Smithsonian by Hellman Geoffrey (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. --Hardcover-- red cloth with black and gilt spine design, the book is 8 1/2" tall-- a rather thin hardcover book. 224 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight, solid, clean, straight, with light edge-rubbing to cover-- dust jacket Very Good Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Meets or exceeds the good condition guidelines. Nice copy. Has some staining. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Short tear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Smithsonian Institution, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Text clean. Paper clip impression left on first couple pages. Bottom corners slightly bent. Edges of spine lightly bumped. Dustwrapper price clipped. Dustwrapper yellowed and shelf rubbed. Fading to dust jacket spine. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by J.B. Lippincott, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Blue topstain. Book is very good with very light spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and nicks.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($5.95 price intact). Published by Lippincott, 1966. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold with illustrated endpapers. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner name and date on flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear, nicks, and smudges. Tears and some loss to bottom edge. 225 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.…

Hardcover. First edition, 1967. The story of the establishment of the Smithsonian, it's growth and position in American culture. 224 pages; 6 x 8.5 inches. Condition: Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light soiling, a small chip to the back and two short closed tears at the crown that have been repaired with tape to the verso. Red clothbound hardcover with crisp black and gilt title to spine. A handsome copy that appears to be unread. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd EDITION. 2nd Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hardcover. 224 p. 22 cm. Index. Material in this book originally appears i The New Yorker in slightly different form. Smithson, illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland, never visited the United States or showed any particular interest in this country. It is curious, therefore, that he left over half a million dollars to the U. S. Government for the establishment of an institution for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." Smithson died in 1829; the Institution was not established until 1846, "after, " as Geoffrey Hellman puts it, "a few prenatal roadblocks had been demolished." Some congressmen were opposed on chauvinistic grounds to accepting a bequest from an Englishman. President Andrew Jackson showed no enthusiasm. By the time the Institution was set up, nearly all the half million dollars had been lost by the United States Government in state bonds which defaulted. Today the Smithsonian has an annual income of approximately forty-five million dollars. It includes collections of science and invention, of art and books, of historical relics, of almost every conceivable thing that can be collected. From Wikipedia: "Geoffrey T. Hellman (February 13, 1907 September 26, 1977) was the son of writer and rare-books dealer, George S. Hellman. Born in New York City, he was also the great-grandson of banking titan Joseph Seligman, and thus. by ancestry, part of the city's German-Jewish elite who referred to themselves as Our Crowd. He attended Yale and contributed to the Yale News, Yale Record and the Yale Literary Magazine. Upon graduating in 1928, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday book supplement thanks to a recommendation by Thorton Wilder. By 1929, he secured a position at The New Yorker magazine as a reporter for the "Talk of the Town" section. Though he contributed to numerous publications in his career, he would be affiliated and most firmly identified with The New Yorker. While with The New Yorker, Hellman wrote extensively about New York institutions such as the New York Zoological Society and the Bronx Zoo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the United Nations, and the New York Stock Exchange, to promote public awareness of these institutions and of interesting events they sponsored. He also wrote about prominent people such as author Louis Auchincloss; New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who sent him story ideas; and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Because of his background and family connections, he was also The New Yorker's link to Manhattan society, reporting on parties, local clubs and societies such as the Grolier Club, the Explorer's Club, the National Audubon Society, and the American Geographical Society, and exclusive restaurants, from which he collected an impressive number of menus. His books include compilations of his pieces that appeared in The New Yorker ('How to Disappear for an Hour' and 'Mrs. De Peyster's Parties') and a book about the Smithsonian Institution ('Octopus on the Mall') and a history of the American Museum of Natural History ('Bankers, Bones and Beetles'). As recently as June 2013 his research for an 1940 profile on Robert Ripley was cited for its exhaustive scope in a review of the latest Ripley biography. From 1936-1938, he was also the associate editor of Life Magazine. During World War II, Hellman was in Washington D.C. where he wrote for the Office of Inter-American Affairs, the War Department and helped to write a top-secret history of the OSS.Hellman's distinguished wife, with whom he had an affair as her first marriage was falling apart, was Daphne Hellman, a banking heiress who became a highly admired jazz harpist. They married in Reno, Nevada in 1941 just hours after her divorce from magazine editor Harry A. Bull. Their daughter, herself a musician, is sitar player Daisy Paradis. The couple also had an adopted son, Digger St. John. At some poin. Funk, Tom [Jacket Drawing] (illustrator).…

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octopus on the mall. J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. 1967. 1. Aufl. 224 S. 15*22cm. -3)Bibl. Bibliotheksexemplar/Library copy.

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First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. The Smithsonian | Octopus on the Mall | Geoffrey Hellman (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 1978 | Praeger | EAN 9780313200199 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.