Search Results: Titles starting with A from Yesterday's Muse Books

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x1x9. Reprint. Remainder mark. 2010 Trade Paperback. xv, 796 pp. Everyone wants to define the man who signed his name “A. Lincoln.” In his lifetime and ever since, friend and foe have taken it upon themselves to characterize Lincoln according to their own label or libel. In this magnificent book, Ronald C. White, Jr., offers a fresh and compelling definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity–what today’s commentators would call “authenticity”–whose moral compass holds the key to understanding his life. Through meticulous research of the newly completed Lincoln Legal Papers, as well as of recently discovered letters and photographs, White provides a portrait of Lincoln’s personal, political, and moral evolution. White shows us Lincoln as a man who would leave a trail of… Read More

Massachusetts: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1976. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Sticker on rear wrapper, ink name on title page. 1976 Stapled Binding. vii, 76 pp. "This handbook is designed to provide the preparation needed to make learning on the river easier. Techniques for wild-water paddling have undergone significant evolution to recent years and White Water presents the results of this in a scientific approach to paddling and boat control. Techniques described are applicable to both kayak and canoe. Discussion included eddy control, current crossing, safety, rescue, equipment, knots, and even slalom competition.

London/New York: Arms & Armour Press, 1991. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 9x7x0. Minor general wear. 1991 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. The Grumman A-6 Intruder is an American twinjet all-weather attack aircraft developed and manufactured by American aircraft company Grumman Aerospace and operated by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. It was designed in response to a 1957 requirement issued by the Bureau of Aeronautics for an all-weather attack aircraft for Navy long-range interdiction missions and with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability for Marine close air support. It was to replace the piston-engined Douglas A-1 Skyraider. The requirement allowed one or two engines, either turbojet or turboprop. The winning proposal from Grumman used two Pratt & Whitney J52 turbojet engines. The Intruder was the first Navy aircraft with an integrated airframe and weapons system. Operated by a crew of two in a side-by-side seating configuration, the workload was divided between the pilot and weapons officer… Read More

Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1983. 1st Printing. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 8x0x11. Greer, Don; Nohara, Shigeru. First printing. Bottom corners of pages lightly stained and wrinkled. 1983 Stapled Binding. 49 pp. A concise, illustrative history of the development of Japan's best known fighter plane of the Second World War, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited / Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, 1907. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fifth edition. Minimal ink underlining and marginalia, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1907 Hard Cover. xiv, [2], 160 pp. An early 20th century guide to buying and selling through the various stock exchanges. Frontispiece chart, eight diagrams in text.

Blue Ridge Summit, PA: McGaw-Hill, Inc, 1992. Third Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x7x9. Third edition. No jacket. 1992 Large Hardcover. xii, 180 pp. You'll find a handy glossary of aviation terms and a list of abbreviations used in the industry. This book answers all the obvious questions, and reminds you of others that you might forget to ask.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition (Wandell p. 154). Last panel of fold-out frontispiece loose but included, hinges loosening. 1903 Hard Cover. xxiii, [24]-706, [4] pp. 8vo. "A critical narrative of Burr's projected invasion of Mexico, his plans and preparations, tour of the West, the crisis on the frontier, treachery of Wilkinson, arrest of Burr, trial, etc. The material for the work was mainly compiled from original manuscripts and from newspapers of the period. Author made extensive researches, the field of investigation including the Mexican and Texas archives, records of British War Office, etc. Considerable important information was also acquired in the Mississippi Valley. Work generally accepted as authoritative on the subject, reversing conclusions of former writers, and discrediting the view that Burr ever planned a separation of the Western States from the Union.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. No jacket. Board corners bumped, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1909 Hard Cover. viii, 323 pp. The measure of a man's popularity is not always --or indeed seldom-- the measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the enthusiasm of his readers in his maturer years, there is always a suspicion that his venture is purely a commercial one, without literary justification. Fortunately these thirty-one stories of Mr. Kipling's form their own best excuse for this, their first appearance together in book form. Not merely because in them may be traced the origin of that style and subject matter that later made their author famous; but because the stories are in themselves worth while --worth writing, and worth reading.

Fredericksburg, V.A: Willow Manor Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author with inscription. A fine copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. 170 pp. In 1848 Ireland was gripped by famine. Nearly a million people died of starvation. Desperate, a million more abandoned their homeland and immigrated to America. Many settled in Five Points, an area of Lower Manhattan infamous for its squalor, gang violence and disease. By the mid-nineteenth century, an estimated 30,000 orphaned and homeless children roamed New York City. They survived by resorting to petty crime, by begging and by selling newspapers for a nickel a piece. They slept in alleyways, in cellars and even sewers. For protection, they joined the violent gangs of the Bowery Boys, the Dead Rabbits and the Roach Guards. In response to this crisis, the age of orphan asylums began, culminating in one of the most improbable and audacious episodes in American history. Called the Orphan… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Park, Edwin Avery. First edition. No jacket. Spine toned, ink gift note on half-title page. 1924 Hard Cover. x, 331 pp. Illustrations from sketches by Edwin Avery Park. Blue cloth boards with gilt title and design on front board. Top edge gilt.

