Search Results: Authors starting with U from bookwitch

Topeka, KS, Military Publications, Jostens, 1961, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bonsack, William H. Et al Photographers. Quarto, hardcover, near fine. Blue and white boards. No dj. Laid in is large b & w glossy photo of all 1961 graduates, each with signature on back, copy of graduation program and many other photos of 1961 sailors plus many glossy photos of ships and other memorabilia.. Company 60-491; pictures of all seamen and officers, commander Floyd Symons, Capt. Lawrence Cook and William Goepner, Included are many B&W Photographs; Color Photograph on End Papers; Clean and unmarked.

Margaret K. McElderry, New York (1981), 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Octavo, hardcover, VG ex private school library book with minimal markings. 131 pp. Text is clean and unmarked. A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.

Scribner, NY, 1962,, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. Kazue Mizumura. Small quarto, dj in mylar. Pictorial cover matches dj in green with boy running through rice bowls. Ex children's library w/ pocket and stamp, else good in good green pictorial dj. First edition, first printing. A story of old Japan about a poor farmer named Rokubei who made so much pottery, including rice bowls, that his wife demanded that all of it be put outside the house. The bowls crashed down whenever he scratched his back or his wife sneezed or the dog wagged his tail.

Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1993, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. Charles Robinson. Octavo, softcover, near fine in red and blue pictorial wraps. 141 pp. plus glossary. Library stamp on title page (unissured) else fine. Includes roundtable discussion, selected Haiku and notes on author and artist. a girl's desired journey home to the orient.

The Exchange, Hampton-Brown, 1987. Soft cover. New. Octavo, softcover, new in red pictorial wraps. 343 pp. In 1917 in Japan, Hana's family finds a Japanese man in the United States for her to marry. But is a picture and few letter enough to start a marriage?

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Many, 1965., 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. Octavo, hardcover, good ex school library copy with blue pictorial dj in mylar. 209 pages. The crisis is that of losing environment by pollutikon, noise and blight. The 60's was bad, the current day is worse. Air, soil, water--all are getting more and more polluted; this raid on resources spells disaster, global warming, and eventual disease, starvation and diminishing of the planet.

Knopf, NY. 1977, 1977. Flexbound. Fair. Tall thin octavo. heavily used and soiled on endpapers else good reading copy only. Red vinyl flexible cover with white lettering. 852 pp. plus notes on author. descriptions, .Color photos, plates,, classification of birds, breeding, habitat, range, comments. appendices. color keys and habitat keys.

Knopf, NY. 1977, 1977. Flexbound. Near Fine. Susan Rayfield et al. thin octavo. softcover, gift note on endpaper else fine in red vinyl flexible cover with white lettering. 856 pp. plus notes on author. descriptions, .Color photos, plates,, classification of birds, breeding, habitat, range, comments. appendices. color keys and habitat keys. 9th printing.

Square Enix, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. Folio, softcover, VG in white wraps. No CD. 111 pp. plus discography. This 120 page book contains solo guitar arrangements for 25 popular pieces from the Final Fantasy series (I-XII). Most titles and text in this book are in Japanese.

Odyssey Press, New York, 1st Edition, 1952., 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Dj. Octavo, hardcover, underlining in first third of book else good in red boards with gilt lettering. Clean, unmarked. No dj. 302 pp. including index. Contains illustrations, footnotes and vocabulary. Preface in English, the rest in Spanish. The essentials of Spanish civilization, designed to be read by college students in 2nd year of Spanish. Covers geography, literature, art, psychology, education, history, economics etc. of the Spanish people.

Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1952., 1952. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, fine in olive tweed boards and red cloth at spine. No dj. Contains two plays: 1: Comedia del arte and 2: Old Spain. ll in Spanish. 164 pp. including vocabulary pages. Good reading material for second year Spanish students. Best of Spanish plays--beauty and simplicity of style, natural and clear dialogue.

Hippocrene Books, 2003.. Octavo, softcover, VG in blue pictorial wraps. a twelve-lesson course for students who wish to read, write, and speak modern Greek. Logically laid out chapters build upon one another and allow the student to gain confidence and mastery over the language. Each chapter includes a dialogue with translation, vocabulary, grammar lessons, exercises, and an essay designed the give the reader insight into Greek language and culture. 404 pp.

Bridge Publishing Inc., 1996, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, softcover, near fine in purple and yellow pictorial wraps. Giftable. Clean and unmarked. Revised and updated with 8 pages of photos. Kuhlman presents the God she knew--the God who is a specialist in doing the impossible and who is able to do anything but fail. 322 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977,, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, VG in VG white dj. First Printing. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Dj yellowed at edges. 344 pp. A novel by a former New York policewoman. Two little boys are murdered, and their mother is accused. A police detective sets out to discover the truth. Remainder mark.

Viking, New York, 1957.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, previous owner's name on endpaper else near fine in lightly edgeworn white and gold dj. A guide to the music, musicians, instruments, recordings. up the to 1950's. Capsule history of jazz, instruments, schools, elements, language, morality, profession, judging, and place. Three appendices: musicians, further reading, chronology. 248 pp. including index.

Healthpoints, 1998.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, VG in gold and white pictorial wraps. 286 pages details the benefits and risks for each essential vitamin and mineral, providing comprehensive information on each substance.

New York: Feeling Fine, 1989.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, Near Fine in lightly edgeworn white dj. First Edition. How to Lower Your Blood Cholesterol Level by up to 30 per Cent in Only 30 Days. American Medical Association, Campaign Against Cholesterol. 240 pp.

Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. : Ulysses Press, 1995.. Fine/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, fine in pictorial wraps. Giftable. Approaching obesity in terms of a chronic disease, a noted health expert explains why diets do not work and presents a health-smart program that utilizes an individual's internal metabolic regulator to take weight off and keep it off.

New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc. 1979,. Very Good/Unknown. Quarto, hardcover, near fine in edgeworn black pictorial dj. An extaordinary look at Liv Ullmann's life and art. With photos from her family album, as well as from off camera moments on the Ingmar Bergman films, and in scenes from her many roles in plays. An in depth interview with David Outerbridge as well as quotes from her book Changing. Photo credits: Page 160 and on back flap of jacket. Hard cover with jacket. Jacket has two tears, one front and one back and is bent. 160 pages.

Knopf, NY, 1985, 1985. 1st Edition. Octavo, hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn black pictorial dj. Here Ullmann takes us back into her extraordinary life as she shares with us her most personal thoughts and feelings about her loves, about her daughter, about her work as an actress and her impassioned work for UNICEF, and-most important and telling-about entering her middle years and finding herself, perhaps for the first time in her life, ready and anxious to make choices that reflect her own needs and desires rather than those of the people around her. 193 pp.