Search Results: Titles starting with U from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

Kansas City MO.: C.A.A. -W.T.S. U.S. Navy / LaRue Printers-Lithographers., 1943. 2nd Printing, November 1943.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor spine fold wear; lower front corner short crease. Pages for Notes at back blank, save last, "You Up".. Numerous drawings, no credit given.. 1 108 p. Trade paperback. Glued binding. Black pseudo-leather paper covers. 21 cm. Front circle w/ blue, and navy emblem. Full-page Pen&Ink art w/ gray, cartoon elements. Stitched binding. Audience: Naval Aviation Cadet. Contents: Flight Training; Airplane and its care; Handling the Airplane on the Ground; Preliminary Air Work (12 parts); Take-offs and landings (8 parts); Getting Ready for Solo Flight (4 parts); More Air Work (6 parts); Precision landings (5 parts). Illustrations include diagrams.

Ballantine Books by arr. w/ Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1975. First edition. 1st Ballantine.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Signed by previous owner. Front center top cover crease. Light edge wear. Top edge foxing. Spine crease.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. US History early 1970s researched and writen by Frank Mankiewicz, a lawyer, journalist, and political activist, laying out the contradictions in what the corrupt U.S. President Richard Nixon said, and what the facts later revealed. Also, the honorable professionalism of key players who did not bend to Nixon's will is outlined herein: Archibald Cox, Elliot Richardson, Leon Jaworski, Judge Sirica.

Dublin.: Principle Management Ltd., 1992. Wraps. Fine.. 1 32 p. Folio, 36 cm. Color illustrated paper covers. Stapled binding. Color and B&W photos. Graphically creative layout. The music group U2 under the creative leadership of Bono toured America in 1992, and televised the "Zoo" tour. At back is a long list of participants and support staff. The fold out back cover also solicits interest and support for international non-profit movements: Green Peace; Amnesty International; Rock the Vote; and AmFar.

Access Press., 1989. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 1 Paperback, 10.25 inches square. Glued binding. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. Road atlas designed for time and distance travel reference. Single page covers 250 miles. City map overviews show 25x25 miles.

New York.: Smithmark Publishers., 1996. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Small grease patches: front top left jacket, back jacket right center. Slight corner wear.. 1 Glossy illustrated paper over boards. White and gold titles. 256 p. Color photos throughout. Audience: General/trade. Cooking and health. Color photography: step-by-step smaller photos to full page.

New York.: Philosophical Library., 1958. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. 1 100 p. Dark blue cloth over boards. 22 cm. Assumptions; Levels of Desires (Physical and Cosmological); Perfection; Eternalism. Progress in accepting ethic;

Beverly Hills CA.: Autumngold Publishing., 1984. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription on free end paper: "To Ray--A man who knows the heavenly qualities of pipesmoking! Happy Smoking, RcH" with a flourish and a line art pipe. Jacket has light spine sun fade.. 1 Maroon textured leather-like material over boards. Stamped gold titles and pipe image. 305 p. B&W photos, facsimiles. Pipe smoking Reference dedicated to "S. Holmes". Origins, pipemaking, selecting, secrets to smoking a pipe, the perfect tobacco, pipe smoking for women, accessories; famous pipe smokers; collectible pipe; sourcebook;

University of Minnesota Press, 1998. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No actual duct tape applied to this book...yet. But, that might make it even more collectible.. Nyberg, Tim (Design & Photo manipulations by), and Saulitis, Erik (Northwest Telecommunications Photographs by). 1 Trade paperback (US), actually 6x4in (maybe), horizontal format. Glued binding. 151 p. B&W Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Put together by The Duct Tape Guys, Jim & Tim, this is the 3rd volume of tape tips for lifestyle enhancement.

New York.: Random House., 1997. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket.. 1 Green paper over boards. 542 p. Center B&W photo section. Biography / Civil War General / U.S. President. As a general, Grant's story included research not before known. As a President, he was the first to lead industrialized America.

New York / Chicago.: Congdon & Weed Inc., 1987. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Red remainder dot, bottom page block. Jacket has edge wear, short tears, single 2-inch tear; some repairs made, clear tape. Single clear tape on rear lower jacket outside. Light erasure inside free end paper corner.. Cardiff, Jack (Cover photograph by), and Krajcirovic, Maria (Photograph hand-coloring by).. 1 Violet cloth over boards, well-constructed. 608 p. Bibliography. Trivia quiz and answers. Biographical volume about movie personality Marilyn Monroe, formatted as an encyclopedia with numerous black & white archival photos and facsimile documents such as movie posters.

New York / London.: Viking Press. Printers Butler & Tanner., 1929. 1st in 1912. 6th reprint including Collected Edition in 1926.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Front board starting to separate. Light corner, spine end bumps.. 1 244 p. Royal blue cloth over boards. Small blind-stamped icon, front center. Spine paste-on title box/ stain and small surface damage; blue and black on off-white. 4-in x 7-in. Author's printed note, inside as a dedication: " This story has no moral. If it points out an evil at any rate it suggests no remedy". Foremost, Saki created characters with wit.

