9780316765909 - a Host at Last by Sachar, Abram L. (24 results)
Language: English
Published by An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown & Company, Boston & Toronto 1976
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Story of the creation of the first privately-funded Jewish-sponsored liberal arts university in the United States, written by the man who served as Founding President for 20 years. 308 pages, b/w photo section, index, light general wear. Dust Jacket condition very good.
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Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 1st ed. stated. 308pp including index + center section glossy b/w photos; dust jacket has light wear to edges, is price-clipped & in new clear protective mylar. Hardcover (dj).
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY, U.S.A. 1976
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Blue cloth boards have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the opening page. The name that the signature was dedicated to has since been blacked out. Pages are otherwise very clean and bright with no markings. Moderate rubbing, chipping and light tearing to the edges and corners of the DJ.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Stated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author.
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hardcover. 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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. We're always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of all books, please just ask! American first edition, later printing. Published by Little Brown in 2008. Contains numberline 7 8 9 10. Virtually no wea…r to jacket. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Fine condition with no bumps or marks. The binding is straight and tight. Remainder mark. Oversize and heavy items may require additional postage.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author with an inscription.
Language: English
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co., Boston & Toronto 1976
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. DJ has two edge tears with creasing, light edge wear, light rubbing, and is price clipped.
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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed By Author.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Brandeis University--History. Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly P…ress book. " Includes index. 3 Kg.
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First Edition. First Edition Hardbound VG-/Good., DJ 8vo, 308, Inscribed/signed front endpaper. Light wear to book. DJ has general wear to edges/corners. ISBN:0-316-76590-2.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. , [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Brandeis University--History. Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly P…ress book. " Includes index. 1 Kg.
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Condition: Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some minor shelf wear. Minor nicks and tears to the d.w. Price clipped. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston and Toronto 1976
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xii, 308p., b/w illus., original blue cloth, ex libris.
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Condition: Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper with some minor shelf wear. Minor nicks and tears to the d.w. Price clipped. . . . .
Published by Little, Brow, Boston 1976
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper has rubs with small tears and folds at spine ends and along top edge of front panel. Dustwrapper is price clipped.
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Condition: very good, fair. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 308, illus., index, DJ worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. The history of Brandeis University, written by its Chancellor.
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Condition: very good, fair to good. First Edition. Presumed First Printing. 24 cm, 308 pages. Illus., index, bookplate. Presentation copy inscribed to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Morrison, and signed by the author. Compliments card from the author, and program from the April 28, 1979, meeting of the Noble Society and the Headmaster's Asso…ciates laid in. The author was the first president of Brandeis University, the first privately funded Jewish-sponsored liberal arts university in the United States.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Chipped Dustjacket. Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition, signed and inscribed by the author, hardcover with a chipped dustjacket. Sachar tells the story of the transformation of a bankrupt medical and veterinary college in Waltham, MA, into the first privately funded Jewish-sponsored liber…al arts university in the United States. Dr. Sachar was President and later Chancellor of Brandeis University. Condition: Very Good. Autobiography. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Book.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 24 cm. ix, [3], 308, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by the author. Abram Leon Sachar (February 15, 1899 - July 24, 1993) was an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University, the first privately funded Jewish-sponsored liberal arts unive…rsity in the United States. From 1920 to 1923 he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England, where he received his doctorate in history for his thesis on the Victorian House of Lords. Upon his return to the United States, Sachar joined the faculty of the history department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, teaching Modern European and English History. He remained at this position for the next 24 years. Sachar published his first book in 1927; this was followed by several other books in quick succession. He also lectured across the country from the 1920s to the 1990s, and appeared in a weekly educational television lecture show, The Course of Our Times; his analyses of problems in contemporary history were later published in the book of the same title. Sachar remained a working educator, historian, lecturer, and author until his death. In 1948 trustees of the newly formed, Jewish-sponsored, nonsectarian Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts asked Sachar, who had displayed his scholarly credentials and devotion to the Jewish people through previous leadership of the Hillel organization at Illinois University, and through his 1930 work, History of the Jews. During his 20-year tenure, Sachar's leadership and fund-raising skills were largely credited for building Brandeis into a major research institution. Abram Sachar provides an invaluable look at the growing pains of this one of a kind institution. Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named after Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the US Supreme Court. Alumni and affiliates of the university include former first lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt, Nobel Prize laureate Roderick MacKinnon and Fields Medalist Edward Witten, as well as foreign heads of state, congressmen, governors, diplomats, and recipients of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Emmy Award, and MacArthur Fellowship. On April 26, 1948, Brandeis University announced that Abram L. Sachar, chairman of the National Hillel Commission, had been chosen as Brandeis' first president. Sachar promised that Brandeis University would follow Louis Brandeis' principles of academic integrity and service. He also promised that students and faculty would never be chosen based on quotas of "genetic or ethnic or economic distribution" because choices based on quotas "are based on the assumption that there are standard population strains, on the belief that the ideal American must look and act like an eighteenth-century Puritan, that the melting pot of America must mold all who all who live here into such a pattern." Students who applied to the school were not asked their race, religion, or ancestry. Brandeis decided its undergraduate instruction would not be organized with traditional departments or divisions, and instead it would have four schools, namely the School of General Studies, the School of Social Studies, the School of Humanities, and the School of Science. On October 14, 1948, Brandeis University received its first freshman class of 107 students. They were taught by thirteen instructors in eight buildings on a 100-acre (40-hectare) campus. Students came from 28 states and six foreign countries. Historians Elinor and Robert Slater later called the opening of Brandeis one of the great moments in Jewish history. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Author: Abram L. Sachar Title: A Host at Last Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Atlantic Monthly Press) Place of Publication: Boston & Toronto Year: 1976 Edition: First Edition Printing: First Printing Binding: Hardcover Dust Jacket: Not stated ISBN (if applicable): 0316765902 /…9780316765909 Illustrations: Illustrated, includes plates and index Pagination: ix, [3], 308, [2] pages Language: English Provenance: None observed Signed: Signed by Abram L. Sachar Notable Attributes: Author-signed First Edition, First Printing; historical account of the founding and development of Brandeis University; includes illustrations, plates, and index Edition Verification Notes: Copyright page states 1976 with original publisher imprint Little, Brown and Company (Atlantic Monthly Press); ISBN present and consistent with first issue hardcover Condition: Condition not stated. General light handling and shelf wear may be present consistent with age. Binding appears intact and structurally sound; interior text block complete with illustrations and index as issued. Signature by the author present. Dust jacket not stated. Description: First Edition, First Printing of A Host at Last by Abram L. Sachar, published in 1976 by Little, Brown and Company under the Atlantic Monthly Press imprint and signed by the author. This historical work documents the founding and development of Brandeis University and includes illustrations, plates, and a full index. Author-signed first printings of institutional histories by Sachar, the founding president of Brandeis University, are of interest to collectors of Judaica, university history, and signed academic works. From a carefully curated catalog emphasizing collectible, historically significant, and well-preserved editions selected for condition and presentation. Carefully packed and shipped with protective materials for safe transit.
