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Published by Peter Davison Books; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994
ISBN 10: 0948845058ISBN 13: 9780948845055
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.06.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company - A Peter Davison Book, Boston, 1989
ISBN 10: 0395538467ISBN 13: 9780395538463
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 413 Pages Indexed. Tight clean book with no marks or stamps. This is the first authoritative biography of the poet, a tense, precocious, New England-bred woman whose principal works were not published until after her suicide, at thhirty, in London in 1963. Her writings have branded a permanent mark on our literary consciousness. This book brings together the testimony of those who knew Plath best, many of whom have never before spoken out. Relying on published and unpublished sources, and benefiting from the unstiinting help of Plath's sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes, it explores Plath's poetry with a distincdtive freshness and concentration. Few recent literary biographies have been more widely and attentively reviewed. Contents in 12 Chapters: The Girl Who Wanted to Be God 1949, A Smith Girl 1952, The City of Spare Parts 1955, Pursuit 1956, Fire and Flower 1957, Disquieting muses 1958, Electra on Azalea Path 1959, Poem for a Birthday 1959, Ariel in the Tree 1960, Warnings 1961, The Sigma of Selfhood 1962, and Getting There 1963. Plus Epilogue, Appendices, and Sources and Notes.
Published by Houghton Mifflin (A Peter Davison Book), 1960
ISBN 10: 0395136571ISBN 13: 9780395136577
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.3.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company - A Peter Davison Book, Boston, MA, U.S.A., 1989
ISBN 10: 0395528151ISBN 13: 9780395528150
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 9th Printing. 212 Pages Indexed. Contents: Introduction, Stories and Theories, Starting Out, Finding a Direction, Interlude, Vocational Choices and Hazards, The Private Live, Looking Back, and On Moral Conduct. Andrew Greeley cales Coles social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist,minstrel, wandering storyteller, mystic, wise man, poet, dissenter, and a secular saint. He explores lasting moral lessons from stories. Coles makes a persuasive argument for his profound belief in the call of stories and their usefullness and their moral support in moving directly from stories to our lives.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company A Peter Davison Book, 1987, 1987
ISBN 10: 0395430070ISBN 13: 9780395430071
Seller: Virtuous Volumes et al., Wilson, WI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing. Ex-Library. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Call numbers on label on spine of d/j which is mylar covered and taped on, pocket on ffep, library name stamp on bottom page edges, on ffep, and on a few text page margins, markered out bar code on rear cover (which is the front cover of Webster's Ark. Soupsong is the first 55 pages one way, then book can be flipped over and Webster's Ark has 55 pages from the back (so half of the book appears to be upside-down until flipped over). Ex-Library.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, Boston, 1989
ISBN 10: 0395441420ISBN 13: 9780395441428
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. ix, 523 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. A good reading copy. Size: 8vo.
Published by A Peter Davison Book / Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1999
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. Inscribed "For Ann" by author on title page. Y. Thin 8vo.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, Boston and New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0395636264ISBN 13: 9780395636268
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xii, 506 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In RIVER-HORSE, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH -- recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and towns. Brimming with history, drama, humor, and wisdom, RIVER-HORSE belongs in the pantheon of American travel literature." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company: A Peter Davison Book, Boston, 1991
ISBN 10: 0395486025ISBN 13: 9780395486023
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 624 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription, dated 1992. A near-fine copy of the first printing, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Under the name of William Least Heat-Moon, William Trogdon is the author of two best-selling classics BLUE HIGHWAYS and PRAIRYERTH. His newest book is RIVER-HORSE: A VOYAGE ACR0SS AMERICA. He lives in Columbia, Missouri." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, Boston, New York, London, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395493269ISBN 13: 9780395493267
