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Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday / Random House, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2006
ISBN 10: 0385516169ISBN 13: 9780385516167
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound Galley Proof for the first edition, includes publisher's one page publicity ad and a single page of W. B. Yeats' poem, "The Stolen Child." Tiny crease to bottom corner of front cover, else book in fine, as new condition.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1992
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy/Proof.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2001
ISBN 10: 038548187XISBN 13: 9780385481878
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. DJ is in a mylar protector.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1996
ISBN 10: 0385475713ISBN 13: 9780385475716
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US Printing.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2004
ISBN 10: 0385510500ISBN 13: 9780385510509
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Printing. DJ is lightly rubbed.;
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1992
ISBN 10: 0385261764ISBN 13: 9780385261760
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US Printing.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1997
ISBN 10: 0385486618ISBN 13: 9780385486613
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book slightly soiled on top edge.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1993
ISBN 10: 038541515XISBN 13: 9780385415156
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1994
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Advance reading copy.
Published by Nan A. Talese, Doubleday; Random House, Inc., New York, London, Toronto, Sydney & Auckland, 2005
ISBN 10: 0385511396ISBN 13: 9780385511391
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. MASTERPIECE: MAGNIFICENT: DEFINITIVE: IMAGINATIVE: VIVID: CAPACIOUS: INSIGHTFUL: IMMERSIVE: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2005) First Printing: NEW mylar-protected beautifully color-illus. jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $32.50 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in EXCELLENT olive-gray paper w/ titles ELEGANTLY silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, IMPECCABLE burgundy card-stock end-papers, NEW durable perfect binding w/ b-w-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISITNE interior ELEGANTLY printed in Fournier on EXCELLENT unblemished paper * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.78", 1.04 kg, xvi+572+iv (592) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: In a MAGNIFICENT feat of re-creating 16th-century London & Stratford, bestselling biographer & novelist Peter Ackroyd brings William Shakespeare to life in the manner of a contemporary rather than a biographer. Following his magisterial & ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, & Sir Thomas More, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement w/ this DEFINITVE & IMAGINATIVE biographical MASTERPIECE. Thousands of books have been written about Shakespeare, but none has borne Ackroyd's unique & accessible stamp. His method is to position the playwright in the context of his world, exploring everything from Stratford's humble town to its fields of wildflowers; discerning influences on the plays from unexpected quarters; & entering London w/ the playwright as modern theater, as we know it, is just beginning to emerge. Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare & his circle of friends, patrons, managers, & fellow actors & writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; & thus w/ great sympathy & clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked. Ackroyd has used his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, & his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language. * HIGH PRAISE: "Ackroyd brings to his biographical reading the IMAGINATIVE INSIGHTS of a gifted poet & novelist, along w/ the passions of a scholar. VIVID & CAPACIOUS, a study worthy of its subject." -Bryce Christensen, Booklist (Starred Review) "The great strength of Acjkroyd's book is the depth of his IMMERSION in the culture of Shakespeare's age & the sense he gives of Shakespeare as the product of that extraordinary moment in time. His feeling for the role of theater in Elizabethan London, 'a city where dramatic spectacles became the primary means of understanding reality,' seems to come from an impressively wide reading of Shakespeare's dramatic & poetic contemporaries. His judgments about the work itself are sometimes ingenious, occasionally eccentric. Immersion in Ackroyd's biography gives one a feeling that one has lived for a brief time in Shakespeare's world." -Ron Rosenbaum, Publishers Weekly * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Protean scholar & man-of-letters, PETER ACKROYD is the author of "London: The Biography" & "Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination", acclaimed biographies of T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, & Sir Thomas More, & several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, & the South Bank Award for Literature. He lives in London. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this superb book for shipment via USPS Media Mail at no charge (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 fee) within the United States or at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail (recommended) or USPS Priority Airmail (rates on request).
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 2006
ISBN 10: 0385514611ISBN 13: 9780385514613
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, light beige cloth and mottled beige boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicing a small Shakespeare portrait within a broken heart against a beige background, [viii] + 213-[214] deckled pages + [2] A Note About the Author / A Note About the Type. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.--Wikipedia.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 2013
ISBN 10: 0385530900ISBN 13: 9780385530903
Book First Edition
Cloth and boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 5/8" x 1 3/8"), blue quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over blue boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: price $28.95) depicting a leather jacket on a porch chair as the sun sets, 338 pages + [2] A Note About the Author / A Note on the Type. Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz. Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (1945 - 2016) was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature. In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved author and his father--the inspiration for The Great Santini--find some common ground after family struggle and discord. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally! Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. No remainder marks.
