Search Results: Titles starting with R from The Sensible Magpie

Saratoga, California: R & E Publishers, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Very mild shelfwear to jacket. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black, cloth-covered boards. The number 845-1 printed on lower spine. Clean, tight, bright. 28 pp followed by index, i - xxii. An important sourcebook that demonstrates the omnipresence of racism and sexism in American popular culture. Quotes from "distinguished individuals" such as Spiro T. Agnew, Susan B. Anthony, Tallulah Bankhead, Calvin Coolidge, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther, George Patton, Albert Schweitzer, Edith Wharton, William F. Buckley, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. Individuals from all walks of life, like the victims of their prejudging, are the product of an environment and of the times in which they lived.

Summerville, Massachusetts: Radical America, 1983. Paperback. Very Good Plus. STAPLEBOUND. Mild shelf/edgewear to surfaces and extremities. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Grey and mauve lettering to white with blue illustrated cover. Clean, bright, solid binding. 75 pp with advertisements to rear of book. "In New York Transportation Workers Organizing in Boston" printed on front cover. Contents include : The Bus Stops Here ; The Recent History of the Bus Drivers Union ; In the Hot Seat ; Poem by Robin Becker ; Brass Valley : A Review by Ron Grele ; Queen of the Bolsheviks by Nancy Krieger and Paul Novick : A Radical Life by Paul Buhle.

Somerville, MA.: Radical America, 1982 . Paperback. VERY GOOD PLUS. THREE VOLUMES. STAPLEBOUND, Vol. 16, No. 6 and Vol. 17. Light shelfwear. Sunning to spine of Vol. 16, Nos. 1 & 2. Black and white illustrations to all volumes. All clean, bright and solidly bound. 175 pp / 80 pp / 80 pp, 335 total. 1982 and 1983 Vol. 16, No. 1 includes "Having a Good Time" : The American Family Goes Camping by Margaret Cerullo and Phyllis Ewen. Vol. 16, No. 6 includes Four Decades of Change : Black Workers in Southern Textiles, 1941 - 1981 by Mary Fredrickson. Vol. 17, No. 1 includes The Greens : Anti-Militarism and The Global Crisis, by Carl Boggs.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1987. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE. Photos by Robert Patterson. 105 full-page color photographs of the most gorgeous radios from the byegone era, you'll ever likely to see assembled between the covers of the same book. Light rubbing to corners.

North Bend, OR: Wildwood, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Comb binding. Mild shelfwear. Light sticker residue on lower front cover near spine. Yellow cover bordered in red with blue lettering and illustration. A blue diamond with a red numeral 1 inside and the word Guadalcanal. Yellow lettering on red comb binding. Illustrated. 217 pp. Clean, bright, solid binding. A Story About The First Marine Division and The Corps

MBI Publishing Company, 2001. Paperback. VERY GOOD . Unusual and fascinating look at the elite group of railway maintenance workers and the highly specialized machinery they employ to keep the tracks clear and safe. From defect-detection cars, to tie cranes, spike pullers, doodlebugs, rail grinders, rotary plows and more -- this behind-the-scenes look at the railways is great stuff for railroad buffs or for the just plain curious. TONS of photographs. One big bump in back, runs through the last sixty pages, but doesn't at all interfere with enjoyment or aesthetics of the book.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866. Hardcover. Good. A story from the perspective of a rat, of its life, home and travels. Not entirely fantasy, except that the rat is narrating, says the author, A.L.O.E. (A Lady Of England), "facts are enclosed in my fiction. I would suggest to my readers how wide and delightful a field of knowledge natural history must open to all, when there is so much to interest and admire even in those animals which we usually regard with contempt and disgust." 167 pp with 8 pp ads to rear of text. Previous owner's name to FFEP, foxing to endpapers, a bit of light occasional spotting. Corners nudged, edges lightly rubbed, pages a bit age-tanned. Light mustiness. Gilt lettering and design to spine, green cloth-covered boards, intricate border tooled to perimeter of boards. Some sweet illustrations. Solid binding. 

Wilsonville, Oregon: Beautiful America Publishing, 1990. Paperback. Near Fine. SIGNED. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Small pin-dot sized spot to pp 6 and 7. Glossy covers illustrated, front and rear, with color photograph of American Globeflower. Beautiful color photograph of each 308 plants listed. Includes Oregon map of regions of botanical interest. Clean, bright, solid binding. 194 pp with appendices, glossary, bibliography and index. Foreword by Jean L. Siddall. The purpose of this book is to acquaint mankind with Oregon's unique heritage of botanical treasure and the need to protect it.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. No dustjacket. Bottom corners lightly nudged. Mild wear to spinecaps, gently folded under. Pages age-tanned. A 1" piece torn from bottom corner of title page. Gilt rubbed off to titles on spine. Silver and black art deco design to front of black leather-like boards. Sepia illustration to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Clean, tight. 278 pp. This is one book of a six-volume set. A whodunit mystery novel which introduces the series character, Detective Colonel Anthony Gethryn. It is set in a country house in rural England. Gethryn, ex-secret service agent, investigates the murder of cabinet minister, John Hoode who is found battered to death with a wood-rasp.

