Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Mike's Library

Saint Petersburg: Centr Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1994. Trade Paperback. 5858030238 . Label peel on front cover, markings inside rear cover, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Russian language. Extra English title page and abstract. Edition of 500 copies. "Irkutsk can be called the first town in Russia (after St Petersburg) where the official teaching of the Oriental languages for interpreters began in the e3arly XVIIIth century. The most studied langauge in Irkutsk was Mongolian for the purpose of propagation Christianity among the Buriyat aborigines and to connect with the Chinese Ch'ing Empire's governors inUrga. However, the relations with Chinese officials required also Manchu and Chinese interpreters, the last ones especially from the middle of XIXth century, when the trade with China increased. Nowadays, although Irkutsk has lost its meaning as the school of the Oriental languages, the collections of old Mongolian,… Read More

Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Trade Paperback. 0387110364 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; "This book contains 25 papers presented by leading international researchers to the World Congress of Anaesthesiology in 1980. Devoted to the scientific basis and clinical use of spinal opiates for analgesia, they are divided into three sections: basic mechanisms of spinal opiate action; the use of epidural and intrathecal opiates in acute postoperative pain situations; and the use of epidural and intrathecal opiates in chronic pain patients." ; Anaesthesiologie Und Intensivmedizin = Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine; Ex-Library; Vol. 144; vii, 147 pages .

Wilkes-Barre PA: Sordoni Art Gallery / Wilkes College. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Paperback. Light rub, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize stapled paperback. ; Well illustrated exhibition catalog of 101 Japanese inro, netsuke and okimono that were part of a collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s by prominent Northeastern Pennsylvania industrialist, politician and benefactor Andrew J Sordoni. ; 48 pages .

Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1921. Third Edition. Hardcover. Spine bottom bump, light cover rub, light tone, owner's signature marking 1925 western trip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Pictorial of the nineteen United States National Parks, with a short section on the 22 National Monuments. Third Edition issued as post-World War One tourism grew with fast train connections, better automobile routes, and rising prosperity. ; Photograph; 266 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 082409039X . Library stamps/marks/labels/spine label tape residue, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Covers works from 1872 to 1980. "The present work does not place the emphasis on the presentation of everything that has been published, but on detailed descriptions and evaluation of the important and representative studies. ... I focused mainly on those studies that bare outstanding achievements and had a strong impact on future studies and, vice versa, on those that might mislead the reader through unreliable conclusions. ... The descriptive factor in the annotations is more significant for students of Jewish folklore. Here I tried to present in detail every theme, motif, and subject discussed in each study, even if this was not the main purpose of the publication." - Introduction. ; Garland Folklore Bibliographies; Ex-Library; Vol. 10; xxi, 341 pages .

Lima, Peru: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2008. Trade Paperback. 9972623572 . Corner bump, publisher's stamp on title page, otherwise slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; Spanish language. Analysis of three rural economic development projects undertaken while the Shining Path insurgency was on-going.; Travaux de l'Institut français d'études andines; Vol. 265; 233 pages .

New York: Springer Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Trade Paperback. 0387968946 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light cover curl, otherwise light wear. Crisp trade paperback. ; Papers presented at a workshop held at the Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, Oct. 5-7, 1986.; Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies; Ex-Library; Vol. 25; 399 pages .

New York: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0405093098 . Contents: I. Introduction; II. A Summary of Production Theory; III. The Possibilities for Factor Substitution; IV. International Wage Differentials; V. Adaptive Patterns in the Sample Firms; VI. Two Additional Variables for Production Theory; Bibliography. ; American Business Abroad : Origins and Development of the Multinational Corporation; Ex-Library; 130 pages .

New York: E P Dutton. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1926. First US Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. Light soil, light wear; Dust Jacket in three parts with detached front flap and complete tear down spine, edge chipping, rubbing, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; British woman author. Strong DJ art with silhouette of the devil behind our protagonist. "... it recounts how, in the midst of modern British looseness, an Austro-Irish debutante of London matched the wiles of her rival, a man-eating Russian countess, by disguising herself and living with the hero, a warm blond youth, without his knowing it." - contemporary Time Magazine book review. ; 269 pages .

Detroit: Chauncey F. York. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1915. Hardcover. Rear hinge starting, light tone, light edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Overlook Farm stories are by Chauncey F York, founder of the patent medicine Ma-Le-Na, and the stories were offered also linked to samples of the company's products. This two volumes in one edition has no advertising. ; 88, 88 pages .

New York: Elsevier Biomedical. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 044400761X . Library stamps/marks/slip/label/pocket, spine sun, edgewear. Solid copy. ; Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Immunobiology of the Eosinophil, held November 27-28, 1981, in Fukuoka, Japan. Contents: Preface; List of Participants; Acknowledgments; Section I: Eosinophils in Immune Reactions (4 papers) ; Section II: Eosinophil Activation (4 papers) ; Section III: Eosinophil Proteins and Their Functions (5 papers) ; Section IV: Cellular and Tissue Injury and Eosinophils (5 papers) ; Section V: The Role of Eosinophils in Parasite Infection (5 papers) ; Index. ; Ex-Library; 399 pages .

New York: Harcourt, Brace. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1927. First US Edition; 2nd Printing before publication. Hardcover. Spine sun, light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "this novel is concerned with the stormy family life of four young people and their stern, enigmatic stepmother, dwellers on the edge of the moor which is so personified as to seem like another character than the setting of the story." - "The Open Shelf" Cleveland Public Library, No. 3, March 1928, page 39. First US Edition, 2nd printing before publication, of the third novel of this popular English novelist, first printed in England in 1916. ; 357 pages .

Washington DC: National Capitol Publishing. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Fore-edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket rubbed, foxing to flap edges, 1" tear, smaller tears and small edge chips, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by author. "To the Regiment is a factual documentary taken not only from the compiled Regimental History of the 306th Cavalry, but also from the experiences of men - men in training - men in maneuvers - men in war - men in dedicated and loyal service to their country. This book covers the period dating from World War I Horse Cavalary, thru the gradual transition to Armor and up to 1957. This is not just a date by date history. It reveals history as lived, enjoyed, and suffered by men who still are in contact with each other." ; (v), 143, (8) pages; Signed by Author .

Westport CT: Quorum Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1567203329 . Slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; xv, 233 pages .