Search Results: Titles starting with E from JWMah

Roma: Nuova Argos, 2016. (ITL) First edition. No markings, two tinybumps to lower edges of cover, Near Fine; no dust jacket as published. White boards, 191pp. B&W and colour photos mistly of movie star and award events of the Taromina Film Festival. I believe this is an album pubished for the 62th annual festival with the text in Italian and in English. The bulk of the book consists of photos. A handsomely produced book Oversized. (4.0 JM HOZ 403/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1975. (UK) A Reprint Remainder mark to top edge of pages, owner's name and date to endpaper, "Withdrawn" stamp from library to endpaper, (This is NOT an ex-library copy), no other markings, clean, tight, VG; no Dj perhaps as issued. Brown cloth, viii, 269pp. This is the text of a English Psalter with Latin text, Part II, originally pubished by the Early English Text Society original series, 92, 1889. Eadwine's Canterbury Psalter: Part II, Text and Notes is a book written by Fred Harsley that provides a comprehensive analysis of the second part of the Canterbury Psalter, which was created by the scribe Eadwine in the 12th century. The book includes a detailed transcription of the text, along with extensive notes that explain the meanings of various words and phrases. Harsley also provides an in-depth analysis of the manuscript's history, including its provenance and the various hands that contributed to its creation. The book is designed for… Read More

Albany NY: New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, 1960. (USA) Edition Not Stated. 12mo, illus paper covers side-stapled, 22pp. A little booklet prepared by the New York State Dept. of Agriculture and markets, no date given, perhaps early 1960s. There is a short introduction about American cookery in early times and a collection of old recipes: Spareribs with Sweet Potato Stuffing, Fried Turkey, Boiled samp, Yeast pandowdy, Wild Grape marmalade. Very light soiling to light covers, no markings, VG. (0.8 jm HOX 2/a12. Staple Bound. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Toronto: Coles Publishing, 1974. (CAD) No markings, Fine in Fine Dj in mylar sleeve. Burgundy cloth, 454pp, index. This is a significant historic Canadain cookbook in which the recipes were selected from thousands submitted (the contributors' names are included). This is a facsimile of the 1898 edition (W. Briggs) published as part of the Coles Canadiana Collection. (2.2 JM HOZ 403/b4. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1987. (USA) Stated first printing. No markings, but two tiny spots (pinhead size) to the leading edge of pages, thus Near Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 272pp, a few small B&W photos. The essays include easrly writings on Zen, on Buddhism and his writings as editor of Buddhism in England (letters, book reviews). Mark Watts is the son of the late Alan Watts. Snelling was the General Secretary of the Buddhist Society in London. (1.7 JM HOJ 302/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Tokyo: Sendagaya, 1965. (Japan 1965) No markings, Very Good in Acceptable only corrugated cardboard folder with splits to top edges of folder and with panels lightly soiled and scuffed. 35 x 19 cm, grey paper covers, no page numbers 30 leves (60 pages) bound in the Asian manner with each leave folded in half and bound at the spine. Most of the pages show white on black rubbings(?) of calligraphy from the Keishi Monument (?) from Wei times. There is a couple of pages of commentary with the text entirely in Chinese. Wei, known in historiography as the Eastern Wei ( Dong Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty. One of the Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period, the Eastern Wei ruled the eastern part of northern China from 534 to 550. (1.5 JM LVR 206/b4. Paperback. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1957. (USA) Presumed 1st edition 1957) Owner's name, no other markings, Very Good in unclipped Acceptable dust jaccket in mylar sleeve. Blacck cloth, xii, 271pp, index, no illus. Leonard Bloomfield (1887- 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. In this study, Bloomfield presents his only extended treatment of the Central Algonquin syntax. A dialect of the Central Algonquin tongue, Ojibwa is spoken by the American Indians in the area of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan; in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and in Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. The texts, transcribed as dictated by an informant and phonetically rendered by Bernard Bloch, include an Indian's childhood memories: Grandmother, The White Man, Falling in the Water, Spring Thunderstorm; as well as Indian Folklore: The… Read More

Smith AB: Smith Half Century Plus Historical Book Committee, 1984. (CAD) !st printing. Owner's name to end paper, faint small spot to page iii, and to edge of page 611, otherwise Near Fine; no dust jacket as published. Blue colth with silver titles, printed endpapers, x, 611pp, index, maps, lots of B&W photos of people and families, A heavy book. (4.2 JM 0112. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Evanston, Illinois: The Hotel Monthly Press, 1955. (USA) Twelfth Printing Owner's name and address, tight clean solid copy; light shelf wear and some wear at the top of spine Very Good; lacking the dust jacket. Green cloth with title in white and blue on the cover and spine, 306pp. Repeating statue pattern on endpapers.. Frontpiece illustration as well as 15 full-page plates in colour. Glossary and bibliography at the end. A Foreword contains general information salads and their history, use of different oils, etc. Many recipes for salad dressings, fish and meat salads, fruit and vegetable salads, miscellaneous salads (eggs, cheeses, etc.), Hundreds to choose from. A heavy book. [2.75 WL LVR 201/b4. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking the Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1958. (UK) First Edition Owner's name neatly balcked out with marker, date, no other markings, Very good in price-clipped Very Good dust jacket with tiny nick to leading eadge of front panel. Red brown cloth, 198pp, index. Frontis photo; maps; B&W photos. The first part of this book deals with the Nile, the cycle of life along Nile valley, Egyptian agriculture; the second part is an account of a journey into the Eastern desert. (1.8 JM HOQ 100/2. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Vancouver: Famous Artists Limited, 1963. (CAD) No markings, fold creases, Very Good. One sheet 22 x 15 cm, with portrait of Farrell to the recto; bio and photo to verso No year given but 1963. (1.0 JM ITF2 docket 53. Unbound. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Flyer.

Scotland: East Kilbride Arts Centre, 2006. (UK) Presumed first edition. No markinga, Fine. Wraps, 155pp, colour photos of the locales of East Kilbride new town in Scotland by a Canadian artist who has treated her subject like an enigmatic quest. (2.5 JM LVR 200/b5. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Mexico: Bancomer, 1981. (MEX) 1st edition. No markings, hinges fine, there is slight waviness to margins of some of the leaves, thus Good used copy in Good only dust jacket with edge fautls and small tears; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Marron leather, photo end papers, 319pp, list of illus and photos; colour photos and illus, some plan on transluscent paper. The text is entirely in Spanish. The Templo Mayor (Spanish: Main Temple) was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica. The Great Temple devoted to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, measuring approximately 100 by 80 m (328 by 262 ft) at its base, dominated the Sacred Precinct. Construction of the first temple began around 1325. The temple was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521 to make way for the new Mexico City cathedral. A heavy book. (6.6 JM HOJ 304/3. 1st. Hardcover. Good/Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1979. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, very faint small spot to top edge of pages, some rubbing to spine extremeties and to cover corner tips, Good copy; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Hardcover, 723pp, index, diagrams. The electric field; Gauss's Law; Electric potential; Polarization; Conduction; Field boundary conditions; Resistance; Lossy media; The Uniqueness theorem; Electromagnetic induction; Electrodynamics; Guided electromagnetic waves; Radiation. Markus Zahn, the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) within the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), died in 2022. (3.1 JM LVR 205/1. 1st. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988. (USA) 1st printing. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, 742pp, index, diagrams. This is a book on field theory which gives the larger integrated view of the material that makes it serve not only traditional areas of microwaves and antennae but also those of power-engineering. (3.5 JM HOZ 403/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

NY: The Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1981. (CAD) No markings, Fine. Paper cover with photo of Birgit Nilsson, stapled, [16]pp counting both covers, B&W and colour photos.Telecast of January 28, 1981 with Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysenek, Mignon Dunn. An article by Stephen Wadsworth on Nilsson return to America. List of telecast sponsors. No ads. (1.3 JM ITF2 docket 89. Staple Bound. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

NY: Metropolitan Opera, 1980. (USA) No markings, but faint small spot to back cover, otherwise Very Good. Paper covers with photo of Birgit Nilsson and Leonie Rysanek, stapled, [16]pp counting both covers, B&W and colour photos. Birgit Nilsson return to opera in North America. Telecast of ELEKTRA conducted by James Levine, with Nilsson, Rysanek, Ngnin Dunn, Robert Nagy, and others. Date Feb 16. 1980. List of telecast sponsors. (1.2 JM ITF2 docket 32. Staple Bound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Programme.

NY / London: Interscience Publishers, 1963. (USA) 1st edition. No markings, Near Fine in Good (-) only dustjacket with chip to the head of spine at the back pane and several edge faults. The edges of the dustjacket have faded. Hardcover, xii, 296pp, index, graphs. Longmire worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laborartory. This book has its origins in a series of lectures that he gave at Los Alamos in the fall and winter of 1956-57. The audience was composed of physicists working in the Sherwood Project. Longmire was an American theoretical physicist who was best known as the discoverer of the mechanism behind high-altitude electromagnetic pulse.He performed several of the key design calculations on the very first thermonuclear weapons produced by the United States. (1.9 JM LVR 206/b1. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good (-). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Cambridge / London: The MIT Press, 1980. (USA) 1st American edition, No markings, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 320pp, index, graphs, diagrams. Fro the jacket: Written from the perspective of the practising modeler, the `4 contributors in this book explore how system dynamics models are made. (2.2 JM LVR 205/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Australia: Manic J Productions, 2005. (AUS) Presumed 1st edition INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to half-title, no other markings, includes the CD-ROM, fine spine crease, Very Good used copy, Wraps with flaps, [344]pp, colour photos of prepared dishes throughout. Roberts is a native of New Zealand. Having grown up in a family of culinary professionals, Jason discovered his passion for food at a young age. Turning it into a career, he spent seven years as an Executive Chef at Bistro Moncur in Sydney, Australia, where his mentor was Damien Pignolet. He caught the attention of Australia’s Channel 9, where he became the host of Fresh, a cooking program that aired five days a week in Australia and New Zealand. In 2005, Jason hosted the award-winning food talk show Jason Roberts’ Taste, on the PAX Television Network which earned him two American Accolade Awards for "Best Host" and "Best Health & Lifestyle Program." I believe this is his first cookbook a collection of over 125… Read More