Search Results: Titles starting with A from Epilonian Books

Warne, 1901-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. [Published Date: no date listed, circa 1970's]. Hardcover, library binding, BUT NOT Ex-Library. Full color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Good in good dust jacket. Pale yellow illustrated Paper over Boards have light to moderate scuffing along edges with a bit of nicking to the paper along edges, corners and top and bottom of spine. light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Price clipped. Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap]. This classic ABC first appeared with Kate Greenaway's illustrations in 1886 and immediately met with considerable success in Britain, America and France. A Apple Pie perhaps more than her other books reveals Kate Greenaway's capacity for subtle humour and… Read More

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, CA, 2013-01-01. Paperback. Good. Catalogue for an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, from June 1 - Sept. 30, 2013. Curated by Andrew James Wulf and Louise Taper. Paper covers with French flaps, 60 pages : chiefly illustrations, facsimile, photographs. Contents include: Introduction by Andrew James Wulf; Early years; The Springfield lawyer; The Lincoln-Dougla debates; The Republican Party and the campaign of 1860; Family life; The genesis of the Civil War; Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation; The end game: from Gettysburg to Grant; Life in the capital; The election of 1864; Assassination and aftermath; Legacy. In good+ condition. Illustrated paper cover have a 1" patch of sticker residue in the top corner of the front cover where the thin top layer of color was pulled off with the sticker. light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT… Read More

The ArchitecturaAnnals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Volume I, number 2. Published July 1982. Contents: INTRODUCTION by Alvin Boyarsky; ON AN (EGYPTIAN?) MISREADING BY FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO by Joseph Rykwert; BORROMINI AND ROMAN URBANISM by Joseph Connors; LONDON by Andrew Saint; THE WORK OF JOSEF PLECNIK IN LJUBLJANA by Richard Bassett; COLOUR AT THE BAUHAUS by John Gage; WAREHOUSE-WORDHOUSE-PICTUREHOUSE by John Outram; RANDOMNESS vs ARBITRARINESS by Zaha Hadid; A BACK BURNER’S TELEPHONE CALL FROM AMERICA by Rodney Place; CABINET OF SCIENCES by Patricia Pringle; DOOR-ROBE by Peter Wilson; EXHIBITIONS: MISS GERTRUDE JEKYLL, GARDENER by Sir Peter Shepheard; SABAUDIA — CITTA NUOVA FASCISTA by David Wild; ARCHITECTURE AND CONTINUITY by Anthony Vidler; THE ENGINEERS
 by Denis Smith; VALPARAISO — THE GRID AND THE LABYRINTH by Micha Bandini. BOOK REVIEW : THE BEAUX-ARTS AND 19th-CENTURY FRENCH ARCHITECTURE by… Read More

American Assn. of University Presses, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. American Assn. of University Presses pd 1996]. Hard cover, 151 pp. Catalog of an exhibition shown at the AAUP annual meeting in Snowbird, Utah, in May 1996 and traveling to member presses and other institutions. Very good/ NO dust jacket. Decorated paper over boards have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From page 1] The 1996 AAUP Book jacket, and Journal Show serves a dual purpose - to honor and to instruct. The show recognizes meritorious achievement in the design, production, and manufacture of books, jackets, and journals by members of the university press community. It also provides an evaluation of our work and serves as a focus of discussion and a source of ideas for intelligent, creative, and resourceful bookmaking. The Book jacket, and Journal Show is our occasion to share… Read More

Haynes Publications, 1984-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Haynes Publishing Group (Super Profile Series) [Published Date: 1984. Hardcover, 56 pp. First Edition, 1984. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Glossy pictorial Paper over Boards have light overall scuffing and fading. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations and photos throughout with some in color. Contents include: Foreword, History and evolution, specification, Road tests, Owner's view; Buying & copy Cobras; Clubs, Specialists & Books; Photo Gallery. [From Foreword] The Cobra was, and is, a phenomenon. The mating of the elegant and simple AC Ace body to the brutal power and stump-pulling torque of a large capacity American V8 engine was an inspiration, even if not a new idea, for Sydney Allard certainly got there first. Automotive history is littered with other people's attempts to create similar packages - Sunbeam ä¸iger, Daimler SP250… Read More

