Pre-ISBN Book Edition: Believed to be the first edition; date printed on the title page. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: F. W. Dodge Corporation. Date published: 1961 Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365. Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?mtype=&searchtype=title&searchquery=Wood+in+Architecture

Pre-ISBN Book Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Walter N. Brunt,, San Francisco Date published: 1915 Description: Nearly new text block bookstore quality, items of note, faded cover text, slight edge wear. No dust jacket. 335 p. Flexible hb covers, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2", filled w/ black and white photos. NOT a reprint edition. This is the original edition/printing. Fantastic gift copy for a collector. This book is a detailed collection of stories and essays exploring the art, architecture, and structural meanings behind the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, California Browse our online inventory 24/7/365 View this book in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?mtype=&searchtype=title&searchquery=dream+city

Pre-ISBN Book Binding: Stapled Publisher: Self-published. Date published: 1962 Description: No dust jacket. Nearly new bookstore quality, faded spine; all else as new. Stapled booklet, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2". Rare. As of this listing, no other copies are available. Browse our online inventory 24/7/365 View this book in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=All+Time+Indoor+Track+and+Field+Record+Book+1962&mtype=B

Pre-ISBN Book LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CARD NUMBER 75-155336 Fine in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Text block clean, bright and tight; slight rubbing/edge wear to dj, small tear to top back closed with acid-free tape. 128 p. Including index. Includes many historic photos. Story of The Politofsky, a Russian gunboat built in 1861 for the Bering Sea fur trade and transferred to the United States under the Alaska Purchase of 1867. It later operated as a tug on the Pacific Northwest and Alaskan coasts. This is an exciting history filled with historic photographs.  Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365.  Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=Here+Comes+Polly&mtype=B

ISBN-13: 9780070445673  ISBN: 0070445672 Edition: 1955. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: Whittlesey House, a division of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., United States of America. Date published: 1955  Description: Galdone, Paul. VG+++ in VG++ dj. Ex-library. Great condition for 1955! 2-inch tear to top corner of front dj closed with acid-free tape, and in new protective plastic. Not price clipped. DISCARD stamp on ffep. Library binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: Children/juvenile. Durability library binding. No library stamps in text block. This popular classic children's book was written by the author of the Miss Pickerell stories. Photo is of this specific book. White on spine is from camera flash. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365.  Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=Theodore+Turtle&mtype=B

Pre-ISBN Book Edition: presumed first. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: Kinografik Publishing Corp., New York, NY. Date published: 1959 Description: Text block as new, clean, bright and tight. Some shelf wear to foot and corners. Tiny tears to top back edge of dj closed w/acid-free tape and in new protective plastic; narrow 1-inch chip to bottom back of dj not in text area. 128 p. 10 chapters plus index. Many historic photos, charts and tables. INCLUDES 4-page supplement to The Alpa Camera. This 128-page hardcover textbook, published in 1959, covers photographic fundamentals and functions of the Swiss-made Alpa 35mm single-lens reflex camera. INCLUDES a 4-page supplement to The Alpa Camera. Photo is of this specific book. White on the spine is from camera flash. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365.  Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=The+Alpa+Reflex+Manual&mtype=B

ISBN-13: 9780897500449  ISBN: 089750044 Edition: presumed Binding: Trade paperback Publisher: Ohara Publications, Incorporated, Santa Clarita, CA Date published: 1976 Description: Includes clear photos of every move! Text block clean, bright and tight, slight rubbing to covers; quarter-inch remainder mark to bottom edge; slight bump to top front cover only. 160 p., 10 chapters plus bibliography for both history and philosophy. Audience: General/trade. The philosophy of Yin and Yang in Tai Chi Chuan posits that everything is interoppositionally unified with two dynamic opposites, which are interrooted, interchangeable, and interconvertible. This concept, originating from ancient Chinese cosmology and philosophy, is fundamental to Tai Chi movements and attributes like stability/mobility and closing/opening moves. This philosophical framework views Yin and Yang not as static opposites, but as mutually dependent and constantly interacting forces that represent the totality of existence...

  Edition: presumed first edition. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York. Date published: 1989.  ISBN-13: 9780879755072   ISBN: 0879755075 Description: Text block as new. Slight shelf wear to unclipped dj with a very small tear closed with acid-free tape. Very slight cock to spine. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 331 p. Audience: General/trade. From the back cover, Washington Post review: "Austin Miles was one of the first PTL alumni to go public with his knowledge of sexual and financial excesses behind the pulpit there..." Photo is of this specific book. White on the spine is from camera flash. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365. Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=Don%27t+call+me+brother&mtype=B

ISBN-13: 9781851458424  ISBN: 1851458425 Edition: presumed. Binding: Cloth spine. Publisher: Pavilion Books, London, England. Date published: 1992 Description: Fine. Text block clean, bright, with slight wrinkling on a few pages. Covers and cloth spine as new. 56 p. Pavilion Companion. Illustrated on every spread! An anthology of 19th and early 20th-century prose extracts, poems, paintings, and early photographs celebrating the pleasures of boating and sailing. Photo is of this specific book. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365. Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=Pleasures+of+Boating+and+Sailing&mtype=B

Pre-ISBN Book Edition: presumed. Binding: VeloBind w/ clear plastic front, paper back, black plastic spine. Publisher: "The Farm", California? Date published: 1986 Description: Author inscribed to a friend. Text block clean, bright, and tight with slight toning. Light rubbing to the front cover. Some wear to the back paper cover with a bump to the top back corner and last page only. 79 p. 8.5 x 11 inches. Family Tree and historic photos. Reminiscences of family life in the John Galen Howard household in Berkeley, Nevada City, Carmel, and Santa Cruz, Calif.; the Berkeley fire of 1923; the family's residence in various homes designed by her father, who also founded the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley; their friendship with the Warren Gregorys; and a trip to Paris in 1920. Included is background information relating to the family's history, and to her brothers: John Langley, Henry Temple, Robert Boardman, and Charles Houghton Howard. ...

