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 theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. Commercial... View More...
Lacks jacket. 1931 Hard Cover. x, 517, [8] 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 at his own expense. Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. View More...
Ink number on spine, rear wrapper lightly foxed, ink stamps. 1962 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 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 1954, the Bollingen Prize in 1956, and the gold medal for poetry by the National ... View More...
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 their classmates died and hundreds more grew disillusioned, to the hard peace and family adjustments that followed. The rich c... View More...
2nd printing. Slight wrinkle to rear flyleaf. 2003 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 681 pp., plus 28-page excerpt from The Day of Battle: Volume Two of The Liberation Trilogy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is an epic story of courage and calamity, of miscalculation and enduring triumph. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942... View More...
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 writer to have been nominated for it six times. View More...
First printing. A very nice copy. 1993 Trade Paperback. 366 pp. Black & white photographs. Without going very far beneath the surface, Biddle tells the story of the aviation pioneers whose business interests resulted in mega-corporations such as Boeing, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, Northrup and McDonnell Douglas. The book describes how the American aircraft industry weathered the Depression by turning itself into an international munitions business. Operating under something of a cloud in prewar isolationist days, the industry profited grossly when 'it became necessary for Washington to beg the ... View More...
First edition. Boards rubbed, ink name on 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...
Publisher:
New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1927
Seller ID: 2203552
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
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. View More...
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. View More...
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 simultaneously with a signed, limited edition of 500 copies (this copy is not signed). Bromfield was also known for his scient... View More...
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...
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...
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 Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curi... View More...
First edition. Minor general wear to jacket. Two faint smudges on front board, pencil name on front free endpaper. 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 Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Grea... View More...
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 presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth cent... View More...
First edition. General minor wear to jacket. Ink date and place on front free endpaper. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 741 pp. The first of a three-volume history of the United States of America, The Vineyard of Liberty covers the period from the framing of the Constitutions in 1787 to Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 & offers a brilliant interpretation of the American attempt to preserve liberty. View More...
First trade edition. Minor general wear to jacket. Ink place and date on front free endpaper. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 864 pp. The final volume of Burns's classic history of the American Experiment, from the election of FDR to the final days of the Cold War Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world's sole superpower. View More...
Lacks slipcase. Boards lightly rubbed. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 262 pp. Limited Westvaco Corporation Christmas 2000 edition. Original green cloth, gilt titles, blue ribbon marker, illustrated color endpapers, color illustration on title page. Enclosed in publisher's light olive decorative slipcase. O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather. It was written in part when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York with Isabelle McClung and was completed at the McClung's home in Pittsburgh. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a fami... View More...
Publisher:
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1977
Seller ID: 2304819
Binding: Full-Leather
Condition: Near Fine
Edges of endpapers slightly faded, tiny blemish on bottom corner of front board. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 408 pp. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David Blossom. Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier. Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to s... View More...
A very nice copy. Jacket lightly toned, general minor wear to jacket. 1987 Hard Cover. 222 pp. Contains excerpts from the noted historian's most celebrated works, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Stillness at Appomattox, showing his unique perspective and versatility with subjects as diverse as John McGraw and the Civil War. View More...
First edition. Pencil marginalia. 2016 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 430 pp. Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by pow... View More...
Publisher:
Miramax Books / Hyperion Books for Children: 2002
Seller ID: 2274031
ISBN: 0786808772
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Base of cover spine and top jacket edge lightly discolored. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 500 pp. 8vo. The first novel intended for young readers by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. For over a century, the people of Clam Island, Washington, have enjoyed barbecues and baseball games at Summerland, on the Western tip of the island, where it never rains. The small beings – known as ferishers – who ensure this perfect weather, however, are threatened by an ancient enemy, and need a hero – a bas... View More...
First edition. Event bookplate from Rochester Arts & Lectures inscribed and signed by author ('To Robert Gray with best wishes, Michael Cunningham') and laid in. Corners faintly pushed. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 229, [1] pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel that inspired the film of the same name. The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write 'Mrs. Dalloway' as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is p... View More...
Multiple tears and chips to jacket edges, jacket previously mended with tape in multiple places. 1947 Hard Cover. xxvii, 483 pp. Includes section of 19 color plates by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West. Includes an account of the d... View More...
An exceptional copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. 339 pp. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporar... View More...
Fourth printing. Small smudge on front jacket panel. 2007 Hard Cover. 339 pp. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar ... View More...
Reprint. Stain along bottom margin. 1988 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 271 pp. Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. View More...
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1995 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, [4], 75, [7] pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The author offers a new approach to poetry by going through old nonfiction books, finding passages that amuse or interest her, and rearranging them into poems that range from funny to serious to reflective. View More...
First edition. Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on title page ('Merry Christmas, Annie Dillard'). Top page edge lightly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. [x], 106, [4] pp. 8vo. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The author describes her experiences as part of a group of American writers meeting with Chinese authors in China and the United States. View More...
