doubleday company inc edition first edition (71 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Heavy wear. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. With dust jacket Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Library Binding. Condition: Fair. Frank Howell (illustrator). First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Publisher stamp on inside of front cover otherwise reading copy.

Hardcover. Top of spine slightly bent otherwise Acceptable. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages tanned otherwise Good. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages tanned o/w Good. DJ Tattered.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2.

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 254 pp. Very Good, with edgewear; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: This novel about America in the early 1800s is brimming with romantic adventure, swirling action, and fascinating characters. It centers on the turbulent events that led up to the acquisition of Florida by the United States. We follow the career of a young lieutenant from Connecticut -- Jonathan Ames -- who renounces his commission in the U. S. Army to join the flamboyant general Gregor MacGregor in his plans to liberate Florida from the Spaniards by force of arms. Ames is actually acting on instructions of his government -- his secret mission: to report on affairs in Florid directly to William Crawford, Secretary of War, and through him to President Madison himself. Through Ames's eyes, a vivid panorama of life in the new nation unfolds -- from the political intrigues in Washington, to the bustle of high society in Charleston, SC., to the frontier violence of Florida under the Spaniards. Based on extensive historical research, this novel offers a highly readable tale of romance, politics, and military adventure -- set in one of the most colorful and crucial periods of American history. Literature, Florida, Floridiana, Historic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Americana yslic.

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 389 pp. Ex-libris, with usual stamps and markings, including envelope on ffep.; with dust jacket. From dust jacket: In all the literature of World War II, there is one episode that remains to be told -- the story of the 303 Squadron of the RAF, a unit of valiant Polish airmen who helped to win the Battle of Britain. This is their story, a stunning historical novel about exiles who keep on fighting for a homeland to which they can never return, patriots who cannot forgett the treachery of an accidental ally who is also their country's oldest enemy, idealists who refuse to accept the reality of a dream betrayed by political expedience. Spanning the years 1939-1945, Valedictory is a novel with the sweep of some of the twentieth century's most momentous events, told by a writer whose work has been compared to that of Pasternak, Tolstoy, Dos Passos, and Solzhenitsyn. And it is also the story of opne man and the woman who tries to love him -- but is also responsible for the saddest betrayal of all. It is through the eyes of Ludo -- Squadron Leader Ludwik Toporski -- that we see it all: the fall of Poland, a harrowing escape through the rubble of Eastern Europe, heroic battles in the skies, and bitter political struggles and impassioned personal encounters on the ground. In the end, Ludo has become a man with nothing left to die for and no reason to live. But he leaves behind one final, unforgettable farewell gesture -- a valedictory to haunt the conscience of an indifferent world. Literature, Historical Fiction, Historic Fiction, Military Fiction. xslic.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), uncut, 256 pp. Very Good, with rubbing to edges, tidy former-owner bookplate; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: A new element was added to the art of warfare when Bristol Fighters of the Royal Flying Corps joined forces with armored vehicles of the Tank Corps to break the stalemate that trench warfare had brought to the battlefields of World War I. This exciting new novel by the author of Squadron 44 is set against the action created by the introduction of the tank prior to the memorable attack on Cambrai in 1917. Though their first engagement caught the enemy by surprise, the deployment of these lumbering vehicles on the wrong terrain, the inexperience of their crews, and their faulty construction soon negated their advantages. To Captain Keith Celement of the Royal Flying Corps, however, that was just a temporary setback. An ex-Cavalry officer now piloting an observation plane over the front, he viewed the appearance of the tank as worth far more even than the airplane. Lieutenant Chuck Bower, an American volunteer and tank commander, had a different opinion; knowing from personal experience how vulnerable the metal monsters were, he wished that he could transfer to the Flying Corps. Through the eyes of these two men the author provides a vivid picture of a new kind of warfare that reached its peak of effectiveness when the two learned to work together as a team. Adding to the drama of their growing partnership is a combined effort to liberate a Swedish scientist interned by the Germans, and a secret mission behind the lines to prevent the enemy from gaining possession of a secret weapon which could have turned the tide of war. Literature, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction, Aviation. yslic.

