Daniel Rembert (24 results)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer; Randy Rackliff [Illustrator]; Daniel Rembert [Contributor]; Caroline Cunningham [Contributor]; Anita Karl [Contributor]; Jon Krakauer [Photographer];
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Randy Rackliff (illustrator).
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New York: Grove:, 2005. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, 335 pp. Cover artwork by: Daniel Rembert William Kotzwinkle is not afraid. He's not afraid to be associated with most any genre, he's not afraid to be experimental and different, he's not afraid to. . . follow that dream. I'll always love him for DR…. RAT and for SWIMMER IN A SECRET SEA. He is, in a word, awesome. This one is a complete space case. An evil entity from some other dimension has crossed-over into our world. Humanity's hope for survival lies with a beat-up old starfighter with a chest full of medals purchased at an interplanetary pawn shop. His sidekicks: a reptilian navigator, a peace-loving entomologist, a beautiful alien girl, and a small robot that doubles as a suitcase. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Daniel Rembert (illustrator).
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer; Jon Krakauer [Photographer]; Randy Rackliff [Illustrator]; Daniel Rembert [Contributor]; Caroline Cunningham [Contributor]; Anita Karl [Contributor];
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Seller: Cheryl's Books, Vinemont, AL, U.S.A.Cheryl's Books
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback book in good condition. Randy Rackliff (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by A Penguin Book/Penguin Books/Published by the Penguin Group/Penguin Books (USA), Inc., New York, London, et al., 1991
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 10th Printing. 394 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Light foxing on page edges. First and second end pages detached from spine, but retaped. Slightly creased front cover. Slightly skewed spine. Daniel Rembert (Cover Design); Leon Golub (Cover Painting); Ruth Kolbert (Design) (illustrato…r).
Language: English
Published by Villard Books/ Random House, Inc., New York, 2002
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 243 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text. Notes on back-end page and first free front-end page top corner. Dj shows moderate wear around places. Joseph Rutt (Book Design); Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); David Roth/ Getty Images (Jacket P…hoto) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Vintage Books/ A Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1996
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 1st Vinatge Bks Ed. July 1996. 269 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Daniel Rembert (Cover Design) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by BasicBooks/ A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1996
Series: Kluwer International Series in Engineering & Computer Scienc, Book 8 of 8. Book 8 of 8 - Kluwer International Series in Engineering & Computer Scienc
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 1st Ediiton. 192 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Kathryn McGlynn (Jacket Photo); Nancy Sabato (Design) (illustrator).
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Anonymous, Unknow, Not Available, N/A, Presumablly the Freethought Press Association Editorial Staff; Anonymous [George E. MacDonald]
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 366 pp. Copy without blemish. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Steven Blumenthal (Jacket Illustration) (illustrator).
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics
Anonymous, Unknow, Not Available, N/A, Presumablly the Freethought Press Association Editorial Staff; Anonymous [George E. MacDonald]
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 366 pp. Copy without blemish. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Steven Blumenthal (Jacket Illustration) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books/ Published by The Penguin Group, New York, et al., 1993
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Published in Penguin Books: 1993. 336 + xiv pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Daniel Rembert (Cover Design); 'The Alter of the Gods' by Warren Rollins (Cover Ar…t); Jessica Shatan (Design) (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Random House, New York, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Condition: Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Book is square with sharp corners and tight binding. Interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $24 pric…e, has some rubbing on back cover but no chips, tears, creases or other defects in a mylar protective cover. Journalist Joe Klein was ultimately revealed as the author of this fictional account of the presidential campaign of a governor of a small southern state. It was a controversial inside look at the 1992 presidential primary and a thinly disguised portrayal of Bill Clinton's campaign of that year. Basis for the 1998 movie of the same name with John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box. Daniel Rembert, jacket design; Steven Blumenthal, jacket illustration (illustrator).
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 268 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Jessica Shatan (Book Design); Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Mike Powell (Front-Jacket Photo); Rick Stewart (Spine Photo); Tony Inzerillo (Back-Jacket Photo)…(illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Viking Penguin/ A Division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., New York, 1992
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 329 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Daniel Rembert (Jacket Design); Wayne Thiebaud (Jacket Painting) (illustrator).
