Search Results: Authors starting with A from Joseph Valles - Books

Croydon : The Croydon Advertiser Ltd, 36 High Street, 1952., 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 194 pp. ; illustrated ; green cloth with gold lettering and embossed designs ; no dustjacket ; "Produced by the Publications Committee of the National Rose Society of Great Britain" ; numerous articles on a variety of subjects, all pertaining to the rose and its culture ; Contents: Patrons and Officers and Council -- Report of the Council -- Balance Sheets -- Arrangements, 1952 -- Presidents, N.R.S.; Dean Hole Medallists -- The President's Page -- Great Roses / A. Norman -- The Problem of Winter Hardiness / Wilhelm Kordes -- Dog-Days / Oliver Mee -- "-Her Infinite Variety." / Constance Wheatcroft -- An Exceptionally Wet Season -- The Rose and the Poppy -- Rose Shows and Displays of Roses / A. J. Macself -- Roses and Rose Men of Canada / A. J. Webster -- A Heterogeneous Rose Garden / Mrs. F. Stoneman -- Some Rose Diseases and their control / Bertram Park -- Spring in the Rose Garden /… Read More

London : Peerage Books, 1972., 1972. Very Good. 158 pp. : chiefly color illustrations ; 20 cm. ; dark brown cloth with pictorial color dustjacket ; 93 color illustrations ; VG/VG

New York, Dover Publications, 1973, 1973. Book. Good. Soft cover. ix p., 97 illus. 26 x 29 cm. ; ISBN: 048622967X; 9780486229676 LCCN: 73-77375 ; LC: F128.37; Dewey: 917.47/1/034 ; OCLC: 834901 ; photographed by Berenice Abbott. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. ; Originally published by Dutton, New York. ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; In 1935 the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott set out on a five-year, WPA-funded project to document New York's transformation from a nineteenth-century city into a modern metropolis of towering skyscrapers. The result was the landmark publication Changing New York, a milestone in the history of photography that stands as an indispensable record of the Depression-era city. ; 97 photographs ; some wear, else G.

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1991, 1991. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. xxxi, 103 pp. ; stiff paper wrappers ; "Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world--its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered." ; VG.

New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Barnes & Noble Books, a division of Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. xviii, 108 pp. ; stiff paper wrappers ; "Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world--its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered." ; foxing, else VG.

New York : St. Martin's Press, c1991., 1991. Fine. 1st ed., 1st printing ; black and grey cloth ; ISBN: 0312063776 :; 9780312063771 ; LCCN: 91-20550 ; OCLC: 23868337 ; "A compelling novel of a young American woman in Berlin on the eve of World War II who is torn between her love for a Nazi officer a nd her duty to her country. The naive daughter of the American ambassador, Sally is madly in love with a golden boy caught in Hitler's horrifying grip." ; name on ep, else ; FINE/FINE

St. Louis, Mo. : Students of Central High School, 1933, 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork, drawings, and photographs ; red decorative cloth, no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933, GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON, (1916-2011) was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future, and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER, EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades for ever, and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational… Read More

New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1991., 1991. Good. xxi, 290 pp., 22 cm. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; ex-lib, stamps, label, pocket, date due slip ; ISBN: 0899195180 ; LCCN: 91-6619 ; OCLC: 23139909 ; "Abbott came to terms with her father in this 1991 memoir. Alfred Abbott told his family he was a bookmaker in the publishing sense, when in reality he was a bookie in the gambling sense. Despite his illegal livelihood, he was a decent dad who instilled in his daughter a love of books and literature that led to her career as a writer. Along with family musings, this also is a portrait of a child growing up in 1940s/1950s Arkansas"--Reed Business Information ; an oil stain on pg 51/52, else G

