The Golden Age of Jazz
Fireside, January 1979. Oversize Softcover. More
Fireside, January 1979. Oversize Softcover. More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Mostly mild wear, marginal darkening to cover. Edges worn. Spine creased, seemingly likewise mild, but is starting to split at hinge pages 126 & 127, though still intact and sound. There is a rubber stamped name & address of previous owner top..... More
Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original English price on flap. Orange cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Mild bumped corner & likewise mildly bumped spot on bottom board edge. Foxing to textblock top edge & fore-edge. Interiors..... More
Penguin, January 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo. in price clipped jacket worn at margins. Price clipped. 3rd printing. One inch tear bottom edge. Sticker residue. Darkening to end pages. Clean text. Green cloth with bumped top corners front & back. Silver lettering. Soiling om front board. More
University of Chicago Press, 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 10th printing. Mild user wear. [210 pages]. More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Eleventh Impression married to a dustjacket which says; 9th printing. Octavo. In moderately edgeworn DJ with toning. Marginal darkening and stains.Two and one-half inch tear along front fold. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Foxing to verso. Cobalt..... More
John B. Alden, 1884. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 6 & 3/4'}; Black cloth covered boards with scuff marks and scratches to cover. Gold lettering on spine. Dust stains textblock edges.Previous owner's name in ink front free end page. Sound binding. Tanning and a few stray stains to end pages. Internal..... More
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, January 2002. Soft Cover. Previous owner's name in ink. More
Devon Publishing Co., 1981. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in DJ with sunned spine and heavily foxed/dust stained edges. Likewise foxing/dust stains to jacket verso. Flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth covered spine. Foxing/dust stains to textblock edges especially top edge. Tanned end papers. End page design: illustrated maps. [249 pages]..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, November 1997. Hardcover. It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, November 1997. Hardcover. It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed--and..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, February 1993. Book Club. Hardcover. Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1990. Book Club. Hardcover. Cmdr. Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard retreats to a converted windmill on a remote Norfolk headland to escape the publicity surrounding the publication of his highly successful book of poems. But a psychopathic strangler is at large, and Dalgliesh is drawn..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, January 1995. Hardcover. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of baffling complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard..... More
Touchstone Books, July 2001. Paper Back. The third installment in the classic Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, Unnnatural Causes is another must-read page-turner from bestselling author P.D. James, "the reigning mistress of murder" (Time). Maurice Seton was a famous mystery writer--but no murder he ever invented was more grisly than his..... More
Scribner Book Company, January 1980. Book Club. Hardcover. Jacket clipped. Edges foxed. More
Knopf, October 1986. First American. Hardcover. A bit soiled. More
Vintage, January 2013. Trade Paperback. In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate. Her father is a regular visitor; her sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; the marriage prospects for Darcy's sister, Georgiana..... More
Oxford University Press, May 2014. Hardcover. The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long..... More
Bedford Books, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Letting Lincoln's eloquent voice speak for itself, editor Michael Johnson has collected more than 200 of Lincoln's writings and speeches that illuminate his life and career, from his youth to his entry into Republican politics and through his presidency. Classics like the Kansas Nebraska..... More
Amistad, June 2004. Trade Paperback. From National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and unforeseen turns of life in antebellum Virginia, becomes proprietor of his..... More
Amistad, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Set in the nation's capital, a collection of stories about African Americans living in Washington, D.C. More
University of Oklahoma Press, January 1970. Cloth. In price-clipped dust jacket. Green Cloth with silver lettering. Top edge tinted yellow. Clean text. More
Da Capo Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. In June 1861, practically unschooled, without military training or experience, Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private. Yet by the Civil War's end he was a lieutenant general whose dazzling exploits and bloody victories caused him to be..... More