Search Results: Titles starting with U from Arches Bookhouse

Yale University Press / Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. xi, 214 pp. 8vo, green cloth, gilt spine lettering, frontispiece, fold out plates, b/w facsimiles. A small stain to head edge, a bit of light rubbing to covers, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ toned.

The University of Texas, 1966. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 165 pp. Crisp copy. Brown cloth boards with stamped design. Dust jacket toned, slight loss at head of spine. Now wrapped in mylar. Small stain at fore-edge. Pages unmarked.

Pantheon, 1949. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 253 pp. Orange cloth backed in black cloth, gilt spine lettering on blocked in red. Perfin stamp to title page, a bit of rubbing to extremities, small smudge to rear board, sharp and clean otherwise.

George Allen and Unwin, 1963. First English Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. 159 pp. Finished black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black head edge. Owner name inked over to FFEP, tail of spine bumped, sound otherwise. DJ spine sunned, some rubbing, head of spine torn with a bit of loss, wrapped in mylar.

George Allen and Unwin, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. 159 pp. Finished black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Very small ding to head, sharp and unmarked otherwise. DJ spine sunned, some rubbing, wrapped in mylar.

Doubleday, Doran, and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. 8vo, black cloth, orange paper label with woodcut, red top edge. Small bookplate with residue from former bookplate removal. Some very light rubbing to extremities, entirely clean and sharp otherwise. Transparent mylar dust wrapper. A handsome copy.

St. Bede's Publication, 2005. Paperback. GOOD. 520 pp. Ex lib. A clean, unmarked copy.

Sheed & Ward, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. SIGNED by the author on half-title. viii, 374 pp. Paper over boards, backed in rust cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Short pen notation to FFEP, the faintest rubbing to tips, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ unclipped with '$5.95' ips just a bit rubbed, o/w crisp and bright, wrapped in mylar. Autobiography of publisher's co-founder, beginning with her Victorian childhood and continuing through the Catholic Literary Revival intellectual salon she and her husband facilitated in London and New York. Includes personal accounts of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, G.K. Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc, et al.

University of Notre Dame Press, 1962. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. viii, 260 pp. Brown boards, gilt spine lettering. A bit of rubbing to extremities, some soiling to edges, sharp and clean otherwise.

Sheed & Ward, 1938. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/Very Good. xii, [2], 3-340 pp. 12mo, Navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Faintest foxing to head, pristine copy otherwise; DJ price clipped, spine toned, tips rubbed with a bit of loss, short tear to tail of rear hinge. First British issue of the 1937 Scribner's edition, freshly typeset with larger font and format. McGrath 168.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/NEAR FINE. xii, [2], 3-330 pp. 12mo, green cloth, gilt spine lettering, deckled fore edge. Faintest beginnings of foxing to head edge, usual light toning to endpapers, pristine copy otherwise; DJ shows some light toning to extremities, entirely crisp and clean otherwise with unclipped '$2.75' price, now wrapped in mylar. First printing of Gilson's William James Lectures of 1936-37 with 'A' and Scribner's seal to verso. McGrath 168.

Cambridge University Press, 1958. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/Very Good. vi, 349 pp. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering blocked in blue, frontispiece, 3 b/w plates. Very light rubbing to tail edge, otherwise very clean and sharp. DJ price clipped, spine sunned, a few small tears.

George Allen & Unwin, 1954. Hardcover. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. 408 pp. Inscribed by author. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine lettering, burgundy topstain. Light rubbing to extremities, tips a bit nudged, a very sharp copy otherwise. DJ spine faintly sunned, light shelf wear.

Hodder and Stoughton. Hardcover. GOOD. xii, 278 pp. Owner name to FFEP, notes to rear endpapers, heavy foxing, scattered notes and marginalia, sound otherwise.

Sialkot Mission of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, 1926. Third Edition. Hardcover. GOOD. lxiii, 164, 33, 4 pp. 16mo, plain blue cloth. Tips a bit worn, blotted out owner's name to FFEP over "Pakistan." Extensive introductory material on linguistics and phonetics. Printed by P. Knight at Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta. Pen underlining to one page of the preface, sound and unmarked otherwise. Scarce.

The Missionary Language Board of West Pakistan, 1964. Paperback. GOOD. 50 pp. 12mo, sewn binding in green printed wraps. Tips worn, owner's name to half title, wrappers sunned and foxed. Sound and unmarked otherwise. Scarce. 3 Copies in OCLC.

The Getty Conservation Institute, 1988. Paperback. VERY GOOD. xi, 258 pp. Numerous color images. Errata slip tucked in. Some edge wear, spine sunned, rear wrapper creased, clean otherwise.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1972. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xxx, 258 pp. Red boards, gilt spine lettering. A few small splotches to head, tail edge a bit rubbed, sharp and clean otherwise. DJ toned, a bit of shelf wear. Out of print in hardcover.

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1972. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/Very Good. xxx, 258 pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Owner name and date to FFEP, some very light rubbing to tips, sound otherwise. DJ spine sunned, wrapped in mylar.

Paulist Press, 2001. Paperback. VERY GOOD. xvii, 366 pp. Crisp and clean copy, covers bright.