Resultados de búsqueda: Non-fiction from Gilt Edge Books

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. . Here is the first definitive account of the Walker Spy Family - the fascinating tale of John Walker, Navy Communications expert, who recruited his son, his brother, and his best friend into what has been called "the most damaging spy ring in American history...." Grey boards, blue cloth spine with silver title print. Matching grey endpapers. Name to ffep. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Price-clipped dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. This is a heartwarming book about kids surviving cancer. We meet kids and their families conquering the most difficult times of all. It is not a medical book; nor is it a sad book. It sparkles with innocence and glistens with hope.... Yellow cloth boards with red title print. Endpapers make up a two-page spread of drawings by Sybil Cox (in color). A square clean, bright copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1982. An insider's look at the real-life drama of Canadian courtrooms. 'In Court' proves forever that Canada's real-life Perry Masons are every bit as fascinating as their fictional counterparts. Dust jacket shows wear to extremities but remains bright. A respectable, clean square copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Atheneum 1985 (c.1979, 1983) Glossy illustrated heavy card covers. 'Scott and Amundsen both wanted to be first to the Pole. One of them won. The other became a hero.' The contents open with acknowledgements, author's note, list of illustrations and list of maps. The book presents itself in two parts (part one covers 17 chapters.....part two...from chapter 18 through to 35.) 'Note on Diet', bibliography and index provided. There are thirteen maps....two of them being two-page spreads. Part one and two provide a generous section of photographs. This book's primary aim is to re-examine every detail of the great race for the South Pole between British and Norwegian teams that took place in 1911-1912.... A sound, tight and bright copy. No ownership markings.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1976. Locust Hill is a narrative of an ante-bellum mansion, told through the lives of the family that flourished in it and finally faded... a narrative told by the last of the line to inhabit Locust hill. This book is a jewel, an heirloom....a tender portrait of a way of life whose last leaves are falling, but one that has been realized superbly well at Locust hill. Photographs and the author's etchings make this volume even more memorable. This narrative begins in 1865 when the author's great-grandfather, Captain John Taylor Rather, bought Locust Hill in Tuscumbia, Alabama, for three thousand dollars in gold. This was after his plantation home in Morgan County, Alabama had been burned by Federal troops. Part of this money had been buried during the war, and part had been carried by his daughter-in-law and her maid in stockings sewed to belts under their hoop skirts. Yellow and black tweed boards. No ownership markings. Photo dust… Leer más

New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. (c.1977) Book Club Edition. 'Loose Change' is about three women and what happened to them during a unique and turbulent decade in America.....the 1960's. It is written by someone who was there...Sara Davidson. It is also about the political and social ferment of the sixties.... the back to nature movement, John and Robert Kennedy, sit-ins and be-ins, Haight Ashbury, the Summer of Love in New York's East Village, mini-skirts, draftcard and bra burning, Woodstock and Altamont, the sexual revolution, the women's movement. B/w photographs present that reflect the events of that period. A generous list of illustrations provided. They are all here: Hell's Angels, Robert Kennedy Assassination, Black Panthers, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Mick Jagger, etc, etc. Bright orange boards, black spine. No ownership markings. A very nice clean and bright book in an illustrated dust jacket by Ron Becker.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1989. Colette Sinclair has everything: beauty, brains, glamerous clothes, an adorable three-year old daughter...and expensive taste. What she does not have is a man, so Colette is on the hunt. With insight and humour Colette describes her sifting of replies to her advertisements, her approach to blind dates, etc. and explains why she continues with her quest. Black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Remainder mark to top edge. No ownership markings. Illustrated photo dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Villard Books, 1993. Robert Fulghum.... philosopher and essayist. Maybe (Maybe Not), is Fulghum at his best: balancing levity and gravity with amazing grace as he makes us a little more aware of the richness and fullness of our lives. Erasure scrub mark to ffep. A bright book in a bright dust jacket.... a most serviceable copy!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / Deneau Publishers & Company Ltd, 1982. Revised and Updated Edition. Oversized card cover format. This complete and eminently useful handbook combines information on the newest wood-burning technology with lore acquired from a lifetime of heating with wood. Bibliography and index provided. Excellent illustrations by Ian Grainge accompany text. An extremely bright, glossy book.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

