Search Results: Titles starting with A from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

2006 softcover as pictured. This is a beautiful alphabet book produced by the National Gallery of Victoria. Each letter is illustrated with an object of art or craft. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1983 hardcover as pictured. This is a beautifully made volume collecting what was considered the best examples of graphic design from 1982-1983. An interesting look back at the past. Printed in Japan, it includes over 250 color plates with 750 b&w illustrations and index. Binding is firm. Orange cloth boards with silver stamping are clean and show minimal edge wear. Head and tail bands. Text, printed on glossy paper, is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed with a small stain at front. Your purchase helps support our small village library.

2020 boxed set as pictured. The three volumes of the set are as new except for a small tear at top of front hinge in The Company. The slipcase is worn with one edge separating. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sO3

This title is # 275 in The Library of America Series. Unjacketed hardback, cloth cover as shown with this listing. Printed endpapers, head and tail bands and ribbon markers. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)

1966 stated first edition as pictured, signed by author. Ex-library with typical markings. Binding is firm. Blue boards are soiled and have tape attached from previous library jacket. Corners are bumped and frayed. Pencil markings as well as inscription by author on FFEP. Text appears generally clean. Dust jacket is soiled and worn with tears and chips along edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1895 hardcover as pictured. A handsome small volume by The Knickerbocker Press. Binding is firm. Tan buckram boards with green leaf design and gold stamping are soiled and show light edge wear. Corners are lightly bumped. Gilt top edge of rough cut text block. Owner's name and date on blank page before title page. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Six book hardcover set as pictured. Handsome copies of Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln. This offer includes volumes 1 and 2 of Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years, and volumes 1 through 4 of Abraham Lincoln - The War Years. The Prairie Years is a 24th printing of the 1926 edition. The War Years is a 1939 printing of the 1936 edition. All are in good shape considering their age. Bindings of each volume are intact. Blue cloth boards with blind stamp on front and gold stamping on spine are clean and show light edge wear. Rear corners of volume 4 of the The War Years are bumped. Front hinges of Volumes 1 and 2 of The Prairie Years are lightly cracked. Endpapers of both have pencil notations. Rear endpaper of volume 2 has a production defect. Texts of both appear clean and unmarked. Endpapers of each volume of The War Years are mottled. Volume 1 has writing on the front endpapers. Texts of each volume appear clean and unmarked. All volumes include many illustrations and b&w… Read More

1865 hardcover as pictured. This is a somewhat worn but still handsome volume published soon after the assassination of President Lincoln. Binding is firm. Embossed brown boards with black cloth spine and gold stamping show moderate edge wear. Pencil notation on FFEP. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Lincoln is mottled. Text is tanned at edges and wavy. A few pages have pencil markings. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OG2

1892 hardcover as pictured. This is a very handsome edition that has seen some wear. Binding is intact. Embossed green cloth boards with beveled edges and gold stamping are lightly soiled and show some edge wear with fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Patterned endpapers. Small piece of rear endpaper is missing. Front hinge is lightly cracked. Many pages of text have pencil markings that do not affect readability. Includes 32 tissue guarded illustrations, many of prominent personages from the war of rebellion. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (OM3)

2004 softcover as pictured. An important monograph on reducing risk through appropriate recognition of prior indicators, missed signals, and dismissed alerts that, had they been recognized and managed before the event, might have averted disasters such as loss of the space shuttles. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers lightly rubbed. A few pages of text with notations. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1973 hardcover as pictured. This is a reprint of the 1933 original, still a standard of Roman scholarship. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with red and gold stamping on spine show only light edge wear. Endpapers lightly tanned. Smudge on edge of text block. Text itself appears clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

2004 softcover as pictured. Stapled binding is firm. Covers show slight shelf wear. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

Published in Oxford's The World's Classics series, this copy from the 1928 reprint. Unjacketed hardcover as shown with this listing. Binding is firm, text appears unmarked. Printed on Bible paper. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (M1)

2017 softcover as pictured. A current practical guide to addiction treatment. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers show minimal shelf wear. Remains of sticker on front cover and faint 3-color stamp on book block fore-edge. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OA1

A rare copy, published 1777. Hardback, bound in calf, five raised bands on the spine plus red stamped label. Binding is firm, text is aged, tanned, foxed and mottled and there is evidence of some water damage. Previous owners names on blank page in front-matter and title page. A few pages are torn. Small pieces of old newspapers are attached to the front endpaper. Price reflects condition. pi (O2)

2008 softcover as pictured. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Signed by author on inside rear cover. A very nice memoir of the author's grandmother's family life in the Wyoming valley of Pennsylvania in the year 1871. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2006 hardcover as pictured. This is a beautiful collection of works by Michael Ringer featuring Adirondack locations and themes. Printed on large format art paper, many of the entries are accompanied by a preliminary sketch and notes by the artist. Binding is firm, head and tail bands and a ribbon marker. Green cloth boards show minimal wear. This copy has been inscribed and signed by author on the FFEP. Endpapers and text appear otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket is scuffed in places with light edge wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (top F)

1917 hardcover as pictured. Ex-library with typical markings. Binding is intact. Green cloth boards with blue, black and gold stamping are soiled and very worn with fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners. Covers have been reinforced with clear tape. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Text is rippled, presumably due to storage in a damp environment. Some pages are mottled and a few have pencil notations or folded corners. Includes over 30 full page photographs and illustrations. Please not that the fold out map is missing. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

1993 soft cover as pictured. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed and very slightly curled at corners. Owner's name on FFEP. Inscribed and signed by author on FFEP. Text is clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2005 hardcover as pictured. A handsome book reviewing the pre-European contact history of the Adirondack region, early white settlement there and how the Adirondacks came to their name. Includes many contemporary reports, a section with beautiful reproductions of early maps, an extensive bibliography and index. Binding is firm. Pictorial covers are clean with only slight shelf wear aside from bumped lower corners. Text, printed on art paper, is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE4