Search Results: Titles starting with U from Aardvark Rare Books

Montgomery, Alabama: Air Command and Staff College, 1985. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good Plus. Stapled pamphlet, 8 in. x 5.1 in., pp. vii, [1], 75. White paper with two blue double-bars and title to front. Rust to staples. Umarked interior. Laid-in: 3 in. x 5 in. card: "With the compliments of the Air Command and Staff College" "In this study, Dr Howard Hensel reviews the themes developed in the Soviet media during the last several years regarding superpower space policy. In the final section of the study, Dr. Hensel evaluates a series of interpretations which might be applied in assessing Soviet-American space policies." (from the Foreward).

Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. Paper magazine-style covers, 6 1/2" x 10 1/4". Cover illustrated with image of a man, woman, and child being confronted by a shadowy alien and his spaceship. Wear and toning to front and back covers, corners chipped, edges browned. 1 3/4" closed tear to first page (FFEP) neatly repaired with scotch tape. All pages show some toning. Small stain to right margins of pp.25-36, not affecting text-block. 224 pp. "MORE THAN 60 TRUE STORIES OF SIGHTINGS-EVIDENCE-CONTACT!" (from the cover) All stories told in full color graphic (cartoon) style. Illustrations are uncredited.

Portland, OR: Wild Flower Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, 8.5 in. x 5.4 in., pp. 252. Flat-signed by author on the title page. From the back cover: "Ida Kannenberg has coexisted with a live in disembodied psychic being and/or ET since the 1940s. His name is Hweig, and it is pronounced 'Hw-eye-jsh.." Through impkants he hears what she hears and sees what she sees. Now in UFOs and the Psychic Factor , Ida and Hweig share their story...." A pioneer researcher of the UFO enigma, Ida M. Kannenberg sponsored with Dr. Leo Sprinkle the First Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in 1980 at the University of Wyoming. At the historic conference, she introduced the time travelers that contacted her in 1940. "Like most UFO abductees or contactees, she [Kannenberg] sees herself as an unobtrusive, unimportant, everyday person," wrote Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Kannenberg wrote about UFO encounters as she experienced them, information conveyed by the time travelers, and observations about… Read More

Portland, OR: Wild Flower Press, 1992. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Trade paperback, 8.5 in. x 5.4 in., pp. 252. Inscribed and signed on the dedication page: "For Lee and Gary Kirk, the Best of all Sons and Daughters." From the back cover: "Ida Kannenberg has coexisted with a live in disembodied psychic being and/or ET since the 1940s. His name is Hweig, and it is pronounced 'Hw-eye-jsh.." Through impkants he hears what she hears and sees what she sees. Now in UFOs and the Psychic Factor , Ida and Hweig share their story...." A pioneer researcher of the UFO enigma, Ida M. Kannenberg sponsored with Dr. Leo Sprinkle the First Rocky Mountain UFO Conference in 1980 at the University of Wyoming. At the historic conference, she introduced the time travelers that contacted her in 1940. "Like most UFO abductees or contactees, she [Kannenberg] sees herself as an unobtrusive, unimportant, everyday person," wrote Dr. Leo Sprinkle. Kannenberg wrote about UFO encounters as she experienced them,… Read More

Belfast, Ireland: Wm. W. Cleland, Limited, 1936. Softcover. Good Plus. 12mo, 7.3 in. x 4.9 in. pp. 104. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps for each day's drive. Color fold-out map (14 in x 16.5 in.) at rear endpapers of Ulster. Pictorial color front cover with black title outlined in red. Hand-written title to spine. Lilght rubbing to extremities; light soiling to rear cover. Five inch closed tear to color map.

London, England: Elliot Stock, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. xiii, [3], 121. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, eleven additional plates, and two drawings. Dark red-brown cloth boards with gilt title to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities. Bottom corners bumped. Slight spine lean. Previous owner's bookplate ("J. Johnston Abraham") to front pastedown. Bookshop label ("The Time Book Club, London") and ink stamp, dated 1914, to rear pastedown. Spine cracked, but holding. Age-toning to pages. NOTE: This is NOT a traditional collection of tales, but rather an approachable, and rather peculiar, tour of Northern Ireland that introduces the important sites, characters, and folk-stories relevant to the regional folklore. From the book's 1913 review published in the journal "Nature": "This dainty volume is made up of a collection of papers communicated to various societies and journals. As much of the information was collected at first hand, the book… Read More

