Verlag: A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York et al., 2013
ISBN 10: 1501123386 ISBN 13: 9781501123382
Anbieter: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Everyone's favorite cute, chubby, gray cat. 173 pages, cartoon drawings, various scenarios and activities. Crease to front cover, internals clean.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book from Simon & Schuster/New York,, 1994
ISBN 10: 0684804557 ISBN 13: 9780684804552
Anbieter: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, USA
soft cover, new book, remainder mark, appears unread, 287 pages including index, 5 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches, very good + book condition, no dust jacket, non-fiction,
Verlag: Simon & Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0684831384 ISBN 13: 9780684831381
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 704 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Another copy available. "The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects -- which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's unresolved struggle between order and freedom, growth and control, capitalism and community, remains instructive for our time, as we seek ways to build and maintain cities that retain their humanity without losing their energy. City of the Century throbs with the pulse of the great city it brilliantly brings to life. / Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College. He hosted the series A Biography of America on PBS and has appeared in numerous other PBS programs in the American Experience series, as well as in programs on the History Channel. He is the author of eight previous books, among them the prize-winning City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, The Story of World War II, and D-Days in the Pacific." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0671662422 ISBN 13: 9780671662424
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. xxv, 290 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Edges lightly soiled. Another copy available. CONTENTS: Columbia University, 1914-1915; Columbia, South Carolina, 1915; A woman on paper, 1915; Sun prairie, 1887-1900; Madison, 1900-1901; Williamsburg, 1901-1905; Chicago and the Art Institute, 1905-1906; New York and the Art Students League, 1906-1908; Next decisions, 1908-1912; Amarillo, 1912-1914; Alfred Stieglitz, 1864-1916; After the first drawings, 1916; The first exhibitions, 1916-1917; Canyon, 1916-1918; With Stieglitz in New York City, 1918; Lake George, 1918; A career begun, 1918-1929; The New Mexico paintings, 1929-1940; The war years, 1940-1945; At the ranch, 1945-1946; Stieglitz's passing, 1946; Travels, 1949-1962; The painting is the person; Abiquiu: at home with Georgia, 1951. Size: 8vo.
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Verlag: Simon & Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0684853949 ISBN 13: 9780684853949
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** x, 243 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0684872862 ISBN 13: 9780684872865
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 351 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and warmly inscribed by the author Curtis Wilkie. A near-fine copy of the first printing, age toning. First paperback edition. "Dixie is a political and social history of the South during the second half of the twentieth century told from Curtis Wilkie's perspective as a white man intimately transformed by enormous racial and political upheavals. Wilkie's personal take on some of the landmark events of modern American history is as engaging as it is insightful. He attended Ole Miss during the rioting in the fall of 1962, when James Meredith became the first African American to enroll in the school. After graduation, Wilkie worked in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he met Aaron Henry, a local druggist and later the prominent head of the Mississippi NAACP. He covered the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenge at the national convention in Atlantic City, and he was a member of the biracial insurgent Democratic delegation from Mississippi seated in place of Governor John Bell Williams's delegation at the 1968 convention in Chicago. Wilkie followed Jimmy Carter's campaign for the presidency, becoming friends with Billy Carter; he covered Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and was witness to the South's startling shift from the Democratic Party to the GOP; and finally, he was there when Byron De La Beckwith was convicted for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers thirty-one years after the fact. Wilkie had left the South in 1969 in the wake of the violence surrounding the civil rights movement, vowing never to live there again. But after traveling the world as a reporter, he did return in 1993, drawn by a deep-rooted affinity to the region of his youth. It was as though he rejoined his tribe, a peculiar civilization bonded by accent and mannerisms and burdened by racial anxiety. As Wilkie writes, Southerners have staunchly resisted assimilation since the Civil War, taking an almost perverse pride in their role as 'spiritual citizens of a nation that existed for only four years in another century.' Wilkie endeavors to make sense of the enormous changes that have typified the South for more than four decades. Full of beauty, humor, and pathos, Dixie is a story of redemption -- for both a region and a writer." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0671217070 ISBN 13: 9780671217075
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 1st. 829 pages; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "This book includes fifty-six selections from many countries, including France, England, Scotland, the German and Italian states, the American colonies, and Russia." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0671880756 ISBN 13: 9780671880750
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 447 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0671778978 ISBN 13: 9780671778972
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 415 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book from Simon & Schuster/New York,, 2003
ISBN 10: 0739429086 ISBN 13: 9780739429082
Anbieter: Alf Books, Menomonie, WI, USA
hard cover, 341 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, very good + book condition, very good + dust jacket condition, fiction,
Verlag: A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, New York et al., 1993
ISBN 10: 0671789260 ISBN 13: 9780671789268
Anbieter: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, USA
Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Leading minds in science, psychology and education explore the sources of creativity. Original essays. 221 pages. Brief underlining.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book/ Simon & Schuster Inc, New York NY, 1999
ISBN 10: 0684864037 ISBN 13: 9780684864037
Anbieter: OddReads, Harper, TX, USA
Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. Edgewear, stains and soil on back wrapper.
