alfred a knopf distributed by random house new york (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ; (alk. paper) 301p. ; 25 cm. Box number: CNL-02.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 370 p. ; 25 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. 306 p. 25 cm. Box number: GR0050. ; First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. (alk. paper) 227 p. ; 20 cm. Box number: CNL-07.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 1st ed. hardback vg/vg (alk. paper) ; Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-370) and index.; 383 p. ; 25 cm.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 206 p. ; 24 cm.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xvi, 247 pages. Hardcover; H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed, spine and flap fold ends nicked; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth spine with blue paper over boards, slight color fading along top edges of boards. Past owner's signature at top of front free endpaper. A very good copy in very good- dust jacket. ISBN 0394539850.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. 577 p. 25 cm. Sequel to: The witching hour. ; First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st ed. x, 395 p. map 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Box number: GR0059. ; 1st North American ed. ; Twelfth printing, August 2006.

hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. none xxxviii, 325 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 331 pp., illustrations, 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index. Contents; Introduction: Changing Meanings -- 1. The Sacred Breast: Goddesses, Priestesses, Biblical Women, Saints, and Madonnas -- 2. The Erotic Breast: "Orbs of Heavenly Frame" -- 3. The Domestic Breast: A Dutch Interlude -- 4. The Political Breast: Bosoms for the Nation -- 5. The Psychological Breast: Minding the Body -- 6. The Commercialized Breast: From Corsets to Cyber-Sex -- 7. The Medical Breast: Life-Giver and Life-Destroyer -- 8. The Liberated Breast: Politics, Poetry, and Pictures -- 9. The Breast in Crisis. Subjects; Breast Social aspects. Breast in art and literature. Human body. 1 Kg.

Ford, Richard, 1944-. A multitude of sins: stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002, stated First United States Edition, 286pp., very good dust-jacket lightly worn and wrinkled along top edge, cover price $25.00, very good black and light green hardcover, tiny tear at top of one page. SIGNED simply Richard Ford in blue ink on title page. A collection of short stories that explores the theme of love and intimacy looks inside the relationships between men and women--both in and out of marriage--and the sense of right and wrong. - CONTENTS: Privacy -- Quality time -- Calling -- Reunion -- Puppy -- Crèche -- Under the radar -- Dominion -- Charity -- Abyss. 9780375412127 ISBN 0375412123.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Moving, Household --Trees --Fiction. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Endpages torn. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 278 pages. Subjects; Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973. Miró, Joan 1893-1983. Matisse, Henri 1869-1954 ; Biography. Picasso, Pablo 1881-1973 ; Biography. Art, European 20th century. Art, European. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 331 pages; Description: 331 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) --Baltimore (Md. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.

