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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Transcribed by Robert Browning. UNUSUALLY BRIGHT COPY OF THE BROWNING AGAMEMNON

8vo., First Edition, tiny signature on half-title, small neat contemporary signature on title; original dark green cloth, bevelled boards, upper board framed in black, gilt back, grey endpapers, uncut, short crease at backstrip else an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy. With the nineteenth-century trade ticket of Whiteley of Westbourne Grove on front paste-down, and publisher's advertisement leaf at end. This book forms the symbolic basis of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play 'The Browning Version' (1948), itself the source of Anthony Asquith's eponymous feature film (1951) starring Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent and Nigel Patrick. At Cannes the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or, winning Best Actor (Redgrave) and Best Screenplay.

Flowering Time, Climate and Genotype

193 pages. Examines the adaptation of agricultural species to climate through flowering responses. Intended primarily for agronomists and the advanced student of agricultural science but will enlighten the interested general reader as well. Book clean, bright and unmarked but for small signature atop title page. Minor lean to spine. Bright green boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon spine. Several closed tears to dust jacket with several chips missing. Nice copy overall. Book

Principles of Animal Ecology

Book shows light wear to covers only, bent corners to very strong textbook binding. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, printed on heavy stock glossy paper throughout. Heavy book. 837 pages filled with graphs, charts, tables, line drawings, b&w photos. Contents include: Analysis of the environment: heat, light, gravity, pressure, sound, currents of air and water, substratum, water, atmospheric gases, relations of soil, Populations: Animal aggregations, organization of insect societies, Biome and biome-type in world distribution, metabolism in community organization, ecology and genetic variation, and isolation, adaptation, natural selection, etc.

Slovenly Peter, or Cheerful Stories and Funny Pictures for Good Little Folks - Illustrations Colored By Hand After the Original Style (English Version of the German "Der Struwwelpeter ")

Unpaginated. Approximately 0.5" thick. Nice colour illustrations throughout. Red front board nicely decorated in black with gilt lettering. Gift greetings (dated 1926) upon front free endpaper. Three inch opening at base of front hinge. Numerous old tape repairs to pages. Wonderful old stories which likely would not pass modern requirements for political correctness. Book

Vincent van Gogh - The Art Gallery of Toronto, February 11th to March 12th 1961.

17 Page exhibition catalogue listing 140 paintings and drawings. Front cover graced with black and white version of "The Sunflowers." Average wear and soiling. Book

Doll Reader Magazine, January 1989 - Dorothy Coleman Tribute

296 pages. Features: Dorothy Coleman Tribute; Wendy Lawton's Marcella and Raggedy Ann; Doll Design Concept of the Year - DOTY Nominees; Pantin; Dolls based on the Fiammingo Head; Francois Duquesnois (Francesco di Fiammingo); A View of Christmas 1875; The Titanic Connection; A Country rag Doll; The Sewing Machine - a miniature marvel; Norah Wellings' Charm Factory - part 1; The Many faces of Santa Claus; Norah Wellings Novelty Dolls; Collecting the small Composition Doll; Six Composition Character Dolls by the American Doll Company - a comparison study; "Little Lulu, I Love You, Lu"; Betsy McCall Revisited; The Revival of the 1800 Mid-America Handmade Doll with a pattern for Lucritia; Making a Doll-size Version of Little Jocelyn's Late 1930s Dress; Brushes with the Past - John Ben Vanderpool; My Quanah Parker Doll; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine

The Annotated Paragraph Bible: containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorized Version, arranged in Paragraphs and Parallelisms; with explanatory Notes. FULL DICED CALF BY LEWIS

Roy. 8vo., with 2 folding maps as frontispieces, 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps and 3 plates (THE MAPS FINELY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE); handsomely bound in full diced calf BY LEWIS, sides with double frame border stopped at corners by gilt rosettes enclosing fillet border in blind, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly blocked and tooled inn gilt, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, joints mildly rubbed, short split in upper joint at head, else a most attractive, remarkably crisp, clean copy.

