Search Results: Authors starting with V from Grampy's Bookcase

173 pp. Only defects in the text are a highlighted section on pp 12-13 concerning the Spencer carbine rifle and a smudge on the top of p.12. The previous owner's name, an address label, and an inscription are on the inside front cover. Otherwise, the book and DJ are in fine condition. Two hundred illustrations included.

190 pp. Clean and unmarked text. Covers are lightly smudged with a faded spine. Frontispiece photo of Stalin included. "The articles collected in this book were written by Joseph Stalin's closest co-workers for the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, December 21, 1939."

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and square covers. Volume appears unused. Spine is not creased. Previous owner's name is on the outside corner of the half title page. Illustrations included. This volume is from The American History Series. From the Foreword, "Drawing on primary and secondary materials, each volume presents a factual and narrative account of its particular subject, one that affords readers a basis for perceiving its larger dimensions and importance. Conscious that readers respond to the closeness and immediacy of a subject, each of our authors seeks to restore the past as an actual present, to revive it as a living reality."

268 pp. In as new condition. Full page color plates and two CDs included. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Benjamin Patterson: Born in the state of Flux/us', organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. card holder attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp on the top text block. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. Plastic cover has been taped to the inside bindings leaving tape stains on the opposite pages. From the front DJ flap, "Mr. Vallins combines profound learning with lucid exposition...He quotes entertainingly from the prescriptive grammarians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he sets their views against those of present-day linguists with their more liberal notions of acceptability and usage."

Full page color plates throughout. Binding is slightly bowed. text is clean and unmarked. DJ has a closed tear on the back bottom DJ flap. Back DJ bottom is crimped. From the front flap, "Edward Curtis, one of the best known and most prolific photographers of Native Americans, played a major role in shaping the view of Indians as 'noble savages,' members of a vanishing race."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Age-toning present. A solid volume. From the preface, "From Franklin's beginnings as a journalist at sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two there was no break in his activity, and he was - and is - unsurpassed by any man in the range of his natural gifts and of the important uses he put them to. ...not for three-quarters of a century has a biographer undertaken to bring the whole of Franklin's life, with all the precise details essential to it, into a single narrative large enough to do it justice."

192 pp. Text is clean and unmarked other than some foxing. Covers are tight but faded. Frontispiece portrait included. The book is in good condition for its age. "In each aspect of his life Zwingli presents a bold and striking figure...from the study of which, they can gain inspiration for future effort." p. 3.

50 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Foxing present on the inside covers. Author's signature and inscription on the front free end paper. Top of front cover and DJ is sun-toned. DJ has a closed tear on the front top edge and minor wear along the top back edge. From the Foreword written by Wilbur L. Caswell, "This book endeavors to present the Gospel of the eternal Humanist and Secularist, which God is."

Text is clean and u unmarked in a tight binding. Binding is smudged with a faded spine. Glue residue is present on the inside front and back bindings. previous owner's name is on the front free end paper. Stated first edition.

Bright and colorful unused volume. Full page illustrations. DJ is in "As New Condition". From the front DJ flap, "Sheep wants to make a special gift for her best friend. When her wool is long enough, she rides her moped to buy some red dye, then dyes her wool and shaves it off. Then she puts on a warm sweater and takes the wool to Poodle, who spins it into yarn. A long project begins. What is Sheep making? And who is the surprise for?"

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and sqaure covers. Covers are without creases, tears, or chips. Volume is age toned. Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "These two grand themes, 'personal salvation' and the 'kingdom of God,' run concurrently through the Bible. This book traces them from Genesis through Revelation. You'll find it intriguing, and it will answer many of your questions."

Clean and unmarked text in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Full page color and black and white plates. "Published on the occasion of the first museum survey of artist and filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) at the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston". Appears as an unread copy.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Outer edges of the text block are age toned. Covers have slight wear n the outer edges. Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "Political frustration transformed Watson...from liberal to racial bigot and from popular spokesman to mob leader. In this biography, through careful study of public and private writings, and through objective and tolerant exposition, Mr. Woodward has attempted to solve the enigma of this man who did much to alter his times and who was, in turn, altered by them."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight, bright, and square covers. Only defect is previous owner's name on the top outside corner of the front free page. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unread. From the back cover, "The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal. Although most of the medieval foundations now lie in ruins across Europe, the order survives, and the greater part of its superb written heritage has been preserved."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Volume appears unused. "This book will look for continuities and distinctive designs in the history of the Turkic peoples. Chronologically, a comprehensive discussion of the Turks in world history requires considering the pre-Islamic Turks and their precursors...The entry of the Turks and the Mongols, with whom the Turks shared a great deal, into the Islamic world.... the last great age of indigenous Asian empire building...and finally the modern period." p. 9.

267 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Book is slightly cocked with a dip and worn places in the spine.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Text block has gilt sides. Gilt lettering is bright and unmarred. Green cloth bookmark is attached.

447 pp. Previous owner's name is written on the top outside corner of the half-title page. Very slight crease on the front cover. The text is clean and unmarked. Book is tight and square. Appears unread.

326 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight binding. Only DJ defect is very light smudging on the back through shelf wear. Previous owner's name is written on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. From the front DJ flap, "By uncovering new data and reinterpreting old, the contributors to this volume debunk some of the myths surrounding the Victorian woman and alter stereotypes on which many of today's oppressive social customs are based."