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- Author: SCHLESINGER, JR, ARTHUR M.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987.
Third Printing. In this book, "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - a special adviser to John F. Kennedy and the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes - shows how our past shapes our present and foretells our future." Ships same or next business day. Book has normal edge and shelf wear, small tear on bottom right corner, crease on back cover, small scratch on top left corner of back cover, creases on pages 440-444. ; 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 Inches; 498 pages. more information
Price: 6.00 USD
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2204.
First Edition. "The greatest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In this essential new book, which brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. , explores the war in Iraq, the presidency, and the future of democracy." Ships same or next business day. Book has light edge wear on bottom corners, small bumps on spine ends; otherwise, in fine condition. Dust jacket has some edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
New York: Chelsea Huse/Mcgraw-Hill, 1972.
First Edition. Pages 323-334 have underlining in pencil. Light soiling and edgewear to dust jacket. This book "assesses some of the most critical of our forty-six elections, when internal or external pressures often caused the system of shifting from one man or party to another to creak, groan and threaten to give way entirely." Published in 1972, I wonder what Schlesinger would have written about Bush v Gore? Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 550 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
First Edition. Revised and Enlarged Edition. "Setting the American experience against a global backdrop in which one nation after another is tearing itself apart, Schlesinger exphasizes the question: What is it that holds nations together?" Ships same or next business day. Book's spine is slightly skewed, small bumps on spine ends, tiny blue speckles on fore-edge. Pages are tight and bright. Dust jacket has one-half inch tear on bottom left corner of back cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1965.
First Edition. Schlesinger, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was Kennedy's Special Assistant in the White House. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. more information
Price: 11.00 USD
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1979.
Signed Limited Edition. Octavo; 939pp; VG/No Dust Jacket; full brown leather; gilt decorated spine and boards; A.E.G.; silk moire end papers; silk book mark bound in; one lower corner bumped; small gilt loss at bottom edge of text block; binding firm; contents pristine; printed on archival quality paper. NOTE: No leaflet or other Franklin Library ephemera. Signed by Schlesinger on front blank. [Shelved at Rockville]. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
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Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Hardcover with dustjacket, pages clean & tight. Digital image available upon request. more information
Price: 23.00 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: 40.00 USD
Mark Post, Bookseller
2555 Ocean Ave., Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94132
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.
First edition. Very good with light soiling and page edges foxed; in a price-clipped dust jacket with some soiling and foxing. more information
Price: 40.00 USD
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First Printing. Clean, crisp copy. Never read with dust jacket in mylar cover. more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
Signed by Author. Volume 1 of the 3 volume series. Slight wear to dust jacket with minor chips at edges, in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Signed by author on first free endpaper. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.
Signed by Author. Volume 2 of the 3 volume series. Slight wear to dust jacket with minor chips at edges, sunning to spine, in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Signed by author on first free endpaper. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
Three volumes complete and all three volumes ar the true first edition. Volume I (1957) is titled The Crisis of the Old Order. It has a previous owner signatue to the front paste-down, completely hidden by the flap. The book is clean and fine. The dust jacket shows moderate edge-wear but is not price-clipped. Volume II (1959), also has the same owner signature to the paste-down and the book is equally fine. The jacket on this volume is very clean around the edges but the spine is faded a different color. This jacket is also not price-clipped. Volume III (1960)... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945.
Ships same or next business day. This book has a crease in the spine, a crease on the front cover near the spine and normal edge wear. Pages 8-9, 16-18 have blue pen marks. Slight soiling to the edges. Our stamp is on the half title page. ; Unabridged; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 577 pages. more information
Price: 10.00 USD
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993.
First Edition. This book "traces the entire story of the American experience, from the first settlers who arrived in the New York to the latest policy statement from the White House." Ships same or next business day. Spine is very slightly loose, small bump on head of spine, light brown stains on fore-edge and tail edge. Pages are clean, tight, and bright. Dust jacket has minimal edge wear, small crease on top right corner, small bumps on head of spine. ; B&W Photographs; 2.05 x 9.13 x 6.14 Inches; 656 pages. more information
Price: 14.00 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
This book discusses the "question of the growth of presidential power from Washington to Nixon, why it has taken place, how it has both served and harmed the republic, where it has left the Constitution - and what we Americans can do about it in the years to come." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly loose, minimal edge wear, slight bumps on both ends of spine and on bottom right corner. Dust jacket has normal edge wear, small tears on corners & on both ends of spine, tanned. ; 2 x 8.9 x 6.5 Inches; 505 pages. more information
Price: 7.00 USD
Boston: Mariner Books, 2002.
First Edition. This book "offers rare and revealing access to both the private world of a great American writer and the fine-grained texture of the American century." Ships same or next business day. Top of back spine is bumped; otherwise, in new condition. ; B&W Photographs; 1.5 x 8.2 x 5.5 Inches; 447 pages. more information
Price: 7.00 USD
