Search Results: Authors starting with U from Books of the World

Angola: União dos Escritores Angolanos + Empresa Nacional de Prospecção, Exploração, Lapidação e Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola, 1989. Hardcover. Green cloth in boards. An extremely rare copy of the Angolan publication of the first English translation of Xitu's classic "Mestre" Tamoda stories. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Minor shelfware and dust soiling to edges. Binding tight and square. Interior unmarked other than and a price penciled on the front free endpaper. 159 pages. Introduction by Antonio Jacinto, translated by Annella McDermott. Cover art by Henrique Abranches. Originally published in Portuguese in Angola in 1974 as Os Discursos do 'Mestre' Tamoda. This edition "Published jointly in the Popular Republic of Angola by agreement between the Author, the Union of Angolan Authors and the ENDIAMA-UEE, to by used as an offer by the three entities, with no commercial purposes." Xitu conceived these stories while serving twelve years in a Portuguese prison for his… Read more

New Delhi: Puffin Books, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Prior owners' names on first page, otherwise interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 200 pages. Over a hundred color illustrations.A glorious celebration of the richness and diversity of Indian myths and folktales: The gods and the demons come together to churn the ocean using the mountain Manthara and the serpent Vasuki to get the elixir of immortality. Uruvashi, the most beautiful woman in all the worlds, created by the god Narayana from his thigh, descends to earth only to fall in love with a mere mortal. Savitri tricks Death into doing something he has never done before. Emperor Akbar challenges Birbal to find the ten biggest fools of Agra. These and many other tales of boons and curses, love and betrayal, wit and humor, valor and pride, drawn from the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Panchatantra and traditional folklore of India, are… Read more

First Edition! London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing / full number line. Gift inscription on FFEP, otherwise a Fine book in a Fine jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? This lively history of gardening in Britain takes us on a tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth-the apprentice boys and weeding women, the florists and nursery gardeners-as well as aristocrats, grand designers, and famous plant hunters. Colored by Jenny Uglow's own love for plants and brought to life by many vivid illustrations, it not only deals with flowery-meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, but also tells you, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots, how housewives used herbs to stop freckles, and how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. This… Read more

Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press. Trade Paperback. 2003. As New. First English Edition (stated). Not a remainder. 221 pp.A biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. One of the most interesting and paradoxical comparisons coming out of Ugresic's dissection of book culture is the similarity between the art of socialist realism (as prescribed by the Soviets) and the nature of contemporary marketplace to produce and promote art that appeals to everyone.

New York: H.S.D. Publications. April 1972. Digest-size Magazine. Very Good. Clean and tight. Shelf-wear and mild tanning. Small chipping to s pine. 164 pages. Contents: Let Your Fingers Do the Walking by Jack Ritchie (novelette); A Melee of Diamonds by Edward D. Hoch; The Missing Tattoo by Clayton Matthews; Among Thieves by Alberto N. Martin; No Way Out by Robert Colby; A Mutual Understanding by James McKimmey; The Star Salesman by Edward Y. Breese; The Artifial Liar by William Brittain; Second Thoughts by Carroll Mayers; True Friends by Patrick O'Keeffe; Satisfaction by Virginia Long; Within the Law by John Lutz; The Escapee by Clark Howard; Survival Tactics by Leo P. Kelley; Night of the Twisters by James Michael Ullman.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1971. Paperback. 1982 reprint. Very Good. Interior unmarked, but tanned. Spine straight and tight. Dust stains to top edge. Rubbing to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. No tears, no creases, no folds. 237 pages. Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed Malory that he built his own Arthurian legend on this view of the court - a view that profoundly influenced the English conception of the 'great' King. Authors: Unknown,… Read more

New York: Meredith Press. 1965. Hardcover. Second Printing, 1967. Good. Interior unmarked. Pictorial covers clean and crisp. Spine cocked. Corners bumped. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 160 pages. Contents: Meat, Poultry, and Fish; Sauces and Marinades; The Whole Meal; Vegetables; Salads and Relishes; Beverages; Desserts; Fire Building; Index.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State College, Agricultural Extension Service. Pamphlet 88. April 1944. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Good. Interior is unmarked. 14 pages. A World War II era how-to guide for canning fruits and vegetables.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. October 19, 2004. First Edition (stated). Red cloth with silver/gold printing over boards. As New. No signs of prior use. Spine very tight. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 321 pages. John Updike's twenty-first novel follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts. In between these two settlements comes Middle Falls, Connecticut, where Owen, an early computer programmer, founds a successful firm which is housed in an old gun factory on the Chunkaunkabaug River. Owen's education is not merely technical but liberal, as the humanity of his three villages, especially that of their female citizens, works to disengage him from his youthful innocence.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi, February 1994. Hardcover. First Edition, Book Club printing. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Dust stains to edges. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 272 pages.They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them.... Spanning twenty-two years, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.