viking press penguin new york (155 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing. 416 Pages Indexed. White covers. Moisture exposure to the right bottom reflected in light wrinkling to the front cover and first 75 pages. There are no marks, stamps, or names and excepting the slight wrinkling the interior is faultless. It is a study of the romantic life of Einstein as well as a study of physical science in the early 1900s. It is a biography of one of the brightest minds of the period 1900-1920 and his accomplishments as well as his personal and romantic life. A well-researched work with fifteen pages of notes and 70 bibliographical references. The author has an interesting way of presenting some of the facts of the history of science up to 1900. Contents in twenty-five chapters and Five Parts: Runaways, Relative Motions, The Revolutionary at Home, Gravity's Rainbow and Master of the Universe. It would be a mistake to judge Dennis Overbye's book Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by its cover, because this book is as much a story about science at the beginning of the twentieth century as it is a story about the romantic life of one of the great scientific minds of the time. At its heart, this book is a biography of Albert Einstein that focuses specifically on his most productive period as a scientist, a time that spans roughly the years 1900-1920. In the course of 370 pages, it discusses his accomplishments as a scientists and the episodes that were shaping his personal life during this time. Of the two, Einstein's place as a scientist is most well-known to even the most unscientific among us.The fact that Einstein's likeness was recently found on television dancing among the stars while selling something as mundane as a soft drink is a testament to his position as the archetypal scientist in our collective subconscious. And it is to these unscientific masses that Overbye has pitched his book. That doesn't mean that this is not a well-researched work. In fact, quite the opposite is true. The fifteen pages of end notes and 70 bibliographical references attest to the research that has gone into producing it. Rather, it is a warning to mathematicians that they won't attain a deeper understanding of the scientific work of the time by reading this book. They will, however, learn some of the basic facts of the history of science at the end of the nineteenth century.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good +. 7th Printing. 245 pages. Six new tales featuring everyone's favorite barrister: A La Carte, Summer of Discontent, Right to Silence, At Sea, The Quacks and the Prosecution. Has some cover edge wear and spine wear as well. But a tight square book that has not been abused.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing Stated. 274 Pages. Clean straight book with no marks or stamps. Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice. A swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic thirtysomething single women. Jane Rosenal sets out on a personal spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. with an unforgettable comic touch, the author skillfully teases out issues of the heart, puts a new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to be a young woman coming of age in America today.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 382 Pages. This is the Cambridge Edition of the text of Mr Noon now correctly established from the original sources and first published in 1984. This is a reprint of the 1985 edition published in England by Granada. .The Appendix contains Maps, Note on the Text, and Chronology. Minor moisture stains at top of last ten pages. Front cover has edge wear and turned up corner. Introduction by Melvyn Bragg. Edited by Lindeth Vasey. This is Lawrence's autobiographical novel of a young man's emotional and sexual awakening. For decades Mr. Noon was known only as a long short story in which Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster and one of Lawrence's alter egos, becomes entangled with a young girl and loses his job. It ends with Gilbert deciding to leave the stifling morality of his provincial village. But Gilbert's story was continued in a manuscript that was lost until 1972. In it he travels to German and falls in love with a married woman, clearly modeled on Frieda Lawrence, and elopes with her to Italy. In some ways it is a sequel to Sons and Lovers.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition Stated. 335 pages. Dust jacket has uncliped price 18.95 and a 3/4 inch tear plus a small jacket tear and edge chips and scuffing. In the early hours of September 1, 1983, a Soviet fighter plane shot down Korean Airlines flight 007 as it flew without authorization over the Soviet Union's airspace. The Boeing 747 plunged into the Sea of Japan, killing all 269 passengers and crew. Reactions around the world were of horror and indignation. The Reagan Administration energetically asserted that flight 007 had drifted off course accidentally, and that the Soviet Union fired knowingly without warning . With the passage of time much new information has come to light which casts grave doubts on the American claims and the integrity of those who asserted them. The author demolishes the Reagan version of events and sets this tragedy in the context of vital American and Soviet strategic interests in the North Pacific. It will be hard for a reasonable person to read this book and not conclude that flight 007 was on an intelligence mission for the U S when it was shot down.