Search Results: Titles starting with A from Pellbooks

New York: NY: Vantage Press, 1980, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. First Edition. Great dj design showing white human drain on black and red background. Unorthodix examination of biochemical addicitions.. Near Fine/Very Good.

MJSA/AJM Press, 2003. Oversized photographis coftcover book, profusely illustrated. shows why. The AJM Guide to Lost-Wax Casting offers an abundance of best practices, handy tips, and troubleshooting techniques from the industry's leading experts. From More... creating trouble-free master models to building uniform trees to proper techniques for investing, burnout, and breakout, this book presents how to achieve consistently smooth, porosity-free castings. Also included are guides to stone-in-place casting; casting over 500 grams of platinum on one tree; and casting nickel-free white golds.. First American Edition. Fine as New.

Paris: Trianon De Bagatelle, 1988. In photographic stiff white covers. Illustrated with black and white photographs and text in English and French. Important catalogue of work by Egyptian-French photographer Andre Naggar.Born in Egypt, André Naggar settled in Paris in 1952 where he continued to pursue his passion for photography. Highly respected and valued within a circle of connoisseurs, André Naggar is now gaining much wider recognition. For Jean-Claude Lemagny, Chief Curator of the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Bibliothque Nationale de France, "André Naggar's astonishingly original photographs show the world in a state of motion. Time exposure, and movements of the hand holding the camera, reveal trails and imprints of images left by the subjects with the passing of time. Here is the essential dimension: Time. The photographer moulds time as if it were a living matter. Unpaginated, but ca 40 pages printed on extra-heavy stock.. Near Fine.

Stuttart: Institute for Foreign Relations, 1985. An Exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations. 113 pages. 9 in x 12 in. In stiff illustrated carboard covers with stunning illustrations throughout. Great colors. . Near Fine.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955, 1955. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Very rare First Printing from 1955 of one of the pioneering works in the early development of computers. From Hastings' Preface: "This monograph deals with the subject of best a pproximation in the sense of Chebyshev as applies to the problem of making univariate functional data available to the high-speed digital computing machine." 201 pages. On the front inside cover is th e personal ex-libris stamp from the library of Paul Herwitz, note mathemetician and early IBM pioneer, from whose library this book came.. FIRST PRINTING. Near Fine.

Recklinghausen: Selbstverlag, 1994. Fine in gray cloth hardcover with embossed title and thick Rainer -illustrated dustjacket. 144 pages including 64 color plates and 2 black and white plates. Limited edition of 1500 copies.. Limited. Fine/Fine.

New York: Light Gallery, 1976. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers with French folds. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Introduction and essay by Thomas B. Hess. Includes an Index of Places (locations where the photographs were made). Designed by Malcolm Grear Designers. 114 pp., with 89 duotone plates, and numerous black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed on fine paper (Warren Cameo Dull) by Pentacle Press. 11 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 7500 total copies. This copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SISKIND: " Happy Birthday I.C.P. ( International Center of Photography) , Aaron Siskind, 11-21-81". Light trace of wear to the upper right hand corner of the dj, barely visible but ought to be mentioned, else a sumptuous copy.. Signed by Illustrator. First American Edition. Near Fine.

Leipzig: Leipzig: Verlag Der Weissen Buecher, 1915, 1915. Very Good. Erste Ausgabe. In two volumes. Pale blue paper over boards with brown cloth spine and some sunning to the edges. Discreet pencil marginalia in neat old German hand in volume I.. First American Edition. Very Good.

Frankfurt: Museum Fuer Moderne Kunst, 1995. In oversized oblong stiff photographic wraps. Exhibition catalogue.in Fine as New condition. Texts by Jean-Christophe IAmmann and Olof Hansen in German and English. Biography, bibliography and exhibition list. Photos from all over the world in black and white. 128 p. 50 b/w plates. The female photographer Abisag Tüllmann was a freelance photo journalist who collaborated with Magnum (Cologne) from 1961-1965 and the weekly newspaper Publik from 1968-1971. This catalog combines photographs taken over 35 years .. First Edition -. Fine as New. Illus. by Tullmann.

Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004. In large illustrated wrappers. This report is the outcome of a project funded by the Criminology Research Council. The original title of the project, in the name of Colin Tatz was "Aboriginal youth suicide : towards a model of explanation and alleviation". In seeking to gain an understanding youth suicide in Aboriginal and Maori communities, Tatz examines the social and political contexts, the origins of the "new violence", the anthropology of suicide, the prevalence and nature of Aboriginal suicide, and social and contributing factors. What began as a 1999 report to Australia's Criminology Research Council has been expanded and personalized into a study of young Aboriginal men and women who feel they have no purpose in life and choose death instead. It focuses on New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and New Zealand, where suicide rates may be the world's worst. Tatz (Macquarie U.) works to get behind the statistics to portray… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Texere, LLC, 2000. Fine as new, signed by the author with a drawing of a glass on free front endpaper.. Signed by Author. Fine/Fine.

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000. A fine copy in dust jacket, first American editon in English of the author's first book. Written by Isegawa, a native of Uganda, in English but first published in Dutch translation in The Netherlands, where Isegawa now resides.his young African man's odyssey, from a small rural community to the city of Kampala and then across the borders of Uganda, introduces a powerful and humorous new literary voice-"precious few first novels are as phantasmagoric or as haunting as this one." (Time) Moses Isegawa's tale is centered on the coming-of-age of Mugezi, a charming and quick-witted young man who manages to make it through the hellish reign of Idi Amin and experiences the most crushing aspects of Ugandan society. He withstands his father's oppression, his mother's cruelty in the name of Catholic zeal, and the murder of his grandmother by those in power in the unraveling country. Yet he is miraculously able to keep a… Read More

The Beckett Paper Company Original 1924 edition in illustrated paper covered boards including many illustrations. 238 pages. Light coverwear else crisp and clean . Presentation copy. . Very Good.

Hamburg: Galerie Vorsetzen, 1992. Softcover in Near fine condition. Fully illustrated,Very good-. Some scuff marks and wear to the edges of the cover. Bookseller Inventory. Fine.

Boston: Little Brown, 1987. Fine as new in green cloth Hardcover. International Anesthesiology Clinics, Fall 1987, Vol25, No.3. 239pages with illustrations.. Fine.

New York: Putnam's Sons, 1914, 1967. Crisp and clean in illustrated yellow cloth Hardcover with illustrated paper dustjacket. Grizzly Adams was one of the most fabulous characters of the Western frontier. After making and loosing three fortunes in the California Gold Rush of 1849 he decided to become a hermit in the Sierras and was capturing and training wild bears, among them the biggest grizzly ever seen in North America. 128 pages, illustrated.. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Al Orbaan.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Amacom, 1976. Signed by the author on the ffep. Advertising classic ... signed and a very nice copy!. Signed by Author. Fifth Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. Rare and provocative analysis of the advertising business from Buzzi, and Italian writer and advertising man. Buzzi, marketing director of the Mondadori publishing firm in Milan, Italy, argues that advertising while exalting the myths and values of our society, contributes to the consumption and wearing out of those very myths and values.. First Edition. Fine/Fine.

Williamsport, PA: Williamsport, PA: Brod-art Publishing, 1971, 1971. Near Fine. First American Edition. Ex-coll.library with very gentle markings.. Near Fine/None. Hard Cover.

Mexico City: Goethe Institut, 2003. Fine condition art catalog. Text in Spanish and German. 167 pp, fully illustrated. Documents a project of artistic interventions in urban spaces and public participation, created by Mexican and German artists in Mexico City, autumn, 2001. Includes a brand new CD inserted in the rear cover. Fine as New.