Search Results: Authors starting with V from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. In Very Good+ condition. A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell. As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.

Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. 96x20x144. Signed by Author. With brief gift inscription by and signed by author. Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look at the economic, political, and technological forces that are reshaping the world's management of energy resources. In it, he documents an energy revolution already underway--a revolution as radical as the communications revolution of the past decades.From the corporate boardroom of a Texas oil titan who denies the reality of global warming to a think tank nestled in the Rocky Mountains where a visionary named Amory Lovins is developing the kind of hydrogen fuel-cell technology that could… Read More

Wild Sheep and Goat International, 1983. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Signed by Author. New in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. The dustjacket has some small streaks of soiling (really shelf rubbing) at edges, else in Very Good+ condition. This edition limited to 750 signed copies; scarce thus. Brown faux-leather boards with black-stamped sheep motif and titling, pictorial jacket. Color frontispiece by John P. Boone, black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Includes references, index, and contributions from such hunting legends as Bert Klineberger, George Landreth and Herb Klein (including some Weatherby Award winners). With many original photos from old time hunters never before published. Bibliography. And with excerpts from old books about hunting Asian and European sheep.

Editions Acatos/Marlborough. Softcover. Like New. 11x9x0. In Near Fine condition. Manolo Valdés is one of few artists today who has successfully mastered the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. In each medium he shows himself to be technically skilled, highly original and unceasingly provocative. Born in Valencia, Spain in 1942, he began his training as a painter at the age of 15 when he entered the Fine Arts Academy of San Carlos, Valencia.

Thames & Hudson, 2000. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. Signed by Previous Owner. In 1975 Brenda and Robert Vale published The Autonomous House, a manifesto offering down-to-earth suggestions for building homes that do not pollute the earth or squander its resources. Their book received tremendous praise around the world and was seen as a significant move toward green architecture. Nearly twenty years later, in the early 1990s, the Vales decided to turn their groundbreaking ideas into reality.The New Autonomous House records their building of a house on the principles of sustainable resources in the small town of Southwell in the British Midlands. As specialists in green architecture, the Vales sought to create an environmentally friendly four-bedroom house that was neither exotic in appearance nor difficult to maintain. They document the philosophy, design, and construction of a building that can produce power from the sun and obtain drinking water from the rain.The New Autonomous House has a… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1991. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Inscribed "Sept 92 Dearest Colleen and Doug, You are "spirit" bright and pure. Thank you for the light you bring to the planet. Many blessings always Heather Valencia ...?...Bear Clan Cherokee". For readers of Carlos Castaneda and Lynn Andrews, here is the fascinating true story of a woman's dramatic spiritual odyssey as the wife of a Yaqui Indian chief and sorcerer. This is Heather's story: her passionate love affair with Anselmo; her other worldly experiences among the Yaqui and their rich spiritual tradition; and her account of how she became a member of the powerful circle of Dreaming Women. "From earliest childhood Heather Valencia had vivid, precognitive dreams. In one of them, she would travel to a pre-Columbian world to join a mysterious, powerful spiritual leader. When she grew older, Heather married and raised a son, but her dreams continued and she found herself… Read More

The World Publishing Company, 1963. First edition. Hard cover. Good/No dustjacket. Hurd, Clement. Half title page roughly opened, with 1" tear that has been taped. Brief owner inscription. Non X-Library copies quite scarce. The story of a wildfire caused by a lightning strike, and it's effects upon wildlife and it's aftermath. Written for the juvenile audience.

Panicali Fine Art, 1990. Wraps. Very Good. Near Fine. An exhibition catalog from October 10 to November 10, 1990. Walter Valentini is an Italian artist born in Pergola in 1928. He is a painter, sculptor and etcher. He is a master in different techniques such as etching, aquatint, drypoint and multi-color lithography. As an artist, he established himself in the 1980s with a series of abstract works on wood and paper, all characterized by a precise sense of geometry, proportions and rhythm. Astronomy and cosmography are Valentini's most important sources of inspiration. His approach to architecture and celestial mechanics is mathematical and rigorous, but not without his poetry.

Healing Arts Press, 1985. Original ed. Trade paperback. Like New. A practical and reliable diagnostic tool that has emerged over the past twenty-five years, kinesiology is the study of the mechanics of bodily motion, especially muscle movements and their relationship to our body systems. Viewing the body as a balanced triad of structure, chemistry, and mentality, applied kinesiology gauges muscle response to pinpoint underlying physical problems. Within 30 minutes, a competent kinesiologist can evaluate bodily functions and provide a readout on the workings of the glands, organs, lymphatic system, circulatory and nervous systems, circulation, and muscle-bone structure. Applied Kinesiology demonstrates how this technique can be of practical use for everyone.

Galleria Spaziotemporaneo, 1988. Trade paperback. Very good. In Very Good+ conditi. An exhibition catalog. Walter Valentini is an Italian artist born in Pergola in 1928. He is a painter, sculptor and etcher. He is a master in different techniques such as etching, aquatint, drypoint and multi-color lithography. As an artist, he established himself in the 1980s with a series of abstract works on wood and paper, all characterized by a precise sense of geometry, proportions and rhythm. Astronomy and cosmography are Valentini's most important sources of inspiration. His approach to architecture and celestial mechanics is mathematical and rigorous, but not without his poetry.

