Search Results: Titles starting with S from Turn and Temper Books

Harvard University Press, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover: Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1st Edition. An excellent presentation copy from the library of Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan. Weinberger's bookplate is on the inside front board, and a letter presenting the copy is inserted (presentation from Dr. Douglas McFarland, Director of the Office of the Blind and Visually Handicapped). The book is clean, free of marks. The binding is tight. The price-clipped dust jacket has minor tears, sticker removal spot, and chipping at the base and top.

Oxmoor House, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover; First Edition. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine in a Very good DJ (small at tip and top of spine); Classical and new recipes from around Southeast Asia, beautifully photographed by Noel Barnhurst, many of them full page color photos. Lovely street and market photographs, too. One of the loveliest of the Savoring series by Williams Sonoma. ; Williams-Sonoma Savoring Series; 0.9 x 12.8 x 8.6 Inches; 256 p.

Frederick Unger Publishing, 1964. ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. 552pp Illus (over 300 wood engravings) Reprint of 1878 edition.  Cracking along edges, with paper loss on top and bottom edges of DJ.  DJ in protective mylar cover.

Prentice Hall Direct, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover is Near Fine with penciled price markings only and one page tip curled. Otherwise pristine. DJ is Fine with no flaws. Mylar cover. $10.95 cover price intact. gold w/white lettering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

International Collector's Library, 1938. Special Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Small quarto, hardcover, near fine in ark green faux leather with gilt design on cover and spine. Special De Luxe Edition. No dj. unmarked. Clean and crisp (spine feels unread). 622 pages including index; top pages edged in gilt.; T. E. Lawrence's vivid narrative of his Arabian adventure. A beautiful book with ancient ships in gold on the front and spine.

Doubleday & Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Binding is crisp, and feels unread. Contents are clean. Some spotting on the back board near the base. DJ is in near fine condition with only small chipping at the base and top and rubbing at the tip. From the brother of Rod Serling (Twilight Zone) and aviation expert.

London: Folio Society, 2002. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. Many color and black and white photos. Scarce in the U.S. Fine condition in fine slipcase; both seem as new and unread. Bright gilt ornaments on front and back boards; bright gilt lettering and borders on spine; Black and white illustrations on slipcase.

Random House, 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 151 pages. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. Spine pictorial pinkish beige and gray with maroon lettering. Dust jacket in excellent condition with no tears, chips, or scratches. Boards are clear and crisp. Text is fine throughout. Protective mylar cover. First edition, first printing.

Bantam Books, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, 2008. FINE- hardcover book in NEAR FINE- gently shelf-rubbed dust-jacket that is price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy.

W. W. Norton & Co., 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Clean, crisp copy that feels unread (or even barely opened). Michael McCurdy (illustrator). 1st Edition. Beautifully Produced and hauntingly illustrated, this unknown work by Iris Murdoh (1918-1999) is something very special indeed. Previously unpublished but for an excerpt in a 1950s anthology, this is a bittersweet, haunting story. Yvonne, an ordinary, bold young Irish woman, believes that there's more to life than marriage to Sam, the dutiful Jewish lad who is courting her. Set in Dublin, against the vividly recognizable backdrop of the author's native city in the 1950s, SOMETHING SPECIAL is written with a wry humor and penetrating insight that evokes the psychological tension of James Joyce's "The Dead".Gorgeously illustrated with line drawings by the renowned American artist Michael McCurdy 55pp. Fine, first thus edition (not price clipped).

Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition Eighth. Hardcover/Hardback. Good/Good. 8th printing. Discoloration to pages, inside covers and slightly on DJ. DJ has multiple small close and open tears along the edges with some light creases. Light creases on DJ spine.

Random House, 1948. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Random House. Original red cloth with gilt title and green decoration on front. Text clean. Staining on the back board. Mylar cover. Fifth printing. 541 pages. Includes illustrations by Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, Palmer Cox, Arthur Rackham. Introduction by May Lamberton Becker.

Random House, 1998. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition stated. No names or markings except for possible remainder mark on edge. Some staining on inside flaps and front board.A journey through thirty years of the African-American experience in America. Guy Johnson is the son of Dr. Maya Angelou. 548 pages.

Crown Publishing Group (Clarkson Potter/Publishers), 2004. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Fine/Fine. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Pages and spine crisp, likely never read.  First Edition stated; First Printing. Full number line. ; 224 pages.

Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 618 pp. Original black and green cloth covers w/ silver and gilt title on binding. Normal shelf wear. Front endpaper cracking, otherwise clean content

Random House, 1972. First Edition ?. Hardcover/Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition (stated).  Jacket is not price-clipped, slight edgewear and small tear on shelf facing edge. Black cloth boards have only slight wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.