Published by Nan A. Talese Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1993
ISBN 10: 0385425600ISBN 13: 9780385425605
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition, Signed. 1st Edition Hardcover, bookplate signed by author laid in. Interior is solid and bright showing little to no signs of use. In like VG+ Dust Jacket, an excellent book.
Published by Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, New York,London, Toronto,Sydney Auckland, 1996
ISBN 10: 038547816XISBN 13: 9780385478168
Seller: D. Nakii Press, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. An account of the vanishing wild tiger in the India, Nepal and Southeast Asia. A gripping book that may allow you to to understand the fierce beauty of the tiger and the noble and ignoble of the humans who pursue it.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 1996
ISBN 10: 0385476841ISBN 13: 9780385476843
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 470 pp., xxvi. '1' in number line; ' 1296 ' at foot of rear panel dw. Profusely illustrated in black and white illustrations plus 8 pp. of glossy color illustrations between pp. 150-151. Black boards with black paper backstrip and brilliant gilt lettering; bevel fore-edge; illustrated endpapers. Following the List of illustrations, Preface and Prologue, Contents divided into 8 Parts: ONE: "Conditions for Change: Goods in Profusion"; TWO: "The Price of Magnificence"; THREE: "The Triumph of the Book"; FOUR: "Learning to be Civilized"; FIVE: "New Expertise for Sale"; SIX: "A Culture of Commodities"; SEVEN: "Mapping the Heavens"; EIGHT: "Conspicuous Consumption"; Epilogue, pp. 425-436; Bibliography, pp. 437-452; Index, pp. 453-470. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price) with large front cover color "Portrait of a Merchant" (c. 1530) by Jan Gossaert; Title lettering in gold across bottom front cover, just above Subtitle in small black letters over gold background and Author name lettering in smaller black letters over strip of white background. Dustwrapper is essentially As New, except for a micro-chip of surface (revealing white beneath) at bottom left spine corner and a 1/8" tear or nick down top edge rear cover near gutter: describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. Essentially, an As New ensemble: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Gift-giving quality or you may need new friends.
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2006., 2006
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Hardback, 15.25x21.5cm, 225pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper. Light wear. ISBN: 0385503849.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland
Book First Edition
Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. Small 8vo, black cloth with gilt spine lettering over beige boards, half-tone foggy frontispiece, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) using man's upper torso by Theodore Gerricault, [viii] + 353 pages + [2} A Note About the Author + [2] A Note About the Type. An exciting historical-fictional reimagining by brilliant Ackroyd, who seems expert on Everything! Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.--Wikipedia EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! First Edition, Second printing with numberline ending in "2." Heavy book may require extra shipping charges.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 2006
ISBN 10: 038551459XISBN 13: 9780385514590
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over copper boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with detail of a Tate painting depicting Cook raising the Union Jack in Australia, 385 pages + [2] About the Author + [2] About the Type. Thomas Keneally, AO (born 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is perhaps best known for Schindler's List, which won not only the prestigeous Booker Prize but was made into a major movie by Steven Spielberg. SIGNED & in Exceptional Condition Internally and Externally!.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2003
ISBN 10: 0385501145ISBN 13: 9780385501149
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#102987).
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1994
ISBN 10: 0385473923ISBN 13: 9780385473927
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Octavo, cloth-backed boards. Second printing. A collection of ghost stories by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. "The majority of the tales are comic fantasies built on the incongruity of the supernatural erupting into the ordinary world . However, several selections are decidedly dark: in 'Ilse's House,' a spiritual manifestation that seems initially comic eerily prefigures the fate of its heroine; 'The Pool People' is a perfectly orchestrated riff on the classic theme of the child who sees what adults do not, and 'Another Halloween' is a genuinely creepy tale of a trick-or-treater who has haunted its protagonist since childhood. Every selection reveals Lurie's skills as a miniaturist of middle-class life who can see the potential for the unusual in the common rituals of daily existence." - Stefan Dziemianowicz, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #19 (1996), p. 27. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#164457).
