Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1976
Seller ID: 2307937
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Fine
An exceptional copy. 1976 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 148 pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations by William Maughan, including a two-page spread frontispiece. Wilder's second novel, set in Lima, Peru, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. It is a series of interconnected narratives of the lives of several who die in a tragic bridge collapse. View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Seller ID: 2306878
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. xxvii, 170 pp. Full forest green leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Daniel Maffia. Two plays in one volume, by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright best known for Our Town, and also for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. View More...
Reprint. Small crease to wrapper. 1986 Trade Paperback. 97, [7] publisher ad. Introduction by Lloyd Richards. The 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning play about race relations, by the famous African-American playwright. View More...
First edition. Light sticker ghosting on front wrapper, jacket edges very lightly rubbed. A near fine copy in a very good jacket. 2004 Hard Cover. xvi, 299, [1] pp. From the preeminent historian of the Revolution (Jonathan Yardley), a groundbreaking study, many years in the making, of Benjamin Franklin the man, Benjamin Franklin the myth, and the roots of American character.Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-i... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978
Seller ID: 2307088
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Tiny blemish on front board. 1978 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. Full blue leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Edward Vebell. The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American ficti... View More...
Underlining, ink name on blurb page. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 67 pp. Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in Country Music, the second in The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with Chickamauga and continued with Black Zodiac. Appalachia is the last book in the final trilogy of this pathbre... View More...