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Grape Recipes
Joseph's Wayside Market, Good;
CONTAINS RECIPES USING GRAPES. FROM THE MARKET IN NAPLES, NY. MADE FAMOUS BY IT'S ANNUAL GRAPE FESTIVAL. Sticker remnant on front cover, cover edge wear.
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3.00 USD
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Harmonica Playing Made Easy: A Complete Step-by-Step Instruction Book for the Beginner
078530746X
1994 Publications International, Ltd., Like New;
Minor shelf wear, a pristine copy. introduction: music in your pocket; PLAYING SINGLE NOTES: skip to my lou; cripple creek (verse); jingle bells; the camptown races; good night, ladies; aunt rhody; row your boat; kookaburra; the colorado trail; HOLD THAT NOTE: michael row the boat ashore; silent night; shenandoah; brahm's lullaby; LET THE MUSIC FLOW: clementine; old abe lincoln (the old gray mare); red river valley; hey lolly lolly; i knew where i'm goin'; fair and tender ladies; bringing in the sheaves; the water is wide; it's a long way to tipperary; spanish is a loving tongue; old folks home; KETS TO SUCCESS: sinner man; shady grove; deep blue sea; shabat shalom; ground hog; will the circle be unbroken; away with rum; leatherwing bat; the erie canal; IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS: william tell overture; what shall we do with a drunken sailor; cripple creek (chorus); USING SIMPLE CHORDS: swing low, sweet chariot; nobody knows the trouble i've seen; oh susanna; jacob's ladder; BUILDING YOUR SKILLS: boogie; ode to joy; frankie and johnny; skye boat song; rosin and beau; REPERTOIRE: when the saints go marching in; amazing grace; when johnny comes marching home; dixie; the yellow rose of texas; old macdonald had a farm; london bridge; away in a manger; joy to the world.
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4.00 USD
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Il Pavimento Del Duomo Di Siena
Tipografia Ex Cooperativa, Good;
ITALIAN TEXT. Moderate shelf wear, front cover loose but included, pages intact, pages toned.
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12.00 USD
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Loctite Worldwide Design Handbook 1996/97 Edition
0964559005
1995 Loctite Corporation, Good; No Jacket,
More than 50 years ago, Loctite® brand adhesives were developed in a Connecticut basement laboratory by Dr. Vernon Krieble. The concept of an anaerobic adhesive was a technological breakthrough proven by its ability to withstand the test of time. In 1997, Henkel Corporation acquired Loctite. Henkel, a global Fortune 500 company, operates in three strategic areas of competence -- Home Care, Personal Care, and Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatment. Today, the Engineering Adhesives group of Henkel offers the broadest line of acrylics, anaerobics, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, hot melts, silicones, urethanes and UV/light curing adhesives. -- Loctite US site
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12.00 USD
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New EZ Method for Mandolin--Self Instruction and Teachers Use
1959 Wm. J. Smith Music Co. Inc., Good;
Moderate shelf wear. A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) that are plucked with a plectrum. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes that are open and not latticed. The most common tuning for the mandolin is in fifths, the same as for the violin (G-D-A-E, lowest to highest). Guitarists may occasionally tune a mandolin to mimic a portion of the intervals on a standard guitar tuning to achieve familiar fretting patterns. -- Wikipedia
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5.00 USD
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Nuovo Dizionario Inglese-Italiano
B000FJPNR6
1908 Fratelli Treves, Acceptable; No Jacket,
1908 HARD COVER. Moderate shelf wear, spine cover missing and torn, pages heavily toned, handwriting on first page.
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8.00 USD
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Poltava Museum of Local Lore
5776601347
1989 Good;
Photos of war memorabilia. Cover edge wear & creasing, light page toning, binding cracked & loosening in multiple places, shelf wear. The Battle of Poltava (or Pultowa) on 28 June[2] 1709 was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War. It is said to have started the end of Sweden's role as a Great Power and the Russians took their place as the leading nation of northern Europe. This also meant the rise of Imperial Russia. -- Wikipedia
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28.00 USD
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Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Volume 74: Spring Meeting 1996 New Orleans, Louisiana (PMSE)
0841232547
1996 American Chemical Society, Good;
Spine faded, light wear to spine base. Contains the proceedings of the American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering from their spring meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1996. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields. The ACS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The ACS holds national meetings twice a year covering the complete field of chemistry, plus dozens of smaller conferences in specific fields. Its publications division produces several scholarly journals including the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The primary source of income of the ACS is the Chemical Abstracts Service and its publications. Chemical & Engineering News is the weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society and sent to all members. The ACS membership is organized into 189 geographical Local Sections and 33 Technical Divisions. The American Chemical Society had it origins in a small group of 35 chemists that met on April 6, 1876 at the University Building in the present day New York University.[1] Although at that time there was an American science society (American Association for the Advancement of Science) the growth of chemistry prompted those assembled, including William H. Nichols, under the direction of Professor Charles F. Chandler of the Columbia School of Mines to found the American Chemical Society. The society Chandler said, would “prove a powerful and healthy stimulus to original research, … would awaken and develop much talent now wasting in isolation, … [bring] members of the association into closer union, and ensure a better appreciation of our science and its students on the part of the general public. A formal vote for organization was taken, a constitution was adopted, and officers were selected. Chandlers was an obvious choice as president since had been instrumental leadership in establishing the society, however, he felt that the New York University Professor John William Draper had the reputation as a scientist to lead a national organization. At the age of 65 John William Draper was elected as the first president of the American Chemical Society and the headquarters was located in New York. Draper’s presidency was important more due to his name and reputation and than his active participation in the society. The American Chemical Society also sponsors the United States National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO), a contest used to select the four-member team that represents the United States at the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO). The ACS Division of Chemical Education provides standardized tests for various subfields of chemistry. The two most commonly-used tests are the undergraduate-level tests for general and organic chemistry. Each of these tests consists of 70 multiple-choice questions, and gives students 110 minutes to complete the exam. The American Chemical Society grants membership to undergraduates as student affiliates. Any university may start its own chapter of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (SAACS) and receive benefits of undergraduate participation in regional conferences and discounts on ACS publications. Since the inception of National Center for Biotechnology Information's open access PubChem chemical compound database initiative, ACS has actively lobbied NCBI and its supervising agencies to stop the database development effort. ACS markets its own subscription- and pay-based Chemical Abstracts Service. In a May 23, 2005, press-release, the ACS stated: The ACS believes strongly that the Federal Government should not seek to become a taxpayer supported publisher. By collecting, organizing, and disseminating small molecule information whose creation it has not funded and which duplicates CAS services, NIH has started ominously, down the path to unfettered scientific publishing... The journal Nature reported that ACS had hired a public relations firm, Dezenhall Resources, to try and halt the open access movement. Scientific American later reported that ACS had spent over $200,000 to hire Wexler & Walker Public Policy Association to lobby against open access. -- Wikipedia
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16.00 USD
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Scrap Book on Spanish-Speaking Countries: Spain, Mexico, South America [Scrapbook]
Good; No Jacket,
Scrapbook includes color and black & white photos throughout - the sections include: Spain; Mexican Art and Life; South America. 'Hoteles Construidos por el Gobierno Del Preu', a photograph, and a large black & white photo-portrait inserted into scrapbook. Original green leatherette with shoe-string binding and embossed design and gold decorations. Pages toned, light staining to back cover, shelf wear.
