Search Results: Titles starting with A from Supercalifabulistic Books

Knopf New York 1994 NF/NF.Blue boards with silver and gold gilt titles to front cover and spine. Clean, tight edition with no marks, no sticker. DJ is glossy with an angelic being on the front and a list of other short stories by John Updike on the back. Not price clipped, price of $24 US.. A collection of 22 short stories in all. Life beyond middle age is explored and found to have it's own exquisite sweetness.

New York: American Heritage Bonanza Books, 1987 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. NF/VG Book does not appear to be opened fully and read. Tight, clean edittion with no marks, tears, etc.There is a small tear to top front of jacket and slight shelf wear to corners and edges. Otherwise the jacket is bright , glossy and in near fine condition. "This is the story of the changes that came to America and the American people in the years between the two World Wars. At first, as the 1920's dawn, there is the ultra conservatism that rejects Wilson's League of Nations, amends the Constitution to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages, suspects every immigrant of being a Red, and places TWK (meaning Trade With the Klan) stickers in merchant-members' shop windows....The great euphoria reaches its climax with the stock market crash, and American Heritage History of the 1920s & 1930s examines the causes ad effects with clarity and historical perspective. Here you see what America was… Read More

Harper & Row 1964, Stated First. VG/VG Bright green boards with gilt titles. DJ has chips along edges, spine and corners, author's name on spine is partially whited out. Po's stamp on upper corner of first page and bottom of book. No other marks, clean. B&W photos of villagers. Map of Taiwan on back end papers. This is the amazing story of Lillian Dickson, a small, human dynamo of a woman who is achieving astounding results from her work among the natives of the mysterious island of Formosa. Upon arrival in 1927 she found that leprosy, headhunting, tuberculosis, the selling of little girls into prostitution and government corruption were all being taken for granted. She looked at the sea of suffering and said, "I'm going to take out my bucketfull".

London: Secker & Warburg, 1995 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/NF This special edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Orwell's great work, complementing the text with a series of magnificent pictures by Ralph Steadman. Book is clean, tight, no marks,like new. Slight scuffing to DJ, otherwise near fine condition, not price clipped. One of the best established and widely read masterpieces of our time, it has sold since then many millions of copies in over 70 languages; and its immortal satire - 'contre Stalin' as Orwell himself wrote to his French translator - remains as vivid and relevant today as it was on first publication..

Harper Collins, New York 2007 First. NF/NFBeautiful gift copy of The National Humanities Medal winning author of The Poisonwood Bible. Off white hard boards with deep red spine white titles on spine. Clean, tight, like new editon with no marks. DJ is green with a picture of hands holding red and white beans. An account of an award winning author and her family's journey eating home grown and locally grown foods. Their good humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a feed culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table.

Newly Translated with a forward by David Magarshack
New American Library, Signet Classic
Beautiful vintage copy!

New York: The John Day Company Book. Illus. by Margaret Ayer. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1944 copyright date, no publishing date.However, there is a statement that "it's bulk is less because government regulations prohibit use of heavier paper." Also there is a signature and date of 1944. So it appears that this book was printed in 1944. Brown boards in VG condition, with a gilt title and artistic symbol of Siam on the spine. Tight, clean copy. DJ is taped to the inside covers of the book in parts. The back of the DJ is present and contains B&W photos of Margaret Landon ad Anna Leonowens, explaining how they met in Margaret Landon's first person narrative..."a friend loaned me The Englilsh Governess at the Siamese Court, Mrs. Leonowens' first book, publised in 1870, with the remark," Here's a book you ought to read. The Siamese Government did everythig in their power to keep it from being published." I was already curious about Siam's rapid… Read More

Peacock Press/Bantom Books, 1977 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Stated first edition, first printing. Soft cover, very good condition, slight shelf wear to edges. Full of beautiful colorful prints by Artisssssssst nancy Ekholm Burkert including paintings from James and the Giant Peach, Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs, A Child's Calendar, The Nightengale, The Fir Tree, to name a few. Burkett's work is like that of the illuminators of manuscripts in the middle ages. Her stated goal is to "illuminate and expand" the story, and even though unconventional it would be more accurate to describe her as an illuminator rather than as an illustrator..

A Very Good copy of the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas written by Gertrude Stein
A Grey Arrow Book, 1960
Awesome collectible cover!
Soft Cover
Born in San Francisco Alice B. Toklas is an indelible figure in modern cultural history.