Search Results: Authors starting with S from Birkitt's Books

Chessman Publicaions, 1969-01-01. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Black and White Diagrams. Minor shelf wear, stapled binding covers are age-toned, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

Pan American Worldwide Airways Inc, 1966-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. Jacket is tattered, light soiling to rear panel, 1x2" area of paper loss to rear panel near the spine from sticker removal. NEW HORIZONS Pan Am's Guide to Golf Courses Round the World Revised Edition GENE SARAZEN with PETER McLEAN Now revised and updated, this complete guide to the major golf courses and golf resorts of the world is a must for the traveling golfer. Covering more than fifty countries, territories, and islands, GoLF/NEw HORIZONS describes 549 golf courses and provides up-to-date information on the course layout, caddy and green fees, entry re-quirements, clubhouse facilities, and local ac-commodations. This edition includes many new courses and features new introductions to each section. In addition, an appendix lists by states almost 400 of the best public and resort courses in the United States. Eighty maps and photo-graphs illustrate the text. Professional golfer and world traveler Gene Sarazen… Read More

M.C. Saighal & Son, 1958. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. No dust jacket, moderate wear and soiling to the boards, rear cover and endpages have staining, damage due to a liquid spill, does not affect the utility of the text.

Fortress Press, 1983-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x0. Jacket is tattered and torn, binding sound, internally clean, pages have bracketing in pen.

Dallas, Texas: Chess Digest, 1971. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. 27 page booklet.

Loompanics Unltd, 1985-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Contains disruption scenarios and possible responses.

Classics of Golf, 1987-12-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. No jacket as issued, minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. First published in 1950, this is the story of one of the USA's most enduring golfers. More than a sports autobiography, it includes Sarazen's thoughts about golf technique, his golfing contemporaries, his family and friends. Born in New York state, Sarazen was the son of a poor Italian immigrant family who began his career as a caddie and went on to win the American Open (twice), the British Open, the PGA Championships (three times) and the Masters. In addition, he was elected honorary member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St Andrews. All of these sporting moments are covered in detail.

Helsinki City Art Museum, 1994-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x9x1. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Finland is a country rich in the natural resources that are particularly relevant to craft. Its forests are abundant. Its history of glass production is centuries old. Recognition and appreciation of the beautiful, well-made object permeates its daily life and are exemplified as well in the objects displayed in its museums. It is appropriate that the American Craft Museum — this country's leading art museum specializing in craft — is presenting the first United States retrospective of Timo Sarpaneva.... With pleasure, we acknowledge the Timo Sarpaneva is one of the most prominent figures in the forefront of postwar Scandinavian design. His early works of the late forties evidence a brilliance that has characterized his career for more than four decades. By the fifties, he was the recipient of several major international awards. Today,… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1997-06-26. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x0x10. Jacket has minor shelf wear, wear to edges, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Hand-spun and hand-woven textiles have always been an integral part of the cultures of South-East Asia. This book maps contemporary areas of production and markets, and documents a cross-section of current practices and examples of tie and dye weaving in Indonesia, providing a fascinating introduction to the diversity of the textiles of each of the main islands as well as useful guidance on their identification and classification.

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 1989-01-01. Paperback. Good. 10x8x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This book gives a detailed account of the types and employment of German armored trains during WWII.

Fulcrum Publishing, 1990-09-20. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x8. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. In 1976, Susannah Morgan, whose late husband was the great-great-grandson of Colonel Morgan, suggested to Schaaf that he take a look at some documents in her trunk. He discovered the 73 missing pages of Colonel George Morgan's 200-year-old journal. The Los Angeles Times called the discovery "the historical find of the bicentennial." People magazine wrote, "If there is such a thing as a hot young historian, Gregory Schaaf is it." Since then, he has made an extensive study of the Morgan papers and their role in American history. Now, for the first time, Dr. Schaaf provides us with a new interpretation of early American history, based on significant discoveries in George Morgan's journal.

MaasMedia, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Art Exhibition catalog. Text in German and English. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Berlin-based artist who works with installation, sculpture, video and drawing. ...

Univ Pr of Florida, 1981-12-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Jacket is heavily worn, binding sound, inside cover has a bookplate with Frank and Gail Schnell's bookplate, internally clean.

North Cascades Buddhist Priory, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. 49 page booklet, Wraps have minimally, binding tight, internally clean. This book is not meant to be an introduction to Buddhisttraining. The discussion presupposes that the reader has someexperience of training in meditation and the Precepts. Also, this is nota scholarly work. Buddhist teachings are only helpful to people insofaras they relate to the essential human need to which religion addressesitself. I tried never to wander from the awareness of this need inwriting the articles that make up this book....The teaching of Dependent Origination is a detailed explanationof the first and second of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: “Sufferingis intrinsic to existence” and “The cause of suffering is craving rootedin ignorance.” Out of the rich variety of our experience the teaching ofDependent Origination selects a few elements that are essential… Read More

Columbia Heights, MN: Columbia Heights High School, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Moderate shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. I did not see any signatures.

George Washington High School, 1953. Good. Teal leatherette boards are soiled, moderate wear, binding sound, pages age-toned, especially the endpages. Book contains many signatures.

Port Allegany High School, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pags have many inscriptions.

Shawnee Mission High School, 1954-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Moderate shelf wear and soiling, binding tight, endpages are lightly foxed, pages have inscriptions.

Warren G Harding High School, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Moderate shelf wear, light soiling to covers, binding tight, front endpage has a name, else pages clean and unmarked.

Kansas City, Mo. : Jewish Community Foundation Of Greater Kansas City ; Waltham,, 1982-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Jacket has light wear, tattering to the edges, spine has light chipping to the title, binding sound , internally clean. The fascinating story of the Jewish community of Kansas City is told in a series of illuminating historical studies. The struggle of the immigrants to integrate into American society and still retain their identity is portrayed in colorful detail.