The English Version of the Polyglot Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. [With Cruden's Concordance and Four Thousand Short Scripture Questions with Answers]. AGSTER'S TEACHER'S BIBLE: LARGE EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S ROAN PORTFOLIO

8vo., on India paper, with 9 coloured engraved maps on 6 and a double-page chronological chart; attractively bound in publisher's black roan portfolio with drop sides all round, covers framed and blocked in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt 'Bagster's Teacher's Bible', gilt edges, black endpapers, portfolio mildly scuffed and rubbed at extremities else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Bagster's Teacher's Bible is a facsimile reprint, with larger types, of the English Version of Bagster's Polyglot Bible first published in 1817 and which made Bagster's name. It corresponds page for page, and line for line, with the two well-known Pocket Editions. The text is that of the Authorized Version, printed in double column with the references in a third central column in Bagster style. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, this edition contains Cruden's Concordance, Chronology, Tables of Weights & Measures, Tabular Harmony, Comparative View of Quotations, and a set of maps engraved and coloured expressly for this edition. A particular feature is the set of Four Thousand Short Scripture Question with Answers, designed expressly for the use of teachers. The Teacher's Bible is an edition uncommon at best, and scarce indeed in this condition with wholly unrestored portfolio in unusually sound state. See Darlow & Moule 1081.

THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

Old and New Testaments bound in one: pp. viii, 3-587; 190 + Engraved frontis and title. Irregular pagination. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Double column. Early manuscript ownership of Julia A. Lumbard on first fly leaf. Front fly leaves loose. 16mo. 145 mm. Original leather binding. Original leather spine label, lettered in Gothic type. Spine worn with small loss at rear joint. Title continues: 'With The Marginal Readings: Together With A Copious And Original Selection Of References To Parallel And Illustrative Passages. Exhibited In A Manner Hitherto Unattemped'. Hardbound. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is the English text from Samuel Baxter's eight language Polyglot printed in London in 1822. The little book became an immediate success and later editions are not uncommon, but this first edition is quite SCARCE. Hills 753; D/M 1785. PAIMP 21

A New Version of the Psalms of David fitted to the Tunes used in Churches. BRADY & TATE UNRESTORED

8vo., on laid paper, dedication leaf and title mildly creased without significant loss, fore-edges somewhat dusty, wanting front and rear free (blank) endpapers; contemporary full calf, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, boards and backstrip moderately worn and frayed, joints rubbed and split (but binding entirely sound), a good, clean copy in unrestored period binding. The 'New' English psalter, commonly known as 'Brady and Tate', was first published in 1696. It replaced the 'Old Version' by Sternhold and Hopkins, and included a number of new metres (among them 8,8,8 and a few 37 long metre renditions) not found in the Old Version or the Scottish Psalter.Nicolas Brady was Chaplain in Ordinary to the King; Nahum Tate (1652-1715), poet laureate, dramatist and adapter of other's plays (including several popular versions of Shakespeare).A well above average eighteenth century copy in worn but sound contemporary binding.

Shibori: Creating Color and Texture on Silk

Mm 200x270 Brossura originale, 128 pagine profusamente illustrate a colori. Testo in inglese - english text. Copia in perfette condizioni di nuovo - new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.

The Illustrated London News (ILN) Magazine, March 19, 1955 - Repair Work on the Albert Memorial

