Search Results: Authors starting with U from Walkabout Books

Cambridge City, IN: Simplistic Press, 1972. Softcover. Near fine. Unpaginated, approximately 35 pp, in original wrappers. Light shelf wear; contents clean and sound. "Printed in the greatest available variety of type faces, to approximately the period being fantasied" (colophon).

Carlton, Bedford: Ruth Bean, 1993. Hardcover. Near fine. 10.75" x 8.5", 166 pp, extensively illustrated. Minor wear to pictorial boards. Binding sound, text clean. Publisher's description: "Traditional Bedfordshire lace, with its wonderful designs for flowers, leaf sprays and grounds, has a growing appeal for the modern lace-maker. After the success of her pioneering instruction book, Traditional Bedfordshire Lace, for the experienced lace-maker, Barbara Underwood now offers a graded course essential for the newcomer to Bedfordshire lace. It provides a thorough grounding in the techniques: the step-by-step instructions help provide the skills for tackling Bedfordshire patterns independently. The book is easy to use with compact patterns, clear diagrams and instructions, and high quality photographs with enlarged detail." The large colour display gives ideas for using and mounting the finished lace and shows the effectiveness of the coloured threads.

New York: American Temperance Union, 1853. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Disbound pamphlet without wrappers. 24 pp; very good. Maine was the first state in the nation to enact a bill criminalizing all purchases of alcohol other than for medicinal or industrial uses. The so-called "Maine Law" was passed in May, 1851. Here, national temperance leaders refute arguments about problems caused by the law, provide statistics supporting its benefits, and argue for similar laws to be enacted in every state.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp viii, 356 + 12 (ads), complete with 14 plates (one more than called for in Wagner Camp 282:1). Publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine. Rubbing to extremities, spine slightly toned; very good. Upham was an ardent Fremont supporter and wrote this biography to bolster Fremont's bid for the Presidency in 1856.

Bogota: Biblioteca Banco Popular, 1971. Soft cover. Near Fine. 152 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light edgewear, bookplate on front free endpaper. Tight binding, no markings. Reprint of the 1854 edition, with an introductory essay on the author by Guillermo Hernandez de Alba. All text in Spanish.