Search Results: Titles starting with L from Century Books

New Mexico Geological Society, 1978. Hardback. Near Fine condition.. Edited by J.F. Callender, Jan C. Wilt, R.E. Clemons and H.L. James. Published in cooperation with the Arizona Geological Society. Previous owner stamps on edges. 372 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Contents include road logs, lexicon and articles about the region covering Stratigraphy, Geochronology, Paleontology and Petrology; Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geophysics; Economic Geology; and History and Flora. List of conference participants laid in.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1972. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps on cover. 16 pages

London: Collins, 1988. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Fourth novel from well-known British writer and broadcaster. Main character is a brilliant painter of portraits working in the fifteenth century who sees the darker realities in the life his patron, Philip, Duke of Burgundy and the political intrigues around him, including the capture of the warrior maid, Joan of Arc.

Berkeley: University of California, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very Good condition. Papers 'Presented at the Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 12, 1939, Chicago, Illinois and Brought Up to Date.' Preface by Nolan D. C. Lewis. 133 pages. Light wear

Bantam, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Dust jacket is price-clipped, else fine. Crossword puzzle grid in front is unmarked. Author's second crossword puzzle mystery, featuring the chaotic 'Puzzle Lady' and her neice Sherry, the brain's behind the Puzzle Lady's popular puzzle column.

New York: Sterling Publishing, [1979]. Hardback. Very Good in Good dust jacket.. Dust jacket soiled. Put-down, insults, squelches, compliments, rejoinders, epigrams and epitaphs of famous people. 192 pages, lots of great quotes.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1947. Softcover. Good. Circular 16. Previous owner stamp on front cover. Staple bound. 11 pages.

New York: Jason Aronson, [1976]. Hardback. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge and small tear where first free endpaper stuck to half-title (probably from a bit of glue spilled in the binding process), else fine. Describes the latency age period (six to 12) from the standpoint of cognitive and sexual maturation.

Houston, Texas: Sperry-Sun Well Surveying Company. Softcover. Very Good. Sperry-Sun offered well surveying instrument rentals and services. This booklet includes 61 pages of tables and probably dates to the 1950s.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Fine. Translated from the German by Robert and Rita Kimber. Using game theory and examples of actual games people play, Nobel laureate Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler show how the elements of chance and rules underlie all that happens in the universe, from genetic behavior through economic growth to the composition of music.

New York: Picador, 1999. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardback. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Novel set on Cuba in the wake of Castro's revolution. Author's first novel.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1968. Softcover. Good condition. Some fading.

New York: Random House, 1993. 1st edition. Hardback. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Short story writer's first novel.

Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1956. Softcover. Good condition.. Previous owner stamps, slight fading on spine, else fine. Treatise for the student of mining law, reprinted from the 'Utah Law Review,' Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1954.

New York: Pentalic Corporation, c. 1965. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. One crease on front cover, some edgewear.

London: Regency Press, 1975. Hardback. Near Fine. A small dent at top of spine. Pictorial boards (a reproduction of Doris Lee's Alma Mater of the old Rockford Campus). Collection of letters from teacher/scholar Potts.

Seattle: Broken Moon Press, [1992]. 1st edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. Some curl on the cover and light wear on corners. True first edition of Wells' first novel and the precursor to her best-selling 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.' W.P. Kinsella says in a blurb on the rear the book 'displays very strong voices, and the energy fairly crackles off the page. Rebecca Wells is a writer to watch.' Winner of the Western States Book Award for Fiction.

London: Quartet Books, 1989. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Some very small nicks on dust jacket, remainder marks on bottom edge of book, else fine. Translated from the French by Donald Watson.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Hardback. VG/VG-. Part of Illustrated Junior Library. Wear at spine. DJ price clipped, several small tears. Beautiful color plates

Norton, 1996. 1st edition. Hardback. Near Fine book in Near Fine dustjacket. Existentialist detective Easy Rawlins tries to escape the street life by taking a job as a high school custodian. All is peaceful until the corpses begin to appear. Light scuffing and edgewear.