Search Results: Authors starting with S from Century Books

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Early printing, not first.. Hardback. Very Good condition.. Tan cloth with black decoration and lettering. Very light fading on spine. Decoration is crisp and bright. Light shelfwear. Top edge red. Fore-edge untrimmed. Previous owner inscription on first free endpaper dated Nov. 1930. Hinges sound. Very nice copy, printed on thick, cream-colored paper, aesthetically very pleasant. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) is sometimes best remembered for her relationship with Virginia Woolf, though she had a long, productive literary career of her own. This is one of her several best-selling novels of the English upper classes.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1957. Softcover. Good condition.. Cover faded, previous owner stamps. 50 pages. Experimental and Theoretical Geophysics.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Book is fine with full cloth binding, gold lettering and black design on cover. Top edge orange. Foreedge untrimmed. Dust jacket has faint edgewear on top of spine. Original price intact. Novel is a beautiful - and merciless - vision of what the artist must be.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. 1st Ed.. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket.. Blue cloth with illustration of elephant on front cover, gold lettering on spine. DJ price clipped, lightly soiled with light edgewear. Book includes genealogy of the Abu, bibliography and index.

New York: Jason Aronson, [1976]. Hardback. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge and small tear where first free endpaper stuck to half-title (probably from a bit of glue spilled in the binding process), else fine. Describes the latency age period (six to 12) from the standpoint of cognitive and sexual maturation.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. 1st edition. Hardback. VG/VG. Everything you need to play well in Gambling Casinos by one of the world's foremost gambling authorities. Some edgewear to DJ. Bump to upper fore edge corner of back board. Mild staining to top edge.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardback. Near Fine in Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge. Dust jacket has edgetears, fading to spine. Radical reconceptualization of Freudian metapsychology.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1970. Softcover. Good. Geological Survey Circular 635. Previous owner stamps on cover, else fine. 11 pages, staple bound.

New York: International Universities Press, [1969]. 1st paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. Some edgewear and one corner wear. Unmarked.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1963. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps, edgewear and fading. All plates present in rear pocket. Contributions to the geology of uranium

New York: Basic Books, [1969]. 1st Edition. Hardback. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.. Seven intensive case studies. 265 pages

New York: International Universities Press, [1965]. Hardback. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.. Previous owner name on top edge, corner bumped. Dust jacket wrinkled, price clipped, small tear. Includes an exchange of letters between Freud and Marie Bonaparte. 17 essays. 502 pages.

Washington D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, [1981]. 4th printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition.. Light edgewear. 305 pages. Report of an Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, Commission on International Relations. Technical and Non-Technical sections. Covers Direct Use of Solar Energy, Indirect Use of Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Hydropower, Photosynthesis, Microbiological Conversion of Plant Materials to Liquid Fuels, Geothermal Energy and Energy Storage.

Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 1981. Hardback. VG. Light corner bumping, else fine.

New York: Modern Library, no date. Hardback. VG/G. Some soil, edgewear. DJ is stained, chipped with one large 2 inch chip missing from rear. Writing on inside of DJ (books checked off). A Modern Library Giant book.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition. Hardback. NF/NF. Remainder mark, very light edgewear, else fine. The 100-year odyssey of a Chinese-American family.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1972. Softcover. Good condition. With a discussion of Upper Triassic and Pre-Morrison Jurassic Rocks by G.N. Pipiringos. Geologic study of the east end of the Elkhead Mountains and a part of the Park Range. Previous owner stamps. All plates in pocket.

New York: Horowitz/Rae Book Manufacturers, 1988. Hardback. Near Fine in Very Good+ slipcase. Design by Martin Solomon. Illustrations by Isadore Seltzer. The 22nd in a series of annual Shakespeare keepsakes for friends of the publisher. Orange cloth binding with gold lettering. Spine is somewhat faded, else fine. Slipcase also covered with orange cloth with some light wear and soil.

Elsevier Publishing, 1982. 5th printing. Softcover. Good condition. Previous owner stamps. Some highlighting.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1968. Softcover. Good condition. Some fading.