Search Results: Titles starting with R from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards/NF. DJ/Poor; intact w/losses to edges; under mylar. Map to endpapers. Dyed upper text edge. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to lower text edge. First novel by Thomas Sanchez (1943 -); named as one the 100 Greatest Western novels by the San Francisco Chronicle. Historical novel. Story of four generations of a family of the Washo tribe of Native Americans of California and Nevada during the opening of the Western frontier. On a hunting expedition In 1846, Gayabuc, son of Rabbit Boss of the Washo Indians, chanced upon the Donner party, and witnesses cannibalism. Gayabuc returned to report of the oncoming of white people who eat themselves. His father disbelieved him and insisted it was a dream ... so begins a family saga as the indigenous and the newcomers meet.

New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine/Ballatine, 1983. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright, showing faint margin discoloration. Softcover/Good w/faint creasing to upper front & small loss to lower front corner & light surface discoloration. 1960, first novel in the series of 6 from gifted, Pulitzer Prize winner novelist, poet & short story writer John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009). Classic tale of life in these United States. Story of 3 months in the life of a 26-year-old, former high school basketball player, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom who finds himself in a loveless marriage, a boring sales job working for his father-in-law, in small town America replete with a used-car sales lot and a Chinese restaurant. The tale's sequels include Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest.

Newark, DE: Proscenium Press, 1972. Staple-Bound Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 3/16" Tall. There are in fact seven plays in this collection. They are Rapes (three characters, nine pages); Fire (two characters, 9 pages); Dialogue with a Negro (six characters, 23 pages); The Refusal (two characters, 9 pages); White Cat (four characters, cat, 15 pages); The Other One (three characters, 5 pages); and The Bridge (three characters, 20 pages). 96 pages total. Covers are slightly grimed, and carry a sticker shadow at front; a Samuel French notice for another group of Fratti plays has been pasted to the title page; text is clean and strong, but there are an inked strike-over and marginalium of page 92, possibly in the author's hand. Laid in is a contemporary Xerox of other Fratti dramas. [Note: this may be an author's Xerox of the publisher's original - thus the 7th play.]

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ Press, 1991. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE, showing trace wear to softcover. First Edition, First Thus. Scholarly autobiographies and testimonies of some 150 ba'alot teshuva --- women, previously secular feminists, return to embrace Orthodox Judaism and live within the authority of male dominated rabbinic tradition. Personal spiritual journeys balancing individual freedom against traditional roles and communal responsibility. To be a daughter of Rachel is of great honor. Rachel, beloved of patriarch Jacob's two wives and mother of Joseph and Benjamin, showed leadership tempered with compassion and care, and, beautiful of body, her character grew with challenging ordeals.

New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1981. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/None as Issued. Michael Stringer (Illustrator). EX-LIBRARY/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/As New. Illustrated boards/VG w/light rubs. DJ/None as Issued. Survey of changes in automobile racing, race cars, and racing rules from the late 1800's to the present. Color illustrations supplemented with a few b/w historic photographs. Page 7 is a 1890's vintage photo: driver with face mask as well as the travel-along mechanic. Lucid prose and packed with informative. Fine copy.

London, UK: Samuel French, 1991. Reprint of 1995 . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/trace creasing to lower back. First published 1991; this is a 1995 reprint with minor textual changes. Acting Edition. First presented by the Royal Nat'l Theatre Company Feb 8th, 1990 in London. A contemporary drama of the Church of England set in South London. A portrait of four urban pastors, at odds with institutionalize doctrine and practice and beset with personal problems. This play is the first part of a trilogy including Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War. Fine copy.

