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

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, grey spine, foil titles & decoration, xi, 283, [3] pp, notes, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Uchitelle examines the consequences of mass layoffs for workers, communities, and the nation as a whole, and presents alternative policy responses. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Blue boards with small foil dec., grey spine with foil titles, xi, 283, [3] pp, notes, index. Inscription signed by author is dated in year of publication. DJ in Brodart archival cover. "...an eye-opening account of layoffs in America--their questionable necessity, their overuse, and their devastating imact on individuals at all income levels." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in limp leather-textured red vinyl covers, 855 pp including 288 pp section of color photos, glossary, index. DJ is price-clipped. DJ is a 13 cm band that exposes part of the vinyl covers. Photo section is arranged by habitat (e.g., wading, perching, ground, etc.) and shape, which is very useful for identifying unfamiliar birds. Photos are then keyed to descriptions in the text which are arranged by family to bring similar birds together. The Audubon Society guides are always my first reference for identification and basic information. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. Near Fine/VG+. 19 X 10 cm.

Phildelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth with titles and decoration in gold and blue, pictorial dust jacket and endpapers, 479 pp. Top corners heavily bumped, bottom corners lightly bumped, front hinge shaken, edges lightly soiled, a very small tear to rfep, slight scuffing to front board, but titles are bright and interior pages clean. DJ chipped with a number of closed tears at top and bottom (largest tear is about an inch and a half) and associated creasing; in Brodart archival cover. "The soul-stirring story of five men and one woman who face the terrible challenge of an unconquered mountain, each in the hope of finding at its summit the answer to his own desperate need desperate need." -- Blurb from DJ. By the author of High Conquest: The Story of Mountaineering. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 5th ptg. . G-/G. 21 X 14 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-School. Both volumes bound in brown buckram with black & gold titles & decorations, rather heavily rubbed & beginning to fray at corners & spine ends. New Elementary Latin: 4th edition, 10th printing; xxvi, 448, 44 pp, 170 figures including 6 color plates, 2-pp color map; pencil notes on endpapers. Second Latin Book: revised edition, 12th printing, 1935; xviii, 546, 92 pp, 201 figures including 7 ff color plates and a few small color maps in text, 2 maps not in figure count, index; old school stamps on fpd with students' names in ink, pencil notes scattered throughout & covering trailing blanks. Pair of Latin textbooks intended for use in junior & senior high schools. Includes extensive selections from Caesar's Gallic Wars. Fits in medium flat-rate box. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. Later printing. . Good/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Actual date of printing is unknown, but some years after 1966 copyright date. Full black cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xvii, footnotes, bibliography, index. According to the preface, Chamber Music is "an orderly account of its evolution to the point where the contemporary concert repertoire begins and a survey of the works which form the bulk of that repertoire." The second edition is expanded in most respects, but omits the list of recordings. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ed, 5th ptg. . Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Stiff pictorial covers with flaps, [ix], 321 pp. Copyright date is 2005; this is an Advance Reading Copy of the January 2006 release; announces marketing campaign, foreign editions. From the front flap: "Set in contemporary Bombay, The Space Between Us tells the story of Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife, and Bhima, the woman who works as a domestic servant in her home. Despite the class and cultural differences between the two women, Sera and Bhima remain bound by their gender and their shared life experiences--including marriages that start out with great promise but end up as disappointments." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition. Wraps. Fine/No dj. 23 X 16 cm.

