Search Results: Titles starting with A from Cat's Cradle Books

Boston: E. C. Schirmer Music Company, 1936. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Slightly stressed stitched binding, age-darkened text pages with notations. Wraps have general handling wear, previous owner's name at top front. Scores and lyrics for 30 a cappella songs for mixed voices. 10.75" (27.5 cm) tall; 172 pages.

Winston Salem, North Carolina, U. S. A.: Wake Forest University, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author with additional inscription on ffep. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has light overall shelf wear. ; Bibliography of work by and about American poet Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001). 9.25" tall; 179 pages; Signed by Author.

Philadelphia: American Society for Testing Materials, 1949. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wrappers faded at spine and around edges with general shelf wear. Technical manual explaining methods of testing various aspects of standards in the manufacture of textiles. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 574 pages.

Girard: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Wrappers tanned with handling wear, edge wear, and small amount of writing on front. Stapled binding, Pages are tanned, clean. ; Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. 5.0" tall; 64 pages.

México: Grupo Oceano, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. ; Study of Mexican politican Andrés Manuel López Obrador. ; 8.75" tall.. 320 pages; Re#.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. An exceptionally nice, clean, bright copy, bound in green paper-covered boards; text is clean, crisp, bright; binding shows a few tiny dings to bottom extremities and what may or may not be a bump to top spine end, o/w near-pristine; dust jacket is clean and bright, with mild shelfwear. Illustrated in b&w/color. ; Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York, this book documents Copland's friendships with a broad range of well-known painters, photographers, composers, choreographers, and writers, "exploring the direct exchange of ideas these relationships engendered and examining esthetic and intellectual parallels between their work and Copland's."; 9.75" tall; 173 pages.

New York: MacMillan Company, 1918. Hard Cover. Good with no dust jacket. 1926 printing. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with slight fading at spine. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. ; American Progressive Era argument in favor of heavy estate taxes as a means of redistributing unearned income. 7.75" (20 cm) tall; 312 pages; Renumbered.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Previous owner's name on ffep. Front hinge and binding sound; rear hinge cracked but holding. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed and shelf worn, with cloth split at hinge between spine and back. Lettering on spine is dulled. ; Author was a mail carrier for the Confederate Army, running the lines between the two armies to deliver letters. ; Ex-Library; 8.25" tall; 216 pages.

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1955. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have heavy edge wear, some fading and creasing at spine. ; Abstracts of studies in general literature; museology; materials, construction, and conservation of objects; and technological examination of objects and analysis of materials. Index. ; 9.25" tall; 408 pages.

Buenos Aires: Ravazzano Sanmartino, 1975. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, tight binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps age-darkened, shelf worn. Signed by author on second page in book, following brief biographical essay but preceding poems. Date of signature is 1984. Book itself is undated, a privately printed edition by Sanmartino himself. Publication date of 1975 is approximate. ; Poetry by Argentinian writer Julio Ravazzano Sanmartino (1914- ). 7.00" (18 cm) tall; 96 pages; Signed by Author.

New York: Crowell-Collier Press; Michigan State University, 1961. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. DJ has edge wear, tanning especially at spine, chip at top back. Comparative study of American universities in Japan and Korea by economist Martin Bronfenbrenner, reflecting his secondary interest in Japanese studies. 9.25" (23 cm) tall; 260 pages.

Urbana: University of Illinois - Urbana, 1960. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Booklet-style stapled binding is sound. Pages clean but age-darkened. Wraps have general shelf wear and age darkening. ; Literary journal featuring short fiction, plays, poetry, criticism and reviews. Contents include: Hawkes, "The Horse in a London Flat"; Farber, five poems ("Transaction under the Sun"; "Belief Is a Dolphin"; "Sounding by Night"; "Gathering Horse Chestnuts"; "Letting Go"); Perluck, "The Heart's Driving Complexity: An Unromantic Reading of Faulkner's 'The Bear'"; Nims, "The Ivy and the Rune"; Roberts, "A Pattern"; Tinkham, "The Seasons Following Death"; Cambon, "Dea Roma and Robert Lowell"; Stoloff, "Clyde"; Rice, "Poem"; Schwerner, "Rites of Passage."; 9.25" (23 cm) tall; 64 pages.

Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bright gilt lettering. ; Contents: Biographies of Robert Marion La Follette and Jo Davidson, the sculptor. Proceedings in Statuary Hall (addresses by A. Eustace Hayden, John J. Blaine, Robert La Follette Sucher, Marion Montana Wheeler, Philip F. La Follette, Charles H. Crownhart, Gilbert E. Roe, Victor A. Olander, Mabel Cory Costigan, Edward Keating, Claude G. Bowers. Acceptance of the statue by Congress. ; 9.25" tall; 90 pages.

