Search Results: Titles starting with S from Mike's Library

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 081531227X . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; "The purposes of this investigation are 1) to conduct a detailed empirical investigation of SEC trading suspensions; 2) to delineate the potential benefits and costs of these suspensions; 3)) to review the stated intentions of the SEC in initiating and enforcing trading suspensions; 4) to measure the impact of trading suspensions by examining the behavior of suspended securities before and after suspension; and 5) to provide an interpretation of the results." ; Government and the Economy; Ex-Library; ix, 126 pages .

New York: Mulholland Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316201642 . Top corners bumped, "library" label peeling, otherwise slight wear; Slipcase with rear top bumped, seal broken with missing piece attached to front free endpaper, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover.; "In S., J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst conceived of a multi-layered novel-within-a-novel that involves handwritten notes in the margins and physical objects slipped between the pages ... [of] the work of an incendiary novelist who may never have existed at all. What is Ship of Theseus, and who is its mysterious author V.M. Straka? Conceived by J.J. Abrams, director of Star Wars, and written by Doug Dorst, an award-winning novelist, Ship of Theseus is the central novel within the experience that is S., a multi-faceted narrative of love and mystery. A mystical adventure of an equally mysterious figure, Ship of Theseus is Straka’s final book about a man… Read More

Portland OR: University of Portland. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2009. Trade Paperback. Corner crease, light cover curl, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Begun by an extended study of Sacred and Secular Scriptures: A Catholic Approach to Literature by Cambridge professor Nicholas Boyle. "Accordingly this book is divided into three parts: the first part directly engages Boyle's work; the second part takes up sacred imagination more generally - in art and in literature; and the third part deals with the results of the loss of sacred imagination." ; 215 pages .

New York: B. Westermann Co., Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. Cloth soiling and rub, light foxing, light cock, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Play and/or movie script by self-expatriated radical English baronet advancing Balgangadhar Tilak's thesis of an "Arctic Home of the Vedas" for the Aryan peoples of India, destroyed by an Ice Age. ; 186 pages .

New York: Times Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0812911091 . Slight wear; Dust Jacket light spine sun, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcover. ; INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by co-author David Falkner. Publicity flyer and photo from Times Books laid in. "Japan's greatest baseball star trained with a sword as well as a bat to become the most productive home-run hitter of all time and a man of unusual spiritual dimension. ... It was not until Oh met Hiroshi Arakawa, who became Oh's lifelong mentor, that Oh began to fulfill his potential. Arakawa's training methods will seem unusual to Western readers: Zen philosophy and the martial arts were the methods used to make Oh the biggest home-run hitter of all time. Through the story of Oh's career, the reader will see how Japan has adopted Western customs but translated them into a form that is purely Japanese." First Edition, First Printing of the… Read More

Glogau: Verlag von Carl Flemming. Good with no dust jacket. 1868. Hardcover. Library stamps, front hinge started, toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; German language. Volume One ONLY, of two volume set, containing 839 tales. Contents: Sagen der Hohenzollern; Die Marken; Provinz Sachsen und Thüringen; Der Harz; Westphalen. ; Ex-Library; xv, 784 pages .

New York: Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0405029462 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear.; Reprint of 1923 edition, New York: Ronald Press. Contents: Preface; I. Seamen and Seamanship; II. The Seamen of the Later Nineteenth Century; III. First Attempts to Organize; IV. Successful Organization; V. Sailor vs Shipowners: The Industrial Field; VI. Sailors vs Shipowners: The Political Field; VII. Collective Bargaining; VIII. The Seaman's Act; IX. The War and After; X. Organization and Policies; XI. Organization and Policies (continued); Index. ; American Labor; Ex-Library; vii, 188, (8) ad pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0824094360 . Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "John Lydgate completed St Albon and St Amphibalus in 1439, when he was about sixty-nine. Except for the Life of Our Lady, it is the longest and most ambitious of his saints' legends. It is also his last. This double saints' life, chiefly in rime royal, is in three books. The first treats of the early lives of Albon and the clerk Amphibalus; the second, of Albon's conversion by Amphibalus and his subsequent martyrdom; the last, of the deaths of Amphibalus and his other converts. John Whethamstede, Abbot of St Albans, commissioned the poem." - Introduction. Contents: Preface; Introduction: The Manuscripts; The Legend of Saint Alban; Direct Sources; Versification, Stanzaic Punctuation, and Language; Remarks on the Treatment of the Text; Notes; Bibliography; Saint Albon and Saint Amphibalus : with textual… Read More

