Search Results: Authors starting with S from Cat's Cradle Books

Porto Alegre: Editôra do Autor, 1962. Third Edition. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Third Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Pages slightly tanned with underlined passages on some pages. Wraps have light handling wear, light overall soiling. ; Novel by Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino (1923-2004). ; 8.25" tall; 189 pages.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain: R. y J. J. de Olañeta, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Spanish language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Myths and legends of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera). 8.25" tall; 134 pages.

Chennai: ISHA Foundation, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, colorful pages in sleeve containing DVDs. Pictorial paper over boards is clean with light shelf wear. ; Colorful pictorial paper over boards containing 8 DVDs exploring the mysticism of Krishna under the guidance of Sadhguru. All DVDs present and intact. Titles: La Leela. Leela is the way. An incarnation. Blue magic. Krishna - a miracle. The path of devotion. Leela begins now. Leela--the path of the playful. ; 11.0" (28 cm).

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Reprint. Tightly stapled binding, minor shelf wear to wraps. Clean and bright pages. ; Publication focusing on colonial American silver artifacts in the Metropolitan's collections. ; 11.0" (28 cm) tall; 56 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Oxford University Press, 1987. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages with color and black and white illustrations. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Inaugural issue. Contents: Beach, Foreword. Chaves, Reading the painting: levels of poetic meaning in Chinese pictorial art. Yonemura, The art of Chinese lacquer. Lawton, An imperial legacy revisited: bronze vessels from the Qing Palace Collection. Chronology. ; 11.0" tall; 80 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean, bright pages illustrated with color photographs. Wraps have light edge rubbing. ; Contents: Jessup, "Voices of the Ancestors or Internationalism The Dilemma of the Indonesian Artist"; map of Indonesia; Harnish, "Balinese Performance as Festival Offering"; Sedyawati, "Traditional Dramatic Performances of Indonesia"; Rodgers, "A Single Indonesian Art World? Continuities Across the Archipelago." ; 11.0" tall.. 64 pages.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1955. Later Printing. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Later Printing. Sound binding. Previous owner's name on half title. Text pages clean, off-white. Wrappers sunned at spine with light shelf wear. ; Augustine's work on the Trinity, "On the Spirit and the Letter," and "Homilies on the FIrst Epistle of St. John." ; Library of Christian Classics: Ichthus Edition; 8.5" tall; 359 pages.

Paris: Bachelier, 1861. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the French language. Bound in what appears to be early 20th century cloth over boards with bright gilt on spine. Cloth over boards is lightly shelf worn with edge rubbing and bumped corners. Interior pages are original, clean, tanned, and foxed. Two fold-out engravings showing equipment and processes are bound in at back. Each is foxed, and one has edge wear. ; Scientific treatise on platinum metallurgy and accompanying metals. ; 9.0" tall; 144 pages.

Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Signed by author with additional inscription on title page. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Novel by Brazilian author Herberto de Azevedo Sales (1917—1999). 8.25" tall; 570 pages; Signed by Author.

Madrid: Insula-Madrid, 1968. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the Spanish language. Signed by author with additional inscription on title page. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have edge wear, especially at spine, and overall light soiling. ; Study of the literary work of Spanish author and Nobel prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez. ; 8.25" tall; 256 pages; Signed by Author.

São Paolo: Editora Voz do Oeste, 1978. Fifth Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Fifth Edition. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Historical novel by Plínio Salgado (1895-1975), Brazilian politician, writer, journalist, and theologian. ; Biblioteca Literatura Moderna; Vol. 45; 8.25" tall; 198 pages.

New York: Routledge, 1997. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have general light shelf wear and are creased on front and first few pages are slightly creased at lower corner. ; Wealthy young Christian Roman mother in Carthage, 203 A.D., awaits execution while writing in her diary; places her martyrdom in the intellectual and social context of her age. ; 9.0" tall; 228 pages.

New York: Routledge, 1997. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers clean with only minor shelf wear. ; Wealthy young Christian Roman mother in Carthage, 203 A.D., awaits execution while writing in her diary; places her martyrdom in the intellectual and social context of her age. ; 9.0" tall; 228 pages.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear, clipped corner. ; Book written by author who lived among the Thlinget Indians of Prince of Wales Island in southeastern Alaska during the 1920s. Observances of lifeways and folklore of the Thlinget people. ; 9.25" (23.5 cm) tall; 275 pages.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Reprint. Exlibrary markings on book and DJ. Sound binding and hinges. Pages off-white. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ shelf worn with closed tears at top of spine. ; Primary sources from the Carolina colony (later North and South Carolina). ; Ex-Library; 8.75" tall; 388 pages.

Athens, Ga, U. S. A.: University of Georgia Press, 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ faded at spine and around top edge with light shelf wear. ; Biography of Southern labor organizer Lucy Randolph Mason. ; 9.25" tall; 240 pages.

Cleveland: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1899. Softcover. Poor with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Back of wraps is missing and spine is tattered. Front of wraps creased and chipped at corner tips with heavy shelf wear. Pages clean, tanned, with corner tips worn. ; Many advertisements and news items of interest to railroaders, information about the Brotherhood including a membership list. 9.25" tall; 110 pages.

New York: Times Books, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has minor edge rubbing, else clean and undisturbed. ; Study of journals written by African American Philadelphian from the 1850s to the early 1900s. ; 9.5" tall; 443 pages.

Nancy, France: Royer, 1951. Ephemera. Very Good with no dust jacket. Booklet is in the French language. Stapled binding is tight, pages clean but age-darkened. Wraps clean but age-darkened as well. Original glassine sleeve protecting the booklet is included. ; Text of speeches honoring Fernand Arnaud on the ceremonial occasion of his entry into the French Legion of Honor. 7.5" tall; 34 pages.

New York: Association Press, 1964. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Slightly cocked, tight binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers are tanned, with general light handling wear. Introduction to the essentials of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's thought. Radhakrishnan was an important figure in the renaissance of modern India in the mid-20th century and an interpreter of its religio-philosophic foundations. (from back of wrappers); 8.00" (20 cm) tall; 128 pages.