Search Results: Authors starting with S from Twin City Antiquarian Books

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xv, 381 pp, chapter references, index. Corner bumped, boards spotted, owner's name rubber-stamped on title page, written and stamped on ffep. Contents: linear & nonlinear transformations; nonlinear algebraic & transcendental equations; nonlinear optimization: nonlinear programming & systems of inequalities; nonlinear ordinary differential equations; introduction to automatic control & the Pontryagin principle; linear & nonlinear prediction theory. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York, Columbus, Woodland Hills & Peoria: Glencoe (McGraw-Hill), 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red boards, tan titles, xxxv, 556 pp, glossary, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. A manual of grammar, usage, style, and techniques for writing business documents including letters, memos, reports, notes, bibliographies, and tables. It includes suggestions for formatting documents both on computers and typewriters. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 8th Ed, later ptg. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 17½ cm.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White cloth, black titles & decorations, black endpapers, [vii], 434 pp. Light soil/stains to boards, top edge somewhat dusty. DJ somewhat soiled, spine darkened with 1 X 4 cm stain, edge wear, head of spine chipped, b & w front panel is still quite striking; in Brodart archival cover. This novel is set in Russia after the February revolution, mostly before the Bolshevik Revolution, which is the Hurricane of the title. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. . VG/VG-. 19 X 13½ cm.

Raleigh, NC & Kythnos: Privately Printed, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on title page. Sewn in stiff black paper wraps with a black & white photograph and white titles on front cover, issued without half-title, 55 pp, 39 b & w photos (many full-page). Presentation letter by a cousin of Manolas is laid in. The author, who is also the photographer, spent summers on Kythnos for twenty years before producing this book about the island, its people, and especially the unforgettable fisherman Manolas. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Wraps. Fine/No dj. 21 X 28½ cm (oblong).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, [ix], 261, [1] pp including 222 plates. Corners bumped. Printed entirely by photogravure, which gives better detail and tonal range than half-tones. "This is a picture book with brief comments about prints and drawings made in modern times. It is not a book in which I have felt called upon to find a niche, a pigeonhole, for every artist whose name appears in ambitious anthologies. It is not a history." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. BCE. . VG-/No dj. 26½ X 18½ cm.

Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mostly black pictorial covers, white titles, xiv, 370 pp, 1 color plate (6 photos), many figures, notes, index. According to the blurb, this is "a practical source book that clearly and cohesively explains the use of epidemiologic methodology and biostatistics in clinical decision making. Contents: diagnosis (clinical diagnostic strategies; the clinical examination; selection of diagnostic tests; interpretations of diagnostic data; early diagnosis); management (making a prognosis; deciding on the best therapy; compliance; deciding whether your treatment has done harm); keeping up to date (how to review your own performance; how to use a library; how to read a clinical journal; creating & running your own library; how to get the most from & give the most to continuing medical education). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj.… Read More

Pierre Fanlac, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in stiff white paper wraps, color photo on front cover, black titles, 168, [5] pp, 6 b & w photo plates. Covers water stained, internally very good, bottom corner bumped. Text in French. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Wraps. G-/No dj. 25½ X 18½ cm.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth with pink titles, x, 300 pp, black & white drawings, index of recipes. Extremities lightly rubbed, owner's name & stickers on ffep, gutter cracked between title & dedication page. Half gossip column, half recipe book contains some of the favorite recipes of 60 Minnesota hostesses and 9 hosts of the 1940s or their cooks. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. Illus. by Grace Keen. 22 X 14 cm.

New York: Random House, 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, black cloth spine, gilt titles and decoration, [vii], 449, [3] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

