Search Results: Titles starting with S from Alkahest Books

New York: Hurok Publications, a division of Playbill, 1967. softcover. Very good. Program of S. Hurok presents for 1967-1968. Ballet Folklorico of Mexico. 9" by 12", color covers, 12 leaves, both color and black and white photos with a description of the dances and text in English, plus ads. Stapled wrappers,Very Good. 012204A

New York: Hurok Publications, a division of Playbill, 1965. softcover. Very good. Program of S. Hurok presents for 1965-1966 Ballet Folklorico of Mexico. 9" by 12", color covers, 12 leaves, black and white photos with a description of the dances as text in English, plus ads. One photo shows Jackie and John F. Kennedy with Amalia Hernandez. Stapled wrappers, split at bottom fold of spine, else Very Good. 012204A

Pub. by Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1988. hardcover. Fine/very good. Quarto, beige cloth covers, 200 pages. Includes both color and black and white illustrations; index. Book is in fine condition; dust jacket has some wrinkling on rear panel, else very good. Text is in Russian 122615C

Bremen: Hamburg-American Line & North German Lloyd, 1937. softcover. Very Good. Includes: List of Officers; Third Class Passengers (list of names); Information for Passengers; Hamburg-American Line & North German Lloyd Combined Sailing List; The North German Lloyd Fleet; distances in Nautical Miles. Sticker mark on front cover, light wear on covers. 020207A

Jesselton, Sabah Times Press, 1963,, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Wells, Gordon. 80 pages,approx. 7 3/8 x 9 1/6, softcover. A book of pictures of North Borneo -- now known as "Sabah." Includes black and white photo repros. with text by the author/photographer. Light browning at cover edges, else Very Good. No rips or tears. 061507A

The Tribune Co., (c. 1932). first thus. softcover. Very good. A compendium of nine public addresses which analyzed the origins and growth of governmental extravagance and exposed the relation of excessive taxation to the current depression. Octavo, card covers with paper label. 57 pages + one page bibliography. Covers have some wear at edges.

New York: The Viking Press, (1974). first U.S. edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 374 pages, octavo. Book is in near fine condition; dust jacket has a little darkening at top edge of rear panel, else Very Good. New Statesman review of the book by Martin Amis laid in. 020207A

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (c. 1961). hardcover. Fine/fair. "The Traditions, Dogma, and Islamic Ritual that govern the lives and destiny of more than five hundred million who call themselves Muslim: one seventh of Mankind... The complete text, in English and Arabic, has the unqualified endorsement of the two great schools of Islam, Shi'ah and Sunni, a fact of unique and unprecedented importance." Octavo, green cloth covers. The book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has a heavily sunned spine and edges,with chipping, only fair. 020117A

New York: The John Day Company, (1944). first thus.. hardcover. Very good/Fair. With a foreword by Henry Noble MacCracken and Richard Albert Edward Brooks. Part of The Living Drama series. Octavo, blue cloth covers. 94 pages. Spine titles are rubbed, flaking, else book is in Very Good condition. Dust jacket is chipped with tears, Fair. 061507B

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. first edition. hardcover. Good +. 12mo, 56 pages. Cream-colored cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards with green design and titles on top cover.. Bottom corners have a little wear; a little darkening and spotting on spine; text is clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. A Christmas story.

New York: The World Publishing Co., (1971). first printing, as stated. hardcover. Fine. Small quarto (approx. 6 3/8" wide by 9 1/4" tall) red cloth spine over black cloth boards. xxiii [3] 616 pages. Includes black and white photo reproduction, notes, index. No dust jacket, as issued. In a printed, near fine slipcase. 021210B

New York: Barry Hyams, 1951. softcover. Very good. Brochure. Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet under the direction of Ninette de Valois. Stapled booklet, 48 pages, 8 3/4" wide by 11 3/4" tall. Includes many black and white photos (with a full page portrait of H.R.H. Princess Margaret). Texts include "An Appreciation" by Arnold L. Haskell, a biography of Hurok; a short history of Sadler's Wells, Repertoire, and Who's Who in the Ballet. 122615A

Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., Deseret News Press, 1944. hardcover. Very good. Octavo, maroon cloth covers, 234 pages. Includes black and white illustrations. Former owner name and address on front free endpaper. 092715A

New York: Viking, (2000). first U.S. edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. first U.S. edition, first printing, with number line to "1". Large octavo (approx. 6 3/8" wide by 9 3/8" tall), black cloth covers, lxvi + 782 pages. Includes illustrations, diagrams, maps, charts, glossary, index. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 070400A. Legends, Icelandic History

Harrisburg: A Giniger Book, published in association with Stackpole Books, (c. 1963). reprint. hardcover. Fine. Octavo, navy cloth covers, 332 pages. No dust jacket. World War I aviation classic. 092508C

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. first edition, as stated. hardcover. Good. Octavo, red cloth covers, ix [3]. 1-466 pages. Map on endpapers. Includes bibliography, a list of the writings of Isaac Jogues, and index. A few small abrasions on front endpapers. Some foxing on first few pages; former owner name and date on a preliminary blank. Spine sunned. Laid in is a copy of the Catholic Book Club Newsletter, containing a review of this book. No dust jacket. Jesuits, Americana, Mohawks, Saints. Studio

16mo, 129 pages plus 4 page biography of the author, and one page ad listing the Macmillan Little Novels. Approx. 6 3/4 in. by 4 1/2 in. Green cloth cover stamped in red and black. Very Good condition.

Salem: Henry Whipple, 1846. hardcover. Good. 16mo, green blind-stamped cloth covers. Map "Plan of the City of Salem" opposite title page, Hole on one leaf (pages 91-92). 184 pages plus 30 pages of ads. Nathaniel Hawthorne listing on page 54. Some wear at cover edges. Appears to lack front free endpaper. Foxing on title page and map. Photos available on request. Studio

New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., (c. 1964). first printing.. hardcover. Very good/very good. Gaither, Gant . Pictorial boards, quarto (approx. 7" wide by 10 3/16"), 59 [1] pages. One corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket price clipped, one corner worn. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. "A children's book for ADULTS only."

New York: Stein and Day., (c. 1968). first American edition. hardcover. very good/very good. Octavo, maroon cloth spine over gray paper-coverd boards. 191 pages. Dust jacket light wear at edges. 092715B "At 18, Sally decided to become an unusual kind of social worker. Like Orwell, she is no do-gooder. She spent four years among beats, vagrants, alcoholics, and drug addicts. She shared the life of the "meths" drinkers, the bums who sleep in deserted shacks or in the railroad stations where the police move them every two hours, the discards from life who have no ambitions, no hope, no will, no apparent need except for the next round of methylated spirits on the road to certain death." --from the dust jacket.