Search Results: U. S. Presidents from Select Tomes

Greenwich House, New York, 1984. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket condition: Very Good+ with no tears or chips and light shelfwear. Second edition 1984 reprint of a 1955 original book. 304 pp, with 4 pages of index. Text: off-white paper is clean and unmarked, with no prior owner attribution. Jim Bishop also was author of The Day Kennedy Was Shot.

Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, Evanston and London, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket condition: Good. 711 pp. Off white text with deckled outer edge. Dust jacket has two large tears on front cover that have been repaired with tape. Also minor chipping along top edges and at top of front outer edge. Book has light sunning along top edges. Front pastedown and front free endpaper contains timed chronology of assination events. Rear pastedown and rear free endpaper contains route of the State Funeral in Washington, DC. A historical detailed account of President Kennedy's assassination.

W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1971. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 765 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked except for pencil price on front free endpaper. Familly genealogy drawing on front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Numerous B/W photographs follow pages 238 and 510. Foreward by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. Dust jacket cover has photo of Eleanor and Franklin on honeymoon. Dust jacket has light shelfwear and a one-inch chip at the spine tail.

Warner Books, Inc., New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Stated first printing with full number line starting with 1. Condition: As New. Dust jacket condition: Fine. Dust jacket not price clipped. 244 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Pastedowns and free endpapers decorated with Roosevelt family crest. Illustrated with over 200 photographs, many in sepia-tone, some in full color. Foreword by Allida M. Black. Introduction by Mike Wallace. Special contribution by Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. A celebrated public profile of a diplomat, social activist, political visionary and important First Lady next to FDR. The author, grandson of Eleanor Roosevelt, compiled this book researching family archives as well as personal experience. Gift worthy copy.

Atheneum, New York, 1963. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket condition: Good+ Dust jacket is lightly soiled, has a small chip at the head of spine and has been price clipped. 400 pp. Text is white, clean and unmarked except for prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. "A narrative history of a young president in the White House...From the moment of his election in November, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy faced as many crises as, perhaps any president since Lincoln. Confronting him immediately were the problems of Laos, Berlin and Cuba."

Little, Brown and Company, Boston - Toronto, 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. Stated third printing. 434 pp. Text white, unmarked and clean. No prior owner attribution. Slight wear and light sunning to spine.

William Morrow (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), New York, 2001. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing, First Edition stated with the correct number line present '01 02 03 04 05 RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1' 882 pp. Text clean, unmarked, white with no prior owner attribution. Deckled outer edge. Numerous B\W photos scattered throughout. Leamer "chronicles the Kennedy men and their struggle to create the most powerful family in the United States...Beginning in 1901 with twelve-year-old Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. delivering hats to Boston's elite and ending in 1963 with the assassination of his son, President John F. Kennedy, Leamer seamlessly unites the complex strands of their economic, political and social rise." A dense heavy book may require additional shipping costs.

Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2012. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 325 pp. Clean, ivory colored text, unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Dust jacket not price clipped. B\W photos and drawings throughout. O'Reilly "recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath."

Exposition Press, New York, 1954. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. 222 pp. Text white, clean and unmarked. Book appears to never have been read. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper and sticker identifying book seller on front pastedown. Very light foxing on back free endpaper and back pastedown. Front and back flaps and rear page of dust jacket detached and included with book. "This is one of the most exquisite love stories in history, and probably the least known." An authentic dramatization of the true story of Abraham Lincoln's first love.

Juvenile Publishing Company, 1900. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Cover may not be original. 334 pp. Text is clean and unmarked except for page number 27 circled with ink. Book is ex-library copy with pocket on rear pastedown and "Withdrawn" stamp on front free endpaper. Condition of text belies its age.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 536 pp. clean, white text with deckled outer edge. No markings or prior owner attribution. B/W photographs throughout. "This book is dedicated to my daughter Rosemary and others like her--retarded in mind but blessed in spirit. My vision is a world where mental retardation will be overcome, where we no longer mourn with mothers of retarded childred, but exult and rejoice with parents of healty, happy youngsters."--Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.