Search Results: Authors starting with A from small volume

New London, CT: The Brainerd & Armstrong Co, 1904. Wraps. Very Good. Latest and Most Complete Book on the Subject of Silk Embroidery and Popular Fancy Work. 20.5 cm x 15 cm. 108 pp + 12 pp ads. Stapled booklet in illustrated red paper wraps. Chipping to edges, spine, and corners. Small erasure mark to front wrapper. Interior lightly toned but clean. With numerous black and white images and 6 color plates, showing examples of embroidery designs and patterns.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1973. Wraps. Very Good +. 8vo. 370 pp. Perfect-bound white paper wraps. Faint edgewear, faint discoloration along front and rear wrapper. Interior clean, binding sound. With 375 line drawings by the author.

London: Groombridge and Sons. Third Edition. Cloth. Good. 12mo.192 pp. [12] Modern rebind in brown cloth with white paper spine label, black titling. Speckled soiling scattered throughout text block. 5 colored engravings. With an account of their haunts, habits, and characteristic traits. From the author of "Nests and Eggs of Familiar Birds", "Beautiful Butterflies", "Beautiful Shells", "Humming Birds", etc. Lacking 3 colored plates.

Kenosha, WI: Samuel Lowe Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Crowe, Jack; Osborne, Richard. Set of 4 titles from the "Ten Cowboy Stories" series for children. 4.25 x 3.5 inches, unpaginated (appx. 30 pp each). Glossy pictorial printed boards backed in pale rust paper. Rear boards lightly rubbed, front joints lightly creased, otherwise fine. Interiors toned but clean. Titles included: "Little Tex In the Midst of Trouble" by Ben Bolt, illustrated by Jack Crowe; "Get Them Cowboy!" by Ben Bolt, illustrated by Richard Osborne; "Nevada Jones, Trouble Shooter" by Joe Adams, illustrated by Richard Osborne; and "The Mail Must Go Through! A Story of the Pony Express" by Alan James, illustrated by Richard Osborne.

New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to oblong. 160 pp. Glossy white paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket. DJ spine sunned. Spine ends gently bumped. Otherwise clean and sound. Signed by Artist, Richard Merkin to half-title, dated 1998. Introductory essay by Art Spiegelman. Commentary by Richard Merkin and essay by Madeline Kripke. Fully illustrated.

Philadelphia: Treacle Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated. Black cloth with gold titling to spine, pictorial white dust jacket printed in black, blue, and brick red. Jacket very lightly chipped at spine head, otherwise fine. Boards clean, like new. Previous owner's name in black ink to ffep. Laid in at front is small (4 x 5.25 inch) stapled publisher's catalogue with order blank, few pages torn at upper corner. Text block is clean, practically as new. Containing four short stories, each by a different author, three of which are signed on the title page: "A Movie Starring the Late Cary Grant &c." by Tom Ahearn, signed in bold blue ink; "Smithburg" by Michael Brondoli (not signed); "The Sex Token," by James Shreeve, also in blue and inscribed "to Alfred + Jessann;" and "Wind Scales" by Keith Waldrop, signed lightly in black ink. Of 250 clothbound copies, this is number 7.

London: J. Johnson and Co, 1810. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. 12mo. [i-iii] iv-lxiii, 249 pp [1]. Brown calf with gilt ruled boards, five raised bands and decorative gilt paneled spine. Black leather spine label. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and text block edges. Rubbing to joints and edges, corners bumped. Scuffing and small puncture marks to leather of rear board. Previous owner's faded ink signature to top of title page. Interior fine, binding sound. Author's second work, with a new essay on song-writing, sections of lyrics for Pastoral, Miscellaneous, and Amatory songs. Full Title: Vocal Poetry or A Select Collection of English Songs. To Which is Prefixed an Essay on Song-Writing.

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Usui, Masao. 4to. 78 pp. Yellow pictorial wraps. First edition. Light scuffing along edges and spine ends. Small discoloration to ffep, sticker residue to rear wrapper. Otherwise clean and sound. Introduction by Yoshio Akioka, Photographs by Masao Usui illustrating the beauty of every day objects.

