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Art at Auction, the Year at Sotheby Parake Bernet 1979-80 . London Sotheby Parke Bernet 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0856671010. 496pp. More than 600 items are illustrated and described with prices . 10-5/8" x 8-3/8" . Dark blue boards (extra heavy boards) w/bright gold spine lettering. ART. Page-after-page of full-color reproductions and photos, plus some B&W ills. VG + / VG + .. Bookseller reference : 1151 ISBN : 0856671010 |
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Audience, Volume 1, Number 1, Advance Edition . NY: Audience Magazine, 1970. Hardcover. 112pp. Full-color & b/w photos and art reproductions . 12-1/8" X 9-1/8" . HC. White boards, full-color illustrations on front & back covers . BellesLettres. John Clellon Holmes, Nelson Algred, Charles Pratt, Thomas Meehan, Robert Weaver, A. B. Yehoshua, Dennis Stock, Geoffrey Dutton, William Stafford, Isaac Bashevis Singer . Moderate rubbing and soil of covers, front cover's top edge has a minor dent, interior clean and sound. No DW. Good .. Bookseller reference : 5890 |
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Britannica Book of the Year 1962 . Chicago, Etc. Encyclopaedia Britannica C 1962. . 767pp. Index. 11-1/8" X 8-1/2" . HC. Maroon leatherette, bright gold lettering . REFERENCE. 1/2" tear at top of spine, material on front hinge is cracked but hinge is sound. Binding is clean and sound. Name & date on front pastedown, minor soil on fore edge, contents clean and sound. No DW. Good .. Bookseller reference : 6943 |
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Britannica Book of the Year 1965 . Chicago, Etc. Encyclopaedia Britannica C 1965. . 896pp. Index. 11-1/8" X 8-1/2" . HC. Maroon leatherette, bright gold lettering . REFERENCE. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Name & date on front pastedown, o/w contents practically like new. No DW. VG + .. Bookseller reference : 6941 |
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Britannica Book of the Year 1975 . Chicago, Etc. Encyclopaedia Britannica C 1975. . 768pp. Index. 11-1/8"X 8-1/2" . HC. Maroon leathereette, bright gold lettering . REFERENCE. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Name & date on front paste down, o/w contents practically like new. No DW. VG + .. Bookseller reference : 6931 |
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Chilton's Repair & Tun-Up Guide Datson 1973 to 1980 . Radnor PA Chilton C 1980. . 277pp. Index. Drawings & photos . 9-7/8" X 6-3/8" . PB. Full color illustration on white wrappers. CARS. 510 & 1200 1973. 610 1973-76. 710 1974-77. B210 1974-78. F10 1976-78, 200XS 1977-30, 810 1977-80, 510 1978-80, 210 1979-80, 310 1979-80 Soiled covers have only minor wear, fore edge is very thumb-soiled, interior is clean & sound. Good .. Bookseller reference : 5775 |
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Preface By Corey Ford . Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice-Hall C 1958. Hardcover. 269pp. 24p of cartoons . 9-7/8" X 7" . Orange boards, black lettering . Dogs. Anthology by Ogden Nash, Steinbeck, Corey Ford, James Thurber, E. B. White, etc, etc. Brief inscription on front endpaper . DW quite worn & torn on edges, but clean & complete. Minor binding wear. Clean & sound interior. VG - / Fair + .. Bookseller reference : 4905 |
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Complete Guide to Seafood Cookery . Providence R. I. Seafood Council C 1982. . 94pp. Drawings by Wendy Andrews . 8vo . Flexible plastic illustrated covers, 3-ring binder . Household. How to: schuck oysters, skhuck quahaugs, eat a lobster, eat crabs, fillet a flounder, fillet a fish, devein and butterfly shjrimp, clean squid, clean mussel. Recipes. No DW. Fine .. Bookseller reference : 5825 |
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Dictionary of Scientific Terms . Baltimore Ottenheimer C 1963. . 190pp. 5-1/2" X 2-3/4" . Flexible black leatherette binding with gold lettering. REFERENCE. A Vest-Pocket Library volume, containing nearly 5000 scientific terms used in astronomy, biology, chemistdry, mineralogy, physics, zoology, etc. Type is small so eyesight should be good! . 3/4" tear bottom edge of dW's back panel. Binding is clean, sound, unworn as are the contents. VG / VG - .. Bookseller reference : 6861 |
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Ecclesiastes, with a Wood Engraving and Eight Trial Drawings By Hans Foy . December 1958. Hardcover. About 40 unnumbered pages. Lithographs. 12" X 6-7/8" . Red cloth, no spine lettering, title and two human figures in gold on front cover . Religion. ART. Each verse starts out with a few lines in red ink, rest is in black ink. Very slightly cocked. No DW. VG + .. Bookseller reference : 5280 |
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Entertainment Weekly Guide to the Greatest Movies Ever Made . NY Warner Books C 1996. Hardcover. 341pp. More than 100 B&W photos, drawings, cartoons . Tall 8vo . Black boards w/bright gold spine lettering. Hollywood. Witty and informative reviews, plus little-known facts, fascinating trivia . Front end paper has 2 verticle creases, o/w Fine / Fine.. Bookseller reference : 3304 |
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Family Circle Decorative Crafts for Your Home . NY Family Circle 1979. Hardcover. ISBN: 0405120559. 128pp. About 32p color photos, Dozens of b/w photos & drawings . 11" X 8-3/8" . HC. Full color illustrated boards . Household. Practical ideas for creating functional, beautiful and personal living spaces, to suit your family's needs and life style. Minor wear to corners & top/bottom of spine & a minor bump on fore edge of f ront cover, o/w binding is clean, sound and unworn. One undogged page. Contents clean & sound. No DW. VG - .. Bookseller reference : 6717 ISBN : 0405120559 |
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Farmer's World, the Yearbook of Agriculture 1964 . Hardcover. Washington DC US Dept. Of Agriculture 592pp. Index. Tall 8vo . HC. Green boards, brown spine, white lettering, small drawing on front cover . Garden. Agriculture. Emphasis on the importance of farmers in this changing, striving, industrially developing world . Minor binding wear and soil. Sound. Contents clean & sound. No Dw. VG .. Bookseller reference : 6095 |
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Gettysburg PA Conestoga Crafts C 1964. . 24 unnumbered pages. Drawings on every page. 8vo . Wraps. Colorfully illustrated covers are about the weight of posterboard . Staple binding. AMERICANA. A collection of quaintly amusing expressions heard among the pennsylvania Dutch Folks. Name on front cover. Minor soil and wear to covers. Contents are clean. Good + .. Bookseller reference : 8802 |
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Pittsburgh Rockwell International C 1978. . 122pp. Hundreds of b/w drawings & photos . Tall 8vo . HC. Full-color photos on front cover . Household. Aimed at helping you build handsome, stury furniture for considerably less than you would pay in a store. Most are well withn the woodworking capabilites of the average do-it-yourse lfer but a few projects will challenge and delight the expert . Corners and top/bottom of spine are moderately worn/bumped. Spine is moderately soiled but letteringis clear, o/w Minor soil to sound binding. Contents are clean and sound. No DJ. Good .. Bookseller reference : 7850 |
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Harvard Business Review - on Human Relations . NY Harper & Row . 1979. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060117893. Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; First Printing of Stated First Edition . 472pp. Index. 9-1/2" Tall . Black boards w/bright gold spine lettering. BUSINESS. Includes the writings of 30 outstanding social scientists and thinkers from the world of business, who address questions vital to the operations of any organaization. The viewpoint is sometimes an unconventional one in that many of the writers suggest that much of the literature on management has tended to either downplay or neglect the 'irrational' components of human behavior, the realms of emotion, intuitiion, judgment, and creativity. The book is divided into five sections, providing a comprehensive survey of HBR's most significant articles on the nonrational aspects of management.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket . Bookseller reference : 1971 ISBN : 0060117893 |
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Homage to Rodin. Collection of B. Gerald Cantor Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum Of Art 1967. Hardcover. 108pp. Contains a one-page biography, a bibliography, a list of exhibitions and page-after-page of sepia tone photos of Rodin's work. 4to. Dark gray boards w/bright gold lettering on spine an front cover. ART. 5, 700 copies printed in November, 1967 on the occasion of the exhibition. Front cover's fore edge corners are worn at very tips, covers faded at edges, spne faded but gold lettring is clear & bright. Name & date in ink on front flyleaf. No DW. Good + .. Bookseller reference : 1127 |
