Search Results: Titles starting with S from The M.A.D. House Artists

2004 Digitally remastered issue of the 1934 black and white classic. 70 minutes. Plays properly, no problems. Clean DVD. Viewed twice. Private collection. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Immortal Classic, The Scarlet Letter. A terrible situation that just gets worse and worse until it cannot get any worse, and then it gets worse. Starring Colleen Moore as Esther Prym. Item number MV-510 from DIGIVIEW Productions. Our item number 100015.

8.5" x 5.75", 219 pages. Book very clean, withdrawn from a library, one small stamp on front facing endpaper. Book club edition, Dust Jacket has a scratch on the back. Binding sound, text clean. Post WWII suspense in eastern Europe. Our book number 19050.

7.5" x 4.5", 84 pages. Old and fragile, corners and edges chipped, but complete.
"No. VII, Edited by Epes Sargent. School For Scandal: A Comedy, in five acts, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With the stage business, cast of characters, costumes, relative positions, etc. New York: Samuel French, No. 122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs) PRICE,] [12 1/2 CTS." Sewn together.  Our book number 43703.

6.5" x 9.5". 281 pages. AS new copy. First Edition. Starting in 1954 when he was sixty, William Willis set out on the Pacific with his house cats and a parrot. Pretty unusual tales, and all true. Extreme adventure. Our book number 36058.

9.24" x 6.25", 152 pages. Very good book in very good dust jacket. Clean text. Inscribed "X-mas 1982 Love Meghan & Vadea XOXO. " A few small foxing spots on page block. Philosophical essays on farming and rural life. Our book number 1135.

7.75" x 5", 152 pages. Significant foxing to cover and block. Book has clearly been on a farm. Text unmarked, binding sound, most wear is from being on a shelf. Creaseat hinge of cover, but none on spine. Humorous essays on the joys of part-time farming and rural living. Our book number 1133.

5.5" x 8.25". 148 pages. Ex-Library. Price Clipped. Book sound and clean, Dust Jacket has library stickers, crumpled inside front fold. Living with dogs, wolves and dingoes. "poignant, entertaining, sometimes heartbreaking" little book. Observations of canine behavior. Our book number 1094.

Found tucked inside a book. Single fold, 3" x 6" folded. Four page faces. Clean as the day it was used as a bookmarker. The Semi-Annual Statement of the Neosho Building and Loan, a type of financial institution glorified in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Brochure states the outstanding Capital, Loans, Accounts, Assets and Liabilities, Officers and Directors. If every financial business were this transparent we would not be in the state we are in today (2012). Offered for the purity and sentimental value as a token of a better time. Our listing number 50011.

Inscribed in front:Augustine Kimball, now owned by his daughter M. Darlie Kimball Hight (in India ink)
4.75" x 7.25". 348 very old and discolored pages. Binding is loose, ties are loose, all pages are present except the very last page. Owner has written in "THE END" at the bottom of page 348. The Paragraph ends logically, it seems to be the correct end of the book. End papers are present. Brown cloth boards, embossed on front and back covers. Title in gold leaf on the spine. Much wear. Much read, much loved copy. Some newspaper clippings enclosed. Wear to top and bottom of spine and to the corners. Brown stains on several pages. Our book number 19095.

5.5" x 8.5". 529 pages. The endpapers are covered in the front cover, by part of the dust jacket which has been glued in over the beautiful map of the Mythical country and the surrounding states. There is a book plate declaring the previous owner and the name of the Library from which it was withdrawn. The back endpapers are not as bad, there is residue of a check-out sheet on the left, but just taped along the top, and on the inside of the back cover is a library pocket. On the up-side, this is a first edition, clean, tight pages. Minor shelf wear to the cover (besides the library sticker). The spine is slightly relaxed, but on the whole, a very nice copy. This is the book from which Steven King stole the Great Bear in his Gunslinger series. If you have read those stories, this is a must-read for you. Richard Adams, The Author of Shardik, also wrote Watership Down. Our book number 708.

8.5" x 5.5" and 11" x 4.25". Previous owner's name written in ink, Paper has been bent on WOODWORK. Two volumes offered together: Woodwork, Martin's first publication, in a folded format, single sheet of card stock. THE SHELTER OF THE ROAR in stapled pamphlet form. Woodwork stated First Printing. No other edition listed on The Shelter of the Roar.
Woodwork: The Building of a Carpenter is "Dedicated to all the women I knew who were involved in the Women's Liberation Front in Pullman in 1969 when all I wanted to do was get married." Our book set number 46027.

8.25" x 5.25", 156 pages. Book has been wet. Regardless, it has a sound spine and the pages are clean.  Dust jacket is complete. Part of BOOKS OF LASTING VALUE. Useful dictionary of Mythology. Our book number 47004.

5.5" x 8". 122 pages. Protected by Clear Contact paper. New Book Plate inside front cover, not inscribed. Small ink marks on back cover under the contact paper. No creases, aging or marks to text. Clean as a whistle. Private collection.Cover photo by A.K. Coomaraswami, a very respected Indian arts & philosophy scholar and author in his own right. First published as New Directions Paperback No. 65, 1957. This is a much later printing (@1970). Our book number 21226.

6" x 8.5". 247 pages. Sewn Spine slightly relaxed, pages secure, foxing on the top of the closed pages. Withdrawn from Library. Dust jacket protected by library plastic cover. Pages secure, text clean as a whistle. Good reading copy with nice dust jacket - one library sticker on spine of DJ, smudge on hinge if DJ toward the top in front. Our book number 19047.6" x 8.5"

10.25" x 8.5", 128 pages. All you need to get started in the medium of Silk Paper; making and using it for textile art. Our book number 3046.

8.5" x 5.75", 533 pages. Previous owner name on title page and date, 1965. Clean book, sound binding, some wear to dust jacket. 1965 Illustrated, Book club edition, 14 black and white illustrations and Colour frontispiece, maps on the endpapers and paste-downs. Illustrations copyrighted in 1964, so probably NOT published in 1952. "The celebrated novel about the Holy Grail". Made into a movie with Virginia Mayo. Our book number 19337.

7.5" x 4.75", 26 pages. Fragile play script in good condition. Paper yellowed, nick in edge of front cover, all pages present. Play is 14 pages, several pages of advertising for other plays after the script. Sewn binding. Our book number 43704.

176 pages. "A Guide to Free-Range Poultry Production" 1992, new updated edition. No signs of wear. Paper slightly aged, but clean. Our book number 1012.

10" x 7", 32 pages. Crisp and clean, some scratches to cover and slight wear to corners. Full colour photographs throughout. 'Over 50 Full Color Photographs'. Wildlife of the American Southwest. Our book number 36076.

9" x 7.5", 30 unpaginated pages with black and white prints on each page. Very fragile. A children's book designed to encourage story telling as the pictures are seen. (The adult tells stories or asks the child to describe the action in each picture). Heavier paper on the colored wraps, front cover has come loose, book has been hand stitched together at some point. No credits are listed for the illustrators, but many of the drawings are signed. Our book number 6066.