Atchison, KS: Tape Institute - Mount Saint Scholastica College, 1962. Second Edition . Maroon Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 11 x 8 5/8. In the spring of 1959 the Ford Fund for the Advancement of Education made a grant to [the publisher] for the purpose of putting a course in radiation biology on magnetic tape. This textbook is designed to accompany the course which resulted from the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation and which has been circulated in colleges and universities for the past three years." [Publisher's Note] The tapes, unfortunately are NOT available with this volume, which is otherwise a rigorous, coherent, dispassionate account of the effects of nuclear weapon blast and x-ray radiation on the human system, by a trained sciemtist whose specialty this was. The chapter headings are Fundamental Chemical Concepts; Calculation of Dose; Fundamental Concepts of Matter and Energy; Logarithms and Exponential Functions; High Energy Photons and Particles; Fission and Fusion; Effects of… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW. Maroon linen boards w/gilt spine lettering. DJ/Poor w/chips, nips to edges, loss to upper spine & corner tips; showing surface losses and discoloration. LAID-IN: digest/synopsis of contents from Harvard Univ Press. Comprehensive study of the radio when with suggestions for further, effective usage of the medium --- Parallels to the same growth, dependence & exploitation of the internet? 13 chapters in 4 parts: Part I, Introduction & Summary; II, Radio as a Local Advertising Medium; III, Guides for Effective Radio Use; and, IV, Regional Advertisers. Fine copy in aged dust jacket.

New York, NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1935. Half-Leather. Very Good/Poor. Text/Near New, showing margin discoloration. Beige linen boards/VG. DJ/Poor; intact w/edge wear, loss to lower back corner, and surface soiling & discoloration.Textbook prepared for Grenville Kleiser's Mail Course in Public Speaking, and in particular, radio broadcasting. Canadian-born author Grenville Kleiser (1868-1935) taught speech at Yale Univ and wrote many guides to oratorical success as well as personal development. Collection on 21 essays on the art of radio broadcasting. Central thesis is its being a powerful education tool; clairty of diction, use of proper words, etc., hence of paramount importance. Volume is a statement on both power and social responsibilties of the media.

Radio Direct Response, 2010. 2nd Edition First Thus. Hardcover. New/New. Text/NEW & Bright. Updated 2nd Edition, First Thus. White, hi-gloss boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. laid-in: Complimentary calling card from author Mark Lipsky, CEO & Creative Director of The Radio Agency. Professional guide to effective advertising on AM & FM radio stations. Some 101 lucid, concise tips & secrets for success.

Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, 1980. 2nd Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Bright & clean. Steel grey linen boards w/blue lettering/VG w/light to corner tips & edges. Florid PO name to fEP, title, dedication & Preface pages; notes/numerals to rear endpaper. First published in 1973; this 2nd Edition has been updated, especially regarding ultrsonography and comupterized tomograph (CT) scanning, as well as substantial increase in illustrations. 9 chapters: 1, Respiratory System; 2, Nasal Passage, Mandible, & Upper Airway; 3, Cardiovascular System; 4, Alimentary Tract; 5, Genitourinary Tract & Adrenal Glands; 6, Skeletal System & Soft Tissues; 7, The Head, Brain, & Meminges; 8, Spine, Spinal Cord, & Meninges; and, 9, Fetal & Perinatal Radiology. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1989. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. SIGNED BY KIRK DOUGLAS to front cover verso. Text/BRAND NEW w/faint margin discoloration & bends to first pages at lower front corner. Author signed to front cover versol. Soft cover/VG; strong & sound with rubs to edges & surfaces, and faint creasings to lower front/back corners. Marked discoloration to front/rear covers verso. An excuberant and candid autobiography of cleft chinned, film idol Kirk Douglas' (1916 -) road to fame. Son of Jewish-Russian immigrants, whose father was a ragman, and whose mother knew with certitude that all her offspring must be born in America, and himself, a champion.

Sydney, Australia: Lorenz Books, 1996. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/New. Tim Imrie (Photography). BRAND NEW & Collectible. Guide to rag rug making, and adaptation of the time-honored craft to fashioning hats and bags, and wherever else fancy strays. Basic techniques include hooking, prodding, plaiting, knitting, crochet and wrapping. Materials, all recycled, call for old, worn fabrics and even plastic bags.

