Great Transformation: Signed (22 results)

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. AO1 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, a few scattereds stains and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book bowed and lightly cocked, some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 339 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Robin Wright, the acclaimed Mideast expert and foreign correspondent, returns to Iran, which she has visited more frequently than has any other American since the fall of the shah, to give us a portrait of the revolution - a generation after Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to end 2,500 years of monarchy. She shows us how the Iranian revolution has taken on even greater importance since Khomeini's death, and how it transformed Iranian society as well as Islam. She describes the revolutions within the revolution that have resulted in a movement as radical in the world of Islam as Luther's Reformation was in the Christian world - empowering women, modernizing social traditions, creating a feisty, independent cinema and arts industry and giving birth to a new generation that is redefining Iran's political agenda. Wright makes abundantly clear why she believes the Iranian revolution will stand along with the French and the Russian as one of the three innovative revolutions - and the last great revolution - of the Modern Era. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED and inscribed on ffep by author Karen Armstrong. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. No other markings.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tan boards under illustrated dust jacket priced at $30.00. Second printing before publication. Inscribed by Armstrong on front endpaper. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to front end page (signature only). $29.95 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. (2016) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 370 pages. Signed by author on the title page, "To Joan, Best Wishes, Susan Jaques." The book and DJ are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior clean and tight. "Readers of biography, art history and collecting, Russian history, and 18th-century world history will enjoy this book. Lovers of opulence will drool over Catherine's lifestyle." Red spine/White text. Size: 8vo. Signed. Historical Russia Biographies. …

First Edition. A NEW copy in a NEW dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "To Jim Jayo, who was there in California and remembers, and whose son helped me tell the story. -- Ken Holden." James Jayo, Jr. was Holden's editpr at the Lyons Press. We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997 AND IN OUR STORE IN THE BERKSHIRES FROM 1987 TO 2015.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Ships from California. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd printing before publication stated. Inscribed by Armstrong on front endpaper. A fine copy in a fine DJ, now protected in a removal mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #114. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Second printing of first edition, 2000. Signed and inscribed by Author on ffep " For Erika Hellstrom, with Best Wishes. Robin Wright". Hardcover with DJ. Condition as new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, bright and shiny, no tears no chips, no edgewear, price not clipped. 8vo, 339 pages, bibliography, index. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st ed/1st printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition pre-publication. Signed on the title page with no inscription. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed & Dated 10 April, 2006 by Author on the title page - signature only - received in person. A First edition, First printing. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine, Not Price Clipped. American First. First Edition stated on verso of title page; signed by Karen Armstrong on the title page with no inscription; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. SIGNED and dated on front free endpaper--visible in photo. New book that was opened only for signing. Issued without a dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. first edition book, includes the dust jacket 9light scuff marks), signed by the author "Karen Armstrong".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a near fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Brodart Archival Jacket. 1st Edition. A FINE copy of the FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. In a FINE, unclipped jacket. Signed by KAREN ARMSTRONG on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: Knopf [2006]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (her name only, with no other writing). New! A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all respects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Tall 8vo, pale parchment yellow quarter cloth with gold lettering over comparable boards, illustrated with 25 maps & plans. Pictorial dust jacket lettered with three colored circlets of religious figures, xviii + 469 pages. Signed by Author(s).…

hardcover. Condition: As New. Routledge, 2007. Hard cover, first edition. Appears to be signed and inscribed by author but cannot confirm this. Fine condition with no dust jacket, as issued. Signed.

First edition, early printing of Polanyi's landmark work, which many consider to be one of the twentieth centuryâs most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Peter and Doris With Love Karl." The recipients, Peter Drucker and his wife Doris were close friends and colleagues of Polyani. Born in Budapest, Polanyi moved to Vienna, where he met Drucker while he worked as senior editor of The Austrian Economist. In July 1940, the President of Bennington College, Robert Leigh, wrote to the publisher W.W. Norton, asking him to forward the names of refugee scholars who had been forced to leave Europe as result of the war, and who might benefit from spending a year at Bennington as âhonorary fellows of the college.â Later that week, Drucker, himself a refugee, contacted Leigh with a request to bring Polanyi from Vienna to the college. âDrucker devoted an entire passage of his memoirs, Adventures of a Bystander, to the Polanyi family. Elsewhere, he noted that âperhaps I learned the most from Polanyi, although not formally because we were friends.â Among other things, Drucker described in Polanyi a talent for the practice of social ecology: âHe analyzed, with an uncanny knack for seeing the importance of inconspicuous developments-at an early stage.â (Druckerâs Lost Art of Management, by Joseph A. Maciariello and Karen E. Linkletter). Both Polanyi and Drucker acknowledged each other in their major wartime works, and continued to exchange letters until Polanyiâs death in 1964. Drucker even had a hand in preparing The Great Transformation for publication after Polanyi returned to England, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional association. This is the first signed example we have seen. One of the great works of twentieth century economics and surely one of greatest critiques of market liberalism. As an à migrà fleeing Nazism, Polanyi witnessed a world falling apart as global depression, fascist regimes, and resurgent racism metastasized into worldwide terror. Finding intellectual sanctuary at Bennington College, Polanyi worked out a bold diagnosis of what had gone wrong in The Great Transformation, and of how modern society might be rebuilt upon a more equitable foundation. A study of the origins of the Industrial Revolution and the enormity of its economic consequences, ".it argues a triple thesis: (i) that in Great Britain and Western Europe, the coming of machine technology to mercantilistic national economies that contained governmentally regulated markets induced enormous growth in all input and output markets and the removal of governmental controls from some of them; (ii) that nationally integrated market systems in which labour, land, and money as well as produced goods were transacted as market commodities were historically unique; (iii) although machine technology producing within a market system was enormously productive its destructive consequences culminating in the Great Depression of the 1930s, forced governments from the early 19th century onwards to initiate market controls, monetary and fiscal policy to mitigate its destructive consequences, what we now call 'managed' and 'welfare state capitalism'" (New Palgrave). Polanyi's approach to understanding the relationship between politics and the economy has proven influential in the development of numerous fields of study, including economic history, economic sociology, economic anthropology, and historical sociology.…