Berkeley : Mizan Press, 1983, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition; 1st printing ] ; 300 p. : maps ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0933782101; 9780933782105; 093378211X ; LCCN: 82-14210 ; LC: DS98.2; Dewey: 956.91/04 ; OCLC: 8709195 ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, no dustjacket ; Contents: Evaluating Islamic movements from the Western perspective -- Syria today -- Its strategic importance -- The People of Syria -- The legacy of Greater Syria -- The Nusairi sect -- Syria after World War II -- The regime of Hafiz Asad -- Asad's paradoxical rise to power, 1966-70 -- Actions of the regime, 1970-75 -- The Lebanon intervention, 1976 -- Internal repression -- The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood -- Its emergence and development -- Mustafa as-Siba'i -- Isam a-Attar -- The legacy of Marwan Hadid -- The leadership crisis -- The Islamic Front in Syria -- Events of unification -- Members and leaders of the front -- The proclamation and charter -- Purpose and principles of the front -- The ideology and program… Read More

New York : H.N. Abrams ; [Detroit] : Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0810907291; 9780810907294 ; LCCN: 81-10862 ; LC: F1545.3.A7; Dewey: 709/.7286/074013 ; OCLC: 7596898 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; store stamp on inside front cover ; front endpaper corner clipped ; Contents: Guayabo de Turrialba and its significance / by Oscar Fonseca Zamora ; translated by Michael J. Snarskis -- Traditions of Costa Rican stone sculpture / by Mark M. Graham -- Jade / by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby -- Gold work / by Warwick Bray -- Technical appendix. Perspectives on Costa Rican jade : compositional analyses and cultural implications / by Frederick W. Lange, Ronald L. Bishop and Lambertus van Zelst -- Catalogue / by Michael J. Snarskis. ; VG.

New York, Dover Publications, 1973, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 215 pages illustrations 22 cm ; LC: GV1445; Dewey: 794.1/2 ; OCLC: 703340 ; ISBN: 048622953X; 9780486229539 LCCN: 73-77379 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; Abrahams was an English chess player, author, and barrister. In 1933 he was third at Hastings in the British Championship, after Mir Sultan Khan and Theodore Tylor. He is best known for the Abrahams Defence of the Semi-Slav, also known as the Abrahams-Noteboom Variation, or the Noteboom Variation: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Bd2 a5 8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 (ECO D31). -- Wikipedia ; note from Diversion Magazine editor David Lahm clipped in ; "A superb guide to the general concepts of chess technique and the methods for using technique to plan ahead. Early initiative and control of the center, translating an advantage into the middle game, techniques of endgame play are all systematically analyzed. 200 examples and problems… Read More

Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown, 1989, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st edition, 5th printing ; ix, 181 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0316004537; 9780316004534; 0316004545 ((pbk.)); 9780316004541 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 88-83986 ; LC: TT197; Dewey: 684.1/042; ; OCLC: 18958121 ; Provides step-by-step instructions for constructing a medicine cabinet, drop-leaf table, blanket chest, bedside table, bathroom vanity, trestle table, bookshelf, chest of drawers, candle stand, hutch, and desk. ; Contents: Medicine cabinet -- Workbench -- Drop-leaf table -- Blanket chest -- Bedside table -- Bathroom vanity -- Trestle table -- Chest of drawers -- Candle stand -- Hutch -- Slant-front desk -- Finishing. ; black faux-leather boards in color photographic dustjacket ; FINE/FINE.

Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown, 1992, 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st printing ; viii, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0316004731; 9780316004732; 0316004758 ((pbk.)); 9780316004756 ((pbk.)) LCCN: 91-39604 ; LC: TT197; Dewey: 684.1/04 ; OCLC: 24907560 ; yellow and green cloth in color photo dustjacket ; Contents: Shaker step stools -- Two-drawer shaker blanket chest -- Shaker washstand -- Shaker wall clock -- Harvest table -- Shaker wood box -- Library table -- Corner cupboard -- Cricket table -- Pie safe. ; FINE / FINE.

Boston ; Toronto ; London : Little, Brown, 1990, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; vi, 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm ; ISBN: 0316004561; 9780316004565; 0316004553 ((pbk.)); 9780316004558 ((pbk.)) Other: 9780316004558 LCCN: 90-34765 ; LC: TT194; Dewey: 684.1/042 ; OCLC: 21334412 ; textred tan and blue cloth in color photo dustjacket ; Contents: Tools and techniques in the New Yankee workshop -- Rocking horse -- Adirondack chair -- Butler's table -- Kitchen cupboard -- Hearthside settle -- Pencil-post bed -- Kitchen worktable -- Chippendale mirror -- Chest on chest -- Garden bench -- Entertainment center -- Finishing. ; FINE/FINE.

