Washington Life by Ron Chernow, First Edition (34 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Gold titles on dark green spine and beige hard covers, 904 pages including bibliography, index and photos plus 21 pages of introductory material.

First edition. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. As new condition gold boards, forest green spine with gold spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Ron Chernow; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Abigail Adams; Author's Note; Prleude: The Portait Artist; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Books; Articles; Index; and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, a section of black-and-white photographic plates, and a black-and-white portrait frontispiece of President George Washington. Rubbing to the rear outer jacket which we believe is a publishers printing defect (see photographs). All pages are in as new condition and the spine is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "In Washington: A Life, celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paces narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presideing over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Amerecans, worthy but dull. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotyple of a stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, an elegant dancer, and a tireless hunter with a fiercely guarded emotional life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. Probing his private life, the author explores Washington's fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. Chernow also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of Washington's marriage to Martha and his complex bahavior as a slave master. Most of all, Washington is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliiantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the spearation of powers, establish the office of the presidency, and forge a nation. In this unique biography, Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, Washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine to Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Tan boards have soiling to both front and rear boards and lightly worn tips. Price intact jacket is a nice one with only light rubbing on rear panel In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Illustrated (illustrator). 1st edition. 8vo. xxi + 904pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Original boards. Pictorial cream d/w. lettered in brown and black, very good. ISBN 9781846144028 US$21.

Cloth and boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Glossy B&W photos (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Thick 8vo, green quarter cloth with gilt lettering over light yellow boards with "RC" stamped in gold on front cover, illustrated with B&W frontispiece and 6 similar images of Washington as Section headings plus 16 pp. of glossy B&W reproductions of early paintings of Washington and his associates, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; $40 on front flap) with detail in color from "Washington Before Yorktown" astride a horse painted by Rembrandt Peale, Index, xxi, [xxii] + 904 pages + [2] About the Author. Weight: 2 lbs. 15 oz. Ronald Chernow (born 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction novels. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and the 2011 American History Book Prize for this 2010 book Washington: A Life. NEAR FINE OVERALL CONDITION! A few pinpricks to front cover; slight edgewear and a verticle scuff line to rear panel of the clean bright unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FFine hardcover in a Fine dj. As New. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated. 904pp.

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 904pp. uncut. Very good copy. 1st ed. George Washington was a strapping six feet tall, an elegant dancer who guarded his emotional life fiercely. His behaviour as a slave master were complex, as was his relationship to his adopted children.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Thick octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. xxi, 904 pp. Occasionally illustrated in black & white. Faint small stains to foot of text block, otherwise would be fine, thus near fine in original two-tone paper-covered boards and near fine pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Shelf wear on rear panel. Rubbing along panel edges.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An excellent copy of the First Printing . The book is clean , no marks of any kind . The binding is tight on the large book . The covers on the boards are fresh . The graphics on the front board and spine are bright . The very nice dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover .

Hardbound. Condition: Near fine. First Edition.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Very light shelfwear on front and rear panel top corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition of Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, signed on bookplate. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xxi, 904pp. Tan boards, green spine, title in gilt on spine, author's initials in gilt on cover. Uncut outer edge. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Publisher's dust jacket, $40.00 on front flap, touch of shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by the author on a Mount Vernon bookplate. Author Ron Chernow won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for this landmark biography of George Washington.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line. Inscribed by Chernow on title page in year of publication. Program for Chernow's event at the Atlanta History Center laid in. A fine copy in a near fine DJ with just light tips of wear to the corners and a couple of tiny rub marks on the back cover. The book does not appear to have been read and now in archival mylar wrapper. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #13. Inscribed by Author(s).