Harper Colophon Books, 1985. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Age-toning to page edges. Spine curl and creasing. Light edge wear.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 314 p. Audience: General/trade. Fiction based on 2 couples. Their lives are shaped by irrevocable choices, fortuitous events, in a world where everything happens but once and existence seems to lose its weight, its substance.

Washington Square Press, 2000. 1st printing;. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. As new;. 0 Glued binding. 432 p. Audience: General/trade.

Washington DC: Peekskill NY. [etc. ]: Review and Herald Publishing Assn., 1937. Trade paperback. Very good. Front cover creasing, right side, lower center. Clean interior. Back cover light soiling.. 1 Trade paperback. Color cover, photo, 2 of author's children. 96 p. 20 cm. B&W photos, line art, silhouette. Christian themes. Small magazine format with ads and 23 stories, "they are all true or founded on facts that have come to our personal knowledge; and are all designed to bless and uplift every child who reads or hears them", from Preface. Publisher full page ads are on interior cover pages. B&W photos throughout. Frontispiece, Maxwell family portrait, parents and 5 children.

New York.: D Appleton., 1898. Author copyright 1896, 1897.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine. Bookplate removed, leaving 4 corner glue patches inside cover. Free end paper light top corner erasures.. Tauber (or Sauber or Lauber in script as part of grayscale art; illustration plates by).. 1 308 p. Red buckram cloth over boards, front title in gold encircled by silver ring of fleurs de lis and gold ring. 19 cm. 2 pgs Appleton promotions, back. From publisher's synopsis at front (with other Doyle works), "This brilliant historical romance pictures Napoleon's threatened invasion of England when his forces were encamped at Boulogne. The story abounds in dramatic incidents, and the adventures of the hero will be followed with intense interest by a multitude of readers". The tale opens on the coast of France. First published as a serial in Cosmopolitan magazine.

New York.: William Morrow and Company., 1942. First edition. Possible 1st, no print line.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sturdy binding, mostly clean text pages. Light soil to cover. Pages clean. Small dark spill, outside page block, half-inch from corner, not bleeding inside.. Crockett, Lucy Herndon (Decorated by).. 1 127 p. Tan cloth over boards. Cover art, spine titles; green and black. Green line art w/ black. Illustrations throughout; end papers show village activities. Page of Haitian words at back. 22 cm. Setting: Mountain country villages of Haiti. Two characters live these stories: Uncle Bouqui and Ti Malice. Uncle Bouqui, whose great-grandfather was a Congo man in Africa, is big and black with wrinkled skin, and gray hair and beard. He is usually kind, gentle and mannerly, with a thick mountain voice. He tries hard but is always in trouble. Ti Malice is a little man with reddish-brown skin. It is said his great-grandfather was a Dahomey African. He is always working up new… Read More

New York.: Harper & Row, Publishers., 1981. Book Club Edition. Weekly Reader.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior name in ink, dated 1984.. 1 Had Cover w/ illustrated covers, large and smaller elephant, in grays, pink, green. Color themes in art on pages. 64 p. 23 cm. Audience: Children/juvenile. Classic Arnold Lobel: 9 stories about wrinkly and creaky old Uncle Elephant who comes to find a young elephant whose parents were lost at sea. Each day they spend together, the young elephant helps his uncle to see as they do interesting things together. There is a happy ending.

HarperCollins Publishers., 1963. © Evil Eye Music 1963.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Clean covers and pages. Light edge wear to jacket. Minimal library markings from small Newbury N.H. Public Library.. 1 White paper over boards. Black line art and cover titles. Audience: Children/juvenile. A modern fable by author-illustrator and human being Shel Silverstein. A young lion lived in the jungle with other lions, and had a normal young lion life: jumping, playing, swimming, eating rabbits, chasing other lions, sleeping in the sun. Then, a loud sound and lions started running. And old lion warned the young lion, "Run! " from the hunters. He tried to hide; a hunter was wanting a lion skin rug. The gun was not loaded. Read on about Lafcadio.

New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row, 1965. P 55. 1st paperback. Originally published in 1940 by Harper.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Slight edgewear. No creasing. Square. Tight. Minor paper age-toning.. Lichterman, Shelley (Cover art by).. 1 First edition. 215p. Great cover art. Contents: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow; an autobiographical sketch; Big Boy Leaves Home; Down by the Riverside; Long Black Song; Fire and Cloud; Bright and Morning Star.

USA.: The Platt & Munk Co., 1939. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Single center staple separated from cover. Illustrations & text vibrant on high quality paper.. Carlson, George (Illustrations by).. 1 Pictorial front color paper cover. 12 p. Color and b&w pen&ink illustrations. Uncle Wiggily goes exploring and finds a roofing job in progress with a large vat of tar. he gets into, well, a sticky situation. The monkey barber gentleman saves his day.