Ny Scribner 1980 (13 results)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback, 1st edition, Near Fine to Fine in a Fine Minus DJ; light wear and rubbing to DJ and DJ edges, trace of wrinkling to bottom edge of DJ, a guide and reference to good typography and typesetting design, 4to., 143 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0.

tan & olive green 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. 1cm tear at 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 (#1 in # line). xiii+518p. 70 b&w photo illustrations. notes. index. biography. american history. journalism. history of china. communism.politics. american international corporation. ~ Pulitzer Prize winning biographer W. A. Swanberg surpasses even the finest of his previous work in this towering narrative of two generations of one of America's wealthiest families. The story of William Collins Whitney and his daughter Dorothy, of his wife Flora Payne and Dorothy's husband Willard Straight, it is a story of love and money, of idealism and corruption, of ambition and untimely death, that ranges from the Gilded Age to the end of World War I. William Collins Whitney was born in rural Massachusetts in 1841 of estimable lineage but slender fortune. Educated at Yale, charming, and with a calm authority even in his youth, he seemed destined to a brilliant future. His marriage to Flora Payne, the vivacious though not truly beautiful Cleveland heiress, could only have appeared to enhance his prospects. Dividing his time between Washington and New York, Whitney abandoned the road to the White House to make a fortune of his own, while trying to accommodate Flora's social ambitions in a day when Mrs. Astor was queen of the "400" and "parvenus" like the Vanderbilts were spending millions to storm the gates. Whitney, the charmer, the mediator, the consummate politician and a pivotal force in Tammany and the national Democratic party, made his fortune by methods so subtle that they remained undiscovered in his lifetime. But he was not to escape tragedy. His daughter Dorothy, an heiress to millions, was an orphan at seventeen. A lover of dances and society, but with a social conscience lacking in her parents, she fell in love, while touring China, with Willard Dickerman Straight. Although negotiating enormous banking transactions in Peking and serving as advisor to railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, who was attempting to create a round~the~world transportation system by hooking up with the Trans~Siberian Railway, Straight had neither social standing nor money. Dorothy's family was horrified. She had rejected dozens of suitors who had both. But Straight was handsome and gifted and, like Dorothy, had political and social ideals. She married him and their marriage was touching in its closeness. Persisting in their political and social concern, they were founders of The New Republic, and Dorothy was instrumental in starting The New School for Social Research. But their marriage, too, would be cut short. Brimming with life, Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress is a rich, sweeping saga of a family, of two marriages, of two men and two women, and of the evolution of political and social thought that the two generations represent. But most of all it is the story of four complex people, whose dreams, loves, aspirations, and grief become the reader's own. …

Quarto, hardcover, VG in VG orange pictorial dj with sunflowers on cover. Clean, tight, unmarked. With illustrations and patterns throughout, some in color. Unpaginated. About 200 pp. Demonstrates 100's of stitches and patterns. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scribners, NY c.1980, 1st. 7-1/2'x9-1/2', hardcover, 229pp., illustr. F/F.

Condition: Fine/NF dj. 219pp. black & white photos & drawings 1st American Edition. British edition entitled: 'Intercept'.

Very good with very good, price clipped dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are bumped at spine tips. Dust jacket is also lightly bumped at the corners. 320 pages with index plus 23 photographs.

First US edition. 127 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is slightly misfolded and has one short tear. Illustrated with 111 images.

FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. cloth hard cover.Folio.Photo Illustrations.259 PP.very good copy in very good Dust Jacket. price present.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket Only. Very Good.

8° Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 364 ohne Schutzumschlag, Gebrauchsspuren an Einband und Block, Block sauber und fest ohne Einträge Einband berieben Schnitt fleckig 133266 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition/first Printing. REVIEW COPY WITH MATERIAL LAID IN. Well researched history of Hollywood costumes & designers. Illus. w. 214 b&w photos & drawings. 1st edition. fine/fine/very minute dj. edgewear. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Book.

FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AND DATED MAY 24, 1980 BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH SOME LIGHT CREASES TO THE REAR FLAP, A TINY TEAR AT THE TOP FO THE FRONT PANEL, SLIGHT RUB TO CORNERS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.…