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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. As New Condition, Library stamp in front, ex library copy. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. ISBN: 0590491210. ISBN/EAN: 9780590491211. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561022480.

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Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Sainsbury, Jonathan (jacket design); Durand, A.B. (jacket engraving - source painting by T. Sully) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, black spine with gold spine lettering, and gold front cover Liveright Publishing "100 Years" decoration contained in an as new condition non price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by William J. Cooper; Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white plate drawings plus black-and-white engraved frontispiece of John Quincy Adams. "Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father? Long relegated to the sidelnies of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) has never basked in the historical spotlight. Remembered, if at all, as an ineffective president during an especially rancorous time, Adams was humiliated in office after the contested election of 1824, viciously assailed by populist opponents for being both slippery and effete, and then resoundingly defeated by the western war hero Andrew Jackson, whose 1828 election ushered in an era of unparalleled expansion. Aware of this reputation yet convinced that Adams deserves a reconsideration, award-winning historian William J. Cooper has refraned the sixth president's life in an entirely original way, demonstrating that Adams should be considered our lost Founding Father, his morality and political philosophy the final link to the great visionaries who created our nation. As Cooper demonstrates, no one else in his generation - not Clay, Webster, Calhoun, or Jackson - ever experienced Europe as young Adams did, who at fourteen translated from French at the court of Catherine the Great. In fact, Adams's very exposure to the ideas of the European Enlightenment that had so influenced the Founding Fathers, including their embrace of reason, were hardly shared by his contemporaries, particularly those who could not countenance slaves as equal human beings. Such differences, as Cooper narrates, became particularly significant after Adams's failed presidency, when he, along with his increasingly reclusive wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, returned to Washington as a Massachusetts congressman in 1831. With his implacable foe Andrew Jackson in the White House, Adams passionately took up the antislavery cause. Despite raucous opposition from southern and northern politicians, Adams refused to relent, his protests so vehement that Congress enacted the gag rule in the 1830s specifically to silence him. With his impassioned public pronouncements and his heroic arguments in the Amistad trial, a defiant Adams was no longer viewed as a failed president but as a national, albeit curmudgeonly, hero, who finally collapsed on the floor of the House chamber in 1848 and died in the capital three days later. Ironically, Adams's death and the extraordinary obsequies produced an outpouring of national, and bipartisan, grief never before seen in the nineteenth century, as if the country had truly lost its last Founding Father. Now, in another fractious age, the courageous life of John Quincy Adams suddenly takes on renewed vigor and meaning, as Cooper's momentous biography so eloquently affirms." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 328 pages, book in near fine/fine condition (some marks on the edges otherwise fine) with near fine dust-wrapper (not price clipped, top edge creased). From the collection of the author and critic Michael Kennedy with his embossed circular ownership stamp on the front free end-paper.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition copies. Ex library books with usual stamps and stickers. A little tanned but with clean contents ina tight binding. Original green cloth boards are a little dust marked but with scarce wear otherwise. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.

First edition. 254 S. gr.8. s/w. Abb. graphische Darstellungen. 1 ausfaltbare Karte. (St.). Longmans, Green& Co Limited. London. 1965. Mit Gebrauchsspuren/Used condition. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag/Hardcover/Dustjacket. Bibliotheksexemplar/Library copy. Sprache: englisch/english.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Condition: New. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.69x7.44x0.46 inches. This item is printed on demand.

First Edition. [Card game] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's yellow cloth hardcovers blocked in black. Contents clean, edges toned, covers lightly handled. Near fine. Includes the laws of of the game as published by The Sunday Times. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Goldfinger (1959), the opening chapter of which features the now-famous Canasta game where Goldfinger defeats Mr.DuPont, under the watchful eye of James Bond. Ian Fleming was a senior figure at The Sunday Times. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Section L. Goldfinger (2), p.622.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 200 pages. 9.69x7.44x0.46 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hard Card. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Colour illustrated cover with faint dusting of a little soiling. Edges: few only foxing to the top-edge; light thin smudge to bottom edge corner. Clean contents. Comprehensive colour & b/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 575p Heavy book: just over 1 kg.

First Edition. [Card games] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.772. Publisher's grey cloth hardcovers suitably blocked in red and black. Contents clean, edges a little dusty, covers with a few marks, spine toned. Ostrow's manual was the first-ever book to be reviewed by the future James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, his article published in the Daily Graphic, 28th Sept. 1949. Fleming was a keen card player, and cards and high stakes would be a recurring feature of his 007 adventures. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, D1, p.544.

First Edition. [Card game] FIRST EDITION, early printing (first was published five months earlier). Octavo (16 x 12cm), pp.348. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt. Contents clean, owner signature and book store stamp to free endpaper, covers clean and bright. Near fine. A source book consulted by Ian Fleming while writing Moonraker (1955), which features the now-famous Bridge game where Drax and Meyer play Bond and M at Blades, where Bond deploys 'The Culbertson Hand'. This particular example is from the comprehensive archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencil signature within). His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert, Section L. Moonraker (2), p.619.

Hardcover. Condition: New.