FWLS, 1959-01-01. Paperback. Good. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery Bulletin 156, From Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service, Volume 60. Paper covers, 31 pp. In good+ condition. Grey paper covers with black lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners of covers and light overall scuffing and aging to covers as well. Date "Received" stamp (Oct 29 1959) on top corner of front covers. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Contents include: Brief review of the literature;Objectives and methods; Sampling the commercial catch; Sampling by research vessels; Preparing the otolith; Reading the otolith; Studies of the otolith:Seasonal nature of banding in otolith; Comparing whole mounts and cross sections of otoliths; Comparing scales and otoliths; Independent readings of otolithsAge and growth; Growth during first year; Length composition of smaller fish; Length composition of age groups; Growth rate; Age composition; Discussion… Read More

ABC, Chicago, 1961, 1961. Paperback. Acceptable. ABC, Chicago, 1961. Paper covers, 48 pp. Acceptable+/ NO dust jacket. B&w illustrated paper covers have a few small nicks and light creasing along edges and light tearing near staples at spine, but staple binding is still intact. Pages are yellowed with age but otherwise clean and unmarked. Includes the following articles: American Bibliphiles: V, Frederic G. Renner by Jeff C. Dykes, News and Reviews of Private Presses by James Lamar Weygand; Charles Marion Russell, The Man and His Work by F. G. Renner; Since Yost, a preliminary bibliography Check List, Charles Marion Russell 1948-1961 by the old Bookaroos; Russell Rarities by F. G. Renner and Jeff C. Dykes; New European Reference Books by Lawrence S. Thompson; Variants in the Americna and English Editions of the War of the Classes by Jack London by Hensley C. Woodbridge. Includes a 14 page Charles M. Russell Portfolio with b&w reproductions of some of Russell's works.

Museum of Modern Art, 1452, 1942-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Missing. Museum of Modern Art [Published Date: 1942]. Hardcover, 128 pp. EX-LIBRARY copy. Catalog for exhibition by MOMA in 1942. In acceptable+ condition/ Missing dust jacket. Black, grey and white illustrated Paper over Boards have nicking and tearing to paper over edges and corners and moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling with the color scuffed off along edges and spine. Binding tight. Usual library and ex-library markings, includes donation and library plates and stickers, call numbers, library pocket residue. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Features the following artists, with statements by and a black and white photo of each of the artists to accompany black and white reproductions : Darrel Austen; Hyman Bloom; Raymond Breinin; Samuel Cashwan; Francis Chapin; Emma Lu Davis; Morris Graves; Joseph Hirsch; Donal Hord; Charles Howard; Rico Lebrun; Jack Levine; Helen Lundeberg; Fletcher Martin; Octavio Medellin;… Read More

Oliver and Boyd, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Hard cover. First English Edition. Translated from the French "La Foret et Ses Betes." Illustrated by Romain Simon. Includes 22 questions at the back with hints to the 22 different varieties of flowers illustrated throughout the book. Beautiful decorated endpapers with illustrations of 16 different types of leaves identified in the Glossary at the back. In good condition with an acceptable dust jacket. Large cream illustrated covers have light bumping, scuffing and age spotting to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages are lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has several moderate to large chips and tears, including a 4" closed tear at the top of the front cover, a 3" tear at the bottom of the front cover with about 1/2" missing, a 1" chip at the top near the spine, and a 1" chip on the back along the top edge. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. Dust jacket is also… Read More

Brentano's, 1931-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Brentano's, 1931. Preface by Shaw. Hardcover, Xlii, 118 pp. No other printings listed. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with cream block with green lettering on spine. light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. A satirical comedy about politics, written by Shaw shortly after finishing his nonfiction The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. [From Preface] ...a comedy in which a King defeats an attempt by his popularly elected Prime Minister to deprive him of the right to influence public opinion through the press and the platform: in short, to reduce him to a cipher. The King's reply is that rather than be a cipher he will abandon his throne and take his obviously very rosy chance of becoming a popularly elected Prime Minister himself.

F. Stanley, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Privately Published, February, 1967. Booklet, 23 pp. Limited to 400 copies (unnumbered). Signed by F. Stanley on inside of front cover. In very good condition. Yellow paper covers with red lettering on front. Hint of fading/aging along spine. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages unmarked with a few light age spots near staples at center of booklet. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. One of the few histories of the town of Arch, now a ghost town, located on Highway 88 southeast of Portales, New Mexico. The town was founded in 1880 by a group of ranchers and miners. The town's population peaked at around 200 people in the early 1900s, but it began to decline as the mines played out. The booklet includes some of the last known records of the inhabitants of Arch during the mid-1960's. Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola (1908 - 1996) was a Franciscan friar and grass roots historian who wrote under the pen name F. Stanley. He was passionate… Read More

