knopf new york 1980 (85 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

First Edition. First Edition Softbound VG-/VG-., DJ 12mo narrow, 182, Light wear to book and DJ. Covers are a green leather-type. DJ is designed shorter than the book. DJ is not price clipped. ISBN:0-394-73973-6.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG black pictorial dj. 293 pp. The diary of a breakdown--and of the anguished and liberating voyage back to emotional freedom and control. It reads like a gripping psychiatric detective story with the clues falling into place for the reader at the same time as for the anguished patient. Book.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. Quarto, hardcover, fine in lightly edgeworn pictorial brown dj. 239pp., Over 100 contemporary illustrations, nine maps of the battlefield at particular moments in the action, plus full-color photographs showing the terrain as it is now in comparison with the day of battle in 1815. Bibliographies, Index. The accounts written by: William Seymour [Anglo-Dutch]; Jacques Champagne [French]; Colonel E. Kaulbach [Prussian]; and the prologue and epilogue penned by Lord Chalfont. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 361 pp. Vg in a price-clipped Dw. The saga of the forty-niners.

, stated First Edition, xxx, 378pp., worn and soiled dust-jacket with several chips and tears, original price $15.95, good white cloth BUT some heavy foxing splotches on covers, top foredge badly soiled and stained With 17 color plates. ISBN 0394505964.

HC. 212pp ISBN 0394842944 Radio is Danny's obsession. It's the way he communicates and the way he copes with senior-year anxiety. Then Danny gets the chance of a lifetime--a shot at the real thing when a local radio station sponsors a Talent Search. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover).

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 361pp ISBN 0394400461 "The saga of the forty-niners - their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their inqenuities, delusions, bonanzas, and catastrophies - in California and on the way there." very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Cloth and Boards. Very Good +/Very Good +. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 243 pages including authors note.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Name and number on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is worn at top of spine and is rubbed along top edges and at corners. 275 pages.

Very good minus, slight bump top front corner hardbound Quarto Lightly worn, edgetorn jacket.

F/VG+. TRAVEL BOOK ON ALASKA D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE TOP EDGE CORNERS AND SPINE END WITH A SHORT TEAR AT THE TOP OF THE FRONT PANEL. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hard Cover. Condition: Used: Very Good. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Hardbound With Dust Jacket. First Edition. 287 pages with notes, bibliography and index. VERYFINE/FINE. Book as new. All corners sharp and binding tight and square. No tears, creases, bumps or chips. Unmarked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust Jacket as book but for one 1/4" tear to top of front cover near right corner and very slight rubbing. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Water damage to book. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0394507991. Hardback. First Edition as stated on the copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.

Original halfcloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket pricclipped, bit worn at edges, still a good copy. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good/Very Good. ISBN:0-394-41397-0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Name and address on front endpaper. Dust jacket is bumped along top and bottom edges with a 1/2 inch tear at bottom back corner. 616 pages with index plus 55 illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. First Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very nice signed copy. Minor chipping to jacket. NOT price clipped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Vg/Vg. 1st edition. Book.

Tan Boards & White Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tan Boards & White Cloth. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 287 pages; 9 p. index; 6 p. bibliography; "This book brings together for the first time life histories collected between 1938 and 1942 by the Federal Writers' Project--material that was stored for over four decades in the Library of Congress, unread, uncatalogued, virtually forgotten, until five years ago, when Ann Banks became the first person ever to read through the 150,000 pages of material."- from the dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition (stated). Fine in a fine dust jacket. "Kate Armstrong has many roles: mother, ex-wife, daughter, friend, betrayed lover. Her career as a journalist makes her a spokeswoman of many women. But her home life, career and a host of emotional demands are obscuring the future. As time passes, bringing both joys and crises, the picture clears."--Fantastic Fiction.

1st Printing. 228 pages. Published in 1980. Retrospective collection of essays. Now considered a late-modern classic. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents V. S. Naipaul's "The Return of Eva Peron With The Killings In Trinidad". Some of the greatest journalism and literary criticism ever written in the 20th century, by a writer who is neither a professional journalist or literary critic. Here are gripping first-hand accounts on Trinidad, the author's birthplace, as well as now-seminal essays, "A New King For The Congo: Mobutu And The Nihilism of Africa" and "Conrad's Darkness". The eponymous piece remains unsurpassed as a searing indictment of Argentina (and by extension, Latin America) and its unbreakable cycle of eternal return: Back to authoritarianism, corruption, violence, and economic decline. The return of Peron is cyclical and symbolic as well as factual, an inevitability that disgraces Argentina. One may not know anything or care about these societies and cultures. Once one reads Naipaul's accounts, one is permanently riveted and enlightened. Writing about what is peripheral, he re-defines what is central. Naipaul makes the margins of modern life, his lifelong subject, become the center. "Plot is for those who already know the world; narrative is for those who want to discover it. This is what I would ask of the writer: How much of the modern world does his work contain?" (V. S. Naipaul). "The greatest writer of English prose" (London Observer). Bar none. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for V. S. Naipaul collectors. This title is a classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws: Price-clipped, fading on spine, dampstaining, browned page edges, you name it, this book seems to have endured more than its fair share. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 for "In A Free State". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER V. S. NAIPAUL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0394509684.

F/VG+. D.J. IS LIGHTLY CREASED ON THE PRICE-CLIPPED FRONT FLAP WITH MODEST TANNING OF THE WHITE REAR PANEL. AN EXCELLENT COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Condition: small spots to top edge of book block; else near fine in near fine DJ. Illustrated by B&W illustrations. 1st edition. Binding is cloth & boards.

, Banks, Ann, ed. First-person America. Edited and with an introduction by Ann Banks. New York : Knopf, 1980, stated First Edition, xxv, 287pp., dust-jacket worn around edges, good white half-cloth, lightly used, newspaper review clipping and publisher's materials laid in. nicely INSCRIBED by the author to Harvard historian who wrote blurb on rear jacket panel. "A remarkable evocation of the lives and feelings of the plain people of America during the depression years. A testament to how Americans really lived during these years that can never be recaptured from their memories, so many decades later Ann Banks has made a superb selection. her editorial comments and introduction are first rate" (Frank Freidel, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University). 9780394413976 ISBN 0394413970.

Two books about Chinese heritage & history, in cardboard slipcase. Nice bright clean crisp item. Scarce set. Slipcase is 5-3/4 x 8-1/2; books are 209 + 308 pp. Both volumes Fine unmarked, in NearFine slipcase. Trade Paperbacks in color illus wraps, in orange illus slipcase.