Search Results: Authors starting with R from Joseph Valles - Books

New York : Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1973., 1973. Very Good. Book Club Edition ; blue boards in bright, photographic dustjacket; tear to spine edge of dust jacket ; name on front ep.; author proposes that the precession of stars has changed the location of constellations from their original positions, so that astrology must also correct these positions for the signs in order to be accurate ; VG/FAIR

New York ; Chicago : Oliver Ditson Company, MCMXXIII, 1923, 1923. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 13 copies ; SATB ; No.13,675.

Atlanta, GA : High Museum of Art ; Seattle, Marquand Books ; Milan : Printed by Amilcare Pizzi, 2001, 2001. Very Good. 152 pp. ; illustrated ; 30 cm. ; Contents: Director's preface / Michael E. Shapiro -- Director's preface The Toledo Museum of Art / Roger M. Berkowitz -- Guest curator's preface / Gary M. Radke -- Foreword / Pina Ragionieri -- Michelangelo Buonarroti : His Life and Works -- Michelangelo and the Casa Buonarroti -- Michelangelo and the San Lorenzo Complex in Florence -- Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in Rome ; purple cloth with illustrated boards ; no dustjacket ; numerous illustrations, some in color ; VG

Berkeley, Calif. : Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1998., 1998. Very Good. xx, 392 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0078824583; 9780078824586 LCCN: 98-136324 ; OCLC: 38277973 ; LC: QA76.73.B3; Dewey: 005.268 ; "Find the essential syntax, keywords, commands, and functions you need quickly!...Perfect for programmers, application developers, webmasters, and IT managers..." ; name on bottom of textblock, else VG

Paris : Librairie Larousse, 13-17 rue Montparnasse, c1913., 1913. Good. 141 pp., 1 p. ; illustrated, 4 plates ; 20 cm. ; original of WorldCat copy described as OCLC: 25129503 ; textured red cloth with gold lettering and paste-down color lithograph on front cover ; illustrated throughout with numerous vibrant and exciting illustrations in black and white by Lucien LaForge in a post-art nouveau style ; 4 brilliant color plates, clearly some of LaForge's best work ; several notes written on the margins of some pages ; underlined words on some pages ; names on front and back ep ; spine chipped ; foxing ; pages untrimmed ; story adapted from Raimbert de Paris ; no copy reported held by any library ; scarce ; G

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : New Riders Pub., 1986, 1986. Fine. 2nd ed. ; xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0934035083 (pbk.); 9780934035088 (pbk.) LCCN: 86-611228 ; LC: T385; Dewey: 604.24/0285686; D620.004250285 ; OCLC: 14277505 ; pictorial color stiff paper wrappers ; "This bestselling handbook has the information you need for AutoCAD. Step-by-step instructions and over 325 drawings explain the AutoCAD program for professional drafting/design work. This book covers AutoCAD version 2.5 and is the only book that covers AutoCAD's new advanced editing features " ; Contents: Setting up AutoCAD -- Getting around -- Graphics primitives -- Introduction to editing -- Drawing construction techniques -- Herding objects into symbols -- Drawing enhancements -- Drawing output -- 3-D, making your drawings stand out -- Drawing intelligence -- Attributes and data extraction -- Customizing -- MS-DOS and configuring AutoCAD -- AutoCAD screen menu command structure -- Getting a pen plotter ready to plot --… Read More

Moscow : Planeta, 1975., 1975. Fine. 207 pp. : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm. ; OCLC: 2607419 ; simultaneously published in Russian and German editions, this being the English edition ; white cloth with gold lettering in thick color photographic dustjacket ; name on front ep ; else FINE/FINE

Nashville, TN : The Benson Company, 1919, 1979. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 75 copies ; SATB ; S4462.

Harold Flammer, Inc., 1961, 1961. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 15 copies ; SATB ; No.84684.

Harold Flammer, Inc., 1962, 1962. Sheet music. Good. Soft cover. approx. 24 copies ; SATB l Bo.84713.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1981, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. [1st American edition] ; 1st printing ; 267 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. ; ISBN: 0195202619; 9780195202618 LCCN: 81-82689 ; LC: DA911; Q941.5 R; Dewey: 941.5 ; OCLC: 8222904 ; green cloth , in color photographhic dustjacket ; Contents: Early Ireland and her people -- Gaelic Ireland -- The land of saints and scholars -- Norse and Normans -- Reformation and revolt -- No surrender! -- People and privilege : The Penal Laws -- Union and disaster -- The song she was singing -- Orange and green -- The fight for freedom -- Epilogue ; Excerpts from songs, plays, speeches, and poems augment a chronicle of the Gaelic people, Irish culture, and the history of Ireland since 8000 B.C ; .

