Search Results: Titles starting with A from The Bookworm

London:: Osprey, 1986.. Paperbound . BINDING/CONDITION: paperbound; Good condition.. about 9.75 inches tall by 7.25inches wide . Description: ''Presented in a compact format, the Osprey Combat Aircraft Series is a stimulating source of visual reference and detailed text on the world' leading warplanes. Each title features 48 pages (including 8 packed with full-color artwork, plus color photos), 30 black and white photos and comprehensive data tables.'' This is the sixth book in the series.

New York:: Library of America, 1989.. Later Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: navy blue cloth, with a ribbon place marker; a Very Good book, with a Very Good slipcase.. 8vo (about 8 inches tall) . Chronology, notes, index. decorated endpapers. Description: Don E Fehrenbacher wrote the notes and selected the contents for this volume. Contains: Speeches, Letters and Miscellaneous Writings; Presidential Messages and Proclamations. This is Volume 46 in the Library of America series. This includes the publisher's insert.

New York:: Modern Library, 1951.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with red and gilt, a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 12mo (about 7.25 inches tall) . Chronology, genealogy, double page map, ads. Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone. This is book number 271 in the Modern Library series. The most recent printed date is a 1951 copyright Dating by the ML guide, this is from Fall 1961. The 402 titles listed on the verso of the dust jacket include Mailer, Naked and the Dead, but do not include Hersey, Hiroshima. Dust jacket rear panel style is i; binding style 8. Introduction by Harvey Breit.

London:: Collins, 1987.. 1st English Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with gilt spine text; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: The jacket art comes from a painting, Portrait of Nadejda Jdanovitch at the piano by Pavel Fedotov. ''Sonechka is a shy and gauche nineteen year old who has struggled unsuccessfully to come to terms with her illegitimate birth, when she is employed as an accompanist for a famous soprano in post-Revolutionary Russia. The young girl serves in all the diva's affairs, performing menial tasks which go unnoticed, just as her beautiful piano playing is overlooked in the rapturous praise showered on her famous mistress. Nina Berberova has drawn a brilliant portrait of the anguish of a woman doomed from before her birth it seems to live in the shadow of others.'' The about-the-author blurb tells us that Nina Berberova was born in Russia in 1901 and remained there… Read More

New York:: Blue Rider Press, 2014.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise binding; the text is browning, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: The publisher's blurb reads: ''It's no secret that psychedelic drugs have the ability to cast light on the miraculous reality hidden within our psyche. Almost immediately after the discovery of LD less than a hundred years ago, psychedelics began to play a crucial role in the quest to understand the link between mind and matter. With an uncanny ability to reveal the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped area of human consciousness, LSD and MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) have proven extraordinarily effective in treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD -- yet the drugs remain illegal for millions of people who might benefit from them. Anchoring this book are the stories of Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of the… Read More

Eureka, California:: Self Published, 1989.. Paperbound: center-stapled format . BINDING/CONDITION: an oversize paperbound pamphlet; center-stapled format; Good condition.. 4to (11 inches tall) . Description: Jo Sonja and David share ways to use acrylic metallics. Some techniques combine the metallics with paint and others illustrate how you can successfully stencil with them in the manner of the early decorators. Specific step by step directions for gold leafing, tortoise shelling, gilt flowers, golden birds and fruit, country apples, and more. Patterns for a Country Apple Chair, Gentle Giant (a whale), and a Child's Norwegian Chair. Stencil designs for a Golden Strawberry Table, Gilt Flowers, Golden Bird, and more.

Neptune, New Jersey:: Loizeaux Brothers, September, 1981.. 18th Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series with uniform bindings -- deep burgundy with delineated subtly contrasting texture patterns; gold spine text; a Very Good book, with a Fair dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. Small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Charles E Pont. This is part of this publisher's series of expository volumes by H A Ironside. Harry Allan Ironside (1876-1951) was a Canadian-American Bible teacher and preacher who wrote more than sixty volumes as well as many pamphlets and articles on Bible subjects. For 18 of his 50 years of ministry, Dr. Ironside was pastor of the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. This was originally published in November of 1931. This series was reprinted often over several decades; the more recent printings had rather lackluster dust jacket, but for many years the series featured the art of Charles E Pont, printed in vivid… Read More

New Hyde Park, New York:: University Books, 1961.. 3rd Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: a handsome cloth binding -- rust (matching the endpapers) with tan at the spine; rust and gilt on the spine; the top edge tint is dark blue; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Index. Rust colored endpapers. Description: This is the third edition, revised and enlarged, in two volumes bound as one. . Here are the original unabridged volumes of which the title is Adonis Attis Osiris. and constitutes Part IV of the thirteen volumes of the unabridged Golden Bough. A short section of black and white plates precedes the title page. The text is printed with a wide outer margin to allow for side notes.

Academic Press, 2007.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise binding with gilt text; the spine is slanted; Very Good condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: Charts, tables, figure illustrations. From the preface: ''Volume 54 of the Advances Series contains ten contributions, covering a diversity of subject areas in atomic, molecular and optical physics. The chapter by Regal and Jin reviews the properties of a Fermi degenerate gas of cold potassium atoms in the crossover regime between the Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules and the condensation of fermionic atom pairs. The transition between the two regions can be probed by varying an external magnetic field. Sherson, Julsgaard, and Polzik explore the manner in which light and atoms can be entangled, with application to quantum information processing and communication. They repot on the result of recent experiments involving the state entanglement of distant ensembles and a method for storing the quantum state… Read More

