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

Washington DC: Department of State. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Rebound in half cloth with marbled boards and title section of front cover laid down. Extensive For Sale catalog of US Army and US Navy small craft for sale just after World War II, either Domestic Sales through Division of Small Vessel Procurement and Disposal, War Shipping Administration and Maritime Commission, or Foreign Sales through Maritime Division, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, Department of State. Small vessels being offered by type. Contents: Section I: Landing Craft & Ships; II. Misc. Small Ships; III. Freight & Passenger Vessels; IV. Tow Boats, Tugs & Tenders; V. Patrol, Pilot & Rescue Boats; VI. Misc. Small Boats; VII. Tankers & Self-Propelled Barges; VIII. Barges, Non-Propelled; IX. Floating Cranes & Derricks; X. Index. Vessel types being listed with sketch or photo, brief description of… Read More

Berlin: Verlag Von Aug. Hirschwald. Good with no dust jacket. 1874. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, UNDERLINING, well tone, page margin chipping, edgeworn, clip to top of front flyleaf, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; German language. Therapeutic use of amyl nitrate. ; Ex-Library; 74 pages .

New York: Shevchenko Scientific Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0880541016 . Preliminary matter of viii pages; text begins at Preface on page 5 - unclear if missing pages 1 to 4 existed. Light wear. Crisp hardcover.; Polish language. Volume I ONLY of two-volume set; part II has different ISBN. "A large part of Volume I pertains to the Ukrainian-Polish War over Eastern Galicia [Western Ukraine] (1918-1919) and the problem of Eastern Galiciz at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Most of the collection consists of the reports of the Polish diplomatic representatives abroad, reports from the Paris Conference, reports by the military and political intelligence, letters and memoranda of the Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian political leaders. The documents [from the archive of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski] are arranged chronologically and in the original language, for the most part in Polish. The biographical and factual notes are in English."; Sources for the… Read More

Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Trade Paperback. 8573026731 . Slight corner bump, otherwise slight wear; Dust Jacket 1/8" tail tear, slight edgwear. Crisp trade paperback. ; Portuguese language. "Com o épico Ulisses, sua obra maior, o irlandês James Joyce revolucionou o romance moderno. Transcorrido em um único dia - 16 de junho de 1904 - e em uma só cidade - Dublin -, o enredo de Ulisses consegue abarcar toda a gama das emoções e experiências humanas, que o leitor vivencia pelo olhos, ouvidos e entranhas de personagens inesquecíveis, como Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus e Molly Bloom. Esta tradução de Ulisses, primorosamente concebida pela professora Bernardina da Silveira Pinheiro ao longo de sete anos de trabalho, tem a intenção de restituir o grande feito literário do século XX a quem de direito: o leitor. Com o mesmo registro coloquial do… Read More

Jacksonville FL: Dacosta Printing and Publishing House. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Biographic epic poem on Ulysses S Grant, written by a rather remarkable woman. "Eliza Madelina Wilbur Souvielle (October 21, 1851 – March 31, 1930) was a prominent scientist, astronomer, botanist, inventor, author and publisher. She studied at Batavia Female Seminary in New York and may have been the first female to lecture in science at Harvard University. She was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and her work was published in magazines and newspapers including Scientific American and the New York Herald. She published Continuity (a scientific magazine). Wilbur married Thomas Basnett and moved to Marabanong in 1880. After his death in 1886 she married Frenchman Mathieu Souvielle, a throat and lung surgeon. She wrote Sequel to the Parliament of Religion… Read More

Sao Paulo: Edição da Commissão Glorificadora de Martins Fontes. Good with no dust jacket. 1938. Trade Paperback. Rear flyleaf REMOVED, transparent tape repairs head/tail/front hinge, "H Moraes" hand lettered on spine, soil, edgewear. Solid trade paperback. ; Portuguese language memorial oration honoring the Brazilian poet, Dr José Martins Fontes. Oration was delivered by Dr Heitor de Moraes, also a resident of Martins Fontes's home town of Santos. "Conferencia realisada no Coliseu Santista, a convite da Prefeitura de Santos, em 3 de agosto de 1937" ; 62 pages .

Paris: Les Éditions Maurice Ponsot pour La Maison Worms et Cie. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1949. Limited Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Light cock, otherwise light wear; glassine Dust Jacket chipping to spine head and tail, edge chipping, tone. Solid flexible paperback. ; French language. Limited Edition, number 1475 of 5,210 copies, one of the 5,000 copies on Velin Pur Fil. Les lettrines ont été dessinées par Robert Decouvoux, et les culs-de-lampe par Pinelli. Centennial history of the French shipping firm of Worms & Cie. ; 124 pages .

New York: No Publisher Listed. Good with no dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Both hinges just starting, tone, tears, page chipping at margins, rear cover spotted, frayed spine tail, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover. ; Italian language. History of the Maestre Pie Filippini (Sisters of St. Lucy Filippini) in the United States. ; 316, (1) pages .

Paris: Société d'édition d'enseignement supérieur (SEDES). Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Trade Paperback. 2718109505 . Edgewear, rear cover crease, some cover curl, toned, owner's name on half-title page, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; French language. "Quel critère stylistique permet, mieux que les métaphores ou les comparaisons, de jauger l'imagination d'un écrivain tel que Rabelais? Chez ce génie visionnaire, les images ont une part prépondérante dans la création d'un univers à la fois fantastique et familier." ; Les Images dans l'oeuvre de Rabelais; 189 pages .

