Hand signed on a publisher's bookplate. Interactive CD-Rom in a sealed sleeve in unused condition. First trade edition of Gates' modern classic work on the information age. In "The Road Ahead" Gates describes the cultural and technological revolution we are living in. He outlines the major technological innovations of the past that have led to this and how we are being affected by it right now. He shares his own theories regarding the innovations of the future and how they will affect America. This book, written in 1995, illustrates why Bill Gates is the billion dollar visionary we know him... View More...
The author's first book. "The Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood, and a success on Broadway in 1927. It has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. Mr. Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blond, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's lines, bec... View More...
The printed wrappers of this Theatre Guild Library edition are bound into a contemporary custom-made hard cover binding for thespian Otis Skinner, whose bookplate is mounted on the front paste down. The Sidney Howard inscription is written to Mrs. Otis Skinner. An additional inscription in an unknown hand, as well. Staged on Broadway, and was made into a feature film. A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son. View More...
Front hinge shows a hairline split of the paper. Still firm, tight, clean , and bright. Overall VG. Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. His patents were crucial to the development of television.He is perhaps best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional video camera tube, the "image dissector", as well as the first fully functional and complete television system. Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he produced commercially in the form of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Cor... View More...
Iinscribed prior to publication, in 1974, to Kazan's long time friend and collaborator Budd Schulberg and Shulberg's wife, Geraldine Brooks. View More...
Five years earlier the beautiful actress Beatrice Valmont had broken gauche insurance broker Edouard Maligrasse's heart. Now he is an acclaimed young playwright whose star is in the ascendant and suddenly she is attracted to him. View More...
1949. 1st ed.,1st printing. Signed/inscribed - Eleanor Roosevelt. With 40 historical photos. "This I Remember" is Eleanor Roosevelt's recollections of the years preceding FDR's first term as Governor Of NYS to the day of his death during his 4th term as President of the United States. Mrs. Roosevelt's clear, thoughtful writing about those years show why Franklin D. Roosevelt was four times elected President of the United States. Nice condition, book jacket chipped at edges but presents nicely. View More...
Early printing. Here is Trump in action- how he runs his business and how he runs his life- as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and changes the face of the New York City skyline. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated eleven guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest deals; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker's art. And throughout, Trump talks about how he does it. The Art of the Deal is a look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneu... View More...
Asia, south of China, has been explored extensively and intensively by Justice Douglas, and in a trilogy of which this is the third (the others, the High Himalayas and North from Malaya) he has shared his journeying. These are more than travel books, though- for those who like colorful, personal and informative travel books-they fulfill all requirements. View More...
Signed on the front free endpaper 'L. Ron Hubbard / Founder'. L. Ron Hubbard is perhaps best known for his book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (first published in 1950), and as the founder of the Church of Scientology. According to the church, his written teachings make up approximately 500,000 pages and 3,000 recorded lectures, totaling about 65 million words. Hubbard also produced a hundred films, and 500 short stories and novels in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, adventure fiction, aviation, travel, mystery, western and romance. View More...
1st ed. Inscribed. de Kooning, title page. 1993 monograph from exhibit of work at the Hirschhorn Museum - has chapter on exchange of letters between de Kooning & his patrons, Joseph & Olga Hirschhorn. Willem de Kooning, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, was a super-star in 20th century art. This monograph explores the inter-relationship between de Kooning's paintings & drawings and ways to understand the artist's creative processes. De Kooning's art is traced from his native Rotterdam, his experiences in 1930s NY through to his development of intensely expressionist abstractions & figurati... View More...
