Carpet Baggers (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. American History Illustrated (January 1973) (The Carpet Baggers, Volume VII, Number 9).

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

xii, 475 pages. Paperback: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Glossy paper covers rubbed; some scuffing and slight curling/bumping at edges. Some foxing/soiling to text block's top edge and bottom edge; small stain at upper fore-edge with some rear leaves fractionally affected at margins. Interior leaves are mostly clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0195048733.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD+. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+. 1ST EDITION. USA: SIMON & SCHUSTER , 1995. 1ST EDITION. GOOD+/GOOD+. Simon & Schuster, USA, 1995, hardcover, 1st edition, 1st printing, good+ book in a good+ jacket, unclipped jacket, previous owner name of FEP else unmarked, not remaindered, bookclub or library.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. There are novels that aspire to literary subtlety, and then there are Harold Robbins novels, which generally prefer to kick the door off its hinges, stride into the room wearing an expensive suit, acquire a private airline, start three scandals, and seduce half the cast before chapter five. The Carpet Baggers is one of Robbins? most famous creations, a vast, unapologetic blockbuster first published in the 1960s and presented here in a 1978 New English Library edition. If subtle character studies are delicate chamber music, The Carpet Baggers is a brass band mounted on a runaway locomotive. The novel follows Jonas Cord, a man with wealth, ambition, determination, and approximately the same regard for limits as a charging rhinoceros. Inspired in part by the life of aviation and film tycoon Howard Hughes, Cord proceeds through the twentieth century accumulating power, influence, enemies, businesses, lovers, and complications at a rate that would exhaust most ordinary people before breakfast. What makes Robbins such an enduring guilty pleasure is his complete refusal to apologise for being entertaining. There is no sense that he is trying to win academic awards or impress a committee of literary critics. He wants readers to turn the page. Then turn another. Then stay up far later than intended because somebody has just launched an airline, started a feud, inherited a fortune, lost a fortune, or become involved in a scandal of industrial proportions. The title itself is magnificent. The Carpet Baggers sounds like either a ruthless business empire or a travelling folk band with surprisingly aggressive management practices. In Robbins? hands it becomes a tale of money, ambition, excess, power, and the uniquely twentieth-century belief that if one simply works hard enough, dreams big enough, and ignores enough warning signs, absolutely anything is possible. Reading it today is rather like opening a time capsule from an era when popular fiction believed bigger was always better. More drama. More wealth. More glamour. More aviation. More everything. Modern thrillers often strive for realism; Robbins cheerfully aims for spectacle. This particular copy comes with an unexpected bonus feature that Crappy Old Books feels deserves special recognition. Tucked inside is a complimentary Thai Airlines Executive boarding pass for a flight somewhere, at some point, to a destination now lost to history. It is a marvellous little relic of a vanished world. We know almost nothing about the journey, but we do know one crucial detail: seat 12E was a smoking seat. For younger readers, it should perhaps be explained that there was once a time when passengers sat inside a pressurised metal tube at 35,000 feet and collectively agreed that introducing cigarette smoke into the environment was perfectly sensible. Humanity?s confidence was astonishing. The boarding pass adds a faint air of mystery to proceedings. Who was the traveller? Where were they going? Why was The Carpet Baggers accompanying them? Did they finish the book before landing? Did they swap seats? Were they themselves a ruthless tycoon? These questions remain unanswered, which somehow makes the discovery even better. Condition-wise, the book is Fair. It has clearly travelled through life with considerably more enthusiasm than caution, but remains entirely readable and full of character. Much like several of Harold Robbins? protagonists, it may show signs of wear yet still possesses plenty of life. For readers who enjoy grand-scale commercial fiction, aviation-era glamour, larger-than-life characters, and novels utterly unafraid of excess, The Carpet Baggers remains tremendous fun. Add in the mysterious Thai Airlines boarding pass and you are not merely buying a paperback. You are acquiring a tiny archaeological artefact from the age of smoking sections, executive travel, and bestselling novels that believed moderation was for other people. Exactly the sort of gloriously over-the-top survivor that Crappy Old Books is delighted to send back into circulation.…

mass market paperback. Condition: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 679 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; dam stain; wavy pages; crease, scuff, stains to cover; nicks to edges cover; spine head and heal bumped and chipped; spine slanting; tips bumped; tanned pages; clean pages; promtp shipping wth tracking. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG plus trade size paperback. First edition flat Signed on Tp. No other names or markings to text. Fiction. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. New English Library 1963 Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Texto en ingles. 633 paginas. Muy buen estado de conservacion. 18 x 11 Cm. Libro.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60062778: 1985. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 717 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good +. 633pp. First Four Square Commonwealth edition (# 960). Film tie-in. Curvature and slight lean to the spine. Pages and edges of the text block are age-tanned. Small stamp "a" to bottom edge. Light wear. The binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In this lively memoir John Cooper of three decades of racing the author describes the great drivers who piloted his cars - among them Bruce McLaren, Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham and Phil Hill. He takes you behind the scenes to posh parties and big money and conveys the roaring excitement of motor racing. The book is SIGNED by JOHN COOPER with a dedication to Mike. Inventory # B2582. Edgington,David (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Near fine. First Edition. x, 230 p. 22 cm. B&w photos. Quarter black cloth with grey paper boards. Mylar-covered dustjacket. Some marks on jacket. Front flap price clipped. Foreword by Ken Tyrrell.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Meets the acceptable condition guidelines. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1914 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 26 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 68. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1878 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 68.…

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paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Rip to the cover (or dustjacket if hardback), or significant tearing to pages. 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.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1878. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 68, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 68 68.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1878. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 70, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 70 70.…