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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ISBN 9780962628504, 0962628506 OCLC 23609510 SIGNED by Peter Simon on the half-title ; photographic color stiff paper wrappers ; includes writings by Nancy Slonim Aronie, Barbara Lazear Ascher, Susan Branch, Robert Brustein, Art Buchwald, Douglas Cabral, James P Comer, Philip R Craig, Walter Cronkite, Ram Dass, Stephen Davis, Jib Ellis, Peter Feibleman, James S Gordon, Lisa Grunwald, James hart, Stan Hunt, John Hough, Jr, Ward Just, Jim Kaplan, Gerald R. Kelly, Richard Louris, Eileen Maley, Phyllis Meras, Victor Pisano, Robert post, Arnie reisman, Dionis Coffin Riggs, Jay Sapir, Anne W. Simon, Carly Simon, Richard C Skidmore, William Styron, John Updike, Mike Wallace, Harvey Wasserman, Joel Zoss ; essays include: Introduction -- In Praise of Vineyard Haven -- Menemsha -- On the Roads -- Conquest-watching -- Island from the Sea -- A Noble Avocation -- The Side of the Brook -- I look for the vineyard everywhere -- First Impressions -- A Floating World -- Celebrity Status -- Snow Walk -- Sunday Pastime -- Lambert's Cove -- On Solitude -- Vineyard Seasons -- A Tall Island, Indeed -- Vacation Cause & Effect -- A Haven on the Vineyard -- Oak Bluffs -- Alone and Together -- No Exit From Eden -- Going Barefoot -- A Journey Home -- Vineyard Golf-A Love Story -- Observations On A Nude Beach -- The Golden Goose Goes Honkey Tonk -- Island Boomers-They Saw, They Acculturated -- "Year-Rounder Solves Island Problems!" -- Housebroken -- Edgartown: Leather and Lace -- Afternoon With Moshup -- A Stroll Through West Tisbury -- Chilmark; Two Words Is Not Enough -- The Big Picture -- Vineyard Passage -- Island Trilogy ; scarce items from these authors ; FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Magazine. Octavo. 79pp. Stapled red wrappers with yapped foredge. Very good plus with a touch of sunning on the front wrap wear along the spine and the foredge. A poetry anthology with contributions from Herman Hesse, Ann Menebroker, Herman Salinger, Karl Krolow, David F. Ensley, Peter Wild, Duane Ackerson, Bob Conder, Robert L. Tyler, John McNally, Paul Baker Newman, Clyde Fixmer, Mary Vann Finley, John Stevens Wade, Coleman Barks, Mary Ann Meade, Mark Halliday, James Applewhite, Kip Ward, Juanita Tobin, Carol Parsons, Walter W. Stevens, Burke Davis III, Emilie Glen, Robert Joe Stout, Harry C. Stokes, Earl Wolslagel, Helen Anne Fuller, Anna Wooten, Steve Davies, Fred Chappell, Betty R. Ford, Joyce Odam, Victor Stranberg, James "Gator" Wise, John Bower, Kurt Hube, George R. Wood.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 255 p. illus. 25 cm ; OCLC: 1748238 ; LC: TT197; TT195; Dewey: 684 ; tan textured boards in pictorial dustjacket ; remains of label on dustjacket ; rather scare title ; the "modern" element features lots of populux items, with illustrations ; Partial Contents : Home accessories you can build on your kitchen table -- Dressing table has curtain pole for legs -- Wall table -- Sewing stand -- Chandelier -- Glass bricks top off modern coffee table -- For solid comfort build this magazine and smoking stand -- Update that old upright -- $3 chair fits growing child -- How to build a modern desk -- These lamps are never in your way -- Cozy corner only costs $17 -- Hand tools make Chinese shelf -- Wall desk built in half a day -- Sliding bottom empties this wastebasket fast -- Labor-saving kitchen designed by doctors -- Built-up lamp and box show -- Deep carving effect -- Overhauling old clocks -- Glass-top coffee table with magazine bins -- Hand tools build modern table -- Bookcase includes a desk shelf -- Chippendale tilt-top table -- Veneered table uses little wood -- Rush for your seats -- Hammer and saw furniture -- Radio-phono combination doubles as bedside table -- Make-up mirror shows good craftsmanship -- Double-deck table has removable tray -- Junior desk chair has folding leaf -- Plastic pulls give the modern touch -- How to seal a finish into wood -- Wire-grille doors frame small cabinet -- Glass-topped desk conceals typewriter -- Checking up on radiator valves -- Spice cabinet -- Child's wardrobe is a hammer and saw job -- Whatnot shelf lighted from below -- Turning radiators into furniture -- Pilgrim trestle table and benches -- Storage units you can move -- You can make a lamp out of simple things -- Furniture from the forest -- King-size curtain pole for two bits -- Treasure hunting in your attic -- Coffee table in the modern trend -- Ketchup bottle and tin can supply materials for candle holder -- Give your child a towel rack -- Two-way lamp displays marine carving -- This stool goes modern -- Tilt-top table fits small space -- Chest faced in matched veneer -- Jigsaw stand -- Novel corner cupboard holds belts -- Modern radio-phono cabinet build around old set -- Caring for plastics -- Roll front closes cutlery cabinet -- Wrought-iron tables have glass tops -- Sweetening the