Search Results: Authors starting with A from The Sensible Magpie

New York: T. Del Watkins, 1982. Pamphlet. Very Good Plus. PAMPHLET. Reproduction of the 1932 firearms catalog. Shotguns, Mauser rifles, repeating and single-shot rifles, pistols, assorted ammunition with ballistics tables, accessories, and more. 145 pp. Light rubbing to very small area of front and rear panels. Several faint, small scratches to front and rear panels. 6 inch crease to front panel. Very light edgewear.

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1900. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS. Sunning to spine, moderate soiling and edgewear to spinecaps. Very lightly age-tanned. Worn gilt lettering on spine and green Art Nouveau inspired front colored cloth boards. With 45 illustrations including frontispiece. 300 pp with 12 pp Altemus' Young People's Library selections at rear of book. Clean, tight. Small chip from top corner… Read More

New York: Harper and Row, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front free endpaper. Lightly faded edges of spine cloth. Dustjacket very good. Lightly scuffed. Light stain to inside jacket edges. A 1" tear and creasing to bottom edge. Jacket now Mylar protected. Clean, tight, bright. 245 pp. Barbara Abercrombie's first novel. Perhaps there was a clue, something she had missed that would explain why everything fell apart. Why Alix Stoughton, was now Alix Kirkwood....and why her world fell apart.

Switzerland: Iska Verlag Ag, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Very light wear to extremities. White lettering to front cover and spine. Full of fabulous full color illustrations. Numbered 129 - 192pp with 20 pp of ads inserted at center. Clean, tight, bright. Written in German, English and French, includes articles like: Fascinated by Driving; Round the World in a Horse-Drawn Caravan; and Competition Vehicles.

Switzerland: Iska Verlag Ag, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Very light wear to extremities. A gentle bend to upper corner of magazine. White lettering to front cover and spine. Full of fabulous full color illustrations. 64 pp with 28 pp of Calendar, letters to the editor, and ads following. Clean, tight, bright. Written in German, English and French, this magazine focuses on the revolution of the horse-drawn carriages, and the horse breeds that pull them.

Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. FIRST EDITION. HEAVY VOLUME. No dustjacket. Previous owner's name to FPDEP. Spine lean. Bottom corners, nudged. Mild shelfwear. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of deep red, cloth-covered boards. Glossy pages. Numerous black and white figures, illustrations. Clean, bright, binding solid. 813 pp with index. Clean, bright. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. Volume 38. Papers submitted by each attendee on the subject of neuromuscular disorders. Written in five parts : Part I - Basic Structure and Function of the Motor Unit ; Part II - Experimental Pathology ; Part III - Basic Approach to Clinical Problems of Neuromuscular Disorders in Man ; Part IV - Clinical Problems ; Part V - Some Experimental Techniques of Promise in the Study of Neuromuscular Disorders.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Very mild shelf and edgewear to covers. One light crease to front bottom cover. Black lettering on white spine and red and white front cover. Clean, bright, solid binding. 502 pp with bibliography. A Norton Critical Edition. This volume includes the three greatest and most accessible comedies -- Volpone (1606), Epicoene (1609), and The Alchemist (1610) -- along with the seldom-reprinted unfinished pastoral comedy The Sad Shephard (1640), plus several masques such as The Masque of Queens (1609).

New York: Manor Books, 1975. Paperback. Very Good. Radicone, Nick. Light shelfwear to surfaces and extremities. Lightly age-tanned pages. Humorously illustrated. Yellow lettering to red spine, white lettering to illustrated red covers. Clean, solidly bound. 140 pp with advertisements to rear of book. Note: "Manor Books 95401" to front cover. Actual, sometimes unbelievable, letters written by pet owners to their veterinarians.

Honesdale, PA : Himalayan International Institute , 1979 . Paperback. VERY GOOD . Second printing. Systematic presentation of material of beginning Sanskrit aimed at undergradualtes with emphasis on structural united needed for spoken and written composition. Contains sixteen individual lessons and emphasizes learning through sight and sound. Spiral-bound. Just a bit of light creasing to top edge of front cover, very small crease to bottom corner. 5 inch crease to top corner of rear cover, 0.5 inch crease to bottom edge. A bit of light scratching to both covers, visible only in direct light. Small spot 2 cm diameter to front cover. Faint one-inch pen mark and just a bit of light soiling, half-dime sized spot and half a dozen very small spots 1cm diameter or less to rear cover. Very light thumbing to upper and lower corners. Just the tiniest bit of soiling to title page. Text clean, unmarked, privately-owned.

New York: Collins, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FINE. Matching dustjacket Fine. Beautiful full-color watercolor illustrations. White pictorial boards. Unpaginated (20 pp). Appendix with full text of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Clean, tight, bright. An illustrated interpretation of the 10 principles of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of the Child.