New York: Atheneum, 1965. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. 8vo. 190 pp. Black cloth in unclipped dust jacket. Light scuffing along DJ edges. POs inscription in ink to ffep, dated 1965. Clean and sound copy signed by Albee on title page.

Providence, RI: Snow & Farnham Company, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 318 pp. Green cloth w/ gilt titling in black in black and white dust jacket. Soiling to dj, with chipping heaviest at corners. Speckled discoloration at top edge of text block. Otherwise clean, binding sound. One of one thousand copies. Firsthand account of the Suffragette movement in Rhode Island. Algeo later became the first woman to run for RI senate as an Independant candidate.

Khartoum (Sudan): Khartoum University Press, 1996. Wraps. Very Good. 11 cm x 17 cm. 117 pp. Illustrated paper wraps, yellow titling. Edgewear, heaviest along joints and corners. Interior clean, binding sound. Selectional account of the disputable functional sounds of Classical Arabic, intended to enable students to understand the phonetic situation of such sounds within the language.

Sofia Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. 262 pp. 12mo. Paper-covered boards. Spine strip separated at bottom edge 2.5cm, light discoloration to boards, POs notation "Finished April 18th, 1971" to 262pp. Rear hinge cracked but holding. Stories from one of Communist Bulgaria's most prominent propagandists. Andreyev was an ardent suppressor of free speech and thought, serving as a judge of The People's court after the September 9th, coup d'état of 1944.

[Star Distributors]. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo.190 pp. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing along edges of front and rear wrappers, stamp to bottom edge of text block, interior uniformly toned. Star distributors No. 9. [SS1009]. Case histories on swinging w/ seven black and white photos.

Messina: Arti Grafiche Peloritane, 1900. Stapled wraps. Very Good. 48mo (11 x 7 cm). 16 pp. Single-staple binding, with pale blue printed wraps. Wraps faded, lightly soiled, yapping to bottom edge. "Short Prayers to Saint Anthony." All text in Italian. Printed to benefit the Anthonian Orphanage for girls in San Pier Niceto, Messina, one of many homes for children opened by Annibale Maria Di Francia "Saint Hannibal.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo. 12cm x 19cm. [xvi] 173 pp. [xii] +24 pp. ads. First American edition. Rubbing and speckled discoloration heaviest at spine ends and corners. Shaken but holding. Pos inscription to fep. Dis-coloration to endpapers. Translated from the French of M. Arlot, coach painter, for eleven years foreman of painting to M. Eherler, coach maker Paris. by A. A. Fesquet, chemist and engineer. To which is added an Appendix, containing information respecting the materials and the practice of coach and car painting and varnishing in the United States and Great Britain.

St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Women's Consortium, 1992. Wraps. Very Good. Square 8vo. 63 pp. Red pictorial wraps with orange titling. Rubbing and scuffing to front and rear wrappers. Interior clean. Program for The Silent Witness Exhibit. A traveling memorial honoring the 26 women who were murdered in Minnesota during 1990 in acts of domestic violence.

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 195 pp. Blue paper-covered boards w/ blue pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped, discoloration and chipping to all panels, heaviest at spine ends and corners. Sunning to small spot [

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Blue cloth in black, white and blue dust jacket. First edition. Discoloration, chipping and tiny tears to dj. Boards gently pushed. PO's inscription in ink to ffep. Seventeen speculative essays on the Earth, The Solar System, The Universe and The Human Mind. Jacket design by Gotfryd. Binding sound.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Black paper over boards with metallic titling w/ pictorial dust jacket. Light rubbing along DJ edges. Otherwise clean and sound. Inscribed on title page "To Jen, with all the best. Isaac Asimov, 17 March, 1970." An enthusiastic look back at Asimov's first 99 books.

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 160 pp. Textured green paper-covered boards in blue and black pictorial dust jacket. Light soil and edgewear to dj, heaviest at spine ends and corners, price-clipped. Spine lightly rolled with bumped corners, Strip of discoloration at head of spine. PO's delightful Christmas inscription to ffep. Interior otherwise clean. Asimov covers the entire range of nitrogen-containing organics, from explosives to vitamins.