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By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $12.50
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273167
Lacks jacket. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1931 Hard Cover. x, x, 517, [1] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed a... View more info
By: Adams, Henry; Adams, James Truslow
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1931
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2278349
Includes original jacket. Copyright states 1931, but presence of ISBN, jacket style, and $2.95 list price indicate 1970-1975 printing. Jacket edges a bit rubbed. xvi, 517, [11] pp. Introduction by James Truslow Adams. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theor... View more info
By: Agee, James
Price: $40.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2005
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203804
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 818 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of two novels, a novella, and three short stories by the American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, with chronology and notes following text. Also included are reproductions of the photographs from Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, depicting the impoverished s... View more info
By: Aiken, Conrad
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Indiana University Press: 1962
Seller ID: 2263289
Ink number on spine, rear wrapper lightly foxed, ink stamps. 1962 Trade Paperback. 61 pp. The city provides the unifying theme for the thirty-eight poems which compose Brownstone Eclogues: Saint Ambrose: Early Morning, Doctor's Row, The Junk-cart, Whisper Under Asphalt, and Spring Festival: The Taxis are typical titles suggesting the character of the selections. Mr. Aiken was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1929, the National Book Award for Collected Poems in 19... View more info
By: Alden, John R.; Palmieri, Patricia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2274892
Publisher's insert and blank bookplates laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. xvi, [2], 780 pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece of Washington, new foreword by Patricia Palmieri. Describes Washington's ancestry, boyhood in Virginia, career as a surveyor, experiences as a soldier in the French and Indian War, and involvement in the Revolution and the formation of a new Ameri... View more info
By: Atkinson, Rick
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263561
First edition. Near fine in good jacket. Light stain on rear jacket panel and flap. 1989 Hard Cover. xiii, 592 pp. This is the story of the twenty-five-year adventure of the generation of officers who fought in Vietnam. With novelistic detail, Atkinson tells the story of West Point's Class of 1966 primarily through the experiences of three classmates and the women they loved--from the boisterous cadet years and youthful romances to the fires of Vietnam, where dozens of t... View more info
By: Bailyn, Bernard
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1990
Seller ID: 2200190
Minor pencil marginalia, multiple pages dog-eared.Very Good. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 296 pp. Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. View more info
By: Bailyn, Bernard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press: 1992
Seller ID: 2208547
Enlarged edition. Faint spot to bottom page ridge, minimal highlighting. 1992 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 396 pp. A Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the political and philosophical foundations of the American Revolution. To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, Fulfillment, as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ra... View more info
By: Barrett, Andrea
Price: $25.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200707
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine.Top edge of jacket spine very lightly bumped. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 270 pp. Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scien... View more info
By: Begley, Adam
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harper: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276324
First edition. Jacket spine head lightly bumped, faint smudge on jacket spine. 2014 Hard Cover. xiii, 558 pp. Updike is Adam Begley’s masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike—a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-s... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 2003
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2203803
First thus. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1029 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of three novels by the Canadian-American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Book Award (three times), with chronology and notes following text. Includes: Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March. This ... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274130
First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, faint crease on front jacket flap corner. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 346 pp. Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only... View more info
By: Bok, Edward
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1920
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2180821
1921 14th printing. Inscribed & signed by author on front endpaper ('An obstacle is simply a difficulty to overcome - Edward W. Bok December 1921 -'). Edges lightly stained, front hinge just starting, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. 462 pp. A Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography by the long-time editor of Ladies Home Journal who coined the term 'living room'. View more info
By: Branch, Taylor
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2273425
A nice copy. 1989 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 1064 pp. In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement. Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Ca... View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203552
First edition. Spine slightly faded. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. 8vo. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. The four novels taken together can be considered a series, but need not be read as such. Bromfield was also known for his scientific farming innovations.KEYWORDS: LITERATURE FICTION View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204818