Belfast, Ireland: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, Royal Ulster Works, 1893. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 7.2 in. x 5 in., pp. [4] (advertising), 96, [4] (advertising). Illustrated with frontis of Henry Joy McCracken and black and white engravings throughout. Red pictorial paper boards over brown cloth spine. Rubbing to extremities; a few scuffs to the boards. Previous owner's name, dated 1924, in ink to front flyleaf. Spine and hinges tight. Robert Magill Young (1851-1925), who was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Belfast in 1895, was active in the public and cultural life of the city. He was a well-known and highly regarded local historian and antiquarian. He lectured frequently and published papers regularly in the revived Ulster Journal of Archaeology, of which he was also an editor, and in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He edited The Town Book of the Corporation of Belfast: 1613-1816 (1892) and Historical notices of old Belfast and its… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus in Chipped Dustjacket. Alexander Popini. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in., pp. 383. Illustrated with 21 maps, engravings, and black and white photographs. Blue boards with silver title to front and spine. Blue Roman ship design to front and rear endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Small bump to top of front joint. Sunning to edges and top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's signature to top of front free endpaper. Rubbing to edges and bottom spine of dustjacket. 2 in. x 1 in. chip to top of dustjacket spine; chips to bottom of dustjacket. Corner of bottom front flap clipped, but price ($3.50) is not clipped. AB 16871 OCLC 1494868. Thule is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shetland, northern Scotland, the island of Saaremaa (Ösel) in Estonia, and the Norwegian island of Smøla. In classical and medieval… Read More

London, England: Printed for Robert Knaplock Bishop's-Head in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1714. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Octavo. Rebound (January 1926, so states the handwritten note on the front pastedown) in black cloth with gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Previous owner's signature and date in ink to front endpaper, and two previous owners signatures Ada Scott Lusk, Aline L. Smith (from Highland Park, Ill.), in ink to front free endpapers ("Rebound January 1926, H.A. Smith"). Head-and tailpieces. 502 pp.a two pp. explicatory note by the author with heading "Advertisement" plus 60 pp. appendix, the final 20 pages of which show some staining/tidelines, but not obscuring easy reading of the text. lxviii,[12],504;59,[1]p. This is Johnson's best-known work and argues "for a real sacrifice in the eucharist", It was reissued in 1847 in the Anglo-Catholic Library. (ODNB) ESTC T121275 NOTE: The first part; a second part published in 1717 (ESTC states 1718, but may be wrong). Johnson… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Will James (author). Octavo 8 1/4 in. x 6 in. Orange boards with black lettering and graphic of two kids, one holding a rope, the other a harness. Rubbing to extremities. Corners lightly nudged. 1932 on both title page and copyright page, and the Scribner's "A" present on copyright page.; Will James's characteristic printed signature within two lines and "32". Illustrated by the author. Nice, square, tight copy of a signed Will James title. "...James was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in the Québec parish of Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton in Canada. He left home in 1907 to fulfill his dream of becoming a cowboy. By 1910 he had crossed the Canadian-U.S. border into Montana and changed his name to Will James..." James was "an artist and author of books about the American west and, in particular, horses, Will James wrote the 1926 book "Smoky the Cowhorse", which was awarded the John Newbery Medal in 1927. The book has… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Will James (author). Octavo 8 1/4 in. x 6 in. Orange boards with black lettering and graphic of two kids, one holding a rope, the other a harness. A few little stains to front board and a smudge to rear board.1932 on both title page and copyright page, and the Scribner's "A" present on copyright page. Rubbing to extremities;Corners lightly nudged. Ink-stamped previous owner's stamp to bottom and top edges and to front free endpaper, though mercifully, very very light. Will James's characteristic printed signature within two lines and "32". Previous owner's inked inscription also to top of front free endpaper. Illustrated by the author. Nice, square, tight copy of a signed Will James title. "...James was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in the Québec parish of Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton in Canada. He left home in 1907 to fulfill his dream of becoming a cowboy. By 1910 he had crossed the Canadian-U.S. border into… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Good only dustjacket.. Will James (author). Octavo 8 1/4 in. x 6 in. Orange boards with black lettering and graphic of two kids, one holding a rope, the other a harness. A super bright copy of a later printing, with corners lightly bumped and nudged. Slight discoloration to endpapers. Edgewear and chipping in several places, to dustjacket, with a 1.5 in. x 1.25 in chip to top of front panel, but not obscuring any text. Original price of $2.00 to top of front dustjacket flap. (Yes, price stayed the same from the time this book was first published in 1932, to this reprint 9 years later!) Illustrated by the author. Nice, clean square, tight copy. "...James was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in the Québec parish of Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton in Canada. He left home in 1907 to fulfill his dream of becoming a cowboy. By 1910 he had crossed the Canadian-U.S. border into Montana and changed his name to Will… Read More

Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Very Early Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. Original green cloth binding with gilt decoration. New spine with 3/4 of original spine with titles and decoration affixed. Front and rear cover gilt design is fairly bright, as is the gilt decorated border. Corners bumped, general light cover wear. All edges gilt. 322 pages plus 12 page publisher catalog. Title page vignette, three plates. General toning and some foxing to pages, text is bright. Binding is sound. Stated Eighty-Fifth Thousand, on title page. The first print run of Uncle Tom's Cabin [March, 1852] totaled 5,000 copies of which 3,000 were sold on the first day and the rest were sold by the fourth day. An amazing 50,000 copies were sold in the first sixty days. This stated "Eighty-Fifth Thousand" edition probably came out around August or September of 1852.

