Resultados da Pesquisa: Autores começando com V de The Amber Wave

New York: Bonanza Books, 1942. Book. NF/Very Good. Hardcover. 10" x 71'2"W. A near fine/very good copy -- tight and clean -- in an unclipped dustjacket with slight chips on the spine's top & bottom. Also rubbed along the front upper edge..

New York: Union Publishing House, 1885. Book. Near Fine/very Good. Hardcover. Quarto. A near fine copy -- tight and completely clean -- gilded print on cover and pages. Remarkable condition for its age; only flaws are the back hinge is starting and a few glue stains on the front and back cover. Heavily illustrated and among other things includes a story of how the Essex was sunk by a sperm whale names Mocha Dick..

London: J.A. Allen, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A very good copy--tight and clean-- in a very good dustjacket, clean, but with a tear on the spine clumsily taped on the outside of the d.j. A delightful book for the novice breeder with wonderful color pictures of mares before and after birth with their sweet foals. A lot of practical advice on how to care for the in-foal mare and a detailed look at the three stages of labour. .

Fleischmans, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. A near fine softcover copy --no markings whatsoever. This publication's main focus is the diary of Percy Reese Morgan, a young man from Buffalo who worked on the surveying crew. While diary entries are usually short, they shed light on what it was like to be working on the famous topographical survey of the Adirondacks. Additional information is provided by the editor and included are some great photos..

Italy: Plurigraf, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Soft. 11" x 8"W. A near fine copy -- tight and clean -- covered with mylar. The book's only flaw is the printed owner's name along the bottom edge of the book's pages..

Boston, Ma.: Little Brown & Co., 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. No. First Edition. Oversized. A gardener's gardening book with a wide array of gardens -- formal, English cottage, woodland, rooftop in Manhattan,etc. the photographs will mesmerize and each guy discusses how he became intersted in gardening..

Berkley & LosAngeles CA: University of California Press, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. A fine copy --tight and completely clean --in a near fine dustjacket. In the 1930's Roman Vishniac travelled throughout Eastern Europe chronicling the everyday life of Jewish families, taking many photographs of children especially. This book is a collection of those haunting black and white photographs of children at school, home, the marketplace. The book also includes verses and songs that those children once sang. .

Amsterdam, Holland: De Spieghel, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The book is in nearfine condition with a dustjacket in good condition with some tears and chips. A survey of the finer colections of Asian Art in Holland & Belgium including the Stoclet and London collections. The majority of the text is a descriptve catalogue of technique, dating, provenanace, etc. & critical notes. The result is an excellent guide to Far Eastern & Indian Art. There are hundreds of reproductions many in full color. The 450 illustrations are grouped under the following classifications: Chinese bronze vessels; miscellaneous objects in bone, ivory, bronze, silver,and gold; Chinese bronze mirrors Chinese jade and glass; Chinese & Korean plastic arts; Chinese lacquers; Chinese rock-crystal; Chinese painting Chinese ceramics; Tibetan painting; Korean painting, etc. At 6 pounds, this book would be quite expensive to send to Europe & Canada. .

New York: The Free Press, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy, in a near fine dustjacket --two of the corners are bumped and so the dustjacket has two tiny tears. A cultural history of the famous St. Petersburg --artistic home of musicians like Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich; in literature, Akhmatova, Blok, Mandelstam, Nabokov, and Brodsky; in dance, Diaghilev, Nijinsky, and Balanchine, and many others. This is the first attempt at a comprehensive portrait of this lively, distinctive culture of the 20th century and the city that inspired it..

New York: Viking Penguin, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 9" x 6"w. A very good copy -- tight and clean -- except for a remainder mark and a 1st edition to boot. The jacket is in very good condition as well..

New York: Random House, 1928. Book. Illus. by Kent, Rockwell. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A fine copy in a clean slipcase with bumped corners and slightly torn at the bottom. There is no dustjacket. This is a special edition of Voltaire's Candide with 110 illustrations in all, including some specially designed chapter heads. Every page has an original illustration by Rockwell Kent..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hard Cov. Oversized. A fine copy of the revised edition of the history of space travel and rocketry; it has an inscription on the front endpaper. The unclipped dustjacket is showing shelfwear and has a one-inch tear on the back..

Boston, Ma: Little Brown & Co., 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. A fine copy in an unclipped fine dustjacket. This book is based on the Dalai Lama's talks given in NYC in 1999 on developing compassion through meditation. The Dalai Lama based his talk on the interweaving of three sacred texts --one by the eighteenth century Indian master Kamalashila, another by the 14th c. Tibetan Togmay Sangpo, and a third by the 11th c.sage Langri Tangpa. .

Johnstown, NY: Baronet Litho Co., 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A fine copy, 3rd printing, in a very good dustjacket with some edgewear along the top and spine. This book tells the story of many of the historic houses of the Mohawk Valley along with a photo and description of each house, name of the builder, and important events in its history. Here are the stories of the Van Rensselaers, the Schuylers, the Glens, the Sanders, the Johnsons, the Van Schaicks, and many others..

Johnstown, NY: The Baronet Litho Co., 1950. Book. Mint. Hardcover. No. First Edition. ?. A work of historical fiction by John J. Vrooman, a descendant of one of the pre-eminent families that settled the Mohawk Valley, this book tells the story of how Sir John Johnson, Sir William Johnson's son, met and fell in love with Clarissa Putman in 1767. The story is set during the years leading up to the American Revolution when ill feelings between the Tories and patriots were on the verge of boiling over..

Johnstown, NY: Baronet Litho Co., 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 9" x 6"w. A near fine copy -- signed by the author on the copyright page. Tight and clean, except for the owner's signature on the front endpaper-- in an unclipped dustjacket, with small chip missing on the spine. Great piece of historical fiction..

Johnstown, NY: The Baronet Litho Co. Inc., 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dustjacket. This is a first edition copy signed by the author. It's #40 of the thousand copies that were printed. A historical novel set during the French and Indian War and especially focuses on Schenectady when it was a frontier outpost..