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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: North Point Press, 1983. 3d Ptg. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Smaller trade paperback, glossy dark red wrappers with yellow rectangle and Chinese character at center front wrapper, 213 pages. Spine lightly faded, light wear at spine bottom right edge, price tag at bottom back, light crease at back right. Very Good.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, sturdy book, black cloth spine, deep orange boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 338 pages of essays on Madrid, Paul Escobar in Norway, Hemingway, Bunel, Doris Lessing, Joyce and The Dubliners, Isiah Berlin, Faulkner, Havel, Saul Bellow and more. DJ glossy beneath mylar with… Ler mais sobre este item

Yale University Press, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. Large, sturdy book, red cloth spine, ivory boards, silver lettering very bright on spine, 303 pages, a frontispiece bust of Franklin. DJ glossy with Franklin's bust on all of front, red spine, ivory back with praise from Walter Isaacson, Sean Wilentz. DJ has light surface wear to… Ler mais sobre este item

University of Georgia Press, 1994. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Fine. (1st edition, 1st printing) Larger, sturdy book, quality dark green cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, spine lightly askew, light green color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 210 pages. Top tips creased on pages 139 and 141. Essays on immigration, horses, gangsters, James Joyce,… Ler mais sobre este item

Twelve, 2011. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, sturdy, very thick book, black coves, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 788 pages plus a brief biographical note. DJ beneath mylar, glossy yellow spine and back, a color photo portrait of author on front, yellow and gray lettering, praise on back from Chrstopher… Ler mais sobre este item

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, thicker, sturdy book, purple cloth spine, purple boards, silver lettering bright on spine, 352 pages. DJ glossy gray background, purple and black lettering on front and spine, a photo portrait of one of our great minds on all of back. DJ has… Ler mais sobre este item

Free Press, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Fine. (1st edition, 1st printing) Large, sturdy book, blue spine, light blue boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 306 pages, final pages uncut. Light pencil marks in margins. Essays by Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris, Robert Coles, Wendell Berry and more. DJ glossy and colorfully designed, a color-illustration of angels… Ler mais sobre este item

W.W. Norton, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, orange cloth spine, cream boards with bright bronze initials at bottom front right, bright purple lettering on spine, 317 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar, silver background with white, red and black lettering, praise on back from Jonathan Yardly in Washington Post, New… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 1st U.S. . Cloth. Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Small, sturdy book, quality black cloth, gilt lettering near-bright on spine, 142 lightly browned pages. Broadcasts include London Revisited, Speed, Music Halls, also "A Note in the Einstein Theory," "From Bloomsbury to Bayswater" and more. DJ price-clipped beneath mylar, gold background… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 2d Ptg. . Cloth. Fine/Good. Sturdy book, reddish-brown cloth, gilt lettering and bar design on spine, 379 lightly browned pages with 13-page index. DJ heavy paper, purple front and spine, blue background at center front with black and white lettering, blue top and bottom back with photo of author smoking pipe at center… Ler mais sobre este item

Touchstone Books, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. Remainder mark on pages' bottom edge. Very large, sturdy softcover, glossy pale yellow background, a color-illustration of man with cane in snow on front, praise on back from Chicago Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times and others, 334 pages. Very light crease at top front tip, micronick at bottom front edge. Fine. … Ler mais sobre este item

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1974. Cloth. Fine/Near Very Fine. Sturdy book, quality dark blue cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, blue remainder mark at pages' bottom edge, 352 pages with essays on Israel and Zionism by David Ben-Gurion, A. Eli, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Akiva Ermst Simon and others. DJ beneath muylar, white background with large illustration of… Ler mais sobre este item

The Peter Pauper Press, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Clough, Stanley. Small, thin sturdy book, 59 stiff pages with full-page illustrations with lots of red color. DJ price-clipped, heavy glossy paper with red, black and white illustration by Clough on front, a desgn at top back. Very Good DJ/Fine book.

Dartmouth College Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Larger, thinner book, black cloth spine, orange boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 81 pages. Light pencil underlning on pages 10-12, a paper clip dent to top of page 11. DJ glossy with a color photograph of Rev. Coffin on front.… Ler mais sobre este item

HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Very Fine. (1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, green cloth spine, yellow boards, very bright gilt lettering dream catcher illustrated at top front, spine badly slanted from poor storage, a pink shell pattern inside covers and adjacent end papers, 273 heavy pages. Signed in neat black ink above printed name on title… Ler mais sobre este item

Alumni Association of the University of Kansas, 1920. Hardcover. Good. Larger book, wine cloth spine, yellow boards, gilt lettering bright on spine, 251 pages. Creased at bottom tip on page 155. On first front end paper in neat blue ink: "For Shirley Ann Stephens Clausen in accordance with a wish once expressed by her father Nelson T. Stephens."… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition . Cloth. As New/As New. Large, sturdy thicker book, quality red cloth, bright silver lettering on spine, 404 pages including a photo section. DJ glossy gray, gilt and silver lettering on spine, remainder mark at pages' edge. Tiny ink owner's stamp at top of first front end paper, 703 pages. DJ… Ler mais sobre este item

Twelve, 2011. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Larger, very thick sturdy book, yellow spine, black boards, very fine black lettering on spine. Tiny ink owner's stamp at top of first front end paper, 788 pages plus brief biographical note. DJ beneath mylar, glossy with close-up color photo-portrait of Hitchens on front with… Ler mais sobre este item

Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Sturdy book, purple spine and sides, red front right, very bright silver lettering on spine, 288 pages including a bibliography and brief biographical note, 15 photographs. DJ glossy and colorfully designed in rose, red, white, black and checkered red and white, a phot of horse on… Ler mais sobre este item

HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. (1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, green cloth spine, yellow boards, small gilt illustration bright of hermit crab at top front, very bright gilt lettering on spine, cream color inside covers and adjacent end papers with pattern of purple hermit crabs, 272 pages, pink illustration on each chapter heading.… Ler mais sobre este item