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Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Knopf title - "First Edition" stated is 1st printing, Inscribed to a former owner and Signed by the Author on the full title page, 2 small light scuffs to upper center and a 1/4" line of fading along bottom edge of front board , dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows very light edge wear with some fading to spine - no tears, chips, creases and original price intact, illustrated with black & white reproductions of painting and drawings, several maps and 16 pages of color plates
Seller: H.S. Bailey, Fort Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: NOT an ex library book. Signature of author on the half title page. 367 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon. The Making of an Amereican. A.A. Knopf, NY, 2004.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 534pp. Photos and illustrations. 4 wrod inscription by the author, signed, on title page. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2004.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC: Knopf, 2004. 1st edition, inscribed by author on title page, NF/VG+. Book has some wear to spine ends, bumped lower corner. DJ has wear to spine ends & corners, scattered edge wear. Illustrated with 16 color pates, b 7 w photos and drawings, 5 maps. Includes notes, bibliography and index. An in-depth biography of one of the greatest artists to grace our land, Audubon (1785-1851), was also a naturalist and created one of the most valuable books in U.S. History. Complete copies sell for millions of dollars. 514 pp.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Rhodes. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004.
Price: US$21.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: S1 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Richard Rhodes on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.5"x6.5", 514 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds - pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies - and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman." He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life. Audubon's story is an artist's story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated them until he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love. We examine Audubon's legacy of inspired observation - the sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itself - precisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, fêted by presidents and royalty. Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanity - handsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; First edition; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, purple and gold with cream print; DJ in mylar, clean and bright; Boards quarter bound with purple cloth to spine and brown paper to boards, slight wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page; x, 514 pages, illustrated (chiefly b&w). 1335345. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, stated. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "To Valerie / Richard Rhodes." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped; a small stain to the bottom page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $30.00); some edgewear and scratches, and a quarter-inch closed tear to the top of the spine; Brodart protected.
Seller: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: the Making of an American. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Signed by the author on the title page. No inscription or other markings.
Seller: A. Richard Books and More, Washington DC, DC, U.S.A.
RHODES, Richard.. John James Audubon: The Making of an American.. Knopf,, NY:, 2004.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine (some trace rubbing) dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Richard Rhodes. John James Audubon: The Making of an American. Knopf, New York, 2004.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine First Printing in a near fine jacket, Signed directly on the title page on broad blue ink, this is a great book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian. The jacket is now encased in removable crystal clear archival Brodart. All our books ship bundled in multiple layers of bubble wrap inside a sturdy box. All domestic orders include free tracking.
Seller: Biblio Baggins, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$58.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, signed and inscribed by Ron Tyler. Hard cover, large octavo, gray cloth, silver gilt titles, pictorial dust jacket, 259 pp., profusely illustrated with color plates, many full page. A fine copy in like jacket protected in archival mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Rhodes, Richard. John James Audubon: The Making of An American. Knopf, New York, 2004.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed boldly by Rhodes with an inscription to "Bill Budd"
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Brinkley, Douglas. Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. William Morrow, New York, 2004.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xii, [1], 546 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Timeline. Glossary. Interviews. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Signed by author. Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author and a professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN and a contributing editor to the magazines Vanity Fair and American Heritage. A public spokesperson on conservation issues, Brinkley serves as an editor at Audubon Magazine. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Historian Brinkley presents an in-depth account of John Kerry's experiences in the Navy during the war in Vietnam, and shows how these experiences shaped his character. Kerry, a Yale graduate who had enlisted, rose to the rank of lieutenant, saw action, and received the Purple Heart three times. After the war, Kerry was active in the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Brinkley has uncovered documents relating to a campaign by Nixon aides to discredit Kerry, who later became a United States senator from Massachusetts.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Signed by Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes, on title page. Knopf 2004 First edition, first printing. Brand new; fine/fine condition. Cinnamon hardboards with brown cloth spine; gold printing; one corner bumped. Textblock clean, tight, square, unmarked, unread. Unclipped pictorial dust , original price on flap, fine condition with very light shelf wear. Protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper (removable). Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied.
Seller: Fine Old Books Coastside, Montara, CA, U.S.A.