very good/--. Excellent copy of this hard to find work. A rust-type stain is on the back cover. It is very small, and other than a couple of damp stains there appear to no flaws. View More...
Good/--. Ffep has a return address size cut-out on it. No marks to text, tight binding. The book has a few frayed corners and top/foot of backstrip. Cover shows signs of soiling. 4To. View More...
Binding still solid, though original covers are tissue-thin paper and have suffered much wear. Contents unmarked, text entirely in Italian. View More...
1958 Allen & Unwin Ltd first edition hardcover, printed in Great Britain. Firm binding; unmarked interior. Boards and spine show light scuffing to extremes. Faint foxing to textblock. Jacket shows moderate general scuffing, foxing and small tears. Overall excellent condition in worn jacket. View More...
The pleasure of reading the Education is . . . the pleasure of seeing history come alive, of seeing it move, of seeing behind history to the actions and actors. It is the pleasure of seeing revealed the humanity so often concealed in history. -Alfred Kazin Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to World War I. Though a man of the modern world, Adams remained in temperament a child of the 18th century, his political ideals shaped by his presidential ancestors, great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams.... View More...
Complete reprint of the unexpurgated edition of "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") written by Adolf Hitler (1925 and 1927). Volume I: A Reckoning and Volume II: The National Socialist Movement (Two Volumes in One). Translated by James Vincent Murphy (1880-1946).
Stanley Marcus was undeniably America's Merchant Prince. He created his own legend by becoming a fashion authority without parallel, an unerring arbiter of taste, a marketing genius, and a ham-like showman in the mold of Phineas T. Barnum. His unique talents transformed Neiman Marcus from a Dallas specialty store into a glittering internationally known and respected retail institution. Thomas E. Alexander traces the history of the company, tells the colorful life story of "Mr. Stanley," and shares his personal behind-the-scenes memoir of his sometimes tumultuous association with the man and th... View More...
Used - very good. An immaculately clean, solid copy, no visible wear. Dustjacket good to very good with 1.5 inch chip missing on back cover edge. View More...
Binding is solid, though the front cover is beginning to detach at top of hinge. Textblock cocked, contents unmarked. Covers are well worn. Text entirely in Italian. View More...
Used - good to very good. Elegant dark red cloth boards, very clean, unmarked & solid. Dustjacket fair to good with rubbing, heavy edgewear, multiple small tears, missing spine end. 379 pp. View More...
"The editor has placed the dispute between Arnold and Twain in its historical perspective. The volume is especially significant because it adds a new dimension to Grant; it places him in relation to the literary men of that era."--Robert A. Waller, Civil War History General Grant by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain presents conflicting essays and cultures. Matthew Arnold's 1886 essay on Grant praised the general and his posthumously published Memoirs, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country. Grant's friend and personal benefactor, Mark Twain, de... View More...
Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane. With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous si... View More...
