Search Results: Authors starting with A from Cat's Cradle Books

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1972. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Second Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has general shelf wear including wear at corner tips, minor creasing. ; Thorough discussion of many aspects involved in the conservation of artifacts and art. Illustrated with black and white photographs. ; 9.5" tall; 394 pages.

Philadelphia: American Society for Testing Materials, 1949. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wrappers faded at spine and around edges with general shelf wear. Technical manual explaining methods of testing various aspects of standards in the manufacture of textiles. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 574 pages.

New York: The Century Co, 1885. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Pages lightly tanned with small holes at side edge. Else clean. One engraved illustration. Last page is a photocopy; all other pages are original. Article is contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopy of Century Volume 31 title page included for bibliographic context. ; Article on the state of American society and economy in the 1880s by American theologian, editor, and author Lyman Abbott (1835-1922). 9.25" tall; 9 pages.

Moskva: Izdatelstvo Iskusstvo, 1968. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is shelfworn, edge rubbed with bumped corners and light overall soiling. 262 pp. Anthology of writings about Soviet stage and film actor Osip Naumovich Abdulov (1900-1953). ; Ex-Library; 8.0" tall; 262 pages.

Asheville, NC: Warren Wilson College, 2005. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing and shelf wear. Contents: Abernathy, think glocally, act nobly. Forum with Senatory Gaylord Nelson and E. O. Wilson. Glasser, higher education's sustainability challenge. The World Bank's Ian Johnson talks with John Huie. Williams, Alaska: a landscape of hope. Crowe, poetry. Goldstein, think like an environmentalist, act like a marketer. Crothers, sculptures. Betts, "just dropped in..."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 128 pages.

Moskva: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1975. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Russian language. Square, sound binding and hinges, clean but age-darkened pages. Pictorial cloth over boards is bumped at the corners with general shelf wear. ; Russian-language translation of Peter Abraham's "Die Schüsse der Arche Noah, oder Die Irrtumer und Irrfahrten Meines Freundes Wensloff" published by Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin (1970). Abraham (1936- ) built a career as a popular East German children's author, pseudonym Karl Georg von Löffelholz. ; 6.75" tall.. 399 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has only very minor edge rubbing, clipped corner. ; Shows how Protestant religion produced reform movements like temperance, abolition, vegetarianism, and feminism. ; 9.5" tall; 285 pages.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has slight darkening at spine, minor edge rubbing. ; History of work and family in a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. ; 9.25" tall; 301 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Edições Tempo Brasileiro, 1978. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Wrappers have light overall shelf wear including minor tear at top of spine. ; Poetry by Brazilian author Marcus Morais Accioly (1943- ). ; 8.25" tall; 226 pages.

Bogotá: El Áncora Editores, Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Historical study of elite attitudes toward violence in Colombia from 1936 to 1949. ; Spanish Edition; 8.5" tall; 224 pages.

New York: Random House, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Faint remainder mark across lower edge of pages, visible when book is closed. Binding and hinges sound. Pages clean and bright. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has minor shelf wear. ; Celebration of the human ability to smell, taste, hear, touch, and see. ; Remainder; 9.5" tall; 331 pages.

New York: American Church Review Press, 1882. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Pages tanned, clean. All pages are original. Articles are contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopies of volume's title page and table of contents are included for bibliographic context. ; Article examines temporal versus eternal salvation as seen in the New Testament. ; 8.5" tall; 15 pages.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Hinges cracked and repaired with tape, binding sound. Cloth over boards is rippled with edge wear at extremities of spine and corner tips. Overall light shelf wear. Biography of Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807-1886), American historical editor, writer, politician, and diplomat, written by his son. American Statesmen Standard Library Edition; Ex-Library; Vol. 29; 7.5" tall; 426 pages.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, N.D.. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Wrappers tanned with small amount of writing at top front. Stapled binding. Pages are tanned, clean; Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. 5.0" tall; 32 pages.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Alexandra Avakian. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Pages bright and clean except for p. 96, which has several small stains in the margin. Cloth over boards is clean with light edge rubbing. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Many traditional Amish and Mennonite recipes with descriptions of Amish/Mennonite life as well as appealing color photographs. ; Photographs; 10.0" tall; 202 pages; Removed.

New York: Crown, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has minor edge rubbing at top. ; Popular account of the Wright brothers as individuals rather than simply airplane inventors. ; 8.75" tall; 240 pages.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: The William L. Clements Library, 1926. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Previous owner's bookplate inside front. Pencil markings on ffep. Pages clean, tanned. Wrappers scuffed and worn. ; Illustrated with plates and facsimiles. 12.25" (31 cm) tall; 49 pages.

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Previous owner's name on ffep. Binding shaken, hinges repaired and sound. Pages tanned and free of writing. Cloth over boards is heavily edge worn and shelf worn. ; Treatise on human trafficking and prostitution in the United States, particularly with regard to underage girls. ; Ex-Library; 7.5" tall; 219 pages.

New York: Penguin, 1998. 1st Thus. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Norah Hamilton. 1st Thus. Sound binding. Wrappers have very light shelf wear. Pages clean with slight age-darkening. ; Classic work by the founder of the settlement house Hull-House in Chicago recalling her work there pushing for social justice. ; 8.0" tall; 308 pages.

Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association, 1956. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, slightly tanned pages. Index of volume 1 issues laid in. Wrappers have light handling wear and stain at lower edges. ; Contents: Kapstein, Bruce M. Bieglow: a tribute. Bigelow, Aaron Lopez: colonial merhan of Newport. Notes, chartered organizations, Providence Jewish Witness, Jewish family names, holographic will of David Klibanoff, necrology, new members. ; 9.0" tall; 96 pages.