Verlag: New York, A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, (c. 1965),, 1965
ISBN 10: 0671628224 ISBN 13: 9780671628222
Soft cover. Zustand: Very good. Pages 655, trade paperback. 6th paperback printing. Includes black and white illustrations, bibliography, index. Book is in Very Good condition. 070400A ISBN: 0671628224.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0671510053 ISBN 13: 9780671510053
Anbieter: BIAbooks, Woodstock, NY, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. "The writing is charged with sardonic wit--alive, funny, a little threatening; packed with brilliantly original images.and, now and then, a sentence that simply takes your breath away."--B. Allen, USA Today.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book; Simon & Schuster, New York et al., 2005
ISBN 10: 0743257782 ISBN 13: 9780743257787
Anbieter: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Fine. History of Britain in the time of King John and the signing of the Magna Carta, giving context to the document at the root of Britain's modern freedoms. 312 pages, index.
Verlag: New York: Simon and Schuster / A Touchstone Book, 1972, 1972
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970. The collected stories of Bertrand Russell. Compiled and edited by Barry Feinberg. New York: Simon and Schuster / A Touchstone Book, 1972, 2d printing, revised, 349pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $3.95, good lightly used copy, light wear to covers. Barry Feinberg, poet painter filmmaker South African anti-apartheid activist in exile 1961-1991 founding member of Mayibuye. - This volume presents a complete collection of Bertrand Russell's stories, both published and unpublished, fictional and factual. After the publication of Satan in the Suburbs, his first book of short stories, Russell quipped: "I have devoted the first eighty years of my life to philosophy, and propose to devote the next eighty years to another branch of fiction." Also included here, for the first time, is the novella The Perplexities of John Forstice, along with Russell's intimate anecdotes and the fables created for the amusement of his own children. With the elegance and lucidity of style that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, this volume gives a sparkling demonstration of Russell's humanity, his sense of fun, and his delighted perception of absurdity. - "His puckish humour and ironic wit sparkle particularly brightly in the setting of a carefully formal, old-fashioned narrative style." The Times Literary Supplement. ISBN 0671216732.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book /Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0671507575 ISBN 13: 9780671507572
Anbieter: D. Nakii Press, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Durrell sets out to observe the endangered animal species on the Island of Mauritius , the home of the extinct Dodo, Black parrot and giant tortoise.His other mission is to see if it will be possible to stage an animal rescue operation that will see the capture and possible preservation of the Island's other unique and endangered species. Slight foxing but other wise clean, tight and possibly unread.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671250582 ISBN 13: 9780671250584
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 344 pages; 24 cm. Map on lining papers. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket toned, with a faint dampstain/back flap. Jonathan Raban describes his travels through Bahrain, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan, where he met both rich and poor, and visited homes, hotels, and markets. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1970
ISBN 10: 0671206605 ISBN 13: 9780671206604
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Cloth, 319 pages, portraits; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket with a small corner crease/front flap. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 1416543759 ISBN 13: 9781416543756
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** 260 pages; 25 cm. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper. Stated First Touchstone hardcover edition October 2007. Fine DJ. "Set on the East End of Long Island, The Worst Thing I've Done is an incandescent story of love, friendship, and marriage; of joy and betrayal; of an artist's struggle to reconnect with her work; and of how we can choose our mothers, our families. Beautifully written and brilliantly vivid, it explores the resilience in the protagonists' lives, and their courage to move forward despite an uncertain future. / Ursula Hegi is the author of Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0743249623 ISBN 13: 9780743249621
