new york random house 1992 (36 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii + 316 pages, octavo, hardcover, first ed. Includes index. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. 040407A.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small tear at lower right hand corner of dj, crease along top edge.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. New York, Random House, (1992), 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first edition. Pages 318,octavo, hardcover, first edition. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. Publicity material laid in. 101206A ISBN: 0-679-40937-8.

Hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, maroon cloth covers over maroon boards, xxiii [1] 227 pages, plus a page about the author. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 040414A.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Minor binding slant. Book and dust jacket are bumped at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is also lightly bumped along top edges. 220 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine with near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket is very lightly bumped at top of spine. 261 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Very good to fine with very good to fine dust jacket. Book is slightly cocked. Book and dust jacket are lightly bumped at bottom back corner. Dust jacket is also lightly bumped at spine tips. 338 pages with illustrated endpapers.

Paperback. Some minor traces of use, still a (very) good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Printing. Octavo, 505 pages, clothbacked boards This book addresses the deep past, the most formative steps in our origins.

221 [3] S. Gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 479 Gr.-8°. Original-Halbleineneinband.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First edition. 12mo, black cloth; trifling wear to dj Author's fourth book, featuring explorations of adult phone sex. Monica Lewinsky gave a copy of this to President Bill Clinton.

24.0 x 16.0cms 478pp colour illusts very good hardback with decorated boards & half-size dustwrapper This book engages with planetary landscapes; the animate landscape; problematic atomic & mathematical landscapes; astronomic & cosmological landscapes.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

20.0 x 13.0cms 812pp very good+ paperback & cover This monumental work traces 3000 years of aesthetic and intellectual invention. showing how great art has been created where it comes from and how it has shaped and mirrored its host culture.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. ; xxv, 223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0679400397 :; 9780679400394 ; LCCN: 91-51017 ; OCLC: 25369298 ; blue and blue-green cloth with gold lettering, no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due pocket ; ".[R]ecounts the process of discovery, from atomism of the Greeks to quantum revolutions of the 1920s and the theories and conjectures of today. Topics include components of the atom, quantum mechanics, atomic landscape, atoms in isolation, [and] more" ; "Lucid and entertaining." - The New York Times Book Review.; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st US edition, 1st printing ; 256 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 9780394550985; 0394550986 LCCN: 91-41141 ; LC: DU178; Dewey: 994.4/1 ; OCLC: 24795743 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels ; Built upon a penal colony, Sydney is a city that bears the mark of its hard-knocks history. This author weaves that past into the present, finding ghosts of the city's rebellious founders in the vibrancy and puck of today's populace. The result is an intimate portrait of the city that forms the spiritual heart of Australia. ; "Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of the cities the British Empire created . but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shinest.'" ; Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003. Hav, her novel, was published in a new and expanded form in 2006. ; VG. Book.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. folio. pp. 120. illus. throughout. Includes music CD "The Best of Marlene Dietrich" in stiff paper case, which is tipped onto the back pastedown. bds. dw.

343 p. Paperback, top-edge text block stained.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [12], 4-337, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over white paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Jacket designed by Andy Carpenter.

Zustand: Fine. - Octavo, black cloth titled in silver, in a dust jacket. Half-title, title, 165 & [2] pages. Near fine. First edition.Signed by the author on the title page.

(large print) paperback, (Brosch. gr.8° guter Zustand), 588 S. with 67 photos,

32.0 x 25.0cms unpaginated with b/w &colour Illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Hockney designed the typography for each letter of the alphabet and Spender invited 26 distinguished writers to contribute the text. The proceeds went to the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust.

Decorated wraps. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. 8vo. [9], 4-232, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $22.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. ISBN: 0517147254 ((hardcover)); 9780517147252 ((hardcover)) LCCN: 95-14441 ; LC: Z4; Dewey: 002 ; OCLC: 32310907 ; Through more than 300 glorious illustrations from library collections around the globe, you'll discover a wealth of book lore in these pages and gain a new appreciation for the role of books in human society, from our earliest attempts at writing and recording information to the newest electronic books; from sumptuous illuminated and bejeweled medieval manuscripts to Gutenberg and the invention of movable type; from the diverse arts and crafts of bookmaking to the building of magnificent libraries for housing treasured volumes; from the ancient epic of Gilgamesh to the plays of Shakespeare and the tales of Beatrix Potter; and from the earliest illustrated books to revolutionary science texts." ; "The book lover's guide to the craft, history and mystery of books and bookmaking." ; Contents: Prologue -- Scrolls and scribes -- People of the book -- Illuminating the dark ages : Medieval glories of the British Isles-- The Gutenberg revolution : Caxton and Aldus; printing in the Americas -- Yes, we have now bananas : Morison, Zapf and Gill - Typography -- The bookmaker's craft : By its cover, the art of the binder -- The infinite library, timeless and incorruptible : A medieval revival in the arts of the book -- A picture's worth : Mother Goose and Company Books for the young-- Every word for everyman : The book business; Lost and found between the covers-- Last words ; FINE/FINE. Book.

4to. pp. 120. numerous b/w illus. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 3 volumes ; illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394525779 ((v. 1)); 9780394525778 ((v. 1)); 0394575539 ((v. 2)); 9780394575537 ((v. 2)); 0394575547 ((v. 3)); 9780394575544 ((v. 3)); 067941987X ; LC: PR5366; Dewey: 822/.912; B; NLC: PR5366; NLM: B S534ho ; OCLC: 213536853 ; black and grey, black and purple, black and tan cloth in photographic dustjackets ; "To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap." ; v. 1. 1856-1898, the search for love -- v. 2. 1898-1918, the pursuit of power -- v. 3. 1918-1950, the lure of fantasy ; "When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898. At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas. Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon." ; FINE/FINE. Book.

1. ed., 5 vols. 252, 365, 256, 274, 277 p. Very fine copy. Books in mint condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 4°, original cloth binding with dustjacket and gold-cut.

4 vols; various pagination. Tall 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. Illus. A near fine and complete set of this acclaimed biography. First editions. {Vols 1 2 and 4, 1st US editions , vol. 3, 1st UK editions.

folio. pp. 157, [3]. profusely illus. (some colour, many full or double-page). bds. dw. (dw. torn in lower right corner & minor wear to extremities). First Edition.