Search Results: Titles starting with I from The Sensible Magpie

Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1997. comb . Very Good. 211 pages, index. Flexible illustrated card covers in comb bindng. Quarto. Ex-library copy with library markings to front endpaper, otherwise clean, no marks. No chips to comb binding or tears to cover Author spent thirteen years teaching lip reading. "Lessons, guidelines, and teaching aids are presented in a step-by-step format and are ready to use." [Rear cover blurb].

Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1972. First Thus. Hardcover. VERY GOOD in Very Good Minus Dustjacket. 345 pp. Slightly bumped lower corners, traces of a light residue along top edges of book boards and DJ plastic cover. Light sunning to DJ spine, mild shelfwear to DJ. Silver lettering to spine, jade green boards. Unmarked text, tight, bright. LARGE PRINT EDITION. ASSOCIATION COPY. INSCRIBED by author to dedicatee, George T. Keating. "The absorbing story of a man who succeeds honestly as a lawyer and a politician in the scramble of metropolitan society only to succumb to temptation at the height of his career. Tony Lowder's story is a modern study both of guilt and expiation and of the relationships between the inner and surface man to the people around him," (from front flap).

New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Faint tobacco aroma. Top and fore-edges lightly tanned. Dustjacket near fine. Tip of jacket top edge stained. Light scuffing to jacket now Mylar protected. Silver lettering debossed to maroon, cloth-covered spine of taupe-colored boards. Black and white photographs. Clean, bright, tight. 398 pp with sources, notes, bibliography and index. While Mayakovsky has been glorified as the official state poet, it has not always been so. This biography details his personal life and explains why he was the opposite of the ideal Soviet man.

New York: Dutton, 1977. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD PLUS DUST JACKET. A little minor color loss (shelfwear) to board corners and a little very light wear to dj. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper.

MELBOURNE: ART & TEXT PUBLICATIONS, 1988. Paperback. NEAR FINE . A bit of spotting to bottom edge. Measures: Measures 7" x 4.5". 55 pp. The author writes: "...Culture, once it becomes aligned with capital, follows the statistical curves of the various economic and political laws of averages, where the new paradigms of cultural reality are those of marketing and paramutual betting..."

Aylesbury Bucks, U. K.: Shire Publications, 1989. Paperback. Fine. REPRINT. White lettering and illustration of lace on black covers. Numerous photographs. 160 pp with glossary, bibliography and index. Clean, bright, solid. This volume explains the intricacies of identifying a piece of lace, listing and illustrating the points to lok for in each lace. It covers the whole range of lace from all parts of the world, selecting for examination those major types which the collector or dealer is most likely to come across or hear about.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Very Good Dustjacket. Previous owner's name to FFEP. Very mild edgewear to boards. A tiny dent to rear upper board near spine. Bottom spine cap gently folded under. Occasional faint indentations, from what looks to be a small paperclip, to upper pages. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to jacket spine. A .75 x .5" sticker ghost to upper rear jacket panel. A .25" closed tear to front upper panel edge. Gilt lettering crisply debossed to spine. Black buckram covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. Mylar protective cover to jacket. 318 pp. with bibliography, index of names, and index of subjects. A new volume in the International Library of the Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method. General editor, C. K. Ogden. Preface by Louis Wirth. Translated from the German by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils. "In sharp contrast with contemporary literature which has talked about the "decline,"… Read More

Piney Creek, North Carolina: Myst of the Oracle Corporation, 2006. Hardcover. NEAR FINE in Near Fine Dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS to preliminary page. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of deep-orchid colored boards. Dustjacket very good. Mylar protected. Color photographs. 229 pp. Clean, tight, bright. A Gnome's Story" is a present-day first-hand account of life with the Nature Spirits. The tale shares the learning process and suggests how you too can perceive the Kingdoms of Nature...

Milan, Italy: Bramante Editrice, 1970. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. NEAR FINE IN NEAR FINE DUSTJACKET. Oversized hardback (4to) in brown cloth; 563 color and B&W plates; text in Italian. Clean, square, unmarked. DJ in protective mylar. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

East Bridgewater, MA: World Publications Group, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. HEAVY. Very slight wear to DJ extremities. Glossy full color illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Very clean, tight, bright. 256 pp with glossary, index and picture credits. "A visual historical references to over 500 military, law enforcement and antique firearms from around the world. Includes a fascinating history of small arms from the 14th century to the present day, comprehensive directories of small arms, full technical specifications and is illustrated with more than 550 photographs and artworks." HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1946. Paperback. Very Good. SIXTH EDITION. ASTONISHINGLY BRILLIANT COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. Loose-leaf binding. Previous owner's name to front cover. Small hole rubbed to front cover due to binding hardware. Cover extremities are moderately darkened from use. Notations to three pages. Dark green lettering to lighter green card covers. With 32 illustrations. Bright and solid. 32 pp. One page from Section II, Head and Neck, to rear of book. This is Section V, only, of a VII section series.

