houghton mifflin company edition first edition (101 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Has more than 350 pages and contains articles by George Higgins, Jonathan Yardley, Red Smith, Tom Wicker, Robert Creamer, Wilfrid Sheed, Mordecai Richler, Roy Blunt, Jr. with the historical text by David Nemec. Is filled with black and white photographs. Has the same gold cover as the hard back original. The last baseball is now 1970-1980. This was the First Revised Edition. In good condition. I have hundreds of books on the history of baseball in stock. Discounts are available on multiple purchases on the same order.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SPITBALL'S 1993 Casey Award Winner for The Best Baseball Book of the Year. With more than 250 pages, Michael Gershman traces the life of America's great ballparks, from Baker Bowl, Crosley Field and the Polo Grounds to the Astrodome and the Skydome. Plus the plans for two domes in Brooklyn and a Yankee Stadium to be built over Penn Station. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good- condition. I have around 60 publications on baseball ballparks and 30 Casey Award Winners in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches with some 311 pages. Bound in illustrated brown cloth with black lettering. Frontis and seven full page illustrations on glossy paper by George Giguere. Covers with light overall soil; spine light fraying at top/bottom; tips worn, etc. An average copy. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.14.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.14.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine cloth-backed boards in a Fine dust jacket; as new. Bright, snug & unmarked with full number line.

Octavo, brown illustrated cloth (hardcover), vi, 206 pp. Illustrated. Very Good+, with light edgewear, in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear and rubbing to covers. "Joyce Cary's Africa is West Africa, where he spent five years in Nigeria and the Cameroons -- years as fruitful and significant for him as a voyage up the Congo was for Conrad, for the concept of freedom that underlies all Cary's writings is rooted in his experience as a colonial administrator of a large and lonely province in the interior.Cary's journal-letters to his wife provide a circumstantial account of his day-to-day existence. At a time when it was unusual for a colonial administrator to questionj the basis of his work, he struggled to clarify his ideas on the good government of an undeveloped country.Molly Mahood examines and interprets Cary's letters, political writings, and novels in a way that reveals his development.A scholarly, illuminating, and eminently readable stury of a fascinating literary figure. The book is illustrated by pencil sketches taken from his letters." Literature, Literary Analysis, Joyce Cary, Critique, Author Biography, Literary Figures, Literature.

Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), top edge gilt, uncut, 287 pp. Very Good, with minor soiling to covers, light fraying to tip of spine. From Preface: There is a well-grounded prejudice against a volume which exhibits no marks of design and which turns out to be only a fortuitous collection of essays. It is felt that the chapters brought together under the cover a single book should have something in common. When one sees a number of subjects, each standing aloof from the others, he predicts infelicity. It suggests incompatibility of temper. The essays brought together in "the Pardoner's Wallet" have at least a certain community of interest. They treat of aspects of human nature which, while open to friendly criticism, are excusable. If the author sometimes touches upon the foibles of his betters, he at least has the grace to know that they are his betters. Contents: The Pardoner; Unseasonable Virtues; An Hour with our Prejudices; How to Know the Fallacies; THe Difficulties of the Peacemakers; The Land of the Large and Charitable Air; A Community of Humorists; A Saint Recanonized; As He Sees Himself; A Man under Enchantment; The Cruelty of Good People. Literature, Essay. yslic.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), 264 pp. Near-Fine, with light speckling (age darkened spotting) to top foredge, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light soiling and slightly darkened spine. "This vivid account of the Dreyfus Affair often reads like a cloak-and-dagger mystery, for the bare facts of Dreyfus's case seem almost too melodramatic to be true. But at the same time, it provides a chilling example of what can happen when justice and the safeguards of proper legal procedure are sacrificed to some presumed honor or security. Although the scene of the Dreyfus Affair was France, the lessons it taught were not peculiarly French; they have meaning for all men who put the rights of the individual above those of society." Espionage, Jewish History, French History, Criminal Procedure, Judaica.

Royal octavo, red cloth (hardcover), [125] pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with light chipping to edges. "The twenty-eight stories in this book have been drawn from the different counties of England and retold in a simple, vivid style that recaptures the oral traditions from which they sprang. The stories range from the comic, such as Jack Buttermilk from Nottinghamshire, to the sad, like the Suffolk story, Brother Mike, but whether funny or sad, fantastic or tragic, these stories from the rich folk-tale heritage of English-speaking people will be enjoyed by children of all ages." British History, England, English History, Oral Tradition, Folk Tales, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Illustrated.

