Verlag: New York, N.Y. ; London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017, 2017
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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slightly wrinkled but still quite good dust-jacket, cover price $15.95, very good small black hardcover. BEARD, MARY. Women & power: a manifesto. New York, N.Y. ; London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xi, 115pp., . Two essays connect the past with the present, tracing the history of misogyny to its ancient roots and examining the pitfalls of gender., "At long last, Mary Beard has decided to address in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over. Few, sadly, are more experienced with this kind of hateful barrage than Beard herself, who has been subjected to a whole onslaught of criticism online, in response to her articles and public speeches. In [this book], Beard presents her most powerful statement yet, tracing the origins of misogyny to their ancient roots. In two provocative essays, Beard connects the past to the present as only she can, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated powerful women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer's Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech historically being defined as inherently male. There is no clearer example than Odysseus' wife, Penelope, who seals her lips and proceeds upstairs when told to shut up by Telemachus, her son. Other women who have dared to open their mouths in public or, against all odds, gained power--from would-be Roman orators, though the great queen Elizabeth I--have been treated as 'freakish androgynes, ' attacked or punished for their courage--regarded with suspicion at best, contempt at worst. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws endlessly illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women's relationship to power--and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren't perceived to be within the structure of power, isn't it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?". ISBN 9781631494758.
Verlag: New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, 2020
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket, cover price $27.95, fresh attractive copy, very good gray hardcover, appears unused. GOODMAN, RUTH. The domestic revolution: how the introduction of coal into Victorian homes changed everything. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xxi, 330pp., . "'The queen of living history' (Lucy Worsley) returns with an immersive account of how English women sparked a worldwide revolution--from their own kitchens. No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the twenty-first-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: it might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-sixteenth century--from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. A pattern of innovation emerges as the women stoking these fires also stoked new global industries: from better soap to clean smudges to new ingredients for cooking. Laced with uproarious anecdotes of Goodman's own experience managing a coal-fired household, this fascinating book shines a hot light on the power of domestic necessity" - CONTENTS: Living off the land -- Out of the woods -- The draw of coal -- London, transformed -- The spreading blaze -- Cooks' tools -- A new menu -- Cleaning-up -- The domestic burden. ISBN 9781631497636.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation (c.1935), New York, 1935
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [solid but shelfworn reading copy, bumping to most corners and spine ends, cloth slightly frayed at several corners and at top of spine, spine cloth a bit faded, light dampstaing to front cover]. The author's second novel, a family saga set during the Colorado mining boom, which began in the 1870s and extending into the early years of the 20th century. The reviewer for the New York Times claimed it was "the first modern, realistic novel . to deal with one of the fantastic true stories of American expansion, one which is a legend in his family." Eventually, the saga was continued in two more books, the three now collectively known as the "Pikes Peak Trilogy.".
Verlag: New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022, 2022
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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very good dust-jacket BUT edges are rubbed and scuffed, cover price $30.00, very good black cloth with light wear, corners lightly bumped, lightly handled book. JORGE, LÍDIA. The wind whistling in the cranes. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xii, 511pp., . "From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga, set in the twilight of the late twentieth century, of two clashing families in coastal Portugal. With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial past. Considered one of Europe's most influential contemporary writers, Portuguese novelist Lídia Jorge has captivated international audiences for decades. With the publication of The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, English-speaking readers can now experience the thrum of her signature poetic style and her delicately braided multicharacter plotlines, and witness the heroic journey of one of the most maddening, and endearing, characters in literary fiction. Exquisitely translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott, this breathtaking saga, set in the now-distant 1990s, tells the story of the landlords and tenants of a derelict canning factory in southern Portugal. The wealthy, always-scheming Leandros have owned the building since before the Carnation Revolution, a peaceful coup that toppled a four-decade-long dictatorship and led to Portugal's withdrawal from its African colonies. It was Leandro matriarch Dona Regina who