Search Results: Titles starting with P from Florida Mountain Book Co.

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Magazine, 2001. Hardcover, 74 pages. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Size 8.75"x10.75" (oblong). "Author Marcella Ruch spent many hours with Pablita Velarde recording her stories as first person reminiscences, which the artist has fully endorsed. These anecdotes go back to Pablita's childhood Pueblo life, to her mother's early death from TB, and starting at St. Catherine's Indian School at age 5, Pablita recalls her later years at the Santa Fe Indian School, working with Dorothy Dunn to develop her art, and painting murals at Bandelier under the WPA. She reflects on raising her children alone, and her eventual fame as a American Indian painter . . . . Each story is illustrated with one of Pablita's paintings of Pueblo life, a photograph from her personal collection, or a historical photograph from the Museum of New Mexico photo archives." Book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.. Fine. Illus. by Pablita Velarde.

Chicago: Ludlow Typograph Company, 1928. Hardcover, 20 pages. Very Good condition. Size 8.25"x5.75". Light exterior shelfwear. Chipping to edges and base of spine label. Interior Near Fine, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

NY: Comet Press Books, 1961. Hardcover, 54 pages. Very Good condition/no DJ. New edition with added material, signed by author on front pastedown. Size 8.125"x5.375". Poems include: Packer, The Cannibal; The Hanging of Betts and Browning; Irish Wake; and Horse Thief Trail. Exterior lightly rubbed on corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, interior text Near Fine.. Signed by Author. Very Good.

Newport News, VA: The Mariners' Museum, 1943. Softcover pamphlet, 15 pages. Good- (minus) condition. Museum Publication No. 11. Extract from The American Neptune Vol. III, No. 1, 1943. Size 10"x7". Book is moderately creased at top back. Wrappers have soiling, and small chip (1/4") on upper fore edge. Two initial leaves are chipped on lower fore edge. Binding is tight. Text is unmarked.. Good-.

NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1994. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Size 12"x9". "Superb selection of masterly paintings from famed collection, reproduced as ready-to-mail cards. Outstanding works by Remington, Russell, Bierstadt, Henri, O'Keeffe, Sloan, Benton, other artists. Introduction, notes and captions provide critical and historical background as well as specific information on each painting." Light exterior shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

Socorro, NM: State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 1963. Softcover, [iv], 100 pages. Good+ condition. Size 9"x6". New Mexico Institute of Mining & Geology, Bulletin 79. Moderate exterior handling/shelfwear. Binding is tight. Text is clean and unmarked.. Good+.

NY: Interlink Books, 2002. Softcover, 124 pages. Size 7.5"x5.125".Translated by Arthur Figliola. Includes over 100 archive photographs, color maps & illustrations. Very Good condition: lightly used, unmarked copy. Very Good.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1933. Hardcover, [xiii] + 620 pages + 10-page publisher's catalogue. Very Good condition. Size 9.5"x6.375". Maroon cloth w/gilt title on spine. 39 b&w plates, Index. Contains papers submitted at the annual meeting in 1932. Subject headings: Anthropology, Economics & Sociology, Geography, Geology & Mineralogy, History & Political Science, Language & Literature, Mathematics, and Psychology. Includes a 51-page paper (w/6 plates) "Landforms of Japan" by Robert Burnett Hall and Akira Watanabe. Moderate exterior wear, interior text Near Fine.. Very Good.

The Lightning Tree, 1976. Hardcover, 64 pages. First edition. Size 7.25"x5.625". Book is clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. As New.

Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Hardcover, [xii], 473 pages. Fine condition in a Good+ dust jacket. Text in English and French. Size 10.25"x8.125". This book reveals "the panorama of the royal, aristocratic, and bourgeois elements of French society" through the occasion of the 1571 Paris entries, "unquestionably the most important event of its kind in sixteenth-century France." Includes b&w illustrations, appendices, and index. Book is clean & unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate wear (shelfwear and closed tears); enclosed in mylar cover.. Fine/Dust Jacket Included.

