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

340 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Previous owner's name is on the top upper outside corner of the front free end paper. Front binding has three small spots on the inner edge and lettering on the spine is faded.

426 pp. Text is not marked. Pages are age-toned. Title page is unattached but included. Several library stamps, a label attached to the back free end paper, and a label attached to the front inside cover are present. A volume from the late 19th century.

Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. Binding has very slight wear at the corners. Full page color plates throughout. A solid copy. Photographs by Eliot Porter. "Baja California has places where man can let wilderness last if he elects to. They will help us to remember that man can never put the wilderness back. It doesn't work that way. Baja is a good place to respect what man discovers there and leaves alone, not what he brings there to change it, wherever he comes from. It is a place to learn. Without Baja's wildness, the world is just that much closer to becoming a cage." p.7.

119 pp. "This catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition "Ballerina in a Whirlpool...in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (September 30 - November 19, 2006). Full page color plates included. In as new condition.

Text is clean and unmarked in intact covers without tears or chips. Several light smudges on the back cover. From the Dedication page, "Philosophy is as utterly worthless as theology unless it is based upon scientifically established facts instead of theories. I am indebted for this deepening conviction to the frequent reading of one among the greatest of books, 'The Riddle of the Universe', which has had a most revolutionary and salutary influence on my life; and, therefore, with a heart of gratitude, I dedicate this booklet to the author of that book, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel.

Several underlined and bracketed passages throughout. Covers are intact without chips or tears. From the back cover, "The working class will have to wage a prolonged struggle against all their enemies - above all, against the evil inheritance of the past: idleness, carelessness, crime, vanity. Two or three generations will have to grow up under the new conditions before laws and punishments will cease to be, before the power of the working-class State will be unnecessary, before all traces of the capitalist past will disappear. The proletarian State is necessary till, in the fully developed Communist system, there is left no trace of capitalism. - Bucharin and Preobraschensky.

32 pp. Booklet is in as new condition. Covers are bright and unmarred. "...the Russian orthodox Church authoritatively urged its flock and all people of goodwill to do everything possible to avert the all-destructive danger, bar the way to the armaments race and halt nd reverse it, delivering the world forever from mass annihilation by nuclear and other weaponry." p. 30.

Text is clean and unmarked in a tight and square binding. Only defect in this fine volume is the previous owner's name on the front outside top corner of the front free end page. From the author's Preface "New discoveries every year contribute to the growth in our knowledge of the native peoples of Europe and of their interactions with the Roman Empire. Understanding the period during which European societies were in the process of formation is thus a dynamic enterprise. I hope that I convey some of the excitement of this endeavor in the pages that follow."

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is cracked at the front margin but firmly attached. Front binding has a narrow stain along the outside edge. DJ is intact with a closed tear at the front top edge and several small chips at the DJ bottom. DJ smudging throughout.

196 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is lightly smudged with wear and fading on the spine. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. One passage on page 5 is bracketed. Illustrations by Arthur Penn. Sixteen additional pages of ads included.

336 pp. Mid-20th century positions of the American Communist Party. Text is clean and unmarked in square and tight covers. Spine is not creased. Appears not used.

95 pp. In as new condition. Black and white photos and maps included.

Text is clean and unmarked. A number of pages are unopened. Fore edge of the text block is untrimmed. Slight cracks at the margins of the front and back boards. From the Introduction, "When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, and founded the first permanent colony in New England, they brought with them Henry Ainsworth's version of the Psalms in prose and metre, with the printed tunes. This version was used in the church at Plymouth until 1692. Elsewhere, the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, coming over in 1629 and 1630, sang the words and tunes of Sternhold and Hopkins's Psalms..."

In "As New Condition" lavishly illustrated throughout. DJ is not price clipped. From the DJ front flap, "In this stunning assemblage of words and images. novelist and birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds...Gorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, 'The Bedside Book of Birds' is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soul."

317 pp. Text is unmarked and clean. Volume is spiral bound with tears at the covers' spine but is still attached. Previous owner's name is at the top outside corner of the half title page. This book is "...to assist the serious student of music who realizes that much of his professional career will consist of conducting amateurs...".

270 pp. Volume is in as new condition. Black and white illustrations included. From the back cover, "Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln."

Multiple penciled underlined passages and notes in the margins. Volume is from a university professor's private library. Blank name label is attached to the top outside corner of the front free paper. A card holder is attached to the back free end paper. The binding is tight and square with very minor wear along the upside edges. DJ is age-toned with chips along outside edges and spine. From the front DJ flap, "The author deals with the major themes associated with the existentialism of Pascal, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers and Tillich, and he does this on the supposition that 'the task of first philosophy is to exorcise despair'."

Text is clean and unmarked in tight, bright, and intact covers. Spine is not creased. Very slight wear along the outer edges of the covers with a small crimp at the top outside edge of the back cover. Volume appears unused.

268 pp. In as new condition. Full page color plates and two CDs included. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Benjamin Patterson: Born in the state of Flux/us', organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Text is clean and unmarked in a square binding with some wear to the spine. Lettering is faded on the spine. Previous owner's name is on the top outside corner of the front free endpaper. "In the labor movement he saw the workers' desire for higher wages conflict sharply with the employers' desire for higher profits. In the Indiana legislature he learned that economic and political power inevitably merge, that those who control the nation's industries will control the government." p.192.