Introductory Note (237 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A lovely copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A single spine crease and with noticeable edge wear and a soft diagonal corner crease to rear wrap. This edition notable for containing "Never before published fiction by Mark Twain," that being "How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson," an unfinished manuscript found in Twain's papers at the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley. Twain's first literary executor, Albert Bigelow Paine, called the untitled piece "Feud Story and The Girl Who Was Ostensibly a Man," and classified it as "unusable" -- meaning most obviously that he had no use for it in his program of posthumous printing, "but perhaps also referring to its subject matter as well, which was rather more indelicate than the official caretaker of Mark Twain's public image might have wished," comments Robert Sattelmeyer in his introduction. Paine dated the story to 1900-1903. The magazine is of 216 pp., the unfinished Twain piece runs 30 pp. followed by a page of notes. Reduced from $30.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. World Law Fund, New York. 1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Preliminary Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on FFFP and Peace Research stamp on front wrap and half title page. Book Condition: Very Good; edge bumping; suntanned spine; age toned wraps. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 195 pp 8vo. This is an initial reporting on disarmament proposals from the Soviet Union and the USA only. This volume presents the proposals in a readable, easy-to-understand way to help develop a firm underpinning of the law in matters of disarmament. A clean very presentable copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. GOOD. Wrappers handled, lightly soiled, edgeworn, bumped at corners, with a couple of small paint spots, front lower corner creased; corners bumped, gift inscription on first blank page. Unpag., color plates. Size: 4to.

Wrappers. Condition: Good. n.d. [1986]. 87 pp., b&w illustrations throughout. Eames furniture catalog. Heavy rubbing, handling and edge and corner wear to wrappers; first and last few page corners lightly bumped, faint bottom edge dampstain lightly affecting lower corners of last approx. 10 pp. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Reprint of 1926 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. DJ has edge scuffs and fading. A discussion on the values of religion. 127 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition - January, 1942. George Grady Press, New York. Tight hardcover in good condition. 4to. Light gray woven cloth boards & backstrip with gold Rembrandt signature on the front board & gold lettering on the backstrip. The entire book iis printed on coated stock. 84 Full-Page Black & White Plates of Rembrandt works of art as well as close-ups of features of some of them. There is a multi-page list of the 84 Plates with information about each Plate. This book is clean & very tight. The outside edge of the boards has a 1/2" band of light discoloration. The gold signature on the front board is very bright. The backstrip has a little edgewear on the top & bottom. The lettering on the backstrip is very bright. The half-title page has a light moisture stain. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good -. Reprint. Black and beige paper cover. Stapled together. 45 pp. Front cover has a few dampstains. Slight foxing inside, but text is mostly clean. Text body is clean and free from underlining, highlighting, or notes. Full refund if not satisfied.

big thick black embossed cloth hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. a little wrinkling & chipping along the top, 1cm tear spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition. first printing (nap) . ix+832p. world history. american history. politics. biography.~ For thirty years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. Now, for the first time, the editors have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result~by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying~is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilization from the first settlements to the fall of Richard Nixon. A Sense of History proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years. A few of the illustrious authors included in this rich compilation are: Barbara W. Tuchman on Teddy Roosevelt's Mideast crisis /Alfred Kazin 's study of why Americans have always feared the city /Malcolm Cowley on Nathaniel Hawthorne in love /Edward Hoagland's haunting evocation of the real Johnny Appleseed /Bruce Catton on the Civil War, of course, but also on baseball /Louis Auchincloss on Henry Adams's unlikely sojourn in the South Seas /John Kenneth Galbraith dissecting the Great Depression /William Manchester recalling a hair~raising World War 11 hoax /Robert Silverberg's inquiry into the mystery of the mound builders /Stephen B. Oates on the grim career of Nat Turner /Wallace Stegner's luminous memoir of his Western boyhood /Francis Russell's meticulous reconstruction of the crime that sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the chair /David McCullough's surprising profile of Harriet Beecher Stowe/ Hughes Rudd's perilous World War II sojourn as a spotter pilot.