sour notes -- Old and new tuckaway tables fold flat -- Over-sink cabinet adds extra shelves -- Typing table has built-in wastebasket -- Thumb indexing phone book with engraving tool -- Early American Grandfather Clock -- Bunny cradle for the nursery -- Pine washstand holds phono-radio -- Between-windows cabinet holds fine china -- Do it up brown or blond -- Radio combination in a wall bookcase -- Handy shelves fit odd corners -- Guests will admire these dragon candlesticks -- Colonial plant stand scaled to table size -- It's easy to use our mixer now -- Tobacco box holds pipes -- Three antique benches -- Modern desk chair is economy job -- You can make brass handles for furniture -- Eighteenth century pedestal stand -- Brass-railed clock shelf -- Hanging shelves put up in one evening -- Kitchen chopping block of maple -- Base raises portable typewriter -- Every child needs a desk -- Breadbox stove cooks with infrared rays -- Cabinets are hand-tool job -- Bedside table has picture-frame door -- Initials form massive book ends -- Tray chest keeps toys together -- Need a clothes hamper? -- How to put plastic tops on tables -- Graceful ladder-back chairs -- Early American Windsor Table -- Bamboo + boxes = bookcases -- Bookcase-desk -- Occasional cabinet with reeded doors -- Novel wall cabinet has swinging drawers -- Bed workbench -- It's fun to fix a sewing machine -- Dual-purpose music stand -- We built a family theater in our living room -- Need furniture? Try shiplap -- Globe Standard in the Duncan Phyfe style -- How to repair your own rugs -- Old wicker chairs with upholstery -- Repair that broken blind yourself ; great ideas ; VG/G. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition, 1st printing ; xxiii, 295 p. : ports. ; 29 cm. ; + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.) in pocket at back endpapers ; ISBN: 1579653146; 9781579653149 LCCN: 2007-271181 ; LC: UB433; Dewey: 355.1/342; B ; OCLC: 71011986 ; Contents : Foreword / President George H. W. Bush -- A special category of hero / Tom Brokaw -- Ennobled by example / Senator John McCain -- When courage is second nature / Victor Davis Hanson -- Fallen heroes -- Profiles of valor -- History of a unique medal -- The pyramid of honor -- A glossary of military terms -- Photographer's note -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments. ; foreword, President George H.W. Bush ; essays, Senator John McCain, Victor Davis Hanson, and Tom Brokaw ; Photographs, Nick Del Calzo ; text Peter Collier ; [published in collaboration with the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation] ; "Since the Civil War more than 39 million men and women have answered the call to serve. Of those, 3,440 served with such uncommon valor and and extraordinary courage that they were presented with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. Each of their heroic actions is as unique as the person who performed it, and here more than one hundred of America's living Medal of Honor recipients are honored and their bravery recounted by best-selling author Peter Collier and presented in duotone portraits by award-winning photographer Nick Del Calzo." ; Features photographs and statements by Lucian Adams, John Baca, Nicky Bacon, John Baker, Donald Ballard, William Barber, Van Barfoot, Harvey Barnum, Gary Beikirch, Melvin Biddle, David Bleak, Patrick Brady, Paul Bucha, James Burt, Robert Bush, Hector Cafferata, Jon Cavaiani, William Charette, Ernest Childers, Raymond Clausen, Mike Colalillo, Charles Coolidge, William Crawford, Francis Currey, Edward Dahlgren, Michael Daly, Rudolph Davila, Raymond Davis, Sammy L Davis, George "Bud" Day, Jefferson DeBlanc, Duane Dewey, Drew Dix, Roger DOnlon, Desmond Doss, Russell E Dunham, Walter Ehlers, Henry Erwin, Frederick Ferguson, John Finn, Bernard Fisher, Michael Fitzmaurice, James Fleming, Dugene Fluckey, Robert Foley, Joseph Foss, Wesley Fox, Ed Freeman, Harold Fritz, Robert Galer, Nathan Gordon, Stephen Gregg, Charles Hagemeister, Barney Hajiro, John Hawk, Shizuya Hayashi, James Hendrix, Rodolfo Hernandez, Silvestre Herrera, Freeman Horner, Robert Howard, Thomas Hudner, Einar Ingman, Daniel Inouye, Arthur Jackson, Joe M Jackson, Jack Jacobs, Don Jenkins, Leonard Keller, Thomas G Kelley, Allan Kellogg, Joseph "Bob" Kerrey, Alton Knappenberger, George Lang, Howard Lee, John Levitow, Gary Littrell, James Livingston, Jose Lopez, Jack Lucas, Allen Lynch, Walter Marm, Robert Maxwell, Richard McCool, John McGinty, DAvid McNerney, Gino Merli, Lewis Millett, Hiroshi Miyamura, Ola Mize, Robert Moorezejewski, Raymond Murphy, Charles Murray, Reginald Myers, Robert Nett, Thomas Norris, Michael Novosel, George O'Brien, Robert O'Malley, Nicholas Oresko, Mitchell Paige, Robert Patterson, Richard Pittman, Everett Pope, Alfred Rascon, Ronald Ray, Gordon Roberts, Louis Rocco, Joseph Rodriguez, Ronald Rosser, Tibor Rubin, Donald Rudolph, Alejandro Ruiz, George Sakato, Clarence Sasser, Edward Schowalter, Robert