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. xv, 622 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with toned flaps, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Some of the greatest poets--Victor Hugo, Paul Claudel, George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, St.-John Perse--have also been public figures, but in the history of twentieth-century American poetry, Archibald MacLeish stands alone. Born on May 7, 1892, in Glencoe, Illinois, to the craggy but prosperous president of Carson Pirie Scott and an idealistic mother who had been a college president, Archibald MacLeish grew up to become not only a highly regarded poet, even eventually the unofficial poet laureate of his time, but one of our most dedicated and effective public servants. Educated at Hotchkiss (which he hated), Yale (football, Skull and Bones), and Harvard Law School, he abandoned a promising law practice in Boston on the very day he was to be offered a partnership, to take his wife, a gifted singer, and their young children to Paris and write poetry full-time. Much of MacLeish's finest work ('Ars poetica,' 'The End of the World,' 'You, Andrew Marvell') was written in France, where he lived out the 1920s in the company of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Picasso, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. But as the Great Depression loomed, MacLeish came home, bought a farm in Conway, Massachusetts, and looked for gainful employment. He became one of the early and foremost editors of Fortune, for which he wrote copiously and brilliantly for a decade, often contributing as much as a quarter of each issue. During this time his poetry became more public ('Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City') and his political opinions more liberal, controversial, and beleaguered. For a year he served as the first curator of Harvard's Nieman fellowships, but in 1939 Franklin Roosevelt summoned him to be librarian of Congress. In that position he entirely reorganized the Library of Congress, continuing this work even while serving in the wartime Office of Facts and Figures and later as assistant secretary of state. In 1945, with his friend Adlai Stevenson, he worked to establish the United Nations and drafted the preamble to its charter. After war's end MacLeish became Boylston Professor at Harvard, where he spent nearly fifteen years teaching the university's most distinguished writing students every autumn. Wintering in Antigua and summering at his country retreat, he also turned to the creation of verse plays such as the tremendously successful J.B., which won him his third Pulitzer Prize. Surviving nearly into his nineties, he wrote some of his finest lyrics as the darkness drew in. This generous and eloquent biography, richly illustrated, is published on the centenary of his birth." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, Boston, New York, London, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395581192ISBN 13: 9780395581193
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xi, 220 pages, illustrations, map; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "When John Winthrop called Boston 'a citty upon a hill,' he was speaking theocratically: it might better be called a city that floats upon the sea. Most Bostonians today live on land that was once marsh or bay, and the harbor that made the city prosper is empty of clipper ships and full of yachts. In a brilliant interaction of the visual and the verbal, Robert Campbell, one of America's foremost architecture critics, and Peter Vanderwarker, architectural photographer and archivist, take us through the entire history of America's most venerable city. Founded on a narrow-necked peninsula shaped like a snake's head, Boston over the centuries has been transformed, through numerous changes in economic fortunes, architectural styles, and ethnic groups. From the infancy of photography, people with cameras have recorded the life of Boston's streets, people, and buildings. Cityscapes of Boston, with its elegant and discerning text by Robert Campbell, displays the striking contrasts between past and present as well as some surprising continuities. Campbell's narrative asks--and often answers--questions about what enables a city to thrive, what makes it decline, and how architecture and planning nourish or stifle human needs. Peter Vanderwarker's painstaking research among historical photographs, combined with his own freshly created images, show us dramatically how cities grow and change. Fashions in architecture and in urban planning and design, waves of immigration, revolutions in technology, fire and flood, poverty and prosperity, all have affected the city and its people. The effect of Cityscapes of Boston is that of a fascinating historical time warp, enabling the student, the teacher, and the common reader to visualize a great American city as it has been, as it is now, and how it promises to change, for better or worse." - Publisher. Size: 4to.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company; A Peter Davison Book, Boston and New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0395654890ISBN 13: 9780395654897
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xvii, 326 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, no dedication. A fine copy of the first printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. The real-life story of a woman jazz musician who passed as a man. "The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died, in Spokane in 1989. Over a fifty-year performing career, Billy Tipton fooled nearly everyone, including Duke Ellington and Norma Teagarden, five successive 'wives' with whom Billy lived as a man, and three children who he 'fathered.' As Billy Tipton herself said, 'Some people might think I'm a freak or a hermaphrodite. I'm not. I'm a normal person. This has been my choice.' This jazz-era biography evokes the rich popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story. / Dianne Wood Middlebrook is the author of several volumes of poetry and critism as well as the prizewinning bestseller Anne Sexton: A biography. The recipient of many fellowships and awards, she is a professor of English at Stanford University, where she has also served as the director of the center for research on women. She currently lives in San Francisco." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED. Collectible.
