Search Results: Authors starting with R from International Bookshop

NY: The Philosophical Library, 1949. Very good in fair dust jacket. Book Very Good in Fair jacket null "...some 2, 300 superstitions are listed in this encyclopedia, a work of more than 230, 000 words." Beliefs and cures...from accidents, acorn and adder to yellowhammer, yew tree and yarrow, 269 pgs.. Hardcover. 4/2. Book.

New Haven & London: Yale Univ Press, 2003. "...a richly textured portrait of New haven, Connecticut, and the story of the rise and fall of American cities.....the reasons for urban decline... suggestions to enhance city life int he future." Thick, 516 pgs. Front cover and first few pgs curled up.. Paper. Good. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1993. "A native American visionary's path to total mind, body, and spirit health....The precious knowledge of the Native Americans has long been mistaken as magic or myth. But the truth of the native way is simple and strong. This is a change to change our relationship with ourselves and our earth, to embrace a less complicated , more satisfying way to live." Thick 442 pgs -- mind, spirit, healing, weather, planets, diet, natural medicine, dreams.. Trade Paperback. Good. Book.

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Aurora Press, 1990. "Volume 3 of the Crystal Trilogy reveals a whole new dimension of awareness, bringing the crystal knowledge full circle. ...teaching us how to align with our own inner crystalline light force.". Paper. As New. Book.

NY: Popular Library, 1952. null Book Good null "They blazed a bullet trail through Texas". Vintage cover shows menn on horseback, guns in air, wagon train being attacked.. Mass Market Paperback. 3. Book.

NY: Da Capo Press, 1995. null Book Very Good null "...the great patriarch of Impressionism wrote almost daily...began in 1883 and stopped only with Camille Pissarro's death 20 years later....comments on life, politics, and literature...on artists such as Gauguin, Renoir, Monet, Cassatt, Degas and Cezanne.". Paper. 4. Book.

NY: WW Norton, 1982. null Book Good null Many impressive b&w photos, plates and illustrations of banks, public buildings, towers, offices, religious structures, town halls, hospitals. Some wear around edges and corners of bright blue cover. 124 pgs, 8-1/2 x 11".. Paper. 3. Book.

Chicago, Illinois: Lakeside Press, 1997. American 'Ace of Aces' Eddie Rickenbacker's story of aerial combat in WWI. Dark brown hardcover, tight and new, unread.. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Book.

NY: Whittlesey House, 1993. "Dionis Coffin Riggs, poet and writer, was born on Martha's Vineyard. As a child she lived with her grandparents, Capt. James Cleaveland, retired whaling captain, and Mary Carlin Cleaveland, who came from Australia....a splendid historical account of the author's Irish Grandmother at the height of America's whaling era-- the Vineyard's golden years..." Gift inscription on 1/2 title pg "from Sandra Fales Hillman, great granddaughter of Mary Ann and Henry Cleaveland and 1st cousin twice removed of Dionis, March 9, 1999."Republication of a classic originally published 1940.. Paper. As New. Book.

NY: Basic Books, 1961. Red hardcover, no dust jacket. A sociological and psychological study of the 'Beats'. Includes glossary of beat terms, Making the Scene, Kicks, The Tormented Rebels and the Lonely Ones, etc. Anaylysis of Beat poetry and Beatniks in early 1960's.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Book.

NY: Knopf, 1948. Fair in poor dust jacket. Book Fair in Poor jacket null 'A series of very plan talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philospher, from his rostrum--the New York County Courthouse bootblack stand--and recorded by William L. Riordan'. Back flyleaf pg has diagonal cut. Pgs yellowed commensurate with age, some foxing. Red cover has tears around edges. Buyer may request photo to further determine condition.. First Edition. Hardcover. 2/1. Book.

Toronto, Canada: MacmIllan Co, 1975. null Book Good null Manuel Pratique du Francais Canadien. Valuable dictionary comparing common French Canadian words and expressions with Parisian French with English definitions.. Paper. 3. Book.

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963. -1 jacket Book Good. No Jacket Privately Printed "The Building and the Collection of Medieval Art in Fort Tryon Park" 3rd edition revised. Good condition, as new with glassine paper over cloth cover, but dust on top pg edges. Many B&W photos of collection.. Hardcover. 3. Book.

Hamlyn, 1969. Good in fair dust jacket. Book Good in Fair jacket Ex-Library 77 color plates of posters by Chevret, Picasso, Dudley, Hardy, de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha, Nizzoli, and many more....both well-known and unusual. 5-1/2 x 7-1/2" with usual library pocket and stamps, front flyleaf corner cut.. Hardcover. 3/2. Book.

NY: Academic Press, 1990. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book Very Good in Very Good jacket null "An archaeological study of the growth of Manhattan during the colonial period, the book illustrates the emergence of Manhattan as the center of class-structured capitalist commercialism in the new nation-state....as a result of conducting archaeological excavations in NYC and the surrounding areas.....presents more than 50 beautifully illustrated maps showing the location of key institutions such as churches, markets, and taverns...also contains 37 tables which demonstrate how the organization of the city has evolved...indispensable for students of cities, historial archaeologists, urban historians, urban sociologists, and urban planners.". Hardcover. 4/4. Book.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. null Book Fair null Owenr's name, Xmas 1935 written inside front cover. Brown cloth cover with black lettering.. Hardcover. 2. Illus. by Rogers, Walter S.. Book.

His Majestiy's Stationery Office, 1939. -1 jacket Book Good. No Jacket null Includes envelope with large frame-able map of monuments in back. Many plans, illustrations and b&w photos of the colleges and secular bldgs at Oxford, vast amount of information about rooms, paneling, fittings, chapels, Heavy 244 pgs, 1 3/4" thick, red hardcover with gold, worn corners and some edges, last pg has 1/4" brown stain running along outside edge, does not detract from overall value of this impressive book.. Hardcover. 3. Book.

NY: St Martins Press, 1991. null Book Very Good null "This volume collects 25 of the finest works of speculative fiction from the acclaimed series of 'Pulphouse' hardbacks." "(A) broad range of materials. The stories range from SF to horror to fantasy....". Paper. 4. Book.