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16.00 USD
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Significance of Baha'u'llah's Revelation
1989 Baha'i Publishing Trust, Good;
Minor shelf wear. Bahá'u'lláh (ba-haa-ol-laa, Glory of God) (1817 - 1892), born Mírzá H?usayn-`Alí was the founder and prophet of the Bahá'í Faith. He claimed to fulfill the Bábí prophecy of He whom God shall make manifest, but in a broader sense he also claimed to be the supreme Manifestation of God.[1], referring to the fulfillment of the eschatological expectations of a prophetic cycle beginning with Adam, and including Abrahamic religions, as well as Zoroastrianism, the Dharmic religions, and others. Bahá'ís see Bahá'u'lláh as the initiator of a new religion, as Jesus or Muhammad — but also the initiator of a new cycle, like that attributed to Adam. Bahá'u'lláh authored many religious works, most notably the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. He died in Bahjí, Palestine, present-day Israel, and is buried there. -- Wikipedia
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3.00 USD
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History's Most Devastating Disasters (Macmillan Profiles) -- First Edition
002865692X
2001 Macmillan Reference USA, New; No Jacket - Pictorial Cover, First Edition
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. Full number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1) on copyright page. A beautiful copy -- binding tight, pages clean & bright, cover pristine.. Macmillan Profiles is an outstanding series of biographical titles designed to complement the high school curriculum and enlighten readers of all ages. history's Most Devastating Disasters features 109 profiles of some of the most devastating hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, fires, boating accidents, airline crashes, and man-made accidents. Every article includes a description of the accident, the circumstances surrounding it, and its aftermath and significance. There are also glossary definitions in the text margin to explain unfamiliar technical terminology
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3.00 USD
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Working Mother's Time: How to Take It, Make It, Save It, and Savor It
0312262736
2000 St. Martin's Griffin, Like New; 1st Printing
FIRST PRINTING. A beautiful copy. From the editors of Working Mother Magazine with the help of working moms around the country.. Acknowledgments; Introduction; Time Thieves - How to avoid robbing yourself of family, work, and personal time; Get Time on your Side - Or, how I learned to banish guilt, accept my limitatins, and take pride in my accomplishments; Put Off Procrastination - How to take care of the most important tasks today, so they don't haunt your tomorrows; Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - A slightly Zen guide to letting go of perfectionisma nd learning to let unimportant stuff slide right on by; Family Time - How to enjoy the time you have with your family-and how to find more time together; Figuring Out Family Time; A Day in the Life; Getting a Handle on Housework; Weekends; Special Family Occasions Trave, birthdays, and holidays; Work Time - How to reduce the amount of time you spend working and increase your productivity and job-effectiveness; Making Work Work for you; Stop Stress; Tools of the Trade; Take Action; Crisis Management - Or, how I learned to ice-skate in a hurricane; Bye-Bye, Nine to Five - Exploring alternative work arrangements; Personal Time - How to find time for yourself without feeling guilty; They Say It's Like Riding a Bicycle; Let's Be Friends; Time Off; Fitting in Fitness; Right! And in My Spare Time, I Garden; Being Part of Your Community; Epilogue Working Moms' Time Is Now; Index
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3.00 USD
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Indian Paintings 17, 18 and 19th Centuries
Kasmin Limited, Good;
7 PRINTS PICTURED. 8 pages. Pages tinted, minor cover wear.. Catalogue of paintings at exhibition; 5. Ramkali Ragini, Mogul, Sub-Imperial, Akbar period, early 17 century; 13. Elephant, brush drawing, Mogul, c. 1700; 1. Girl Smoking Hookah, with Hand Maidens (detail0, Mogul, late 18 century; 24. Horse in Udaipur State Stable, Rajasthani, 1761; 9. Prince Holding a Rose, Persian Artist Working in India, Mogul, late 17 century; 28. Portrait of a Rajah, Rajasthani, Bikaner, mid 18 century; 68. The Nursing of Krishna, Punjab Hills, Garwhal, late 18 century
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5.00 USD
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Taylor Quality Guitars 1998 Catalog
1998 Taylor Guitars, Very Good;
Light shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright.. Color photographs throughout. Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon California-based luthier, widely known for their quality acoustic guitars. In 1973, at age 18, Bob Taylor began working at American Dream, a small guitar-making shop owned by Sam Radding, where Kurt Listug was already an employee. In 1974 Sam Radding decided to sell the business. Taylor and Listug became partners along with Steve Schemmer and bought American Dream which they renamed Westland Music Company hoping to conjure the image of a larger company in the minds of the public. Needing a more compact logo suitable for the guitars' headstock, the founders decided to change the name to Taylor as it sounded more American than Listug and because as Kurt Listug put it, 'Bob was the real guitar-maker.' Listug became the businessman of the partnership for which he was to prove well suited while Taylor concentrated on design and production. Taylor and Listug expanded their small shop into a major guitar manufacturing company while maintaining creative control and ownership. As of 2008 Taylor Guitars has more than 550 employees. The factory is located in El Cajon, California with worldwide distribution. A second plant has been opened 40 miles away in Tecate, Mexico where the smallest guitars of the Taylor line, the Baby and Big Baby, are made along with the Taylor guitar cases. All other Taylor guitars are made in El Cajon, California. Taylor's corporate office is located in El Cajon, California. Taylor guitars are made with a patented bolt-on neck; the NT neck (new technology). It differs from other necks, whether bolt-on or glued, by supporting the fretboard all the way to the 19th fret with a continuous piece of wood. The standard practice is to support the fretboard up to the fourteenth fret with the unsupported portion being glued to the constantly moving soundboard. The NT neck fits into a pocket on the top of the guitar body with the desired angle being achieved by small, accurately milled neck spacers (shims). After time, some guitars require the neck angle to be realigned (referred to as a neck reset). This process is greatly simplified by allowing the replacement of different sized neck spacers to return the neck to the required angle. Taylor's proprietary pickup system, the Expression System consists of a patented humbucking induction pickup mounted in the neck and a pair of dynamic soundboard transducers wired to an on board preamplifier designed by Rupert Neve. The first generation system was powered by a pair of AA batteries. -- Wikipedia
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5.00 USD
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Mr. Dooley in Peace and War
0742610985
1899 Small, Maynard & Company, Acceptable; No Jacket,