London, England: George Routledge & Sons, 1878. Second State. Hardcover. Good. First Edition, Second State with all points present, including additional three illustrations (pp. 21, 35, & 63) omitted from later printings. "End of Contents" on p. 14, and imprint ((Drawn on Stone & Printed by Wemple & Company Art Lithographers, New York.) on verso of title page. Rubbing to extremities, and a tiny burn spot (Mother's cigarette ash?) to the margin of several of the pages.

London, England: Vallentine Mitchell, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 9.4 in. x 6.25 in., pp. xxiv, [2], 666. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Unmarked interior. Light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Martin Sugarman is an archivist for The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) and treasurer of its Stamford Hill and Hackney Branch. Author of five books on the Jewish contribution to the British war effort in the Second World War, and many other published research papers. Martin is an expert on Jewish military history and advises people on how to find out about their Jewish military ancestors. (from Wiener Holocast Library).

San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1991. Revised. Softcover. Very Good Minus. 9 in. x 8 1/2 in. Covers just a big age-tanned; otherwise book tight and bright. One small gift inscription to the front free endpaper. First printing of this revised edition by North Point Press. "The Red River Gorge is an uncultivated area of great natural beauty near the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Twenty years ago (then, 1971), a large portion of this scenic wilderness was destined to be drowned under the waters of a man-made lake. Deeply outratged and profoundly saddened by the impending loss, Wedell Berry and Ralph Eugene Meatyard set out to preserve their experiences of this unique and beautiful place..." "This book represents two visions among many that ultimately saved the Gorge from destruction. Happily not an epitaph to one place, iot remains a relevant homage to wild places everywhere...." (Rear Panel).

London, England: J. Madden & Co, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5 in. Volume I: pp. xvi, [3], 452, 1-4 (advertising). Volume II: 451, [1], 1-4 (advertising). Printed by E. Brewster. Modern three-quarter dark brown calf ruled in blind over marbled boards. Gilt title with gilt horizontal bars, and four raised bands, to spine. New cream endpapers. Light spotting to half title pages. Unmarked interiors. Madden, Richard Robert (1798-1886) was a medical man, traveller, anti-slavery campaigner, government official, and historian of the United Irishmen... It is for his writings on the United Irishmen that he is best known in Ireland. His interest began when he visited and befriended in New York, after leaving Jamaica in 1835, the elderly William James MacNeven, by then the sole survivor of the original leadership of the Irish revolutionary movement, who persuaded him to become its historian. For the next six or seven years Madden collected information, oral as well as… Read More

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. GOOD PLUS IN GOOD DUSTJACKET. Small Octavo, black cloth with gilt titles. Corners lightly bumped, front board creased. Dust jacket chipped along top and bottom edges with a few closed tears (1"). Small 1/4" chip to bottom dustjacket spine. K-mart sticker half on dustjacket flap and half on front pastedown. Binding is clean and solid and textblock unmarked. Includes the plays Forensic & the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, 4-H Club. The plays in this volume comprise a fascinating, far-reaching and terrifying exploration of human societies, particularly their dangerous, insidious, and seductive tendency to mold and control human minds (from the inside flap). Front and rear photos to dustjacket of the playwright and his first wife, actress O-Lan Jones (to whom the book is dedicated).

Bloomington, Illinois: Charles Apell (Self-Published), 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Navy blue boards double ruled in red, with gilt lettering to front board and spine. (8 7/8 in. x 6 3/8 in.). Rubbing to extremities. Solidly bound. Hundreds of tested recipes, and many drawings of machinery. "Knowing the demand there is today for a candy teacher that is practical, reliable and up to date in the manufacture of all the different kinds of candy, chewing gum, ice cream and foiuntain specialties...I am in position to furnish the confectioners with the very latest formulas and methods...After selling my '20th Century Candy Teacher; to most all the leading confectioners of the country, also England, Japan, Australia, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, British Columbia and Africa, I decided to get up a larger and more descriptive book on candy-making, ice-cream-making, chewing gum and soda fountain work, also showing all the very latest machines that are used in the manufacture of my up-to-date… Read More