Published by Nan A. Talese Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1999
ISBN 10: 0385494238ISBN 13: 9780385494236
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169605).
Published by [Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2010
ISBN 10: 0385533411ISBN 13: 9780385533416
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A novel about global warming and a thoroughly unpleasant male protagonist who won a Nobel Prize in physics. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169604).
Published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1994
ISBN 10: 0385471106ISBN 13: 9780385471107
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Margaret Atwood (illustrator). First Edition. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1994. Thirty-five short pieces, with illustrations by the author. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition (stated FE, "December 1994," and full number line). Orange paper-covered boards with a red cloth spine titled in gilt. Clean text; 164 pages. The dustjacket is unclipped; in a plastic protector. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Margaret Atwood. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Nan A. Talese, Doubleday; Random House, Inc., New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 2001
ISBN 10: 0385497709ISBN 13: 9780385497701
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition. MAGNIFICENT: NEW hardcover, stated First American Edition w/ full no. line showing 1st printing, new mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp new edges & corners & showing orig. $45.00 publisher's price at top-right of inside-front flyleaf, new cover w/ midnight-chocolate library-durable linen wrapping spine & extending 1.86" onto front & back board panels covered in excellent matching midnight-chocolate paper over-boards cover w/ sharp new edges & corners & w/ titles elegantly silver-stamped on spine, immaculate smooth-cut text-block exterior, superb immaculate end-papers on heavy vellum-style card-stock displaying "London-circa 1800" (front) & "Modern London" (back), new sewn binding w/ tight signatures & yellow-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, pristine interior elegantly printed w/ handsome clarity in digitized Fournier on excellent unblemished archival paper * 6.36" x 9.50" x 2.12", 1.38 kg, xxvi+801 (827) pp. * Richly illustrated * ABOUT THE BOOK: "London: The Biography" is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession w/ the eponymous city. In this unusual & engaging work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions & idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction & nonfiction. Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, w/ its own laws of growth & change. Reveling in the city's riches as well as its raucousness, the author traces thematically its growth from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the 21st century. Anecdotal, insightful, & wonderfully entertaining, "London" is animated by Ackroyd's concern for the close relationship between the present & the past, as well as by what he describes as the peculiar "echoic" quality of London, whereby its texture & history actively affect the lives & personalities of its citizens. "London" confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called "our age's greatest London imagination." * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This magnificent evocation of all that London has meant down the centuries. I cannot begin to describe the richness w/ which Ackroyd pursues his theme. A blend of virtuosity & deep affection that is truly bewitching. Ackroyd has performed a noble public service in preserving in these pages so many centuries of marvels, & secrecies." -Jan Morris "Magnificent . . . Succeeds in animating on the page the life of one of the oldest & greatest cities in the world." - The New York Times Book Review * "Ackroyd is the most effortless guide . . . This is much more than history: it is a tapestry of inspiration & love." - The Observer * "An erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city . . . As exuberant, energetic & alarming as the city itself." - Independent on Sunday * "A fat & filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about the capital is crammed into the 800 pages." - The Times * "If London had the ability to choose its biographer it undoubtedly would tap Peter Ackroyd." - Vanity Fair * "A wonderful book, a treasure of information & anecdote about one of the world's great cities, a book to be taken up again & again for the pleasures that lie within." - Chicago Tribune * "A book to match its subject . . . one gratefully rediscovers that urban unreality, the city of romance & mystery as well as the one of shops, pubs, & thoroughfares." - The Washington Post * "Nothing can quite match the huge strange echo-chamber of life-stories, folktales, & urban myths conjured up in Peter Ackroyd's epic vision of his native city. Sparkling, witty scholarship is constantly transformed into smoky-mystical street-history, w/ dark hymnotic meditations on fog, fire, sewage, & civic resurrection." - Richard Holmes * Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning best-selling writer of both fiction & non-fiction. His many superb books include the biographies "Dickens", "Blake" & "Thomas More" & the novels "The Trial of Elizabeth Cree", "Milton in America" & "The Plato Papers". He lives, of course, in London.