handed the keys to the Matas, the bustling family from Cape Verde who saw past the dusty machinery and converted the space into a warm-and welcoming-home. When Dona Regina is found dead outside the factory on a holiday weekend, her body covered in black ants, her granddaughter, Milene, investigates. Aware that her aunts and uncles, who are off on vacation, will berate her inability to articulate what has just happened, she approaches the factory riddled with anxiety. Hours later, the Matas return home to find this strange girl hiding behind their clotheslines, and with caution, they take her in . . . "Some said that Milene had been found wandering near the golf course. . . . Still others that she must have spent those five days at the beach, eating raw fish and sleeping out in the open . . ." Days later, the Leandros realize that Milene has become hopelessly entangled with their tenants, and their fear of political and financial ruin sets off a series of events that threatens to uproot the lives of everyone involved. Narrated with passionate, incandescent prose, The Wind Whistling in the Cranes establishes Lídia Jorge as a novelist of extraordinary international resonance". ISBN 9781631497599.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 2016
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Fitzgerald, Adam. George Washington: poems. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, 105pp., near fine dust-jacket, cover price $25.95, fresh attractive orange and white hardcover. "Adam Fitzgerald's second collection of poems sets out to estrange American history through the unreliable lenses of autobiography and technology. Suffused with profound loss and treacherous nostalgia for a bygone era of unfettered consumerism, this is also poetry made eerily familiar. Reflecting on the 1990s New Jersey suburbia of the poet's youth, Fitzgerald's new book performs a psychological autopsy on our national lust for safety and comfort amid the 'white noise' of daily living.". ISBN 9781631491009.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 0871407558 ISBN 13: 9780871407559
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 427 pp with epilogue, notes, index. A legal historial examines the difficult relationship between President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren during the McCarthy years. Their individual approaches to civil liberties in America resulted in a bitter professional, and personal, conflict between the men.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing, 1942. dj, 1942
Anbieter: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, USA
Hardcover - Later printing. The Black and Gold edition. His most famous work, set in 'Bohemian' New York in 'any year between 1880 and 1900' this was originally published in a limited edition in 1920. H. L. Meneken called it Huneker's crowning work. Very good+ in a good only dust jacket (prev owner's stamp, edgewear and chipping to dj, spine of dj sunned.).
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, 2012
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Gorra, Michael Edward. Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton, 2012, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line, xxiv, 385pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, very good black and yellow hardcover, fresh attractive copy with tiny ding to top right corner of cover. A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. - CONTENTS: An old man in Rye -- A preparation for culture. The girl in the doorway ; A native of no country ; A superstitious valuation ; Along the Thames -- The marriage plot. Her empty chair ; Proposals ; An unmarried man ; A London life ; The envelope of circumstances -- Italian journeys. Bellosguardo hours ; Mr. Osmond ; Stranieri ; An uncertain terrain ; A Venetian interlude ; Fenimore -- Sex and serials, the Continent and the critics. Maupassant and the monkey ; The magazines ; The Roccanera ; The art of fiction -- Putting out the lights. The altar of the dead ; "I was perfectly free" ; Working in the dark ; The second chance ; Endgame. ISBN 9780871404084.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1969
Anbieter: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1969. 147 pp. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Semi-glossy pictorial wrappers with black titling to spine; third printing. Light sunning to spine, with rubbing along spine edges. Rubbing and some light soil to covers, with some faint creasing to upper half of rear cover. Light age toning to edges of text block. Previous owner's name stamped at head of first page, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Binding sound with no creases or cracks. . Soft Cover. Very Good.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, 2023
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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near fine dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, fresh attractive copy white hardcover, appears unused. SACHS, HARVEY. Schoenberg: why he matters. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xx, 248pp., . An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers. - CONTENTS: Prologue: A warning -- Author's note -- A boy from Matzah Island -- Forming the battle lines -- War, internal and external -- Breakthrough and breakaway -- A Californian finale -- Epilogue: What now? ISBN 9781631497575.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1943
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Black and gold ed. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, pages lightly browned at edges. Dustwrapper rubbed and chipped at spine ends and corners, spine faded, worn and soiled. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871408759 ISBN 13: 9780871408754
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition. HCW. Used.