Thames and Hudson , 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 10x11x12. The seven authors of this lavishly illustrated book, each of them a recognized expert, lead us step by step through their respective fields, revealing the secrets of the "trade," explaining production and restoration, exploring unresolved problems and their fascination. Only the very finest examples of the weavers' art have been selected as illustrations. Ranging through Persia India England France and America this volume includes the finest types of each carpet from both museums and private collections.

Eerdmans, 1956. 2d rev. and enl. ed. Hard cover. Good/No Dustjacket.

The Ronald Press Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket . A short tear at lower spine; lower corners lightly bumped. Else in Very Good condition. A scarce and sought after football title in original edition. Norman Mack Van Brocklin (1926 – 1983), nicknamed the Dutchman, was an American football quarterback and coach who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. He spent his first nine seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and his final three with the Philadelphia Eagles. Following his playing career, he was the inaugural head coach of the Minnesota Vikings from 1961 to 1966 and the second head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1968 to 1974. Written for coaches, players, and fans, this book deals with two of the "P's" immortalized in the "Punt, Pass and Pray" system of Michigan's famed coach Fielding Yost, but passes lightly over the third. After a brief account of the forward pass from its "birth" at… Read More

Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, 1998. Trade paperback. Very Good. Text in Spanish. No building has been more anticipated than Frank Gehry's stunning new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque country of northern Spain. In a cover story for the New York Times Magazine, Herbert Muschamp wrote of it, "The word is out that miracles still occur", while Sverre Fehn, winner of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize (Gehry received the award in 1989), stated, "This building is fantastic". This book celebrates the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and details the design process that is an intrinsic part of Gehry's revolutionary approach to architecture.Gehry's use of nontraditional materials and his sensitivity to the environments of his buildings are legendary; his method of envisioning a building through semiautomatic drawings and handmade models is little known but provides an immediate entry into his creative process. Here, stunning color photographs of the building… Read More

Guggenheim Museum, 1998. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. No building has been more anticipated than Frank Gehry's stunning new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, an industrial city in the Basque country of northern Spain. In a cover story for the New York Times Magazine, Herbert Muschamp wrote of it, "The word is out that miracles still occur", while Sverre Fehn, winner of the 1997 Pritzker Architecture Prize (Gehry received the award in 1989), stated, "This building is fantastic". This book celebrates the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and details the design process that is an intrinsic part of Gehry's revolutionary approach to architecture. Gehry's use of nontraditional materials and his sensitivity to the environments of his buildings are legendary; his method of envisioning a building through semiautomatic drawings and handmade models is little known but provides an immediate entry into his creative process. Here, stunning color photographs of the building and reproductions of… Read More

Lowell Pr, 1977. Hardcover. Good/Good . 6x1x9. His horse gear, a bedroll and a warbag containing a change or two of clothes - these worldly goods were about all the old-time ranch hand could call his own. They were prized possessions, though, and together were usually referred to as "my forty year' gatherins." The stories in this book are Spike Van Cleve's forty years' gatherins - cherished memories of rugged, honest living in the clean air and mountainous rangeland near Big Timber, Montana.Spike was born, raised and lived until he died in this land he called "the prettiest country God ever made . . .heaven can't be any better than this." There, he and his family-like his Dad and Granddad before him-ran the Van Cleve ranch, now a 20,000 acre expanse under the Crazy Mountains in south central Montana.

Standard-Boekhandel, 1944. First edition. Wraps. Acceptable. Cover mostly detached; backstrap missing. Internally Very Good. Text in Dutch (?). With 46 pages of text and 72 b/w illustrations of marine art. Hendrik Frans Schaefels or Henri Francois Schaefels, also known as Rik Schaefels (1827 - 1904), was a Belgian Romantic painter, draughtsman and engraver known for his seascapes, cityscapes, genre paintings, landscapes with figures and history paintings. He worked in the Romantic style popular in Belgium in the mid nineteenth century and was highly esteemed in Europe for his representations of historic naval battles. Quite scarce in any condition.

South African Mohair Growers' Association, 1985. Hard cover. Like New/No Dustjacket as Issued. With information on the history of the Angora Goat in Africa, organization of the angora goat and mohair industry, production of mohair, reproduction, breeding and selection, nutrition, grazing habits and veld management, diseases, shearing and the classing of Mohair, animal management, marketing and promotion, processing of mohair, meat and skins, and more. An uncommon title.

Abbeville Press, 1988. Hard cover. Very Good/No Dustjacket as Issued. Some wear at corners, else in Very Good+ condition. A full color children's pop-up book.

William Morrow, 1961. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. The dustjacket has some light edgewear, else in Near Fine condition. A bright, fresh copy. In The Heat of the Hunter Laurens Van der Post takes up the story he began in The Lost World of the Kalahari, his stirring account of his search in the scorching interior for the last of the Bushmen. In that book he described their vanishing pattern of life; here he explores the very sources of the Bushmen's spirit and imagination - their dreams and stories, the legends that guide them and inspire them in their daily battles with that harshest of environments, the Kalahari.