Search Results: Authors starting with K from Grampy's Bookcase

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Covers are without creases, tears, or chips. Spine is not creased. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the first page. Volume appears unused. From the Introduction, "James Kendall Hosner's 'Samuel Adams' (1885) marks an important juncture in Americans' interpretation of their Revolution. Hosner was one of the first to describe the Revolution as a fundamentally conservative event."

552 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Covers are smudged and spine is faded. An address and name label is attached to the half title page. Black and white photos are included.

237 pp. Only defect is "sample copy - no charge" stamped on the bottom text block edge. Spine not creased. Clean, unmarked, and tight book.

112 pp. In "as new condition" Color plates included.

244 pp. Unmarked text in a square and tight binding. DJ is unmarked and protected in a plastic cover. Book is from a college library with card holder glued to the back inside free endpaper. College name is stamped on the top and fore edges of the text block. DJ edges are glued to the cover as well.

Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are intact without crease, tears, or chips. Volume is age toned. Previous owner's name is on the front free end paper. A solid copy. From the back cover, "What were you doing on September 23, 1947? On that day some of Hollywood's most distinguished authors, stars, directors, and producers were commanded to appear before the House un-American Committee in Washington where they and the pictures they produced were charged with being 'subversive.' ...Here, for the first time, is the full story of what happened in the committee room."

47 pp. From the series, "Studies in Architectural History" Number One. Very small library stamp at the top of the title page is the only library markings. Clean and unmarked text. Cover is partially loose at the top inseam. Spine is not creased. Black and white photos included.

Volume and price unclipped DJ are in "As New Condition." Photo section incuded. From the front DJ flap, "In the early days of Operation Barbarossa, eighteen German divisions from Sixth Army and Panzer Group I were directly involved in the battle of the Bloody Triangle, which featured massive tank formations on both sides of the frontlines. From June 24 to July 1, roughly 650 German tanks and 80 assault gun and tank destroyers fought over 1,500 Soviet tanks in a roughly triangular area approximately 1,800 square miles between northwestern Ukranian towns of Lutsk, Dubno, and Brody."

215 pp. In "as new condition". Includes full page plates in color and black and white.

922 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Some slight discoloration along the outside edges of the text block due to extended shelf life.

74 pp. Clean and unmarked. Binding is faded but tight and not creased. Text is in Russian.

In "As New Condition". Photo section included. From the front DJ flap, "'The Enemy I Knew' is a collection of twenty-seven first person accounts from European-born Jewish combat veterans of World War II. All were refuges from the Nazi regime who fled Germany and Austria in humiliation and fear, then faced down their persecutors by joining the Allied military to fight against the country of their birth."

222 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Book appears unused. DJ has very slight shelf wear and light smudges on the front.

This original paper back edition has been rebound in an attractive tow-tone brown hardcover. Text is clean and unmarked in a square, tight, and bright binding. Introduction by John H. Kautsky. "...the empirical and analytical elements loom large in Kautsky's writings, for he was one of those Marxists who regarded himself above all as a social scientist rather than as a politician and had, i fact, ample justification for doing so." p. vii.

72 pp. In "As new Condition". Full page color plates included. Essay by Mary-Kay Lombino with a short story by Philip K. Dick. "Published to accompany the traveling exhibition, 'UnNaturally', organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York" 2003-2004.

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and square covers. Volume appears unused. Photo section included. "In my own effort to illuminate the character and career of Abraham Lincoln, I have coupled the account of his life with the stories of the remarkable men who were his rivals for the 1860 presidential nomination - New York senator William H. Seward, Ohio governor Salmon P. Chase, and Missouri's distinguished elder statesman Edward Bates. Taken together, the lives of these four men give us a picture of the path taken by ambitious young men in the North who came of age in the early decades of the nineteenth century." p. xv.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square covers. Volume appears unused with light shelf wear. Covers are without crease, tears, or chips. From the back cover, "This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history."

270 pp. Volume is in as new condition. Black and white illustrations included. From the back cover, "Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln."

396 pp. In "As New Condition". From the back cover, " The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America's most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war...John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War."

1,164 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Age-toned pages and DJ. Two small closed tears at the top of the DJ spine. Black and white photos included. Not an ex-library.