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

340 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Previous owner's name is on the top upper outside corner of the front free end paper. Front binding has three small spots on the inner edge and lettering on the spine is faded.

426 pp. Text is not marked. Pages are age-toned. Title page is unattached but included. Several library stamps, a label attached to the back free end paper, and a label attached to the front inside cover are present. A volume from the late 19th century.

Volume and DJ are in "As New Condition." From the front DJ flap, "Here is a colorful, panoramic story of seven men who ruled the Church of Rome at seven critical periods in the 600 years leading into the Reformation. It was an age of grandeur and corruption, of magnificent architecture and petty human foibles, of ecclesiastical heresy and moral degradation."

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has very slight wear at the corners. Full page color plates throughout. A solid copy. Photographs by Eliot Porter. "Baja California has places where man can let wilderness last if he elects to. They will help us to remember that man can never put the wilderness back. It doesn't work that way. Baja is a good place to respect what man discovers there and leaves alone, not what he brings there to change it, wherever he comes from. It is a place to learn. Without Baja's wildness, the world is just that much closer to becoming a cage." p.7.

119 pp. "This catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition "Ballerina in a Whirlpool...in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (September 30 - November 19, 2006). Full page color plates included. In as new condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. A Presentation Label is attached to the front free end paper. This volume appears to have not been put into circulation. DJ has been protected with a plastic cover. There are two library labels attached to the otherwise fine condition DJ. From the Foreword, "Today, the origin of the type can be better understood for, historically. The type is now known to have developed from an English basic hull model that did not originate in the earlier Jamaica and colonial sloops, but was the foundation for the hull development of these and of the English cutter, as well as other fast-sailing ships."

Text is unmarked with smudges on a couple of the margins. Front binding is cracked at the margin. Text block edges are darkened, and age toned. White lettering is faded on the front binding and on the spine. Illustrations included.

Text is clean and unmarked in intact covers without tears or chips. Several light smudges on the back cover. From the Dedication page, "Philosophy is as utterly worthless as theology unless it is based upon scientifically established facts instead of theories. I am indebted for this deepening conviction to the frequent reading of one among the greatest of books, 'The Riddle of the Universe', which has had a most revolutionary and salutary influence on my life; and, therefore, with a heart of gratitude, I dedicate this booklet to the author of that book, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel.

Several underlined and bracketed passages throughout. Covers are intact without chips or tears. From the back cover, "The working class will have to wage a prolonged struggle against all their enemies - above all, against the evil inheritance of the past: idleness, carelessness, crime, vanity. Two or three generations will have to grow up under the new conditions before laws and punishments will cease to be, before the power of the working-class State will be unnecessary, before all traces of the capitalist past will disappear. The proletarian State is necessary till, in the fully developed Communist system, there is left no trace of capitalism. - Bucharin and Preobraschensky.

32 pp. Booklet is in as new condition. Covers are bright and unmarred. "...the Russian orthodox Church authoritatively urged its flock and all people of goodwill to do everything possible to avert the all-destructive danger, bar the way to the armaments race and halt nd reverse it, delivering the world forever from mass annihilation by nuclear and other weaponry." p. 30.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Only defect in this fine volume is the previous owner's name on the front outside top corner of the front free end page. From the author's Preface "New discoveries every year contribute to the growth in our knowledge of the native peoples of Europe and of their interactions with the Roman Empire. Understanding the period during which European societies were in the process of formation is thus a dynamic enterprise. I hope that I convey some of the excitement of this endeavor in the pages that follow."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is cracked at the front margin but firmly attached. Front binding has a narrow stain along the outside edge. DJ is intact with a closed tear at the front top edge and several small chips at the DJ bottom. DJ smudging throughout.

196 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is lightly smudged with wear and fading on the spine. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. One passage on page 5 is bracketed. Illustrations by Arthur Penn. Sixteen additional pages of ads included.

In "As New Condition". Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "First published in 1925, this is the story of Dorinda Oakley. As a young woman she works in a general store whilst her parents eke out their existence in the starved Virginian Land. To Dorinda, Jason Greylock seems to offer an escape from the monotony, and she falls in love with him."

336 pp. Mid-20th century positions of the American Communist Party. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Appears not used.

95 pp. In as new condition. Black and white photos and maps included.

Text is clean ad unmarked. Front cover is scraped at the top outside corner. Back cover has a narrow stain at the top spine edge. Photo section included. Spine is not creased. From the front cover, "The most sensational pop group since the Beatles. Their own stories - in the intimate account of their lives and career by Tam Paton with Michael Wade. Never before seen photos."

Text is clean and unmarked. A number of pages are unopened. Fore edge of the text block is untrimmed. Slight cracks at the margins of the front and back boards. From the Introduction, "When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, and founded the first permanent colony in New England, they brought with them Henry Ainsworth's version of the Psalms in prose and metre, with the printed tunes. This version was used in the church at Plymouth until 1692. Elsewhere, the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, coming over in 1629 and 1630, sang the words and tunes of Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms..."

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamp is on the top of the text block. Price unclipped DJ has been protected by a plastic cover and is in fine condition. Library labels are attached to the back plastic cover. Illustrated throughout. A solid little used volume.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. The top outer edge of the front binding is slightly faded. A solid volume. Price unclipped DJ is worn around the edges with closed tears at the top and bottom DJ spine. From the front DJ flap, "... 'Beautiful Swimmers' is a book that delights and informs general readers and naturalists alike: a complete but humane natural history of the pugnacious, succulent Atlantic blue crab which...graces millions of American tables; a study of Chesapeake Bay - its history, its winds and tides, its graduations of depth, temperature, and salinity - which provides more crabs for human consumption than any other body of waterin the world..."