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

Columbus, Ohio : America Rose Society, 1965., 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 246 pp. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A word from the president / C H Lewis -- Peace (poem) / Carolyn Cunningham -- Adventures into American Rose Annuals / Helen D Carswell -- A priceless blessing that costs nothing (poem) -- Keep it simple / Ralph M Dasher -- Sun kissed roses / J A Herholdt -- Nearly wild (poem) / Ollie Giltner -- A way of life / Verona E Weeks -- Rose plant quality control project / Dr Dennison Morey -- To paint a rose / Mrs Henry Diener -- The most perfect phase, judging hybrid teas / Dr A S Thomas -- Understock testing in the New Orleans area / Dr. A. G. Viskell -- Old Roses, living antiques of the rose world / Mrs Walter P Merhoff -- The Isle of Guernsey / Peter D W LePelley -- One little rose (poem) -- An engineer looks at the relation between cutback and bloomtime / Thomas S West -- Pest control in roses / Harvey E Barke -- A hybridizer's dream (poem) -- Why… Read More

[Gothenburg, Sweden] : [Johnston & Co.], 1988., 1988. Very Good. 3rd printing ; black and silver cloth ; in color photographic dustjacket ; numerous photographs in color and black & white of saab automobiles and military aircraft and some commercial aircraft ; photos of principle individuals ; many cut-away views of machinery in full color ; faded line at bottom of cover, else VG/VG

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin, [1924], 1924. Very Good. [Trade edition] ; xii, 387 pp., frontispiece ; 23 cm. ; similar to ISBN: 1419165992, 9781419165993 ; LC: PR6037 ; orange textured cloth with gold lettering and designs ; foxed ; spine sunned ; Contents: -- The Night of Holyrood : The Murder of Davi d Rizzio -- II. The Night of Kirk o' Field : The Murder of Darnley -- III. The Night of Betrayal : Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain -- IV. The Night of Charity : The Case of the Lady Alice Lisle -- V. The Night of Massacre : The Story of the Saint Bartholomew -- VI. The Night of Witchcraft : Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan -- VII. The Night of Gems : The Affaire of the Queen's Necklace -- VIII. The Night of Terror : The Drownings at Nantes under Carrier -- IX. The Night of Nuptia ls : Charles the Bold and Sapphira Danvelt -- X. The Night of Stranglers : Giovanna of Naples and Andreas of Hungary -- XI. The Night of Hate : The Murder of the Duke of Gandia -- XII. The Night of… Read More

New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; London : Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1986, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition; 1st printing] ; 67 pages ; 24 cm ; LC: PR6069.A32; Dewey: 821/.914 ; OCLC: 12945142 ; ISBN: 0026066602; 9780026066600 LCCN: 85-28518 ; steel grey and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket with two small nicks ; Peter Sacks was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and grew up in Durban. He teaches writing and English at Johns Hopkins University. his book, The English Elegy, won the Christian Gauss Award for the best work of literary criticism and scholarship for 1985. his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Georgia Review, Partisan Review, and other journals. He is married to the painter ; Barbara Kassel ; Contents: Fragment to Barbara -- Above Maser -- A visit to the Hillstead Museum -- In time -- Rome: First notes -- Lines for Laurence Holland -- Henry james and the seal -- Kirkpatrick playing Bach -- Change of address -- Its way home --… Read More

New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper Colophon Books ; Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979, 1979. Very Good. ISBN: 0060907053 :; 9780060907051 ; viii, 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 5462577 ; Contents: From Mit Abul-Kim to the Aliens' Jail -- The struggle for the liberation of Egypt -- The liberation of self - Cell 54 -- The July 1952 revolution -- Revolutionaries in power -- The powerlessness of power: Egypt under Nasser from July 1956 to June 1967 -- Interlude: A struggle for survival -- The second revolution (May 15, 1971) -- The October War -- The Road to Peace. ; VG

New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper Colophon Books ; Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979, 1979. Good. ISBN: 0060907053 :; 9780060907051 ; viii, 360 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 5462577 ; ex-lib ; Contents: From Mit Abul-Kim to the Aliens' Jail -- The struggle for the liberation of Egypt -- The liberation of self - Cell 54 -- The July 1952 revolution -- Revolutionaries in power -- The powerlessness of power: Egypt under Nasser from July 1956 to June 1967 -- Interlude: A struggle for survival -- The second revolution (May 15, 1971) -- The October War -- The Road to Peace. ; foxed ; worn ; corner clipped endpaper ; else G

