Search Results: Authors starting with U from Carpe Diem Fine Books

Tokyo, Japan: University Museum, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. 167 pp. Text in Japanese and English. Color photo-reproductions. Color printed boards in fine condition, as new, still in shrinkwrap. From the Collection of the Yamashina Institure for Ornithology. Contains specimens of birds in various stages of unpacking. Some of the birds are on display stands; most birds look like they have just been taken from storage, some bound and tagged, some still in their boxes. All are photographed on black background. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). Small 8vo. 430pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering in color printed dustjacket. A story of the inside workings of the German airforce and following the lives of the Nazi members of the Luftwaffe during World War II.

New York: The Tea And Coffee Trade Journal Company, 1935. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. SIGNED by the author in Volume I. Small 4to. xiv, 559; vi, 568 pp. Chronology; Dictionary of Tea; Bibliography; Index. Color frontispiece in Vol. I; black & white frontispiece in Vol. II; illustrations throughout both volumes; maps. Green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering, map endpapers, in publisher's dustjackets. Books are in near fine condition (minor bumping to corners; light age toning to endpapers). The dustjackets are in good condition with chips, closed tears and scrapers; partial spine splitting along front joint of Vol. II; small loss to spine heads). The definitive work on tea by William Ukers, regarded as the leading protagonist and the best informed writer. In the gathering of material for this work, Ukers made two trips to India, Ceylon, Jave, Sumatra, China, Japan and Formosa, and spent over two years researching in the principal libraries and museums of Europe and America... the… Read More

New York: Brentanos, 1928. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 2500 copies. 8vo. 269 pp. Woodcut illustrations by the author. A beautiful copy, fine in fine dustjacket, as new. Leon Underwood (1890-1975) was a noted British sculptor, painter, draughtsman and engraver as well as a writer and illustrator, scholar, teacher, philosopher and stained glass and furniture craftsman. "The Siamese Cat," his only novel, "...is in reality a fairy tale in which the daily hopes and fears incident in the life of an idealist supplant the magic wands, invisible cloaks, and dragons of legend." For children anywhere from 7 to 77 years young.

Norway: United Nations Publications, 2007. 1st. Paperback. Oblong 8vo. 235 pp. Color Photo Illustrations. Wraps. Fine condition. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; x, 463 pp. Fine, unused copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1903. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 232pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Small open tears to spine ends; 2" closed tear to lower spine joint; minor wear to edges; creasing to corners. Very good. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 13. April 1903. With a staff and faculty directory, information about entrance requirements, degrees, etc. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1904. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 229pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Previous owner's name; shelf wear to spine ends and corners; very good. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 18. April 1904. With a staff and faculty directory, information about entrance requirements, degrees, etc. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Washington DC: Of Human Rights, 1977. Hardbound. Near Fine copy, handsomely bound in gold-stamped red leatherette.. Quarto; 20; 24; 24; 28pp. Near Fine copy, handsomely bound in gold-stamped red leatherette. Contains the first four issues of 'Of Human Rights' magazine published 'to mobilize public opinion against repression in Cuba.'.

Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1907. 1st. Paperback. First edition. 12mo. 229pp, including indices. Green wrappers. Previous owner's name; shelf wear to spine ends and corners; else near fine. University Bulletins Quarterly No. 30. April 1907. With a staff and faculty directory, information about entrance requirements, degrees, etc. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Paris: Harmattan, 2004. 1st. Book. Octavo; 228 pp. New copy. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Bergamo: Fascist University Groups, 1934. 1st. Hardbound. Near Fine handsome copy in tan cloth titled in brown on spine and front cover.. Quarto; xviii, 382 pages. Bookplate, owner name to ffep.

Stanford University CA: Stanford University, 1902. First Edition. 12mo; 210, [1]pp. General wear, corners rounded, spine loss at extremities, a few marginal notes and underlining; Good to Very Good. Lee Emerson Bassett's copy with his name signed to front cover. Basset graduated from Stanford in 1901 and was teaching speech teacher at the University of Southern California when Stanford's first president, Dr. David Starr Jordan, selected him for the Stanford staff in 1900. He organized the speech and drama department at Stanford and for more than 10 years Dr. Bassett handled every speech course offered at Stanford; he was a professor there for 35 years before his retirement in 1938. In 1931 he was elected president of the Western Association of Teachers of Speech, and in 1933 he was named president of the national association. The year after his retirement he became dean of the Max Reinhard Workshop in Hollywood, which trained potential film actors and technicians.

New York: The Noble Maritime Collection, in Association With John Noble and Allan A. Noble, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 269pp. Black & white illustrations. Black cloth in teal illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, like new. "Noble's lithographs, paintings, and "rowboat drawings" narrate the end of an era, a story of exquisite pathos. The focus is tight; each image relies on metaphor to raise it beyond the merely illustrative quality that typically characterizes marine art." - Foreword. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

Schauberg, Koln: Verlag M. DuMont, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Square 4to. 38pp text in German; 20 full-page color plates; 2 tipped-in color plates; black & white illustrations. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. A near fine copy (small bumping to lower front corner) in very good plus dustjacket (light age-toning; minor wear to extremities). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

London: H. G. Bohn, 1854. A New Edition, Revised and With Additional Notes. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 536; 574 pp. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux; with explanatory notes by Duchat, Ozell, and others. Zaensdorf binding. Full blue leather with gilt decoration to spines; 5 raised bands & red gilt lettered title labels to spines; gilt ruling to boards gilt dentelling inside covers; marbled endpapers; TEG. Near fine (shelfwear; light scraping to spine ends; minor moisture spots to Vo. II front board; small bookseller label inside front boards); an attractive set. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 17th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request.

London & New York: William Heinemann & Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First Edition. Small 4to. [i-v] vi-viii [ix - xii] xiii-xv [1] 2-180pp. 100 hand colored plates and 250 in-text illustrations by Francois Courboin. Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd. Full green morocco with gilt decoration and lettering; AEG; green silk endpapers. Spine professionally restored; 5 white areas on rear cover; minor wear else a near fine copy. "Each of the one hundred coloured illustrations is a faithful witness, a complete represenation, of some corner in Paris, vanished now, or utterly changed." - Introduction.