First edition. Bottom front board corner bumped.Half-inch chip to top edge of jacket spine, jacket edges rubbed. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, 305 pp. ...about the New Agriculture and the incredible worlds which have opened up with the scientific discoveries of the past few years. These discoveries have to do not only with increased production of food and fiber, but with increased quality as well. Based largely on the observations, ... View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2205830
First edition. No jacket, spine slightly cocked, ink name and date to front paste-down endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. The four novels taken together can be considered a series, but need not be read as such. Bromfield was also known for his scientific farming innovations.KEYWORDS: LITERATURE FICTION PULITZER PRIZE WINNER GOOD ... View more info
By: Bromfield, Louis
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265826
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. Inspiration for the film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, directed by Marion Gering. Originally published serially as Shattered Glass; this edition released s... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Viking: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200373
First edition. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. 8vo. March is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a parallel novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862. The novel won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. - Wikipedia View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Viking: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274114
First edition. Top edge faintly foxed. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. 8vo. 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner. In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Viking: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2274239
First edition. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 306 pp. Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bet... View more info
By: Buck, Pearl S.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Washington Square Press: 2004
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2271920
First printing. Edges lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 357, [3] pp. Reading group guide follows text. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there, wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she prese... View more info
By: Cather, Willa
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1926
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2200090
3rd printing. Lacks jacket. Ink name and address on front endpaper, boards lightly toned and soiled, spine faded. 1926 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 122 pp. 8vo. Myra has been raised in luxury, which she romantically abandons to elope with the impoverished Oswald Henshawe. As the years pass, however, the shabby gentility of an apartment frequented by the artistic community of Old New York gives way to real poverty in a jerrybuilt hotel. ABOUT ... View more info
By: Cather, Willa
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Library of America: 1987
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2203802
Reprint. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1336 pp. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of works by the American novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (included in this volume), with chronology and notes following text. Her novels mainly focused on life in the Great Plains. Includes: The Troll Garden; O Pioneers!; The Song of the Lark; My Anton... View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2208578
Reprint trade editions, not book club versions ($12.50 list price on front jacket flap of each volume). Ink name on front endpaper of each volume, lightly rubbed and toned. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in three hardcover volumes. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4. Catton's famous account of the American Civil War, the last volume of which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2155307
Reprint trade edition, not book club version ($12.50 list price on front jacket flap of each volume). Jacket spines faded, top page ridges foxed, 1/2 inch internal tear to v. 3 spine.Good. 1962 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in three hardcover volumes. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4. Catton's famous account of the American Civil War, the last volume of which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1954. View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York: 1957
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2188881
Book club edition. Jacket toned, one and a half inch tear along bottom of front of jacket, multiple tears along edges of jacket, edges of pages foxed.Good. 1957 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 438 pp. This is the story of the last desperate, heartbreaking, cruel year of the Civil War. In the winter of 1864, the Army of the Potomac stood at the crossroads. The old army. fired with the spirit of men who had joined out of love of country and who ha... View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1960
Seller ID: 2208337
Spine creased, page ridges lightly foxed, light general wear. 1960 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x, 564 pp. Part one of the classic Civil War study of General Ulysses S. Grant, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Bruce Catton, introduces General Grant as he undertakes his first Civil War command, and follows him as he leads his troops through a series of battles, including Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Edwards Sta... View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Fall River Press: 2009
Seller ID: 2208342
Spine creased. 2009 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 555 pp. The final work in this series begins in December of 1862. Four months before, the Union Army tasted long-awaited victory at the bloody battle of Antietam. Grant continued on towards Vicksburg, Mississippi. The grim battles that lay ahead would be costly: the Vicksburg campaign, Chattanooga, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Atlanta and the March to the Sea, the siege ... View more info
By: Catton, Bruce
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1953
Seller ID: 2208361
Page faintly toned. Half-inch by half-inch chip along jacket spine-head obscuring author name, jacket edges lightly rubbed, jacket faintly toned. 1953 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 438 pp. This is the story of the last desperate, heartbreaking, cruel year of the Civil War. In the winter of 1864, the Army of the Potomac stood at the crossroads. The old army, fired with the spirit of men who had joined out of love of country and who had long ... View more info