Köln : Taschen, 2001, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 303 p. : il. color ; 33 cm ; Spanish; Texto en español, Italiano y portugués. ; ISBN: 3822856118; 9783822856116 ; Dewey: 747.88 ; OCLC: 57667159 ; powder-blue cloth with white lettering, in color photographic dustjacket with edge wear ; Contents: Destination Europe - Johan Brauner, Gotland, Sweden, Baltic Sea - Sylvia and Edvin Paas, Gulf of Riga, Latvia - Mandy Coakley and Christopher Crooks, Rye Bay, England, Channel - A family farmhouse, Ile de Noirmoutier, Vendee, France - Tami and Anders Christiansen, Cadaques, Costa Brava, Spain - Victor Esposito, Ses Salines, Ibiza, Spain - Pierre Cardin, Cannes, Cote d'Azur, France - Wolfgang Joop, Monte Carlo, Monaco - Franco Menna, Filicudi, Aeolian Islands, Italy - Paolo Deganello, Filicudi, Aeolian Islands, Italy - Flavio Albanese, Pantelleria, Italy, Strait of Sicily - On top of Mosquito Mountain, Mykonos, Cyclades Islands, Greece - Pedro Espirito Santo, Bay of Setubal, Portugal -… Read More

New York, N.Y. : Viking Studio Books, Smallwood & Stuart, 1989, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. [1st edition] ; 223 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm ; ISBN: 0670822698; 9780670822690 LCCN: 88-40392 ; LC: SB473; Dewey: 712 ; OCLC: 18960999 ; green cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Inspirations -- Romantic styles -- Color -- Romantic elements -- The garden indoors. ; "..[O]ffers information on planning a variety of possibilities, from wild gardens to gardens that attract butterflies to gardens nurtured for their fragrances. Guidlines for the use of color and texture, along with a complete discussion of other elements that enhance the mood of a landscape, serve as both inspiration and instruction. The styling of seasonal bouquets, centrepieces, and wreaths is as expressive as the garden itself...Stunningly photographed in some of the most beautiful gardens and homes in Europe and the United States.." ; featured gardens include Crathes Castle, Scotland, Spring Street… Read More

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, 1980. Very Good. xiv, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0710007043 (pbk.) :; 9780710007049 (pbk.) LCCN: 80-40999 ; LC: BL1215.S9; Dewey: 294.5/37/0954 ; OCLC: 7254490 ; color pictorial paper wrappers ; Contents: The dynamism of the symbolizing process -- Symbols of opposition -- Womb-tomb symbols -- The ecology of symbolic elements and transfiguring energy -- Symbols of magical power in folklore -- Symbols of authority -- An elemental art -- Symbols of sacred space and dance in relation to the moon symbol -- The symbol of life, further reflections on the significance of the moon -- The feminine figure in Indian thought --- The symbol of the sun -- Living symbolism -- The tree at the centre of the garden of innocence -- Symbol of the serpent -- Symbol of cosmic vitality -- Complementary symbols and the idea of wholeness ; VG

London, A. and C. Black, 1939, 1955, 1955. Fair. xiv, 269 p. col. front., col. plates. 24 cm. ; LCCN: 40-10700 ; LC: NK5308; Dewey: 748 ; red cloth ; no dustjacket ; Lawrence B Saint was a well-known stained glass artist who executed the glass windows of the National Cathedral in Washington ; slight foxing ; a waterstain to spine ; bookplate ; FAIR

Harold Flammer, Inc., 1958, 1958. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 28 copies ; SAB ; No.88612.

Boston ; Rutland, VT ; Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, 2002., 2002. As New. 2nd edition ; 96 p. : ill. ; 28 cm., 10.98 x 8.56 ; ISBN: 0804833087 ; OCLC: 50225692 ; first published in three volumes, 1957-59 ; "Origami, or paper folding, has been a part of the Japanese craft tradition for over a thousand years....featured a re more than 50 items...various animals, flowers, boxes, boats, and the ever-popular crane. A selection on practical applications shows how origami can be used in mobiles, as party decorations, and for games. Each origami item is described with diagrams and clear, easy-to-follow directions, and the finished items are shown in photographs." ; paper pictorial wrappers ; AS NEW

Mission, KS : Tempo Music Publications, Canticle Publications, Inc., 1975, 1979, 1979. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 50 copies ; SSATB ; S-3258.