Bompiani, 1987-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Bompiani [Published date: 1987]. Soft cover, 402 pp. Text in English. In very good condition. Glossy illustrated papers covers have very light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight (NO spine crease). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Color and black and white illustrations throughout out. Contents include: PART ONE: 1500-1650: Pontus Hulten: Three Different Kinds of Interpretation; R.J.W. Evans: The Imperial Court in the Time of Arcimboldo; Alfonso E. Perez Sanchez : The Madrid-Prague Axis: Sven Alfons: The Museum as Image of the World; Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann: The Allegories and Their Meaning; Maurice Rheims: The Prince of Pictorial Whims; Eliska Fucikova: The Divertissements of Prague; The Treasure and Art Chamber of Prague; Anthology of the 16th Century Texts edited by Piero Falchetta; PART TWO: 1800-1987; Anthology of the 20th Century Texts edited by Piero Falchetta; Aomi Okabe: Kao at the… Read More

NY: Kenedy, 1935 1st ed, 1935. Hardcover. Good. P. J. Kenedy & Son [Published date: 1935]. Hard cover, 277 pp. No other printings listed. Good/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering and laurel design on front and gold lettering on spine. Light nicking and fraying to cloth at corner tips and top and bottom of spine with a tiny bit of the underlying boards exposed at the corner tips. Lettering rubbed and faded on spine. Light overall rubbing, scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages a bit darkened with age but otherwise clean and unmarked. Scarce.

ASHER Rare Books, 2011-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. ASHER Rare Books, Summer List 2001. Paper covers, 76 pp. Very Good/ NO dust jacket. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Detailed descriptions and prices for 208 items offered for sale. Not illustrated.

Schott, 2008-01-01. Sheet music. Very Good. Schott - ED 09807 [Published date: 2008]. Sheet Music, for 2 pianos and organ, 3 pages, plus covers. Score - sheet music includes all three parts. Forward in English, German and French. In very good condition. Pale yellow covers have light bumping to edges and Light overall scuffing. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008-07-09. Paperback. Good. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform [Published Date: 2008]. Softcover, 118 pp. Good/ NO dust jacket. Glossy b&w illustrated softcovers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with a tiny bit of peeling to the corner tips. Light overall scuffing to the covers as well. Light soiling to top edge of text block. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks.

Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, 2001-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/ Meyers Lexiconverlag [Published Date: 2001]. Hard cover, 31 pp. Text in German. Very Good/ NO dust jacket. Glossy illustrated paper over boards have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Wonderful illustrations by Marc Stacey.

Bibliogr. Inst. + Brockha, 2003-09-30. Hardcover. Very Good. Bibliogr. Inst. + Brockhaus/ Meyers Lexikonverlag [Published Date: 2004]. Hard cover, 31 pp. Text in German. Very Good/ NO dust jacket. Glossy Illustrated paper over boards have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Nice colorful illustrations by Peter Dennis

A. Whitman & co, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Missing. The Junior Literary Guild and Albert Whitman & Company, 1937. Hardcover, 123 pp. First edition. Good / NO dust jacket. Tan cloth covered boards with light blue lettering on front and spine. Light nicking and fraying to cloth at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Light to moderate overall scuffing, spotting and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Charming cull color end papers have a few nicks and tears to the top edges. Previous owner's book plate on free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked with occasional light spotting and soiling. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Includes a page of Italian words and phrases at the back. This is the story of a day in the life of lovable Italian boy, Ricco, as he celebrates his 8th birthday with family and friends in his small Italian fishing village. Charmingly written and beautifully illustrated by Eleanor Hubbard Wilson (1904 - 1992).

s.n, 1945-01-01. Paperback. Good. Privately published [Published Date: 1945]. NOT A REPRINT. A paper read by Elmer A. Smith, Senior General Attorney of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, at a meeting of the Western Conference of Railway Counsel, February 13, 1945. Paper covers, 23 pp. Staple bound. In good condition. Grey paper covers with black lettering on front. Covers have a few small nicks and creasing along edges and corners. Light overall aging, fading and soiling to covers aa well. Handwritten correction of a typo on page 3. Otherwise pages are lightly age but unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Paper discusses in detail Lincoln's life and work as a lawyer advocating on behalf of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at a time when it was undertaking to construct a railroad having a greater mileage than any existing railroad, and the construction and operation of which "inevitably gave rise to litigation presenting new and novel problems of all kinds, problems in the solution of which a… Read More