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réf. 1024400239.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. 1019720069.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1941réf. P0-FNXI-XVAC1941. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED by author on half-title page. First edition UNC 1941. No jacket. Book is VG minus. Bottom corners a little bumped one is worn through. Slight fraying to spine tips. Pages yellowed with an occasional minor blemish. Binding firm. hardcover
1937réf. 006666Garden City N.Y. : Doubleday Doran & Co. 1937 ©1935 1937. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 672 p. 52 leaves of plates : ill. maps ports. ; 24 cm. ; OCLC: 42472485 ; LC: D568.4; Dewey: 940.41 ; "Privately printed 1926; first published for general circulation 1935."/ Preface by A.W. Lawrence./ Portraits by Eric Kennington Augustus John William Roberts John Singer Sargent William Nicholson Henry Lamb William Rothenstein R.M. Young Colin Gill Frank Dobson and Gilbert Spencer and illustration by Sydney Carline. ; Contents: Preface / by A.W. Lawrence -- Introduction: the foundations of Arab revolt -- Book I: My first visit to Arabia -- Book II: Feisal's first extension northward -- Book III: Concentration against the Medina Railway -- Book IV: The expedition against Akaba -- Book V: Exploiting the new base -- Book VI: The failure of the bridges -- Book VII: A winter campaign -- Book VIII: Orthodoxy arrives -- Book IX: Manoeuvring for a final stroke -- Book X: The liberation of Damascus -- Epilogue. ; Includes indexes.; "T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks while the rest of the world was enmeshed in World War I. With its richly detailed evocation of the land and the people Lawrence passionately believed in its incisive portraits of key players from Faisal ibn Hussein the future Hashemite king of Syria and Iraq to General Sir Edmund Allenby and other members of the British imperial forces The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an indispensible primary historical source. It helps us to understand today's Middle East while giving us thrilling accounts of military exploits including the liberation of Aqaba and Damascus clandestine activities and human foibles." ; tan colored cloth in beautifully illustrated dustjacket ; bookplate ; thick heavy volume ; FINE/FINE Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937, ©1935 hardcover
1973réf. 5216Westport Conn. Avi Pub. Co.1973. 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. xi 330 p. illus. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0870551337; 9780870551338 LCCN: 72-96365 ; OCLC: 636498 ; LC: SB351.P3; Dewey: 641.3/5/6596 ; blue cloth without dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label date due pocket ; Contents: Historical background -- World product ion and marketing of peanuts -- The culture of peanuts -- Harvesting curing and shelling -- Storing peanuts -- Composition and nutritive value of peanuts -- Peanut butter -- Salted peanuts -- Peanut confections -- Peanut oil -- Technological developments in peanut uses -- Appendices. ; VG Westport, Conn., Avi Pub. Co.,1973. hardcover
1957réf. 4911Francestown NH : Golden Quill Press 1957. 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 1st edition ; 80 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 58-39091 ; LC: PS3525.U564; Dewey: 811.5 ; OCLC: 2692693 ; textured gold and grey faux leather with gold lettering and designs ; no dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation to John Ransom Lewis Jr. the Poet Laureate of Georgia on front ep ; Contents: Family style -- Sunday at the beach -- Jury duty -- New development -- Lunch hour: City square -- Scavenger woman -- Casualty -- Cocktail lounge -- Duel in the park -- Backwash -- Main event -- Home for the aged -- Charity case -- Visiting hours -- Men's ward -- State institution -- No credit line -- Factual escape -- Pin-up girl -- Enigma -- Premiere danseuse -- At the station -- First Everest -- Gym meet -- Home is. -- Boy's camp -- First forever -- box stall -- Paper chase -- Song for a daughter -- High jump -- Wood carving -- I Van Gogh -- Dwarf -- What price light effects -- Dime a dance -- Babalu -- Devil doll -- Final authority -- Armistice Ball -- Paris continuity -- Heart of a house -- Poe t -- Old woman on a beach -- The view is impressive -- The white the windy dawn -- Hare and tortoise -- Along the wind -- Expendables -- Sleep is an abstract -- Forecast -- Illusive Island -- Intermission -- Stranger in the streets -- Close off the flowering field -- The cleansing -- I am not here -- Innocent evening -- Piano piece -- Haunted house -- Worker in wood -- Wedding reception -- Elm Street -- The pointed and the round -- Old Kate -- Reminiscence -- Portrait of my Grandmother -- First visit. ; smudge on front cover ; ".exquisite poems by Lisa Crenelle who is Mrs. Crenelle Munroe of New York City. 'Delicate as lace'"--American Poetry Magazine 1946. Lisa Crenelle for many years wrote an internationally syndicated daily column for King Features ; "Lisa Crenelle's No Light Evaded lives up to its title. Her poems are terse and honestly phrased in the everyday American language."--Voices 1957 ; G Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1957. hardcover
1953réf. 4400Mexico DF : University of Chicago Press 1953. 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. 413 pp. ; illustrated ; OCLC: 12260210 ; LC: HD325 ; SIGNED presentation by the author to A. H. Jorgensen the President of the University of Connecticut ; beige textured cloth with gold lettering ; colour illustrations by David Alfara Siqueiro on frontispiece ; pencil sketches and biographies of famous characters from recent Mexican history : Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon Jose Maria Luis Mora Benito Juarez Francisco I Madero Venustiano Carranza; Alvaro Obregon; Plutarcho Elias Calles Emili o Portes Gil Abelardo L. Rodriguez Lazaro Cardenas; Manuel Avila Camacho ; Miguel Aleman; Aldolfo Ruiz Cortines Wistiano Luis Orozco Hernan Laborde Jesus Silva Herzog Lucio Mendieta y Nunez Marte R Gomez Narciso Bassols Francisco Villa Emi liano Zapata Felipe Carrillo Puerto Salvador Alvarado Antonio I Villarreal Lucio Blanco Ursulo Galvin Graciano Sanchez Saturnino Cedillo Basilio Vadillo Otillo Montano Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama Fernando Gonzalez Roa Luis Cabrera Lauro Vi adas Andres Molina Enrique Ricardo Flores Magon Graciano Sanchez Francisco J Mujica Alberto Carrera Torres and Gabriel Leyva. ; text in Spanish ; foxing ; slight wear ; no dustjacket ; VG Mexico DF : [University of Chicago Press], 1953. hardcover
