Search Results: Titles starting with W from Mike's Library

Lanham MD: University Press of America. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0819150177 . Library stamps/slip/labels, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover. ; "This book explores his craftsmanship and makes a new and necessary contribution to the criticism of his technique and its relation to his thought. The first chapter deals with his theory of the poet as craftsman. Ths succeeding chapters consider Yeats at work on the making of his idiom, rhythmic structure, and the dramatic form of his poem." ; Ex-Library; 135 pages .

San Bernardino CA: Borgo Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0893703516 . Library stamps/marks/labels, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; SIGNED by editor, Daryl F Mallett, on title page. "Dr Kwadwo O Pobi-Asamani, a student of Du Bois's in Ghana, here delineates the contributions of Du Bois to Pan-Africanism, and pays tribute to this visionary on the 106th anniversary of his graduation from Fisk." ; Black Political Studies; Ex-Library; Vol. 4; 136 pages; Signed by Editor .

Wilkes-Barre: Times Leader. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. Slight wear. Crisp oversize hardcover.; "A collection of thoughts, reflexions and pictures as told by members of the Wyoming Valley community who served in various theatres of the war."; x, 154 pages .

Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 3416015045 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; German language. ; Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik; Ex-Library; Vol. 86; 262 pages .

New York: Chelsea House ; Distributed By Crown Publishers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1965. Stapled wraps. Light edgewear and cover curl, otherwise light wear. Solid paperback stapled wraps.; Humorous take on personal investing, in the form of an ABC dictionary of terms. Cartoon illustrations by JAF, The Village Voice cartoonist James Frankfort. "L Low 1. The price when you sold. 2. Low for the day: the moment your sell order went through. Immediately after, it rallies. 3. New low: what happens immediately after you buy. (See: High; and just reverse everything - except the blood pressure." Wonderful topical piece of Sixties humor, skewering Wall Street investing. ; Cartoons; Unpaginated [49] pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0824004558 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Crisp copy.; Reprint of the 1916 edition. "In War and the Workers he reiterated a basic argument of The Great Illusion, that war was not inevitable - a very different matter from "impossible" - but that the belief in the inevitability of war was a major factor in bringing one on." Sir Norman Angell was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. ; The Garland Library of War and Peace; Ex-Library; 63+vi pages .

Riverside CT: Hillacre Bookhouse. Good with no dust jacket. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine covering missing, light edgewear, light tone, owner's bookplate, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Leon Pierce Clark was a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known for his work on epilepsy. He authored two psychobiographies late in life, on Napoleon and on Lincoln. This uncommon book is his only published poetry, containing 154 short poems, some reflecting his professional interests. One such poetry on epilepsy, "The Status", reads: "I know not why God burdens so! Convulsed with pain And bathed in stup'rous death Contending hells possess my prostate form My muscles knot The blood stands still The breath not less than spirit Filled with woe I live, I die And nights enslave my soul Ah, God, why burden so! Yet slay entire And rend the body quite, But let my spirit go! The awful pain, the black night- tide, Unconsciousness – I hope not gift from… Read More

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0824002180 . Ex-Library. Library stamps/slip, slight wear. Crisp hardcover. ; Reprint of 1808 edition, published during the sixteenth year of the war against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. "Although the major point against war is its un-Christian, inhuman nature, selections are included denouncing war as impractical and unrealistic." ; The Garland Library of War and Peace; Ex-Library; 204 pages .

New York: Francis P. Harper. Good with no dust jacket. 1896. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, front hinge starting but holding, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Limited Edition, #94 of 450 copies. Henry Van Ness Boynton earned a Congressional Medal of Honor during the Battle of Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga, and helped lead the postwar creation of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battlefields national park. Boynton had already written a book critiquing Sherman's generalship, and was a strong partisan of General Thomas. General George Henry Thomas, who had been Sherman's roommate at West Point, was a Virginian who stayed loyal to the Union (he was declared dead by his sisters who never reconciled with him). The successes Thomas had earned had also alienated him from Generals Grant and Sherman. Left with insufficient forces to take the offense out of Nashville, Thomas delayed attacking until his cavalry was fully equipped and prepared.… Read More

New York: James Miller, Publisher. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1876. Hardcover. Fraying to spine head and tail, some random foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; English writer's homage to George Washington, on the occasion of the Centennial (1876). ""This play will be read to the public by the author during his present visit to America. ... Having all through my life had an honest admiration for George Washington [in a very early book of mine, "The Modern Pyramid", he is one of my "Worthiest of Mankind"], I rejoice in the chance of making a monogram of his noble life: and my own well-known international sentiments now for nearly half a century, dating as they do ancestrally from much older times, will be a good excuse, if such be needed, for producing this Play on the Centenary of American Independence." - author's Notice. Tupper's play is the original source of the idea that Washington's coat of arms may have influenced… Read More

Rotterdam: A A Balkema. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 9054103566 . Front hinge creaks, taped 1/2" head tear, otherwise light wear. Solid copy. ; Table of Contents: Foreword; VIP Lectures; Keynote Lectures; 1 Current International Practice (12 papers + discussion), 2 Basic Principles (14 papers + discussion); 3 Engineering Behaviour (12 papers + discussion); 4 Pollutant Control (14 papers + discussion); 5 Treatment of Old Landfill Sites (11 papers + discussion); 6 Case Histories (11 papers + discussion); Closing Session; Author Index. ; 692 pages .