SImanek, Carl Sitter, Richard Sorenson, James Sprayberry, James Stockdale, James Stone, Ken Stumpf, James Swett, James A Taylor, Brian Thacker, Michael Thornton, Leo Thorsness, Jay Vargas, George Wahlen, Ernest West, Gary Wetzel, Paul Wiedorfer, Louis Wilson, and Jay Zeamer ; FINE/FINE. Book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A bound, ex-library copy the July - December 1932 issues of The American Magazine, volume 114. It includes a title and author index bound in the front. Contents include stories and Depression Era articles by Archibald Rutledge (You Can't Put Out the Sun - July), Alexander Woolcott (I'm Glad I'm Absent Minded - July), Dashiell Hammett (2 Sam Spade stories - A Man Called Spade - July, Too Many Have Lived - October), Octavus Roy Cohen (The Knight's Errand - July, Hearts and Clubs - August, Grandstand Stuff - November), Amelia Earhart (Flying the Atlantic - August), Clarence Budington Kelland (Something to Tell the Folks Who Can't See Where Business is Going - August, Scattergood Meets a Gangster - September, The Touchstone: A Scattergood Story - October, Scattergood Tries an Experiment - November, Red Fingernails - December), Beverley Smith (The Man With the Flashlight Mind, The Story of Walter Lippmann - September), Walter Lippmann (Good Men Wanted - September), Tom Gill (Guardians of the Desert parts 1 - 4 - September - December), Kathleen Norris (Walls of Gold, parts 1 - 3, October - December), I A R Wylie (Pilgrimage - November) General John J Pershing (The Thing We Need Today - December), P G Wodehouse (A Cagey Gorilla - December), and others. Light rubbing to the spine. The front covers are present but the back covers have been removed, The top margin has been trimmed slightly, at times affecting the text at the top of the front cover. The library markings are fairly unobtrusive. They include "Mercer University Library - Macon, GA" stamps on the front covers and a Mercer University Library plate on the front paste down. Occasional neat tape repairs to a few pages. Occasional soil spots in the margins. However the interior is very clean and crisp overall. The binding is solid and tight. A very good copy with stories and serial installments by prominent authors, most notably Dashiell Hammett and P G Wodehouse, and a nice selection of Depression Era articles. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage. John E Sheridan, Hatden Hayden, Diana Thorne, Penrhyn Stanlaws (covers), Charles S Chapman, William Auerbach-Levy, Joseph Clement, George Howe, Clayton Knight, C W Massaguer, Floyd M Davis, Ralph Pullen Coleman, Paul Meylan, Pruett Carter and others (illustrator).…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A new edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated compilation of hound hunting in Great Britain. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Great Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations.Collate, complete.With illustrations credited to James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The spine is faded and a little bumped and the boards are a little faded. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound and with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good. James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 5th or later Edition. 6th ed. ; 3 v. in 5. illus. (part col.) 24 cm. ; Contents: v. 1. The elements, N. H. Furman, editor.--v. 2. Industrial and natural products and noninstrumental methods, F. J. Welcher, editor. 2 v.--v. 3. Instrumental methods, F. J. Welcher, editor. 2 v. ; LCCN: 62-2869 ; LC: QD131; Dewey: 545 ; OCLC: 283405 ; black cloth ; ex-lib, stamps, labels, date dues, pockets ; Contents: Vol. 1 -- alkali metals aluminum antimony arsenic barium beryllium bismuth boron bromine cadmium calcium carbon cerium rare earth chlorine chromium cobalt copper flourine gallium germanium gold hydrogen indium iodine iron lead magnesium mercury moybdenum nickel vanadium titanium nitrogen oxygen phosphorus platinum radium rhenium technetium scandium selenium tellurium silicon silver strontium sulfur thallium thorium tin titanium tungsten uranium vanadium zinc zirconium hafnium -- Vol.2 Pt.1 Explosives propellants natural fats fertilizers fuel gases paper wood paint varnish lacquer pesticides petroleum plastics paint poisons rubber silicates soaps detergents soils vitamins water analysis -- Vol.2 Pt.2 Apparatus general operations and reagents -- Special techniques for industrial products and other special substances -- Vol.3 Pt.A Instrumental methods -- Instrumental methods for industrial products and other special substances -- Vol.3 Pt.B Instrumental methods in clinical medicine Natural fats Fertilizers Foods Organic functional groups Gases Glass Paint Paper Pesticide Petroleum Plastics Rubber Semiconductors Soaps Soils Water ; exhaustive; 5 thick heavy volumes ; the bible of chemical analysis, required reference in every laboratory ; FINE. Book.…