Isbn: 9780698109940 - edith kermit roosevelt: portrait of a first lady (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Minimal wear. Clean and unmarked. Minimal wear to DJ.; 9.20 X 6.25 X 1.25 inches; 581 pages.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in good condition. Jacket is slightly creased. Off white cloth board cover. Pages in clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 24 cm. [10], 581, [1] pages. Frontis Illustration. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Pencil erasure on front endpaper, wear at top of DJ spine, DJ somewhat soiled. Sylvia Jukes Morris is a British-born biographer, based in the United States. She is married to writer Edmund Morris. Morris's articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and The Washington Post. She has served as a judge for the National Book Awards and lectured at the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery and the Newseum of Washington, D.C., as well as the New York Society Library, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Miami Book Fair, and the University of Delaware. Her television credits include appearances on The American Experience, C-SPAN, the History Channel and a transatlantic literary symposium presented by the Paris Review and the English-Speaking Union. Derived from a Kirkus review: FDR saluted her for cleverly managing his Uncle Ted. Intellectual, fervent, intimidating, serene, Edith Kermit Roosevelt is very much worth reading about. The complex character of Edith Roosevelt remains an enigma. She and TR were the closest and fondest of childhood chums. They met by momentous accident; and within weeks they were engaged--launching what must stand as one of the most ardent, closely attuned matches in White House history. Shortly after moving into the White House, she proceeded to do over the White House; to assemble the known sets of presidential china, engage the first Social Secretary, entertain with unprecedented elan (Henry Adams, John La Farge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Henry James were guests at one memorable lunch). . . all the while savoring the escapades of son Kermit's madcap "White House Gang" and remaining, to the last, TR's "Darling Edie." Details galore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm. [10], 581, [1] pages. Frontis Illustration. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ somewhat soiled, small tears/chips to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author. tear and crease in rear DJ Pencil erasure on front endpaper, wear at top of DJ spine. Sylvia Jukes Morris is a British-born biographer, based in the United States. She is married to writer Edmund Morris. Morris's articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and The Washington Post. She has served as a judge for the National Book Awards and lectured at the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery and the Newseum of Washington, D.C., as well as the New York Society Library, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Miami Book Fair, and the University of Delaware. Her television credits include appearances on The American Experience, C-SPAN, and the History Channel . Derived from a Kirkus review: FDR saluted her for cleverly managing his Uncle Ted. Intellectual, fervent, intimidating, serene, Edith Kermit Roosevelt is very much worth reading about. The complex character of Edith Roosevelt remains an enigma. She and TR were the closest and fondest of childhood chums. They met by momentous accident; and within weeks they were engaged--launching what must stand as one of the most ardent, closely attuned matches in White House history. Shortly after moving into the White House, she proceeded to do over the White House; to assemble the known sets of presidential china, engage the first Social Secretary, entertain with unprecedented elan (Henry Adams, John La Farge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Henry James were guests at one memorable lunch). . . all the while savoring the escapades of son Kermit's madcap "White House Gang" and remaining, to the last, TR's "Darling Edie." Details galore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth over boards with gold stamping on spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1980. 581 pages. In good condition. Spine has some sun-fading; covers are otherwise clean. Head and foot of spine just a bit bumped. SIGNED on front free endpaper by Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt, Chief of Protocol for the US under Reagan. Inscribed as follows: "To Mandy and BettyLou - with much affections from Archie and Lucky Roosevelt. July 1980". Archie Roosevelt is the Grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. The smallest amount of toning along page edges; pages are clean, with black and white photographs. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 24 cm. [10], 581, [1] pages. Frontis Illustration. Illustrations. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ somewhat worn and soiled. INSCRIBED ON FEP BY SELWA ROOSEVELT, widow of Archie Roosevelt! Sylvia Jukes Morris is a British-born biographer. She is married to writer Edmund Morris. Morris's articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and The Washington Post. She has served as a judge for the National Book Awards and lectured at the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery and the Newseum of Washington, D.C., as well as the New York Society Library, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Miami Book Fair, and the University of Delaware. Her television credits include appearances on The American Experience, C-SPAN, the History Channel and a transatlantic literary symposium presented by the Paris Review and the English-Speaking Union. Derived from a Kirkus review: FDR saluted her for cleverly managing his Uncle Ted. Intellectual, fervent, intimidating, serene, Edith Kermit Roosevelt is very much worth reading about. The complex character of Edith Roosevelt remains an enigma. She and TR were the closest and fondest of childhood chums. They met by momentous accident; and within weeks they were engaged--launching what must stand as one of the most ardent, closely attuned matches in White House history. Shortly after moving into the White House, she proceeded to do over the White House; to assemble the known sets of presidential china, engage the first Social Secretary, entertain with unprecedented elan (Henry Adams, John La Farge, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Henry James were guests at one memorable lunch). . . all the while savoring the escapades of son Kermit's madcap "White House Gang" and remaining, to the last, TR's "Darling Edie." Details galore. Signed.…