Search Results: Authors starting with F from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Muscat: Sultanate of Oman, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/VG Very Good. Demy folio, [31.25cm/12.5inches], full fancy gilt-embossed aquamarine cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.196, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... From the 17th century, the Omani Sultanate was an empire, vying with the Portuguese and British empires for influence in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. At its peak in the 19th century, Omani influence or control extended across the Strait of Hormuz to modern-day Iran, and Pakistan, and as far south as Zanzibar.[12] When its power declined in the 20th century, the sultanate came under the influence of the United Kingdom. For over 300 years, the relations built between the two empires were based on mutual benefit. The UK recognized Oman's geographical importance as a trading hub that secured their trading lanes in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and… Read More

New York: Universe, 1998. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [27.cm/10.75inches], full embossed ebony cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 174, indexed. Illustrated with colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Shunga was heavily influenced by illustrations in Chinese medicine manuals beginning in the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573). Zhou Fang, a notable Tang-dynasty Chinese painter, is also thought to have been influential. He, like many artists of his time, tended to draw genital organs in an oversized manner, similar to a common shunga topos. Besides "shunga" literally meaning a picture of spring (sex), the word is also a contraction of shunky -higi-ga ( ), the Japanese pronunciation for a Chinese set of twelve scrolls depicting the twelve sexual acts that the crown prince would perform as an expression of yin yang.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2002. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], full chrome-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 209, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Washington DC: U. S. Marine Corps, 1978. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt embossed crimpson-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 262, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Rochester: Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, 1928. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.11. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Mount Morris Dam is a concrete dam on the Genesee River. It is located south of Rochester, New York in the towns of Leicester and Mount Morris in Livingston County, New York The Mt. Morris Dam was built between 1948 and 1952 by the Buffalo District office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project was authorized by the United States Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1944 at a cost of $25 million.Records show that the Genesee River Valley and the City of Rochester had experienced flooding since 1800. The flood of 1865, which developed flows exceeding 24 million U.S. gallons per minute, resulted in massive destructions with flows equating half the flows of Niagara Falls. Severe floods occurred… Read More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. Second Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition./In quite good condition.. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed pictorial cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 262, indexed. Illustrated with 124 b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Ahmed Fakhry was an Egyptian archaeologist who worked in the Western desert of Egypt (including in 1940 dig at El Haiz, and then at Siwa), and also in the necropolis at Dahshur.[

Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full chrome-embossed maroon-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 192. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Washinton D. C. & London: Foundation for the National Archives & D. Giles Ltd. Bound by the Easton Press, 2009. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [28.75cm/11.5inches], full gilt-embossed mahgony-coloured calf, sans dust jackey, -as issued-, pp. 320. Illustrated with b-w halftone & colour plates. Bound by the Easton Press. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

North Manly, New South Wales Australia: Periter & Associates Ltd., 1995. Hardcover. As New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full blanc-embossed blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xv, 252, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Sgt. Peter FarmeryJoined the London Metropolitan Police in 1958. He spent twelve years as commander of several crime fighting squads in South Londo and in addition to a breastful of medals he was awarded the Exemplary Service Medal in 1981. after retiring he he and his wife emigrated to Australia from whence Police Gallantry was published.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Full Calf. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed natural calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 512, w/ Editor's Annotations. Illustrations by Richard Sparks. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... One review noted: "Set in the author's present day, the interwar period, the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity. In a series of flashbacks, the story reveals how these two people are connected to another man who has deeply impacted both their lives. ... In a loose, unstructured modernist narrative style that draws from Christian allegory and oral storytelling, Faulkner explores themes of race, sex, class, and religion in the American South. By focusing on characters who are misfits, outcasts, or otherwise marginalized in their community, he portrays… Read More

San Diego: Maritime Museum of San Diego, 2016. Magazine. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.16 . Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

San Francisco and Brooklyn: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and The Brooklyn Museum, 1975. First Impression. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. xxxi, 140. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates schematic drawings and a map . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Includes: The predynastic and early dynastic periods -- The Old Kingdom and the first intermediate period -- The Middle Kingdom -- The second intermediate period, the New Kingdom, and the third intermediate period -- The late period.

Descanso, California: Friends of the Descanso Library, 1993. Third Impression. paperbound. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 89, annotated. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Descanso Fire Station of the United States Forest Service is home to the Laguna Hotshots. Descanso is home to many firefighters, and many local teenagers join either the Forest Service or the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Descanso is a small community where the majority of residents generally commute to San Diego as the local job market is limited, the only local employers being the various fire protection agencies listed above as well as the Descanso Junction restaurant, The Perkins Store and Deli, a couple small antique shops, a fruit stand, Factory Built Homes of Southern California (a local contractor), a feed store, Grandpas Mountain… Read More

Washington D. C.: National Trust For Historic Preservation, 1988. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10in], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 40, fully illustrated w/ b-w halftone plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

New York: Tudor Publishing, 1969. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy table [10.5 by 10.5 inches], full ebony-embossed ivory cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 313. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Irvine, California: Financial Executives Institute , 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986. first Impressions. Newsletter. In exceptionally good condition. Thirteen issues of the one, -0r two-page-, of the Orange County Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute, mostly from 1985. Overall in very good condition Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

New York: Time USA, 2019. Paperbound. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Features: The Space Race & Apollo

London: Ships in Focus Publications, 2005. 1st Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [29cm/11.625inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 130. Fully illustrated with b-w half and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Formed in 1993, Ships in Focus is a partnership between John Clarkson and Roy Fenton, also involving our wives, Marion and Heather. John and Roy are enthusiasts, both preferring the ships that were built before the 1970s and with a decided bias towards cargo vessels: these preferences are reflected in our publications. John has one of the largest private collections of images of ships, and this is a major resource for our books and journals. Roy has extensively researched and written on British coastal and other cargo ships.

London: Ships in Focus Publications, 2005. 1st Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [29cm/11.625inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Fully illustrated with b-w half and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Formed in 1993, Ships in Focus is a partnership between John Clarkson and Roy Fenton, also involving our wives, Marion and Heather. John and Roy are enthusiasts, both preferring the ships that were built before the 1970s and with a decided bias towards cargo vessels: these preferences are reflected in our publications. John has one of the largest private collections of images of ships, and this is a major resource for our books and journals. Roy has extensively researched and written on British coastal and other cargo ships.

London: Ships in Focus Publications, 2004. 1st Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [29cm/11.625inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 192. Fully illustrated with b-w half and colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Formed in 1993, Ships in Focus is a partnership between John Clarkson and Roy Fenton, also involving our wives, Marion and Heather. John and Roy are enthusiasts, both preferring the ships that were built before the 1970s and with a decided bias towards cargo vessels: these preferences are reflected in our publications. John has one of the largest private collections of images of ships, and this is a major resource for our books and journals. Roy has extensively researched and written on British coastal and other cargo ships.