Search Results: Titles starting with P from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Oskarshamn: Kursverksamhetens Förlag, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pale beige & blue covers with black titles,100 pp, 34 line drawings. Top corner bumped. "Svenska för invandrare." Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. Illus. by Anders Holmqvist. 24 X 17 cm.

Coriolis Group, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly red & black pictorial covers, xx, 501 pp, [5] pp, index. Lacks the 3.5-inch floppy disk; slight edge wear. Explains how to write arcade-style video games for IBM PCs & clones. Various bits and pieces of code in Ansi standard C are presented and explained, then finally put together in a simple game called Alien Alley. Most of the programming concepts are not specific to the language or operating system. Contents: the great adventure; mastering the keyboard; catching the mouse; joystick magic; VGA basics; bitmaps & bitblts; adventures in animation; color your world; detecting collisions; controlling game speed; creating Alien Alley (lists complete source code); audio immersion; scrolling along; game programming resources. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 19 cm.

New York: S. S. Packard, Publisher, 1905 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth, black titles & decorations on front board only, 96 pp. Cloth worn & soiled, shaken hinge reglued with acid-free PVA. Brief course in pre-income-tax bookkeeping with sample ledgers in beautiful copperplate handwriting. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Later printing. . Good/No dj. 26 X 19½ cm.

New York & Peoria: S. S. Packard, Publisher, 1896 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full very dark green (nearly black) pebble-grained cloth, ornate gilt titles & blind decorative borders on front board only, 138, [1] pp. Cloth spotted, corners bumped rubbed. Course in pre-income-tax bookkeeping with sample ledgers in beautiful copperplate handwriting. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG-/No dj. 26 X 19½ cm.

Falls Church, VA: Painting and Decorating Contractors of America, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, foil titles & device, xviii, 686 pp, index. Rather fragile boards rubbed at extremities & slightly spotted, else very good. DJ tattered at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: history of the craft; materials; tools & equipment; scaffolding & rigging; safety in this industry; color; practical procedure; paint failures & their remedies; wall coverings; drywall taping; dictionary of trade terms. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 5th Ed, 4th ptg. . Good/Good. 21 X 14 cm.

London: John Baker, 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Ida Duqueecker. Purple cloth-textured paper-covered boards, foil titles on spine, xiv, 170 pp, 20 ff b & w photo plates, glossary, bibliography, index. Extremities slightly worn & bumped. Contents: infuence of climate, economy & environment; definition of disease; chronology of the quaternary; material; importance of palaeopathology; skeletal remains; traumata; injuries from stone weapons; prehistoric art; prehistory--tradition & folklore; disturbances in development, metabolic disturbances; 'Venus' figurines; average duration of life; deficiency diseases; tumours; reactions (immunization, infection); arthritis, gout; dental diseases; tuberculosis; syphilis; poliomyelitis; other specific infections; diseases of the soft tissues; medical views on prehistoric representations of human hands; trepanation; therapy. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First UK Edition. . Near… Read More

New York & Camden, NJ: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth-textured boards, gilt titles on spine & decoration on front board, viii, 184 pp. DJ browning at the edges, with water spotting to spine and a half-inch tear to top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Selections from the stories, plays, and poems of about two dozen African writers. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). Presumed First Edition. . Fine/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards with green titles & dec. on front board & blurbs on rear board, xvi, 64 pp incl. 7 b & w photos, 2 maps, bibliography, index. Corners lightly bumped & boards sunned at edges, bookplate on ffep, a few pencil notes. Plain glassine DJ is browning at edges & has tears up to 5 cm long & small chips. Discusses Zionism, the Balfour Declaration, the Mandate, Hitler's persecution of the Jews, the partition of Palestine, the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Arab refugees from and reaction to Israel, Russian Jews, and the future of Israel from a pro-Zionist Christian point of view. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). 5th Ed. . Near Fine/Good. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Rizzoli, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: Electa Editrice, Milan. White covers with black & white photo on front, black titles on spine, 128 pp, 160 figures, bibliography. Owner's signature on title page. Catalogue of an exhibition of Andrea Palladio's work that toured the United States in 1976, with an essay on his influence on American architecture (by Nicols). Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . Near Fine/No dj. 24 X 22 cm.

Sebastopol, CA et al.: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White covers with silver & black decorations & titles, xvii, 681, [4] pp, index. How to write C/C++ applications for handheld computers running the Palm operating system. Contents: overview of the Palm OS; designing a Palm application; designing conduits. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ed. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 23½ X 18 cm.

New York, Basel & Hong Kong: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xviii, 353, [1] pp, chapter notes, index. In series Medical Psychiatry, edited by William A. Frosch. Contents: panic disorder in primary care & general medicine, by James C. Ballenger; longitudinal course of panic disorder, by Mark H. Pollack; neurobiology of panic disorder, by Andrew W. Goddard, Jack M. Gorman & Dennis S. Charney; early antecedants of panic disorder: genes, childhood, and the environment, by Dina R. Hirshfeld, Jordan W. Smoller, Steffany J. Fredman, Maria T. Bulzacchelli & Jerrold F. Rosenbaum; pharmacotherapy of panic disorder, by Rosenbaum, Fredman & Pollack; cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder: theory, strategies & outcome, by Michael W. Otto & Thilo Deckersbach; clinical approach to treatment-resistant panic disorder, by Peter Roy-Byrne &… Read More