London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 248 pp. ; 25 cm. ; ISBN: 0283981423; 9780283981425 LCCN: 76-361191 ; LC: N1020; Dewey: 750/.74/0941; 708/.941 ; OCLC: 2177853 ; orange cloth in dustjacket ; Contents : Aberdeen -- Accrington -- Barnard Castle -- BArnsley -- Bath -- Bedford -- Belfast -- Berwick on tweed -- Birkenhead -- Birmingham -- Blackburn -- Blackpool -- Bolton -- Bournemouth -- Bradford -- Brighouse -- Brighton -- Bristol -- Burnley -- Bury -- Cambridge -- Cardiff -- Carlisle -- Cheltenham -- Cookham on Thams -- COventry -- Derby -- Doncaster -- Dublin -- Dundee -- Eastbourne -- Edinburgh -- Englefield Green -- Exeter -- Gateshead -- Glasgoe -- Huddersfield -- Ipswich -- Kettering -- Kilmarnock -- Kirkcaldy -- Leamington Spa -- Leeds -- Leicester -- Lincoln -- Liverpool -- London -- Maidstone -- Manchester -- Middlesbrough -- Newcastle upon Tyne -- Newport -- Northampton -- Norwich -- Nottingham -- Oldham -- Oxford -- Paisley -- Plymouth -- Portsmouth --… Read More

New York] : American Garden Guild, Inc., and Doubleday,& Company, 1957., 1957. Very Good. 1st ed. ; 256 pp. ; LCCN: 57-11406 ; OCLC: 1050030 ; LC: SB413.C55; Dewey: 716.2; NAL: SB413.C55A2 ; beige cloth with red and green lettering and decorations ; bump or two to covers, else VG

New York : Harper & Row, 1983, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 185 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN: 0060151870; 9780060151874 LCCN: 83-47549 ; OCLC: 9464743 ; LC: PR6051.C64; Dewey: 823/.914 ; black boards in lavender, white and black pictorial dustjacket ; invisible waterstain to dustjacket ; "Oscar Wilde never wrote a last testament during his isolation in Paris. This book takes the known facts about Oscar Wilde and converts them into a fictional portrait of the artist and memoir of a life of great contrast - a career which ended with a catastrophic fall from public favour." ; VG/FAIR.

Norman, OK ; London : University of Oklahoma Press, 1989, ©1944, 1989. Fine. 1st paperback printing ; xvii, 220 pp. ; illustrated with black & white photos; map ; plates, portraits ; 24 cm. ; ISBN:0806122153 ; OCLC: 20738643 ; LC: E98.A7; Dewey: 970.67 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "This book is the result of investigations carried out over a period of several years. The principal field work was done during a six month's period in the latter part of 1938...The most interesting thing about Navajo and Pueblo silver is not the aesthetic object separated from its social setting and viewed abstractly in a museum case, nor yet the making of this object, but the sociological significance of the art form in Navajo and Pueblo culture...I have attempted to depict the importance of silversmithing...The first [ part] presents a history of Navajo silver. The second gives an examination of the art of silvermaking at the pueblo of Zuni..."--preface ; includes a list of Navajo words associated with… Read More

San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1992., 1992. Fine. [1st edition], 1st printing ; 125 pp. : illustrated with 60 black and white photographs ; 31 cm. ; ISBN: 0811802159 (pbk.) ; LCCN: 92-1393 ; OCLC: 25282475 ; LC: ND259.K33; Dewey: 759.972 ; stiff photographic paper wrappers ; imperceptible smudge on black flyleaf, else FINE

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY : Morgan and Morgan, Inc. ; London : The Fountain Press, 1969., 1969. Very Good. 6th printing ; red cloth with black lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; front cover bottom has a bump ; label on back dustjacket ; VG/VG