Search Results: Titles starting with A from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Oak Knoll Press, 1997. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 1x5x8. Seventh Edition Revised. This seventh edition of John Carter's classic text contains in-depth descriptions of every aspect of antique and modern book collecting from A to Z. All terms are alphabetized for quick reference, including how to take care of pigskin, morocco, or Russian leather, how to tell japon vellum from India proof paper and how to determine "very good copy" in a collectible volume. For first edition collectors, Carter's definition of "follow the flag" explains the historical issues surrounding first and native first texts. The book's pages are charmingly labeled, showing you exactly where the half-title and tailpiece are located and what a printer's imprint page looks like.

Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1998. 26th ed. Softcover. Very Good. 1x5x7. Map from rear pocket missing. For over 100 years, hikers have relied on AMC’s White Mountain Guide. The most trusted resource for the hiking trails of the magnificent White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine, with accurate descriptions of over 500 trails, trip planning and safety information, and a checklist of New England’s Four-Thousand Footers. With expert advice and trail coverage, this guide is the perfect companion for planning a hike, whether a day trip up Mount Washington, a backpacking adventure in the Pemigewasset Wilderness, or a hut-to-hut traverse.

Prentice-Hall, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4x0x8. The A–Z of Horse Diseases and Health Problems is a book for breeders, studmasters, trainers, grooms, riders, pony club members — in fact anybody who owns or works with horses. It helps them to recognize the signs of illness and to identify the problem. It provides them with ready access to information so that they can help a horse recover when it is distressed or not well; know when to call the veterinarian; apply first aid or begin the right treatment. Tim Hawcroft draws on his specialist veterinary knowledge and years of experience in working with horses to describe the most common and easily recognizable illnesses and accidents that a horse may suffer. He provides full details of signs of disease, causes and treatments. There is an A–Z section on signs of the disease and diagnosis and another for causes and treatment, and each area is illustrated by color photographs of what to look… Read More

Little Brown & Co, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. In the great American tradition of subversive war novels, The Aardvark Is Ready for War is a tour de force black comedy about one man's adventure inside the techno-military machine as he ships out aboard a naval aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf War. Caustic, disturbing, and fiercely funny, The Aardvark is Ready for War is the defining novel of modern warfare - that conducted with smart bombs and cathode ray tubes, and transmitted by CNN to homes across the world.

Hard Press, 2004. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. A short tear to dustjacket. With gift inscription by and signed by Charles Abbott (Director of Digital Arts Aspen). This exquisitely printed book, featuring over 200 color plates, surveys the life's work of Aaron Fink, one of the most exciting and well-known contemporary artists today. "The emotion in Fink's work is rooted in the apparent contradictions it sets up between artistic illusion and physical actions of the painter which simultaneously create and undermine that illusion. Fink isolates object, not to conjure a sense of their concreteness or physical reality, but to destabilize our sense of their place in the world. He makes us understand both how convincing and how unreal painted representations can be. Aaron Fink (born March 10, 1955) is an artist working in a variety of mediums including oil, prints, sculpture and works on paper. Fink was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, in 1996 and 1998. Fink… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 9x0x9. A bright, fresh copy. Aaron Rose created one of the most remarkable bodies of work of any photographer in the modern era, and for most of his career he did this in isolation, in a single-minded quest for visual enlightenment. He was virtually unknown to the photography world until five of his prints were exhibited at the 1997 Whitney Biennial, when he was in his late fifties. Rose’s images—completely original visions of trees and plants; sun, stars, and clouds; shells; the New York City skyline—are miracles of light and chemistry. A magician who builds his own cameras and mixes complex developing solutions incorporating exotic metals, Rose spent his last 35 years taking and superbly printing more than 25,000 photographs, most of them from negatives that he printed once or twice and then put away forever. This book offers the first-ever presentation of Rose’s… Read More

TG Press, 1986. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. The corner of the first blank page has been creased, as well as the last blank page. After nearly 20 years of photographing the abandoned farms and landscape of rural Oklahoma and Texas, William Adams published this book of images in 1986. The photographs are from film, many of them infrared, some selectively tinted. A great representation of that geographic areas' forgotten architecture, farms, barns, farmhouses, horses, cattle, abandoned pickups, old farm machinery, and country schools. Among them are a few truly remarkable images. Adam's work has been published in numerous national magazines and featured in several exhibits.