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A collection of sayings collected during the author's life. From the back cover: "One hobby I have long pursued is collecting witticisms."

A highly conversational guide for creating flower arrangements with great beauty and meaning. "Do you want to know how to make someone a beautiful gift that costs nothing at all? ...The secret is ikebana, a Japanese word which author-artist Bruno Munari interprets as 'a flower with love'."

"What wonderful beings are the Gods that men have imagined out of hopes and fears in the twilight of faith!" A Classic!

Important original source material for this Panama Pacific International Exposition

Wonderful imagery created with words; 5 books in one binding with multiple chapters in each. "In the midst of a grove of pines, well up on the slope of a hill, there was sparkling a fountain of melody..."

Wonderful gift copy. RARE to find author signed copy. "The Grand Canyon country of the 1880s is the setting of Oakley Hall's compelling new novel."

22 soldiers' experiences in the Korean War. The author "entered the U.S. Army directly from high school at age 17, enlisting specifically for airborne training..."

Transcripts of Sermons by the Senior Minister of the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. California.

The artwork is magnificent. The artist has a distinguished career as an illustrator for Field and Stream and Outdoor Life. This book documents the disappearing part of our world - the wild animals. Photo is of the title page.

RARE signed copy. Important source material. First-hand recollections of very early 1900s education in rural New York.

RARE. Very hard to find, particularly as an inscribed, signed copy. Collection of nitty-gritty poems about the rough places in life. "Dedicated to ... my parents who taught me how to live on both sides of the mask."

This photographic itinerary "is based on one of the finest collections of spectacles existing in Italy today."

Beautiful gift copy. Lou Ella Archer's poetry captures the beauty of the Arizona landscape. Pastedown picture of the Grand Canyon on the cover. Illustrated with black and white scenes plus 7 color artworks by Lillian Wilhelm Smith (1882-1974) including her magnificent paintings of Zion Canyon, the Desert After the Rain, Dawn at Bryce Canyon, From Grand Canyon Lodge, Seven Palms, and the Temple of Sinawava.

The author "shows you how to increase your happiness by following these proven procedures..."

This book is filled with stories that are "full of humor and imagination - just the kind of folk tales all small children like best."

Hmong food is simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh. Author signed copies are RARE.

RARE. Becoming hard to find as a new condition HB. Contains 70 Meditations as listed, along with 82 Aphorisms throughout.

RARE as author-signed. "The financial loss of a lifetime savings during the Wall Street fiasco at the end of 2008 was almost too much for Maureen. Grieving over major losses she begins to write her story."

Dialogue rich novel in French. RARE; as of this listing, none are available in North America.  Photo of back and front covers is specific to this listing.

Stapled, w/o original cover as shown, 5 1/4 x 4". Has photo of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania plus line drawings scattered throughout. RARE. Important source material. Slightly better than a working copy.

RARE for a nearly new hardcover at this highly advantageous price. The author learned the game under Knute Rockne.

This book contains "A detailed description of the kind of football attack that has averaged 36 points per game for six years."

"With breathtaking descriptions of aerial dogfights and vivid portraits of the men who fought, this is a dramatic, gripping story of courage and sacrifice... from the first day of the war to the last, this is the story of one of history's leading fighter aces."

Not a reprint, this is an original printing. "If the year 1917 marked the opening of a new era in China's foreign relations, perhaps the year 1931 marked the end of that era..."

"This book invites readers to hear John's story anew. Rather than forcing John's story into our time, it takes the reader back to the time of its original telling..."

ISBN-13: 9781595266880  ISBN: 1595266887 First edition. Binding: Trade paperback. Publisher: Llumina Press, FL. Date published: 2007 Description: New. Signed by author. Inscribed and signed by Seamus Kennedy. 414 p. PB, 6 x 9", many unnumbered sections plus black-and-white photo section. Excellent gift copy. Five Irish musicians have combined their experiences since the early 70's into this collection of wonderful personal stories. Photo is specific to this listing. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365. Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?mtype=&searchtype=author&searchquery=Frank+Emerson

"When the wyrd-woman warned Ivor he was going to meet a monster, he didn't believe her. He thought he had worse things to worry about. He was wrong about both."

This diary shows the life of an every-day-person in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1870s and 1880s.

  "There is an earthy awareness, a sensory quality to the telling that brings Alta, California and its Spanish settlement completely alive." Winner of the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award for Children's Literature (the unanimous choice of the judges).

This is the author's first novel. "...an intimate look at a suburban family living on the outskirts of Los Angeles in the 1950's and '60's...But Flora Jackson feels like a fugitive there..."

Pre-ISBN Book Fine for age; top edge gilt, bottom deckle edge, printed on fine paper. Fine paper watermarks throughout. No marks in this ORIGINAL printing. First edition. 147 p. HB w/o dj, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", two essays as shown. RARE. This particular printing 1907, seems to be the rarest. Today, this would be classified as a fine press volume. "I am going to demonstrate that it is easy not only to refute the Baconians but to show that they are lamentably wrong in many of their strongest assertions, which, moreover, prove them to be very badly versed in Elizabethan literature..." Photo of the title page is specific to this listing. Browse our Online Inventory 24/7/365. Check Availability in our Alibris Store https://www.alibris.com/stores/globalbooksearchandsales/search?qtit=Collectanea&mtype=B

The authors write:  "We sincerely believe that defense is by far the most difficult part of the game of football to coach and possibly the most neglected."