University MS: Romance Monographs, Inc. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1974. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 8439921594 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, spine sun, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Revised and enlarged edition. Contents: Preface; Abbreviations of Titles; Introduction; Chapter I. Life Conceived as Unanimistic; Ch II. Group-Formation, Group-Deformation and Group-Transformation; Ch III. The Specific Phraseology of Birth and Rebirth; Ch IV. Growth and Development; Ch V. Dissolution and Disintegration; Ch VI. Condensation and Integration; Ch VII. Detachment; Conclusion; Bibliography of Critical Works; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Index. ; Romance Monographs, Inc; Ex-Library; Vol. 7; 210 pages .

No place stated: Farmington Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1978. Limited Edition. Stapled wraps. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light edge tone, otherwise light wear. Solid paperback stapled wraps. ; Limited Edition, number 109 of 500 copies, signed twice by Brodsky, on limitation page and inscribed on title page. No publisher stated, but apparently published by Farmington Press. Cover is a ceramic by his wife, Jan Brodsky, photographed by Wit Ledbetter. "The forty-six poems in this book reveal the "fractured, disoriented soul" the poet became during his years as a factory manager". ; 61 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Henry Holt. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light cock, light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket in two pieces along spine, 2-1/2" spine cover missing at spine tail, toned, edgeworn with chipping and soil, wear. Solid hardcover. ; "How a city boy and girl make good on a farm." Juvenile fiction from Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and prolific author. ; 243, 2 ad pages .

Columbus OH: Educational Printing House. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1933. Pamphlet. Light tone, penciled number on cover, otherwise light wear. Solid paperback stapled pamphlets ; Lot of ten different pamphlets in the Uncle Ben Books series. Uncle Ben's geography column appeared in My Weekly Reader, and then were collected in these 10-Cent Books readers. The Uncle Ben Books series was intended for Third, Fourth or Fifth Grade elementary school students in the 1930s. It "introduces the fictional international travel account of “Uncle Ben” as told through “letters home". This text highlights both positive and negative American attitudes towards Japan in the 1930s . Although expresses this work certain views progressive for its time, it also contains evident assumptions of American national superiority."- Rachel Baron et al; "Praise and Prejudice: American Attitudes Toward Japan in Uncle Ben"; Brigham Young University. Interesting grouping… Read More

New York: Random House. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Small gluestain on front cover, light tone, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket top front cover damp wrinkled, 1/4" snag, spine sun, light edgewear with small tears, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First novel by the co-founder of the Paris Review of French politics and post-World War II justice. Humes published but two novels before being derailed by mental illness. ; 755 pages .

Ludhiana, India: Alag Shabad Yug Trust Ludhiana. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. Nineteenth Edition. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket glued to endpapers, labels, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "Hair Power is a book of its own which discusses in its religio-cultural perspective one of the basic tenets of the Sikhs ie keeping unshorn hair as God gift and Godly duty." ; Ex-Library; viii, 240 pages .

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0195100042 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Contents: Contributors; Progressive rock, "Close to the edge," and the boundaries of style / John Covach; After sundown : the Beach Boys' experimental music / Daniel Harrison; Blues transformations in the music of Cream / Dave Headlam; "Joanie" get angry : k.d. lang's feminist revision / Lori Burns; Swallowed by a song : Paul Simon's crisis of chromaticism / Walter Everett; Little wing : a study in musical cognition / Matthew Brown; Tonal and expressive ambiguity in "Dark star" / Graeme M. Boone. ; Ex-Library; (xvii), 219 pages .

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. Library rebind in stiff card covers with original paperback wraps bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Introduction in French; correspondence in Italian with some in Arabic. Commerical correspondence on 19th-century tuna fishery at Sidi Daoud, Tunisia. ; Université de Tunis - Publications de la Faculté des Lettres : Sources de l'histoire de la Tunisie - 2e Série; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; 173 pages .

Frankfurt am Main: Konflikt-Forschung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Trade Paperback. 3928965891 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, cover curl, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize trade paperback.; "By threatening to impose these kinds of secondary sanctions, the USA is seeking to get its laws and policies enforced outside as well as inside its own territory, and to force others - first and foremost its allies - to toe the line against their will: they are being presented with the alternative of maintaining economic relations either with the USA or with those countries against which America has instituted sanctions." ; PRIF Reports; Ex-Library; Vol. 47; (vi), 62 pages .

New York: Lewis Publishing Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1907. Hardcover. Library REBIND, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcovers.; Three of three volumes, complete. Union University, a federation established in 1873 of several graduate and undergraduate institutions in upstate New York State, includes Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School (established 1853, the nation's oldest independent school of law), Albany Medical College, Dudley Observatory, Union Graduate College, and Union College (founded 1795). Contains histories of the institutions, as well as biographies of key administration, faculty and graduates. ; x, 564; 544; 334 in 3 vols pages .

Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm. Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 9022103293 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, 1" gutter tear near rear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; A translation (by Thomas Cranmer?) of "Gravissimae atque exactissimae, illusstrissimarum totius Italiae, et Gallicae academiarum censurae", attributed to Edward Fox, John Stokesley, and Nicholas de Burgo. Imprint from colophon. Variant: year date lacking from colophon. Original title page reads: The determinations of the moste famous and mooste excellent vniuersities of Italy and Fraunce, that it is so vnlefull for a man to marie his brothers wyfe/ that the Pope hath no power to dispence therwith. STC 14287. Facsimile of the 1531 London edition, printed by Thomas Berthelet. Tract supporting the divorce of King Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, without once mentioning the particular marriage dispute.; The English Experience : Its record in early… Read More