Heroic Age, Signed (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. The cover has maroon cloth. 9 chapters; tables; b/w illustrations, charts, and maps; notes; bib.; index; an epilogue titled, Satrapy of a Benevolent Despot. The author's signature is on the front endpaper. The cloth is a little bumpy on 1 1/2 in. of the back board's bottom, left corner, perhaps from being damp. A corner of the spine strip is slightly frayed. A 1/8 in., light stain is on the bottom end of the text block. Scans e-mailed upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author on front end page. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. 539 pages. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Anne Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good/none, used, 1st printing, illustrated stiff paper wraps, 135pp. Interior clean, no marks except "Best Wishes" and both authors signatures on the title page and what may be the illustrators signature on the dedication page, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners lightly rubbed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Second novel by the poet and author of When the Tree Sings, this novel taking place in the author's native Greece, in the years immediately following the Second World War. Warmly inscribed by the author to a well-known poet in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. X, 539 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, October 1941. Signed By Both Authors On Front Free Endpaper. Slight Wear, Gilt Bright And Clear But Not Strong And Brilliant, Hinges Tight. Tiny Dig/Tear At Top Edge Of Pp415-434. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: New. Signed. NOTE: Personalized signature by author. BRAND NEW. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed. Orders received before 3PM PT typically ship same day. All profits support the non-profit community.

Second edition hardback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FFEP. Very Good+ in Very Good Jacket. Tight and clean with no marks or writing. Solid copy. A slight lean, jacket spine sunned with light soiling. Jacket is in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NYC: Scribners', 1940. Volume one only. 1st edition, signed by author on half-title, F/. No jacket. Book has very little wear. Covers the years 1839-1883. Illustrated with b & w photos. Includes footnotes. Nice copy, 683 pp. BP. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The cover has brown cloth with a silver title block. 9 chapters; tables; b/w illustrations, charts, and maps; notes; bib.; index. The inscription is to Eldon Roark. A board corner is a little bumped. The bottom edge of the spine strip is frayed. About a third of the front board has light stain. The text block ends are tanned. The bottom end has a 1/2 in. line of ink which runs onto 20 page margins, 1/8 in. to 3/8 in. Scans e-mailed upon request. Inscribed (to a name) And Sign.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS. Acceptable Viking Press 1941 first edition lacking dust jacket. Binding is tight. Cover has moderate wear and fading, particularly at the spine. Rear endpaper heavily and unevenly tanned due to laid in (not affixed) news clippings. Writing in pencil noted on rear free endpaper and p. 238. Small stain on rear endpaper and several preceding pages. Musty old book smell. SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. *Autographed by both authors.* Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Shelf wear to dj. 539 pages. Signed.

8vo. pp iii, 153. Large format paperback. Signed presentation from the author to 'Oz' publisher, later media tycoon, Felix Dennis (1947-2014), "Felix, hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed your books, love Angie." ISBN: 1852971002 Very good indeed. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; First Printing. A most handsome first edition/first printing in unread, As New condition in alike dust-jacket. Signed by author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward J. Larson directly on the title page; Larson's new account of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration is the first book to place the famed expeditions of British explorers Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context ; 8vo; [2], xvi, 326 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth covers with gold lettering on spines which is bright. Covers exhibit light wear, soiling and bumping on corners and spine ends. Light wear to edges and hinges. Light sunning to spines. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to covers. Moderate foxing and yellowing to inside front and back covers. With the heaviest foxing being in the hinge areas. Light yellowing and soiling to page ends. Signed by author on the half title page of Vol.I. Text and the b&w photos and drawings are slightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Book I focuses on the rise of John D. Rockefeller, Merchant (1839-1869. His boyhood at Owasco, venture in oil, boom and depression and his wife and home. Vol.II details the Making of the Great Trust (1869-1883). Chapters on the birth of Standard Oil, the crucial twelvemonth: 1874-1875, the pipe-line revolution, the first Great Trust and the Great Machine. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by author on fep, with two additional signatures, one on a card. Hardcover and dust jacket in mylar. Good binding and cover. Wear with loss to DJ, bottom half of DJ spine lacking. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author, green cloth. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated 1st Ed. SIGNED & inscribed by SIMON FLEXNER on front endpaper. Medicine, Biography, Signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. SIGNED by the author. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Boards have minor scuffing and shelf rubbing; interior of front board and front end paper have extenstive notes from the previous owner; some interior pages have additional notes and underlines but text is overall clean. Binding is lightly shaken. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with light wear at the spine ends else fine. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. signed by author gift inscription on FEP. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper with light wear. Inscribed by the author.

hardcover. Condition: very good. First. Frontis, lightly illustrated in b/w. 539 pages. Thick 8vo, red cloth. New York: Viking, 1941. First Edition. A very good copy, slight foxing and spotting to outer edges, minor browning to fly. Signed by both authors on front fly.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. A novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Newspaper offsetting on front fly, small stain on last few pages, very good with spine cocked a bit in a very good modestly edgeworn dustwrapper. Inscribed to poet Ruth Feldman by the author on the front fly. Laid in is a newspaper clipping on Haviaras and a handwritten note possibly in Ruth Feldman's hand.

