Mornings Horseback by David Mccullough, First Edition (37 results)

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

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4th printing Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Fine and unmarked. 445pp inc. Afterword, Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos and reproductions. 480 p. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First Printing. A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some light browning/soil to the edges of the text block, covers browning to extremities. By the author of the Pulitzer Prize winners,Truman and John Adams. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fourth printing with 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 to number line. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight, thin band of fading to top edges else boards straight and clean; name and date in black pen and blind stamp to front free end page with mild offsetting to first three pages else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($19.95) has mild bumping to mostly spine ends with moderate fading to spine. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photographs, portraits and illustrations. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Early life and antecedants of the president, "The story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life, and the unique child who became Theodore Roosevelt". National Book Award-winner McCullough became interested in TR's origins while researching two of his earlier books, and here discusses Roosevelt's impressive father, important mother, other family members, and how they and the society they moved in helped form the man who young Teddy was to become. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows light wear, but foxing/spotting to top edge, minor spotting to other edges; rear cover a bit short - a binding flaw; jacket shows minor edgewear, water stain to lower half-inch of spine & part of rear panel. Presents well, but with flaws. Text clean, no names or marks; 445 pages + note on author; notes, bibliography, index, b/w plates, family trees (Roosevelts & Bullochs) on endsheets. Size: Large Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited Edition, full leather.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 445 pages; VG-/VG-; spine pale blue with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and scuffing; minor wear at corners of folds; price uncut '$17.95'; small bump to lower edge of back board; spine cocked; small brown stain to fore edge; end papers with a family tree; contains black and white photo plates; pages clean; shelved in Case 1 1/2. 1358482. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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. 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: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition of an early work by David McCullough. Scarce signed by author before the half title page. Biography of the early life of Theodore Roosevelt. Brown endpapers with a Roosevelt family tree. Black and white photograph illustrations. 445 pages. Author inscription reads "For Sammy Thompson- greetings from the author who hopes you like this story David McCullough" Jacket has some wear marks and staining at the edges. Dust jacket spine has a crease down the middle. Crease not present in the book itself. Book is cocked and the exterior paper edges are toned. 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).

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Young Theodore Roosevelt had recurring attacks of asthma which were near fatal. Teenager Roosevelt went West to recover and returned, healthy and hardened, after ten years to throw himself into the extremely active social and political life that his family knew. First edition with number line. Book condition: Near fine. Dust jacket condition: Price clipped, else Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt MCCULLOUGH, David [445] pp. Simon and Schuster 1981 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" Young Theodore Roosevelt had recurring attacks of asthma which were near fatal. Teenager Roosevelt went West to recover and returned, healthy and hardened, after ten years to throw himself into the extremely active social and political life that his family knew.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. first. SIGNED first edition, with number line from 10-1 on copyright page. Comes with publisher's letter. Book and dust jacket fine. McCullough won his second National Book Award with this book. This is David McCullough's first biography.