Search Results: Titles starting with I from Bayside Books of Maryland, IOBA

Oxford University Press, 2009-04-08. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 9x0x6. Hardcover, ISBN 019536676X, 2009. 352 pages, with chapter notes, references and index. Fine condition in illustrated boards, with no dust jacket as issued. Clean inside and out with no markings; binding is solid and square. From the rear panel: "The collapse of the USSR seemed to spell the end of the empire, yet it by no means foreclosed on Russia's enduring imperial preoccupations, which had extended from the reign of Ivan IV over four and a half centuries. Examining a host of films from contemporary Russian cinema, Nancy Condee argues that we cannot make sense of current Russian culture without accounting for the region's habits of imperial identification. But is this something made legible through narrative alone-Chechen wars at the periphery, costume dramas set in the capital-or could an imperial trace be sought in other, more embedded qualities, such as the structure of representation, the… Read More

Sound Library, 2004-10-31. Audio Cassette. Good. Unabridged audiobook on 8 cassettes, approximaely 11.25 hours. Narrated by Michael Deehy. A retired library copy, with typical markings; case and cassettes in good condition. 10th in the mystery series featuring Inspector Gemma James and Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid. From Publishers Weekly: "When a nude, charred female corpse turns up in a burned warehouse, the police discover that the unidentified victim, one of four possible women, was murdered beforehand. Duncan and Gemma also look into the abduction of 10-year-old Harriet Novak, a pawn in her parents' ongoing acrimonious divorce. As the investigation by both fire officials and police evolves, it becomes clear that the abduction is connected to the murder.

University of Washington Press, 2007-12-31. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dustjacket as issued. 2007. ISBN 0774813881. As New condition, with no markings inside or out. Binding solid and square. "The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.

Tiresias Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good. In Search of a Response by Leida Berg and Harold Steinberg; hardcover; Tiresias Press; 1973; ISBN 0913292001. No dustjacket. Ex-lib with typical markings including sticker remnant to front board, cardpocket scar and "Withdrawn" stamp to front free endpaper, and black marker lines to page block edges. No underlining, highlighting, etc inside. Binding solid and square. Studies of schizophrenic children and their relationships with their parents, presented in the format of ficitonalized diaries, and based upon amalgams of actual case histories. The title refers to the basic human impulse - the search for a response from one human to another - "And when this comes about we no longer are alien and alone - and the world is not a threatening place in which to be. We are available to one another in our response. 'I really do not want you to take care of me, to feel like me, in small particulars - I just want a response from you.'

Chatto & Windus, 1916. Hardcover. Good/None. First edition, second printing - 1916. Full bound blue cloth boards, with some bubbbling to front and creasing to rear board. Gilt lettering to front board, but gilt to spine has worn away. Solid binding, with slight lean. Some browning of pages. Frontispice tissue guard has left brown stain to near full extent of title page. 149 pages, 23 B&W photos. This book collects the letters written by Harold Rosher during the war years from August 1914 up to his death at age 22 in February 1916. These letters provide a uniquely personal glimpse of one young Englishman's experiences during World War One - all the more fascinating as they document a period early in the development of the aircraft as a weapon of war. As the Introduction states: "[The letters] are spontaneous and utterly unstudied documents, and they have been printed almost exactly as Harold wrote them. Many of them are quite ordinary; most are spiced with slang; the long ones… Read More

H. C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, no DJ, 1857. From the library of American artist and illustrator Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000), with his personal bookplate to front pastedown (see The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raissone 1948 - 1983, Fern & O'Sullivan, Little Brown & Co, 1984; pg 37, image 79). Also includes small circular sticker on front pastedown, with image of a porcupine printed in red; this is also an image by Baskin. Full bound red cloth boards, blindstamped designs to front and rear boards, gilt stamped lettering and design to spine. 1/16th inch loss of fabric at top of spine, corner rounding with tiny spots of wear through to underlying board. Binding is solid. Pencilled note on front free endpaper: "From Leonard Baskin library". On the second blank page is another pencil inscription: "1856 / A Present to Oliver Kendall / By J A Bruce / Boylston, Mass". A scarce collection of five stories for… Read More

