Underworld (43 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

DVD. Zustand: Used: Very Good.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Assez bon. éditions Rivages / noir - Rivages / Thriller les tranches sont un peu défraîchies, bon état par ailleurs - Envoi rapide, soigné.

Zustand: Fine. 2006. Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology, currency, finance, and theory.…

Paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel, Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American.Now, to a new century, he has brought The Body Artist. In this spare, seductive novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time -- time, love, and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful, and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 47 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.12 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.Falling Manis a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.Brave and brilliant,Falling Mantraces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good. A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology, currency, finance, and theory.…

Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; gray topstain; patterned endpapers; [viii],295,[1]pp. Previous owners name to upper front endpaper, light wear to extremities, else a bright, Near Fine copy. BOMC booklet laid in. Attractive copy of Burnett's seventh book, a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler, his interaction with gangsters, and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel, and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name, starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin, and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine, Women, and Horses. Hubin, p.58; Baird 359.…

LP/Vinyl. Zustand: Sehr gut. 925627-1, LC3228, Made in Germany.. Sehr gut erh. ISBN: 075992562713 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550.

First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet (23cm x 10cm). Printed wrappers, 11pp. Mild toning & soil to cover extremities, else Near Fine. Brief description of life in a federal penitentiary, prepared by a convicted C.O. to give others a notion of what to expect. Rather literal - the author discusses routines, policies, and regulations, but supplies no personal impressions - but an interesting and uncommon document.…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 304pp. Lightly worn copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustjacket which is lightly rubbed with a few small edge-chips, still on the better side of Very Good. Novelist decides to try his hand at crime fiction. Befriends the leaders of two rival gangs, then invites them both to his country house for a weekend of "fact-finding." Hijinks ensue. Nice copy of a later work by our one of our favorite writers of proletarian hard-boiled fiction, a genre in which the Vanguard Press specialized through the Great Depression.…

CD-Hülle. Zustand: Gut. Versand im Luftpolsterumschlag! CD/DVD-Hülle etwas berieben, Disc ist in einem guten Zustand; Case shows some wear, disc in good condition. H2407004cdm97 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 113.

CD-Hülle. Zustand: Gut. Standard Version. Versand im Luftpolsterumschlag! CD/DVD-Hülle etwas berieben, Disc ist in einem guten Zustand; Case shows some wear, disc in good condition H250612cdm86 ISBN: 602567708193 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 41.

CD-Hülle. Zustand: Gut. Versand im Luftpolsterumschlag! CD-Hülle etwas berieben, Disc ist in einem guten Zustand; Case shows some wear, disc in good condition H260908cdm03 ISBN: 5029418023130 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

Audio CD. Zustand: Sehr gut. B1016-263 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 82.

Original wanted flyer on pink stock, 10" x 8"; text in a single column beneath headline and mug-shots. Slightly creased; ragged at bottom edge; Very Good. Undated, but we find George Fraser listed as a Constable in Pinole in the California Roster of State, County, and Municipal Employees for 1917. The suspect, Charles Miller, is identified as a German-born immigrant, "poses as a Horse Doctor.speaks broken German, also speaks French. is a booze fighter." The issuing sheriff, R.R. Veale, was one of the longest-serving sheriffs in California history, holding the office from 1895 through the mid-1930s. …

dj. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); olive green buckram, with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340, [4]pp. Mild sunning to spine, with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine, light dustiness overall, with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good+. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" (from front panel).…

Audio-CD. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

dj. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Tight, Very Good or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price clipped on front flap; slightly rubbed with a tiny chip at base of spine; Very Good+. Classic memoir of a London youth's life of addiction, petty crime and incarceration. Includes some jazz content.…

First Edition. Sold by Subscription. Large octavo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; 670pp; illus. Boards heavily chaffed along foredge, thus Good only, but otherwise a tight, well-preserved copy, with gilt and pictorial devices still crisp and bright. An encyclopedic history of noted New York crimes and criminals, with sections on contemporary penological practices including capital and corporal punishment. Like most subscription books from this period, rather cheaply produced and consequently uncommon; this, despite defects, a presentable copy.…

Second American printing (first published in London, 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year). Octavo; blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xviii], 1-619, (2)pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones); text illus. A tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, lightly soiled overall with a few nicks to extremities, Very Good to Near Fine. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime, in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death, however, and it is now widely believed he falsified much of his data, particularly that relating to the inheritance of IQ. Nonetheless the current work remains compelling, for both its wealth of detailed personal case studies of British delinquents and the numerous photographic portraits which, though clearly staged, portray genuine subjects and are classics in their genre.…

First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities, spine gilt rather dulled, else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books, p. 195.…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author, dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in a bright, unclipped dustwrapper. Biography of Joseph E. Ragen, long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet (home to Leopold & Loeb, Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, Basil "The Owl" Banghart and, fictionally, Jake & Elwood Blues). Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry Reutlinger; well-illustrated with photographic plates (halftones). Very nice copy; uncommon signed. Signed. …

Various Editions. Octavo (22cm.); cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp (paginated continuously, but each report with a separate title page); six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid, well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering Prison Discipline Society, dedicated to the amelioration of the harsh conditions prevailing in American prisons during the early republic. With six woodcut plates, mostly plans of prison buildlings and grounds.…

dj. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight, square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 on front flap), lightly rubbed and worn, Very Good or better. Ownership signature of Wiley B. Sanders to front endpaper (see note below). Porterfield, a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University, seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse, and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: ".the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure." (from jacket copy). Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy with the ownership signature of Porterfield's contemporary and colleague, University of North Carolina sociologist Wiley Britton Sanders (1898-1973). …

First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; illus. Extremities a bit foxed and toned, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Monthly newsletter that "aims to acquaint the public with the work of prevention councils in Wayne County." Provides short pieces on treatment, research, and prevention; articles include "Forgiveness Is Not Condonation," "Boys Don't Want to Be Criminals," and "Lock Your Car." No holdings located in OCLC as of April 2024.…