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 274 pages. Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, haven't had a vacation in years. Now their bags are packed, and they're ready to set off for a romantic getaway to France. But things go awry when a chain-smoking gypsy approaches Ellie with a dire prediction: Take that trip at your peril! Those ominous words ring true when her prodigal father Morley suddenly appears with an urn containing the remains of his lady love, Harriet, whose death in a car accident has left him bereft. When Morley loses the urn in a bizarre series of events, Harriet's family is furious, and a bewildered Ellie asks some probing questions: What exactly is in that urn? Is her father a pawn in a deadly game? Is this what the gypsy had foreseen? The answers are hilariously revealed in a caper so charming it could only have come from Dorothy Cannell.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 386 pages. Black boards with gold spine lettering. Bradley's epic fantasy set in the realm of King Arthur. But instead of focusing on the Knights of the Round Table the brief flowering of Camelot is seen from the perspective of the women involved in the great saga. This magnificent novel spans the creation of Avalon itself and foreshadows the firth of the legendary King Arthur. here, we meet three remarkable holy women who steer the fortunes of Roman Britain as they struggle with their own destinies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition. MAGISTERIAL: BRILLIANT: AUTHORITATIVE: ENGROSING: FINE Stated First American Edition w/ no. line showing First Printing (December 1999), FINE mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners BUT w/ uniformly diagonally-clipped inside-flyleaf corners (c. 0.25"), IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, AS-NEW cover w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners & w/ black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50 onto front & back panels covered in matte-silver-gray paper w/titles HANDSOMELY silver-stamped on spine, AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & white cloth banding at spine-caps, EXCELLENT cream-white card-stock end-papers MARRED Only w/ orig. Princeton University owner's name & October 2002 elegantly inscribed at top-center inside-front, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 14 Line-Maps, Foreword, Appendix (The Exploration of Space), Index * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.00", 1.46 kg, xx+906 (926) pp. * When it comes to narrative history, J.M. Roberts is an undisputed master of his craft. His acclaimed "History of the World" (OUP) has been one of the most astounding phenomena in modern-history publishing. W/ it, Roberts has made hundreds of thousands of readers around the globe deeply aware of the pleasures of history & has demonstrated that a historian can create a view of the world that is genuinely international in its scope & interests. In "Twentieth Century" Professor Roberts has given us an authoritative & engrossing survey of the tumultuous century just past. "Twentieth Century" allows us to understand the extraordinarily dynamic & extraordinarily disturbing century through which we have all lived. Brilliant both for its grand political sweep & its unprecedented grasp of massive social change, Roberts' work goes beyond simple narrative in distinguishing the major long-term changes that run beneath the flux of events to establish a true world history & not merely a story of the relations of powers & governments. As Roberts shows, the fundamental changes of the 20th century fall outside the framework that conventional international relations & its history employs. These changes include a worldwide increase in life expectancy, revolutionary strides in science & technology, & the radical configuration of the global economy. In order to give emphasis to his wide-ranging themes, Roberts opens w/ a grand survey of the century's beginnings to show the ways in which the world of 1901 did NOT foreshadow our own, & how all of our most basic assumptions from this earlier time have vanished. Chronicling the historically significant events of the last hundred years in a sweeping & always lively continuous narrative, Roberts then closes his work w/ a penetrating retrospect which assesses the position of humanity as it confronts the dawn of a new age. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: J.M. Roberts, former Warden of Merton College, Oxford, is the author of numerous works of history, including "History of the World" & "A History of Europe.".

