Search Results: Authors starting with F from Ainsworth Books

Tuscaloosa, AL: University Alabama Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 081730312X . DJ shows very light shelf wear, slight soil page fore edges. ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar. ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.7 inches; 296 pages; "British West Florida encompassed the panhandle of the modern state of Florida, about half of present-day Alabama, large portion of Mississippi, and some of Louisiana. The British were of diverse opinions regarding the territory. Some British politicians thought Florida full of strategic and economic potential. Others, perhaps without political affiliation, thought it strange that, having conquered developed Spanish possessions of known wealth, such as the Philippines and Cuba, Britain had been persuaded to return them in exchange for Florida, an undeveloped region of unknown worth. That Spain had never been economically successful in its Florida possession was of little concern. The economic self confidence of the British… Read More

New York: Basic Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0465011209 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 7 X 1.25 X 10.25 inches; 304 pages; "In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Niños ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a record freeze as the American West was hit with massive floods and snowstorms; in the western Pacific, meanwhile, some island nations literally went bone dry and had to have water flown in on transport planes. Such effects are not new: climatologists now know the El Niño and other climate anomalies have been disrupting weather patterns throughout history. But until recently, no one had asked how this new understanding of the global weather system related to archaeology and history. Droughts, floods, heat and cold put stress on cultures and force them to adapt. What… Read More

London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with tears, light chipping, previous owner's name marked out on front free end paper. Price-clipped. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W maps throughout. ; B&W maps; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages .

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Only light wear to book ; A tight solid book. Minimal information on copyright page identifies this as a book club edition ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 853 pages; This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the “five smooth stones” are those the biblical David carried against Goliath. .

Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0788504126 . Red cloth covered boards, lightly bumped top fore corners ; As new, unread ; American Studies in Papyrology #37; 1 x 11.75 x 9 Inches; 324 pages; Falivene presents an A-Z listing of names in the Herakleopite nome, a district of Middle Egypt, largely based on Greek papyri dating from the third century BC to the eighth century AD. The importance of the Herakleopite villages is discussed along with the likely provenance of the documents upon which this study is based. .

London: Constable. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2001. Omnibus. Hardcover. 1841193453 . Light chipping to extremities of DJ, some scuffing, light creasing ; DJ in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 528 pages; "This is the fifth volume of Julian Fane's collected works. It begins with the semi-autobiographical "Memoir in the Middle of the Journey". Next comes "The Social Comedy", a romance that demonstrates the power of society, and finally, "Evening", describing the different degrees of love." .

New York: Avon Books. Very Good. 1996. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 0380727110 . Light wear and corner curl, pages staring to yellow, remainder mark bottom page edges. ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 575 pages; "This remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape offers firsthand accounts of the 20 years of anti-Communist repression instigated by the U.S. Government in 1947, during which millions of Americans were investigated. Arthur Miller, Alger Hiss, and Pete Seeger join more than 60 others to reveal how the hunt for the "disloyal" penetrated every rank of American life." .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0399126732 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear, short closed tear top of DJ. Previous owner's name embossed on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 293 pages; "Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model spaceship capable of instantaneous travel between two points, attempts to stop an unidentified "creature" that is annihilating intelligent life on planets throughout the universe" .

Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing. Very Good. 2004. Fourth Printing. Softcover. 1412015367 . Card covers show light shelf wear, light soiling. ; A tight solid book. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.8 inches; 326 pages; "Seventy minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese forces launched the invasion that in five months rolled unstoppably across the whole of Burma. In March 1944 the Japanese commander stood on the border to India, his eyes bright with the vision of marching in triumph into Delhi. What followed was the ten-week long siege of the border town of Imphal and the biggest defeat the Japanese Army ever suffered. Then the Allied forces turned on their ruthless enemy and drove him southward to the sea even more rapidly than he had advanced in 1942. By mid-June 1945 the Japanese Army in Burma was completely disorganized and destroyed. Of the 300,000 Japanese soldiers who swaggered into Burma, only 118,000 ever returned home." .

Victoria, BC: Old Cemeteries Society. Very Good+. 2008. Reprint. Stapled wraps. 0968289932 . Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages; In 1858 roughly 20,000 people arrived in Victoria BC from San Francisco to participate in the gold rush. 50 years later Edgar Fawcett, one of the 20,000, celebrating the anniversary, created a list of those who remained. The book gives brief biographies of some of those on the list. .

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0030203066 . Price clipped dustjacket shows light general wear and a short tearbase by spine, some creasing of flaps ; A tight solid book, hinges intact, B&W and color illustrations throughout ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages; "When We Were Young is a comprehensive, international survey of art in children's books from William Blake to the advent of the television era in the 1950s. Feaver's introductory text discusses techniques sources, influences, styles, and the illustrators themselves: Tenniel, Crane, Doyle, Rackham, Beatrix Botter, Heinrich Hoffmann, Cruikshank, Burra, Lear, Sendak, and many more." .