Published by Peter Davison Book/Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1995
ISBN 10: 0395745853ISBN 13: 9780395745854
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Fine to As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine to As New. First Printing. 269 pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. "A Peter Davison Book. ", 1990
ISBN 10: 0395528097ISBN 13: 9780395528099
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 314 pages; Description: 314 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subjects: De Mille, Agnes --Friends and associates. Dancers --United States --Biography. 1 Kg.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin (A Peter Davison Book), 1991
Seller: Whitworth and i - Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wonderful account of the work of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas. // Hardcover copy with dust jacket. Includes bibliography. No statement of edition or printing on copyright page. No ISBN apparent on this copy.; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. Lilac-colored boards, with black cloth and silver titles along spine. / Interior pages free of writing, marks and creases. Binding tight. Boards clean and square; just a hint of sunning along edges. Dust jacket has one 3/4" closed tear and associated crease to top edge of rear panel. Light rubbing to edges at flap folds and top and bottom at spine. Jacket in protective sleeve.
Published by Boston: A Peter Davison Book (Houghton Mifflin), 1991., 1991
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Illustrated by b/w photos. First printing and edition. Tan boards, quarter turquoise cloth. 8vo. pp. xxiii, 488. Appendix, Sources and Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Index. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Foreword by Martin T. Orne, M.D.
Published by A Peter Davison Book/ Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0395669588ISBN 13: 9780395669587
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Jared T. Williams (Illustrations); Robert Overholtzer (Book Design); Michaela Sullivan (Front Jacket Design); Image Bank: Vince Parella (Front Cover Photo) (illustrator). 148 pp. Flawless book and dj save price inside front flap cut out.
Published by A Peter Davison Book / Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, New York, 1997
Seller: Cher Bibler, Tiffin, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. 360pp. Very good+ in sl worn dust jacket.
Published by Boston/New York: A Peter Davison Book/Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1995
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Fine, in gilt-lettered blue cloth shelfback over blue boards; in a fine, if faintly age-toned, photo-pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs reproduced on coated stock inserts. A fascinating exploration of a period and the man who probably personified its critical intelligence and--most of the time--its artistic conscience."--Arthur Miller. 554 pages, including index.
Published by A Peter Davison Book/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990
ISBN 10: 0395488869ISBN 13: 9780395488867
Seller: Garys Books, Apache Junction, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. DATED by the author on 30 June 1990 in Costa Mesa, California. Just a little shelf use does not appear to have been read. Signed on Full Title Page.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company/A Peter Davison Book, Boston, MA, 1997
ISBN 10: 0395671701ISBN 13: 9780395671702
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition 1st Printing. Illustrated. 360pp. Black cloth spine with bright gilt title and red paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. INSCRIPTION on half title page: "To M. L. - With my best wishes fondly Wil Haygood September 1998." Biography. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hardcover.
Published by Houghton Mifflin. A Peter Davison Book., Boston., 1992
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 220 pps.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book - Boston, 1987
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown cloth quarter-bound to spine over blue colored paper on boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, relatively sharp-cornered and free of flaws and markings inside and out, other than minor dusting to top of boards. Nice hand-drawn map endpapers. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows original price of $17.95 and has only minor scuffing and shelfwear to top of spine. Book is First Edition/First Printing.
Published by Houghton Mifflin (A Peter Davison Book)
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book, Boston, 1990
ISBN 10: 0395524539ISBN 13: 9780395524534
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Wendell Minor (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over light tan boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of an elephant-headed woman by Wendell Minor, map endpapers, 289 pages. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is an expert on prehistory; she is also a superb historical novelist. Exceptional Condition overall!.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book, Boston, 1987
ISBN 10: 0395421128ISBN 13: 9780395421123
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Wendell Minor (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, tan quarter cloth with gold spine ettering over powder blue boards, Mylar-protected illustrated dust jacket (unclipped) by Wendell Minor depicting a reindeer and prehistoric bone spear-thrower, map endpapers, 338 pages. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is an expert on prehistory; she is also a superb historical novelist. Exceptional Condition overall!.