Search Results: Authors starting with O from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

Crown, 2018. Crown, First Edition. White paper over boards, silver lettering. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a.../DJ mint, unclippd , $32.50. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the… Read More

"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye": Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a 1972 memoir of John F. Kennedy, written by two of his closest friends and advisors, David Powers and Kenneth O'Donnell, in collaboration with journalist Joe McCarthy. The book was a best-seller and was later adapted into a television movie of the same title in 1977.Little, Brown and Co, Boston, Toronto, 1970-1972 Book Club Edition Very Good, solid, clean ,small owners label front pace down. DJ Very good, clean, colors vibrant, slight shelf wear at top and bottom. Good Reading Copy. Great Gift.

Little, Brown and Co,Boston, Toronto, 1972. Little, Brown and Co,Boston, Toronto, 1970-1972 Book Club Editio. Yellow cloth/black lettering. Very Good/Very Good. Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye": Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a 1972 memoir of John F. Kennedy, written by two of his closest friends and advisors, David Powers and Kenneth O'Donnell, in collaboration with journalist Joe McCarthy. The book was a best-seller and was later adapted into a television movie of the same title in/ Little, Brown and Co, Boston, Toronto, 1970-1972 B. Book Club Edition Very Good, solid, clean ,small owners label front pace down. DJ Very good, clean, colors vibrant, slight shelf wear at top and bottom. Good Reading Copy. Great Gift.

1972. Little, Brown, first Edition, later printing. 09/01/1972. Cloth overboards , green lettering. book and DJ in Near Mint,/book and DJ in Near Mint,. KNOWN BY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS AS THE "IRISH MAFIA," DAVE POWERS AND KEN O'DONNELL WERE JOHN F. KENNEDY'S DEVOTED COMPANIONS AND CONFIDANTS FOR MORE THAN FIFTEEN YEARS. THEY AVOIDED THE LIMELIGHT SO SUCCESSFULLY THAT THEY WERE USUALLY MISTAKEN FOR SECRET SERVICE AGENTS THROUGHOUT HIS PRESIDENCY. BECAUSE THEY HAD CONSTANT ACCESS TO KENNEDY'S THOUGHTS AND MOODS, THIS BOOK OF REMINISCENCES REACHES THE INSIDE OF THE MAN AS NONE OTHER HAS BEFORE. (amazon). INV #864 Little, Brown, first Edition, later printing. 09/01/1972. book and DJ in Near Mint, as new. Cloth overboards , green lettering bx42.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Brown cloth over boards, spine is slightly faded, gold lettering. VERY GOOD --/No DJ. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. A Source Book for Mediaeval History Dedication: To: The Memory of HENRY HARRISON BROWN 1840-1917 "From all Life's grapes he pressed sweet wine" 23 Illustrations 21 Maps. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Copyright, 1896, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1924, by Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar Holmes McNeal. Printed in the United States (with letter H) Very Good, spine is intact, but hinges are compromised. Some writing and foxing on front and back end papers, but text is clean and vibrant with no soiling and writing. Brown cloth over boards, spine is slightly faded, gold lettering.

Double Day Doran and Company, 1937. Double Day Doran and Company First Edition, 1937. Brown cloth over boards, gold design on spine and gold lettering. Very Good,solid, some fading and spotting to front and back covers, fading at spine, some shelf wear at top and bottom of spine with some open tears./NO DJ. Northwest Passage is an historical novel by Kenneth Roberts, published in 1937. Told through the eyes of primary character Langdon Towne, much of the novel follows the exploits and character of Robert Rogers, the leader of Rogers' Rangers, who were a colonial force fighting with the British during the French and Indian War. Double Day Doran and Company Book One of Two Volumes, Very Good,solid, some fading and spotting to front and back covers, fading at spine, some shelf wear at top and bottom of spine with some open tears. Brown cloth over boards, gold design on spine and gold lettering. Owner's book label at front end papers.

George Orwell in his critical writings shows imagination and taste; his wit is both edged and human. Few writers of any period have been able to use the English language so simply and accurately to say what they mean, and at the same time to mean something. The news that he had written a satirical allegory, telling the story of a revolution by farm animals against their cruel and dissolute master, and of their subsequent fortunes, was like the smell of a roast from a kitchen ruled by a good cook, near the end of a hungry morning. Orwell does know his farm animals and gives them vivid personalities. Many will recognize Benjamin, the donkey who never commits himself, never hurries and thinks that in the end nothing much matters. Mollie the saddle horse, who wanders from the puritanical path of the revolution to seek ribbons for her mane, the cat who never does any work...

Hardcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. Hardcourt, Brace and Company,1946. First American Edition. Green cloth over boards, very clean covers. Very Good/no dj. Orwell initially encountered difficulty getting the manuscript published, largely due to fears that the book might upset the alliance betANIMAL FARM GEORGE ORWELL ween Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Four publishers refused to publish Animal Farm, yet one had initially accepted the work, but declined it after consulting the Ministry of Information.[49][d] Eventually, Secker and Warburg published the first edition in 1945. Orwell's famous novel which is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish… Read More

Kendall Hunt Pub Co, First Edition, 1983. Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 07/01/1983 First Edition, SIGNED by both Authors. Light blue paper over boards, black lettering.picture of three speakers. Near Fine/NO DJ. Includes chapters with public addresses by Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Victoria Woodhull and many others. Kendall Hunt Pub Co, 07/01/1983 First Edition, SIGNED by both Authors Patricia Scileppii Kennedy and Gloria Hartman O'Shields, both to Kathy. Near Fine, clean, vibrant. no DJ.