Plume Books, 1979. Trade paperback. Like New. 7x1x5. Previous owner name. The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally… Read More

Dutton . Softcover. Good. 20x20x20. A good reading copy. The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally good-natured pieces.

Dutton Books, 1979. Trade paperback. Good. 20x20x20. The first part of Abbey's Road is given to a walkabout in the outback of Australia, whose scattered human settlements remind Abbey of towns in the American West, "although not so blatantly ugly." Having ignored good advice not to stray too far afield in that waterless place and lived to tell the tale, Abbey turns later in the book to other desert landscapes (islands in the Gulf of California, remote corners of the Grand Canyon, and the like) before delivering a series of trademark yawps against the forces that would just as soon bulldoze such places as protect them. Along the way Abbey recalls his work as a seasonal park ranger (which yielded his incomparable memoir, Desert Solitaire) and fire lookout, offers a few tongue-in-cheek words in defense of rednecks, and muses on the effects of hallucinogenic drugs and the virtues of his "slapstick, slapdash, sex-crazed manner"--all good and generally good-natured pieces.

St. Martin's Griffin, 2001. 2nd ed. Trade paperback. Fine.

Encounter Books, 2000. First edition. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. 9x6x1. Some light handling wear to dustjacket. The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair (reissued in 2018 with the subtitle From Winston Churchill to Theresa May; US subtitle: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana) is the first book by British conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, published in 1999. It examines a period of perceived moral and cultural reform between the 1960s and New Labour's 1997 general election win. Hitchens asserts that the reforms facilitated vast and radical constitutional change under Tony Blair's new government that amounted to a "slow motion coup d'état". The book was cited by Gillian Bowditch in The Times as being a major modern work to dissect "the decline in British morals and manners over the past 50 years", and identified by Andrew Marr in The Observer as "the most sustained, internally logical and powerful attack on Tony Blair and… Read More

Methuen Australia, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 0x0x0. Some short tears and edgewear to dustjacket. A thoughtful and authoritative consideration of the place of Aboriginal art within its own traditional settings, and the contribution of such art, not only to the Aboriginal heritage, but also to the cultural heritage of the wider Australian society. The book does not merely illustrate the diversity of paintings, drawings, and carvings. It encourages the reader towards a greater appreciation and understanding of what the Aborigines have achieved.

Knopf, 1998. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x10. About This Life, he takes us on a literal and figurative journey across the terrain of autobiography, assembling essays of great wisdom and insight. Here is far-flung travel (the beauty of remote Hokkaido Island, the over-explored Galápagos, enigmatic Bonaire); a naturalist's contention (Why does our society inevitably strip political power from people with intimate knowledge of the land small-scale farmers, Native Americans, Eskimos, cowboys?); and pure adventure (a dizzying series of around-the-world journeys with air freight everything from penguins to pianos). And here, too, are seven exquisite memory pieces hauntingly lyrical yet unsentimental recollections that represent Lopez's most personal work to date, and which will be read as classics of the personal essay for years to come. Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945 - December 25, 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is… Read More

Privately Published, 2007. First edition. Trade paperback. Like New. Signed. Inscribed "Best Wishes for a secure America Carl Braun 12-18-07". Signed copies rarely offered.

Privately Published, 1995. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. Descriptions of 40 mountain bike rides, covering 11 different areas of southeastern Utah. Contains over 80 maps and 175 photos of the area. Discussions of geology, history, lore and local environmental dynamics. Includes descriptions of multi-day rides, rides in the mountains and high country of the region and information on rides to avoid.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket . Volume 2 of the 4 volume set. Twenty years in the planning and then 30 years in the writing, this monumental work is the greatest biography of Abraham Lincoln ever written.

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dustjacket . Volume 1 of the original 4 volume set. Twenty years in the planning and then 30 years in the writing, this monumental work is the greatest biography of Abraham Lincoln ever written.

The Libraries of Gryphon Editions, 1991. Hard cover. Fine. Abraham Lincoln. Volume I. Speeches and Writings 1832-1858. Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Volume II. Abraham Lincoln Speeches and Writings 1859-1865. Speeches, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings, Presidential Messages, and Proclamations. Bound in full Leather, with raised spine bands. All edges gilt.

Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.