Cornelia Blair (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. 1950. Hardcover. First Edition; (I) on copyright page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottom edges; moisture stains to front board; small splash stains on textblock fore edge. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($2.75); missing pieces at head, tail, and tips; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; moisture stain to front flap fold; DJ reverse has lists of states, radio stations, and frequencies to listen to her radio program. Lavender cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Tinted Textblock top. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 251 pp 8vo. This book presents for the first time the story of Nora Drake's early years to compliment her later years where she is a radio celebrity on the "This is Nora Drake" radio programs This romantic novel presents her early years, the tragedies and adventures of her youth, her years of growing up and coming of age, the steps that led to her choice of a career, her friendships and struggles, the thousand and one events that shaper character and her life, and finally the romance that seemed to be the ideal fulfillment of the dreams of a lovely and appealing girl. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original pink cloth, no illustrations. Hardcover, near fine in good dustjacket. Dustjacket has a 2 inch light tan stain on upper corner of front panel, jagged 1 1/2 inch tear there, rubbed along edges, 1 inch chip off lower edge of spine portion, several lesser tears and chips, price present. Book itself has corners and head and foot of spine rubbed, touch of foxing along edges of textblock, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Novel based on the early years of a radio soap opera heroine. Modern first; fictional biography ; 7.90 X 5.60 X 1 inches; 251 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. USED Good Former Library paperback book. It has normal library markings including card holder/reference sticker and library call number on spine. Has school and/or library name blacked out with marker or white blackout sticker on white page edges, cover and inside.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999. First edition. Hardcover binding. The New York Times Book Review : "As the authors of this brilliant history point out, the Great Game was a dry run for the cold war, avoiding outright conflict but marked by the same search for influence and the same displays of bravery and cussedness, though whether the story of the cold war will ever seem as exciting as this, I doubt. Tournament of Shadows is much more than a magesterial work of scholarship: it is an absorbing inquiry into men and motives that is one part le Carre, one part Indiana Jones. . . . New in new dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Washington: Counterpoint, 1999. First edition. Hardcover binding. The New York Times Book Review : "As the authors of this brilliant history point out, the Great Game was a dry run for the cold war, avoiding outright conflict but marked by the same search for influence and the same displays of bravery and cussedness, though whether the story of the cold war will ever seem as exciting as this, I doubt. Tournament of Shadows is much more than a magesterial work of scholarship: it is an absorbing inquiry into men and motives that is one part le Carre, one part Indiana Jones. . . . New in new dustjacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

mass_market. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.