Search Results: Authors starting with A from Zoar Books & Gallery

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 4 1/4" X 7", 303 pages. A celebration of the beauty of living in a harsh and hostile land. This book may well seem like a ride on a bucking bronco. It is rough, tough, combative. The author is a rebel and an eloquent loner. His is a passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. it has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and bueaty.

New York, NY: Dodd-Mead, 1899. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 367 pages. Illustrated with photos of ships and portraits. A well-written history of the war. Front hinge cracked, gift inscription on ffep, corners and spine ends bumped, lightly soiled.

South Windsor, CT: Inspiration House, 1982. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. Bette Eaton Bossen. 5 3/4" X 8 1/4," unpaginated. Signed by both the author and illustrator. This book is a rare and sensitive tapestry of life, woven thread upon thread, from the beauty and the mystery of the common things. Gift inscription on ffep. Bottom corner bumped. Minor edge-wear to dust jacket. Light soiling. Rear top edge has two 1/2" tears.

London: Syndicate Publishing, 1913. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heavy Quarto in red cloth, color plate on front cover, gilt lettering. Bumping on spine and corners. Some scratches.

Athol, MA: Haley's, 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 9" X 6 1/2." 84 pages. The poems raise questions of how to perceive dailiness; thay can starle a reader, can push and prod consciousness to go some steps farther, to take a new turn in an unfamiliar direction.Top rear corner slightly curled.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 422 pages. Inscribed to the poet Joseph Langland on title page. Inscribtion reads: "To Joe and Judy, With friendship, admiration and warmest affection, Tamas. Amherst, June, 1991." Tail of spine bumped.. Very minor edge wear on bottom edge of dust jacket.

London: Sydenham Society, 1849. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 5 3/4" X 9." Half brown leather binding with gilt decorated spine. Matching boards, text block edges and endpapers. Plates to rear. Minor wear to corners and spine tail.. Rubbing to boards. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages. Includes chapters on Ancient medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Prognostics, Regimen of acute diseases, First & Third books of the Epidemics, Injuries of the head, Surgery, Fractures, Articulations, Mochlicus, Aphorisms, The Oath, The Law, Ulcers, Fistulae, Hemorrhoids, and the Sacred Disease. Owners book-plate on front pastedown.

New York, NY: Viking, 1985. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. John Lawrence. 9.5" X 6.25". 160 pages. Brodart protected. A one-year diary of daily nature walks on the Isle of Man. Gift inscription on ffep.

Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews and McMeel, 1996. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 128 pages. A Dilbert Book. Minor edge-wear. Crease on corner.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2." 128 pages. The history of Mount Holyoke College as seen through postcards of the college's alumnae. Part of the Postcard History Series. Autographed copy. Bottom front corner slight curled.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Texas: Bruce Alger, 2013. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 6" X 9 1/4." 288 pages. July 1944, Grand Island, Nebraska Thru October 1945, Tinian, Marianas Islands. A soul-gripping, eye-witness account. 23 missions flown. Take a ride aboard the "Miss America '62" with Alger and the 2409 crew. Kennedy Space Center bookmark laid in.

Lexington, MA: Stephen Greene Press, 1983. 4th Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+/None. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The complete story of COVERED BRIDGES OF THE NORTHEAST: their origin, whereabouts and design. Here is richly detailed Americana to stir memories of the happy part these landmarks play in our folklore. Small crease on rear wrap.

New York, NY: Atria Books, 2017. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 6 1/4" X 9 1/4", 342 pages. A sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the resent past to 1970s Chili and Brazil. Slight rippling to top edge of dust jacket.

New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 315 pages. Assembling a feast of fascinating facts about the aphrodisiac powers of food and drink, Allende serves them up with both convincing admiration and due irreverence. A wonderful book for lovers and would-be lovers. Some tiny scratches on dust jacket.

Washington, D. C.: The Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good-/None. 200 pages. Front corners creased and bent, otherwise very clean.

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8 3/4" X 6." 227 pages. Agroecology, the scientific discipline that approaches the study of agriculture from an ecological perspective, is concerned with the optimization and stability of the agroecosystem as a whole. Agroecology bases most of its conceptual framework on time-tested traditional farming systems, which, although less productive on a per crop basis than modern commercial monocultures, are more sustainable and energy efficient.

Newton, MA: BaBoom Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good+/Fine. Marty Riskin. 9.25" X 9.5." 66 pages. The follies & foibles of aging told in familiar verse. A hilarious read.

Baltimore, MD: The Baltimore Sun, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8.5" X 5.5." 266 pages. Stories about the people and places of Baltimore, Maryland.

Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995. First Edition . Printed Wraps. Fine/No Jacket. 7 1/4" X 9." 64 pages. All you need to know about Manatees. Contains many photos.