Octavo, khaki cloth (hardcover), 287 pp. Fine in a Near Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with slight sunning to spine. From dust jacket: In a series of leisurely and loving portraits, Jack Schaefer describes a whole ark-full of creatures great and small, who mostly live beyond the din of traffic and the glare of city lights, from the industrious pika, whose sophisticated stockpiling permits him to live in comfort on the desolate rockslides of the high Rockies, to the magnificent pronghorn, whose very appearance represents a perfection of successful adaptation. The book is packed with a thousand bits of information, much of it surely unfamiliar even to the well-read naturalist: the special conditions of a bat's pregnancy, the subterranean architecture of the gopher, the seasonal frustrations of the stolid porcupine. But more important is the overall warmth and geniality of the author's vision -- one would like to call it his humanity, but, alas, at the present stage of our development "animality" seems a more appropriate word. In any case, the reader will end up a better mammal, and perhaps even a wiser and more understanding human being. Natural History, Nature Writing, Essay, Animal Stories yslic.

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Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), uncut, 400 pp. Very Good, with small area of discoloration to upper cover -- interior clean, tight, and attractive; in a mylar protected dust jacket with palm-sized damp stain to spine & upper cover (otherwise, bright and attractive). From dust jacket: "In these pages, I offer only my story. You may suggest that the historian is also the diligent spinner of a tale." So writes Peter de Lissovoy, the young man at the center of this beautifully written narrative. He writes about a period of his life which took him from Harvard and the campus drug scene to a small Georgia town where he hoped to find a place in the civil rights movement. The futility of the movement was not unlike that he had felt at college, but it served as a spring-board for a passionate journey on the black side of a small southern town he calls Meansville, Georgia.His search ended in the cool earth on the banks of the Meansville River, and in the swamp next to it. Here he sat with Dr. Feelgood, a gentle sage who practiced root medicine, and Yellow, a cripple who spent his life fishing for sunnies in the peaceful river. Together they smoked the potent grass that Feelgood had gathered from the swamp where it grew wild. And listening to Feelgood think out loud, the wanderer began to understand the nature of his quest. His sympathy for the black American began to shift in its derivation from a vague wish for involvement in something to a truer understanding, and hence became a sympathy no longer confined to a praticular race. Literature, American Culture, Civil Rights movement, Southern Americana, American South, Georgia.

8vo [ 23 x 15 cm]; xi, 288 pp, 54 illustrations and maps, including frontis and full-page, double-page and foldout maps, one in color. original cloth, very good. Includes early development of sailing, from ancient times to development of steam power, with interesting illustrations of old maps, early ships. A picture of this book is available on request.

8vo [21 x 14 cm]; viii, [i], 287 pp, photogravure frontis portrait, plates, index. original cloth, gilt title lettering, spine ends bit frayed, bookplate on endpaper, good sound and clean copy. A picture of this book is available on request.

Octavo, black & tan boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 734 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Previous histories of the Civl War have explained victory or defeat in terms of the skill of commanders, the fighting qualities of the troops, and resources in men and materiel. Intelligence has been largely ignored, not because it wasn't critically important -- Lincoln called it the most difficult problem faced by the Union -- but because so little has been known about it. At the end of the war most of the intelligence records disappeared, and they remained hidden for almost a century, until Edwin Fishel uncovered them during the forty years of research that has resulted in this monumental book. The Secret War for the Union is unique among Civil War histories in its reliance on original, previously unknown sources. It is the first book to examine in detail the impact of intelligence, and this intelligence explanation alters, sometimes radically, history's understanding of virtually every campaign. Both enthralling and authoritative The Secret War for the Union is one of the most important books ever published about the Civil War. Civil War, War Between the States, United States History, U. S. History, American History, Americana, U.S.-iana, Secret Intelligence. yslic.

Octavo, black cloth & orange boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 262 pp. Near-Fine, with slight soiling to page edges; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Joyce Glassman was twenty-one years old when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by the poet Allen Ginsberg. It was January 1957 -- nine months before the publication of On the Road would make Beat a permanent part of the American vocabulary. It was a time when most young women did not leave home, unless to move into college dormitories or marriage. Attracted since adolescence to the Bohemian world of espresso bars and artists' haunts so easily accessible in New York City by bus ride from her middle-class neighborhood, Joyce Glassman was a girl with a boundless -- and therefore dangerous -- belief in the power of love. Kerouac was thirty-four -- a man who had recently confronted the Void on a mountaintop in California, who had spent himself in too many places and needed to come in off the road; a suprisingly shy man, ill-prepared for his upcoming encounter with the steamroller of fame. In this remarkable memoir, Joyce Johnson remembers her years with Jack Kerouac -- years when the art and ideas of the Beat Generation stirred a sleeping country; years, too, when to be a woman meant, at best, to be a minor character ina drama played by men. The circle of rebellious visionaries she was drawn into included Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, and Gergory Corso -- but it also included some extraordinary women. Women who had achieved a difficult liberation of their own but who would pay the price of loving outlaws; women who would bury their own gifts and whose innocent courage would sometimes lead them into tragedy. Brilliantly written and glittering with insight, Minor Characters is a book about being young and brave and hungry for life and adventure. It is also a compelling remembrance of a time, a place, and the men and women who would become famous as the Beat Generation. Literature, Beat, Biography, Americana. bslic.