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014, 2014
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Goodman, Ruth, 1963-. How to be a Victorian: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line, 458pp., near fine dust-jacket, cover price $29.95, attractive copy, slightly faded by light at bottom of spine and edge, otherwise very good brown and white hardcover. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, she celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially fascinating era of British history. From waking up to the rapping of a "knocker-upper man" on the window pane to lacing into a corset after a round of calisthenics, from slipping opium to the little ones to finally retiring to the bedroom for the ideal combination of "love, consideration, control and pleasure," the weird, wonderful, and somewhat gruesome intricacies of Victorian life are vividly rendered. - CONTENTS: Getting up -- Getting dressed -- A trip to the privy -- Personal grooming -- Morning exercise -- Breakfast -- The main business of the day -- Back at the house -- The midday meal -- The day's work resumes -- Meanwhile, for the young, there was school -- A few snatched hours of leisure -- The evening meal -- A bath before bed -- Behind the bedroom door. ISBN 9780871404855.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp. 1937 (c.1924), New York, 1937
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 6th printing. (no dust jacket) [modestly shelfworn, light age-toning to edges of text block, tiny dent in top edge of front cover, gilt lettering rubbed to the point of unreadability on the spine but still fairly bold on the front cover]. (3 B&W photographic plates) The title page declares this to be "The Theater [sic] Guild Version with three illustrations from photographs" of that production, which famously starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It was, in fact, the very first production in which they co-starred after joining the Theatre Guild's company in 1924 and was a key element in establishing their mastery of light comedy. They also headlined the 1931 film version of the play, their only co-starring role in a movie; both were nominated for Academy Awards, but lost out to Wallace Beery and Helen Hayes, respectively.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp. (c.1941), New York, 1941
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. First Edition. [clean, solid copy, minor wear at extremities; jacket rubbed, edgeworn, rear panel moderately soiled, minor chipping/wrinkling at top of spine]. Novel set in Boston in 1721, with "the vigor and excitement of this lusty period of our early life portrayed in its full value. [The book] does not ruthlessly debunk nor does it too lightly gloss over the evils and prejudices of the early life in the colonies. Many outstanding American characters appear in this novel, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, Dr. William Douglass, and others. There is also described in very interesting detail the home life, slavery, social customs and the politics of the period." (The main theme of the book is a love story between "young Dr. Nathaniel Webb and his sweetheart Bethiah Rainford, a love that eventually overcomes the objections of her conservative brother, the Reverend Holdfast Rainford.") NOISBN.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 0871408759 ISBN 13: 9780871408754
Anbieter: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in very good condition. First edition. Lightly bumped upper leading corners of the jacket and hardcover. Pages are clean; text is clear. CM. Used.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing, New York, 2013
ISBN 10: 0871404583 ISBN 13: 9780871404589
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 320pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1943
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Black and Gold Edition. Translated by John Payne with an introduction by Sir Walter Raleigh. Some nicking to the spine ends, else near fine in a good only dust jacket with a 2" chip out of the sunned spine not affecting the text and chipping and tearing along the edges.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1943
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Black and Gold edition. Translated by W. Adlington. With an essay by Charles Whibley. 271pp. Covers worn with numerous cup ring marks on front and rear covers, spine tanned and rubbed, moderate wear to the extremities, good only, lacking the dust jacket.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1943
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Black and gold edition. Two volumes in one. Translated by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff. Gutter before title cracked, spine and edges sunned, spine cocked, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1937
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First edition. Tall octavo. 383pp. Neat owner name on front endpaper, heavy offsetting on endpapers, an attemped to repair an improperly opened leaf has left the tear and tape shadows, good only in a price-clipped, heavily worn, fair dustwrapper with interior tape mends. With an engraving of Mirabeau laid in.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1949
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Seventh edition. 396pp. Translated by E.S. Jerdan and Norman Haire. Introduction by Haire. Owner name, corners and spine ends slightly bumped and rubbed, boards with modest edgewear, very good. Volume two only of a two-volume set.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1951
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. One vol. Very good Hardcover has no dustwrapper, corners and spine bumped, text edges smudged. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing, New York, 1941
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Fourth edition. Good. Hardcover rubbed and chipped and frayed at spine ends and bumped corners, cover and foredges soiled, spine and pages browned, worn, hinges beginning to crack. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1964
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Black and white illustrations. Slightly cocked with toning on the edges else about near fine in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing, creasing, and tears.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1924
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Small owner's name, Moderate wear, about very good in chipped, good only dustwrapper.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corp, New York, 1943
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Black and gold edition. Adapted from the Translation of W. C. Firebaugh. An Essay by Charles Whibley. Very good with black cloth cover lightly faded and scuffed.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1948
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Black and Gold edition. Illustrated. Fine in good dustwrapper with a tanned spine and heavy wear.
Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation New York, 1947
Anbieter: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irland
Zustand: Good. 1947. Hardcover. Lightly scored copy in black cloth covers with gilt title and decoration to spine. Covers showing some age and light shelf wear. Pages uncut. Lacking dust wrapper but remains a good copy. . . . .
Verlag: New York: Liveright Publishing, 2016. 9780871406729, 2016
ISBN 10: 0871406721 ISBN 13: 9780871406729
Anbieter: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original silver lettered blue/white cloth (minor abrasions on boards - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 343, illus with b&w maps and plates (no inscriptions).