Dust jacket and book are in very good condition, small tear and fold at the top of the front of the DJ. Stated First Edition, "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0." Essays about the United States west of the Potomic. View More...
4.25" x 6.5". 244 pages. Withdrawn from the library. Apparently once a text book in the high school. Good strong re-binding. Soil on the outside of the closed pages. Eight B&W glossy portraits of the essayists. Includes thoughts from William James, E.V. Lucas, Henry Seidel Canby, G.K. Chesterton, Agnes Repplier, Henry van Dyke, A.C. Benson, Walter Prichard Eaton, Richard La Gallienne, Samuel M Crothers, Joseph Conrad, Woodrow Wilson and Hendrik van Loon. Title page missing. (I can include a copy from another book just for interest's sake if requested). Many markings on the CONTENTS page. Ink ... View More...
277 pages. Very nice copy. Cover shows slight shelf wear, some nicks and scratches. Spine uncreased, pages are aged, but the book appears not to have been read. American Museum of Natural History Special Member's Edition. Our book number 36008. View More...
9.5" x 7". 122 pages. First edition, no other edition listed. Very clean, no marks, some minor shelf wear to the bottom of the boards. Clean and fresh. Bampton Lectures in America, Number 12. Lecture by Anthony Blunt. Black and white images of Blake's works. Our book number 3036. View More...
First Random House edition in the Modern Library Series. Ex-Library. Stain from the tape on the spine, residue from sticker on back cover. Minimal wear to the corners, wear to the top of the spine. pages secure, text clean. Library stapms on outside of closed pages. Nice clean book. View More...
4.5" x 7.5". 577 pages. An anthology of prose, poetry and thought, ancient and modern, with an emphasis on the modern. Small stain on corner of front cover and wear to that corner. Cloth on boards. Minor shelf wear to top and bottom of spine. Pages clean, paper slightly aged. "The editors laid down certain rules: Nothing that is probably already too familiar or too accessible. Nothing purely inspirational, nothing sentimental. And yet nothing cynical. Nobility of thought keeps on the crown of the road, out of the gutters..." Looks like exactly the right book for the Poet-Philosopher in you. Ca... View More...
175 pages. Book clean and unmarked. "A shocking expose of the poultry and egg industry from animal rights activist Karen Davis." This will make you plan to raise your own chickens, and possible to refuse any others. Our book number 1039. View More...
ex library, underlining in ink throughout Dr. Faustus. The rest of the book is clean, tight, some yellowing of the paper. for a forty five year old book, in remarkably good condition. early english drama, Medieval and Renaissance. The complete texts of Seven Great Plays of Medieval and Renaissance English Drama, and Essays: Abraham and Isaac; The Second Shepherd's Play; Doctor Faustus; Macbeth; Volpone; Samson Agonistes; Essays by Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Heywood, Alfred Harbage, Thomas DeQuincey, T.S. Eliot, and James Agate. Fourth printing. Our book number 41300. View More...
Red cloth cover with gold and black printing. Ex-library. Cloth split at top of spine. Very slight shelf wear to other parts of cover. Split at title page, but binding otherwise tight. Pages clean. Very little fading of paper. View More...
First Princeton Paperback Printing, 1988. Paperback has a general crumple as though someone had sat on it. A new book that has been bent in the middle. An explanation of the theory of LIGHT, by Richard Feynman, who is interesting, humorous, and easily understood. (And the recieient of the Nobel Prize for Physics) View More...
Includes The Broken Wings, The Voice of The Master, Thoughts and Meditations, and A Self-Portrait. Looks like the fifth copyright date. Withdrawn from the library, library pocket inside back pages, library stamps on endpapers, sticker on back and spine of dust jacket. Our book number 764. View More...
Withdrawn from the Vinita Public Library, the only shelf wear is to the very edges of the spine and corners, and only very minor. Silver printed papers inside covers, very ornate title page claims "The Life Work of Henri Rene' Guy De Maupssant, Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse. For the first time Complete in English. With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. Illustrated from Original Drawings By Eminent French And American Artists. The St Dunstan Society, Akron, Ohio." Illustrations in the text at the beginning of each enrt... View More...
Cover and pages look new. pencil date erased inside back cover. Looks like a new book. Blemish on front cover about half-way up near the hinge, small scar. First Edition. Drawings by Laurie Olin. Observations of Anderson Island, Washington State. Very clean copy. View More...
Perma-Bound in different cover for library, First Perennial Library edition published 1969. Reset 1989. withdrawn, library pocket, markings. Like a new book inside. Number line reads: "91 92 93 WB/OPM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3". Designer, Kim Lewellyn. Our book number 7007. View More...
159 pages. Jacket notes cut out and taped to inside covers. Library book, withdrawn. Cover tight and pages clean. Book is like new inside, some marks from the library on endpapers and pocket, residue from library stickers outside. "a powerful, evocative and lyrical description of nature's changes, wonders, and tragedies recorded in the twelve months of the year by a marvelously perceptive and original observer--Josephine Johnson." Illustrations by Mel Kapholz. Second Printing. 1969. SBN 671-20177-8. Our book number 2201. View More...
6.5" x 9.5", 370 pages. Clean Ex-Library. Single sticker on spine, previous owner's stamp, covered by marker inside on front end paper. NOT price-clipped. Dust jacket in good condition other than the single sticker. "With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it." Narrative, recipes, illustrations. Our book number 11032. View More...
Ex-library book, Book tight, clean and in Very Good. condition. 476 pages. Writings from ancient Greece to 1959 on gardens, gardening, plants, scientific, romantic, and opinion. View More...
9.25" x 7.25", 183 pages. First edition in good condition, Dust Jacket has wear, dings, stains, small tears and a chunk missing, but the art is present on front and back. Some foxing to the page block. Interior clean, spine secure. Some damage to the lower edge of front cover that does not affect the rest of the book. Four seasons of observing owls in their habitat. Our book number 36078. View More...
8" x 5.5", 104 pages. Interesting cover design, Very little wear to the edges and corners, text clean, Previous owner's name on front end paper. Daily inspirational talks given in the chapel at Wheaton College. Our book number 46043. View More...
