Mornings Horseback Story Extraordinary by Mccullough David, First Edition (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Soft cover edition published by Simon and Schuster (A Touchstone Book) in 1982. The book is in very good condition and is unmarked throughout except for a gold notary label appearing on first end page. This is the story of an extraordinary family. a vanished way of life, and the unique child who became Theodore Roosevelt.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st. 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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. First printing, full numberline. Near fine in like DJ, not price clipped. Hardly any visible wear other than very light marking on top edge.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated softcover, First Simon & Schuster paperbook edition 2003 stated, 445pp. Signed by Author on title page. Slight crease on upper right pp 6 & 8, No marks, "Autographed Copy" sticker on FB. Appears unread. Gift Qualty. All our books are triple wrapped or boxed, never shipped "naked" in a mylar bag!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st edition 1st printing - some wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) price clipped - small ding at front cover near spine -some staining to closed page edge - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG. First edition, first printing. Half inch closed tear top front of jacket. 445 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Brown cloth quarter-bound to spine over tan colored paper on boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out, very close to fine, but certainly Near Fine. Family tree endpapers. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows original price of $17.50 and has very minimal scuffing or shelfwear. Near Fine also. Full number line - 1st / 1st. McCullough won his second National Book Award with this book. This is David McCullough's first biography.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket issued. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by author on title page "For John G**** - With Best Wishes". 1st/4th printing. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('for Susan, with greetings, David McCullough'). Publisher stamp on page base, ink gift note on front flyleaf, front jacket flap corner creased, edges faded (common with this book). 1981 Hard Cover. 445 pp. 8vo. "Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised. His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, 'Greatheart,' a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, Teddy Roosevelt's first love. And while such disparate figures as Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, and Senator Roscoe Conkling play a part, it is this diverse and intensely human assemblage of Roosevelts, all brought to vivid life, which gives the book its remarkable power. The book spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little 'Teedie' is ten, to 1886 when, as a hardened 'real life cowboy,' he returns from the West to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. The story does for Teddy Roosevelt what Sunrise at Campobello did for FDR -- reveals the inner man through his battle against dreadful odds. Like David McCullough's The Great Bridge, also set in New York, this is at once an enthralling story, with all the elements of a great novel, and a penetrating character study. It is brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship, which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. For the first time, for example, Roosevelt's asthma is examined closely, drawing on information gleaned from private Roosevelt family papers and in light of present-day knowledge of the disease and its psychosomatic aspects. At heart it is a book about life intensely lived. about family love and family loyalty. about courtship and childbirth and death, fathers and sons. about winter on the Nile in the grand manner and Harvard College. about gutter politics in washrooms and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884. about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and 'blessed' mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. 'Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough,' Roosevelt once wrote. It is the key to his life and to much that is so memorable in this magnificent book. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Black and White Photos (illustrator). 1st Edition. Brown paper over boards w/ brown cloth spine lettered in gilt. Slight sun fade on top edge of spine. Jacket graded VG+ due to light roughing at top of spine. Inscribed and signed on free front endpaper in 1981, resigned in 2001. No markings inside or out. Afterword, Notes; Bibliography and Index at rear. For additional information and/or photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover, illus. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. First Edition; First Printing. Book Very Fine. NO notes. No names. Not remaindered. DJ with SLIGHT crimp to front and teeny puncture at center of spine, else Very Fine, bright, NOT rubbed. Not clipped ($17.95) ; Flat signed in full by McCullough at publisher's logo page. Not inscribed. ; Thick 8vo; 445 pages; Signed by Author.