Vancouver BC: ArcPrint. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. 0995071802 . Signed by Author; As new.; Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Bright solid oblong book, brown suedelike spine with black stamped cowboy on front by spine and black stamped titles on spine. The boards are paper covered with a daytime image of Strathmore Lake on the front and a nighttime image on the back. B&W and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Bound in blue satin ribbon serving as place marker. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 235 pages; A sometimes humourous, sometimes touching memoir of a man raised on the prairies by his Ukrainian immigrant parents who came to Canada after the devastation to Ukraine in WWI and the Russian Revolution. In the 1920s, Canada offered rich farm land for little money and the second wave of 70,000 Ukrainians found a warm welcome. A loving tribute is given to his parents' homeland and the hard trip that they… Read More

New York: Basic Books. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0465041949 . DJ shows some shelf wear with creasing top and bottom edges, top fore corners and spine ends bumped. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.30 X 6.50 X 1.30 inches; 278 pages; "Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne, and Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France.The Lost Museum explores the Nazis’ systematic confiscation of these artworks, focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art,… Read More

Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre. Very Good. 2004. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 1553650697 . Card covers show light shelf wear, and corner curl, previous owner's name stamped on title page. Don't be deceived by the image, the aged look is a publisher's trick. ; A bright, solid book.; 5.64 X 0.62 X 8.87 inches; 200 pages; "In 1959, just one step ahead of the law, Ian Ferguson’s parents left the sophisticated big-city life of Edmonton and ended up in Fort Vermilion, 846 km due north. It was meant to be a temporary move. Ian’s father lasted ten years before he made his escape; his mother remained until recently. Fort Vermilion, once a fur-trapping frontier town, was predominantly aboriginal, the third poorest community in Canada. Like their neighbours, the Ferguson kids—Ian and his six brothers and sisters—grew up without indoor plumbing, central heating or electricity. Living closer to the Arctic Circle than to the American border, without the… Read More

New York: Soho Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 1569471339 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar.; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 433 pages; "The author invites readers on an adventurous and humorous journey as he hitchhikes the full length of Japan, beginning in a small town where local gardeners dust their blossom petals after the nearby volcano sprinkles them with ash." .

Toronto ON: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385146949 . Date written top front free end paper, one short tear each side top of book spine. Price clipped dust jacket has numerous short tears, creasing and chipping ; Stated First Edition on copyright page, A tight solid book, hinges intact, B&W photos and map. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 252 pages; "The Hong Kong expedition was a shameful tragedy. Nearly all 2000 Canadian soldiers (Winnipeg Grenadiers & Royal Rifles of Canada), poorly trained and badly equipped, were sent to help defend an outpost that Winston Churchill had already written off as expendable. After only 17 days fighting, the British colony collapsed on Christmas Day 1941, and the survivors spent the reainder of the war in barbarous POW camps." (author) Ted Ferguson compiled much of his information through interviews with survivors of the POW camps. .

Toronto: Viking Canada. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670066842 . Some creasing of head & tail of DJ spine ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; "...explore the American heartland of the late 1930s--a dull, desolate place reeling from the after-effects of the Depression and Prohibition while facing down World War II. Protagonist Jack McGreary is young man with more than his share of burdens to bear. His mom is dead, his dad is nuts, his girlfriend is apathetic and his hometown of Paradise Flats is one big, go-nowhere dustbowl of despair and poverty. So when dapper grifters Virgil and Miss Rose blow into town, scamming the local yokels with sleight-of-hand tricks and other deceits--Jack sees them as his ticket out. But what begins as a thrilling escape from the tedium of small-town life soon morphs into something more sinister." .

New York: Cambridge University Press. Very Good+. 1997. Reprint. Softcover. 0521627540 . Card covers show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, covers are clean and crisp, text unmarked. ; 9.61 X 6.85 X 0.71 inches; 308 pages; "Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays that open up new perspectives on some of the problems presently seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called "mechanical philosophy" in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle,… Read More

Toronto: Fisheries and Oceans. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0919601928 . Slight wear, gift notation on half title page. ; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 255 pages; "The charting of Canada's three oceans and thousands of miles of inland waterways by Canadian hydrographers is now 100 years old and this book is published in celebration of this anniversary." .

London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1961. 1st UK. Hardcover. Dampstain base of book & DJ spine, light wear to DJ. Previous owner's name on FFEP ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A tight solid book. ; 162 pages; The story follows an Ottawa area couple through the various stages of their marriage .