New York et al.: Viking, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth with blue paper-covered boards, foil titles on spine and device on front board, xxi, 521 pp, index. DJ slightly rubbed along rear joint; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...focuses on the real concerns of real people--five couples and two single--who represent the differing needs of everyone thinking about retirement." A slide-rule type investment planner is bound into the book, and an expired postcard originally good for a tax law update is laid in. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). First Edition. . As New/Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards decorated with line cuts, green cloth spine with gilt titles, green endpapers, xx, 235 pp, index. One-inch coffee stain to fore-edge. DJ has matching coffee stain and is rubbed & chipped; in Brodart archival cover. Contains the "First published" statement indicating a first edition, but deboss on rear board and lack of DJ price indicate a book club edition. According to the foreword, this is "a book for skinflint gourmets." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. BCE. . VG-/G+. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by William H. McCrea. Blue pict. wraps with white titles, xii, 373, [1] pp, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear, two astronomy-related newspaper clippings and a 1969 pocket calendar promoting a Cocoa Beach taxicab company laid in. Contents: classical astronomy; sun and stars -- astrophysics of individual stars; stellar systems -- Milky Way and galaxies: cosmogony and cosmology. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Remainder. Full straw-colored cloth with foil titles, xxi, 519, xxiii, [3] pp, index. Remainder mark is a red line on bottom edge, else fine. DJ had slight wear to head of spine & top corners; in Brodart archival cover. Miscellaneous essays, reviews, and speeches. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Speckled beige boards, natural linen spine with copper foil titles, xxiv, 775, [1] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contains fifty-five stories selected from the annual "Best American Short Stories" volumes from 1915 to 1998, with a foreword by Kenison and introduction by Updike. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full charcoal grey cloth, gold & silver foil titles, top edge dyed peach, [xi], 334, [3] pp. Original owner's name in pencil on ffep. DJ in Brodart archival cover. We don't imagine Updike would have called his eighteenth novel science fiction, but the plot synopsis sure sounds like it: "Ben Turnbull...is a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. The dollar has been locally replaced by Massachusetts scrip; instead of taxes, one pays protection money to competing racketeers. ... Something of a science buff, [Ben] finds his personal history caught up in the disjunctions and vagaries of the 'many-worlds' hypothesis derived from the indeterminacy of quantum theory. His identity branches into variants extending back… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full dove grey cloth, gold & silver foil titles, top edge dyed brown, [ix], 276, [3] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. In Updike's twentieth novel, a seventy-eight-year-old painter answers the questions of an interviewer. The story of her own career doubles as the story of post-WW2 American art. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 20½ X 13½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown cloth, top edge dyed blue, [vii], 371, [3] pp, bibliography. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Updike's fifteenth novel is in the form of two alternating narratives supposedly written by the progagonist, historian Alfred Clayton. These consist of Clayton's memories of the Gerald Ford administration, and his book in progress, a biography of President James Buchanan. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Trade. . Fine/Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full yellow cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, v, 359, [1] pp. DJ spine slightly sunned, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Contains twelve short stories plus short novel "Rabbit Remembered." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Trade. . Fine/Near Fine. 20½ X 14 cm.

Oxford: Remedica, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Bound like a magazine, stapled through fold, 40, [4] pp, numerous b & w photos, notes. A few notes on one page, else fine. The photos of ultrasound images show how to deal with artefacts of the imaging technology, and show side-by-side normal and atherosclerotic arteries and images of interventions, such as insertion & expansion of stents. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. Near Fine/No dj. 28½ X 21 cm.

Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue imitation leather, gold foil titles on spine, dec. endpapers, vii, 284 pp. Limited edition of 750 copies. This is a festschrift in honor of the founding curator of the James Ford Bell Library, a collection of rare books relating to trade and voyages of discovery through the 18th Century. In addition to reminiscences of Dr. Parker and letters wishing him a happy retirement, the book collects many of his speeches along with writings originally published in the Library's magazine, The Merchant Explorer. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue imitation leather, gold foil titles on spine, dec. endpapers, vii, 284 pp. Limited edition of 750 copies. This is a festschrift in honor of the founding curator of the James Ford Bell Library, a collection of rare books relating to trade and voyages of discovery through the 18th Century. In addition to reminiscences of Dr. Parker and letters wishing him a happy retirement, the book collects many of his speeches along with writings originally published in the Library's magazine, The Merchant Explorer.. First Edition. . Fine/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Factory and Industrial Management, 1931 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyrignt 1931; no separate publication date listed. Revised edition of a 1917 book. Maroon ribbed cloth, gilt titles and blind border on front board, [iv], 207 pp, 16 diagrams, 6 photos. Corners bumped, spine faded, light wear to corners & spine ends, moderate soil to edges, fore-edge, endpapers, & a few leaves foxed, rear endpaper worn through near hinge, a few leaves browned by slip of newspaper used as bookmark. An informal guide to management, divided into five chapters: analysis, planning , organizing the work, handling the "help," and safeguarding the business. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . G+/No dj. 19½ X 13 cm.