Petersborough, NH: Windy Row Press, 1980. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/AS New. Beige linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/losses to front (price sticker removal?) & light edge wear. PO name to front & rear endpapers. Anthology of 48 poems of this, our lives, when the middle years are suddenly with us.

Woodenville, WA: Martingale & Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Brent Kane; John P. Hamel (Photographers); Robin Strobel (Illustrator). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBBLE. First Edition, First Printing. Wealth of knitwear for children with hand-painted yarns. 112 pgs. Knit w/hand-paint cottons, washable wools, textured yarns, novelty yarns, and, felt hats, mittens, socks and bags!

HarperCollins, 1989. First Edition . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. David Wiesner (Illustrator). BRAND NEW Copy. First Edition. Softcover/Fine. Oral literature. Chinese-American. Fine, rich collection of 20 folk tales chosen from 69 stories collected in a 1930s WPA project. Oral literature is a dynamic genre enlivened by each re=telling. Strange tales of ghostly and superhuman animal beings long fascinated traditional China (take, for example, the Strange Tales of the Liao Studio). These 20 tales are re-told by immigrant Chinese, and are all the more vibrant couched in longing, reaffirmation of the home country together with new perspectives as Americans. 190 pgs, the stories are in 5 parts: 1, Tricksters; 2, Fools; 3, Virtues & Vices; 4, In Chinese America; and 5, Love, followed by an Afterword citing scholarly studies in the English language.

New York, NY: North-South Books, 1998. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Marcus Pfister (Author-Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated, foil embossed boards/Fine w/trace wear to lower back edge. DJ/None as Issued. A tale of social dynamics of big & little fish in ocean waters from award winning Swiss author & illustrator of children's books Marcus Pfister (1960 - ). Story of the Rainbow Fish feeding on krill --- tiny crustaceans found in all the world's oceans --- that is, until a Big Blue Whale swims by, and, so enamored by the beauty of Rainbow Fish, decides to stay. Nervous & terrified as the krill dried up, the fish hid in reef crevices but the whale stays on, until fish & whale talk and become friends --- they choose to find new, richer krill hunting grounds together. The Rainbow Fish series carries foil embossed illustrations that sparkle as pages are turned explains why the whale was enchanted. The series has been translated into some… Read More

Lepzig: Insel-Verlag, 1935. Impressed Green Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 15/16" Tall. Reflections on the poet's work by a friend who was also the wife of his publisher. It is based in part on a correspondence, not mentioned nor quoted here, that was subsequenly published. 202 pages. Boards are sunned, particularly at backstrap; sticker and bookplate of prior owner on front pastedown, newspaper photo of the author attached to rfEP, a patched tear and pencil bookseller data on lrEP; text is clean and strong, but browning at edges.

Boston, MA.: Little, Brown, 1991. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Anthology of 2 Glass family novellas, both first published in The New Yorker, from J.D. Salinger (1919 - 2010). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters is narrated by Buddy Glass, the second of the Glass brothers. It recounts his visit, World War II army leave in 1942, to attend his brother Seymour's marriage to Muriel and tells of the aftermath of the wedding's extraordinary non-occurrence (Seymour's no-show), which sets the stage for Seymour's suicide in 1948. Seymour: An Introduction, was wriiten 4 years later. Buddy's biography of Seymour after the suicide; a stream of consciousness narrative as Buddy reminisces in seclusion.

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Fine. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Reccounted by Southern Californian single-mother Debra Ginsbergt (author of Waiting), this is a moving personal story of parenting an extraordinary child, a biography of her son, within the context of what public schools, goodwill aside, was able to offer. Blaze never crawled but at one, just stood up and walked. At four he knew the complete works of Miles Davis, and, at five he had assigned colors to days of the week. YetBut along these gifts, Blaze suffered from emotional and behavoral issues. Entering kindergarten, school officials judged him "speech and language impaired" --- marking the first step in being removed from other students and shuttled from one expert therapist to the next. each certain he/she has the right diagnosis. A poignant & compelling story of raising an un-ordinary child… Read More