St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1927. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages toned, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper verso. 1927 Small Hard Cover. 324 pp. A dictionary released as an advertising premium by Buster Brown Shoe Company. Abbott's Selected Webster Dictionary of the English Language: Modernized, Self-pronouncing, and with Illustrations for School and Commercial Use [Buster Brown Webster Selected Dictionary].

New York: Forge, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed. 1999 Hard Cover. 416 pp. Three researchers devoted to the study of UFOs combine taped interviews with abductees with an overview of aliens in myth and world culture to examine why these events occur.

MA: Blackwell, 1999. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. First printing. Laminate on spine creased. 1999 Trade Paperback. xiii, 416 pp. Michael Clanchy introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools.

Berlin: Bey Haude und Spener, 1796. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Sticker on front corner, edges rubbed, ink name and stamp on endpapers. Scarce - only 12 in OCLC. 1796 Hard Cover. 124 pp. German text. Paper over boards, handwritten titles on spine. Mendelssohn's ideas brought about the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). This work applies mathematical proofs to metaphysics. It won the author first prize in a Berlin Academy essay contest, over Immanuel Kant and Thomas Abbt.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Reissue. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8x6x1. Luczak, Dennis. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. 223 pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-panel illustration preceding title page and full-page illustrations in text by Dennis Luczak. Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize and the 1923-24 Harper Prize Novel Contest (the first year this was awarded). The Able McLaughlins, Scotch Covenanters, devoted to one another, deeply pious, but humor-loving and full of the emotion and sentiment which exists under the craggy Scotch exterior, are leaders in a pioneer Iowa community, Isobel McLaughlin, mother of ten, and Wully, the oldest son, are characters in whom one feels the spirit and intelligence and dauntless courage that carved out our Western States. The story is Wully's -- his wooing, his bride, his home building and the fine triumphant victory to which the end of… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2018 Mass Market Paperback. 154 pp. From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and internationally. Filled with portraits of key abolitionists - including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Anthony Benezet, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Elizabeth Heyrick, Richard Allen, and Angelina Grimké - the book highlights abolitionists' focus on social and political action. From the Underground Railroad and legal aid for oppressed people to legislative lobbying and military service, abolitionists employed every conceivable means to attack slavery and racial injustice.

Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1902. Soft Cover. Fair. 0x0x0. Front wrapper detached but included, some loss to wrapper of spine. 1902 Soft Cover. From the report of the United States National Museum for 1900, pages 189-304, with twenty plates. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; List of Authorities; Introduction; South American Harpoons: Fuegian, West Coast, Brazilian, and Carib.; North American Harpoons: Mexican, Central American, Californian, Columbia River, Southeastern Alaskan, Muskhogean, Mississippil Valley, Atlantic Coast, Canadian, and Athapascan; Arctic Harpoons: East Greenland, West Greenland, Labrador and Hudson Bay, Baffin Land, Mackenzie River, Arctic Alaska, and Kadiak; Conclusion.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8x7x0. Hogrogian, Nonny. First thus. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled, board corners bumped and rubbed. 1971 Hard Cover. ix, 118 pp. Etchings by Nonny Hogrogian. CONTENTS: Foreword; About a Fisherman and His Wife; The Wolf and the Seven Kids; Brier Rose; About Elves: The Elves and the Shoemaker Whose Work They Did - The Elves Ask a Servant Girl to Be Godmother - The Woman and the Changeling Elf; Rapunzel; About Simpletons: The Golden Goose - The White Dove - The Queen Bee - The Three Feathers; The Water of Life; Rumplestiltskin; The Six Swans; King Thrushbeard; Hansel and Gretel; The Bremen Town Musicians; About the Brothers Grimm.

New York: Dell, 1962. 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 4x0x6. 3rd printing. Edge wear, smudge. 1962 Mass Market Paperback. Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them. But in the heightened atmosphere of pre-war Europe, nobody is above suspicion, in fact the husband and wife are being carefully monitored by shadowy figures.

Tallahassee, Florida: Bella Books, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. First edition. Fine. 2010 Trade Paperback. 256 pp. For Kip Barrett, a secret commission from her boss’s boss’s boss, CEO Tamara Sterling, shows that the respect she’s earned for her integrity and intelligence is justified. All she has to do is what she’s done successfully before: Follow the money, find the high-tech thief, and document it so the culprit gets the justice they deserve. This case is different, though. This time the embezzler is someone inside Sterling Proof, the financial industry’s most-trusted investigation firm. That one of their own could turn out to be a thief is bad enough, but that it wasn’t detected and dealt with immediately is even worse. The scandal would destroy Sterling Proof’s unparalleled and unblemished reputation for ethical conduct and security. Kip has to… Read More