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. ***FALL CLEARANCE SALE*** viii, 240 pages; 22 cm. SIGNED by the author on a literary society bookplate pasted onto the front free endpaper. Fine DJ. "Bernard Cooper's new memoir is searing, soulful, and filled with uncommon psychological nuance and laugh-out-loud humor. Like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, Cooper's account of growing up and coming to terms with a bewildering father is a triumph of contemporary autobiography. / Bernard Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment of the Arts. He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly, and The Paris Review and in several volumes of The Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles and is the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. SIGNED.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0671732897 ISBN 13: 9780671732899
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. 304 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. First paperback edition. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986
Anbieter: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, USA
Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated wraps w/red and grey lettering. Mild reader's crease, front upper corner lightly creased. Front endpaper roughly torn free, spine weakened at pg.267. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1995
ISBN 10: 0684803089 ISBN 13: 9780684803081
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. 606 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. First Edition, First Printing. Fine DJ. CONTENTS: Bi Words; Bi Sexual Politics; Fatal Attractions; No Scandal in Bohemia; Bisexuality and Celebrity; The Secret of Tiresias; Freud and the Golden Fliess; Androgyny and Its Discontents; Ellis in Wonderland; Standard Deviations; The Return to Biology; On the Other Hand; Normal Schools; Erotic Education; "It's a Phase"; Family Values; Marriages of Inconvenience; Erotic Triangles; Jealousy; The Bisexual Plot; Threesomes; Vice Verses. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon and Schuster; A Touchstone Book, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0671227556 ISBN 13: 9780671227555
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st. xx, 714 pages, [24] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. The journey of the East European Jews to America and the life they found and made. Size: 8vo.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster (A Touchstone Book), New York, New York, U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0684819066 ISBN 13: 9780684819068
Anbieter: Prairie Creek Books LLC., Torrington, WY, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). Paperback Edition. G/none, used pb, 461pp. Perfect bound, color illustrated stiff paper wraps with white and black colored text on upper and red and black text on the spine; slight edge wear; no tears; spine not creased. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster - A Touchstone Book, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0671785036 ISBN 13: 9780671785031
Anbieter: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Touchsetone Edition. 626 Pages Indexed. Very slightly concave spine. Otherwise an As New book with flawless interior text pages. Sixteen page center section of black and white photographs. Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. She set down the Remarkable events of the war in a record that remains one of the most vivid, evocative portrayals in existence of a time and place that today make up a crucial chapter in our national history. Sarah Morgan herself emerges as one of the most memorable nineteenth-century women in fiction or nonfiction, a young woman of intelligence and fortitude, as well as of high spirits and passion, who questioned the society into which she was born and the meaning of the war for ordinary families like her own and for the divided nation as a whole. Now published in its entirety for the first time, Sarah Morgan's classic account brings the Civil War and the Old South to life with all the freshness and immediacy of great literature.
Verlag: Simon & Schuster/A Touchstone Book, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0671792113 ISBN 13: 9780671792114
Anbieter: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, USA
Verbandsmitglied: MWABA
Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. First printing of the softbound format: the printing numerals are a full line beginning with 1. No wear to the covers. No spine creasing from opening. No distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. No sun fading.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book / Simon & Schuster, New York, 1995
Anbieter: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, USA
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Trade Paperback Edition. Very Good++++ condition. Tight and attractive copy. Large trade paperback. Remainder mark on foot of page ends and light soiling. 812 pages. Very nice copy.
Verlag: A Touchstone Book (Simon & Schuster), New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Singapore, 1999
ISBN 10: 068486570X ISBN 13: 9780684865706
Anbieter: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Printing. 1999. 1st Printing. Fine paperback book. An as new copy, it's square, tight and clean. 287pp. (HW).