Search Results: Authors starting with N from Pegasus Book Orphanage

Charles N Aronson, publisher, Arcade, New York - first edition 1976 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket If you've written your first manuscript and had every publisher around knock it back, what do you do next? This book provides un-published writers with the options available to them - it tells all about literary agents, vanity publishers, printers, co-operatives and book salesmen. It cuts through the publishing jargon, and spells the whole situation out in plain language. It discusses Publishing Agreements, Copyright, book distribution and promotion, print-runs, royalties … and everything else a writer needs to know.

Harper & Row, publishers, New York - first edition 1990 hardcover, 5¾" x 8½", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket This book aims to show aspiring writers how to write competently and professionally enough to be published. The author, managing editor of Doubleday for many years before founding his own publishing company, knows what kind of writing is publishable. Here he presents guidelines focussing on various genres and offers examples of published writing on a comparative basis to show what works and why. Full of insider's information.

Balaji Publication, Madras, India - thirtieth edition 1998 bound booklet, 4¾" x 7" (pocket sized) Previous bookseller's stamp to title page. Inscription on front endpaper. Book in GOOD condition Here is the easiest way to: Learn Tamil , Know Tamil, Understand Tamil, Read Tamil, Speak Tamil, Write Tamil and Converse in Tamil. This book consists of Five Parts, starting with the alphabet (in English).

Little, Brown & Co, Boston - ISBN:0316788902 first edition 1992 Hard cover in unclipped dust jacket Ex-Library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode. Very good book in very good dust-jacket. In 1921, famed Stanford psychologis, Lewis Terman (creator of the Stanford-Binet IQ test), found 1,500 kids with genius-level IQs and set up a study that has tracked their life histories (income, health, marriage & other aspects of their lives). Author Joel Shurkin here explores the study's goals and secret files, and provides revelations that will fascinate educators and parents alike.

T Stephenson & Sons, Lancashire 1955 Hardcover, 8¾" x 4½", with dust jacket Our copy in protective transparent covering. Tape stains to verso of ffep (holding now absent card?) Includes two-colour bookmark from publisher with scale, principal chapter index, & abbreviations. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Light-blue cloth-bound boards with gold type to spine, map endpapers, full-colour frontispiece (RMS Caronia, 1949), over 50 b&w photographic plates, 150 Isherwood line drawings (of uniform scale 1" to:50ft), appendices, corrigenda, index to companies, and index to ships. 'North Atlantic Seaway' is the most comprehensive book on its subject ever published. Each of its 182 chapters deals in detail with a North Atlantic shipping company. At least seventeen of them have nrever previously been mentioned in any book, and many more which have received scant attention, are here described in full. An outstanding reference work.

Pitkin Pictorials Stapled soft cover, 23 x 18cms Booklet in VERY GOOD condition Around AD 680 the earliest cathedral, of which nothing remains, was built here.This Norman cathedral also features famous Gothic chantries, and is the burial place of Jane Austen and Izaak Walton. The priceless 12th-century Winchester Bible is kept here (but not available to visitors)..

Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1973 Hardcover, lacking jacket Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Book in VERY GOOD condition Klop was the nickname of Jonah Ustinov, the author's husband and Peter Ustinov's father - this is an endearing biography of him.

Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney - first editions 1975 / 1979 Both items in GOOD condition Hardcover inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR.+ Press cutting mounted (TV Week, 24/10/87 headed: 'Bill Declares War …Again', bio with photo). LOOSELY inserted (a) SMH press cutting (7-1-78 'Corporation to put $225,000 into Two Films) PLUS (b) Melb. Herald Sun, 15-03-2002, Obituary (of author) PLUS two tributes, same paper, dated 07-03-2002. This novel won '1975 Award for Australian Literature' and made into MOVIE starring Graham Kennedy, John Jarrat, John Hargreaves, Bryan Brown & Graeme Blundell. The softcover (paperback) features sixteen b&w photographic stills from the movie. The Odd Angry Shot is a tough, biting comedy about a group of Australian SAS soldiers on a tour of duty in the Vietnam War of the 1960s.

Andre Deutsch, London 1971 Hardcover, 21½cms x 14cms (8½" x 5½"), with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket This is a sequence - part fiction, part documentary - and at its heart is a novel of great brilliance. This novel is set in a free state in Africa at a time of civil conflict when a once ruling tribe is being decimated. But for English-speaking people like Bobby and Linda, driving back from the capital to their expatriates' compound, the roads are open. Neutral, white, protected they have both in their different ways found liberation in Africa, and they too might be said to be in a 'free state'. But there is danger on the open road …

Walter T Foster, Tustin, California undated Large stapled softcover, 10" x 13¾" Previous owner's name to front cover. Rear cover has crease. Book in GOOD condition Thirty pages in full colour. Simple, easy-to-follow instructions with examples by an expert.

