Prefaces (424 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: good. Paul Cox, cover il (illustrator). 92 pages; 7.5" tall; ecru cover with color il on front; very scattered underlining & margin markings; some wear to extrems of cover; pp browning. Paperback.

Soft Cover. Condition: good+. Contents: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, & Ghosts. Mass market paperback; 305 pages; some discoloration to cover; pp browning. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. There is a note inked on front cover page. no other marking.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Soft Cover. Condition: fine. 164 pages. 8" tall; color photo front of black cover. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1954. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board top and bottom edges. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped; wear and missing small pieces to top of front panel and tips; light shipping to head and tail. Blue tweed paper over boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 243 pp 8vo. This is an editing of Peter Marshall 276 prayers by his wife Catherine. 84 are pastoral prayers and 192 are prayers he delivered before the United States Senate. Mrs. Marshall has written a lone preface to each of these sections as well as shorter notes to many of the individual Senate prayers. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Garry Ruddell (front cover) (illustrator). ----------paperback. A 464-page science fiction anthology of tales, honoring the works of Isaac Asimov. Spine creases (although appears unread), modest edgewear, a VG+ copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-669-01029-4. Edgeworn, corners creased at within about 1/2" to 1" from tips, spine slightly faded, 1/4" by 1/2" scraped area on rear cover by side edge. (Contents: Joseph Conrad, Youth: A Narrative; William Faulkner, Old Man; Richard Wright: Down by the Riverside; Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground - translated by David Magarshack; Thomas Mann, Tonio Kroger - translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter; Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis - translated by Willa and Edwin Miller; Saul Bellow: Seize the Day; Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - translated by Thomas P. Whitney; Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe; Yukio Mishimia, The Sound of the Waves - translated by Meredith Weatherby. Glossary of Critical Terms. 650 pages.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Thirteenth Printing. VERY GOOD Condition PAPERBACK; Black spine titles on white spine strip. ; Golden Cover Artman statue cover art; 301pg pages; throws the bright light of reason into some murky corners of the Victorian mind.".

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. 403 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 321pp., (i). Light to medium wear and some sunning to covers, with mild soiling to edges of pages. Some tanning to paper. Text clean. Binding sound. Please note that the covers of the volume may not match stock.

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

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Expanded Edition/ 1st Printing. 384 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine. Discoloration of pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Over-sized hardbound (folio). First edition: no later printings listed. Light wear to the binding. No slope, no twist from reading or improper shelving. No bumped corners. No broken hinges. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Blind embossed name stamp on the lower right corner of the title page. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water damage. No soiling. Light sun fading. Lacks the dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

HC. B&W illustrations (illustrator). 364pp ISBN 0815600690 EX-LIB with some usual markings - NO EXTERNAL MARKS. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) - EX-LIB SEE NOTE.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Light edgewear. "Revised and Expanded." Contents - Preface to the expanded edition; Preface; ONE: KAUFMANN: Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre; TWO: DOSTOEVSKY: Notes from Underground; THREE: KIERKEGAARD: The Fist Existentialist; FOUR: NIETZSCHE: "Live Dangerously": FIVE: RILKE: The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge; SIX: KAFKA: Three Parables; SEVEN: ORTEGA: "Man Has No Nature": EIGHT: JASPERS: Existenzphilosophie; NINE: HEIDEGGER: The Quest for Being; TEN: SARTRE: Existentialism: ELEVEN: CAMUS: The Myth of Sisyphus; Notes: Sources and acknowledgments.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. xix 282 pages; sepia frontis with tissue guard; text clean; binding solid; 7.25" tall; light shelf wear to edges of gold cover with red & black decor & lettering on front & darkened spine; no dj. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Missing. 2nd Edition. 814 pp. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stains on both covers. Mildly worn edges. Dust jacket missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xx, 154 Pp. 12 1/4" X 9 1/4". Black Cloth Spine, Tan Boards Illustrated In Black, Red Spine And Cover Labels Printed In Black, Illustrated Endpapers. Verses, Music, Illustrations And Decorations. Quite A Production For A Book About That Most Worthless Of Human Endeavors. Well Preserved, Lightly Used, Slight Fading To Red Spine And Cover Labels, Hinges Tight, No Marks Or Stains, Light Fraying To Paper At Lower Tips Of Boards.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Lealand Gustavson Illustrator. (illustrator). PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 240 pages. "The Art of the Game in all its phases: instructin from the tee to the green; superb, detailed instructional drawings; tips from such greats as Armour, Hagen, Middlecoff, Snead, Sarazen and many more; etiquette; the rules; the history of the game; delightful cartoons and art; novelty match events and handicapping systems. In short, for the first time, here's what every Golfer Must Know!" >> Beautiful UN-READ example. SCARCE in this condition; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. illustrtaed with black and white figures (illustrator). Firmly bound and clean.

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair-. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good / fair minus. Book: pencil notations in text; binding is clean and bright; straight; hinges strong; no wear to speak of. Jacket is chipped and worn. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light blue cloth over black spine with blue gilt title. Gilt facsimile of author's signature on front cover. Part of the Modern Standard Author's Series. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding. Unclipped dust jacket with minor chipping, now wrapped in protective Brodart cover. Includes The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Springs, short stories and selections from eighth other titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Thick octavo. Condition: slight wear; else very good+ condition. Pages: xii, 500.

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's biege cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (22.50). First Edition (so stated). Boston, Massachusetts: New York Graphic Society (for Yale Univ. and Victoria and Albert Museum), 1976. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp. With 44 color, and 280 black and white illustrations. From the Dust Jacket: "This superbly illustrated and documented book presents an overview of the arts and crafts in America during that crucial half century when the colonies were moving towards independence, both politically and culturally. [Introductory essays examine] the fusion of English and American cultures, the making of a more 'American' culture, questions of style, iconography, and regional characteristics. Chapters on paintings and drawings, prints, furniture, silver, pewter, brass, ceramics, glass, and textiles are illustrated with some of the finest objects created in these years.". First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Publisher's biege cloth/DJ Not Price Clipped (22.50). 320pp.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. First Edition. There is a tear to the front spine edge, front cover is loosely attached. Covers have a very small creased tear to the rear outer edge and some other slight edge wear. Pages are browned. ; French text. Most of the DJ front is present, although part of the title has been ripped away. DJ front illustration is intact. DJ spine and rear are missing. ; 234 pages.

Paperback. 128p., first wraps edition, wraps lightly worn, spine sunned, else very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Missing. Copyright © 1971. 800 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dj is missing.