Search Results: Authors starting with S from The M.A.D. House Artists

10.5" x 11.5". 204 pages. Book is tight and clean. Dust Jacket is worn, scuffed and has several tears. Paintings, drawings, sketches of wildlife by E.T. Seton (naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts). Beautiful full colour illustrations (reproductions) with text exerpts from more than forty of Seton's own books discussing the animals in the artwork. A beautiful book. Our book number 36065.

9.5" x 7" x 1.75", 480 pages. Good book in good dust jacket. Some nicks to dust jacket, some soil to page block and edges of dust jacket. World jungles, black and white photos throughout. Thorough explanation and exploration of equatorial jungles the world around. Our book 36083.

8.5" x 5.75", 312 pages. Book Club Edition. Soil and wear to book and dust jacket. Text clean, spine and pages sound. Previous owner's name on front facing endpaper. Charleston in the 1960s, Norway. Most depressing, unromantic, romance novel ever. Our book number 23223.

5.5" x 8". 64 pages. Withdrawn from the public library. Stamped on title page. No other markings, clean text, pages secure, images bright and clean. Introduction to the breed, history, care, trouble shooting. Our book number 1105.

5.5" x 8". 64 pages. Small chinks out of the corners of the back cover where it looks as if the hamster may well have had a go at it. Water mark on back cover. Text clean, spine not creased. Defines a hamster, tells how to choose one, house it, feed it, tame it, breeding, genetics, health, scientific use of hamsters, and a cautionary warning - right before the last chapter, Hamsters the pet for everybody. Our listing number 1121.

5.5" x 7.75". 36 pages. Copyright 1945, Tenth Edition 1953. Chunk broken off the upper corner of the back cover, removing part of the Index. Small tear on the edge of the front cover. Text clean, some very slight aging of the paper. "Twice happy is the man who has a hobby, He has two worlds to line in." Our book number 1123.

9.25" x 7.5" x 2". Unpaginated - Alphabetical Sections with numbered pages, Glossary, and 14 Indices. Book in good condition, some shelf wear. Two CDs and claims to offer website access. We do not know if the codes are valid. Book seems to not have been used.  Our book number 13504.

9.5" x 6.5", 413 pages. First Edition. Long note on title page from gift giver to previous owner. "To Cee and Waldo who are interested in so many things in our wonderful world from Sam and Margaret who appreciate so much their warm hospitality and friendliness." Very nice clean book in nice clean dust jacket. Jacket shows some minor wear to the edges. Adventures and high drama among the keepers of the exotic animals at the Philadelphia Zoo. Our book number 36081.

4" x 9". This is an observers list of possible species that may be seen in the grasslands of western Oklahoma, primarily in Beckham, Roger Mills, and Ellis counties. 7 pages of bird descriptions and spaces for the recording of sightings. Our listing number 1052.

7.5" x 5", 85 Pages. 1924 paperback in quite reasonable condition. Some nicks and worn corners. No marks internally. Clean copy. Issued by The Department of Christian Social Service of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Essay on imprisonment.
"..it was evidently impossible to reform men, it was useless to torture them, and dangerous to release them."
"Imprisonment as it exists to-day [1924] is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.."
Our book number 48052.

7.5" x 5", 85 Pages. 1924 paperback in quite reasonable condition. Some nicks and worn corners. No marks internally. Clean copy. Issued by The Department of Christian Social Service of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Essay on imprisonment.
"..it was evidently impossible to reform men, it was useless to torture them, and dangerous to release them."
"Imprisonment as it exists to-day [1924] is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.."
Our book number 48052.

7.5" x 4.5", 84 pages. Old and fragile, corners and edges chipped, but complete.
"No. VII, Edited by Epes Sargent. School For Scandal: A Comedy, in five acts, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With the stage business, cast of characters, costumes, relative positions, etc. New York: Samuel French, No. 122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs) PRICE,] [12 1/2 CTS." Sewn together.  Our book number 43703.

8.5" x 5.75", 605 pages plus index. Very clean copy. Previous owner's name on front end paper paste-down.Text clean, binding sound. Cloth on boards. Borzoi Book. Journalist's personal observations as he watched Europe "with increasing fascination and horror plunge madly down the road to Armageddon in the last half of the 1930s." Our book number 29084.

6.5" x 9.5", 464 pages. Clean Ex-Library copy. Early edition. NOT price clipped, library stickers on cover, Dust jacket protected by mylar. Schlain proposes that alphabetic literacy fundamentally rewired the human brain with profound consequences for culture, history, and religion. Necessary reading for women and
all those who support a balanced society. Our book number 48035.

6.5" x 9.5". 96 pages. Withdrawn from the library. Library binding, portion of dust jacket glued inside on facing endpaper. No tape on cover - library markings in white ink in spine and front cover.  Some shelf wear to corners. Text clean, spine secure. Very nice copy. Our book number 36052.

9.75" x 8.5", 127 pages. Like-new paperback, clean, unread. Minor shelf wear at base of spine. "This book is about raising simple outdoor pleasures to the level of domestic nirvana.." Not just gardening. Our book number 26013.

188 pages, 1967, first edition, no ISBN. Very good in very good dust jacket. Beautiful first edition in red dust jacket protected by library-style plastic. Price clipped. A few faint fingerprints on the first few pages. Mr. Smith provides excellent discussion of poultry keeping, bantams specifically. Bantams are quite different from the larger breeds of chickens, and this is the top authority on the subject. Our book number 1007.

Second Edition, 1976, Reprinted in November 1976. White dust jacket protected by clear contact paper. Previous owner's name and phone number inside endpapers. Price not clipped. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition. Best authority on Bantams ever. Our book number 1008.

8"x 4"x 1". 673 pages. Good condition. Front right bottom corner creased. Light spine crease. Text clean. Ex-soldier turned big game safari guide called on by British intelligence to spy on rich industrialist German client on the eve of World War 1. Our book number 23225.

8" x 5.25" x 1.5", 489 pages. Used book, Slight wear to corners and edges, some notes and highlighting in text. An anthology of well known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists concerned with current sexual issues and raising new issues and questions. "How can we build an erotic world that feminist will desire?" Our book number 28024.