Washington DC: NASA, 1970. Paperback. Good Plus. "Ray-tracing techniques are used extensively in the study and understanding of propagation of electromagnetic waves in any media (neutral, magneto-ionic, etc.). Combined with experimental data, the ray-tracing technique has served as a powerful tool." Begins with a general description of the program, then how to run the program, and ends with extensive information on the program structure. 296 pp. Light edgewear, light soiling to front cover 3", light scuffing to surfaces. Closed tear .5" at top of front cover/spine. Slight curling to lower front cover corner. Text is clean.

NEW YORK: Harper & Row, 1976. STATED FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD DJ. Author's signature (only) on title page. Some sunning to book itself, particular to top third of boards. Very slight edgewear to dustjacket extremities, and a light patina of age-tanning to pages. Collection of thirteen stories. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Stories reveal Mr. Morris's "...exceptional imagination, a gift for characterization, and an insightful grasp of human behavior..." (from dustjacket flap).

Racine, WI: Whitman, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Moderate scuffing to lightly soiled boards. Corners worn through. Delamination and tear to bottom spine. Very age-tanned. Brown and red lettering on spine and front of illustrated glossy yellow boards. 212 pp. Solid binding. Stories of the Real McCoys based upon the popular television series which ran from 1957 to 1963. Grandpa Amos and Little Luke share many adventures.

NEW YORK: Carroll & Graf, 1991. FIRST CARROLL AND GRAF EDITION. Hardcover. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordisk Sprog, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. In French, and some essays in English. 307 pp. Occasional very small stray pencil marks, throughout. Original wrappers. Previous owner's rubber stamp (faint) to top of front cover.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUSTJACKET. Hardcover (8vo) in mauve cloth; 330 pages. Clean, square, text unmarked; small pen marks on ffep. at upper corner. DJ crisp, slightly rubbed.

New York: Scribner's, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Clinedinst, Benjamin West. FIRST EDITION. Cocked with notable spine lean, but fresh and clean. Front hinges starting, rear hinges broken. Top and bottom spine and corners worn. Corners nudged. Scuffing and soiling to board surfaces. Age-tanned. A little staining to endpapers and text block edges. Gilt lettering debossed to spine and front of green cloth-covered boards. Burgundy, black and gilt debossed illustration to front. Illustration to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Eleven black and white illustrations. Clean. 584 pp. with advertisements to rear of book. Chapter 1 - In which there are several introductions. The old Gray plantation, "Red Rock," lay at the highest part of the rich rolling country, before it rose too abruptly in the wooded foothills of the blue mountains away to the westward. As everybody in the country knew, who knew anything, it took its name from the great red stain, as big as a blanket, which… Read More

Newark, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. REVIEW COPY. SHARP CORNERS. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild edgewear to jacket. Top spine and fold a bit scuffed. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of black cloth-covered boards. Clean, bright, solid binding. 293 pp with notes, bibliography and index. A collection "of essays on literary theory and history from a Marxist perspective, interviews with directors and dramaturgs on theater practice on the East German stage before 1990, and interviews with women who were active in the East German theater and are even more active since reunification," (front flap).

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Art Museum, 1985. Paperback. NEAR FINE. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Ten black and white figures, numerous illustrations, both half and full page. White lettering to front of black illustrated cover. Clean, bright, solid. 116 pp with chronology, selected bibliography, artists and selected designs. Alma Eikerman (1908 -- 1995) was a "pioneer in the resurgence of modern metalsmithing," (foreword). Exhibition art of Alma Eikerman plus samples from forty additional craftsman.

Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Mild shelfwear to extremities. Dustjacket very good. Various size closed tears, 1.5" and smaller, and creases to top jacket edge. Mild shelfwear to surfaces. Gilt lettering debossed to black spine, gilt design debossed to front of brick-red, leatherette boards. Glossy paper. With 450 illustrations, 423 in full color, 10 maps. Clean, bright, tight. 402 pp with illustrated index. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping. A volume in the Story of Man Library. Within these pages are the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Shakespeare. Renaissance men. More than 100,000 words of fact-filled text re-create this important time in history.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. GOOD. Edgetorn paper covers, but interior complete. This copy taken in when brand new and stamped by Oregon State Library March 20, 1915, and deaccessioned maybe 95 years later. Maps, and scads of scarce photographic images of an already-then-quickly-fading Native-American subsistence life. Report dated December 31st, 1914, deals in depth with the fishing industry - salmon (trapping, purse seining, haul or beach seining, gill-netting, other methods, seasons, closed seasons/water and exemptions, salteries, power-boat trolling, curing, enemies of Salmon, etc. Also Halibut, Codfish, Herring, Whaling, Trout, Taxation, Hatchery Work, Fishery Law Enforcement, Indians and Aleuts, Pollution, Fur-Bearing Animals, Fox Farms, Pribilof Islands, Reindeer, Seal Meat, Wireless Stations, General assessment of needs.PACKED with fabulous black and white photographs, many of Native Americans, dwellings, chiefs, settlements, early… Read More