Search Results: Titles starting with A from Books Northwest

121pp, Green plastic covers in metal comb binding, plastic coated pages. "This pamphlet is designed to aid your survival and rescue efforts regardless of geographic location or climatic condition. It describes, in outline form, the basic survival skills which you have learned. It will assist you in recognizing and using the natural resources at hand. This information plus your will to survive are necessary to ensure your survival." Subjects include: Combat Survival Checklist, Evading the Enemy, Medical, Personal Protection, Signaling and Recovery, Travel Techniques, Sustenance, Induced Conditions (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical). Cover and pages are waterproof.

125pp, Near Fine, black wraps w/colored lettering on cover and spine. First edition/first printing, Signed by author To Marc, Best Wishes, R Schenkkan October 28, 2014. The play opened at the Neil Simon Theater in NYC in May of 2014 and won a Tony Award for Best Play. Rare signed copy.

London, 1798. Hardcover. Good. 660pp +index. As issued, the last five months of The Analytical Review originally sold bound in sequence and rebound in contemporary brown leather binding with patterned cloth overlay, black lettering on spine (see photo). Owners signature W Murray 1820 in ink on first page of August 1798 issue; foxing on edges and variously throughout pages. All pages legible and complete. Included at front is one page advertisement dated September 1, 1798 for "America," a "Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the present situation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" to be published in thirty-four numbers, price one shilling each. The Analytical Review was an English periodical that was published from 1788 to 1798, having been established in London by the publisher Joseph Johnson and the writer Thomas Christie. Part of the Republic of Letters, it was a gadfly publication, which offered readers summaries and analyses of the many new publications issued at the… Read More

Sotheby's Auction Catalog of the Andy Warhol Collection May 1988. Six paperback unpaginated books in grey board slipcase. Case has shelf wear (please view all photos), books are Fine. This massive auction under fourteen categories April 23-May 3, 1988 in NYC disposed of Warhol's entire personal collection of more than 10,000 items. Warhol collected in many areas from kitsch to old master paintings and Picasso, Duchamp, Man Ray, Toulouse-Latrec, and much much more. The catalog weighs 8 lb 4 oz, possibly the heaviest Sotheby's catalog ever. Astounding content, printed in heavy coated stock. Largest of the six is "Americana and European and American Paintings, Drawing and Prints" held on 4/29-30. Due to heavy weight shipped to the Continental U.S. only.

200pp. Good/no dj. Hinges starting but cover is completely attached, otherwise a clean, tight copy with unmarked text block. Apocalypse is Lawrence's reflection on the book of Revelations. Previous owner's signature of Harry Thornton Moore (1908-1981), prolific literary critic, writer and biographer of Lawrence and others: "American literary scholar and educator Harry Thornton Moore (1908-1981) is best remembered for his studies of the life and work of English novelist D.H. Lawrence but also wrote and edited works on other authors, including John Steinbeck, E.M. Forster, and Rainer Maria Rilke. He is the author of numerous works of literary scholarship, including The Life and Works of D.H. Lawrence, published in 1951 and revised in 1963, as well as a biography of Lawrence, The Intelligent Heart (1954) (later revised and published in 1974 as The Priest of Love), which was the basis for a 1981 movie of the same name. In addition, Moore was the editor of several other works related to Lawrence,… Read More

San Francisco: Greedy, 1998. First printing. Paperback. As New/as new. Marc Rude. 123pp, text with black and white line art by Marc Rude A crazed tale written by Blag Dahlia and illustrated by Mad Marc Rude who died in 2002, and was an influential and eccentric artist whose work graced flyers, records, posters, torn T-shirts, and pale skin all over the world. In addition he played a major part of getting San Diego on the punk-rock road map in those early years, knowing many of the bands from his trips to Los Angeles.A very rare book in any condition.

unpaginated. Black and white photographs of Fonteyn with commentary contributed by Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Keith Money and Margot Fonteyn. price-clipped dj with very light scratch to coating on front to right of "The Art of" in title, impression of paper clip on top of back end paper. Boldly signed by Margot Fonteyn on half-title page. Photographs of Fonteyn included eighteen different ballets over a period of almost two years, action photos of performance or rehearsal. Printed in Great Britain on thick uncoated stock.