London and Dunmow: Pall Mall Press, 1961. As a Colonial Office servant, the author has been able to look at Northern Rhodesia's internal tensions and difficulties in an analytical manner. He writes of his first impressions, devotes three chapters to the European, Africa and Indian communities where he describes and analyses the main human factors governing the present crisis. Finally in a conclusion he makes a number of wise and helpful suggestions as to the future. Red boards with black print to spine. Price intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Pomerica Press, 1976. Translated from the Spanish by Colin Harding. This is the author's powerful personal account of his three-month stay in Cuba in 1970-71 when, as his country's first envoy to Cuba, he was sent by the late President Allende to re-open the Chilean Embassy in Havana. Illustrated dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1964. ' Highway To The Sun' Series. Published in association with the BP Touring Service. . All roads, they say, lead to Rome. The one Stanley Baron takes is possibly the most varied in all Europe."...it is as much a journey through history as through landscape." This book offers 14 chapters, postscript and index. A generous list of illustrations provided. They include 33 beautiful plates and 4 maps. Orange cloth boards with gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. Sticker residue to ffep. Price-intact dust jacket is a photograph reproduction by L. Alsford. Map-illustrated back panel to dust jacket. A solid, clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1987. . "Castaway" was the extraordinary best seller about Lucy Irvine's year on a desert island, "Runaway" is the equally remarkable story of her life before Castaway. It is the adventure of a young woman who dreamed and lived far outside the usual limits; - a story of rebellion and survival.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: The Viking Press, 1969. Phyllis McGinley effectively shares her joy in portraying the saints as early heroes rather than supernatural beings - magnificent souls whose fiercely individualistic lives illuminate the meaning and value of life its self... Blue cloth boards with decoration to front board and matching orange title print. Dark tan endpapers free of ownership markings of any kind. Dust jacket by Jacqueline Schuman. Jacket shows spine darkening and browning to back panel. Some yellowing has occured to top edge of book. Fore edge untrimmed. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. A visit to a remote and magical world in the heart of the South American jungle. "Shabono" reveals the life of another culture by drawing the reader into its strange and unique world. Ms. Donner, an anthropologist, travelled into the deep jungle between Venezuela and Brazil to study the "curing" or witchcraft practices, of certain Indian tribes. It is the story of her total immersion in a primitive society and its exotic way of life. Blue boards....black cloth spine....gilt title print to spine. This book carries remainder spray to bottom edge. It remains clean, bright and square in an illustrated dust jacket by Judith Leeds. The price remains intact.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. At the end of WW II James Herndon, alias One-eye, the Explorer, shipped around the world as a merchant marine. Sorrowless Times is the narrative of his voyage: waking up in Panama City with a tatoo, swimming the Pacfic on a bet, escaping a crazed, axe weilding mate, facing a squadron of Japanese bombers. This often hilarious book is an elegy to a lost time - a work of memory in tribute to a magical, fleeting moment when everything still seemed possible. This wonderfully resourceful book is always on target, whether describing the feel of jazz in the 1940's, the banter of wartime sailors, or the musings of a young man on his own. Brown boards with matching brown endpapers, blue cloth spine. No ownership marking. The book carries a remainder mark to top edge. Book is tight and bright with that "new" feel in the photo illustrated dust jacket. A nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Random House, 1988. The inside story of Edward Lee Howard, the CIA agent who betrayed his country's secrets and escaped to Moscow. The first CIA defector to the Soviet Union. Blue boards, blue cloth spine with gilt print. Illustrated with b/w photos. Price intact jacket illustration by Russell Farrell. No ownership markings. A nice clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Mary's almost 200 roles spanned the formative years of film art, from D.W. Griffith's early short silents to the sophisticated sound films of the early thirties. "Sweetheart" is not only the first full-scale biography of this fascinating Canadian-born actress but also a history of the silent-movie era. The life of Mary Pickford is full of romance, accomplishment, and glamour..... but also a great measure of tragedy. The preface by the author is followed with an introduction. Four sections of photographs are present. An appendix provides the films of Mary Pickford with the release dates and other pertinent information. This book closes with a bibliography and index. Red cloth boards. Gilt title print to spine. No ownership markings or inscription. A bright book in it's glossy, price-intact, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Gill Speirs.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Fitzhenry & Whiteside The man who invented the Quiz program - and starred on thousands of them across Canada and in Britain - lifts the curtain of an extraordinarily eventful life. His story is not only a fascinating inside look at the world of radio and tv, but a slice of nostalgia, as Roy Ward Dickson's unique career winds its unlikely way from a Rotterdam attic bedroom, to a Vancouver breadline, to television stardom. Red boards with gilt title print to spine. Photo illustrated dust jacket with original price intact. Photo of author on back panel of dust jacket as well. Immaculate copy !. First Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Times Books, 1987. 'Facing a slow painful end, Emily Bauer saw only one way out. With the promise of her husband's help, she made the most important decision of her life.....' Andrew Malcolm's compelling true account of one woman's ordeal with a debilitating illness that would claim her life. 'This Far and No More' is the first book to address candidly, at the most human level, all the realities of today's negotiated deaths and the challenge facing those who, with their loved ones, take death into their own hands. A clean, square book showing no ownership markings, in an illustrated, price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.