New photographs, artworks, cartoons, and movie stills highlight an informative look at some of the strangest, funniest, famous, and infamous deals ever made
9780449207635 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1985), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: New photographs, artworks, cartoons, and movie stills highlight an informative look at some of the strangest, funniest, famous, and infamous deals ever made
New photographs, artworks, cartoons, and movie stills highlight an informative look at some of the strangest, funniest, famous, and infamous deals ever made
9780517550397, titled "Deals: The Biggest, the Boldest, the Best : The World's Shrewdest and Most Lucrative Deals from Business, Entertainment, Politics, and Sports" | Outlet, June 1, 1987, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: New photographs, artworks, cartoons, and movie stills highlight an informative look at some of the strangest, funniest, famous, and infamous deals ever made
Celebrating the joys of summer in words and pictures, this tribute features writings by Alice Adams, Louise Erdrich, and John Updike, among others, as well as photographs by Robert Adams, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper
9780201194609 | Addison-Wesley, May 1, 1990, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Celebrating the joys of summer in words and pictures, this tribute features writings by Alice Adams, Louise Erdrich, and John Updike, among others, as well as photographs by Robert Adams, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper
9780517092064 | Addison-Wesley, May 1, 1990, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Celebrating the joys of summer in words and pictures, this tribute features writings by Alice Adams, Louise Erdrich, and John Updike, among others, as well as photographs by Robert Adams, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper
9780060164188 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Draws on previously unavailable diaries, letters, and photographs to chronicle Eisenhower's private life and military and political career
A collection of photographic images from the last decade covers the most significant events and trends of the 1980s--including the Challenger disaster, the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the crash on Wall Street, and others. National ad/promo.
9780060182069 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1992), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of photographs of events and personalities from a very memorable decade
A pictorial history of America chronicles the history of the nation in five hundred full-color reproductions of the important artifacts of the Library of Congress's collection, enhanced by an informative text by a renowned historian. 75,000 first printing. BOMC & Reader's Subscription Bk Club.
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9780679443308 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1997), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Chronicles American history with photographs of artifacts from the Library of Congress' collection
Product Description: Never before has America's past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation profits from seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley, but at its core is a bountiful narrative-in-pictures drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress...read more
9780517409411 | Random House Value Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Never before has America's past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind.
Product Description: A sweeping saga of love and danger among the aristocracy of early 19th-century New York, Vadriel Vail paints a vivid portrait of the excesses and arrogance of the privileged upper classes while providing a richly detailed and classic gothic tale of romance, secrets, and windswept coastlines...read more
9781555835835 | Alyson Pubns, June 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A sweeping saga of love and danger among the aristocracy of early 19th-century New York, Vadriel Vail paints a vivid portrait of the excesses and arrogance of the privileged upper classes while providing a richly detailed and classic gothic tale of romance, secrets, and windswept coastlines.
Product Description: A magnificent one volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.
9781593730352 | Bunker Hill Pub Inc, June 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A magnificent one volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.
Organized into twelve thematic sections, a visual history of the American Civil War presents more than five hundred illustrations from the Library of Congress, including an array of period drawings, lithographs, and woodcuts; iconic photography by Mathew Brady and others; important manuscripts; political and theatrical posters; memoirs and journal excerpts; and other ephemera and memorabilia. History Channel.
9780810958470 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 2006, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Presents a visual history of the American Civil War with over five hundred illustrations, including period drawings, lithographs, woodcuts, photographs, manuscripts, political and theatrical posters, and memoirs and journal excerpts.
A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. 20,000 first printing.
9780316997669 | Little Brown & Co, October 25, 2007, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A lavishly illustrated tour of some of the most significant and history-making maps ever made is culled from Library of Congress archives and offers insight into the role of maps as living histories, in a volume that features such examples as the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507 and William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 maps of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Product Description: A first-of-its-kind collection of twenty-four historic maps and views of New York City, specially bound so they can be removed easily and framed in standard-size frames. Historic Maps and Views of New York is a unique and fascinating collection of twenty-four New York maps and views dating from the 1600s through the present...read more
9781579125943 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, June 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A first-of-its-kind collection of twenty-four historic maps and views of New York City, specially bound so they can be removed easily and framed in standard-size frames.
Product Description: Gaywyck is the first gay Gothic novel. Long out of print, this classic proved that genre knows no gender. Young, innocent Robert Whyte enters a Jane-Eyre world of secrets and deceptions when he is hired to catalog the vast library at Gaywyck, a mysterious ancestral mansion on Long Island, where he falls in love with its handsome and melancholy owner, Donough Gaylord...read more
9781439235553 | Createspace, May 18, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Gaywyck is the first gay Gothic novel.
9781555835842 | Alyson Pubns, December 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Gaywyck, the first gay gothic romance, treads firmly in beloved territory, both honoring it and reinventing it.
9780854490578 | Carrier Pigeon, June 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Gaywyck is the first gay Gothic novel.
Product Description: Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of Colorado from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on Centennial State history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of state history for residents, former residents, and visitors...read more
9780762745319 | Globe Pequot Pr, October 14, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of Colorado from the collections of the Library of Congress, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on Centennial State history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of state history for residents, former residents, and visitors.
Product Description: A stirring trip through the history of the Lone Star Statethrough gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress - 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress- Informative captions on each map’s origins- Essays by Texas author Don Blevins on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library’s collection and the state’s maps About Mapping States Through History This is the first series to assemblein full color, state-by-statean in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America’s fifty states...read more
9780762745326 | Globe Pequot Pr, January 6, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A stirring trip through the history of the Lone Star Statethrough gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress - 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress- Informative captions on each map’s origins- Essays by Texas author Don Blevins on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library’s collection and the state’s maps About Mapping States Through History This is the first series to assemblein full color, state-by-statean in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America’s fifty states.
Product Description: A stirring trip through the history of the Golden State through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress - 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress- Informative captions on each map’s origins- Essays by California author Ray Jones on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library’s collection and the state’s maps About Mapping States Through History This is the first series to assemblein full color, state-by-statean in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America’s fifty states...read more
9780762745302 | Globe Pequot Pr, October 14, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A stirring trip through the history of the Golden State through gloriously detailed, fascinating maps from the Library of Congress - 50 full-color historical maps from the Library of Congress- Informative captions on each map’s origins- Essays by California author Ray Jones on how maps reflect the history, culture, and sensibilities of the state and its residents through time- A foreword by Vincent Virga describing the library’s collection and the state’s maps About Mapping States Through History This is the first series to assemblein full color, state-by-statean in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps of the cities, states, counties, towns, and events that make up each of America’s fifty states.
Product Description: These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.
9780762760268 | Globe Pequot Pr, November 23, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.
Product Description: These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.
9780762760114 | Globe Pequot Pr, November 23, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.
Product Description: A landmark collection featuring rare and sensational images of the Civil War.At a time before the camera lens could capture the frenzy and terror of battle action, illustrators known as “Special Artists”—among them such famous draftsmen as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast—created for the American public some of the most important and lasting images of the Civil War...read more
9780393072204 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 14, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A landmark collection featuring rare and sensational images of the Civil War.