1899 HARD COVER. Moderate shelf wear, Top of spine missing, binding loose-pages intact, pages and covers toned, owner information on first page. Finley Peter Dunne (July 10, 1867 - April 24, 1936) was a Chicago-based U.S. author, writer and humorist. He wrote Mr. Dooley in Peace and War in 1898. Mr. Dooley became one of the first nationally syndicated newspaper features. Set in a South Side Chicago Irish pub, Mr. Dooley, the owner and bartender, would expound upon political and social issues of the day, using the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant. Dunne's sly humor and political acumen won the support of President Theodore Roosevelt, a frequent target of Mr. Dooley's barbs. Peter Finley Dunne was born in Chicago on July 10, 1867. He was educated in the Chicago public schools (graduating from high school last in his class), then began his newspaper career in Chicago as a newspaper reporter/editor for the Chicago Telegram in 1884, at age 17. He was then with the Chicago News 1884-88, Chicago Times 1888, Chicago Tribune 1889, Chicago Herald 1889, Chicago Journal 1897. Originally named Peter Dunne, to honor his mother, who had died when he was in high school, he took her family name as his middle name some time before 1886, going by PF Dunne, reversed the two names in 1888, for Finley P. Dunne, and later used simply the initials, FP Dunne. His sister, Amelia Dunne Hookway, was a prominent educator and high school principal in Chicago; the former Hookway School was named in her honor. -- Wikipedia. Mr Dooley in War - On Diplomacy; War Preparations; Fitz-Hugh Lee; Mules and Others; His Cousin George; Some Army Appointments; Strategy; General Miles's Moonlight Excursion; Admiral Dewey's Activity; TThe Phillippines; Prayers for Victory; The Anglo-Saxon; A Letter from the Front; Our Cuban Allies; The Destruction of Cervera's Fleet; A Letter to Mr. Depew; The President's Cat; A Speech by president McKinley; The Hero in Politics; Mr. Dooley in Peace - New Year's Resolutions; Gold-Seeking; Books; Reform Candidates; paternal Duty; Criminals; A Plot; The New Woman; Expert Testimony; The Popularity of Firemen; The Game of Football; The Necessiry of Modesty Among the Rich; The Power of Love; The Victorian Era; The Currency Question; Political Parades; Charity; Nansen; A Populist Convention; A Family Reunion; A Famous Wedding; A Quarrel Between England and Germany; Oratory in Politics; Christmas Gifts; Anarchists; The Dreyfus Case; The Decadence of Greece; The Indian War; Golf; The French Character.
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4.00 USD
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Essential Portuguese Phrase Book
9625939296
2001 Periplus Editions, Good;
Minimal shelf wear.. Over 2,000 key words and phrases. Periplus Essential Phrase Books -- This new series of phrase books contains the essential information need by first-time and experienced travelers alike, presented in a concise, accessible, and easy-to-understand format. Each guide features over 4,000 words and phrases and is divided into 15 sections, covering all subjects that people are likely to encounter in their travels, from reserving a room for the night or ordering dinner at a restaurant to what to do when the rental car breaks down or how to change a flight. There is also a detailed phonetic pronunciation table plus an extensive word list and a grammar guide that will enable travelers to construct basic sentences.
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3.00 USD
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Life Magazine: Beginning a New Series: The Human Body
1962 Time Life Books, Good;
Light cover edge wear, pages lightly toned.. Story of the Week-Bull's eye from a front-row seat. First color photographs and Wally Schirra's narrative. Editorials - Barnstorming won't fix up the country An eloquent G.O.P. liberal; Newsfronts - The wild wind that raged against Olympus...Surging battle of nonrunning Presidents...Scent of scandal gathers in the gallery...A catastastroke? Not this four-handed combo...Bending down. De Gaulle unbends...French flivver's highfalutin flabbergaster...A legaacy of warm, perceptive journalism from Bill Gray; Article of the Week - The workings of the incomparable human body-The Editors of LIFE present a new series; Close-Up Joan of Arc or dragon lady? By Milton Orshefsky; Departments - Sports: high eye on a huddle, Movies: the O'Neills: a tragic epilogue to the drama. By Peter Bunzel, Animals: it's a zebronkey, Better Living: old stanbys all spruced up, Television: him Tarzan??? Jungle Jack fiddles while Jack burns, Special Report: dirty work on the voting machines. By Robert D. Loevy; LIFE Guide to art exhibitions, books, movies, records, sports; Letters to the Editors; Miscellany: Look Who's Here. Life is an American magazine that publishes interviews, essays, cartoons, and photos. At one point it sold more than 13.5 million copies a week; today Life is distributed as a free supplement in major U.S. newspapers. It was born in the early 1880s as a humor magazine and sold well during the late 1930s. In the years following World War II, Life was so popular that President Harry S. Truman, Sir Winston Churchill, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur all serialized their memoirs in its pages. Life was the first all-photography U.S. news magazine and dominated the market for more than forty years. Perhaps one of the best-known pictures printed in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt’s shot of a nurse in a sailor’s arms, snapped on August 27, 1945, as they celebrated Victory Over Japan Day in New York City. The magazine’s place in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing. However, Life did not always have its familiar white type on red field logo. Beginning in 1883 and continuing for 53 years, Life was a general-interest light entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It attracted some of the greatest writers, editors, and cartoonists of its era. In 1936 it was bought by Henry Luce, publisher of Fortune and Time, and transformed into a news picture magazine. It was wildly successful for two generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing tastes. Since 1972, Life has ceased publication twice, only to be brought back to readers in different incarnations. -- Wikipedia
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3.00 USD
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Opera Libretto Library: The Authentic Texts of the German, French, and Italian Operas with Music of the Principal Airs, with the Complete English and German, French, or Italian Parallel Texts
0517318830
1980 Avenel Books, Good; Good,
Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Pages toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper, 2 jacket tear with corresponding crease, jacket price clipped, light shelf wear. Binding tight.. THE WAGNER OPERAS: Foreword; Flying Dutchman; Tannhauser; Lohengrin; The Rhinegold; Die Walkure; Siegfried; Gotterdammerung; Tristan and Isolde; Die Meistersinger; Parsifal; FRENCH AND GERMAN OPERAS: Foreword; Carmen; Faust; Romeo and Juliet; Manon; Tales of Hoffmann; Samson and Delilah; Lakme; Mignon; Fidelio; The Magic Flute; The Bartered Bride; Hansel and Gretel; ITALIAN OPERAS: Foreword; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La Traviata; La Forza Del Destino; Aida; Lucia Di Lammermoor; La Gioconda; Cavalleria Rusticana; I Pagliacci; Don Giovanni; Barber of Seville. A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. The term 'libretto' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata. Libretto (pl. libretti), from Italian, is the diminutive of the word 'libro' (book). A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. The relationship of the librettist (that is, the writer of a libretto) to the composer in the creation of a musical work has varied over the centuries, as have the sources and the writing techniques employed. -- Wikipedia
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6.00 USD
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Gone Native: A Tale of the South Seas -- First Edition
'Asterisk' (Author of 'Isles of Illusion')
B0006AJASW
1924 Constable & Co Ltd, London, Good; No Jacket, First Edition
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Published 1924' stated on copyright page. Light crease on front cover has caused some slight damage to endpaper on reverse. Light shelf wear, ink stamp on title page, ink number on contents page.. THE WOMAN: The Recruiting; The Voyage; Ashore; Learning; Clouds; Storm; Escape; Haven; Topsy; THE MAN: Change; Pere Douceret; Stephens; The Mission Station; Is It Well with the Child?; Native; THE CONCLUSION: Shame; Rats; Evil; Sacrifice.
