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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good DJ. First American Edition, First Printing. 278 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Printing With "2" On Last Page. A Lightly Used Book, Gilt Still Brilliant, No Wear. Dj Front Flap With Quote From Virginia Woolf, "It Would Be Difficult To Find A Fellow To It In English. One Cannot Bring To Mind At The Moment Any Living English Writer So Intelligent, So Dextrous, So Accomplished As M. Maurois". Dj Lightly Used, Slight Fading, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50], 1" Tear At Top Of Front Spine Edge, 3/4" Tear At Top Of Rear Flap Fold.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Viii, 284 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American Edition. Viii, 294 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, Beige Boards. First American Edition, First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced $15.00.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 77 pp. ; 20 cm. ; ISBN: 0823302717 :; 9780823302710 LCCN: 77-99152 ; OCLC: 4005998 ; LC: PS3525.U564; Dewey: 811/.5/4 ; red cloth with gold lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; spine sunned ; Contents: Wind and the Woman -- Insulated -- Seascape -- Vision restored -- Meadows of the mind -- Sanctioned syllable -- Association test -- Thruway -- Quest of the kings -- In memoriam -- Meet me at Tony's -- Single search -- Homesite -- Fragile the durable day -- dishwasher -- Director -- By the pond - - Concert -- Tourist itinerary -- Focus on the singular -- Lilac festival -- Frail as infant breath -- The man in the practical suit -- Walk in the wood -- Mary Abbott, artist -- Identity dispute -- Housing shortage - The women are angry -- Soldier' s homecoming -- Wholly occupied with applause -- Security established -- Carousel -- dancing in the lounge -- Capitol -- No survivors -- Children's hour -- Monster hunt -- In that particular gutter -- Send her to the principal -- Summer morning -- H e's old enough to walk home alone -- The conqueror comes -- Street scene -- Third birthday -- Sun thick as cream -- This is the day -- Once upon a morning. ; ".exquisite poems by Lisa Crenelle, who is Mrs. Crenelle Munroe of New York City. 'Delicate as lace'"--American Poetry Magazine, 1946. Lisa Crenelle for many years wrote an internationally syndicated daily column for King Features ; FINE/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xiv, 313 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0835121461; 9780835121460 ; LCCN: 89-60226 ;OCLC: 19783510 ; tan cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; fictionalized account of the author's youth in Beijing under the Cultural Revolution, written in English ; dustjacket has a few nicks, else FINE/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 311 pp. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0312242395 : LCCN: 80-21662 ; OCLC: 6707932 ; LC: E99.D1; Dewey: 970.004/97 ; "Elijah is the true story of a young girl growing up between civilizations. The pure strong voice of Inez Crenshaw is unforgettable.Strongly sexual, Elijah describes the total submissiveness of the Indian woman, a way of life barely credible to the modern reader."--dustjacket ; brown cloth with gold lettering, in torn dustjacket ; spot smudge on front dustjacket ; G/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 241 p. illus. 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0671217208; 9780671217204 ; LC: BL624; Dewey: 294.5/44 ; OCLC: 915858 ; yellow cloth in dustjacket ; "Sri Chinmoy (August 27, 1931 - October 11, 2007) was a Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964., the founder of the religious organization 'Sri Chinmoy Centre Church, Inc'" better known as'"Sri Chinmoy Centre'. According to his followers, Sri Chinmoy wrote 1,500 books, 115,000 poems and 20,000 songs, created 200,000 paintings and gave almost 800 free peace concerts in notable venues around the world. As a spiritual Master, he advocated meditation, chanting mantras and prayers, performing dedicated service to God as a way to personal enlightenment, or God-realisation as described by Eastern religions, including Sri Aurobindo's spiritual teaching."