CHICAGO, ILL: Reilly & Britton, 1910. Second Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. E. A. Nelson. Second Printing (One of the pseudonymous books of L. Frank Baum, and in this case, one of the "Boy Fortune Hunters" series.) COVER STAMPED IN ORANGE, BLACK AND GREEN. 325 pp. text, plus two pages of advertisements at rear.) Shelfwear, particularly to spine caps and corners, with some darkening to spine caps, smudging to boards, and a slight spine lean. Fully conforms to second printing points (Bienvenue, 285). Nice, affordable copy of one of Baum's scarcer pseudonymous titles. Very scarce.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Mild edgewear to extremities. Bottom spinecap gently folded under. Dustjacket good. Jacket is scuffed with front panel worn on folds and edges. Now Mylar protected. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 84 pp. A reconstruction of Kant's early views on the nature of time against the background of scientific and philosophical ideas prevalent in the 18th Century.

Riverside, CT: Published by the Author, 1972. Paperback. Very Good Minus. 45 pp. A bit of edgewear, a faded drop of what looks like red wine to front cover. Slight lift to front cover. Black lettering to white cover. Unmarked text, bright, tight. SECOND EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. "Some of these poems have appeared on the cover and inside pages of APHRA, WOMEN, and BLACK MARIA." Contains 14 new "CONCRETE" poems. Very clever thought-provoking word play, literally. Examples: "C row row row row row D," and "coWARd."

NEW YORK: Artisan , 2000. Hardcover. FINE in near fine dustjacket . Reprint. By the authors of "Flatbreads and Flavors" and "Seductions of Rice." Includes more than 175 recipes culled from the authors' travels through Tibet, Vietnam, China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Lavishly photographed, this volume doubles as a travel narrative. 346 pp. Olive-green casing to boards with black and white lettering to spine. Some slight shelf-creasing to spinecaps and bottom edges of joints and the very slightest amount of shelf-creasing to corners. A bit of very faint scratching, visible only in direct light, to boards. Very light DJ edgewear with some light shelf-creasing. Minor scratching to DJ panels. Very minor rubbing and scratching to front DJ panel. One quarter dime-sized black ink spot to front DJ panel with quite a few very small black ink spots--not too obtrusive, given the dark color scheme here.  HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

NEW YORK: A. L. Burt , 1918 . Hardcover. NEAR FINE . Reprint; title page indicates "From the Latest London Edition". No date except for a 1918 gift inscription to rear of contents page--one can only assume this class of gift was new. Complete volume of Tennyson's poetry with two columns of text to each page. 682 pp. Limp tan leather boards, with gilt lettering ("Tennyson") to front board. Enclosed in original off-white box. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Light thumbing to top and bottom corners with a bit of minor wear. Moderate creasing to spine, including light shelf-creasing to spinecaps. Light creasing to limp leather on borders of both boards. Slight fading to portions of leather on spine, both boards. Light age-tanning to very edges of text. A tiny bit of creasing to top edge of front and rear endpapers. 1.5 inch closed tear to top of rear hinge. Just a tiny bit of light scratching and spotting to top edge. One very small faint spot to title page. Very faint… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUSTJACKET. Hardcover (8vo) in mauve cloth; 330 pages. Clean, square, text unmarked; small pen marks on ffep. at upper corner. DJ crisp, slightly rubbed.

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Dustjacket very good. Light edgewear. Green lettering to spine and front of pale olive cloth-covered boards. Map from Mexico to South America to frontispiece. Clean, tight, bright. 265 pp with bibliographical references, notes and index. This book "devotes individual chapters to nine major Latin American republics, plus one chapter to Central America. Two chapters deal with various government-media relationships, covering the region in general," (front flap).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. ASSOCIATION COPY. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Elbert Bede -- a noted Oregon author and orator who wrote and lectured on Freemasonry. Bede's fabulous bookplate (signed by him!) to FPDEP. A Borzoi Handbook of Journalism. Encourages journalists to become familiar with the technical side of the printing process "to become either a first-rate reporter or a promising candidate for promotion to an executive position." 189 pp with 4 pp index to rear of text. A couple tiny punctures and a couple tiny scratches to rear board. A few sets of pages that were unopened, then manually and somewhat raggedly torn open, and now stick out funny. Previous owner's name stamped to FFEP. A few little scratched spots to front board, light eddgewear. Gilt debossed lettering to spine and front board, and delicate tooling to front board, green cloth-covered boards, yellow topstain. 20 fascinating illustrations. Clean, tight, bright.

Pittsburgh, PA: Standard Alloys Company, 1921. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Very scarce annal in the history of this controversial element which was first discovered in 1789. Standard Alloys Company maintained research laboratories which {further} proved Uranium's capacity to produce types of steels with "preeminent capacities to resist fatigue, as far as it is possible to measure these stresses by the present art of dynamic testing..." Chapters on history of Uranium, its nature, its "radio activity" and half-life, its benefits and influence in the steel-producing industry, Methods of Quanitative Analysis, its microscopic identification, etc. Includes several three-color test charts. Some corner wear and wear to spine caps. 32 pp.

Chicago: university of Chicago Press, 2000. Hardcover. FINE in Fine Dustjacket. FINE. Dustjacket Fine. 325 pp with notes and index. Clean, tight, bright. Alschuler on the life of Supreme Court Judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes.