Search Results: Titles starting with F from Cat's Cradle Books

São Paulo: EDUC - Editora da PUC-SP, 1988. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Articles, with one exception in Spanish, are in Portuguese with abstracts also presented in English. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages except for small amount of writing on front endpaper. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Contents: Sebeok, Fetiche. Niklas, Sobre o teórico e o prático em Charles Sanders Peirce. Machado, Bakhtin e o legado dialógico do Formalismo Russo. Zayas, La imagen fija en la publicidad. Gómez-Moriana, Narración y argumentación en el relato autobiográfico. Krieger, Narratividade e estruturas argumentativas. Anspach, Teatro: domínio da intersemiose. Book reviews, dissertation and thesis reviews, news. ; 9.0" tall; 132 pages.

New York: George Braziller, 1998. Eighth Printing. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Eighth Printing. Sound binding. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. Pages clean, bright, copiously illustrated. ; Exploration of Medieval food habits in service, table manners, menu, and courtly magnificence. ; 10" tall; 224 pages.

South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes & Company, Incorporated, 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. DJ has minor edge rubbing. Objective view of the pseudosciences, written with wit and humor. Disciplines such as phrenology, pyramidology, palmistry, numerology, I Ching, and Tarot cards are included along with other pseudosciences. 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 189 pages.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Wrappers tanned with small amount of writing at top front. Stapled binding. Pages are tanned, clean; Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. 5.0" tall; 64 pages.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Pages clean, lightly tanned. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has edge wear, overall shelf wear. ; Early published book by Paul Goodman (1911-1972), an American writer and public intellectual best known for his works of social criticism. 7.75" tall ; 261 pages.

New York: Robert Speller & Sons, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Original paperback rebound in a sturdy gray cloth library binding. Binding and hinges sound. Light reading wear throughout. ; A documented account of the inaction by the U.S. and its allies that the author claims contributed to the deaths of millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Ex-Library; 9.25" tall; 108 pages; Renumbered.

Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1989. Softcover. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Discussion of imagination in religious experience and theological reflection. ; Studies in Biblical Hermeneutics; Vol. 5; 9.0" tall; 217 pages.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Cloth over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has slight fading at spine, overall light shelf wear. ; Essays exploring the meaning of faith and its moral implications. 8.25" tall; 159 pages.

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Square, front board very slightly bowed, sound binding & hinges, pages a bit tanned. Owner's name on ffep. Some light underlining in text. DJ has minor edge rubbing, light shelf wear. Study of the life and thought of Albrecht Ritschl, 19th century German historian of theology. 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 192 pages.

New York: The Century Co, 1885. American Edition. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. American Edition. Pages tanned with small holes at side edge. All pages are original. Writing at top right corner of first page provides a bibliographic citation. Article is contained in a clear protective sleeve. Photocopy of volume's title page included for bibliographic context. ; Critical analysis of faith healing. Contents: The theory. The fallacy. Bible cures. The practice. Questions in conclusion. ; 9.25" tall; 5 pages.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1974. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Description of the Americanization of a European instiuttion, the Puritan ministry as it was transported to the New England colonies in the seventeenth century. 7.75" tall ; 301 pages.

New York: Fall River Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear. Overview of the religious beliefs of eleven of the American "founding fathers" (esteemed men of the generation that declared independence and wrote the U.S. Constitution). Establishes that there was no monolithic national faith acknowledged by all Founding Fathers; instead their religious attitudes were as varied as their political opinions. ; 9.0" tall; 184 pages.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1929. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Wrappers tanned with small amount of writing at top front. Stapled binding. Pages are tanned, clean; Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education. 5.0" tall; 32 pages.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Polis Center / Indiana University Press, 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. ust jacket clean, with a bit of edgewear and a small chip and several indentations to back only. Sepia-toned b&w photos. ; A distinguished group of Indiana writers and photographers offer insights on the spirituality of Indianapolis, Indiana, long considered a "typical American city." Essays, poetry, photographs. 10 x 8.75 Inches (oblong); 158 pages.

Chicago: Tia Chucha, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, sound binding. Clean and off-white pages. Wrappers curl slightly with edge rubbing. ; Free verse poetry by Japanese-born American author. 8.5" tall; 96 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1974. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages tanned, clean. Wraps have small amount of writing (possibly by the author), light overall wear. ; Reprint of journal article by religious scholar. ; 9.75" tall; 26 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1974. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages tanned, clean. Wraps have small amount of writing (possibly by the author), light overall wear. ; Reprint of journal article by religious scholar. ; 9.75" tall; 26 pages; Renumbered.

Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, 1982. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have general light shelf wear and soiling. Illustrated with color plates of some of the monoprints in the exhibit. Exhibit list and critical essay on Goldyne's work included. 7.00" (18 cm) tall; 48 pages.

Arphax Publishers, 2006. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Spiral-bound softcover has clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Three maps per township, over 70 in all. Land patents are shown on some. ; 11.0" tall; 304 pages.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear including a faint bend on back wrapper. ; Explores the different ways in which male planters and their wives experienced migration from the Southern coastal area to the antebellum Southern frontier. ; 9.0" tall; 216 pages.