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73.00 USD
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Seneca Street Poems: First Edition
Aal, Katharyn Machan
B00072L1IG
1982 Coalition of Publishers for Employment, Very Good; No Jacket,
Signed by author
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. A beautiful copy.
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13.00 USD
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1956 International Motion Picture Almanac
Aaronson, Charles S. (Editor)
B000P0MA2G
1955 Quigley Publications, Good; No Jacket,
Pages slightly toned, foxing on page ridges, small stains on front cover.. Who's Who; Pictures; Corporations; Theatre Circuits; Drive-In Theatres; Awards and Polls; Services; Organizations; Equipment and Supplies; Codes and Censorship; World Market; Industry in Great Britain; Press; Non-theatrical Motion Pictures.
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18.00 USD
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Abbey, Edward
0345326490
1991 Ballantine Books, Good;
Cover edge wear, spine creased, pages toned, ink on first page.. When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form -- the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. But this is also the gripping, anguished cry of a man of character who challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness by oil and mining interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Abbey's observations and challenges remain as relevant now as the day he wrote them. Today, Desert Solitaire asks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again. CONTENTS: Author's Introduction; The First Morning; Solitaire; The Serpents of Paradise; Cliffrose and Bayonets; Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks; Rocks; Cowboys and Indians; Cowboys and Indians: Part II; Water; The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud; The Moon-Eyed Horse; Down the River; Havasu; The Dead Man at Grandview; Point; Tukuhnivats, the Isand in the Desert; Episodes and Visions; Terra Incognita: Into the Maze; Bedrock and Paradox.
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3.00 USD
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Abbey, Edward
Parnall, Peter (drawings) 0671695886
1991 Ballantine Books, Very Good;
Pages toned, minor cover edge wear.. xiv, 269 pages. When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road and many other critically acclaimed books vividly captures the essence of his life during three seasons as a park ranger in southeastern Utah. This is a rare view of a quest to experience nature in its purest form -- the silence, the struggle, the overwhelming beauty. But this is also the gripping, anguished cry of a man of character who challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness by oil and mining interests, as well as by the tourist industry. Abbey's observations and challenges remain as relevant now as the day he wrote them. Today, Desert Solitaire asks if any of our incalculable natural treasures can be saved before the bulldozers strike again. CONTENTS: Author's Introduction; The First Morning; Solitaire; The Serpents of Paradise; Cliffrose and Bayonets; Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks; Rocks; Cowboys and Indians; Cowboys and Indians: Part II; Water; The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud; The Moon-Eyed Horse; Down the River; Havasu; The Dead Man at Grandview; Point; Tukuhnivats, the Isand in the Desert; Episodes and Visions; Terra Incognita: Into the Maze; Bedrock and Paradox.
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4.00 USD
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Book of Execution (An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution)
Abbott, Geoffrey
0747245819
1995 Headline, Good; 3rd Printing
Cover edge wear, spine creased, pages slightly toned, binding loosening. From the gruesomely familiar to the grisly and bizarre, The Book of Execution gives the most comprehensive account ever published of the of the 'ultimate penalty': Boiled Alive; Broken on the Wheel; Buried Alive; Burned at the Stake; Crucifixition; Death by a Thousand Cuts; Eaten by Animals; Electric Chair; Firing Squad; Gas Chamber; Gridiron; Hanging; Iron Maiden; Knee-Hauling; Lethal Injection; Sewn in an Animal's Belly; Stoning to Death; Suffocation; Torn Apart by Horses.. and Many More.
