Search Results: Titles starting with S from Acme Book & Anvil

This is Kent's account of his time in Greenland -- a cracking read, but most renowned for his illustrations, including numerous full-page monochrome plates, and over fifty chapter headings. The spine gilt recalls the famous Kent-designed edition of Moby Dick, and would look good on a shelf next to it. That would also make up for the fact that this copy doesn't have a dust jacket. (I may still have a copy with a dust jacket for sale.)

Tight, square, solid hardcover bound in blue buckram with a bit of bumping on the spine corners and a tiny imperfection on the top edge of the front cover that you will never notice. Book comes with a 1920s-era transfer for the Chicgo Heights Railroad terminal. It's blank --fill it out however you like and see if it still works.

1st Edition, 1st Printing. Binding and pages are both in near-mint, apparently untouched condition: Binding is a sober greige cloth with red spine lettering and black accents, incl. facsimile of Reik's (tellingly jaggy) signature on front.
Pages apparently unturned, clean and unmarked throughout, with upper edge dyed black. The dust jacket, tan-colored with vivid black and red ink, is a certain familiar, age-fragile paper similar to thin construction paper, here still attractive and supple with some darkening and coarsening wher exposed to light (esp. spine), as though transforming alchemically into suede. Even the spine looks quite decent.
Also jacket: A 3/4" vertical tear on the leading edge of the front board, near the top corner, is pressed by Mylar sleeve into submission, although much more evident with book out of sleeve. Also a small notch on the right spine top, approaching the trivial but not there yet.
The overall look is one of a used book seen in a shop in 1959, omitting any question… Read More

Book has no shelf wear, and in fact little of that unquantifiable non-shelf wear that books get from being picked up and looked at, as in bookstores. And yet, a good book!

Part of the publishers' International Library of Sociology, of which numerous other volumes are described by way of Appendix. Presumed first trade edition.

This gets you up to the Frankfurt School as it was discussed and taught circa 1975, meaning in my opinion you get a pretty pure shot of it from just before French theory caught up and problematized its discourse.

Perfectly nice trade paperback with a tight, square solid binding and minuscule cosmetic flaws that only a book collector would care about. And I think if you're looking at a '70s treatment of the Frankfurt School, you're probably interested in actually reading books -- but don't let me get started on that. There are some markings inside by a reader of few words but occasional shows of enthusiasm such as "Strauss" and "WOW!!"

If you are interested in the social and political ideas of some great French thinkers of the Age of Reason, this collection of essays by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw will provide exactly that with a heavy dose of a now-antiquated, some would say imperio-monarchist ideology that for whatever reason, has not prevented Professor Hearnshaw's works from remaining sporadically in print. In any case, Hearnshaw also held the post of Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society.

The book has a tight, square, solid binding in maroon buckram with gilt lettering on the spine -- and is in about the condition a book would be in if someone had bought it in 1967, discarded the dust jacket as people used to do, and put it on a shelf until just today. Which appears to be the case.

As I am meticulous, slight imperfections prevent me from rating this as Fine or Mint, but hey, it's fine and it doesn't cost a mint.

Large, red clothbound volume with pictorial gilt front cover and spine lavishly and beautifully illustrated with 30 tipped in color plates with printed guards and numerous, equally charming pen and ink illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, an illustrator as renowned in the UK as Rackham and Dulac and presently less known in the US.

All plates and printed guards are present and pristine. Binding is holding together well but has cracked hinges. Spine is missing some cloth at top and bottom. Some edge and corner wear. Other marks as appropriate for a 1909 book.

A history of the Sony corporation, published under authority of Sony | Book is mint, dust jacket VG+ Dust jacket has the merest of edgewear ameliorated by a clear archival sleeve. Suitable for presentation to almost the fussiest Japanese colleague

This is Murray's well-known survey of Egyptian culture and civilization in an early edition loaded with illustrations including many full-page photos. It's a nice, solid hardcover edition of a book that's usually found in skinny diminished form. Full color frontis. Binding is a solid, tight and square large octavo/small quarto with no major flaws or markings aside from owner's name in pencil on ffep. Inserted separately is that former owner's Phi Delta Phi book mark, which seems to have a list of motels on it that I feel is none of my business.

The DJ is one of those fragile paper kinds they used to use in the '50s, when most people still chucked them out. It has a chipped upper and lower spine and a bit missing on the back, which is just ads in any case. It looks pretty good and clean overall, and in its clear archival cover it's actually pretty snazzy.