Search Results: Titles starting with L from The Amber Wave

New York: Free Press (Simon & Schuster), 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A fine copy --no marks whatsoever-in a fine dustjacket without a price. This is the account of the Peloponnesian wars, a 20-year war between Athens and Sparta. Strassler's work is based on the Richard Crawley translation and is updated and revised for modern readers. Leon Botstein, president of Bard College said the following about this publication: "Strassler's meticulous and imaginative achievement is as welcome as its astonishing. Students of history and politics will be forever in his debt." The book includes biographies of the war's major players, maps, and other visual enhancements. .

Brainerd, MN: In-Fisherman Inc, 1981. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. Lg.octavo. This book is all about the fine art of bass fishing. From the basics of how to fish for bass in heavy timber, thick weeds, rocky rivers, and farm ponds this publication is THE source for information on how to successfully land that bigmouth. (Cover shows some age, but tight, clean copy otherwise.).

Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1906. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A very good leather-bound copy, tight, showing some wear at the spine.Zola's work in three parts: The Dream, The Human Beast, and Money. .

New York: Continuum Publishing Co., 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Quarto. A very good/near fine copy -- tight and clean -- in an unclipped dustjacket in excellent condition..

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 9 1/2" x 6"w. A fine copy -- tight and clean -- in an unclipped near fine dustjacket. A first edition copy..

New Jersey: Slack Inc., 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 10" x 8"w. A fine copy -- tight and clean -- in an equally fine unclipped dustjacket. This is more than a cookbook because it includes Buscaglia's reflections on the vital role that sharing a meal plays in nurturing and preserving the most important ingredients of human life -- Love and Joy. Also has some wonderful seafood recipes (personally tested myself). The cover photograph of Leo with Biba Caggiano, whose recipes are featured in the book, is priceless..

New York: Viking Press, 1968. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A very good copy --completely clean --some toning of the cover(both sides). This copy includes many of the lyric poems first published in The Spice Box of Earth --over 100 poems, many are from three volumes published in Canada..

Lincoln, Ne.: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Octavo. A near fine copy -- tight and clean -- in a clean dustjacket with white marks on the cover, but no tears. Story of a gutsy single woman whose motivation for going to Alaska was her love of travel and desire to earn a living as a teacher. Very interesting -- a true slice of life in the last American frontier..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with an inscription by the author. The story of a field biologist and professor who studied the rainforest canopies of eastern Australia. The reader will experience the sense of wonder and love Lowman has for working in the rainforest and also the difficulties while juggling the responsibilities of being a single parent of two small boys. Also includes anecdotes of close encounters with deadly mammals. .

New York: Brentano's of New York, 1906. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two fine copies, not issued with a dustjacket, but with a beautiful seaweed green cover with gilded cover & spine --the latter being somewhat faded with embossed title. The autobiography of Cellini, the choleric sculptor of Florence (16th c.) best know for his bronze of Perseus holding the head of Medusa. Numerous black and white illustrations included..

New York: P.J. Kennedy, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A beautiful copy, with no markings whatsoever except on the bookplate.Gold lettering and image of Mother Seton on cover like new. This is the tenth edition of the book in hardcover, but no dustjacket..

New York: Time Inc., 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. A fine copy without a dustjacket, in a very good slipcase with a few dings. Replete with mainly black and white photos of both sides of the war --Nazi and western forces --showing the immense scope of the second war and the destruction and tragedy it reaped. Oversized book..

New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Octavo. A near fine copy -- tight and clean -- in a very good unclipped dustjacket showing some shelfwear. This is the seventh printing of this publication A book about the rites and rituals of Jewish life and a tracing of these religious rites through the various phases of Jewish history. Also weaves facts of history and folklore throughout the story..

Va.: The Donning Co., 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First. 11" x 8 1/2"W. A fine copy -- tight and completely clean -- in a near fine/fine dustjacket..

Lexington, Ky: Eclipse Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Quarto. A fine copy -- tight and completely clean -- in an unclipped dustjacket also in fine condition. This is a first edition copy, the story of an average guy who caught the racing fever..

New York: The MacMillan Co., 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. This is a very good former library copy without a dustjacket. It's completely clean but has the discard markings. It's a first edition..

New York: Random House Inc., 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 9 1/2" x 7 1/2"w. A near fine copy -- tight and clean -- in an unclipped dustjacket (no price). The book's only flaw is a bumped board and a close tear on the dustjacket. An intriguing book that delves into the mysterious line painintings on the flat plateau area of Peru and their conneciton to the indigenous people's religous beliefs..

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1994. Textbook. Very Good. Hard Cov. 9 1/2" x 6"w. A very good copy -- tight and clean -- some pencil markings and a few dog-eared pages. This is the third edition..

New York: Viking press, 1975. Book. As New. Soft cover. Both copies are in "as new" condition in a near fine slipcase. "The Medusa and the Snail" was published in 1979. Lewis Thomas was a physician, researcher, and teacher best known for his essays on biology..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A very good copy, completely clean, in an unclipped very good dustjacket. Bogan, a contemporary of Theodore Roethke, W.M. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay William Carlos Williams. She was one of the first roster of visitors at Yaddo, the newly founded artists' and writers' colony in Saratoga Springs in 1926. .