Search Results: Authors starting with B from Grampy's Bookcase

136 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name and address on the front inside cover. Store stamped price on the top front free endpaper. DJ is age-toned with smudges and wear along all the edges.

In "As New Condition" in a bright DJ without defects. Color illustrations and maps included. From the front DJ, "A complete critical companion to the art treasures of the cities and country houses in Britain and Ireland. With maps and museum guides."

Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight and square covers. Volume appears unused. From the Preface, "Sam Houston forged a life of great adventure, frequent controversy, and lasting achievement. Govenor of two states...commander and chief of a victorious army, president of an independent republic, and for thirteen years a United States senator, he personified the southwestward march of the American nation during the first half of the nineteenth century."

235 pp. Tight copy with gilt top edge. Pages have deckled edges. Frontispiece photo and covering included. Unmarked with a small tear on p.37.

Text is clean and unmarked. The front binding is a little shaken. The back binding has a crack at the margin on the page glued down to the binding. Attached maps included. Previous owner's name is on the front free end paper. "Great events meanwhile had taken place northwest of the Ohio. Connecticut had given up her claim to the Western Reserve. The land offices had been opened; streams of German, Scotch, and Irish had come in from Pennsylvania, and were fast spreading over the military bounty lands; and steps had been taken to admit Ohio into the Union as a state. The ordinance of 1787 provided that out of the Northwest Territory might be made not less than three not more than five States and drew the boundary of each of them."

22 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Very small closed tear at the bottom front cover. Graphs and tables included. "The prejudiced judge and the Unites States Attorney are trying to exclude vital evidence and hush up this whole scandal. That is because if the people learn the truth they will see the fakery of the whole system of class 'justice', through which the 250 ruling corporations maintain their power over the courts" p.21.

308 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. The DJ has a small and light smudge on the back. DJ is price-clipped. From the front flap, " They were the charmed circle of seventeenth-century France, the 'precious few' who knew the secret of perfect feminine grace. Their special magic lay in a self-led mystique that came to be called 'preciosite' - a blend of other- worldliness and pampered fragility, artfulness and literary pretension."

162 pp. There are highlighted passages on pages two and three. Otherwise the text is clean and unmarked. The covers are tight and square. DJ is in very good condition with slight wear around the edges including a small chip on the top back.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight, intact, and square covers. Covers are without tears, creases, or chips. Very minor shelf wear. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused. From the Foreword, " 'The American Spirit attempts to recapture the spirit and reveal the meaning of American history by focusing the spotlight on personalities. These include the great and the near-great who shaped events, and the not-so-great and obscure whose lives were touched by them."

Highlighted and bracketed passages throughout. Covers are intact with slight wear around the edges and smudging on the back cover. Previous owners' names are on the half title page. "Study of the pamphlets confirmed my rather old-fashioned view that the American Revolution was above all else in ideological, constitutional, political struggle and not primarily a controversy between social groups undertaken to force changes in the organization of the society or the economy." p. x.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has very slight wear along the outer edges. Foreword by the Duke of Montrose. Illustrated throughout with full page color plates of clans' tartans. "...Mr. Robert Bain has decided to produce this handy work on the clans and tartans of Scotland. The tartan and the plaid has been so inextricably woven into the history, romance and song of Scotland that an authoritative story of all that it means must greatly enhance the pleasure of the many visitors who now come to us."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square binding. Binding has very minimal wear. Several small spots and some foxing on the back inside binding and back free end paper. Previous owners' names are on the top of the back free end paper. Illustrations throughout.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has slight wear and fading. Price is marked on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. From the preface, "...Christian Scientists are not indigent; and their comfortable fortunes are acquired by healing mankind morally, physically, spiritually. The easel of time presents pictures - once fragmentary and faint - now rejuvenated by the touch of God's right hand."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is faded with white lettering faded on the spine. Inside binding has foxing. Pencil marking is present on the inside back binding. Several smudges on outside margins. Two page ads incuded.

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is bright with very minor wear at the corners. Previoius owner's name is on the inside top edge of the front binding. Foreword by Roscoe Pound Dean of Harvard University Law School. "My first advice to the beginner in the study of law has always been to buy a good law dictionary and turn to it constantly. It was the custom formerly to give an elementary course in which everyday terms and ordinary legal conceptions were explained. But law school experience has shown the futility of such courses. The sure way of acquiring an enduring grasp upon legal terminology is to look up every word as it is encountered in the students reading, get its meaning concretely in view of the context, and keep up this process until there is an assured conviction that it is no longer necessary."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is bright with very minor wear at the corners. Previoius owner's name is on the inside top edge of the front binding. Foreword by Roscoe Pound Dean of Harvard University Law School. "My first advice to the beginner in the study of law has always been to buy a good law dictionary and turn to it constantly. It was the custom formerly to give an elementary course in which everyday terms and ordinary legal conceptions were explained. But law school experience has shown the futility of such courses. The sure way of acquiring an enduring grasp upon legal terminology is to look up every word as it is encountered in the students reading, get its meaning concretely in view of the context, and keep up this process until there is an assured conviction that it is no longer necessary."

194 pp. Age toning and slight foxing on the top edge of the text block are the only defects. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ has very slight wear to the outside edges including a small closed tear on the bottom back edge. Full page photos included.

Text is clean and unmarked with intact covers that are without chips, tears, or creases. "The facts prove that the Soviet Union not only practices peace but depends on it to improve the living standards of the people. The facts prove the opposite for this country. On March 1, 1951, the Soviet citizens found prices lowered and food cheaper. On March 1, 1951, the American citizen found prices higher." p. 21.

540 pp. In as new condition. Black and white illustrations included, From the back cover, "...Louise Barnett enters with a volume widely acclaimed by both military and cultural historians as the most balanced account of his and legend."

Text is clean and unmarked. Text in French. Sixty-page French/English vocabulary section in the back of text. Some fading and smudges on the binding. Previous owner's name on the inside front binding. Illustrations included.