Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 576 pages. Dwight D. Eisenhower's meteoric rise to prominence during World War II was not -- as popular myth would have us believe -- accidental, but the logical outcome of years of preparation. Eisenhower had enormous talents, opportunities to develop them, and an attentive corps of senior officers who watched and encouraged his ascent to high command. The diaries, letters, and documents assembled in this volume for the first time present a fresh, detailed examination of Dwight D. Eisenhower's formative years and the evolution of his genius for organization, logistics, and strategy.

Softcover. Milwaukie OR, Dark Horse, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 346 pages, trade paperback with french flaps. It would be hard to imagine any creators who have more greatly affected their chosen medium than Will Eisner and Frank Miller have influenced the world of comics and graphic novels. Often misunderstood, but enduringly enjoyed by people from all walks of life, the comic book has in recent years been recognized as a "legitimate" art form by cultural institutions ranging from Harvard University to the Smithsonian, from The New Yorker to the Art Institute of Chicago. Now, culture-curious readers and life-long fans of the comics medium are invited to read along as two of the medium's greatest contributors-legendary innovator and godfather of sequential art Will Eisner, and the modern master of cinematic comics storytelling, Frank Miller-discuss one on one in an intimate interview format, the ins-and-outs of this compelling and often controversial art form. Eisner/Miller is profusely illustrated and features rare, behind-the-scenes photos of Eisner, Miller, and other notable creators.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Cooney. Eleanor Roosevelt as a little girl. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 374 pages. Russia has a fascinating history and author Robert Coughlan has provided us with an informative and compelling peek into a particularly notable segment of it, essentially the 1700s. The book covers the period from Tsar [Czar] Alexis (briefly) up to the reign of Tsar Alexander I, probably the most beloved of all the Romanovs. The focus of the work is on Catherine the Great. Her mentor, Elizabeth, was important through her shrewd handling of the many bumps and potholes which eventually allowed Catherine to take the throne against many rivals and usurpers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Biography of the American Southern novelist which includes study of her later novels, when she was no longer content to imitate fashionable male novelists.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes , 1st, 1900, Hardcover, red cloth with bright gilt stamping, 150 pages. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker, photographic frontispiece portrait of actress Terry, as well as numerous photographs of her in various dramatic productions. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, MOMA, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers; yellowing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy. Illustrated with eighty-four reproductions, eighteen of which are in color, as well as fifty-one reference illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

Softcover. New York, MOMA, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers; yellowing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy. Illustrated with eighty-four reproductions, eighteen of which are in color, as well as fifty-one reference illustrations. Bibliography. Index.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 671 pages. Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust dacket with minor wear, unclipped. Durkheim was a turn of the century French sociologist who argued that society is largely responsible for shaping an individual's moral values. He was largely critical of laissez-faire capitalism, arguing that society needed to be morally reconstructed. Lukes' comprehensive biography tells the story of Durkheim's life: how he responded to his critics, and how he tried to make his way in the academic world of pre-WWI Europe. Lukes examines Durkheim's work in its historical context, and offers a critical examination of it as well. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages + ads in rear. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading and soil to boards with small tear to upper edge of spine. Binding is slightly shaken and there is a previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Internally very clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 638 pages. Dark gray covers, color illustrated dust jacket. Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American poet and analyzes all of her major poems. Light edge wear to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, previous owner's signature to front end paper corner; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 480 pages. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's Empire of Self digs behind the glittering surface of Gore Vidal's colorful career to reveal the complex emotional and sexual truths underlying his celebrity-strewn life. But there is plenty of glittering surface as well--a virtual Who's Who of the twentieth century, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart through the Kennedys, Johnny Carson, Leonard Bernstein, and the creme de la creme of Hollywood. Also a generous helping of feuds with the likes of William F. Buckley, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and TheNew York Times, among other adversaries. The life of Gore Vidal teemed with notable incidents, famous people, and lasting achievements that call out for careful evocation and examination. Jay Parini crafts Vidal's life into an accessible, entertaining story that puts the experience of one of the great American figures of the postwar era into context, introduces the author and his works to a generation who may not know him, and looks behind the scenes at the man and his work in ways never possible before his death. Provided with unique access to Vidal's life and his papers, Parini excavates many buried skeletons yet never loses sight of his deep respect for Vidal and his astounding gifts. This is the biography Gore Vidal--novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, historian, wit, provocateur, and pioneer of gay rights--has long needed.

Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Bristol/Philadelphia, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1st , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages, b&w illustrations. All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire. England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.

Softcover. Madrid, La Fabrica, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to wrapper edges. Over 250 full page black and white photographs. Includes photographs of iconic figures such as, John and Jackie Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammed Ali, Alfred Hitchcock, Joan Baez, and Salvador Dali.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ATTENBOROUGH on title page, otherwise clean and tight copy. Pictures throughout. The long awaited autobiography by one of the world's best-loved actors and directors. The story begins in 1983 with a famously weeping Attenborough accepting two Oscars when his film Gandhi broke all previous records to win a total of eight Academy awards. Hawkins, 67, is Attenborough's publicist, confidante, co-producer and long-term business partner.Attenborough reflects on the highs and lows of a long life both in and out of the public gaze. Few know, for instance, that he once risked prison on a matter of conscience or that, as an air-gunner cameraman, he took part in bombing raids over Germany during the war. More poignantly, Attenborough will finally break his silence about his long-running friendship with Princess Diana, and the tsunami tragedy that robbed him of his eldest daughter and granddaughter in December 2004.

Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter/ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 202 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration. Some rubbing, light residue to covers, back hinge partially cracked. Interior very good.

Hardcover. New York, Universe, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Price clipped on front flap of dust jacket. Dust jacket with light soiling, edgewear.

Hardcover. London, James Clarke & Co., 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, beige cloth covers. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Spine twisted slightly. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, F. W. Dodge Corporation, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, blue dust jacket with color illustration, 75 b&w plates, 109 b&w drawings, sketches, plans, elevations, sections, etc. Clean boards, light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, with a few half-inch tears and 3-4" tear to bottom edge of rear dust jacket panel, pages very crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; overall, a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles, 687 pages, b&w photos. Has the A_3.69 (C), small embossed circle at bottom of rear cover indicating a book club printing. Bright, clean copy, missing the dust jacket.