Octavo, black cloth & orange boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 262 pp. Near-Fine, with slight soiling to page edges; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Joyce Glassman was twenty-one years old when she met Jack Kerouac on a blind date in Greenwich Village arranged by the poet Allen Ginsberg. It was January 1957 -- nine months before the publication of On the Road would make Beat a permanent part of the American vocabulary. It was a time when most young women did not leave home, unless to move into college dormitories or marriage. Attracted since adolescence to the Bohemian world of espresso bars and artists' haunts so easily accessible in New York City by bus ride from her middle-class neighborhood, Joyce Glassman was a girl with a boundless -- and therefore dangerous -- belief in the power of love. Kerouac was thirty-four -- a man who had recently confronted the Void on a mountaintop in California, who had spent himself in too many places and needed to come in off the road; a suprisingly shy man, ill-prepared for his upcoming encounter with the steamroller of fame. In this remarkable memoir, Joyce Johnson remembers her years with Jack Kerouac -- years when the art and ideas of the Beat Generation stirred a sleeping country; years, too, when to be a woman meant, at best, to be a minor character ina drama played by men. The circle of rebellious visionaries she was drawn into included Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, and Gergory Corso -- but it also included some extraordinary women. Women who had achieved a difficult liberation of their own but who would pay the price of loving outlaws; women who would bury their own gifts and whose innocent courage would sometimes lead them into tragedy. Brilliantly written and glittering with insight, Minor Characters is a book about being young and brave and hungry for life and adventure. It is also a compelling remembrance of a time, a place, and the men and women who would become famous as the Beat Generation. Literature, Beat, Biography, Americana. bslic.

8vo [24 x 15 cm]; xiv, 218 pp. original cloth-backed boards, dj (price clipped), fine copy. The author, a landscape designer, nurseryman and plant collector, describes his gardens in the Pacific northwest of North America, New Zealand and the Philippines, and his tackling of various gardening problems. A picture of this book is available on request.

Quarto, paperbound (stiff white, illus. wrappers, 160pp. Very Good+, with lightly sunned, worn, spine. Candy Bar Gazebo, Volume II, Issue 3 - Summer, 1985, laid-in, along with a brochure for the 2nd Annual Chocolate Festival & Fair, Sept. 20-22, 1985. From lower cover: Here is an affectionate, mouth-watering history of the candy bar, from the original Hershey bar, in 1894, to Snickers, the most popular bar nationwide today. Nothing is left out, from regional specialties such as Goo-Goo Cluster and CHerry Humps to forgotten favorite such as Chicken Dinner, Duck Lunch, Walnettos, Dipsy Doodle, Buck Private, and Leaping Lena. Also recalled here are the rain of Baby Ruth bars over Pittsburgh, the 3100-pound Clark bar, Bobby Riggs and the 22-pound Sugar Daddy, and much, much more. So why wait? Devour the next best thing to the bar itself: The Great American Candy Bar Book. Antiques & Collectibles, Food & Entertaining, Chocolate, Candy, Americana, Business, Advertising. RWT.

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, tissue-protected frontis., top edge gilt, uncut, [280] pp. Very Good+. From Preface: My reader will find this volume quite a departure in certain ways from the tone and spirit of my previous books, especially in regard to the subject of animal intelligence. Heretofore I have made the most of every gleam of intelligence of bird or four-footed best that came under my observation, often, I fancy, making too much of it, and giving the wild creatures credit for more "sense" than they really possessed. The nature love is always tempted to do this very thing; his tendency is to humanize the wild life about him, and to read his own traits and moods into whatever he looks upon. I have never consciously done this myself, at least to the extent of willfully misleading my reader. But some of our later nature writers have been guilty of this fault, and have so grossly exaggerated and misrepresented the every-day wild life of our fields and woods that their example has caused a strong reaction to take place in my own mind, and has led me to set about examining the whole subject of animal life and instinct in a way that I have never done before. In March, 1903, I contributed to "The Atlantic Monthly" a paper called "Real and Sham Natural History," which was as vigorously a protest as I could make against the growing tendency to humanize the lower animals. Literature, Natural History, Nature Writings. aslic.