5th Revised Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 538 pages; Description: 538 p. : col. ill. (some folding), maps ; 23 cm. Subjects: Egypt -- Guidebooks. Series: Knopf guides. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Signed by the author ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 331 pages; Description: 331 p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Jury, Richard (Fictitious character) --Baltimore (Md. ) --Fiction 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages; Description: 321 p. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Man-woman relationships --Computer programmers --Villages --New England --Fiction 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 127 pp. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0394525396; 9780394525396 LCCN: 82-47834 ; OCLC: 8627839 ; "Gray, rumpled, garrulous Prof. Homer Prudhomme, apparently wandering his native New England in search of longtime (long-unfaithful) wife Priscilla, w inds up in a bar. . . and is promptly picked up, more or less, by local exterminator . More Pansy Truax, a giantess who matches Homer's arch locutions with roughly eloquent pronouncements on bumhood: "There's your four types of bums. . . the boozehound bum, the mama's boy, the bookworm, and the pillhead." Very soon, however, Kennedy shifts the tone from boisterous, just-slightly-unreal comedy to a darker, more explicitly thematic brand of whimsy, with more than a soupcon of Joyce Carol O ates. The Homer/Pansy affair quickly becomes a caricature of traditional marriage--with the sex-roles graphically reversed. Homer then flees to become the third party to a similarly imbalanced relationship: the marriage of charismatic octogenarian M rs. French and her young, pretty, effeminate, pouting husband. Later he'll take a car-ride with yet another sexually-reversed pair: black live-sex-show performers Salamandra and Queen Albert. And, throughout, Homer reminisces about his own family's sexual waywardnesses: wonderfully sensual wife Priscilla, raped by her father, later his willing mistress, and ever unfaithful to Homer ('She hadn't even unlocked her trousseau yet, and here she was, balancing the porcine belly on her forehead, serv icing an empire!'); and his Aunt Daphne, who sinned with her brother-in-law, was de-faced by a swarm of bees, and came back years later as 'a fertility goddess.'"--Kirkus reports ; VG/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American ed. ; 367 pp. ; ISBN: 067977260X, 9780679772606 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in color decorative dustjacket ; the author's sixth novel ; "Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obssese s him 30 years later" ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Two-tone paper-covered boards, 8vo, 25 cm, x, 290, [2] pp, over 60 ills. From the blurb - ".Petroski turns to the subject of books and bookshelves, and wonders whether it was inevitable that books would come to be arranged vertically as they are today on horizontal shelves. As we learn how the ancient scroll became the codex became the volume we are used to, we explore the ways in which the housing of books evolved. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, where books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security. He explains how the printing press not only changed the way books were made and shelved, but also increased their availability and transformed book readers into book owners and collectors. He shows us that for a time books were shelved with their spines in, and it was not until after the arrival of the modern bookcase that the spines faced out. In delightful digressions, Petroski lets Seneca have his say on 'the evils of book collecting'; examines the famed collection of Samuel Pepys (only three thousand titles: old discarded to make room for new); and discusses bookselling, book buying, and book collecting through the centuries. Richly illustrated and wonderfully written, this is the ultimate book on the book: how it came to be and how we have come to keep it." Name on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pictorial hardcover, 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) 1 audio cassette, Cover title.Consists of pop-up, pull-out, and press-out sections on folded pages; pocket at front contains red/blue 3-D glasses; pockets at back contain 1 model for assembly, 1 sound cassette (analog), 1 pull-out folded sheet (11 x 7 cm.) with title: Timeline of architects and architecture, and 1 booklet (40 p. ; 11 x 7 cm.) with title: Glossary of architects and architecture. a clever production with some intricate paper engineering, in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 367 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 037541214X; 9780375412141; LCCN: 2001-89763 ; LC: PS3552.I74; Dewey: 813/.54 ; OCLC: 47125699 ; "Bernadette 'Bernie' Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is, until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment; Kadena Air Base, Okinawa" ; blue and red cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 5th printing ; 1 score (xii, 331 pp.) ; illustrated (some in color) ; 28 cm ; LC: M1630.18.S549; Dewey: 784.4 ; ISBN: 0394707834 (pbk.); LCCN: 78-38322 ; OCLC: 389897 ; For voice and piano; includes guitar symbols ; Contents: Hey, schoolgirl -- A ch urch is burning -- You don't know where your interest lies -- Red rubber ball -- Sparrow -- Wednesday morning, 3 a.m. -- Sounds of silence --I am a rock -- Leaves that are green -- Blessed -- Kathy's song -- Somewhere they can't find me -- Richard C ory -- A most peculiar man -- April come she will -- We've got a groovy thing goin' -- Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme -- Scarborough fair/Canticle -- Patterns -- Cloudy -- Homeward bound -- The big bright green pleasure machine -- A simple desult ory philippic (or how I was Robert McNammara'd into submission) -- The 59th Street bridge song (Feelin' groovy) -- The dangling conversation -- Flowers never bend with the rainfall -- For Emily, whenever I may find her -- A poem on the undergound wa ll -- 7 o'clock news/Silent night -- Mrs. Robinson -- Save the life of my child -- America -- Overs -- Old friends ; Bookends -- Fakin' it -- Punky's dilemma -- A hazy shade of winter -- At the zoo -- Bridge over troubled water -- Cecilia -- Keep th e customer satisfied -- So long, Frank Lloyd Wright -- The boxer -- Baby driver -- The only living boy in New York -- Why don't you write me? -- Song for the asking -- El condor pasa -- Everything held together falls apart -- Run that body down -- A rmistice day -- Me and Julio down by the schoolyard -- Peace is like a river -- Papa Hobo -- Hobo's blues -- Paranoia blues -- Congratulations. ; "Here are the song sof Paul Simon, 59 songs made famous by Simon & Garfunkle and by Simon alone.The b ook begins with a highly personal introduction by Paul Simon, about his music and about himself as a composer.[T]he words and music.[are] all scored for voice, piano and guitar, and throughout, a wealth of photographs, both in color and black-an d-white, recapturing the history of Simon & Garfunkle from the beginning, together with fascinating mementos: scribbled notes for the lyrics, drawings, cartoons, etc [are] found in a 32-page section in which all the lyrics can be read on their own." --cover ; edge wear ; dig at back ep, else VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition ;ix, 148 p. illus. (part col.) 31 cm. ; ISBN: 0394488237; 9780394488233 LCCN: 73-7269 ; LC: ND237.F26; Dewey: 759.13 ; OCLC: 667060 ; ; several full-color plates and one fold-out plate ; in photographic dust jacket ; decorative blind-stamped cloth ; "In the mid-1940s, Fasanella began to suffer from intense finger pain caused by arthritis. A union co-worker suggested that he take up painting as a way to exercise his fingers and ease the pain. In 1945, Fasanella persuaded the UE to organize painting classes for its members at a local college. He was one of the first members to sign up for classes. Fasanella became consumed by art, and left labor union organizing to paint full-time. To pay the bills, he bought a service station and worked there. Fasanella's painting focused on city life, men and women at work, union meetings, strikes, sit-ins and baseball games. He quickly developed a style which spoke to workers and the poor through the use of familiar details. Fasanella improvised a quasi-surrealist style, depicting interiors and exteriors or past and future simultaneously. He painted canvases as big as 10 feet across because he envisioned his paintings hanging in large union meeting halls. 'I always felt embarrassed by the whole thing,' he said, 'but I had to do it.' Fasanella's art was highly improvisational. He never planned out works, and rarely revised them. He said of his 1948 painting May Day, it 'just came out of my belly. I never planned it. I don't know how I did it.' "--Wikipedia ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Stated First Edition. x, 180 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 28 cm. Signed by author on half-title. A fine tight, clean copy in a near fine(-) slightly edge-worn jacket with minor chafing and a few very small closed edge-tears; now in archival mylar.