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, First Issue. Two Volumes. First Issue With "A" And Scribner's Seal On Copyright Page. Signed By Nevins On The Half-Title Page Of Volume I. Edgar J. Goodspeed's Copy, With His Small Label On Front Pastedowns, And A Few Marginal Notes And At Least One Correction Of A Factual Matter In Pencil. Goodspeed And His Family Were Closely Associated With The Founding And Development Of The University Of Chicago And With Rockefeller's Funding Of The University, Although Nevins Appears To Omit This And A Correction Is Made By Goodspeed To The First Name Of One Of The Few Goodspeed Family References In The Text. A Very Detailed, Well-Documented And Fair Biography Of Raw Competitive Economic Power Wielded Ruthlessly (And In A Historical View Somewhat Briefly) With Tremendous Success; A History That Can Be Written Over And Over, Like Carnegie's, Only Because The Wealth Generated Was Largely Disbursed In Universally Acclaimed Philanthropic Efforts To Great Effect On The National Welfare. A Similar History Of The Great Financial Houses Will Never Be Written, For Two Reason: 1. The Necessary Source Materials Remains Widely Dispersed, And Closely Held Or Destroyed, 2. The Principals Are Unwilling To Disclose All The Important Details, 3. The Government Had No Means To Record Their Activities For The Public Record, And 4. The Many Beneficiaries Of Trillions Lof Dollars In Profits Have No Comparable Philanthropic Activities Which Might Mitigate Public Disapproval Of Their Activities. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Signed by Author on half-title page. Two Volume set. First Edition, First Printing. VG+. Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles, lacking slipcase, no dustjackets as issued, 683 pp.(Vol. I) and 747 pp. (Vol. II); illustrated with b&w photos, light edgewear to cloth with light agetoning to pages, else a clean and bright set. Extra shipping may apply. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thick octavo, red cloth lettered in gilt; lightly sunned spine. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To Lois and Philip [Jessup], a moderately trammel inscription, on a sober occasion, Jimmie Flexner," on the front endpaper; both recipients are indexed in the volume. Lois Walcott Kellogg Jessup worked tirelessly for the American Friends Service Committee, the U.S. Children's Bureau (preparing reports on children in Europe during Second World War, and the United Nations, advocating for women's rights around the world. She married Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U. S. diplomat, credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. A respectable copy with a distinguished provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Later half calf and brown cloth, gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment (5 raised bands); 12mo; pp. xxviii, 551, with folding map AND a tipped-in two-page autograph letter signed, dated 28 December 1869, on Hawarden Castle, Chester, stationery. Some light scuffing and bumping along spine and edges of boards; a little faint foxing to prelims and terminals. In the brief ALS, Gladstone thanks his correspondent (Reverend J. Cusper? Casper?) for a recent letter and article.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 2 volumes. xiii, [1], 683; x, 747 pages Footnotes. Illustrations, Portraits, Facsimiles. Index. No dust jackets present. Name of previous owner and date in ink on each fep. Minor endpaper discoloration noted. Signed by author on half-title of Volume 1. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890-March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. In 1929, he joined the history faculty of Columbia University, and in 1931 was named Dewitt Clinton Professor of History there. In 1948 he created the first oral history program to operate on an institutionalized basis in the U.S., which continues as Columbia University's Oral History Research Office. Nevins wrote more than 50 books, mainly political and business history and biography focusing on the nineteenth century. His biography of Grover Cleveland won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. "In these volumes a noted historian and biographer has written the full, definitive life of an American whose name is known in every corner of the globe." John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was once widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897, and remained its largest shareholder. Rockefeller's wealth soared as kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, and he became the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak. Oil was used throughout the country as a light source until the introduction of electricity, and as a fuel after the invention of the automobile. Furthermore, Rockefeller gained enormous influence over the railroad industry which transported his oil around the country. Standard Oil was the first great business trust in the United States. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry. Derived from a Kirkus review: This work stands today as an important contribution to the study of American business, both as a portrait of the man and his career, from an extraordinarily objective viewpoint, in view of its acceptance as an "official" biography. Not only is it important as a business biography, but as a record of a far reaching, significant development of the Foundation which has given millions to philanthropy and education. First edition. First edition [has "A" in both volumes].