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Published by Random House, New York, 2019
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition dark gray boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Lynne Olson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Marie-Madeleine… Fourcade and Commander Kenneth Cohen; Selected Cast of Characters; Author's Note; Prologue; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and a black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "The little-known story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island. In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization - the only woman to serve as a chef de resistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group's name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah's Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases. The name Marie-Madeleine chose for herself was Hedgehog: a tough little animal, unthreatening in appearance, that, as a colleague of hers put it, "even a lion would hesitate to bite." No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence - including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day - as Alliance. The Gestapo pursued them relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents, including Fourcade's own lover and many of her key spies. Although Fourcade, the mother of two young children, moved her headquarters every few weeks, constantly changing her hair color, clothing, and identity, she was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she managed to escape - once by slipping naked through the bars of her jail cell - and continued to hold her network together even as it repeatedly threatened to crumble around her. Now, in this dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Rembert, Daniel (jacket design); Smith, Tamzin B. (author photograph) (illustrator).
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New York: Ballantine:, 2019. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 499 pp. Cover artwork by: Daniel Rembert First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Daniel Rembert (illustrator).
Published by Dutton, 1995
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Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.JAC Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dutton, New York, 1995. First Edition/Printing blue & white hardcover, silver gilt lettering on spine, with DJ, 276 pp. Novel based on last days of film director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, etc). Both DJ and book are near fine to fin…e, clean and unread, unmarked. Daniel Rembert (illustrator).
Seeing red or tickled pink : color terms in everyday language
Ammer, Christine. [design, Steven N. Stathakis, Daniel Rembert
Language: English
Published by New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Dutton, 1992., 1992
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Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.Joseph Valles - Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. viii, 215 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0525934626 :; 9780525934622 LCCN: 91-32261 ; OCLC: 24504539 ; LC: PE1689; Dewey: 422 ; red and black cloth with gold lettering in yellow, red, pink and black dustjacket ; "A compendium of color-related idiomatic expressions features a s…ection for each color family and gives the meaning and origin of each expression" ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Language: English
Published by Braunschweig, Vieweg und Sohn, 1935
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Softcover. Poor binding. Covers detached with heavy loss. Lacking spine. Page tears to end page with loss. Sold with all faults. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and… served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).
More imagesPublished by Random House, New York, 2002
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards, black spine, and copper spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Notes; Index and About the Authors. A tin…y repaired 1/16th inch closed tear at the inner front jacket flap and very light rubbing at the upper jacket spine edge (see photographs). All pages are in as new unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photos). "Long before September 11, 2002, Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin warned publicly of a massive terrorist strike against America. They were not voices from the fringe: they had been the directors of the White House's counterterrorism program. Their warnings were ignored. Now they have written the definitive book on radical Islam's war against America, from its deep origins to our long struggle ahead." - from the jacket front. "Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon began working on this book shortly after leaving the National Security Council, where, as director and senior director for counterterrorism, they watched the rise of al-Qaeda and helped coordinate America's fight against Usama bin Laden and his organization. They warned in articles and interviews about the appearance of a new breed of terrorists who were determined to kill on the grand scale. More than a year before September 11, 2001, they began writing The Age of Sacred Terror to sound the alarm for a nation that had not recognized the gravest threat of our time. One of their book's original goals has remained: to provide the insights to understand an enemy unlike any seen in living memory - one with an extraordinary ability to detect weakness and exploit it, one with a determination to inflict catastrophic damage, one that will not be deterred. But after Septemeber 11, a second, equally crucial goal was added: to understand how America let its defenses down, how warnings went unheeded, and how key parts of the government failed at vital tasks. The Age of Sacred Terror also describes the road ahead, where the terrorists will look to draw strength, and what the United States must do, at home and abroad, to stop them. For a year after the attacks that redefined terrorism and devastated the public's sense of security, America has been searching for answers about those responsible for one of the darkest days in our history and explanations for the glaring gaps in our defenses. The Age of Sacred Terror provides both, with unique authority. It is the book that Americans must read to understand the foremost challenge we face." - from the inner front jacket flap. Rembert, Daniel (jacket design) (illustrator).
