Search Results: Authors starting with U from Browsing Is Arousing

NY: Atheneum, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 111 pages. Minor edgewear to book bottom edges. Bright dust jacket. Record # 374207

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1958. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. 127 pages, including glossary of Japanese terms. B&w drawings by William Hutchinson. Ex-library copy. Blue dust jacket with faded spine; small tear to top left front cover. Otherwise very good. Record # 501748

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Black & white illustrations by Susan Bennett. Library discard stamp in front end pages, die-cut library stamp on top of title page. Price-clipped dust jacket with very slight chipping to top edge and spine. Otherwise a very nice copy. Record # 371821

Italy: Damiani, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 200 color illustrations throughout. Portraits of famous celebrities such as Jessica Alba, Gabriel Byrne, Sofia Coppola, Diane von Furstenberg, Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Jack McCollough, Julianne Moore and Sting, as well as landscape photographs. Record # 352987

Canberra/London: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies/Gerald Duckworth and Co., 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 486 pages with illustrations in b&w and color. From Papers presented to a symposium at the 1974 meeting of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. A look at the art works of Aboriginal Australia from the past & present, as seen in the context of the art of prehistoric Europe. An attempt at an ethnographic juxtaposition of prehistoric art. Clean copy. Record # 378644

NY: Norton, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Beautiful, new-looking condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Record # 109242

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 221 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Very clean and tight copy. Record # 455959

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 238 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue cloth, pictorial blue dust jacket. Light bumps to corners, else a beautiful copy. Like new. Record # 606007

London: Longmans, 1968. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pauline Baynes. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. This illustrated dictionary includes customs, events, items of clothing and armor, historical figures, and places of the Middle Ages. Color and b&w art by Pauline Baynes throughout. Record # 381426

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, June 12, 2007. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new. Record # 450402

NY: Simon & Schuster, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business—one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. “With the verse of a natural dramatist” (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and… Read More

Advance Music, 1994. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 534 pages. The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of musical growth from the late Romantic period to the serial techniques of the contemporary composer. Through the detailed analysis of the musical characteristics that dominate a specific style of writing, a graduated plan is organized and presented here in the form of explanations and exercises. A new analytical method substitutes for the diatonic figured bass and makes exercises and the analysis of non-diatonic literature more manageable. The explanations describing each technique are thorough. They are designed to help the teacher and the student see the many extenuating circumstances that affect a particular analytical decision. More important than a dogmatic decision on a particular key center or a root tone, for example, is… Read More

US: University Of Chicago Press, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 229 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration gathers tributes, reflections, and commentaries on the great thinker and his philosophy, politics, and life-including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Spender, and many others. Record # 463308

Somerville MA: Templar, 2013. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Glorious artwork, on each and every page. Record # 350246

NY: Knopf, 1929. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, decorated mustard cloth, 332 pages. Translated from Spanish by Warner Fite. Clean, bright copy. Lacks dust jacket. A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's death. Record # 369885

New York : Rizzoli, 1989. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 288 pages, softcover edition. Edited by Sarah Mollman Underhill. Introductory Essay by Stanley Tigerman. Afterword by John Hejduk. Illustrated with color and black-and-white drawings, photographs and plans. Record # 351326

Roslyn NY: Walter J. Black, 1982. Book Club Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings. Record # 383447

New York: Rizzoli, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tght copy. Color photographs and black and white throughout. Record # 368939

Roslyn NY: Walter J. Black, 1982. Book Club Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings. Record # 383452

NY: British Film Institute/Palgrave, 2008. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 119 pages, b&w photos, Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnes Varda’s classic work of 1962 depicts, in near real time, ninety minutes in the life of Cléo, a young woman in Paris awaiting the results of medical tests that she fears will confirm a fatal condition. The film, whose visual beauty matches its evocation of early Fifth Republic Paris, was a major point of reference for the French New Wave despite the fact that Varda, the only major female French director of the period, never considered herself a member of the core Cahiers du Cinéma group of critics turned filmmakers. Ungar provides a close reading of the film and situates it in its social, political and cinematic context, tracing Varda’s early career as a student of art history and a photographer, the history of post-war French film, and the lengthy Algerian war to which Cléo’s health concerns and ambitions to become a pop singer make her more or less oblivious.… Read More