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18.00 USD
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Florence Stories Complete Six Volume Hardcover Set: Florence and John; Grimkie; Excursion to the Orkney Islands; The English Channel; Visit to the Isle of Wight; Florence's Return
Abbott, Jacob
B000GTEACO
1861 Sheldon and Company, New York / John R. Anderson, New York, Good; No Jacket,
COMPLETE SIX VOLUME HARDCOVER SET. Includes: Florence and John; Grimkie; Excursion to the Orkney Islands; The English Channel; Visit to the Isle of Wight; Florence's Return. Volumes 1 & 3: original dark green pebbled cloth hardcover bindings with embossed borders and gold spine lettering & design. Volumes 2 & 4-6: Original sage green cloth hardcover bindings with black & gold lettering and design, embossed border & design on back covers, yellow endpapers. Each volume is in very good condition, except Florence and John, whose binding has been repaired at a couple points. Otherwise, all volumes are tight, with expected light foxing to page ridges and slight toning of pages, and only minor shelf wear. Black & white full-page engravings in each volume. A great collectible find, scarce as a complete set! Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for boys, in New York City. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother Samuel Phillips Abbott founded the Abbott School. His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, Sandford and Merton, and the Parent's Assistant. His brother, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was also an author. His sons, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, both eminent lawyers, Lyman Abbott, and Edward Abbott, a clergyman, were also well-known authors. -- Wikipedia. FLORENCE AND JOHN: The Two Little Studies; The Keys; Aqua; Reasonable Rules; The Lost Ball; Four Plans; The Spelling Lesson; Hand over Hand; The Experiment; The Ladder; Working Systematically; The Mountaineers; About Tests; The Snow Clouds; The Farm; Bright about Some Things; A Conversation.; The Ball Recovered; The Balloon; The State Rooms; Plan for a School; The School a Failure; Totally Discouraged; A Wild Scheme; The Voyage; Little Allan; West Point; History of a Word; The Compositions; Little Allan Again; The Winter Shop; Purchases; The Orange Question; Conclusion. ENGRAVINGS: The Octagon Room; Vignette Title; Hand over Hand; The Mountaineers; The Ascension; Out in a Squall; Shopping; GRIMKIE: Situation of Grenbank; A Volunteer Apprentice; Grimkie in His Shop; The Kitten Cage Finished; Walnut Money; Leona; The Chateau; Parliamentary Rules; The Debate; Mustn't Touch; Leona at Play; Tumble Lane; An Invitation; Aspinwall's Drawings; The Rainy Day; The Lecture; The Old Mill; The Sand in the Hour Glass; The Apple Claim; The Deputation; Detecting the Thieves; Jerk and Spinner; Illegal if Not Wrong; The Confession; Put on Trial; What is a Glen?; Leona's Return; The Telegraph; Summary Justice; Reconsideration; ENGRAVINGS: The Deputation to the Gardiner; Asking an Audience; Order, Gentlemen! Order!; Drift of the Foam; Shores of the Isle of Wight; Grimkie at the Mill; EXCURSION TO THE ORKNEY ISLANDS: Letter from Singapore; Taking Passage; Preparations; The Letter of Credit; The Embarkation; Life on Board Ship; Morning in Liverpool; Plans Formed; The railway Ride; The Highland Glens; Ben Nevis; The Caledonian Canal; The Vitrified Fort; Night Ride by Daylight; The Prince Consort; Kirkwall; The Stones of Stennis; The Embarkation; Conclusion; ENGRAVINGS: Landing at Ben Nevis; Choosing the State Rooms; Visit to the Orkney Islands; On Board the Iona; Crossing the Mickle Ferry; The Black Craigs; THE ENGLISH CHANNEL: The Great Hotel; The Channel Islands; More Stories; Journey to Bayeux; Bayeux; The Tapestry; The Lace-Makers; About Harbors and Roadsteads; Cherbourg; The Conscription; The Wooden Shoes; Ride in the Diligence; Granville; Passage to Jersey; Looking for Lodgings; Getting Settled in Lodgings; First Walk in Jersey; The Castle of Mont Orgueil; A Drive; Over the Sands; From Jersey to Guernsey; Guernsey; Conclusion; ENGRAVINGS: Court of the Hotel; Passing the Corbieres; Viewing the Bayeux Tapestry; Mont Orgueil; VISIT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT: The Man-Carriage; The Railway Station; Florence a Queen; The Pretext; Deep Water; To Portsmouth; The Voyage; Ryde Pier; A Walk at Ryde; Pleasures of Ryde; About Chines; Ride to Shanklin; The Hotel; On the Downs; Down the Chine; Mrs. Campbell's Management; Mrs. Morelle's Management; Mrs. Pelham; The Undercliff; Ventnor; The Beach at Ventnor; New Lodgings; The Aquarium; The Romantic Walk; The Needles; Cowes; The Ferry-Boat; Conclusion; ENGRAVINGS: The Shanklin Hotel; Interview with Boots; Map. Situation of the Isle of Wight; Arrival at Ryde; Shore at Shanklin; Ventnor; Embarking for the Main; FLORENCE'S RETURN: An Unexpected Contingency; Left Alone; Still More Alone; Setting Off; On the Road; George and Arabella; Night at a Hotel; Progress of the Journey; Imaginary Dangers; Willie Willey; About Couriers; Edwin; The Mosaic; The Souvenir; Crossing the Alps; John an Author; Voyage to Geneva; Railway to Paris; The Straits of Dover; Playing Courier; Embarkation for America; ENGRAVINGS: Departure from Rome; On the Flaminian Way; The Breakfast; Visit to the Pitti Palace; The Pass of the Simplon; Arrival in England.
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78.00 USD
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Masterworks of Economics: Digests of 10 Great Classics: England's Treasures By Foreign Trade; Reflections on the Formation and Distirbution of Wealth; The Wealth of Nations; An Essay on the Principle of Population; Principles of Political Economy and Tax
Abbott, Leonard Dalton (Editor); Mun, Thomas; Turgot, Anne Roberts Jacques; Smith, Adam; Malthus, Thomas Robert; Ricardo, David; Owen, Robert; Mill, John Stuart; Marx, Karl; George, Henry; Veblen, Thorstein
B0006DIV4I
1946 Doubleday & Company, Inc., Good; No Jacket,
Pages toned, no dust jacket, minor shelf wear. CONTENTS; Introduction; England's Treasures By Foreign Trade; Reflections on the Formation and Distirbution of Wealth; The Wealth of Nations; An Essay on the Principle of Population; Principles of Political Economy and Taxation; A New View of Society; Principles of Political Economy; Capital; Progress and Povery; The Theory of the Leisure Class.
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7.00 USD
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Henry Ward Beecher
Abbott, Lyman
B000K5TK4M
1903 Houghton Mifflin Company, Good; No Jacket,
Illustrations throughout the text. Minor shelf wear & page toning, ink on inside of front cover, front hinge beginning to loosen. Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of evangelist Lyman Beecher. He was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Isabella Beecher Hooker, a suffragist. He also had a brother, Charles Beecher, who was a renowned Congregationalist minister. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most famous American trials of the Nineteenth century. -- Wikipedia. Bibliography; The Meaning of Mr. Beecher's Life; The Making of the Man; Early Ministry; Plymouth Church; The Pastor of Plymouth Church; Parenthetical; The Anti-Slavery Reformer; The Anti-Slavery Campaign; The Civil War; The Campaign in England; Reconstruction; Under Accusation; Later Ministry; Editor and Author; The Yale Lectures on Preaching; He Finished His Course; Estimates and Impressions; Mr Beecher's Analysis of Romans, Chap. VII; Mr. Beecher's Theological Statement; Index.