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Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2006
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition beige cloth boards, gold spine, and red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Mark Bowden; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Philip Roth; Ap…pendix; Source Notes; Acknowledgments and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. "The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam." - from the rear outer jacket. "[Mark Bowden is] a master of narrative journalism." - The New York Times Book Review. "On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, they hoped to stage a three-day sit-in protest of the American decision to allow exiled Iranian leader Shah Mohammed Reza to enter the United States for medical treatment. But these modest, peaceful aims were supplanted by something much more severe and dangerous. The students took sixty-six Americans hostage and kept the majority of them for 444 days in a prolonged conflict that riveted the world. The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with Islamist fundamentalism, a confrontation that has remained at the forefront of American policy to this day. In Iran, following the ouster of the shah, a provisional government was established, and for a critical moment in the modern age's first Islamist revolution, a more open and democratic society seemed possible. But the religious hardliners on the Revolutionary Council used the hostage crisis as an opportunity to purge moderates from the leadership ranks. They altered the course of the revolution and set Iran on the extreme path it follows to this day. The Iran hostage crisis was also a dramatic story that captivated the American people. Communities across the country launched yellow-ribbon campaigns. ABC began a new late-night television program - which became Nightline - recapping the latest events in the crisis and counting up the days of captivity. The hostages' families became celebrities, and the never-ending criticism of the government's response crippled Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign. Guests of the Ayatollah tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the people who lived it, on both sides of the crisis. Mark Bowden takes us inside the hostages' cells." - excerpt from the inner front jacket flap. "When we face plots, our young people cannot wait around. Our young people must foil these plots .We are facing underground treason, treason devised in these very embassies, mainly by the Grat Satan, America .They must be put in their place and return this criminal [the shah] to us as soon as possible. If they do not, we shall do what is necessary." - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "That very first night, they came for me and pulled me to my feet, ripped the blindfold from my face, spat in my face twice, and sneered at me, 'You're Colonel Scott, CIA.' I said, 'Naw, that's a bunch of crap. I'm Colonel Scott, U.S. Army. I was here to help your peple and your military.' And the blindfold was replaced and I was taken out for what wound up being about three and a half weeks of very severe interrogation." - Colonel Charles Scott (Ret)., former hostage. "It's very difficult to compare the suffering that the Iranian nation felt during fifty years of foreign domination . with the sufferings, or the pain, that [the hostages] may have faced during these days." - Nilufar Ebtekar, AKA "Tehran Mary," spokeswoman for the hostage takers. "The only difference between this [the rescur mission] and the Alamo is that Davy Crockett didn't have to fight his way in." - Captain Wade Ishimoto, Delta Force Assistant Intelligence Officer. "My political future might well be determined by irrational people on the other side of the world over whom I had no control." - President Jimmy Carter. Rembert, Daniel (jacket design); Keane, David (author photograph) (illustrator).