New York:: Academic Press, 2006.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown binding with gilt text; Very Good condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Description: A few charts and graphs. Many different contributors. Topics include: Suckling, Milk, and the Development of Preferences Toward Maternal Cues by Neonates from Early Learning to Filial Attachment? A Neuroetholigcal Approach to Song Behavior rand Perception in European Starlings; Interrelationships Among Testosterone, Neuroanatomy, Immediate Early Gene Expression, and Immune Function. Navigational Memories in Ants and Bees: Memory Retrieval When Selecting and Following Routes. Functional Genomics Requires Ecology. Single Detection and Animal Communication. Preexisting Male Traits are Important in the Evolution of Elaborated Male Sexual Display. Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior. Kin Selecting, Constraints, and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Long-Tailed Tits. And,… Read More

New York:: Simon & Schuster, 1978.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue paper covered boards; a publisher's remainder stamp on the bottom edge of the text, one very small bit of felt marker black out on the front free endpaper, otherwise a Very Good book; the dust jacket has a very small stain on the front flap and is somewhat faded at the spine, otherwise a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (8.75 inches tall) . green endpapers. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by Richard Clifton-Dey. An historical novel set around the turn of the century in Annapolis, Maryland.

Caldwell, Idaho:: Caxton Printers, 1970.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: olive-gray cloth with black text; a Very Good book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Appendices, index. Description: This copy is Signed, with a personalized inscription by Vivian and Gil Staender. Text by Vivian Staender; photographs by Gilbert Staender; drawings by Frank Staender. Includes four double sided color plates and many black and white photo illustrations. The true account of a teacher/naturalist and his wife in Alaska's grizzly country. This was drawn from the experiences of two summers spent camped in isolation at the crest of the remote Brooks Range in Alaska's Arctic wilderness.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1979.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series in semi-uniform bindings -- the volumes vary in size and color, but all are in leatherette binding, with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and extensive gilt or silver decorations on front, back, and spine. Note that this series in leatherette did not come with a ribbon place marker. This copy is in Fine condition.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Decorated endpapers. Description: Illustrated with black and white drawings by Edward Windsor Kemble. The illustrations reproduced in this volume are those selected by Mark Twain for the original edition of Huck Finn. This is from the Franklin Library series, The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers. (Also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books.)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania:: Franklin Library, 1979.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a series in semi-uniform bindings -- the volumes vary in size and color, but all are in leatherette binding, with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, and extensive gilt or silver decorations on front, back, and spine. Note that this series in leatherette did not come with a ribbon place marker. This copy is in Fine condition.. 8vo (9 inches tall) . Decorated endpapers. Description: The color woodcuts of Pierre Falke that are used here originally appeared in a 1926 French edition of this work. Includes a facsimile of the title page from the 1719 first edition of Robinson Crusoe. This is from the Franklin Library series, The Greatest Books of the World's Greatest Writers. (Also known as The Collector's Library of The World's Great Books.)

Boston:: Little, Brown & Company, 1954.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: green binding; owner's name, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket art by Samuel H [Hanks] Bryant. Set in 1865, this is an historical novel of three people, cast together on the shores of frontier Oregon by shipwreck, and the lives they find in the raw new land.

Long Beach, California:: Safari Press, 1997.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding with black spine text; a Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Bibliography. Printed endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art and interior illustrations (in black and white) by Michael Coleman. The foreword to this volume is a 1942 resume of Annabel's. Richard. Annabel began his writing career with his adventures in the Northland in the 1930s; his stories of Alaska and Mexico continued until the late 1970s. This is the second volume in the publisher's Annabel Adventure series This series assembles Annabel's stories in book form for the first time. The publisher's blurb reads, ''When Annabel describes the Alaskan wilderness it is like seeing a painting. When he describes its tumultuous characters, he gives the reader the feeling of being close to his wilderness associates. Annabel enjoyed embellishing his writing with… Read More

Pleasantville, New York:: Reader's Digest, September, 1986.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown cloth with gilt text and vignette; imitation brown leather at the spine; Near Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Brown endpapers. Description: Originally published in 1876, this edition is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series; the text is complete and unabridged. Illustrations by Ohio artist Paul Geiger. Afterword by Bernard DeVoto. This edition was first published in 1985, this is the second printing. Includes the publisher's insert.

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1983.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: dark brown bonded leather with gilt text, stamped decoration on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker; Very Good+ condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Marbled endpapers. Description: Several black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1903, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life Classics of the Old West series. Each volume in the series has been photographically reproduced from the original edition. The publisher's insert tells us that William Alonzo Allen was born in Ohio in 1848 and recalled that the highlights of his boyhood were discovering the rile, along with his own talent for shooting squirrels, and being apprenticed to the local gunsmith. By the end of his first chapter Allen has left the 'overcrowded East', headed for the Black Hills, shot his first deer and paned his first gold. By the end of his second chapter he had been… Read More

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1983.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: dark brown bonded leather with gilt text, stamped decoration on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker; embossed ownership seal on the blank page that has publisher's statement on the verso; one small blemish in the gilt top edge, otherwise in Very Good condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Marbled endpapers. Description: Several black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1903, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life Classics of the Old West series. Each volume in the series has been photographically reproduced from the original edition. The publisher's insert tells us that William Alonzo Allen was born in Ohio in 1848 and recalled that the highlights of his boyhood were discovering the rile, along with his own talent for shooting squirrels, and being apprenticed to the local gunsmith. By the end of his first chapter Allen has left the… Read More

Pleasantville, New York:: Reader's Digest, 1991.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: bright green binding with burgundy and gilt; imitation leather at the spine; Fine condition.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Creamy patterned endpapers. Description: This is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged. Color illustrations by N C Wyeth; afterword by J C Holt. Among the many tellings of the Robin Hood legend, the version written by Paul Creswick in 1902 was one of the most popular. This copy includes the publisher's insert.