1949réf. 57Baltimore : The Williams & Wilkins Company 1949. 1949. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 3rd ed. ; xi 783 pp. ; OCLC: 880501 ; LCCN: 49-6602 ; LC: RD593; Dewey: 617.48 ; grey and blue cloth in tattered dustjacket; numerous illustrations and x-rays ; the standard reference on the subject ; contributions from Alpers Davis Grant Peet Blau Bowman Davison Grinker Russell Dyke Hare Scarff Symonds Wechsler Weinberg Keschner Hyslop Hoefer Hassin et al. ; ownership signatures ; VG in G- dustjacket Baltimore : The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1949. hardcover
1947réf. 2066New York : John Wiley & Sons Inc. ; London : Chapman & Hall Limited 1947. 1947. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition 14th printing ; red cloth with gold lettering ; a large folded Mollier chart in back pocket ; a Temperature Entropy Chart printed in two colors on onion paper tipped in as figure 9 ; an overview of the calculus involved in computations concerning steam as well as detailed charts of saturation heat conductivity etc; the two afore-mentioned charts would make handsome displays ; name on front ep ; slight foxing ; else VG New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; London : Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1947. hardcover
réf. 1332858732.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0666066930.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1332682383.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0332556816.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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réf. 026669294X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 0282936017.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 328507framed. near fine. Framed black and white photo of American politician and United States ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson. Circa 1962. Please inquire for more information. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1952 and 1956 losing both elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower in landslides. Stevenson was the grandson of Adlai Stevenson the 23rd vice president of the United States. He was raised in Bloomington Illinois and was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in many positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration Federal Alcohol Administration Department of the Navy and the State Department. In 1945 he served on the committee that created the United Nations and was a member of the initial U.S. delegations to the UN. unknown
1963réf. 2832401963. unbound. fine. Signed photograph "Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit" 4 ½ X 6 ½ black & white matte-finish. An original J. Allen Cash photograph with back stamp depicting the Stateswoman wearing traditional garb while seated. This photograph was most likely taken while she was serving as Nehru%u2019s "special" envoy to Great Britain. Fine. Indian diplomat and politician. She was the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru the Aunt of Indira Gandhi and the grand-aunt of Rajiv Gandhi each of whom served as Prime Minister of India. unknown
1977réf. 2835771977. unbound. very good. 10" X 8" black & white image of the composer with baton in hand most likely conducting a studio orchestra. Boldly signed "Cordially Aaron Copland 1977" along the top white border margin. A lovely photograph with exceptional contrast. Very good . Important American composer whose works include Appalachian Song Billy the Kid and Rodeo. unknown
1961réf. 265633New York 1961. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 inches Columbia University New York Department of Greek and Latin September 30 1961. Written to Professor Aaron Noland The City College New York possibly planning a curriculum in large part: "In regard to topics for future meetings my personal preference would be No. 10 - Humanism. I have no comments on other matters." Horizontal folds; near fine condition. American educator and classical scholar best known for his long-time affiliation with Columbia University. unknown
1936réf. 266694New York 1936. unbound. 1 page 10.5 x 7.25 inches Park Avenue New York City March 16 1936. Written to Nelson Bell entertainment editor at the Washington Post in full: "Here is the photograph I promised you of Frank and me enclosed. It is not nearly nice enough for you but it is the only one I have at the moment." Accompanied by an outstanding heavy-stock 10 x 8-inch original silver gelatin photograph by George Hurrell 1904 - 1992 with his stamp on the bacl in which he used his trademark "soft lighting affect" achieving extraordinary results. Both items have a paperclip impression near the upper left corner; otherwise very good condition. English actress of the stage and cinema who often worked with her husband-actor Frank Lawton. unknown
1988réf. 2492661988. unbound. 1 page 4.25 x 6 inches July 4 1988. Signed "Frere Venzo" by the Jesuit painter on verso of a postcard of his painting "Giugno cui colli Berichi." In part: ".Je vous envoie avec mes exuses pour le retour la foto e la cart que vous m'avez." Includes a copied photo of Venzo and a fragment of the original airmail envelope in which it was sent. Very good condition. unknown
1968réf. 2474011968. framed. 1 page 10.25 x 7.25 inches no place May 8 1968. Signed "Mervyn" on personal stationery to "Daily News" writer Wanda Hale in part: ".The story was great -- don't know how you remembered all of it!.you are a fine newspaper woman and always have been." Accompanied by a 7 x 5-inch black-and-white photo of LeRoy in his photo-filled office. Strikingly framed in white red and black inside a black wood frame. Outer dimensions measure 19 x 21.5 inches. Near fine. unknown