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Published by Random House, New York, 1997
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition brown boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Sam Tanenhaus; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by W.H. Auden; Appendix: Sifting the Ev…idence; Notes; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Nearly half a century after giving the testimony that sent Alger Hiss to prison, Whittaker Chambers remains among the most controversial of twentieth-century Americans, hated by many, revered by others. Whittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad - including still-classified KGB Dossiers - Sam Tanenhaus traces the remarkable journey that led Chambers from a sleepy Long Island village to center stage in America's greatest political trial and then, in his last years, to a unique role as the godfather of postwar conservatism. Whittaker Chambers is rich in startling new information about every phase of its subject's varied life: his days as New York's "hottest literary Bolshevik"; his years as a Communist agent and then defector, hunted by the KGB; his conversion to Quakerism; his secret sexual turmoil; his turbulent decade at Time, where he rose from the obscurity of the book-review page to transform the magazine into an oracle of apocalyptic anti-Communism. But all this was merely a prelude to the memorable events that began in August 1948, when Chambers was summoned by a coungressional committee to testify about his past as a Communist agent. Reluctantly, he divulged his key part in a spy ring that had penetrated the most sensitive areas of the U.S. government, including the State Department, where one of his accomplices, Alger Hiss, had risen to a senior position. Chambers' allegations, and Hiss's prompt, emphatic denial, held the nation spellbound - and initiated a drama that changed the face of America. Drawing on an array of new sources, including transcripts of secret HUAC testimony, Whittaker Chambers goes far beyond all previous accounts of the Hiss case, re-creating its improbable twists and turns, and disentangling the motives that propelled a vivid cast of characters in unpredictable directions, Tanenhaus sheds new light on such high points of the case as the "pumpkin papers" Chambers hid on his Maryland farm; the sudden, shocking death of diplomat Laurence Duggan; the backstage intrigue of novice "spy prober" Richard Nixon, whose handling of the investigation catapulted him to the White House. And always, in the eye of the storm, stands Chambers, inscrutable and fatalistic, loathing his role as informer but enacting his part with consummate theatricality. Reborn as a hero to the Right, Chambers became mentor to a new conservative movement led by the young William F. Buckley, Jr., and then joined one last fight, struggling to curb the excesses of the anti-Communist hysteria he had helped unleash. Through it all, Chambers continued to fascinate his contemporaries, who never stopped quarreling about him. To some he was a fascist, to some a martyr, to most a mystery. With the publication of Whittaker Chambers, the mystery ends. This biography gives us the real Chambers, a unique blend of romantic poet, religious pilgrim, and political revolutionary, utterly serious in all he undertook, determined to find a sustaining faith in a world where belief no longer seemed possible - "the most misunderstood person of our time," in the words of Arthur Koestler. A rare conjunction of exacting scholarship and narrative art, Whittaker Chambers is the definitive portrait of a figure whose impact on "the American century" is still being felt to this day." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Rembert, Daniel (jacket design) (illustrator).
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Published by Villard, a division of Random House, New York, 2000
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Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition white boards, white spine, and bright gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedications; Foreword; Author's Note; Cast of Characters; Afterword and Acknowled…gments. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. " "Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton - the man they called Sweetness, for the way he ran - remains the most prolific running back in the history of the National Football League, the star of the Chicago Bears' only Super Bowl Championship, eleven times voted the most popular sports figure in Chicago's history. Off the field, he was a devoted father whose charitable foundation benefited tens of thousands of children each year, and who - faced with terminal liver disease - refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferential position for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a football hero; he was America's hero. Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from the heart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to get girls' attention, and went on to become a Black College All-American at tiny Jackson State (during which time he was also a finalist in a Soul Train dance contest). Drafted by the Bears in 1975, he predicted that he would last only five years but went on to play thirteen extraordinary seasons, a career earning him regular acknowledgment as one of the greatest players in the history of professional football. And when his playing days were over, he approached business and charity endeavors with the same determination and success he had brought to the football field, always putting first his devotion to friends and family. His ultimate battle with illness truly proved him the champion he always had been and prompted a staggering outpouring of love and support from hundreds of thousands of friends and admirers. Written with veteran journalist and author Don Yaeger in the last weeks of Walter Payton's life, Never Die Easy presents Walter's singular voice - warm, plainspoken, funny, self-aware - along with the voices of the friends, family, teammates, and business associates who knew him best at all stages of his life, including his wife, Connie, and their children, Brittney and Jarrett; his teammate and friend Matt Suhey; former Bears head coach Mike Ditka; and many, many others. Walter made Don Yaeger promise that his book would be "inspirational and leave people with some kind of lesson.and make sure you spell all the words right." Never Die Easy keeps all those promises." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Shatan, Jessica (book design); Rembert, Daniel (jacket design) (illustrator).
Aging Gracefully: The Keys to Holier, Happier Golden Years
Dymski, J Daniel; Weakland O.S.B., Archbishop Rembert G [Foreword]
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paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
Language: English
Published by Vintage Contemporaries, New York, 1988
Series: C.W. Sughrue, Book 1 of 2. Book 1 of 2 - C.W. Sughrue
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Vintage Contemp Ed Nov 1988. 244 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Daniel Rembert (Cover Design ) (illustrator).
