Byron Dobell Editor (71 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. G+/G, used hc, 832pp. Navy colored cloth over boards with gilt text on spine; slight edge wear; tail tips lightly bumped. Dust jacket has gold, white and grey colored text on upper and white text on spine; edge wear with small repaired tears and chips. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm bindi ng. Cover features Joseph E. Stimson's photograph of a mother standing shou lder deep in a sea of Wyoming wheat; articles include "The Rise of the Sup ermarket" by J. Tevere MacFadyen, "FDR and the Kingfish" by William E. L euchtenburg, and "Four Months on the Front Line" by Nikolai Stevenson. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Augustus Saint-Gaudens' sculpted twenty-dolla r gold piece; articles include "American Gold" by Q. David Bowers, "The World of Gluyas Williams" by Edward Sorel, and "A Confederate Odyssey" b y Charles C. Hemming.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm bindi ng. Cover features Dwight D. Eisenhower in retirement, photographed in 1966; articles include "Why We Were Right to Like Ike" by Steve Neal, "The Y oungest Pioneers" by Elliott West, and "At Home on the Highway" by Roger B. White.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm bindi ng. Cover features artist Izumi Inoue's depiction of American forces enteri ng Tokyo Bay in August 1945; articles include "Landing at Tokyo Bay" by V ernon C. Squires, "Made in Philadelphia" by Kenneth Finkel, and "Why We Didn't Use Poison Gas in World War II" by Barton J. Bernstein.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; fading, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in goo d condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features the Arrow Collar Man and his dancing partner, painted by the graphic artist J.C. Leyendecker; articles include "The Golden Age of Advertising" by Roland Marchand, " Ten Books That Shaped the American Character" by Jonathan Yardley, and "T he Civilized Landscape" by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm bindi ng. Cover features a Western Electric telephone receiver; articles include "Breaking the Connection" by Peter Baida, "Saint-Gaudens" by Ruth Mehrt ens, and three features on Arms and the Press. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Charles Saxon's depiction of how air conditio ning changed everything for American families; articles include "The Air-C onditioned Century" by Robert Friedman, "The Court-Martial of Jackie Robi nson" by Jules Tygiel, and "The Gilded Age" by H. Wayne Morgan.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Rich Grote's depiction of Mickey Mouse with t he circuitry beneath the skin exposed, to symbolize the technical genius of Walt Disney; articles include "What Went Wrong with Disney's World's Fair " by Elting E. Morison, as well as a five-story Hollywood retrospective.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Daniel Chester French's 38-inch bronze of Abr aham Lincoln; articles include "Where Have All the Good Men Gone? " by Ric hard D. Brown, "The Suburbs" by John R. Stilgoe, and "Life on Mars Is Al most Certain! " by William B. Meyer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a dramatic close-up portrait of John F. Kenne dy during the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles when he was nominat ed for the Presidency; articles include "The President's Best Friend" by David Michaelis, "Scientists at War: The Birth of the RAND Corporation" b y Fred Kaplan, and "The Man Who Didn't Invent Baseball" by Victor Salvato re.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features the Statue of Liberty; articles include "The Triumph of Watergate, " "Saving the Statue" by Frederick Allen, and "Th e Lawn: America's Greatest Architectural Achievement" by James Marston Fit ch.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features the central staircase of an octagonal house i n Manchester, New Hampshire; articles include "Age of the Octagon" by Ale xander Ormond Boulton, "The Gun the Army Can't Kill" by Peter Andrews, an d "Radio Grows Up" by Alice Goldfarb Marquis.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a 1961 painting by David Levine, showing the pediatrician Nathan Robert Kahn holding the artist's newborn baby; articles focus on A Medical Picture of the United States in a special section.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Ogden Pleissner's oil painting showing Sherma n tanks pushing through the devastated town of St. Lo; issue features World War II Eyewitness accounts, as Tarawa, Normandy, Berlin, China, and the Ba ttle of Britain are recalled.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a twilight photograph of Lower Waterford, Ver mont; articles include "Two Cheers for Optimism" by Robert Bendiner, "Wh at If? " by Marcus Cunliffe, and "A Postage Stamp History of the United St ates in the Twentieth Century" by Judson Mead.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features William Paxton's 1913 painting "The Morning Paper"; features a special 60-page section, "The Press: Its Power and Its Enemies.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features a detail of Colleen Browning's "Sly's Eye" (1977) from her series on subway graffiti; articles include "Fear of the C ity: 1783 to 1983" by Alfred Kazin, "How the Media Seduced and Captured A merican Politics" by Richard C. Wade, and "If I Had Another Face, Do You Think I'd Wear This One? " by Harold Holzer. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Salisbury Tuckerman's painting of the U.S.S. Constitution; issue's special section highlights "Four Hundred Years of Am erican Seafaring.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Charles Saxon's symbolic rendering of Mr. and Mrs. America and our genealogical roots; articles include "Genealogy: The Search for a Personal Past" by Peter Andrews, "The Best Background" by Judson Hale, and "America Was Promises: An Interview with Archibald MacLei sh" by Robert Cowley. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Single issue magazine; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; fadin g, scuffing, and shelf wear to exterior; in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Cover features Harvey Dinnerstein's painting of Alexis de To cqueville on horseback; articles include "If Tocqueville Could See Us Now" " by Ken Auletta, "Does the West Have a Death Wish? " by Dyan Zaslowsky, a nd "The Best Girl Scout of Them All" by Martha Saxton.…

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BLUE CLOTH. Condition: FINE. *FIRST EDITION*. PRISTINE CONDITION. NO FLAWS, NO EXCUSES. Size: OCTAVO.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 36, No. 3, April/May 1985.Textblock clean and tight, photos both in color and b&w; Worn edges and creased corners. 112p. Includes: Ten Books That Shaped the American Character; A Century of Cable Cars; Baseball's Greatest Pitcher; The Golden Age of Advertising. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color Photographs/B&W Photographs (illustrator). Historical Periodical. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Garage sale price marked on cover. Contents: The Life and Times by Geoffrey C. Ward, The Business of America by John Steele Gordon, American Made (Tucker procelain) by Bill Barol, History Happened Here (Gold country), The Other Fair (NY World Fair 1939) by Richard Reinhardt, The Problem of Money and Time by John Steele Gordon, American House Styles: Behind the Federal Façade by alexander Ormond Boulton, The Quiz-Show Scandal by Walter Karp, The Children of Gettysburg by Elizabeth Daniels, and the Overlod Embroidery by Rosemary L. Burgis.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Faintly musty, garage sale price on cover, else VG. Contents: The Life and Times (Lincoln) by Geoffrey C. Ward, The Business of America (The public be damned) by John Steele Gordon, American Made (the Wurlitzer 1015) by Bill Barol, History Happened Here (Yorktown), Astounding Story by Frederik Pohl, The Wonderful Husband by Geoffrey C. Ward, Post Haste by Robert L. O'Connell, The Force Behind the Whitney by Avis Berman, and What I Learned from the Pirates by Robert Bendiner. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Byron Dobell, Editor. Contents: The President's Best Friend by David Michaelis, Painting the Southland, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow-Now: An Interview tih Russell Lynes by John Brooks, Scientists at War: The Birth of the Rand Corporation by Fred Kaplan, The Man Who Didn't Invent Baseball by Victor Salvatore, The Old Ball Game by John Thorn, Baseball's Greatest Song by John W. Ripley, Escape from Vichy by Donald Carroll, Thoreau's Vacation by Joseph J. Thorndike Fr., The Strange Fate of the Black Loyalists by R. D. Eno, Postscripts to History.…