Search Results: Titles starting with V from Conover Books

Blacklick, Ohio, U.S.A.: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1991. Minor edge and corne wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; missing the ffep; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used first edition! Black boards with white lettering. 467 informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations and 16 wonderful pages illustrated in color! "VLSI Circuits and Systems in Silicon is based on the notes from a short course of the same name that has been run at the Southampton University Electronics Department since 1982. It addresses the ways in which design methodologies and attitudes towards computer assistance have evolved in the light of the increasing complexity of system design.". First Edition. Black Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

U.S.A.: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing, 1971. Reprint 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Edge and corner wear to the dj; spine of the dj is faded; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Red boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 344 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "This volume traces the history of the Indians in the Grand River Valley from the first written record in 1627 until the middle of the nineteenth century. Much of the book is devoted to the Six Nations Indians who, dispossessed of their homes in the Mohawk River Valley because of their allegiance to the British cause during the American War of Independence, were granted lands on the Grand River in Ontario after the war. From this grant arose many problems-the Indians' right to… Read More

U.S.A.: Self-published, 2012. A very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! White wrapper with black and red lettering. Inscribed by the author on the title page! 115 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "Knowing your true value is one of the most important things about you. when you feel valuable you act valuable. Unfortunately, we live in a world that puts a premium on social value rather than true intrinsic value. This book will help you discover what you are really worth......" (SIGNED COPY).. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Grand Haven, Michigan, U.S.A.: Brilliance Autio, 2006. MP3 on CD. Fine condition. CD is signed by the author. 13 hours of listening enjoyment on 1 MP3-CD. "Seven years ago, Sarah Mason's five-year-old daughter vanished during an outing at a park in Beaufort, South Carolina. Despite a frantic search, little Lexie was never found, and Sarah was left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and go on the best she could. Then, one hot August night, Sarah comes home to hear the phone ringing. When she picks it up, a child's terrified voice whispers, 'Mommy, help, come and get me.....' The call is cut off, but not before Sarah's heart goes into overdrive: she is sure the voice belonged to Lexie. Five-year-old Lexie.". Signed by Author. First Edition. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Audio CD.

Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Very rare and hard-to-find FIRST EDITION! Blue boards with silver lettering on the spine. 245 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages! Extremely scarce and out-of-print! "Economic growth in Latin America and the rise of material welfare has lagged behind that of more dynamic areas of the world economy. In a region prone to policy experiments, the policies of the Washington Consensus applied since the 1990s failed to bring sustained growth to most of Latin America. Andres Solimano and a set of contributors analyze the last 40 year in order to determine the role of economic reforms, external conditions, factor accumulation, income inequality, political… Read More

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company A hint of edge wear, gently shelf worn, former owner's inscription and a date (February 7, 1900) in ink on the ffep, overall a very crisp and clean wonderfully well-preserved used copy! No publishing date. Decorative green cloth with gilt design and lettering on the front board and spine. 364 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing, and fiddling: there are bullies pushing about, bucks ogling the women, knaves picking pockets, policemen on the lookout, quakcs (other quacks, plague take them!) bawling in front of their booths, and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Red and gray wrapper with white lettering. 171 informative and educational pages! "This book offers a new kind of listening practice at intermediate and more advanced levels. The theme of each set of dialogues is a common language function; the variations depend on, for example, who the speakers are, the relationship between them, the topic of the conversation, where and when it takes place.". Second Printing. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack Edge and corner wear, pages are toning, overall a very clean first edition, extremely collectible from the early 20th century! 77 well-preserved pages! "It is a curious truth that Spain in these days of her decline exercises almost as much control over the mind of the world as she exercised over its territories in the days of her great empire. Cervantes in literature and Velazquez in art seem destined to secure for their country a measure of immortality.". First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Bridgehead Books, 1956. Edge and corner wear; no dj; scuffed and scratched; corners are bumped and rubbed; front boards and lower portion of the spine are stained (does not affect readability); some shelf wear; overall a clean used copy! Blue cloth with red lettering on the spine. 252 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "'Preacher' Tyson, terror-stricken, his black hide naked to the waist and gashed by a maze of crisscrossed whip-wounds; his mushroom lips mashed into shapeless, purple pulp-horror; his flat, bunioned bare feet leaving a crimson trail upon the jagged-edged hiss rocks ---- tore his way mercilessly through saw-briars and black thorns." ----- from Chapter 1.. Reprint. Blue Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1941. Edge and corner wear to the dj, chipping at the head and tail of the spine of the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Brown cloth with black lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Deckle page edges. 273 unmarked and uncreased suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "Every murder case is really tried not by the evidence presented to the jurors but by the jurors' reactions to that evidence, and their reactions are governed solely by their own lives previous to the day when they sit holding the power of life and death over a fellow mortal. On the jury that was to try a woman accused of poisoning her small nephew, there sat two women, both of whom had known what murder could mean in a life.". Reprint. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1980. Minor edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, spine is lightly creased, pages are toning, overall a very crisp and clean first Ballantine Books edition! 245 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "Wicked, witty tales created especially for this volume by today's greatest mystery writers.". First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Brown cloth with embossed design and gilt lettering on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine. Frontis is a black and white illustration of Oliver Goldsmith. 273 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Wonderfully well-preserved! "To one who is familiar with eighteenth century life and literature, and with the mind and art of Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield needs little commentary. A few obscure allusions, an archaic word or two call for explanation; but that is all. Indeed, the story is so simple and obvious to such a reader that he is not unlikely to suppose it to be equally intelligible to those who lack his basis of information. The experience of the present editor is far from proving the correctness of this supposition. It is true that, just as a modern gallery audience listens with… Read More

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Open Air Flower Gardening; The Gardener's Prospects; Cyeas revoluta; Garden Asters; The Marigold; A Beginner in Fruit-growing; Violas; The Pampas Grass; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Country Homes; Amelanchier ovalis; Ismene calathina; Garden Spoils from the Autumn Woods; The Vegetable Garden; Christmas and Lenten Roses; A Beginner in Fruit-Growing; Our Native Tree Fruits; Premiums at State Fairs; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: October in the Garden; The Black Mazzard Cherry Tree; Meadow Sod; Oxalis as a Basket Plant; Door-yard Trees; Native Shrubs of New England; In Hope of Spring; The Owner; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 54 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Practical Horticulture; Hydrangeas; Winter Flowers for our Country Homes; March in New England; Cross-fertilized Corn; A Beginner in Fruit-growing; Marguerites; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Fruit-growing; Weeping Trees; Training American Grape Vines; Winter Fruits and Berries; Hardy Perennials and Shrubs; Culture of Peanuts; New Zealand Flax; Gentians; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; wrapper has a bit of age discoloration; portion of the first page is missing; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: The Approach of Spring; The Chinese Wisteria; Trees in History and Mythology; Winter Birds; Asparagus on Unmanured Soil; Florida and its Flowers; Peaches in Ohio; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1889. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 42 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Tree Planting; Blue Flowers Our Native Trees and Shrubs; The Tree Peony; The Calliopsis; Plumbago Capensis; School Lessons in Plant Culture; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.

Rochester, NY: James Vick Seedsman, 1890. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 54 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color illustrations! Contents include: Horticulture the Past Season; Hardy Roses all Summer; Autumntide; A Bunch of Shakespeare's Flowers; Arranging the Winter Garden; Native Flowers; Flowers for Memorial Day; Bachelor's Buttons; Foreign Notes.; Pleasant Gossip.; Our Young People....." ---- and many, many more editorials and articles of interest.