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12.00 USD
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Journey to the Volcano Palace (The Secrets of Droon Book 2)
Abbott, Tony
Merrell, David 0590108417
1999 Little Apple / Scholastic, Inc., Good;
A beautiful copy. The kids return to Droon to check on their new friend, Princess Keeah. Lord Sparr has taken a magic jewel from Keeah and hidden it. Together the four children must sneak into his volcano home to try to get it back.. Dreams; Sands of Time; The Oasis at Noon; Into Sparr's Realm; Smoke and Mirrors; Meeting the Witch; The Fierce Beast; Sparr's Secret?; Fountain of Danger; The Door Home
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3.00 USD
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Mysterious Island (The Secrets of Droon Series Book 3)
Abbott, Tony
Merrell, David 0590108409
1999 Little Apple / Scholastic, Inc., Like New;
Minimal shelf wear. A beautiful copy. Their third adventure in Droon finds Eric, Neal, and Julie shipwrecked on a creepy and mysterious island. It's going to take some quick thinking and lots of magical help for the kids to get out of this one!. The Storm; Wings Over Water; Shipwrecked!; Trapped...with Friends; Attack of the Icky Bugs; Groggle Mountain; The Glove of Power; Cave of Bugs; At the White Cliff; A Ship Reborn.
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3.00 USD
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A Wild Goose of Limerick
Abdullah, Achmed
B00087H6W0
1926 Brentano's, New York, Acceptable; No Jacket, Ex-Library
Library binding. Usual library marks, light staining on top spine edge and a couple pages, a couple pages beginning to loosen, pages slightly toned. Achmed Abdullah (1881 - 1945), a pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff, was a Russian-born writer. He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films. He was the author of the progressive Chinese drama Chang, an Academy Award nominated film made in 1927. He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff was born on May 12, 1881 in Yalta, Russia to the second cousin of Czar Nicholas Romanoff and an Afghan princess. After his mother's attempts to poison her husbund due to partaking in multiple affairs, they divorced, leaving their son, and two other children to their maternal grandparents. At the age of 12, he was sent to Eton; and then to Oxford University to be educated. Although he was born Russian Orthodox, he was raised as a Muslim by his grandparents. Later he would consider himself Roman Catholic. Upon his graduation he joined the British Army, and rose to rank of acting colonel during his 17-year military career. Throughout his military career, he served in India, Afghanistan, Tibet, Africa, China and in Turkey. He served the British-Indian army in India, and was also colonel in a cavalry regiment for one year in the Turkish army as a British spy. He mostly spent the time in the military as a spy because of his wide-knowledge of Oriental and Middle-Eastern customs and religions. He traveled widely in Russia, Europe, Africa, the Middle-East and China and spoke many languages and dialects. He was also made a British citizen by an act of Parliament, and convicted by the Germans during World War I for being a spy. In the early 1910s he emigrated to the United States and eventually became a successful, well-paid writer, playwright and later on, a Hollywood screenwriter. At the time, he became the only British subject to receive membership in the French Academy and he also got a doctorate from the College of El-Azar, Cairo in Koranic Studies. Romanoff was married to Jean Wick, a literary agent, until 1939, when she died. He adopted her daughter Phyllis and then later married again, this time to Rosemary A. Dolan in 1940. In January 1945, Romanoff was entered into Columbia Presbytarian Medical Center and a few months later on May 12, his birthday, he died, from a heart attack. -- Wikipedia
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38.00 USD
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Thief of Bagdad
Abdullah, Achmed
0898655242
1924 A.L. Burt Company, Good; No Jacket,
1924 HARDCOVER. Frontispiece of Douglas Fairbanks. Pages toned, cover edge wear, ink markings on inside of front cover, large stain on back cover, spine worn. Movie photos throughout; Douglas Fairbanks' Fantasy of Arabian Nights.
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9.00 USD
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Local Administration and Politics in Modernising Societies Bangladesh and Pakistan
Abedin, Najmul
1973 National Institute of Public Administration, Good; Good,
Numerous tables and charts. 458 pages. Pages toned, ink on front free endpaper & inside of front cover, pages slightly toned, smudging to dust jacket, moderate shelf wear.. Preface; Nipa's Note; Introductory Note; Evolution of District Administration; Bureaucratic Behaviour and Attitudes and the Politico-Social Environment; Administrative Framework and Pattern of Administration; Traditional Functions; Development Function; Problems of Coordination; District Administration and Politics; Summary: Changing Pattern; APPENDIX: Districts in Bangladesh: Area, Population and Density of Population; Districts in Pakistan: Area, Population and Density of Population; District Administration and Rural Problems; District Administration and Emergency Relief Operation; Maps of Bandladesh and Pakistan Districts, 1973; Select Bibliography; Index.
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148.00 USD
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A Bathtub Built for Two
Abraham, Doc & Kathy; Miller, Luke
Abraham, Darryl B000PUKKAU
2005 George Abraham, Good;
Signed by author
SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Single spine crease, minimal shelf wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. A Bathutb Built for Two is a fun look at the lives of George 'Doc' Abraham and his wife, Katy, with stories dating from childhood through 60-plus years of marriage. In it you'll meet a whole cast of characters as endearing as they are entertaining, from the funeral director erroneously suspected of poinsoning his friends to the sidewalk-licking boys out for a taste of homemeade dandelion wine during the Roaring Twenties. Of course, the most endearing characters in the book are Doc and Katy themselves. You'll come to know the incomparable, inseperable pair through many 'snapshots' of small-town life presented throughout. And you'll end up marveling, as I have, that any two people could lead such interest, fufilling lives. Doc and Katy literally finished this book days before Doc's sudden passing in January 2005. He sent me the final story about a week earlier and said, 'Luke, there will never be another Doc and Katy, so it's impotant that we tell our story.' I've had the pleasure of knowing this wonderful couple - and learning from them - for 18 years. I invite you to come to know them, too - through the stories they've so wonderfully related inside.
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88.00 USD
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Green Thumb Book of Indoor Gardening : A Complete Guide
Abraham, George
0133651630
1967 Prentice-Hall, Good; No Jacket,
Minimal shelf wear. . Foreword; Houseplant Culture; Flowering Houseplants; Foliage Plants; Other Easy-To-Grow Favorites; New Ways To Use Old Plants; Gardening under Glass and Lights; Decorating for the Holidays; Extra Indoor Green Thumb Fun; Plants for Food and Fun; Green Thumb Materials from Your Own Kitchen; Index
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3.00 USD
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Book of Delight and Other Papers
Abrahams, Israel, M.A.
