Search Results: Titles starting with U from Louise Aird

From 1978 to 1981, Time-Life Books published a series called 'The Seafarers'. It was 22 volumes, all written by experts in their fields, on different aspects of maritime history.
All are 175-185 pages, all bound in thick black leatherette, all beautifully illustrated with drawings, paintings and photographs.
Of the 22, I have 11 left (the list is below). All are listed here on Biblio. You can buy one, or as many as you like.
Mine are from the first printing. Unless otherwise noted, all are in mint condition.
This one is 'The U-Boats'. It reviews the history of Germany's foremost naval weapon in two world wars, documenting its victories, which include the sinking of 8,000 merchant ships, and its final defeat.
Condition: Mint.
From the series, I have:
- The Clipper Ships
- The Explorers
- Fighting Sail
- The Frigates
- The Men-of-War
- The Racing Yachts
- The Spanish Main
- The U-Boats
- The Venetians
- The Vikings
- Windjammers
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This is a stated first edition of The Ultimate Guide to Woodworking, published in the Netherlands in 2006 by Rebo Publishing, a company which produced very high-end how-to books.It contains pretty much everything you need to know--wood, tools, techniques, cabinetmaking, workshop outfitting etc. The Table of Contents is 4 pages and the book weighs 4 1/2 lbs.427 pages, with hundreds of photographs, including pages of step-by-step images.This book doesn't appear to have been read, and the front of it is in mint condition. But someone did spill something on it. This resulted is a small brown stain, and minor puckering of the paper, from page 311 to 427. (That's why it's priced the way it is.)

This is a fine illustrated edition (1991) of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the famous anti-slavery novel written in 1852 by the American teacher and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). It is credited with laying the groundwork for the American Civil War.
It looks like the drawings are reproductions of the originals.
416 pages. The original Reader's Digest insert is inside. Until now, this book had not been opened. It is in mint condition.

Under Milk Wood, A Play for Voices, is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). It was first commissioned by the BBC, and then adapted for the stage. It has also been filmed twice.
In it, a narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub. They include Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly nagging her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs. Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. It is lyrical, impassioned and funny.
The Folio Society first published it in 1972, then reprinted it in 1997. This is a copy of the 1997 printing.
It is a slim, pretty book, just 93 pages. The whole book is purple, cream and black, with original custom lithographs, done in purple and black, by the Welsh painter Ceri Richards.
It comes in a pale gray slipcase. Lovely thick paper.
Uncracked spine; when I opened it to… Read More

In 1939, John Player & Sons issued the 24-page book Uniforms of the Territorial Army. Smokers in Britain and Ireland found a card in their packages and pasted them into the book. This is one of those books, with the complete collection pasted inside.
Note: These images are scans.
The book's covers are quite soiled and pages 11-14 (one piece) have come off the binding (that can be repaired). The cards are all in mint condition. They all look brand new.

This is Up-To-Date Toasts for All Occasions, a reference book published in Boston in 1912. Copies of this book are now very rare.
It was compiled by E.C. Lewis, who apparently wrote several books on entertaining.
It is 5" x 6", periwinkle blue covers with a gilt design. Inside, it is toasts for every event. Each page is adorned with a lime green design.
As you would expect, the paper has darkened. Otherwise, it does not appear that this book was ever used. It's in pristine condition.

This is a pristine copy of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-Reconstruction Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He wrote these stories to represent the struggle in the Southern US, and more specifically in the plantations. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which was his interpretation of Deep South African-American language of the time. Uncle Remus is the fictional narrator; Br'er Rabbit is the main character.
This is a copy of the Heritage Club edition, published in 1957.
158 pages, heavily illustrated with woodcuts by the American artist Seong Moy (1921-2013). In a slipcase/box.
This book does not appear to have been read. There is not a mark in it or on it.
It's in mint condition.