Published by New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2004
ISBN 10: 0385521502ISBN 13: 9780385521505
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. 482 p.: Ill. Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, unregelmäßiger Vorderschnitt, beiliegend eine Rezension zum Buch, sonst gut und sauber ohne Anstreichungen / Dust jacket lightly rubbed, irregular fore edge, enclosed is a review of the book, otherwise good and clean with no markings. - If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on I to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom | Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Vic- I torianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of England s most I incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs. The result of his labors is Fathers and Sons, one of the most I unusual works of biographical memoir ever written. In this remarkable history of father-son relationships in his family, Alexander Waugh exposes the fraught dynamics of love and strife that have produced a succession of successful authors. Based on the recollections of his father and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to his grandfather Evelyn, the book skillfully traces the threads that have linked father to son across a century of war, conflict, turmoil and change. It is at once very, very funny, fearlessly candid and exceptionally moving a supremely entertaining book that will speak to all fathers and sons, as well as to the women who love them. / Contents Family Tree I Pale Shadows II Midsomer Norton III Golden Boy IV Lacking in Love V Out in the Cold VI Spirit of Change VII In Arcadia VIII No Uplifting Twist IX Happy Dying X Irritability XI Fantasia XII Under Fire XIII Leaving Home XIV My Father To Auberon Augustus Ichabod Waugh Acknowledgements Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780385521505 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 623.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 2002
ISBN 10: 0385503520ISBN 13: 9780385503525
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Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. L. J. C. Shimoda (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by both Author and Calligrapher on title page adding their red "chop" seals, "square" 8vo (8 1/4" x 6 1/2"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over off-white boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with calligraphy squares and three red "chops" by L.J.C. Shimoda, red endpapers, 349 pages + [3] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note About the Type. TODD SHIMODA is the author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji. A third-generation Japanese American, he received his Ph.D. in science and mathematics from Berkeley and currently teaches and works as a cognitive scientist doing research in artificial intelligence applications at Colorado State University. L.J.C. Shimoda, Todd's wife and the illustrator of this book and 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, is an artist who studied Japanese art and calligraphy in Japan.--Random House bios. A beautifully executed book with fine calligraphy (ditto the two Signatures) and significant themes ranging from Japanese culture and ethnicity to love and neuroscience.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 2009
ISBN 10: 0385528655ISBN 13: 9780385528658
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth and boards. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by the Author on the titlepage, 8vo, tan quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over brown boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with faint image of Walden Pond & bright flame, 365, [366] pages + [2] Author's Note + {2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. EXCEPTIONAL SIGNED DEBUT NOVEL: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable dj. No previous owner or remainder marks. John Pipkin is the author of two novels. Woodsburner won the New York Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Massachusetts Center for the Book Novel Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters Stephen Turner Prize for First Novel. His second novel, The Blind Astronomer's Daughter (Bloomsbury, 2016) was named Book of the Month by The London Times.
Published by New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 1998
ISBN 10: 0385477090ISBN 13: 9780385477093
Seller: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Germany
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. X, 447 p. Vorderschnitt faserig, sonst ein gutes Exemplar, ohne Anstreichungen / fore edge fibrous, otherwise a good copy, no markings. - CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I THIS DARK WORLD II PRETTY PLAYS OF CHILDHOOD III ST ANTHONY S PIGS IV COUGH NOT, NOR SPIT V SET ON HIS BOOK VI DUTY IS THE LOVE OF LAW VII MOST HOLY FATHER VIII WE TALK OF LETTERS IX IF YOU WANT TO LAUGH X THE WINE OF ANGELS XI HOLY, HOLY, HOLY! XII CRAFT OF THE CITY XIII MILK AND HONEY XIV A JOLLY MASTER-WOMAN XV KINGS GAMES XVI THE BEST CONDITION OF A SOCIETY XVII WHOLLY A COURTIER XVIII HE SAT UPON A THRONE OF GOLD XIX MY POOR MIND XX EQUES AURATUS XXI I AM LIKE RIPE SHIT XXII LONG PERSUADING AND PRIVY LABOURING XXIII THY FOOLISH FACE XXIV YOU ARE BUT ONE MAN XXV FOOLISH FRANTIC BOOKS XXVI WE POOR WORLDLY MEN OF MIDDLE EARTH XXVII INFINITE CLAMOUR XXVIII ALL THE BEASTS OF THE WOODS XXIX THE WRATH OF THE KING MEANS DEATH XXX THE WEEPING TIME XXXI PECK OF TROUBLES XXXII CALL FORTH SIR THOMAS MORE XXXIII THE KING IS GOOD UNTO ME SOURCE NOTES INDEX. ISBN 9780385477093 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 833.
Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 1998
ISBN 10: 0385477090ISBN 13: 9780385477093
Book First Edition
Cloth and boards. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Photographs by & about Wm Shakespeare (illustrator). First American Edition, 1st Printing. 8vo (146 x 235mm), black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over apricot boards, profusely illustrated with pictorial title page plus many full-color & B&W glossy plates, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with an image of Shakespeare & The Globe, red endpapers, 464 pages. Weight: ~ 2lbs. EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTIBLE CONDITION! A major biography of William Shakespeare by brilliant Peter Ackroyd. No previous owner or remainder marks. Peter Ackroyd, CBE, FRSL (born 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.--Wikipedia.
Published by New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 1999
ISBN 10: 0385476973ISBN 13: 9780385476973
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Gut. XIII, 712 p.: Ill., Maps. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, minimale Randläsuren, Vorderschnitt unregelmäßig, sonst ein gutes Exemplar / dust jacket lightly rubbed, minimal edgewear, fore edge uneven, otherwise a good copy. - In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. The forebears of Thomas Keneally, author of Schindlers Lbt, were victims of that tragedy, and in The Great Shame Keneally has written an astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish diaspora with the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners including Keneally s ancestors who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, in Australia and America. We meet William Smith O Brien, leader of an uprising at the height of the Irish Famine, who rose from solitary confinement in Australia to become the Mandela of his age; Thomas Francis Meagher, whose escape from Australian captivity led to a glittering American career as an orator, a Union general, and governor of Montana; John Mitchel, who became a Confederate newspaper reporter, gave two of his sons to the Southern cause, was imprisoned with Jefferson Davis and returned to Ireland to become mayor of Tipperary; and John Boyle O Reilly, who fled a life sentence in Australia to become one of mneteenth-centuiy America s leading literary lights. Through the lives of many such men and women famous and obscure, some heroes and some fools (most a little of both), all of them stubborn, acutely sensitive, and devastatingly charming we become immersed in the Irish experience and its astonishing history. From Ireland to Canada and the United States to the bush towns of Australia, we are plunged into stories of tragedy, survival, and triumph. All are vividly portrayed in Keneally s spellbinding prose, as he reveals the enormous influence the exiled Irish have had on the English-speaking world. / Contents List of Illustrations Preface Note on the Text Maps BOOK I 1 HUGH LARKIN S IRELAND 2 THE SHIPPING OF IRELAND, AND THE EXILE OF CHAINS 3 ASSIGNING IRELAND 4 THE LIMITS OF LOCATION 5 IRELAND AND THE WHITBY WOMEN 6 THE LASS FROM THE FEMALE FACTORY 7 IRELAND YOUNG AND OLD 8 A FOND FAREWELL TO THE WHITE POTATOES 9 A THOUSAND FAREWELLS TO YOU, ISLAND OF ST PATRICK 10 FIASCO AND NOBLE GESTURE: THE REBELLION OF YOUNG IRELAND 11 YOUNG IRELAND ON TRIAL 12 SHIPPING YOUNG IRELAND 13 BY ORDER OF GREAT DENISON 14 YOUNG IRELAND AND THE PROFANE COLONISTS 15 LOCKED WITHIN THE PYRAMID 16 THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST BOOK II 17 YOUNG IRELAND AND THE ISMS OF YANKEEDOM 18 IRELAND AND THE BLOODY ARENA 19 FAUGH-A-BALLAGH 20 THE CHICKAHOMINY STEEPLECHASE 21 WOEFULLY CUT UP 22 LET ME HAVE IDAHO 23 GLORIO, GLORIO, TO THE BOLD FENIAN MEN 24 RE-MAKING MONTANA; VIOLATING CANADA 25 FENIANS TRANSPORTED 26 THE FENIANS OF THE DESERT COAST 27 FENIANS AT LARGE 28 HOME RULE AND DYNAMITE 29 THE FENIAN WHALER 30 PERTH REGATTA DAY 31 REPUBLICAN CHRIST Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780385476973 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1215.