Saint-Dié: Imprimerie Loos. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1946. 1ière Édition. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; French language. History and photodocumentary of the destruction of the Vosges mountain town of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in November 1944, where 2,000 houses were destroyed. "Operation Waldfest (German: Aktion Waldfest) was a Nazi German scorched earth operation and counter measure to French resistance activity in the Vosges mountains of German-occupied France during World War II. It was carried out in two stages, between September and November 1944, by units of the Wehrmacht and Allgemeine SS." - Wikipedia. Hard-to-find postwar first edition.; Ex-Library; Photographs; 123 pages .

Quebec: Imprimerie A Coté et Cie. Good with no dust jacket. 1878. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, sunned, 1" spine edge tear with chipping, front hinge started, rear free endpaper removed, toned, otherwise light wear. Still serviceable and solid hardcover. ; French language. Life of Queen Clotilde, later Saint Clotilde, married and converted King Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty. ; Ex-Library; lxxvii, 251 pages .

Lamoni IA: The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1901. Fourteenth Edition. Flexible cloth. Toned, light cover curl, owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid flexible cloth boards. ; "Hymnal" blind-stamped on cover. Early printing of this Hymnal for the second largest Mormon group, first published in 1895. ; 195 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, edges color stained, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. Over two hundred illustrations. Facsimile reprint of the exhibition catalogue of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, Exposition de 1897, Catalogue illustré. ; Modern Art in Paris; Ex-Library; Vol. 19; lxiv, (3), 224, (16), (2) pages .

New York: AMS Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0404194834 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, a few pencil notes, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Immigrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada; Ex-Library; Vol. 73; 237 pages .

Moscow: Veche. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 5783805394 . Toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Russian language. Survey of Russian and Soviet military history.; Samye znamenitye; 526 pages .

Moscow: Veche. Good+ with no dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 5783807273 . Library stamps/marks/labels, toned text, light wear. Solid hardcover.; Russian language. Biographies of famous Russians of stage and screen. ; Samye znamenitye; Ex-Library; 459 pages .

Barcelona: Tipografía La Académica de Serra Hermanos y Russell. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Toned, edge chipping, spine rubbed, edgewear. Solid copy. Contemporary quarter leather binding with gilt spine lettering, marbled paper boards and endpapers. ; INSCRIBED on half-title page: "Al ilustre General Julio A Roca, gloria de la Argentina, su admirador y aff amigo - El Autor". The leather spine bears the gilt initials J. A. R. at its tail. General Roca was President of Argentina and Rahola met with him during this trip. Spanish language text. An uncommon association copy of this well-regarded travel work by a Catalan economist and business leader interested in furthering Spanish exports to the Americas. ; 487 pages; Signed by Author .

Jena: Eugen Diederichs Verlag. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, cloth soiled, spine darkened, tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; German language. Illustrated with 8 plates. 1st to10th thousand printing. Inhalt: Sanssouci 1747-1756; Sanssouci 1763-1786. ; Deutsche Volkheit; (78), 1 ad pages .

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 3110100827 . Owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise slight wear. Solid hardcover. ; German language text. ; 489 pages .

Paris: C L F Pancoucke. Good with no dust jacket. 1832. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, hinges taped, shelfworn, tone, some lining and notes. Solid hardcover. ; Text in Latin language with French translation, introduction and notes in French.; Bibliothèque latine-française; Ex-Library; lxxi, 307 pages .

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Tone, light wear; partial glassine Dust Jacket. Solid hardcover. ; INSCRIBED by author on dedication page. SIGNED & numbered 10 of 250 signed copies on limitiation page. "Of this first edition, two hundred fifty copies have been especially numbered and autographed. This is number 10." ; Contemporary Poets of Dorrance; Vol. 232; 99 pages; Signed by Author .