B000FECSEC
1912 Jewish Publication Society of America, Good; No Jacket,
Owner bookplate (Melvin J. and Carolyn Dunkelman) Printings indicated. Original green textured cloth hardcover binding with gold lettering. Minimal shelf wear.. The Book of Delight; A Visit to Hebron; The Solace of Books; Medieval Wayfaring; The Fox's Heart; Marriages Are Made In Heaven; Hebrew Love Songs; A Handful of Curiosities - George Eliot and Solomon Maimon; How Milton Pronounced Hebrew; The Cambridge Platonists; The Anglo-Jewish Yiddish Literary Society; The Mystics and Saints of India; Lost Purim Joys; Jews and Letters; The Shape of Matzoth; Notes; Index. Israel Abrahams (b. London, November 26, 1858; d. Cambridge, October 6, 1925) was one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation. He wrote a number of classics on Judaism, most nostably, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896). He was educated at Jews' College, where his father Barnett Abrahams served as principal, and at University College, London. In 1881, he received the degree of MA from the University of London. Abrahams taught secular subjects as well as homiletics at Jews' College, and was appointed senior tutor of that institution in 1900. He was a forceful lecturer and an earnest lay preacher. As honorary secretary of the Jewish Historical Society of England and as a member of the Committee for Training Jewish Teachers, he was very active. He was also a member of the Committee of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and of several other institutions of the community. Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898). In 1889, he became joint editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review and helped materially to raise the prestige of the publication. He was a prolific contributor to periodical literature, and was especially well known for his articles on literary subjects, which appeared weekly in the Jewish Chronicle under the title of Books and Bookmen. In 1902, after teaching for several years at Jews' College, Abrahams succeeded Solomon Schechter, who was moving to New York to head the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as reader in Talmudics at Cambridge University. In 1914, he published A Companion to the Authorised Prayer Book, a helpful commentary on and supplement to the prayer book edited by Simeon Singer. Singer himself had intended to write such a work, but died before he had progressed very far. Revised editions appeared in 1922 and 1932. -- Wikipedia
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16.00 USD
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Confessions of Son of Sam: First Edition
Abrahamsen, David
0231057601
1985 Columbia University Press, Very Good; Good, First Edition
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. Same date on copyright & title pages, no additional printings indicated, $19.95 list price on dust jacket flap. Very good hardcover in good jacket. Jacket laminated with clear tape, crease on rear flap corner. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked.. 245 pages. In 1976 the country was shocked and fascinated by a bizarre series of murders in New York City. The killer, known as 'Son of Sam,' stalked his victims after dark, choosing as his prey young women, usually sitting with their dates in parked cars. For one long year, the city lay in the grip of fear. On August 10, 1977 it was finally over. David Berkowitz was arrested, and eventually sentenced to several hundred years behind bars. But the story didn't end there. In March 1979 Dr. David Abrahamsen, a psychiatrist retained by the Brooklyn district attorney to examine Berkowitz -- and the only one to judge him competent to stand trial -- received a letter from the killer. He wanted to tell his whole story to, ironically, the man who pronounced him fit for trial. Confessions of Son of Sam is a probing analysis of the mind of the man responsible for one of the most terrifying and most publicized serial murders of all time. Based on fifty hours of personal interviews with Berkowitz and four hundred pages of personal correspondence with him, it is a unique and compelling portrait of a killer who told all to the psychiatrist he came to know and confide in a man he knew he could not fool. From police interrogations, exhaustive psychological tests, and numerous discussions with Berkowitz's family, friends, former teachers, and others, Abrahamsen unmasks the killers complex personality, weaving both a terrifying psychological profile and a riveting detective story.
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73.00 USD
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Charm Spells: White Magic for Love and Friendship, School and Home
Abrev, Ileana
1573249599
2004 Conari Press / Red Wheel / Weiser, LLC, New; 1st Printing
An excellent copy -- binding tight, pages clean & bright, cover pristine.. Ileana Abrev knows what she’s talking about. She lives with a teenager. She’s a witch. And she recognizes that teens struggle with many of the same issues she did in her day — romance, mid-term exams, homework overload, friendship ups and downs, and family issues. Here in Charm Spells, Abrev offers over 90 spells to make wishes come true in all areas of a teen’s life the white magic way. 'Magic occurs once you set your mind to accomplish a goal in your life,' she writes. 'Harm none for it will all come back to you in threes.' Charm Spells is a fun, interactive, thorough introduction to the world of witchcraft and spell casting for teens. Illustrated with offbeat, funky drawings, the book shows teens how to get the dates they want, the allowances they dream of, and the friends they need, and introduces them to: The power of positive, and the danger of negative magic; Witches and the practice of witchcraft; The Gods and Goddesses; The tools and rituals they need to get started; Charm Spells includes mini spells that use color to help teens get what they want. It also offers more than 40 'Spells to Go' — quick spells to ensure future success and happiness — as well as more than 35 spells using easy-to-find ingredients with clearly written instructions so that teens can get what they need in love, money, and friendship. Spells include: Exam Jitters: A blue hanky will keep the jitters away so you can relax and do the exam on the day. Money Does Grow on Trees: Keep and eat cashews when money is needed. Girls in Love: Sprinkle rose petals and a few fresh rosemary leaves in your shoes and you will be loved deeper than ever before by a guy true to your love.
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4.00 USD
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Le Livre De Science Volume I (Avicenne Series, Traductions De Textes Persans) (Logique, Metaphysique)
Achena, Mohammad and Masse, Henri
1955 Les Belles Lettres, Good;
FRENCH TEXT. 241 pages. Pages & cover lightly toned, shelf wear, page seems to be missing between copyright page and title page, small one inch tear on front cover at spine. Abu-Ali- al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina (Persian: c. 980 in Bukhara, Khorasan - 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Seena and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna was a Persian Muslim polymath and the foremost physician and Islamic philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, Hafiz, logician, mathematician, poet, psychologist, physicist, scientist, Sheikh, soldier, statesman and theologian. Ibn Sina wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities up until the early 19th century. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650. Ibn Sina developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that of Islamic medicine, the medical system of the Greek physician Galen, Aristotelian metaphysics (Avicenna was one of the main interpreters of Aristotle), and ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. He was also the founder of Avicennian logic and the philosophical school of Avicennism, which were influential among both Muslim and Scholastic thinkers. Ibn Sina is regarded as a father of early modern medicine, particularly for his introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology, his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials, efficacy tests, clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome, and the importance of dietetics and the influence of climate and environment on health. He is also considered the father of the fundamental concept of momentum in physics, and regarded as a pioneer of aromatherapy. George Sarton, the father of the history of science, wrote in the Introduction to the History of Science: One of the most famous exponents of Muslim universalism and an eminent figure in Islamic learning was Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna (981-1037). For a thousand years he has retained his original renown as one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history. His most important medical works are the Qanun (Canon) and a treatise on Cardiac drugs. The 'Qanun fi-l-Tibb' is an immense encyclopedia of medicine. It contains some of the most illuminating thoughts pertaining to distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy; contagious nature of phthisis; distribution of diseases by water and soil; careful description of skin troubles; of sexual diseases and perversions; of nervous ailments.