--Wikipedia ; grease mark on front ep ; else VG/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 654 p. : map ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0688095194 ; 9780688095192 ; LCCN: 91-34451 ; LC: PS3569.H768; Dewey: 813.54 ; OCLC: 24590789 ; "Traveling through a hostile territory with their newborn son, [the Anasazi woman] Kwani and her mate must fight to defend themselves and their treasure against vicious enemies and hostile spirits." ; beige and red cloth in pictorial color dustjacket ; maps on endpapers ; Contents: Cicuye, A. D. 1272 -- The Pollen of Dawn -- The House of t he Sun -- Epilogue. ; author's second novel ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 302 pp. ; illustrated ; Dewey: 795.438 ; ISBN: 0571063896 ; orange cloth with gold lettering, in orange black and white clipped dustjacket ; spot on top ; foxing ; Contents : The Overhand Shuffle - The Riffle Shuffle - Flourishes - The Glide - The Glimpse - The Key Card - The Palm - The Backslip - The Overhand Shuffle II - False Shuffles and Cuts - The Double Lift and Turnover - The Pass - Miscellaneous Flourishes - The Reverses - The Hindu Shuffle and Other Controls - The Classic Force - Top and Bottom Changes - Arrangements - Routines - Platform Tricks ; "The reader is introduced to the mysteries of card magic progressively. Each chapter describes a different slight of hand followed with a selection of tricks based on the principle taught in the chapter.it contains 76 complete card tricks, each of which has been carefully chosen, and showing how the dabbler performs a colourless trick, and how those who travel along the royal road to card magic are competent to present a brilliant tour de force."--Colin Donister ; eighth impression ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st trade edition, 2nd printing] ; 147 pp. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0151585881; 9780151585885 LCCN: 80-8749 ; LC: PT2613.R338; Dewey: 833/.914 ; OCLC: 7177690 ; "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."; sea-green cloth with dark blue spine and gold lettering and designs in brown, green and black pictorial dustjacket ; "In 1647, as the Thirty Years' War was drawing to a close, a group of poets from all parts of Germany gather at the pilgrimage town of Telgte, for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation: its language and literature. They meet and part in disarray, yet manage to discuss their manuscripts with all the liveliness of friendship and force of rivalry, against a background of brutality and anguish." -- dustjacket ; historical characters included are Heinrich Albert, Jakob Balde, Cornelius Becker, Mathias Bernegger, Siegmund von Birken, Georg Blum, Jakob Boehme, August Buchner, Daniel von Czepko und Reigersfeld, Simon Dach, Ludwig Elzevihr (Elsevier), Wol fgang Endter, Alexander Erskein, Paul Fleming, Abraham von Franckenberg, Giovanni Gabrieli, Christoffel Grimmelshausen, Paul Gerhardt, Georg Greflinger, Hugo Gortius, Andreas Gryphius, Giambattista Guarini, Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, Christian Hofma nn von Hofmannswaldau, Johann Klaj, Bernhard Knipperdolling, Johann Lauremberg, Georg Michael Lingelsheim, Ambrosius Lobwasser, Friedrich von Logau, Ludwig Prince of Anhalt-Kothen, Giambasttista Marino, Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Michael Moscherosch , Johann Philipp Mulbe, Johann Naumann, Georg Neumark, Martin Opitz, Ottavio Rinuccini, JOhann Rist, Robert Roberthin, Jesaias Rompler von Lowenhalt, Johann Scheffler, Johann Mathias Scheuber, Justus Georg Schottel, Heinrich Schutz, Friedrich Spee v on Langenfeld, Torquato Tasso, Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, Philipp von Zesen, and Julius Wilhelm Zincgref ; dustjacket spine sunned ; else FINE/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xvii, 187 pp. ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. ; LCCN: 69-15427 ; OCLC: 325884 ; LC: HX757.S44 ; Dewey: 338.7/63/095218 ; Translation of: Shinkyo Buraku ; green cloth with gold lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; dustjacket spine sunned, with a few nicks ; small nick on top front endpaper ; signed ownership of Charles H. Hambrick, the Vanderbilt Professor Emeritus, on front ep ; "Spurned for heresy, ostracized from their native village, Sensei and his people established a community that has since flourished and become famous" ; a few notes in margins, else VG/VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. 290 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth, Gilt. First American Printing, 1949. Light Rubbing At Corners, Spine Gilt Weak, Former Owner's Information N Front Endpaper Otherwise Entire Contents Clean And White. Dj, Priced $3.00, With Wear, Short Tears And Small Losses At Corners,Very Slight Fading To Spine Panel, 1/4" Beige Spot At Top Of Rear Panel. Dust Jacket Blurb By T S Eliot, Who Also Wrote The Introduction For Williams' "All Hallows' Eve".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good + Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 288 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. No Date In Book; Dj With Ads For All 1935 Books. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Cream Yellow Dj Printed In Blue And Red. By The Author Of "The Culture Of The Abdomen", A Book Found Extremely Helpful By Those Attempting To Overcome Obesity. Dj Cover Blurb By H G Wells "I Am Glad To See Your Memories And Opinions In Print. It's First-Rate Stuff And I Hope It Will Run To A Sale Of Scores Of Thousands"; Wells Had Previously Inscribed A Photo In 1930 To Hornibrook, Now At The U Of Illinois. The Book Is Full Of Criticisms Against The Leaders Of Almost Everything, With Wonderful Examples Of Idiotic Behavior At The Higher Levels. For Example, The Author Begins "It Claims To Be No More Than The Opinions Of A Plain Man Expressed In Simple Speech", But Covers The Great Events And Issues Of The Time, Particularly Wwi And The Aftermath Of The War, From Personal Observation And Always With His Well Expressed Freethinker Opinions. Quite Intelligent But Quite Enjoyably Readable. From Ch. Xiii, The Bishops In The House Of Lords, "If Anything Were Needed To Show How Much The Church Is Out Of Touch With The People And How Much It Lags Behind In Progressive Thought, It Was Provided By The Debate In The House Of Lords (February 1934) On The Bill To Restrict The Sale, Display And Advertisement Of Contraceptives. The Bishop Of London Was Responsible For The Following Gem: 'I Would Like', He Declared, 'To Make A Bonfire Of These Things And Dance Around It'. What A Picture It Conjures Up- The Bishop With His White Surplice Held Daintily Up To His Knees As For A Skirt Dance." Book With Slight Rubbing At Corners, Hinges Tight, Stirrup Bookplate Of Larry Mcmurtry (From His H G Wells Collection), Gilt Still Brilliant. Dj Complete, Not Price Clipped, Spine With Fading To Red Color Of Author's Name, And Slight Browning, Entire Dj A Little Dusty, Minute Loss At Each Corner, 1" Light Dampstain At Lower Right Corner Of Front Panel, Very Faint Show-Through On Corner Of Front Cover But No Trace Of Dampstaining Elsewhere. Worldcat Shows Only 4 Institutional Holdings In The U.S. (2 At Univ Of California, One At Univ Of Georgia, One At New York Public Library, None At Any Eastern Or Midwestern University, Apparently None In The South Or Midwest. Pity.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good DJ. First American Edition, First Printing. 278 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Printing With "1" On L;Ast ;Page. A Lightly Used Book, Gilt Still Brilliant, No Wear. Dj Front Flap With Quote From Virginia Woolf, "It Would Be Difficult To Find A Fellow To It In English. One Cannot Bring To Mind At The Moment Any Living English Writer So Intelligent, So Dextrous, So Accomplished As M. Maurois". Dj Lightly Used, Slight Browning To Spine And Rear Panel And Flap Edges, Not Price-Clipped [$2.50], 3/16" V-Chips At Top Corners Of Spine Edge, 1/8" Losses At Upper Tips, A Few Minute Holes In White Areas Of Publisher's Logo On Spine (Possibly Acidic Ink?).…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1942. First edition. Batsford. London. 1942. First edition. Hardback, small quarto; red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 80 pages. Colour frontispiece, 11 full-page illustrations (1 in colour), 10 text illustrations by Whistler. English. 250x190mm. 0.4kg. Very good, in good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, ruffling to spine ends and forecorners, slight loss to spine with a few tears, browning to spine, some toning and spotting to panels, price-clipped; dustiness to top edge, slight offsetting to endpapers. A first edition of Simon Harcourt-Smith's tale of grandeur and folly, decorated by Rex Whistler. The story centres around a country house, Uptake, and the problems of inheritance. The setting plays to Whistler's strengths, with charming illustrations of rococo, classical and gothic architecture and follies. Harcourt-Smith wrote the text to amuse his wife Rosamund during the Blitz when she was laid up in plaster after a motoring accident. The illustrations are some of the last that Rex Whistler completed. [Whistler & Fuller. The Work of Rex Whistler. No.499] Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. (illustrator). …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, white title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains [x] 594 printed pages of text and one map. Fine condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with tanning of the paper down the spine, one 5 mm tear to the foot of the spine. Enclosed is a small news paper clipping of Greta Garbo as she appeared in her first major film, Saga. Blurb by T. E. Lawrence to the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.…

Softcover. Zustand: gut. Blurb WOD Handbook 2nd Ed. Taschenbuch Fitness Sport Training Buch Englisch In englischer Sprache. pages.