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.

College Station.: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. In this study, author Robin Doughty reconstructs and analyzes the way the nineteenth-century settlers developed an attachment to the land in order to make Texas their home. This book offers eight chapters, maps, bibliography and index. No ownership markings. An immaculate book in a beautifully illustrated immaculate price-clipped dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

UK: Readers Union, 1977. Emma Dashwood did indeed go to Russia to work as a governess, in the autumn of 1911. But the Emmie of the title also represents the surprisingly large number of 'Miss Emmies" who went out to Russia from the early nineteenth century onwards and gradually established the English governess as a familiar institution in upper-class Russian society. In the period from 1917 to 1929 they were to find themselves unwilling but active participants in the turbulent life of Revolutionary Russia. By the term "English" - it meant English speaking ( for there were many Scots and Irish governesses). These are first-hand accounts of this period in Russian history. Yellow cloth boards, gilt title print to spine. Map endpapers. Neat name stamp to fep. Text is age-toned. A photo section is provided. Photo dust jacket shows sunned spine but title print still bright. A nice, clean copy of an interesting read.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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.

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.

Baton Rouge: Claitor's Publishing Division 1969 (1969) Introduction by W.J. "Bill" McGoffin, Lafayette, LA. Twelve informative chapters. Some of the content: " Home Reflects Acadiana History" , " Historic Cathedral Echoes With Memories", " Pilgrims Trek To Site of Miracle", " Mansion Tells of Past Glories", " Old Town Blends Romance, Charm, Legend", " Marksville's First Settlers", etc. Well illustrated with photographs. Book closes with a bibliography. Blue cloth boards with gilt title print on front board and spine. A yellow-brown stain on lower gutter prevades throughout ( about 1 1/2" and to a lesser degree on many pages). This does not affect text in any way. Name on ffep. Gilt on boards is bright, leaves very white. A clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

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.

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: 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.

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.

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: 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: Delecorte Press, 1991. This is a book that everybody, regardless of birth order, will find of value, informative, and humorous. It gives you an entirely new way to look at relationships. Learn to use birth order to unlock the mysteries of the heart and find the love and happiness you deserve. Dr. Leman is an internationally known psychologist who has had other best selling books. A square, clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1975. First Edition but is BOMC. In a narrative that holds the reader nonstop through the night, the unmistakably American voice of Alexander Dolgun, compelling himself to reconstruct his years long ordeal at the hands of the Soviet Secret Police, will for the first time make Americans know the chilling human experience of Gulag. Arrested in 1948, released from prison in 1956. Finally after 15 years of surveilance by the KGB he was allowed to leave Russia in 1971. Black cloth boards with copper lettering to front and spine. No ownership markings. Jacket by R.D. Scudellari.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

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.

New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. Some years before Charles Berlitz wrote his internationally successful 'Bermuda Triangle', he'd begun researching a section of the Pacific known only as the Dragon Sea. His research revealed that lost craft of all sizes had vanished within the Dragon's Triangle. Tankers, military ships, armed nuclear submarines, research and scientific expeditions, fish processing factories - hundreds of ships sailed into the triangle and vanished.... without any trace of shipwreck flotsam, in calm seas, without any distress message and few survivors. The disappearences were significant enough for Japan to declare the area a danger zone. This book offers new insight into the strange and dramatic riddle of the Dragon's Triangle, one of the truly great natural mysteries of our world. Illustrated with b/w photos. Grey boards with a dragon and triangle embossed to front board. Black cloth spine with red print. Map and chart endpapers. Price-intact dust jacket… Leer más

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: 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.

London: Michael Joseph, 1986. 282 pp including notes and index. In this riveting and timely analysis of the Soviet Union, the author assesses the new revolution facing the 'Waking Giant' and its massive implications both for Soviet citizens and the West. Navy cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket by Chris Brown. No ownership markings. A nice clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Toronto: Longman's Green & Company, 1943. Author's seventh book. Between Tears and Laughter is the first full expression by an Oriental of the Asiatic viewpoint on the state of the world since Singapore fell. As such, it is enormously important. Lin Yutang draws upon the wisdom of Confucius, Lao-tse, Mencius, the ancient Greeks and Hindus to discuss such topics as : The White Man's Burden, A Philosophy of Peace, American Isolationism, Natzi Geopolitics, The Future of Asia, etc....Black cloth boards, gilt title block. No ownership markings.. First Canadian Edition (Sept,1943). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.