Macmillan Publishing Company, 2nd edition 1989 hard cover Very good book, no dustjacket (as issued). Designed with 3 goals in mind - to cover in a comprehensive way the work of over 40 years in the service of people who find intelligible speech beyond their ability to master, to provide a text to emphasize treatment, and to collect the contributions of a number of authors who have achieved national recognition for their original works in this field. This book also provides the foundation material for the presentations on treatment, including phonetics and phonology, assessment of articulatory and phonologic disorders, traditional articulation therapy methods, applying behavioural methods to remediation, programs useful to paraprofessionals, linguistic approaches, remediation through peer interaction, and much more.

The Australian Society of Authors, Sydney 1974 Stapled magazines, 8¼" x 5½", with card covers Professional magazines in VERY GOOD condition Volume 6, Number 2 in which Cheshire publisher Andrew Fabinyi reviews the 1973 Frankfurt Book Fair. Volume 6, Number 3, Dymphna Cusack gets stuck into the shortfalls of the Australian Book Trade. Volume 6, Number 4 expatriate Australian Sumner Locke Elliott visits Australia and asks "Where Are My Books?" and compares English & American publishers. THREE ISSUES ONLY (incomplete annual output)

The Australian Society of Authors, Sydney 1972 Stapled magazine, 8¼" x 5½", with card covers Professional magazine in VERY GOOD condition NSW Supreme Court Judge, Mr Justice Selby, examines a case, Broome v. Cassell (publishers), involving a book by David Irving which wronged an individual who claimed exemplary damaged (does the writer's name ring a bell?). In the same issue: professional articles by Betty Roland, Michael Wilding and others. Michael Page asks a question many writers have mused upon "Are Reviewers Human?" His answer demonstrates remarkable tolerance. LOOSELY INSERTED: undated article from Melbourne 'Age' by Robert Manne on David Irving and his book 'Churchill's War'.

O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA - ISBN:1565924606 2000 Soft cover Crease to cover. Book in Very Good condition The surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy used to cure children can affect growing bodies and developing minds. If survivors know of these potential problems, they can take steps to identify, cope with, or treat them early if they develop. This book charts the territory by providing information about all these important aspects for young cancer survivors.

Element Books, Dorset - first UK edition 1993 hardcover, 9 1/4" x 6", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Maroon publisher's boards with silver type to black spine linen. The glimmerings of harmony for a region whose bloody, intractable conflicts between Arab and Jew are now set to take their place in a new era, an era which will not tolerate backwardness or ignorance. Shimon Peres seeks nothing short of a historic new chapter between two peoples; to end a hundred years of hostility; and to begin a hundred years of peace and understanding. This book may become one of the enduring political documents of our time. [Remember, it was written a decade ago.]

Bobbs-Merrill 1984 hard cover + DJ Very good condition, minor edgewear to bottom of dust jacket. Why are so many women their own worst enemies? The answer is in this book!

Black Rose Books, Montreal, Canada - 2003 softcover, 6" x 9" A pre-loved copy. Book in GOOD condition This is an amazing portrayal of the 'Rhythm Activism' cabaret band tour of Europe, told with a sense of humour and a down-to-earth perception. Meet Europe's new multi-racial underclass: the working poor, street people, immigrants, the marginalised and the defiant. Part travalogue, part band chronicals, it describes the underground, indie-music scene where rebel culture rules.

Hutchinson Scientfic and Technical, London - revised edition 1958 hardcover, 6¼" x 9¼" (lacking jacket) Previous owner's details to front endpaper. Book in VERY GOOD condition In 1903 the Wright brothers flew at 30 miles an hour; fifty years later the world's official air-speed record was 1,132 mph (Twiss, 1956, in Fairey Delta), and many piloted aircraft have today flown even faster. This book, published 1958, outlines the fundamentals of flight, the speed of sound, engines for high-speed aircraft, aircraft construction and materials, the human factors in flying at very high speed, experiments in aerodynamics, and guided missiles - supported by over 30 photos and dozens of charts, tables, formilae and graphs.

B T Batsford, London 1960 Haedcover with dustjacket Ours is an ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket The decisive battle of the Napoleonic Wars was fought at Waterloo, near Brussels, on a ceaselessly raining night of Saturday, 17th June 1815. In this book we have plans for the battle itself, portraits of the commanders, contemporary prints of the several engagements, and reproduction of drawings made on the spot, sometimes by participants in the battle. Thirty-five illustrations & three maps included

Hamlyn 1978 hard cover + dust jacket Very good book in very good unclipped dust jacket with small tear on top of DJ spine and minor stain. Learn of the adaptations that have evolved in equipping these mammals so efficiently for their life in water. As well as providing scientific facts, the author writes of whales and dolphins in folklore and legend, and the various forms that whaling has taken over the centuries. The book ends with a discussion of the position of the whale and dolphin today, their exploitation, the growth of dolphinariums, the research that is being conducted, and the urgent need for conservation. Includes many colour and b&w photos.