Germany: Berlag De Bibliographifchen Inst., 1865. Hardcover. GOOD. IN GERMAN. HEAVY. Cocked. Heavily scuffed leather covers. Corners bumped, edges worn through. Age-tanning to text. There are a couple of loose pages inserted within the text. Illustrated. In nice shape for a book of this age and size. 901 pp. Alfred Brehm was a German zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer. Brehm's Tierleben or English title : Brehm's Life of Animals is a reference book which made the author famous around the world. Outstanding illustrations in this volume also by F. F. Zimmermann, R. Illner, Robert Kretschmer and others. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

Dubuque, Iowa: Gasogene Press, 1983. Hardcover. FINE. No DJ. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

New York: Henry Holt, 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Lanktree, Maud. FIRST EDITION. Top edge gilt. Front hinges starting. Some scuffing to surfaces. Mild edgewear to board extremities. Spinecaps gently folded under. Pages very lightly age-tanned, would still consider bright. Gilt lettering, black design to spine and front of dark green, cloth-covered boards. Illustrated with 68 drawings and 47 photographs. Clean, tight. 370 pp with index. Advertisements to rear of book. This is a sort of guide-book or introduction to Florence. "It tells something about Florence and the Florentines of today as well as about those glorious people of the earlier centuries," (prefatory note).

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. FINE, but for three tiny spots to top edge. Purple lettering to spine, purple and white lettering to front board, gray cloth-covered boards. Very clean, tight, bright. No markings. 345 pp with notes on contributors and index. "A representative sampling of the roles most often allotted women in Renaissance drama -- victims of male lust and violence (and lust for violence)... These roles signal [the] widespread exclusion of women from subject positions, and its tendency to marginalize women as objects of masculine fantasies and tokens in masculine exchanges," (introduction). In three parts, The Rhetoric of Women, Power and Patriarchy, and Gendered Bodies/ Bodies Politic.

Switzerland: Iska Verlag Ag, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Very light wear to extremities. White lettering to front cover and spine. Full of fabulous full color illustrations. Numbered 129 - 192pp with 20 pp of ads inserted at center. Clean, tight, bright. Written in German, English and French, includes articles like: Fascinated by Driving; Round the World in a Horse-Drawn Caravan; and Competition Vehicles.

Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on FFEP. Covers 2007's outrageously rigged elections in Nigeria, focusing on the human tragedy of the Niger Delta and its peoples' struggles to emancipate themselves from the country's failing system. Front board lightly cocked. ISBN sticker to rear board. Light DJ edgewear. Light DJ shelfwear with some light scratching and rubbing. Clean, crisp, and tight.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Good Minus. xii, 608 pp. Red boards, faded and worn at corners and top edge. Black border to front board, decorated with black leaf desins within smaller borders. In the center a 3" x 6" elaborate gilt design with book title at bottom amidst a riot of jungle growth, framed by two tall tropical trees, with a delicate, long-tailed, multi-feathered Bird of Paradise, aloft, hovering in the center of the frame. Many lovely illustrations. Fold-out multi-colored map opposite first page of the story (p.13). Edges of boards beveled. Front board partially detached, rear starting.

New York: Drake Publishers, 1972. Hardcover. VERY GOOD IN VERY GOOD DJ. Previous owner's classic-looking bookplate to front free endpaper

New York: Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1922. Hardcover. Good Plus. EX-LIBRARY but minimal evidence. Stamp to front free endpaper. Pocket with card tipped-in to rear pastedown endpaper. Discolored and soiled boards. Top corners bumped and worn. Text block edges dark with age. Brown lettering and design debossed to spine and front of olive-green, cloth-covered boards. With twelve black and white photographs including frontis of Booker T. Washington. Photo by Moffett Studio, Chicago. Clean, solid binding. 176 pp. Biographies of prominent figures such as Dr. Charles V. Roman and Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, of Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. and Booker T. Washington and more.