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 332 pages. The most dramatic changes wrought by latter-day technology and medicine has been the immense increase in human life. Author is the founder and president of Longevity Magazine. Dust Jacket cover price of 24.95 is unclipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dustjacket has a small tear to the front flap fold and is lightly rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8998 shelf. Unread. Gold-stamped black bds. Production error verso front cover & FEP. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. 209 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Brian Lanker (Author photo); Neal Stuart (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Book with light wear to edge of boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear/crease to upper back cover, a closed tear/creasing to bottom spine, a couple soft creases and faint edge wear, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. First printing, hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Two tiny bumps on bottom board edges, still a tight fine copy in a fine unflawed dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. First printing, hardcover. Slight bump to heel of spine,else a tight fine copy in a fine unflawed dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint Edition. 'A brilliant study of the culturedf, aesthetic world of a Japanese elite during the Heian period'. 348pp, genealogical charts. Clean, unmarked copy, inside and outside. Tight, square bindsing, no creases to the spine. Weight, 242g. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Burckhardt, Mark Cover (illustrator). First American Edition Stated. 231 pages. First printing of First American Edition. Dust jacket has 18.95 price unclipped is lightly rubbed with just a small amount of light edgewear. Straight bright tight book with faultless interior and no remainder marks. Seventeenth book featuring series character antique dealer Lovejoy. Our beloved antiques dealer whose chest goes bong, is involved in a Celtic gold scam and finds a friend murdered. When Lovejoy himself is put on the block among marmalades and lawnmowers at a charity auction and billed as Slave for a Day the bidding soars. To Lovejoy's alarm, two rich women vie for his services, the winner paying an outrageous sum.

3rd printing. Honest and gripping biography, profusely illustrated. Bright tight HB vcopy w jacket. 8-3/4 x 9-3/4, 218 pp, index, bibliography, notes, resources, b/w photos & ills, photo endpapers. VG+ ex-library copy else unmarked, ffep removed, in Fine bright jacket in Brodart. Hardback in brick clorh boards, in color-illus jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing. A bright, clean, tight copy sans flecks, tears, stains, markings, and discoloration. "How does a Jewish seven-year-old become the hero of a Nazi propaganda film? After sixty-three years of silence, Alex Kurzem appears unexpectedly on his son's doorstep, carrying a battered suitcase and a terrible secret. What follows is a bloodcurdling look inside the belly of the Nazi beast through the eyes of a Jewish child." 418 pages. GG12.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Bascove (Jacket Design and Illustration) (illustrator). 1st American Trade Edition, 1989. 472 pp. Flawless book and dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Evan Gaffney (Jacket Design); Kathryn Parise (Design)Alex Webb and Tria Giovan (Jacket Photos) (illustrator). 417 pp. Solidly bound copy with clean text and minimal external wear. Dj has minor cuts and tears around edges. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 787 pp. Book is very clean. Binding is solid and tight. Pages are bright and unmarked. Dj has a small tear/ rip on top corner near flap. Minimal wear to both book and dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Paul Gamarello/ Eyetooth Designs (Jacket Design); Jacket Photo Courtesy of Viero (illustrator). 1st Published 1990/ 1st Printing. 230 pp. Flawless book. Dj shows minimal wear around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Published in 2002. 309 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Liney Li (Design) (illustrator). 285 pp. Tightly bound copy with minimal external wear. Pages in center cut out!.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Lew Betty (Book Design); Elegant Jewelry (Caduceus sculpture); Jim Cooper (Caduceus Photo); Jerry Bauer (Author Photo) (illustrator). 243+ pp. Flawless book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 292 pages; 24 cm. SIGNED on a Literary Society bookplate/front free endpaper. Fine DJ. *** "With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores the transcendent power of art through the eyes of ordinary people. Life Studies begins with historic tales that, rather than focusing directly on the great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters themselves, render those on the periphery - their lovers, servants, and children - as their personal experiences play out against those of Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others. Vreeland then gives us contemporary stories in which her characters - a teacher, a construction worker, and an orphan for example - encounter art in meaningful, often surprising ways. A fascinating exploration of the lasting strength of art in everyday life, Life Studies is a dazzling addition to Vreeland's outstanding body of work." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good copy. (see picture) Small piece of tape on the front cover,top left.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 190 pages. Cover has surfaced skimmed about 3/8 inch by price sticker removal. Straight square and tight with no marks or stamps. Set ;in the Paris of Louis XV, a Paris unleashed from the religious hypocrisy of the the old reign into a frenzy of extravagance and pleasure, Manon Lescaut is a strange lover story.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. The book is in black cloth spine with ivory boards. Turquois facsimile signature of author embedded on front board. DJ is vivid and clean. Would be rated fine but for the back cover has approximately four scratches. Scratches are apparent to the touch but light to the view. A 1998 rom com that was a best seller from the same author who wrote "Waiting to Exhale". Made into a movie of the same name with Angela Basset and Taye Diggs.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, very tight, certainly unread copy with price ($24.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. REVIEW copy, with publicity letter laid in. F-2143,