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

Text is clean and unmarked . Covers are intact, tight, with minimum wear around the outside edges. A small spot has been scraped on the front cover. Attached map included. A bookstore stamp and previous owner's name on the half title page. From the back cover, "This edition...brings together two of the most entertaining classics in English autobiographical literature. James Boswell and Samuel Johnson were in Scotland together from August to November 1773."

324 pp. Forward by Raymond Firth. Published for the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previous owner's name on the top free endpaper. Several notations throughout the text. Maps and graphs included.

Text is clean and unmarked in bright and intact covers. Covers have no tears or chips. Spine is not creased. Volume appears unused. "Decades of political delusion had done their work, and many a conservative German shudderingly admired the terroristic idealism of Hitler's movement. The National Socialists gathered together the millions of malcontents, of whose existence and conservative revolutionaries had for so long spoken, and for whose relief they had designed such dangerous and elusive ideals." p. xxx

272 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a slightly cocked binding. Inscription and date of 1943 written on the top of the front free end paper. DJ is smudged with a chip out of the front top and off the spine. DJ features a picture of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn from the M-G-M production of "Keeper of the Flame".

350 pp. Previous owner's name and an address label are located in the front inside cover and half title page. Black and white illustrations and full page color plates included. Small corner crease on the front bottom cover. Back cover has a thin smudge line. Otherwise the text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding.

623 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Only defect is two light and small stains on the top edge of the text bock. Book appears unread. DJ is bright and clean with a very slight curve on the top outside edge.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Card holder attached to a back blank page. Library stamp on the dedication page. DJ has a chip out of the top back inside corner. Price unclipped DJ has been glued to the binding. Two black and white plate sections included. Second set of plates has a stain along the outside edged. "William Buckland at the age of forty left his mark on American domestic architecture. Most of his monuments stand as strong as the day he built them, monuments that immortalize the taste of the eighteenth-century gentleman and the skill of a colonial craftsman." 114.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Full page color frontispiece included. From the Atlantic Reader's Series Book One Grade IV. Black and white illustrations throughout. Foxing on the outer edges of the text block.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Previous owner's name is on the inside front binding. DJ front flap is detached but included. Small chips from the DJ corners and a closed tear at the top DJ spine. DJ is smudged with some faded letters on the back.

Full page plates included. Includes an essay by Carter Ratcliff. Published for the exhibition "Richard Pousette-Dart Painting to Paper Black to White" October 4 - November 11, 2000.

Text s clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Color illustration, graphs, and maps included. DJ has a closed tear at the bottom front inside edge. From the back DJ, "With hundreds of color images, maps, and diagrams, 'The Timeline History of Ancient Egypt' brings to life one of the world's most glorious and fascinating ancient civilizations...Colorful, accessible, and comprehensive, 'The Timeline History of Ancient Egypt' is a book for Egyptologists of all ages."

Text is clean and unmarked in an unmarred and square binding. This was withdrawn from a university reference library and not put in general circulation. Volume appears unused. Only library markings are two small labels; one on the front binding and the other on the back inside binding, the word "withdrawn" stamped on the outside of the text block, and a library stamp on the title page. "This volume, one of the series "United States Army in World War II", is the second to be published in the group of three Signal Corps volumes...the series will present a comprehensive account of the activities of the Military Establishment during World War II." p.ii.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Glossy DJ appears new except for a very small, closed tears at the top spine and the bottom front edge. DJ is price clipped. From the front DJ flap, " 'Ten Days That Shook the World' unrolled in November 1917, when the Bolsheviks, in a second revolution, seized power from the government that had succeeded the Czar. John Reed wrote this eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution as reportage, as personal history, as propaganda, but also as raw history."

589 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Previous owner's names on the half title page. Some shading and marks on the outside of the text block. From the back cover, "The critical year for formation of public opinion and the time when curiosity was keenest about all matters relating to the defeated South was the year following the war. Journalists raced South to satisfy this curiosity."

232 pp. In as new condition. Spine is not creased. From the back cover, "...one of the most outstanding critiques of the criminal justice process...a book that needed to be written and needs to be published again and again..."

64 pp. Clean and unmarked text in tight and intact covers. "If the people are mobilized to press for a full-scale peace and public welfare program as against the armaments and hunger program of Big Business, the more disastrous effects of crisis and depression can be reduced." p.61.

155 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Spine is not creased. Fully illustrated diagrams throughout. From the back cover, "A complete step-by-step illustrated guide for the beginner, diagramming the fundamental principles of play. From the basic moves and the reasoning behind them to the masterful approaches to the endgame, one of the world's great chess champions covers every aspect of the game..."

31 pp. Stain along the top of the booklet. Tiny chips around the outside edge of the front cover. From the Foreword, " When the death sentence was passed on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on April 15, 1951, for alleged atomic espionage for the Soviet Union, the American people were shocked and disturbed. There was widespread feeling that the unprecedented death sentence was savage. Never before in our history had a civil court imposed a death sentence for espionage, either in peace or war time."

152 pp. Text has some smudges on the outer edges and several small stains on pages 91-94. Binding is tight and intact. Library card holder is attached to the back free end paper. DJ has been protected by a plastic book cover. Outer edges of the text block are age-toned.

587 pp. Clean and unmarked text in a tight and square binding. A braille label is attached to the front inside cover. Names of two previous owners, the words - American Constitutional Law, and a bookstore's stamped price are on the top of the front free endpaper. The only other defect is the notation, 7-01, is written with marker at the top outside corner of the back cover.