Springfield, Missouri: Springfield Public Library and Greene County Historical Society, 1961. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Exlibrary markings. Very lightly circulated. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards has minor edge rubbing. ; Account of the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. ; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 111 pages.

Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Writing on front endpaper. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. Light shelf wear to exterior. ; Annotated bibliography of works by American poet Robert Lowell (1917-1977). 8.5" tall; 41 pages.

Konigen Im Taunus: Liber Annalis Intituti Baltici, 1967. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is written in the German language. Square, tight binding. Very faint spine crease, minor edge rubbing and light overall shelf wear to exterior. Pages bright and clean. Estonia: Gottlieb Ney, "Esten in der freien Welt - ihr Leben und Wirken"; Peeter Lindsaar, "Esten in Australien"; Juhan Tork, "Esten und Estentumsprobleme in Neuseeland"; Jakob Aunver, "Die estnische evangelische Kirche im Exil"; Theophil Laatsi, "Die esnische orthodoxe Kirche in der Heimat und im Exil"; Oskar Angelus, "Das estnische Buch in der freien Welt und in Sowjetestland"; Mall Kuusik, "Estnische Schriftsteller im Exil"; Hermann Rajamaa, "Probleme der estnischen Ergänzungsschulen." Latvia" Andrivs Namsons, "Die Letten in der Emigration"; Paulis Urdze, "Die evangelisch-lutherische Kirche Lettlands außerhalb der Heimat"; Jänis Rudzítis, "Die in der Emigration enstandene lettische Literatur"; Edgars Dunsdorfs, "Letten mit… Read More

Konigen Im Taunus: Liber Annalis Intituti Baltici, 1968. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is written in the German language. Square, tight binding. Minor edge rubbing and light overall shelf wear to exterior. Pages bright and clean. On Estonia: Arnold Purre, "Territoriale Einteilung und Verwaltung der Estnischen SSR im Rahmen der allgemeinen Staatsordnung der UdSSR"; Gottleib Ney, Auswirkung der Sowjetisierung auf das Siedlungswesen in Estland"; Oskar Angelus, "Die Russifizierung Estlands." On Latvia: Andrivs Namsons, "Stadtentwicklung und Siedlungsformen in Lettland"; Rolfs Ekmanis, "Sowjetlettische Schriftsteller in der Sowjetunion und ihre literarische Tätigkeit seit 1940." On Lithuania: Tomas Remeikis, "Natur und Prozeß der Verstädterung in Litauen"; Benediktas Maciuika, "Die Russifizierung Litauens seit 1959: Versuch einer quantitativen Analys"; Povilas Reklaitis, "Die Stadt Kaunas in Litauen."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 324 pages.

Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1951. Softcover. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Publication is in English, French, Russian, and German. Sound, stitched binding. Pages clean, bright. Wraps are tanned in places, tattered at spine with overall heavy wear to the exterior. ; Contents: Zsirai, Samuel Gyarmathi, Hungarian pioneer of comparative linguistics. Bárczi, Influence française dans l'orthographie hongroise du moyen âge. Beke, Belichya sistema valiuty u mari. Lakó, Emploi du prosécutif et du transitif dans les langues permiennes, l'origine de lerus désinences casuelles. Herman, Les changements analogiques. Hajdú, Die Benennung der Begriffe recht- und link-, als Ausdruck der Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Denken. Comptes rendus. Abréviations. ; 9.5" tall; 248 pages.

Quebec: Apud Lovell et Lamoureux, Typographos, 1855. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Latin language. Sound binding. Cracked hinges. Pages clean but tanned, with the first two pages having 3/4-inch closed tears at lower edge. Writing on front paste-down. Quarter leather with marbled paper over boards is heavily edgeworn and shelf worn. ; Record of the actions and decrees at the Roman Catholic Church's Second Council of Quebec (1854). This council addressed disciplinary regulations concerning primary schools, secret societies, temperance, educational institutions, politics, erroneous Bibles, immoral books, and parochial libraries. ; 8.25" tall; 93 pages.

London: Williams & Norgate Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Lightly circulated. Writing on ffep. Hinge papers cracked but webbing holding. Binding sound. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is shelf worn with bumped and worn corners and wear at extremities of spine. Gilt lettering on front is bright. Spine darkened, with gilt lettering bright. Carl Gustav Adolf [von] Harnack (1851-1930) was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian. ; Crown Theological Library; Ex-Library; Vol. 27; 7.5" (21 cm) tall; 303 pages.