San Diego: Union-Tribune Publishing Co., 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Lime green pebble-grained cloth, red titles on front board & spine, endpaper maps, [xv], 206 pp, 28 ff b & w photo plates including frontispiece. Cloth faded on spine and near edges, front hinge repaired. According to the Preface, "In Mexican Vistas some of the interesting phases of life and progress in our neighboring republic have been recorded, with emphasis on the cordial relations that exist between the people of the United States and Mexico. The author has had exceptional opportunities for travel and observation in Mexico. Some of the material in the book is based on articles that originally appeared in The San Diego Union Tribune [of which the author was editor]." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Putty-colored cloth with blue & orange titles & decoration, xvii, 261 pp, 19 tables, diagram, fold-out flow chart, bibliography, index. Boards & ffep faintly marked. From the Preface: "This book, a study of West German interest-group politics, focuses on the extended controversy about the reform of statutory health insurance. My method has been to trace the course of a set of legislative proposals from their conception to their ultimate veto by a miscellany of political actors, among whom interest groups were prominent." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Company, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Putty-colored cloth with blue & orange titles & decoration, xvii, 261 pp, 19 tables, diagram, fold-out flow chart, bibliography, index. Previous owner's name on fpd, one corner of folding chart is creased.. From the Preface: "This book, a study of West German interest-group politics, focuses on the extended controversy about the reform of statutory health insurance. My method has been to trace the course of a set of legislative proposals from their conception to their ultimate veto by a miscellany of political actors, among whom interest groups were prominent." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No. 4 in the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Sector Series. Pale green with black titles, xiii, 525 pp, chapter notes & bibliographies, index. Bottom rear corner bumped, else as new. From the flyleaf: "Defining the Nonprofit Sector demonstrates beyond doubt that the division of societies into public and private sectors is much too simplistic. A third sector with its own characteristic features and dynamics has already emerged as a powerful force in the global economy. Students, social scientists and policymakers interested in the nonprofit sector, social welfare policy, economics, public management and democratic practice will find this book of considerable interest." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in mostly black covers with red & white titles & a portrait of Martin Luther on the front cover, xvi, 281 pp, 2 b & w illustrations in text, 3 maps, footnotes, vocabulary, index. Unmarked, covers moderately rubbed. Source book of German history beginning with the Reformation, mostly in German with preface and footnotes in English. According to the preface, "The purpose of this volume, in crystallized form, is simply stated: to acquaint the student with the course of German history through the words and ideas of men who made it and of their contemporaries. To these 'primary' documents we have added passages from the works of historians that will provide the perspective of subsequent interpretation." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author recto ffep. A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind monogram on front board, xiii, 352, [1] pp. Tiny spot on top edge, else fine, review laid in. DJ has Kroch's & Brentano's "Autographed by the Author" wrapper; in Brodart archival cover. Salisbury's second book of memoirs describes "the America to which [he] returned from Russia in the mid-1950s" through the mid-1970s. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Trade. . Near Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York et al.: Harper & Row, 1988 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind monogram on front board, xiii, 352, [1] pp. DJ is price-clipped; in Brodart archival cover. Salisbury's second book of memoirs describes "the America to which [he] returned from Russia in the mid-1950s" through the mid-1970s. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Trade. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C: The Mathematical Association of America WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Four volumes in mostly white pictorial covers with black titles, about 4.2 cm thick altogether, various printings & dates. Each volume contains the problems & solutions for the years noted. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

London: A. J. Valpy, 1820 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Rebound by library in red buckram, [ii]. 375-850 pp, [1] f., clxviii. Usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamps, scattered foxing, otherwise clean and nearly crisp as new. Rather than Sallust, contains variorum notes on Bellum Catalinarium, Bellum Jugurthinum, and minor works, a list of printed editions and manuscripts of Sallust, and an extensive grammatical & critical index, all in Latin. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . VG/No dj. 21 X 13½ cm.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in pictorial wraps, 360 pp, 4 ff b & w photo plates. Small nick to wraps at base of spine, paper browning. Text in French. First-hand account by L'Express reporter who was on the scene. Printed Sept 18, 1968 so probably a 1st impression. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Greenberg : Publisher, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light grey cloth, blue titles on spine, top edge dyed yellow, xv, 205 pp. Cloth browning at edges, spine ends somewhat worn. DJ somewhat rubbed with a few smudges, chipped along top and bottom edges (no loss of text), a few tears under 1 cm; in Brodart archival cover. Although written by a businessman who retired early (at age 45), the book is a study of "405 persons now living in retirement. Their frank answers, carefully analyzed herein, should settle many of the problems for you. ... In this book you have a real guide to an enriched, relaxed, balanced, occupied, and contented retirement that will add years to your life and life to your years." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/VG. 21 X 14½ cm.