New York : Pantheon Books ; Random House, Inc., c1989., 1989. Fine. 1st American ed. ; 245 pp. ; ISBN: 0394564537 :; 9780394564531 LCCN: 88-43203 ; OCLC: 18835278 ; "Pierre is a teacher, married for ten years, the father of two children, not so much trapped by his wife as happily enmeshed in the routine of his household; his affair with 25-year-old Laure--a single librarian--adds spice, freedom, and danger to his life. But Laure realizes that what is freedom for Pierre is constraint for her and struggles with conflicting feelings: pity and condescension toward people who march lock-step into marriage versus her longing for ordinary family life. Her self-esteem demands that she distinguish her ""understanding"" with Pierre from the adulterous ""affairs"" that other people engage in, though she realizes t hat she is playing out every cliche about love with a married man: she is condemned to live a phantom life waiting for him to phone, being unable to call him at home; spending most of their time in… Read More

Philadelphiae, Ex officina classica, impensis W. Poyntell & Soc., 1804 ; [Philadelphia] B. Graves, printer., 1804. Book. Good. Hardcover. OCLC: 38659496, 2228972 and 3875123 ; LCCN: 41-30892 ; 8 p. l., 234, [12] pp. ; 22 cm. ; Shaw & Shoemaker: 7227 ; reprinted and edited from the earlier London editions of Thomas Childe (1697), Matthews (1715), Strahan (1746), Woodfall (1768), Ballar d, et al. (1784) and Robinson (1798) ; a volume from the first printed collection of Greek and Latin classical texts in America, the Officina Classica ; this item not included in Early American Imprints ; only 40 copies held in libraries worldwide according to WorldCat ; includes Petrus Crinitus's De Historicis Ac Oratoribus Latinis, and Gerardus Joannes Vossius's De Historicis Latinis ; full leather calf ; spine worn with a few chips ; a probable leather title label missing from spine (?) ; inscribed "J. Clarke" and "Ex Libris Dionysii G. J. Brown" on front ep and flyleaf,… Read More

New York, M. Kennerley,1906., 1906. Fine. 1st edition ; 4 p. l., 278 p. 19 cm ; LCCN: 06-39779 ; OCLC: 5723561 ; LC: HQ21; Dewey: 197.6 ; red cloth ; no dustjacket ; clipped blurb from dustjacket pasted in front ep ; Contents: Super flumina Babylonis -- The Curtains of Solomon -- Aphodite Urania -- Sappho -- The Age of Aspasia -- The Banquet -- Roma-Amor -- Antony and Cleopatra --The Imperial Orgy -- Finis Amoris -- The Cloister and the Heart -- The pursuivants of love -- The parliaments of joy -- The doctors of the gay science -- The apotheosis -- Bluebeard -- The Renaissance -- Love in the seventeenth century -- Love in the eighteenth century -- The law of attraction ; "Historia Amoris ia a history of love as that divine passion has affected the great actors on t he stage of the world's history. It is fascinating as a story and a revelation as a study into the secret workings of the human heart. Brilliantly witty and delightfully engaging, the latest work of Mr. Saltus will be accepted as a… Read More

New York : Random House, 1991., 1991. Fine. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 263 pp. ; ISBN: 039457009X :; 9780394570099 LCCN: 90-53136 ; OCLC: 21678692 ; blue and beige cloth with metallic red lettering, in colorful dustjacket ; author's successful first novel ; "Salzman [writes of] China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture called The Laughing Sutra. Part Tom Sawyer, part Tom Jones, The Laughing Sutra draws us into an irresistible narrative of danger and comedy that speaks volumes about the nature of freedom and the meaning of loyalty." ; FINE/FINE

Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, CA ; Denver, CO : Clio Press, 1987., 1987. Good. Brown boards ; ex-lib ; stamps ; tear to back board ; labels ; 194 pp. ; G

Indianapolis : Howard W. Sams & Co., 1963, 1964, 1968.. 3 vols. ; v. 7: 128 pp. ; v.c. 8: 124 pp. ; v. 11: 94 pp. ; pictorial color stiff paper wrappers ; over 10,000 tube substitutions cover American receiving tubes, subminiature tubes, industrial substitutes, communications and special-purpose tubes, f. oreign substitutes for American types, American substitutes for foreign types, and picture-tube substitutes. ; VG/VG/VG.

Moskva (Moscow) : Izdatelstvo "Malysh", 1983., 1983. Very Good. [16] pp. ; color illustrations by Tabyldiev ; 28 cm. ; color pictorial paper wrappers ; text in Russian ; childrens' story based on the Khazak folktale about the Khazak hero, Aldar Kose; very fine illustrations ; VG