Search Results: Titles starting with A from Grampy's Bookcase

Text and covers are in "As New Condition." A bright and glossy unused volume. From the back cover, "During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the courage, determination and sacrifice of Allied merchant ships, which withstood unremitting U-boat attacks and aerial bombardment to maintain the lifeline to Russia...Told from the perspective of their crews, this is the inspiring story of the long-suffering merchant ships without which Russia would have most certainly have fallen to Nazi Germany."

508 pp. The text block is clean and unmarked. The binding tight and square. The only defect is an unfortunate bubble and faded narrow area on the edge of the front cover. Frontispiece and eight other full page black and white illustrations included. Previous owner's name is penciled on the top outside edge of a front free endpaper.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Title page states, "With 105 illustrations from photographs, and many cartoons, sketches, maps, and letters." A solid volume.

Only defect is previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the half title page. otherwise, in "As New Condition." Spine is not creased. Illustrated throughout. "No American president understood the power of words better than Abraham Lincoln. Writing, he believed, was 'the great invention of the world.' And Lincoln became one of the world's great writers. He lived long before the age of radio and television - long before our leaders could speak to millions of Americans at one time. Lincoln learned to communicate to America through the power of the written word." p. 9.

text is clean and unmarked. Lettering on the binding is bright. Back free end paper and back pastedown is separated at the margin. Some back pages have a stain around the outer edges. Volume has 105 illustrations from photographs, maps, and letters. "Out of the silent working of his inner life came forces no one outside of himself could know; they were his secret, his personality and purpose, beside which all other facts of his comings and goings were insignificant. he became a seer and a sayer; he took responsibility personally; he solved, resolved, and answered terrible questions; or he said, with out-and-out honesty and a desperate toss of his head, that he had no answer, no man could answer; only history and the future could bring the answer." p.480.

In "As New Condition". From the back cover, "In 'Abraham: The friend of God', Dr. Dirks provides Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers with a unique and original presentation of the life of Abraham. In constructing a chronological biography of Abraham, the author integrated and synthesized information from a wide range of Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions...and the classic books of ancient history authored by Josephus and Al-Tabari."

117 pp. In as new condition. Full page color plates throughout included. Published for an exhibition at Museum Moderner Kunst Karnten from February 8 to April 20, 2008.

Text is clean and unmarked in tight and intact covers. Very slight wear along the inner edges close to the spine. Spine is not creased. Very light penciled notations in several of the margins.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Several small tape marks on the inside front and back binding. Previous owner's name on the front inside binding. "Thanks to Paul's letters and Acts, we know a good deal about the apostle and can form a picture of his importance in the history of the primitive church - a picture different from the one in the last third of the first century. Even if the solution found was not always the one proposed by Paul, it often depended on his contributions." p. XLIX.

576 pp. Only defect is a university pastedown label identifying the book as a donation from the George A. Meyers collection and stamp mark on the inside front cover. Text is clean and unmarked. DJ is protected with clear plastic cover.

576 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Slight fading on the outer edges of the binding. DJ has several closed tears and is worn around the edges. Small chip out of the DJ spine. "There are going to be wider areas of freedom in this country and in the world as the Cold War diminishes. But no matter how pleasant the realization of governmental interference with the writer and the teacher may seem, it will be wasted if we do not use it to revive the old American custom of fighting City Hall." p. 17.

352 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers are tight and square. Frontispiece illustration included. Some age-toning and fading to the lettering on the spine. Only ex-library indicator is an ownership label attached to the front inside cover. The adhesive from the label has left an impression on the opposite front free end paper.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square, bright, and tight binding. Card holder is attached to the back free end paper. Library stamps on the outer edges of the text block. tape marks are present on the inside front and back binding. Diagrams and formulas throughout. From the preface "The teacher of an advanced course in organic chemistry has so broad a field from which to choose that he is forced drastically and arbitrarily to limit the material that he attempts to cover. This book...is largely restricted to those aspects of the science that seem to me to be inadequately treated in the other textbooks and reference books that are now available. More particularly, the structural theory in its broadest sense is here described in considerable detail..."

Text is clean and unmarked. Tight and square covers are without chips or tears. Spine is not creased. Only defects are age-toning and slight shelf wear.

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding has faded area on the back with sun faded spine. Inscription on the top free end paper. Age-toning throughout. Binding is firmly attached with little wear around the outer edges.

263 pp. Previous owners' names on the front inside cover and free endpaper. Pencil markings on the front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations, Frontispiece illustration included. Cracked hinges, but intact, with bumped corners. The lower half of last page, free of text, has been torn off. Text block is unmarked with foxing throughout.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, tight, and square binding. Top of the text block is faded. Binding has very slight shelf wear at the outside edges. Fully illustrated. Volume is an Illustrated Junior Library Edition. Volume appears unused. Full page color illustrations throughout.

166 pp. Several pages in the back of the book have some crimping. The phrase, "Not for sale", is stamped on the bottom of the fore edge of the text block. Text is clean and unmarked. Color photos included. DJ has a very small closed tear at the top front outside edge. Otherwise the DJ is bright and in near fine condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in a bright, square and tight binding. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free end paper. Small red remainder marks are on the edges of the text block. Illustrations included. Price unclipped DJ has very slight wear at the outer edges and a very small hole at the bottom outside front corner. Store labels attached. From the front DJ flap, "...this book weaves together into a richly fluent narrative the rise and fall of ancient civilizations, the changing patterns of indigenous life over the millennia, the complex history of slavery, the devastating impact of European settlers, and the fragile reemergence of independent nations. John Reader has given us an extraordinary biography of an infinitely fascinating continent."

398 pp. Book is in "as new condition". Black and white photos included. DJ has several chips and two small closed tears on the front cover.