Search Results: Authors starting with A from Grampy's Bookcase

252 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight binding. DJ has minor wear around the edges and some smudges on the back.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Volume appears unused. Gilt lettering on the spine is bright and clear. Written on the inside front cover is, "With Compliments", which is the only mark in the book. Black and white illustrations. This is a reprint of "History of Randolph County" written by Dr. Albert Squire Bosworth published in 1916.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Volume has some age-toning. Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "A brilliant trilogy set in postwar Malaya, 'The Long Day Wanes' established Anthony Burgess as one of the major novelists of our day."

597 pp. Black and white photos throughout. Small stain on the bottom and fore edges of the textblock. Text is clean and unmarked. Glue stain from small label removed from the back cover.

408 pp. Text is clean and unmarked other than some light foxing. Binding is slightly cocked but intact. previous owner's name plate is attached to the front inside cover. Fourteen pages of ads included. Black and white illustrations throughout. Frontispiece illustration included. The word "Tobin" written on the top of the front free end paper.

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding has faded area on the back with sun faded spine. Inscription on the top free end paper. Age-toning throughout. Binding is firmly attached with little wear around the outer edges.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Text is age-toned with some smudging on the binding. Lettering and gilt design on the spine are faded. Frontispiece included.

Foxing and age-toning throughout the text. First twenty pages are very loose. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding is heavily worn with a top and bottom section of the binding spine missing. Foxing throughout.

376 pp. Blank name tag attached to the front outside corner of the half title page. From a personal library. Only library indicator is a card holder attached to the back free end paper. Pages are uncut at the top edge. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Age-toned. Text in French.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder and a library label attached to the back free end paper. Some stains and tape stains on the front free end paper. Library stamps on the edges of the text block. Price unclipped DJ is protected in a plastic cover and has no tears or chips. DJ flaps were taped to the boards. From the front DJ flap, "Written clearly and simply, the book is lavishly illustrated and contains a 22-page table of all launchings both U.S. and Russian, to mid-May 1964."

131 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back inside binding. Library stamps on the outside edges of the text block and dedication page. Graphs and sample problems included. "This monograph introduces the reader to linear programming and the theory of games in a strictly elementary yet mathematically sound manner...It...discusses, and derives some of the deeper algebraic ideas and theorems." p. vii.

77 pp. Covers have faded spots on the top of the spine and bottom outside back cover. Previous owner's name and a date on the front free endpaper. The DJ is worn around the edges with several small chips. Text is clean and unmarked. Black and white photos throughout.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Age-toning on the top of the text block. Beige ribbon book marker attached. Price unclipped DJ has several chips and closed tears along the outer edges. From the back DJ flap, "The sermon schemes are complete, but they are presented in such a way that the priest who uses them is not the slave of the work itself, but rather its master. He must select and modify according to his needs. All the necessary material is at his hand to make his own combination of ideas for his sermons, in accordance with the needs of his people."

179 pp. Black and white photos throughout, many full page. Unmarked and clean text. DJ is unmarked and whole. Very small dent in the top edges of the front and back covers.

488 pp. Only defects are the previous owner's name on the top outside corner of the title page and 7-01 written on the top outside corner of the back cover. Otherwise the book appears new.

152 pp. Text is bright, clean, and unmarked in a square and tight binding. There are several small white spots on the top edge of the front cover. Photos, maps, and graphs throughout. "The Pacific Northwest...consists of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and square covers. Very light shelf wear with a faded spine. From the back cover, "This important volume examines women's role in labor within the broad sweep of American economic history from colonial times to the present. Julie Mathaei's original analysis not only explains the evolution implications of sexual specialization in work, but provides a powerful tool for understanding the changing lives of women."

Age-toned text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Very slight shelf wear and minor fading along the binding's outer edges. A collection of poetry.

224 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a bright and tight binding. Black and white illustrations included. Book appears unread.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder is attached to a back free end paper. Library stamps on the outer edges of the text block. Volume appears little used. DJ has been protected in a plastic cover. Plastic cover is taped to the binding. leaving tape stains to the inside front and back boards. From the front DJ flap, "This book is concerned primarily with the development of the English sentence during the three centuries from Caxton to Johnson, but it also throws new light on the living relations today between standard and substandard speech, between syntax and style, between language and literature."