Search Results: Authors starting with A from Monkey House Books

Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1975. Softcover. Good. Cardinal principles of socialism and communism, cultural development of the USSR. Text in English, 72 pages, unusual volume. Covers have some wear, text clean, b/w photo section.

London: The British Travel Association, [no date] c.1968. Stapled softcover booklet. Good. Edgewear, some light spotting. 122 page guidebook, foldout map at back. Tourist information, places to visit, hotels, excursions.

New York and Chicago: Charles E. Merrill Company, 1919. Maroon cloth boards, gilt-stamped spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. 373 pages, index. Wear to covers. Pencil marks on outside page edge. Grammar, oral and written composition and English literature. Revised Edition.

Funk & Wagnalls, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Narrative history of Greece for tourists and armchair travelers from the Minoans through Crete & Mycenae, the great philosophers and city-states through Alexander and the Roman conquest. 332 pages, endpaper map, b/w photo section, some general wear & darkening.

Chicago: Loyola Press, A Jesuit Ministry, 2006 [1941]. Softcover. Fine. Father Francis Chisholm is sent to China to maintain a mission amidst poverty, civil war, and plague. Religious-themed fiction with colorful characters and a deep social conscience. 466 pages. Introduction by Joseph Bottum. Loyola Classics.

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Book club edition, BCE. 254 pages. Previous owner's name, else clean and square. Archibald Joseph Cronin, 1896-1981, was a Scottish novelist and physician whose novels often focus on the medical profession. He is particularly known for Keys of the Kingdom and Dr. Finlay's Casebook.

Grantsville, Maryland: Hobby House Press, 1994. Softcover. Very Good. 200 pages, b/w and color photos throughout, index. Featuring Barbie and other teen fashion dolls, Barbie collectibles 1987-1994, various Barbie periods such as the early years, couture, disco, etc.

Garden City, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Wry and poignant tale of a long-term love told through letters. Presented in New York on 13 February 1989 at the Promenade Theatre with Kathleen Turner & John Rubinstein; presented on Broadway at the Edison Theatre on 31 October 1989 with Jason Robards & Colleen Dewhurst. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition, 81 pages, binding tight, light wear to jacket. Gurney, 1930-2017, attended the Yale School of Drama and taught at MIT. His other works incude Love in Buffalo, The David Show, and Love and Money.

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Affectionate and often hilarious look at the American upper middle class. Opened 27 January 1982 at Playwrights Horizons in New York, with a cast that included William H. Macy. Book club edition, BCE. 88 pages, binding tight, light wear to jacket. Gurney, 1930-2017, attended the Yale School of Drama and taught at MIT. His other works incude Love in Buffalo, The David Show, and Love and Money.

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 1993 [1971]. Softcover. Very Good. Story of the aircraft carrier, 1927-1942, at the Battle of the Coral Sea. 208 pages, b/w photos, light cover wear, near fine.

New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 900 Broadway, cor 20th St., 1873. Light brown cloth, black and gilt-stamped cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Edward O. Jenkins Printer & Stereotyper, Robert Rutter - Binder. Portrait of a marriage, children, various trials, etc. Owner's information inked on ffep, James S. Walker, March 1880. 233 pages plus advertisements. Hinges good but loosening at center. Slight spine cock. Pages toned.

Howell, New Jersey: Dark Quest LLC, 2011. Softcover. Fine. Signed by the author on title page in black ink/ballpoint pen. All-new adventures of the Cliff's End Castle Guard. 162 pages. DeCandido, born in 1969, began writing for the school paper at Fordham University. He has written extensively for pre-existing series such as Star Trek, Supernatural, Spider-Man, World of Warcraft, and others.

Howell, New Jersey: Dark Quest LLC, 2004. Softcover. Fine. Signed by the author on title page in black ink/ballpoint pen. Debut adventures of the Cliff's End Castle Guard. 163 pages. DeCandido, born in 1969, began writing for the school paper at Fordham University. He has written extensively for pre-existing series such as Star Trek, Supernatural, Spider-Man, World of Warcraft, and others.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1928 [1917]. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Revision of the formerly titled Artificial Electric Lines. For students of electrical engineering. Real and artificial lines, composite lines, alternating-current lines. 426 pages, index, figures and tables, text unmarked. Appendices with formulas, constants, problems. Reference copy. Very dark green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, wear to spine and corners, front hinge loosening.

Rochester: Eastman Kodak Company, 1955. Stapled booklet. Good. No. E-13, Introducing Ektachrome. Covers exposures, meters, filters, flash, and processing. 33 pages, pocket exposure guide removed at perforations. Colors bright, occasional spotting, text clear. Small creases and wear to covers. Small area of dampstain to top corner.

New York et al.: Scholastic Book Services, 1967. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good/No Jacket. A young boy and his family adopt a coyote pup and take it from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. For older children/YA. 154 pages, general agewear.

75 Spring Street, New York, [no date]. Softcover catalog. Good. Box Hardware and Ornamental Brass Stamping, Bandings. B/w product catalog. Pages 57-8 loose but tucked in. Pages lightly foxed.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1925. Hardcover, dark green cloth boards. Good. 448 pages, previous owner's name. By the author of The Happy Warrior and If Winter Comes. Hutchinson, born 1889, was an English novelist popular in America after World War I.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. Softcover, trade paperback. Good/No Jacket. Part of The Strangers and Brothers novel sequence of six books. 311 pages, moderate wear & tear. The Scribner Library. Charles Percy Snow, 1905-1980, was an English novelist and scientist whose works often dealt with the 'ethics of power and questions of morality in a modern, scientific society.'

New York et al.: Atria Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition fine. Juniper Baker returns to her hometown to repair her relationship with her daughter and to solve the murder of her neighbor that took place when she was a teenager. 350 pages. Book of the Month Club, October 2021.