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1967., 1967. Very Good. ix, 154 p. illus., maps (part col.), ports. 23 cm. ; OCLC: 441947 ; Tan cloth with black and white lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; photographs, maps ; VG/FINE

New York, Harper & Row, 1975, ©1974 , 1975. Very Good. [1st ed.] ; xxiii, 705 p. illus. 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0060135123; 9780060135126; 0060135137 LCCN: 72-9147 ; LC: QE392.5.U5; Dewey: 549/.075 ; OCLC: 902298 ; blue cloth in dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, glue remains and tears to endpapers ; spots on textblock ; Contents: Rocks, minerals and gemstones -- Mineral environments : the igneous rocks -- Mineral environments : the sedimentary and metamorphic rocks -- Preparation for field collecting -- The rock collector's working tools -- Maps and how to use them -- Care and preservation of minerals -- Your gem and mineral collection -- Agates, opals and petrified wood -- Cutting and polishing gems and gemstones -- Where to find gems and minerals in America -- Gemstone and mineral essentials -- Reference libraries and mineral museums. ; 27 tables and color plates ; " The range guide, a vital tool for any collector, commercial or amateur, is a massive gazetteer giving precise gem and mineral locations… Read More

New York : [Haig Dikijian] ; An Anatole Sivas Publication, 1957., 1957. Fair. 1st edition ; brown cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; name on front ep ; water stain on lower corner of text, illustrations unaffected ; eps foxed ; FAIR/G

Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1967, 1967. Good. vii, 104 p. illus. 23 cm. ; LCCN: 66-25632 ; LC: PE1478; Dewey: 808.0666 OCLC: 712207 ; purple and green paper wrappers ; stamp on inside front cover ; slight wear ; "It isn't that engineers and scientists can't write; they just prefer to carry on a peaceful coexistence with the English language " ; G

Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1969., 1969. Fine. [1st edition] ; 78 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0823301354; 9780823301355 LCCN: 77-95849 ; LC: PS3535.A846; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; OCLC: 52776 ; blue grey and brown textured faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; sunned ; Contents : Man is a tender plant -- Poem for a Spring in times of crisis -- To my hippie friends on May Day -- Waiting for the summer of '68 -- The poor people -- The view ahead is closed -- How to sink the bucket deep? -- Pure happiness is -- When I touched the flower of your life -- The knowledge-tree -- Old woman in a rest home -- On seeing a jet plane ascending in sunlight -- For Larry and Laurie -- Portrait of an Englishwoman -- For Boris Pasternak -- For Aldous Huxley -- For Kathy -- The Cosmic m an -- For you, my brother -- Brother plantsman -- For Dan -- He was himself the sound he heard -- For Dean, a brown study -- Pre-Copernican wonder -- Are things what they seem? -- Full moon, invitation to a… Read More

Cincinnati : Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., 1880., 1880. Poor. 408 pp. ; 19 cm. ; OCLC: 4097362 ; LC: QA103 ; Dewey: 511 ; 1/4 leather with stamped cloth featuring 19th century designs ; well-worn, as usual, with 2/3 of spine leather missing ; front hinge nearly away ; back hinge not far behind ; endpaper/flyleaf signature missing at front ; pencilings ; this is a much-used copy ; POOR

Singapore : Asia Images Editions, 2001., 2001. As New. 224 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm. ; ISBN: 9810442076 ; OCLC: 48956365 ; blue cloth with white lettering in photographic color dustjacket ; AS NEW

New York : Viking, 1991, 1991. Very Good. [1st ed, 1st printing] ; xix, 199 p. : 1 ill. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0670833150 :; 9780670833153 LCCN: 90-50762 ; LC: Q175; Dewey: 501 ; OCLC: 22956726 ; grey and black cloth ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due, pocket ; "zigzags between beauty and bombast in this collection of 21 rambling essays on 'the soul of science.' Scientists, as Raymo notes, can be 'grim, white-coated technicians wielding power without responsibility.' What to do? Raymo suggests we make science more human by returning to the lessons of everyday experience. In one essay, he speculates on what our civilization might be like if Earth, like Venus, were wrapped in clouds. Elsewhere, he tackles a question as old as Adam and Eve--'Who am I?'--finding clues to an answer in DNA research. Other pieces mull over sea squirts, Halley's comet, Neanderthals, SDI, the dangers and blessings of machinery, why there are two sexes, the pros and cons of vivisection--more or less whatever one… Read More

Charlotte, VT : Garden Way Incorporated, 1982., 1982. Fair. xv, 365 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0882663194 :; 9780882663197 LCCN: 82-12075 ; OCLC: 10574923 ; LC: SB321; Dewey: 635 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; water stain to lower right corner at back and top right front ; details the unusual gardening methods of Dick Raymond, the former gardening specialist at Garden Way Gardens in Vermont for 15 years, where the Joy of Gardening television program was filmed ; FAIR