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U. S. A.: Navistar International Transportation, c. 1991. Large Paperback. 8" crease on back cover, 2-3 inches of front cover's fore edge is sun darkened, else very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; White PAPER COVERS with orange lettering and drawing. Cover is lighter than posterboard. Book is punched for a 3-ring binder. TRUCKS / CARS. "This book contains information for vehicles built from January 1, 1991 and later. " Contents: Circuit diagram index; Introduction: Circuit diagram instructions, Schematic Symbols; Circuit Diagrams (pages 8 - 125) ; Appendix: Connector body composite: Fuse Block connection; Connector body composite (end views) ; Lamp bulbs chart; Fuse, Circuit Breaker and switch chart; Circuit identification chart... Practically no text other than notes on the circuit diagrams. ; 8-3/8 x 10-3/4"; 163 pages. Very Good- . Bookseller reference : 27585 |
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Larousse Encyclopedia of the Earth . NY Promethues Press Second Impression Of The Second Edition 1967. Hardcover. 419pp. Index. Numerous full-page, full-color photos, hundreds of b/w photos . 11-1/2" X 8-1/4" . Green cloth, black lettering . REFERENCE. Spine and top 3/4" of front cover are faded. Lettering is clear. Inscription on front flyleaf. Binding is clean, unworn, sound. No DW. VG - .. Bookseller reference : 5246 |
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NY Newsweek C 1967. . 172pp. 131 full color art reproductions, many full-page 11-5/8" x 9-1/4" . Red leatherette binding w/bright gold lettering and design on spine. Great Museums of the World series. ART. A superb guided tour of the Louvre's great collections of painting and sculpture, from ancient Egypt and Misopotamia, Greek and Roman cultures, Biblical Asia, and Byzantium to the masterworks of the great Italian, flemish, German and Spanish schools. VG + / Fine. Bookseller reference : 1136 |
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Love Poems & Love Letters for All the Year . Hardcover. Mount Vernon NY Peter Pauper Press No date . About 55 unnumbered pages. Each month is headed by a full-page multi-color decoration . 7-3/8" X 4-3/8" . Decorated boards . POETRY. Each month has a poem or two or three and some have love letters from literature . Slightly canted. Moderate soil, minor wear. Endpapers foxed. Good .. Bookseller reference : 3465 |
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More Meanings of Your Dreams . Ottenheimer C 1995. Hardcover. 183pp. 8vo . Slick illustrated boards . REFERENCE. Alphabetized dream subjects interpreted . No DW. Initials and date on front endpaper, o/w as new .. Bookseller reference : 6908 |
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Mr. Boston Spirited Dessert Guide . NY Warner C 1962. Hardcover. ISBN: 0446512532. First Printing November 1982 . 120pp. Recipe index. Liquor index. 14p color photos, Small line drawings in text . Horizontal format: 7-1/4" X 8-1/4" . HC. Full-color illustrated boards . Household. More than 130 recipes for dessert delights accented with fine spirits, from cookies to crepes, tarts to tortes. Several approx. 1" tears in DW's edges. Very minor edge wear on clean and sound binding. Contents clean and sound. VG / G .. Bookseller reference : 6791 ISBN : 0446512532 |
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National Geographic Index 1947-1976 Inclusive . Washington DC National Geographic Society . C 1977. Hardcover. 451pp. Color photos . 10" X 6-7/8" . HC. Black cloth with yellow cloth spine, black lettering . REFERENCE. 39-page picture history of National Geographic 1947-1976, list of expeditions and scientific researches, list of medals and awards of the Society. DW is edge worn. Book is slightly bowed. Top edge foxed. Binding clean, unworn. Contents clean & sound. VG - / G .. Bookseller reference : 5959 |
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Minneapolis Winston Press Probably 1986. Hardcover. 44pp. 14 full-page, full-color photos, 4 partial-page, full-color photos. 7-3/4" X 5-3/8" . Cream boards, bright metallic lettering . Religion. Each phrase of the prayer is explored in turn, using quotations from well-known writers in addition to other verses from the Bible . Inscription on front endpaper, o/w Fine / VG + .. Bookseller reference : 5454 |