Guy James Michener (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1953. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the front pastedown and a bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; small stain spots on textblock top and bottom; light glue browning to endpapers. DJ: Good; toning to spine; wear to head, tail, and tips; closed tears at top edge near spine. Blue paper over boards with gray overlay on the spine with gilt lettering and rules; blue shadowboxes on spine for titles. 606 pp 8vo. This Best-in-Books Volume contains a selection of reading from teh staff at Nelson Doubleday that is for sure provides a variety in reading material. This book contains several full-length novels, several extracts from leading current non-fiction, a photograph section, a cartoon feature, and a classic. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Nelson Doubleday, Inc 1953 Reprint Near Fine/ Slight tip wear to grey cloth spine o/w Fine. NO DUST JACKET. Like new dark-blue leather like boards. Solid structure. Light tanning to page edges, inside page edges deckled. Tight tanned pages with some illustrations and some photos. 2+606+4 pages. HEAVY ITEM 1.51 Pounds. Size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches. No Exp.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20271609: 1991. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Quelques rousseurs. 886 + 638 PAGES - quelques cartes en noir/blanc, sur des doubles pages - pliure sur le 1er plat du tome 2 - 2 volumes dans un emboitage cartonné souple, en état d'usage/correcte. . Sous Emboitage. . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon Etat de conservation jaquette défraîchie intérieur propre bonne tenue. in8. 1989. Cartonné jaquette. 938 pages. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Loprete, Tere (book design); Tremblay, Jean-Paul (maps and diagrams); Fleming, Guy (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition turquoise cloth boards, navy blue front cover and spine decoration, gold front cover illustration and gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by James A. Michener; Acknowledgments; and Preliminary Page Author Note. Illustrated with a section of maps and front and rear color illustrated map endpapers. A small neatly scripted former owner signature on the inner front board. Small closed tear and chips at upper and lower dustjacket spine and edges. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "The focal point of this magnificent novel is Makor, a site in Israel known in modern times as Tell Makor - a name signifying that this is not a natural mound "but the patiently accumulated residue of one abandoned settlement after another, each resting upon the ruins of its predecessor, reaching endlessly back into history." The framework for the narrative is provided by the archaeologists who come to excavate Makor, uncovering objects whiich identify, level by level, the various periods of human occupancy that have come and gone since the first men arrived here. The expedition is fascinating in itself, but the main body of the novel is the story of Makor, in its various aspects through the ages. The archaeologists can only date and classify and make expert generalizations about most of the artifacts they dig up, but Mr. Michener, exercising the pregogative of a master storyteller, is not thus limited. By presenting believable characters in dramatic situations that are true to the times that produced them, he vividly re-creates the life in and around Makor in crucial periods of its existence, from twelve thousand years ago, through the coming and going of many conquerors - Canaanite, Hebrew, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Crusader, Mameluke. Turkish and British - down to the heroic days when the modern state of Israel was established. Makor, like its inhabitants, is fictional, but it is founded solidly on historical research and facts established by the exploration of many actual sites in Israel. What happened at Makor is the history of the Holy Land itself, and what happened in the Holy Land is intimately bound up with the development of western civilization. Here was the source of the great religious ideas that have shaped our thought, and here every great empire that has dominated the west has left its mark. Thus The Source is the story of our universal heritage from the past - a story not only of human greed, bigotry and cruelty, but of human striving for law and justice, love and faith. It is a book to ponder as well as to enjoy; it should and will be widely read in many languages by people of many creeds." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cover artist: Guy Fleming (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, stated. 1965. Historical fiction novel. The Source, uses for its central device a fictional place in northern Israel called "Makor" (Hebrew: "source") The Tell 1963, three archeologists, a Jew, a Catholic, and a Muslim, are at a modern archeological dig. The story moves back and forth between the historical chapters and the modern dig at the tell at Makor. The Jewish people and the land of Israel from pre-monotheistic days to the birth of the modern State of Israel. 909 pages pp. Map end pages. not price clipped $7.95 open tear on the rear DJ panel.