Ex-private school library copy. Reprint (first published 1801). x, [2], 76 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Reddish-brown cloth lightly rubbed and soiled; library shelf number handwritten in white ink at lower spine; impression of removed tape at boards' lower spine corners ; slight scuffing at spine ends and along boards' bottom edges. Light foxing to text block edges; two small dark stains at upper fore-edge with leaves fractionally affected at margins. School library stamps/markings on endpapers and pages v, 15, and 19; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Modern reprint of the original edition with the addition of an Introductory Note and Index by Southern literature scholar and renowned Faulkner specialist Noel Polk. {MS-Shelf#3} ISBN 0871522152.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Normal wear; light for its age; a decent readable copy. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Short artist exhibition catalog bound in illustrated, printed wraps, sunned a bit and lightly soiled. 86 pp. of 143 works by Kokoschka, with an Introductory Note by Jaroslaw Leshko, with Acknowledgments by Stephanie Terenzio, Joseph Gropper provides a Collector's Note, and complete with references. The Austrian artist, poet and playwrite grounded the Viennese Expressionist movement, and these several score duotone reproductions of his works, quite nice, evince his literary and aesthetic bent.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Condition: VERY GOOD. New edition. Frontisplate with tissue guard and illustrations at the heading of each chapter. 123 pp plus 13 pp publisher's advertisements. Very good in dark blue pictorial cloth with gilt title to cover and spine on bevelled boards (previous owner's name, offsetting to front endpaper).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners and spine ends somewhat bumped and worn, cover shows significant rubbing. Page edges somewhat tanned. Ex-college-library with a few neat indications, no card pocket. Binding tight, pages lightly tanned but clean, a few pencil marks. 166 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Private bookplate on fly leaf.;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. pp.x, 201 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket. From a school but there's only a small stamp on the ffep that shows this.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Blue boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected, price unclipped, dust jacket clean and bright. As New. Book is firm in binding, b&w and color photographs, 3 lines highlighte on page 165, ex-libris plate on front end paper. 336 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W and Color photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 336 pages.

Condition: New. pp. 198.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Book cover spine is faded. Book cover has slight edge wear, with a couple marks on front cover. The first few pages have slight indentations along side edge.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 219 Pp. Orange Cloth Lettered In Black. First American Edition Stated. Very Near Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $3.50, No Fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. 85 Pp. + "Hand-List Of Illustrated Books By John Austen" At End. White Vellum Spine, Gilt, Over Green Boards, Gilt. Top Edge Gilt. #774 Of A Numbered Limited Edition. Near Fine, Slight Discoloration To Vellum As Usual, Gilt All Brilliant. Endpapers With Some Foxing, Pages And Illustrations Clean With No Foxing At All. Hinges Tight, No Fraying; Lightly Used But Undamaged. In A Glassine Dj, Very Worn, Tears, Small Chips.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Light rippling to all pages, which are clean but slightly age-darkened. Wraps have general wear. ; Issue marks the opening of the Metropolitan's American Wing in June 1980. ; 11.0" tall; 52 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wrappers. Clean and bright pages. ; Publication showing acquisitions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 2006 and 2007. ; 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 68 pages.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wrappers. Clean and bright pages. ; Publication focusing on the museum's acquisitions in 2000 and 2001. Categories include the ancient world, Islam, medieval Europe, Renaissance and Baroque Europe, Europe 1700-1900, North America 1700-1900, modern art, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Asia. ; 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 88 pages.

Condition: New. pp. 198.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Missing. 2nd Edition. 814 pp. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on both covers. Mildly worn edges. Dust jacket missing.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Copyright 1945. 436 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. No dj. First free end page torn in half. Light foxing on page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No. 406 of 720 copies. 12mo. volume bound in burgundy-colored cloth with black leather spine label in publisher-issued slipcase. Frontispiece illustration. Condition: bottom of slipcase missing; slipcase is rubbed & worn; spine of book is sun-faded and a bit soiled; else very good. 154 pages.