Northampton, MA: Northampton Historical Society, 1972. Sofcover pamphlet, 35 pages. Very Good condition. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Size 9"x6". Two descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons offer different accounts of the house's origin. "Because it has proved almost impossible to trace the original deeds and hence to prove or disprove either version, Northampton Historical Society herewith presents both accounts in their entirety, leaving it to the reader to decide." Includes b&w photo illustrations. Wrappers have moderate exterior wear, else Near Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Very Good.

Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2003. This course includes twelve CDs and two Course Guidebooks, enclosed in 2 clamshell cases. Teaching Company Course No. 1247 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture). "This two-part series explains, in easily accessible terms, the discovery of the infinitely small particles - the quarks and neutrinos, muons and bosons - that make up everything in nature, from microbes to stars. It covers the nature and functions of the individual particles, and their roles in the Standard Model of particle physics (a theory that is as much a masterpiece in science as Shakespeare's works are in literature). The lectures also trace the history of particle physics as a science, and the dedicated scientists and complex technology that have made this branch of physics so profoundly productive and important." Good condition: guidebooks have highlighting and indentations to paper due to handling; clamshell cases have light shelfwear..

NY: Plenum Press, 1989. Hardcover, [viii], 303 pages. Very Good condition. Size 10.125"x6.625". "This book documents the proceedings of the Symposium on Particles in Fluids: Detection, Characterization and Control held as a part of the 18th Fine Particle Society meeting in Boston, August 3-7, 1987 . . . . In the modern manufacture of sophisticated and sensitive microelectronic components and other precision parts, there has been a great deal of concern about yield losses due to micrometer- and submicrometer-sized particles. These particles can originate from a number of sources including fluids, i.e., gases and liquids used in the manufacturing process. So the detection, characterization and control or removal of these undesirable particles is of cardinal importance and this symposium was conceived and organized with this in mind." Book has moderate exterior shelfwear, and minor scuffing on the extremities. Previous owner's (org) stamps on the front endpapers, text else Near… Read More

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1964. Hardcover, [xxii], 471 pages, plus 8 pages of b&w plates. Good condition/no dust jacket. Second edition. Size 10"x6.25". Please see accompanying photos for contents. Book has moderate exterior shelfwear. Previous owner's (org) stamp on front fly. Impression from paper clip bookmark on top margin of a few leaves, text else clean and unmarked. Binding is stressed (not loose) at the interior margin in a few places from handling.. Good.

Köln: Taschen, 2006. Softcover, 95 pages. Near Fine condition. Size 9"x7.25". Taschen's Basic Art Series. "After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives - their body language, charm and beauty - had on him." Book has very light handling/shelfwear, else As New, clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.

NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. Hardcover, [x], 438 pages. Very Good condition in a Good dust jacket. Size 9.375"x6.375". "The author offers a portrait of the enigmatic Paul Scott, detailing his youth, his years in India and the Far East, his career as a literary agent, the development of his writing, and his strange private life." Includes b&w photo illustrations, notes, and index. Book has moderate handling/shelfwear. Text is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear.. Very Good.

Hollywood, CA: Privately Printed, 1967. Softcover pamphlet, 160 pages. Very Good condition. Size 8.25"x5.125". LC#67-23006. Moderate exterior shelfwear. Paper browning, interior text else clean & unmarked.. Very Good.

Villahermosa, Tabasco: Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, ICT Ediciones, 1989. Softcover (rústica), 177 pages. Good+ condition. Text in Spanish. 8.25"x5.25". Moderate exterior wear, text clean & unmarked.. Good+.

Glendale, CA: Ann Ree Colton Foundation, 1985. Hardcover, 429 pages. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. First edition. Size 9.25"x6.25". "The Pelican and the Chela is an outgrowth of the 32-year student-teacher relationship between Ann Ree Colton and Jonathan Murro. Combining a number of chapters on the work and covenant of the teacher with personal journals of their life together, this classic work is meaningful for all who would walk the spiritual path under the direction of an enlightened teacher or system of instruction. This book also contains several chapters on the seven Light-Streams and the Masters." Book has very light exterior shelfwear. Bookseller's stamp on front fly, text else Fine condition, clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear & shelfwear.. Near Fine.

México, D.F.: A+S Libros, 1998. Softcover, 226 pages. Very Good condition. 3rd edición. Text in Spanish. Size 8.75"x6.25". Moderate wear to wraps, interior text clean & unmarked.. Very Good.