreword by James A. Michener. Minor rubbing to parts of edges. Tiny stain on back board. Minor creasing, scuffing and staining on dj. Dust jacket in good, book in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Hippocrene edition, 3rd printing ; xvi, 1135 pages ; 24 cm ; ISBN 9780870529740, 0870529749 ; OCLC23014830 ; Map on lining papers ; Translation of: Ogniem i mieczem ; brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Despite some deviations, the book's historical framework is genuine and the fictional story is woven into real events. Many characters are historical figures, including Jeremi Wis?niowiecki and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki). Sienkiewicz researched memoirs and chronicles of the Polish nobility, or szlachta, for details on life in 17th-century Poland. The book was written, according to the author, "to lift up the heart" of the Polish nation in the unhappy period following the failed January Uprising during the era of the partitions of Poland. Thus it often favors epic plots and heroic scenes over historical accuracy. Nonetheless, Sienkiewicz's vivid language made it one of the most popular books about that particular place and era ; By Fire and Sword is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999. ; Far more celebrated than any of his positivist contemporaries, Henryk Sienkiewicz began as a journalist and achieved considerable renown with his account of a two-year journey to the United States. Between 1882 and 1888 he wrote three historical novels dealing with political and military events in seventeenth-century Poland: With Fire and Sword, The Deluge (1886), and Fire in the Steppe (1888, also translated as Pan Michael). Although superficial in its analysis of historical events, the trilogy gained enormous popularity both in Poland and in other Slavic countries thanks to Sienkiewicz's masterful use of epic techniques and of the seventeenth-century colloquial idiom. Even more popular, if artistically far weaker, was his Quo Vadis? (1896), a novel about Rome in the age of Nero (Sienkiewicz's fame in the West is chiefly based on this work). Another historical novel, The Teutonic Knights (1900), deals with the fifteenth-century struggle between Poland-Lithuania and the Teutonic Order. Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded The Nobel prize in Literature for 1905 "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer". ; slight knock, else G/VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Wide 4to. Blue leatherette spine and blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 76pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of what's really a study of "Paintings and 1984 Olympic postal designs by Robert Peak" -- Peak (1927-92) being the famed and prolific artist/illustrator responsible for a large number of iconic film posters, memorable national magazine covers -- and postage stamps. This copy bears (affixed to front and rear pastedowns, as intended) the clear sleeves displaying a set of his Olympic stamps and postal cards -- AND best of all this copy has been extra-illustrated with autograph items from four of these athletes profiled and depicted in Peak paintings. In order: Page 20 bears a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly signed "Parry O'Brien / May 13, 1985" in blue ballpoint affixed to lower left corner of the full-page illustration of this gold medal-winning shot put champion (1932-2007); page 64 bears a similar card boldly signed "4-27-85 / Eric Heiden" in blue ballpoint affixed to upper left corner of the full-page illustration of the famed speed skater (born 1958); page 66 bears a fine 3½" X 5½" glossy photograph of Christopher Dean (born 1958) and Jayne Torvill (born 1957) in costumed pose affixed to lower left corner of the full-page illustration, signed boldly by the renowned ice dancing team on the blank lower margin in black fineline; and lastly page 69 bears a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card boldly signed "2.2.88 / Herb Brooks" (1937-2003) in blue fineline affixed to lower right corner of the full-page illustration of this coach's legendary hockey team. Original transmittal envelopes of all four extra-illustrations are laid in. A unique copy.…