Octavo, hardcover (cloth), black spine labels, gilt letters, 455 pp. Good+, with darkened spine, rubbing to gilt letters, light edgewear. Literature, Christmas.

Octavo, hardcover (blue illustrated cloth), silver letters & decoration to upper cover, 208 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges. Literature, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good, price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners and is rubbed at most edges with a small sticker scar near top corner of front panel and a light damp stain along inside top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Grey w/green lettering. Ex lending lib with tiny stamp rear endpaper and label to spine of DJ, no other lib marks. Endpapers are slightly discolored, a handful of thumb smudges, but overall text is clean and bright. Unclipped DJ has been laminated and is glued to pastedowns. The laminate has discolored with a yellow hue.

Library Binding. Condition: Good. Diane Stanley (illustrator). First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Octavo, red cloth & black boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, vi, 489 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear and rubbing. From dust jacket: Gogol was a man of unpredictable temperament and acute perplexity. His physical repulsivenesses, illnesses, and hypochondria contributed to his desire to achieve "magnificence in something." Although in his dealings with people he rarely told the truth, as a writer he embodied in his characters universal truths of human experience. Relying constantly on family and friends to support him, Gogol lived virtually his whole life in debt, yet when he received royalties from his works, he tried to give the money away. Russia is the setting for all his works, but he spent nearly all of his adult life outside his homeland, mostly in Rome. He felt that his gift as a writer had been given to him by God, but his devotion to God and his craft was veiled in mysticism. A divided soul. In addition to focusing on Gogol's life and times, Henri Troyat writes about the shaping of Gogl's masterpieces -- Evenings on a Farm, The Inspector General, and Dead Souls -- and imparts an understanding for the work, as well as of the man. Literature, Biography, Author Biography, Russian Biography bslic.

Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 340 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. With letter from The Chemical Foundation laid-in. From jacket: In these days of international enmity and bitterness, it is the fortunate nation which can stand alone. For the first time, says Samuel Crowther, America is practically self-contained and can and should depend upon her own resources. Political Science, Politics, Foreign Policy, American History, United States History.

12mo. Green cloth. 305pp. Light bump head spine and upper right corner; else VG under unclipped dj. DJ wear at head/tail spine and corners; in protective dj. Romantic suspense novel set on the coast of Kent.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unknown. 1st Edition. Small quarto, hardcover, VG in blue tweed boards with torn and taped white dj. 369 pp. Part of The Mainstream of America series. This is latest volume presenting the story of America in narrative form. The series covers the entire sweep of nation's history from earliest days of exploration to the 50's turmoil and achievement. Book.

Octavo, black textured boards & red boards (hardcover), uncut, xvi, 510 pp. Very Good, with bookplate and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Few writers have had momre ironic, paradoxical lives than Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), the great horror-fantasy writer of Providence, Rhode Island. Never having a book of his stories published in his lifetime, he became a best seller after his death. Dying in poverty and obscurity, convinced of his own utter failure, he has been hailed not only as the equal of Poe but even as one of the greatest writers of all time. A self-proclaimed misanthrope, he collected a circle of devoted friends, who remember him as one of the kindest, most delightful, and most lovable persons they had known. The son of parents both of whom died insane, Lovecraft became a powerful philosophical thinker. A scientific materialist, he embraced pseudo-scientific racial theories, only to abandon them in his last years. A poseur who liked to fancy himself as an eighteenth century English gentleman, he condemned poses and affections in others. A political ultra-conservative, he became a Socialist and New Dealer. A man who prided himself on aristocratic reticence, he poured out his inmost thoughts in at least 100,000 letters, making him one of the greatest letter writers of all time. Here is the tale of his weird upbringing; his bizarre habits, preferences, his tragic-comic literary and marital careers; his key role in the origin of science-fiction fandom; and how he worked his nightmares and neuroses into the stories that became a legend after his death. Literature, Author Biography, Horror, Fantasy, Lovecraft, American Biography.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has pencil underlining. The dust jacket is edge worn and somewhat soiled. Book.