Mornings Horseback Story Extraordinary by Mccullough David, Signed (7 results)

Condition: Good. INSCRIBED! NY: Simon & Schuster, 1981. 1st Thus. Sm 4to Paperback. 445pp. B/W photos. Signed by author on front endpage. Good book. (US history, presidents, theodore roosevelt, biography) Inquire if you need further information.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Inscribed by the author and dated 2005 on the ffe. Copyright date 1981. Clean pictorial cover with a .5" closed tear on the fore-edge of the back cover along with several shallow creases and scratches. Bottom corner of front cover is chipped. Sprinkle of foxing to the top edges. Top corners slightly bumped. Otherwise the book is clean, tight and unmarked. 445 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs in black and white. By the Pulitzer Prize winning American historian. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on front flyleaf. Edges lightly foxed, jacket price clipped, two light creases on front jacket flap, jacket lightly toned. 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). Lighty attached to front end page is a typed letter SIGNED by David McCullough on his personal stationery, daed Sept. 18, 1981: 'Dear Rev. Krum: I'm so greatful for your enthusiatic letter about 'Mornings on Horseback'. Also, of course, it's always a pleasure to hear from a felloe Pennsylvanian and one one who has been such good work in so many places in the State. It was very good of you to write. Sincerely, David McCullough". S&S remainder mark on bottom. $17.95 price present on DJ flap; mylar protected. National Book Award winner. Please note: book is ot signed- -attached letter is signed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AUTHOR SIGNED on LETTER.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by David McCullough. Possibly "To Sue Quaken ****" 1st ed/1st printing. A read copy. Shelf wear and edging to dust jacket. 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: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION in DUST JACKET. AS NEW. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).