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, blind device on front board, endpaper charts, 283, [2] pp, charts, tables, facsimile newspaper pages, index. Tail of spine and bottom corners slightly rubbed, four tape scars on paste-down endpapers, small spots of red ink used to highlight passages are sparsely scattered throughout. DJ lightly worn at edges (mostly at corners and spine ends), rear panel lightlly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. Mostly a series of descriptions of past panics and crashes in the United States and abroad from the South Sea Bubble (1720-1) on, and of the people who made money from them. A very little about how you can do the same. Quite a few snide comments about the role of government. Published shortly before the nasty 1973-4 bear market. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Violet boards with gilt titles on spine and facsimile signature on front board, pale lilac endpapers, 223 pp. Has a few small spots. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Parker's twentieth novel featuring taciturn Boston private investigator Spenser. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1922 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in printed stiff paper wraps, frontis., 195 pp. Small tears at head & tail of spine, moderate overall soil to covers, otherwise very good. Cover & title page give publisher as The University of Illinois, but the University of Illinois Press device appears on verso of title page. The conference was called to honor Eugene Davenport, whose portrait is reproduced in gravure for the frontispiece. The twenty-three papers are grouped under five general headings: a quarter-century of agricultural progress in Illinois: a review of accomplishments; newer phases of agricultural progress; agriculture in relation to other interests; next steps in agricultural development in Illinois: a program for a better balanced agriculture; and the place of the agricultural college and experiment station in an Illinois program for agricultural development. Authors: Charles A. Ewing,… Read More

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps, [vii], 114 pp. Ownership stamp on half-title, else fine. Anthropology contents: introduction, by May Ebihara; forensic anthropology, by Harry L. Shapiro; ethnicity and stratification in the urban United States, by Leith Mullings; religious coexistence in northern Zambia: intellectualism and materialism in Yombe, by Mario Bick. Linguistics contents: introduction, by Rosamond Gianutsos; are LASSes better than LADs? by Sheila J. White; situational variability in the speech of preschool children, by M. Cole, J. Dore, W. S. Hall, and Gillian Dowley; testing morphological productivity, by Mark Aronoff and Roger Schvaneveldt. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in blue & white wraps, [vi], 101 pp. Date received written on half-title, else fine. Contents: nonassociative multiplication, by Michael Aissen & Brian Shay; deciding some undecidable topological statements, by W. W. Comfort; Georg Cantor's creation of transfinite set theory: personality and psychology in the history of mathematics, by Joseph W. Dauben; computational complexity: algorithms with fewest operations, by Julian D. Laderman; crude theoretical models of jet-driven wind instruments and the edgetone, by Harry E. Rauch; structure and stability in weighted digraph models, by Fred S. Roberts; vibrations in fluid dynamics, by Richard Sacksteder; trees and ball games, by Raymond M. Smullyan; the four color problem, by Joel G. Stemple. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 15 cm.

New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by editor. Selected by Frederic P. Gorham, edited by Clarence L. Scamman, and with foreword by Haven Emerson. Joint publisher: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, frontis., xxiv, 244 pp, fold-out table, bibliography. Corners & spine ends beginning to fray, else very good, bookplate on fpd. Inscribed by Scamman & Emerson and dated in Sept. 1934 on recto of ffep. Collection of 16 papers by Chapin under the general headings of public health administration, control of communicable disease, and epidemiology & vital statistics, originally published in medical journals from 1906 to 1927. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . G/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with gilt facsimile signature on front board, publisher's device blind-stamped on rear board, dark blue endpapers, xvii, 628 pp, 8 ff b&w photo plates, footnotes, index. Extremities lightly rubbed, gift inscription on preliminary blank. Price-clipped DJ has small chips & tears along top & bottom edges; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, this volume "shows Stevenson vigorously criss-crossing the country after accepting his party's draft, eloquently speaking out on such issues as foreign policy and trade, civil rights, the atom bomb, Communism and Communist-hunters, the economy and fiscal responsibility, and Indochina. The volume also covers the years immediately succeeding his defeat, when resuming the same grueling schedule, he fought strongly and successfully to rebuild the Democratic party and elect a Democratic Congress in… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with gilt facsimile signature on front board, publisher's device blind-stamped on rear board, dark blue endpapers, xvii, 628 pp, 8 ff b&w photo plates, footnotes, index. Large but faint tide mark at bottom front board and spine, small tide marks at bottom of a few leaves near gutter, endpapers slightly faded. DJ has blue tide marks on reverse matching those on book, and is rubbed at edges, with a 1½" tear and associated creasing at top of rear panel near joint, a ½" chip at top of spine, and a few smaller chips and tears; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, this volume "shows Stevenson vigorously criss-crossing the country after accepting his party's draft, eloquently speaking out on such issues as foreign policy and trade, civil rights, the atom bomb, Communism and Communist-hunters, the economy and fiscal… Read More

London, New York, Sydney & Toronto: Spring Books, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, gold ink titles on spine, color frontispiece, 8 ff b & w photo plates, 116 pp, index. Bottom edge slightly rubbed, address stamp on ffep. DJ slightly worn and creased at corners & spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. Vol. VI, No. 2 of Paperweight News laid in. Contents: origin & manufacture of paperweights; French paperweights; English paperweights, millefiore & incrusted wear; Nalsea glass; Bristol glass; illuminating glassware; glass mirrors; drinking glasses, engraved commemorative glasses; miscellaneous glassware. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 25 X 16 cm.