J L Rupert and Job Printer, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Hardcover, 1911. 128 pages. Only date on title page is 1911, with no mention of later reprint - THIS IS NOT the 1990 Messiah Lutheran Church reprint edition. Very Good+ condition, with full bound dark red cloth boards and gilt lettering to front and spine. Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper, and same owner's small bookplate to inside of front cover. No other markings of any kind. Binding is solid and square. An Indian story of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Eve Earnest and several of her children were captured by Indians in 1777 and taken to Detroit. Nine years later they found their way back to their home near Port Bedford, PA. This is her story, and also a genealogy of her descendants in Bedford County. Because of her time spent with the Indians, she was always known as Indian Eve, even though not Native American by birth.

Harvard University Asia Center, 1991-12-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG/VG, hardcover; ISBN 0674454464. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 151. 1992. 400 pages, with Chapter Notes, Bibliography, Glossary and Index. Seven pages at rear listing other titles in the Harvard East Asian Monographs series. Near Fine hardcover in black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Clean inside and out, with no writing, underlining, highlighting, etc. Binding solid and square. Only fault is scuff mark to bottom edge of page block. Very Good dustjacket, bright and glossy. Only fault is two tiny (less than 1/8 inch) closed tears, one at head of spine and another along upper rear edge. From the inner flap: "Why did defeat in the Opium War not lead Ch'ing China to a more realistic appreciation of Western might and Chinese weakness? James Polachek's revisionist analysis exposes the behind-the-scenes political struggles that not only shaped foreign-policy decisions in the 1830s and… Read More

Oy Spiritus Historiae Ab, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine hardcover in Very Good dustjacket, limited to 6000 copies. No markings of any kind, binding tight and square. DJ shows very minor scuffing and edge wear. A history of the Finnish firm Instrumentarium, established in 1900 to supply the Finnish medical community by importing surgical and medical instruments. One hundred years later (2000) Instrumentaria is a major international corporation that manufactures and markets state-of-the-art medical technology products.

LEA, Inc, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good , clean used text. No underlining or highlighting. "Used Book' stamped to top and bottom page edges. A balanced presentation of theoretical and practical approaches to teaching multiple literacies in the elementary and middle school classrooms. All of the literacies - dance, music, visual arts, popular culture, media, and computer technologies - are integrated with reading and writing. Cases are designed to prepare future teachers for the PRAXIS teacher certifying exam, as well as others offered in many states.

Valet Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1x5x8. Signed. Deluxe signed limited (290/1150) edition, using the Morrow printed text but bound by Valet in the deluxe signed limited format - this is why it shows "Morrow and Company" and ISBN 0688101348 on the copyright page. Hardcover in full bound red cloth boards with gilt designs and lettering to front and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Slipcase matches the book, with red cloth and gilt designs and lettering. Book and slipcase are in As New condition.

iUniverse, Inc, 2006-04-11. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Signed. Signed, hardcover, ISBN 0595676634. 367 pages, with index. Signed on halftitle page: "To Amanda, Eli and friends at Freed Photography / Thank you for giving my book such a professional-looking cover / Anthony 4/06". Hardcover is in Near Fine condition; dustjacket has light general wear but also 1/2 inch scrape to upper left rear edge that has worn completely through in a spot. "Imagine the informed Thomas Friedman (The World is Flat), the provocative Christopher Hitchens (The Trial of Henry Kissinger)and the witty Maureen Dowd (Bushworld) producing daily, as opposed to weekly, commentaries on international current events. Because that’s exactly what Anthony Livingston Hall does on his weblog, The IPINIONS Journal. And this book offers a riveting anthology of his commentaries as a comprehensive 2005: year in review.