Garden Beasts by Larson Erik, First Edition (34 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Corners are slightly bent. Used - Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Paperback Edition of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. Copyright 2011. Published by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group. Printed in the United States. In very good condition. Minor wear to the cover edges and two small creases, one on the top corner of the front cover and the other on the bottom corner of the back cover. No stains, tears, or writing inside. Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD SOFTCOVER.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. some wear on cover, pages in good condition.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. some wear on cover, pages in good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Front and back cover have many creases. Pages are completely clean and free of marks and folds.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Paperback Edition; 448pp; Index. Contents clean and unmarked; no names, no writing, no library stamps.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bookseller sticker to rear dustwrapper panel. Book ow/ clean, bright and tight w/ only minor shelfwear.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. Crown, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Stated with full number line. Hardcover in near fine condition; clean boards, tight binding, clean pages, minimal shelfwear and edgewear. Dust jacket in near fine condition; bright, minimal edgewear and shelfwear, unclipped price at $ 26.00 In the Garden of Beasts follows U.S. Ambassador William E. Dodd and his family as they navigate life in Berlin during Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s. Through their eyes, Erik Larson presents an intimate portrait of Nazi Germany's descent into tyranny, highlighting both the complacency and the mounting terror of the era. It is a chilling reminder of how quickly a society can fall under authoritarian control.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative nonfiction, and in this book, the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the "New Germany," she has one affair after another, including with the surprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experiences days full of excitement, intrigue, romance -- and ultimately horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder unmasks Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition. Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Goring and the expectedly charming -- yet wholly sinister -- Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning eye-witness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.

hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. From the author of The Devil in the White City. Book and dust jacket are in as new condition. States first edition. ; Standard Book Size.; 448 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 448 pages. Includes Sources and Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, Photo Credits, and an Index. Also includes two black and white endpaper maps--one of The Tiergarten 1933, and the other one of Berlin and the Tiergarten Area. Signed by the author on the title page. A non-fiction book about William E. Dodd, who became America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in 1933, a year that proved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brought along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, William Dodd telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experienced days full of excitement, intrigue, romance--and ultimately horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder unmasks Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition. Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of nonfiction books. He has written a number of bestsellers, including In the Garden of Beasts (2011) about an American diplomat in Berlin in the early period of Hitler's Third Reich and The Devil in the White City (2003), about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair. The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards. William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 - February 9, 1940) was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era. Initially a holder of the slightly anti-Semitic notions of his times, he went to Germany with instructions from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to do what he could to protest Nazi treatment of Jews in Germany "unofficially," while also attempting to follow official State Department instructions to maintain cordial official diplomatic relations. Convinced from firsthand observation that the Nazis were an increasing threat, he resigned over his inability to mobilize the Roosevelt administration, particularly the State Department, to counter the Nazis prior to the start of World War II. In 1937, Dodd stepped down as ambassador in Berlin, and President Roosevelt appointed Hugh Wilson, a senior professional diplomat, to replace him. After leaving his State Department post, Dodd took a position at American University in Washington, D.C., as well as campaigned to warn against the dangers posed by Germany, Italy, and Japan, and detailed racial and religious persecution in Germany. He predicted German aggression against Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Dodd, who suffered for years from a severe throat condition exacerbated by the stress of his ambassadorship, traveled on a speaking tour of Canada and the US, establishing his reputation as a statesman who opposed the Nazis. Historian Gerhard Weinberg believes no other ambassador to Nazi Germany was more effective, Derived from a Kirkus review: A true tale of diplomacy and intrigue. William E. Dodd, the unlikely hero of the piece, was a historian at the University of Chicago in the early 1930s, tenured and unhappy, increasingly convinced that he was cut out for greater things. Franklin Roosevelt, then in his second year in office, was meanwhile having trouble filling the ambassadorship in Berlin, where the paramilitary forces of Hitler's newly installed regime were in the habit of beating up Americansâ"and, it seems, American doctors in particular, one for the offense of not giving the Nazi salute when an SS parade passed by. Dodd was offered the job, and he accepted. Dodd did yeomanlike work, pressing for American interests while letting it be known that he did not think much of the blustering Nazisâ"even as, the author writes, he seems to have been somewhat blind to the intensity of anti-Semitism. More interesting than the scholarly Dodd, whom the Nazis thought of as a musty old man, was his daughter Martha, a beauty of readily apparent sexual appetite, eagerly courted by Nazis and communists alike. The intrigues in which she was caught up give Larson's tale, already suspenseful, the feel of a John le Carré novel. The book goes gives a detailed portrait of a time when the Nazi regime was solidifying into the evil monolith that would go to war with the world only five years later. An excellent study, taking a tiny instant of modern history and giving it specific weight, depth and meaning. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DW: Minor edge wear. B&W photographs. Maps inside front and back covers (The Tiergarten, 1933 and Pharus-Plan Berlin). 25 x 16 cm. 464 pp.

Softcover. First edition. 448 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. 9780307952424 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100.

Hardcover. Illustrated by Aafke Brouwer (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, no flaws, Signed 1st pt in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty thuggery.-Publishers Weekly (Starred Review). This is an excellent, later printing copy signed,dated by Larson at the 2026 Tucson Book Festival on the title page with a bright,price-intact dustjacket in clear mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping to you. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the TITLE page. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. NOT Book Club. Securely wrapped, dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Whitney Cookman (jacket design) (illustrator). Stated First Edition. May, 201. Book is set in 1933 Germany during Hitler's rise to power. William E. Dodd becomes the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany. 365 pp. plus: Sources and Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, Photo Credits, Index. Black cloth spine has as-new gilt text and binds black paper covered boards, decorative ep's feature Pharus-Plan Berlin. Bottom front edge has slight wear. Unclipped ($27.00/Canada $32.00) DJ has very light top edge wear. Bookseller's Inventory # 154866.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. An unread book in a fine condition dust jacket.