Mark Van Doren Editor (58 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. AH05 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: A Summers Wait by Mark Van Doren; Presidents Emeritus by John Whiteclay Chambers II; The Sinister Corps of William O. Bourne (Newspaper The Soldiers Friend penmanship contest for Civil War veterans learning to write with their left hand, 1865); Mirror of Zion (George Edward Anderson photographs of Mormon Utah from The Utah Photographs of George Edward Anderson) by Rell G. Francis; A Heritage Preserved: The Death House (John McCaffary was the only person ever to be executed by the State of Wisconsin. He was executed by hanging for the murder of his wife, August 21, 1851.) by T. H. Watkins; The Green Flag in America (Irish-Americans and The Northern Ireland Conflict) by Thomas Fleming; To a Distant and Perilous Service (Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson, commanding officer of the First Regiment of New York Volunteers during the Mexican-American War in California.) by Richard Reinhardt; Shades of Rebellion (Images of Frederick Chapman who was a silhouette artist who specialized in profiles of Revolutionary War soldiers); When Does This Place Get to New York (RMS Queen Mary) by Geoffrey Bocca; American Characters: William Cowper Brann by Richard F. Snow; Neon (Photographs of neon lighting advertising signs) by Rudi Stern; Head Lines (Hat Comformator, the most reliable way to translate the fit of a custom hat into the exact shape of your head); Good Reading (book reviews: Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack; Where She Danced: American Dancing, 1880-1930 by Elizabeth Kendall; Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Womens Medicine by Sarah Stage) by Barbara Klaw; Readers Album: Kiddie Cat (1905 photograph of child sitting on a stuffed lion, Henry Augustus Ward); Postscripts (fabricated story of the Declaration of Independence published in Germany 1777; Mormon black priests; Japanese Prison Camp Holmes; Taps, Colonel Daniel Butterfield, 19th Amendment, Suffragettes).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Spotting to edge.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Fourth Printing. This book is in excellent condition - never read! Clean pages and minor aging to cover. Ships fast!

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd printing, Oct. 1967; #64-374. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "The First Men" by Howard Fast; "A Worlk of Art" by James Blish; "Evening Primrose" by John Collier; "Memento Homo" by Walter M. Miller, Jr.; "A Miracle of Rare Device" by Ray Bradbury; "All You Zombies -" by Robert A. Heinlein; "Faq'" by George P. Elliott; "Babel II" by Damon Knight; "A Saucer of Lonliness" by Theodore Sturgeon; "Night Piece" by Poul Anderson; "Now Let us Sleep" by Avram Davidson; "The Strange Girl" by Mark Van Doren; "The Quest for Saint Aquin" by Anthony Boucher; "The War in the Air" by R. V. Cassill; "The Ugly Little Boy" by Isaac Asimov; "Epilogue: My Private World of Science Fiction" by Alfred Bester. Slight creasing and edgewear; mild tanning. Book.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated first edition. No dust jacket. VG. Light wear. Name on front pastedown. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Slight wear and soiling. blue cloth, Octavo, 698pp., Good+.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1929; green cloth covered boards; spine edge wear; no dust jacket; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 736 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps. Mild shelf wear, light vertical crease to front cover, bottom corner slightly bumped. Square, firm binding. Text block edges a bit toned by age. 247pp. Decently preserved copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/price clipped, lite sunning of spine panel, in mylar, owner's name, tan c w/salmon boards, white decoration/s titles; 285 clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Rathbun, marFront cover has a slight crease from top to bottom. Something was placed between the first two pages of T. S. Eliot The Waste Land - The Burial of the Dead, and these two pages are heavily browned. Spine has slight wear and is browned. Bookplate on inside of front cover. Circled "9" written on upper margin of front cover. ; Cover art by Rockwell Kent. ; Charles Boni Paper Books; 250 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Forum Books Edition. xiv-737 pp., index. Very slight shelfwear spine, top corners bumped. DJ somewhat scuffed with a few shallow chips & tears. Text is yellowing, but clean and unmarked. "History sounds dry as dust and often is. /but the history behind the history, the story of the people who inspired the events, is as good reading today as it was in 1066, or 1942, or 1776. The year 1606 begins this narrative of the men and women who made America. Mark Van Doren has collected their personal documents, letters, diaries, public statements-tied them together with his own brief comments-and made a book so truly interesting, humorous, sympathetic, and even sometimes bawdy, that you think, 'Why these are people, not historical characters.' But they are."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxxii, 690pp, short biographies, indices of authors, titles, and first lines, green cloth, light general wear, front inner hinge cracked, in chipped dust jacket now housed in protective Brodart cover. Very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one. Protective mylar film over cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Panther Book 2124. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Memento Homo by Walter M. Miller Jr; A Miracle of Rare Device by Ray Bradbury;All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein; The Ugly Little Boy by Isaac Asimov; The Quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher; The First Men by Howard Fast; A Work of Art by James Blish; Evening Primrose by John Collier; Faq by George P. Elliott; Babel II by Damon Knight; A Saucer of Loneliness by Theodore Sturgeon; Night Piece by Poul Anderson; Now Let Us Sleep by Avram Davidson; The Strange Girl by Mark Van Doren; The War in the Air by R. V. Cassill; and My Private World of Science Fiction by Alfred Bester. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Students Edition. --------------Navy cltoh covers with gilt letters, a thick book, 8 1/2" tall.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid clean hardcover- - no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tight, clean, unmarked copy; minor surface/edge wear to the dust jacket, which is also slightly tanned. Deckle edge. Binding is firm. Original publisher's price of $8.95 is printed on the front jacket flap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair / with Protective Cover. Good condition for it's age. Underlining and margin marking in pencil, breaks in the spine. Chips on the corners up to 2". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rockwell Kent (cover) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tan cloth, lettered/illus. in black (cover design by Rockwell Kent). Some spotting to both covers, and several areas of fraying/exposure at corners, rubbed paper title label on upper spine. Firm binding. 250 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A selection of poetry by the great English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) in a Modern Library reprint edition. Poems selected, edited and with an introduction by Mark Van Doren. Indices of titles and first lines at rear of volume. --- In Toledano spine 11 / red cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling & torchbearer / grey Kent endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1963-67 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #268.1. --- With the beginnings of a split near the front of the book, else a well-preserved, unmarked copy.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xxiv, 712 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover - Cloth. First American edition. 662 page hardcover bound in blue cloth with gold lettering. A Near Fine copy. Mild bump to the base of the spine. Owners name penciled on front fly. No dust jacket as issued. Chosen with an Introduction by Van Doren. Tight, clean copy. .