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73.00 USD
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
Ackerman, Diane
0679771336
1998 Vintage Books / Random House, Inc., Good; 1st Printing
FIRST PRINTING. Single light spine crease, faint crease down front cover, light shelf wear, pages slightly toned. Diane Ackerman, the prizewinning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses, volunteers every week at a local crisis center, where people call in anonymously, strung out, desperate, imploring, or hostile, holding on to hope through a phone line. Her secret life spent with callers is shocking, funny, stressful, healing, and inspiring. So, too, is her life in her backyard, where the wild creatures she observes so closely are living their own lives on the edge. In her distinctive style (one reviewer calls it a 'glorious tumult'), she weaves these parallel threads into a book that is an astonishment. Using powerful stories of the human spirit set against a backdrop of the natural world she knows so well, Ackerman takes us with her on her travels between those intensely fascinating realms. A Slender Thread is bewitchingly like her previous, widely admired books. As ever, she is sensitive to her surroundings and to other creatures; poetic, passionate, amusing; blessed with a richly furnished mind that makes leaps of imagination and insight; adept at drawing on science, literature, history, psychology, and the immediate moment -- and yet this book is dramatically different from the rest of her writing. Deeply personal and intimate, it merges her own story with the stories of others, and shares her private struggles and triumphs as well as her joyous immersion in life. We learn why many hummingbirds die in their sleep, of a distraught caller whose drunken husband is stuck in the chimney singing Irish songs, of animal suicides, of an eighty-five-year-old belly dancer, of a young woman who flees her marriage and spins an elaborate fantasy life in which she captains a team of superheroes who travel the world righting its many wrongs, of the evolution of depression and anxiety as well as of our most cherished emotions, of Winston Churchill's horrifying secret, of the beauty of shade, of the hidden costs of creativity, and hundreds of other truths about being human. In the course of a year, almost everything dangerous or poignant that can happen to human beings prompts a call to a crisis center -- from depression, suicide, and murder to all the trials, uncertainties, and conflicts of love. A Slender Thread is a compelling and nakedly autobiographical book, taking us deep into the heart of darkness and light.
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3.00 USD
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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems
Ackerman, Diane
0679743049
1993 Vintage Press, Good;
SIGNED TRADE PAPERBACK. Minor cover edge wear, some page toning, otherwise in great condition. In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist. Ackermans's Olympian vision records and transforms landscapes from Amazonia to Antarctica, while her imaginative empathy penetrates the otherness of hummingbirds, deer, and trilobites. But even as they draw readers into the wild heart of nature, Ackerman's poems are indelible reminders of what it is to be a human being -- the jaguar of sweet laughter that, according to Mayan mythology, astonished the world because it was the first animal to speak.
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18.00 USD
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Theories of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction
Ackermann, Robert
B000OJYOXQ
1967 McGraw-Hill Book Company, Good; No Jacket, 4th Printing
Light shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright.. Preface; Introduction; PLATO: The Theory of Ideas; Standards for Judgment; Problems in Participation; Readings from Plato; ARISTOTLE: Plato and Aristotle; Categories and Classification; Essential Predication; Readings from Aristotle; DESCARTES: Epistemological Individualism; The Cogito Argument; Clearness and Distinctness; Readings from Descartes; BERKELEY: Science and Epistemology; Perception in Empiricism; The Problem of Abstraction; Readings from Berkeley; HUME: The Association of Ideas; Mathematical Truth and Skepticism; The Cause-and-Effect Relationship; Readings from Hume; KANT: Kant's Synthesis; The Synthetic A Priori; The Transcendental Deduction; Readings from Kant; PEIRCE: Abductive Inference; The Pragmatic Account of Ideas; The Choice of Hypotheses; Readings from Peirce; Index.
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13.00 USD
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Plato Papers: First Edition
Ackroyd, Peter
0385497687
2000 Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, Good; Good, First Edition
2000 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with full number line (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2), $21.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Minor dust jacket edge wear, pages slightly toned. At the turn of the thirty-eighth century, London's greatest orator, Plato, regularly delivers bravura public lectures on the long, tumultuous history of what is now a tranquil city. Plato focuses particularly on the obscured and confusing era that began in A.D. 1500, which he calls the Age of Mouldwarp. Basing his work on an incomplete archaeological record, Plato pieces scraps of evidence together into a semicoherant whole. He lectures on the clown Sigmund Freud's comic masterpiece, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconcious, and on the prolific author Charles D.'s greatest novel, The Origin of Species. And he explores the confusing rituals of Mouldwarp, including the cult of webs and nets that covered and enslaved the population. In approximately A.D. 2300, when the sun whent out and the planet fell into a thoughsand years of darkness, the Age of ouldwarp came to a close, and the dark Age of Witspell began. But this epoch holds little interest for Plato, and in the midst of his public performances he beings a dialogue with his soul that leads him closer to the citizens of Mouldwarp than any strict historical inquiry might allow. As with the best of Ackroyd's fiction, The Plato Papers tread a thin line between fantasy and biography, the genre of which Ackroyd is a heralded master. It is at once remarkably funny and erudite, a brilliant and entertaining portrayal of the ways in which the future is imagined, the present absorbed, and the past misrepresented. The Plato Papers is a tour de force of wisdom and wit that enlists all of Ackroy'ds most wonderful skills and talents in a truse masterpiece, brimming with delights and insights.
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20.00 USD
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Stalin and His Times
Adams, Arthur E.
088133250X
1972 Waveland Press, Inc., Like New;
Minor shelf wear, otherwise a beautiful copy. Binding tight, pages clean & bright, covers pristine. Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili: (March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, and his office being nominally but one of several Central Committee Secretariats, Stalin's increasing control of the Party from 1928 onwards led to him becoming the de facto party leader and the dictator of his country.. The First Years; The Second Bolshevik Revolution; The Consolidation of Totalitarianism; World War II and Its Consequences; From Munich to the Invasion; Postwar, Cold War, and the End of an Era; Some Afterthoughts; Bibliographical Notes; Index.
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3.00 USD
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Sukarno: An Autobiography
Adams, Cindy; Sukarno
B0007DFFFK
1965 Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Good; Good, First Edition/Ex-Library
EX-LIBRARY. Usual library markings, otherwise very good. Rear endpaper removed. Sukarno (June 6, 1901 - June 21, 1970) was the first President of Indonesia. He helped the country win its independence from the Netherlands and was President from 1945 to 1967, presiding with mixed success over the country's turbulent transition to independence. Sukarno was forced from power by one of his generals, Suharto, who formally became President in March 1967. The spelling Sukarno has been official in Indonesia since 1947 but the older spelling Soekarno is still frequently used, mainly because he signed his signature in the old spelling. Official Indonesian presidential decrees from the period 1947 | | |
