Search Results: Titles starting with U from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Washington, D. C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1974. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [vi], 103 pages of text. Paperback binding with slight sunning to spine. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. Reprint edition. Octavo (8vo). xxii, 242 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear; almost new condition. Contains essays by Hamid Mowlana, Mazharul Haque, Thomas Roach, R. S. Zaharna, Karin Gwinn Wilkins, AnneMarie A. Daniel, Hamid Naficy, David Detmer, Douglas Kellner, Lee Wigle Artz and Mark A. Pollock, Allen W. Palmer, Mahboub Hashem, Peggy Bieber-Roberts, Jane Campbell, Linda K. Fuller, Abbas Malek and Krista E. Wiegand, Robert L. Schrag and Manoocher N. Javidi, and Maher N. Al-Hajji and Jack A. Nelson..

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1971. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 194 pages of text including an index. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated. About a dozen pages are uneven at the top edge where they were uncut by the printer, but opened later; this resulting in a few pages being torn, with no loss to text or images. Some pages remain uncut and unopened. First edition..

London: Peter Davies, 1950. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Quarto (4to). xii, 376 pages of text. Original hardcover binding is heavily sunned on the spine, with fraying to the spine extremities and minor shelfwear. No dustjacket. Illustrated. Previous owner's name neatly on the front endpaper. The text is clean and unmarked. A 1950 reprint of the 1935 First Edition..

Amersfoort: P. Dz. Veen, 1910. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 298 pages; illustrated with 12 tipped in plates, and an original drypoint etched frontispiece. Hardcover beveled tan decorative cloth binding is decorated with gilt lettering and an inset drypoint etching. Only the slightest of shelfwear. One small stain of front cover. Previous owner's name neatly on first free endpaper "Roelants". Text is in Dutch. Illustrations are superb, and this is an attractive copy of this unusual publication..

London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). Irish literature; fine printing; 286 pages of text; Hardcover; cream cloth, slightly darkened on edges; #395 of 1250. Decorated brown vellum dustjacket with tear at crease; protected in archival mylar. Dustjacket shorter than book; as designed. Engraved illustration opposite dedication page. Signed by author..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 317 pages of text. Original hardcover cloth binding heavily worn, soiled, and stained, with darkened spine and minor chipping to top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Inner hinges starting to detach. Brown textured paper endpapers are detached, and the front endpaper is chipped. A few minor stains in text. Previous owner's name (to whom the note in the book is inscribed) neatly on front pastedown endpaper. Previously affixed to the front endpaper is a note, measuring 4+1/8 inches in height, by 8+1/2 inches in length, with the author's inscription and autograph "for Esther Handler in defense of Loyalist Spain [signed] Richard Wright 4/11/38." The note is folded almost in half, with the crease barely missing Wright's signature. First edition..

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1868. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [iv], 292 pages of text. Original green cloth binding is bright and fresh, with minor rubbing and shelfwear. Illustrated with 12 color plates including the frontis, and numerous illustrations in black & white. The text-block is splitting in a couple of places, remaining intact. This is the first American edition, issued in New York the year prior to the British edition..

Chicago, IL: Lansing, Ltd., 1921. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 301 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear and soiling. No dustjacket. An American business novel. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New York, NY: New Press, 2001. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo (8vo). 114 pages of text. Blue hardcover binding with several small performations to front board and spine. Unclipped dustjacket with identical damage; protected in archival mylar. Otherwise in near fine condition. Translated by Linda Coverdale. The text is clean and unmarked. First American edition..

Chicago: Model Publishing Co., 1922. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. [ii], 211 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minor shelfwear and a few spots of minor discoloration. The inner front hinge is cracking. A few pages with creasing to the corners. A few pages are torn without lost, and there is minor soiling to some page edges. Illustrated. A new edition containing an appendix on ore deposits and testing minerals with the blow-pipe..

London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Royal octavo (tall 8vo). xx, 522 pages of text including an index, followed by [ii] pages of publisher's advertisement. Hardcover binding of brown cloth; rebound for a library but without any mark on the exterior. Minor foxing to title page, and just a few pages with tiny tears or chips to edges. Contains 10 color lithograph plates. Ex-library, and stamped as such on page edges, with bookplates on endpapers, but only the title page and following page marked within the text with a small stamp of five numerals in the bottom margin..

Grayslake, IL: Bharat Watch Publications, 1993. Book. Very good- condition. Spiral bound (pb). First Edition. Quarto (4to). 359 pages. Spiral bound paperback. Small personal library label on the front cover, and residue from a bookplate on the the title page, and a library pocket on the inside front cover, with previous owner's stamp neatly on the title page. Approximately 50 works by 25 contributors. No index. Minor shelfwear..

Paris, France: Librairie Plon, 1884. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 368, [i blank], [i publisher's advertisement] pages of text. Red leather binding with minimal rubbing to boards. Ex-libris Du Comte Gaston de Thannberg with his bookplate on pastedown and name on title page, with leather spine label. Includes a chapter about the Orient Express. Text is in French language..

Vicenza, Italy: Privately printed, 1988. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). Approximately 200 pages of text. Hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor rubbing to extremities, and minor soiling; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with numerous historic black & white photographs, as well as color for the most recent projects. A history of Industria Marmi Vicentini (Vicenza Marble Company)..

Chicago, IL: Olympian Publishing, 2006. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 205 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Contains over 100 color illustrations. Detroit born (1961) painter of Symbolist imagery, etc..

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [iv], 105 pages of text including a bibliography. Paperback binding with minimal shelfwear. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper "Here at last are my efforts at long last Love Carroll." The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

New York: Random House, 2005. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition, first printing. Octavo (8vo). xiv, 824 pages of text. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with a few minor creases; protected in archival mylar. Signed in ink on title page "John Irving." Included is a bookmark, numbered "103" as distributed by Borders and the Chicago Public Library to ensure that only one pre-signed book per recipient was obtained. Tiny strip of residue on front endpaper from an apparent sticker removal. First edition, first printing..

Chicago, IL: Unusual Magazine, 1949. Book. Very good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. American literature; periodical; 40p.; 18.8cm; 1st issue; blue plain paper wrapper. Minor shelfwear and soiling..

Los Angeles, CA: Univ of California Museum of Cultural History, 2004. Book. Near fine condition. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Quarto (4to). 196 pages of text including an index. Paperback binding with minor shelfwear. Illustrated. Inscribed and signed by Chap Kusimba. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..