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Library REBIND, library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Crisp oversize hardcover.; "This small treatise is limited in scope to hydraulic problems met with when designing channels for conveyance of water. ... In brief, the author's aim is to furnish - graphically, where possible - such information as will enable the designer of a channel, or a system of channels, (a) to grasp the significance of (1) form of cross-section, (2) changing from one form of cross-section to another in a channel, (3) roughness or smoothness of beds and sides, and (4) the relation of longitudinal slope to (1), (2), and (3); and (b) thus to choose the most suitable form and slope for given conditions, as well as (c) to ascertain the best way of effecting changes in cross-section where such are necessary." - Preface. ; Ex-Library; viii, 135 pages .

New York: Jean Berte Inc. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Text tone, light edge chipping to the four page preliminary text sheet, otherwise light wear and crisp colors; Portfolio with hinge starting but firm, edgeworn, chipping to spine head, front cover fade and rubbed, crease to bottom front corner, hand written spine title and "I U S" at spine bottom, pencil "Berte, Jean, Inc" atop the front cover with "IUS" pencilled at bottom, bookplates on both paste-downs: "From the Library of The Research Laboratories of the International Printing Ink Corporation and subsidiary companies," intact string ties. Solid hardcover portfolio. ; Six sections and four pages of preliminary text, loose in portfolio. Each of the sections contains illustrations (part colored) with descriptive letterpress. "Not long after the French printer Jean Berté (1883-1981) immigrated to the United States, he applied for a patent to his watercolor printing… Read More

Pittsburgh: Instrument Society of America. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0876642393 . Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Contains twenty (20) papers related to water pollution. ; 228 pages .

Paris: J Hetzel & Cie, Libraires-Editeurs. Good with no dust jacket. 1875. Early Printing. Hardcover. Gutter cracking, light tone with light foxing, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover. ; French language. Illustrations by Eduard Riou, known for his Jules Verne illustration art. Early printing of the final novel in Napoleonic Wars historical series by Erckmann-Chatrian. ; Romans Nationaux; 114, 2 ad pages .

Cincinnati OH: American Building Association News Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Spine sun, light tone, otherwise light wear. Soild hardcover.; Henry S Rosenthal, Editor of American Building Association News, offers his view on the best way to get out of the Great Depression - large scale construction of low cost housing. ; 74 pages .

New York: Philipp Feldheim. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Light cover rub, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; Bilingual, Hebrew and English texts. Contents: Part One: Chapter I: Israel, A Holy People; Ch II: Charity and Benevolence; Ch III: Filial Duties; Ch IV: Husband and Wife; Ch V: The Power of the Tongue; Ch VI: Man and Man; Part Two: The Life of Maimonides with selections from The Book Of Knowledge. "Ways of Pleasantness is a work based on the concept of kedusha, or holiness. In both meaning and message, the word is one of the richest in the human language. It expresses love, both human and divine; it represents justice, righteousness, kindness, humility; it signifies whatever is decent, noble, refined, or pure. All that is good and true and morally beautiful is embodied by this one Hebrew word, kedusha." ; ix, 135, 48 pages .

Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0847678989 . Slight wear; Dust Jacket slight wear. Crisp NEW hardcover. ; Ways of Escape provides a history of leisure and travel and a cartography of "escape activity". The author examines how pleasure has been managed from the middle ages to the present day, and examines the differences in leisure and travel opportunities for men and women. Rojek situates leisure and travel in the context of the debate on modernity and postmodernity, and uses examples drawn from Europe and North America to produce a dazzling analysis of the experience and ideology of escape in Western society.<p> Postmodern Social Futures series.; 251 pages .

Burnstown ON: General Store Publishing House. Good+ with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paperback. 1894263243 . Library stamps/marks/labels, spine tape reinforced, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; "Intrigued by the names and initials carved into the cenotaph at the Eastern Ontario town of Carleton Place, Larry Gray has brought back to life the forty-six young men - and one woman - who are commemorated there. Beginning with the onset of hostilities in 1914 and following the progress of the First World War in all areas of service through the Armistice and the flu epidemic of 1918-1919, he uses their words and records as preserved in letters, poetry, newspaper accounts and military files to recreate the horror that marked a generation." ; Ex-Library; 349 pages .

New York: Alfred A Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1920. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light wear; Dust Jacket spine sun, light soil/rub, small chips and light edgewear. Solid hardcover. ; "What he preaches in the ensuing aphorisms is the emancipation of the modern spirit from its rotting heritage of ingenuous fears and exploded certainties. What he denounces most bitterly is the abandonment of a world that is beautifully surprising and charming to the rule of sordid, timid and unimaginative men - the regimentation of ideas in a system that is half a denial of the obvious and half a conglomeration of outworn metaphors, all taken too literally." - Introduction by H L Mencken. First US Edition, First Printing, in Dust Jacket, of Muir's first work. ; The Free Lance Books; 244 pages .