Pages 485-528.. Features: Nice colour ad for the Walpamur Co Ltd. inside front cover; One-page Daimler car ad features the Regency Mk. II and Conquest Century; Nice one-page ad for the British Iron and Steel Federation features large illustrations of labourers; One-page ad for the Olivetti Summa 15 adding/listing machine; Nice one-page ad for Standard Cars; Great photos of the Wansdyke underground depository for records and valuables - offering full protection in this H-bomb age; The old U.S. lake steamer "Ticonderoga" makes her last voyage by land; Scenes from nationalist-held Quemoy Island - an armed camp only 5 miles from the Chinese mainland; Nuclear test tower in Nevada; Smoke from the biggest atomic explosion of 1955; Latest version of the B-52 bomber; Maiden flight of the French Super Mystere B-1; Lieut.-Colonel Robert R. Scott and the Thunderstreak jet fighter he flew from Los Angeles to New York in less than four hours; One-page photo portrait of Professor Sir Alexander Fleming; Latest discoveries at Sakkara - article with photos; Two pages of photos illustrate excavation of the Mastaba of the reign of Udimu, fifth Pharaoh of the first dynasty, at Sakkara; Photo of Choe En-Lai, The Panchen Lama, Mr. Mao Tse-Tung, the Dalai Lama and Mr. Liu Shao-Chi at a Peking banquet celebrating the Tibetan New Year; Centerfold photos shows how the Windsor chari may be assembled in ten seconds; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery mountaineers from plane - his photos are presented; Photos of !3 personalities of the week include Mrs. Wintringham, Hashim Khan, Mr. J.A. Milne, King Tribhuvana and Mr. Imre Nagy; The C.P.R. ferry boat Princess of Vancouver has an electrically-driven bow propeller; Margot Fonteyn; Winston Churchill feeds chicken to zoo lion; Mr. Donald Campbell's turbo-jet hydroplane Blue Bird on Ullswater; Sir Robert Howe with the Prime Minister of the Sudan; Lovely colour ad for the Humber Hawk car inside back cover; Nice colour-ad for Double Diamond on back cover. and.more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine

Marketing Research - Second Edition

637 pages plus index. "The integration of SPSS for Windows is an important part of our book's personality. With this new edition we have moved to SPSS Version 7.5 The improvements in SPSS have worked to make our package stronger as now the output and graphing aspects of SPSS are much better." - from Preface. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Nice copy. Includes CD. Book

Northwest Digest Magazine, December 1951

26 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: Canada's Century - Maybe; A Native Indian's Version of The Story of Simon Peter Gun-a-Noot; Case of the Frozen Brides - Part one; Pioneer Judge's Wife - part 2; The Awakening; Along the Trapline; Finning ad for "Caterpillar" Diesel Sawmill Power on back cover; Dozens of ads for small local businesses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this vintage British Columbia publication. Magazine

DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA ( SANCHEZ AGUILAR AGUSTIN )

Doll Artisan Magazine, September 2000

62 pages. Features: Rosalee - this adorable figurine is sure to make you smile; Ribbon and Lace Dress - fun dress for any all-bisque cutie; Clowns for Chanelle - a stunning version of Chanelle enhanced by two wonderful Steiner clowns; Corset & Hoop Skirt - undergarments are the foundation of any Fashion doll's trousseau; For Every Doll Maker's Library - some great new doll publications; Simon & Halbig Lillie - how to make this lovely Rosette winning doll. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine

The Illustrated London News, February (Feb.) 17, 1934: Paris Riots

Pages 225-264. Features: Cover photos of dramatic Paris rioting and street-fighting; Twelve dramatic photos of Paris street-fighting and its aftermath; Photo of the French "National" cabinet; Photo of Monte Carlo were gold sovereigns and dollars are now used instead of counters on a gaming table; Great photo of M. Martenot and his very early version of an electronic piano; Two photos of the first Munich carnival procession under Nazi hospices Two pages of photos entitled Government "Coup D'état"in Austria - military action against the socialist in Vienna and Linz; Lovely photo of exquisite Irish gold work believed to date from about 700 BC - a magnificent collar; large colour self-portrait by Richard Parkes Bonington; Page of photos of French royalists - there exiled "King", their leaders, and their newspaper; Review of the book "The Book of the Greyhound", by Edward C. Ash; Two pages of photos of wild dogs from around the world; Two pages of photos document the family tree of a new breed of "Boar-Hound", created through German experiments; Fantastic centrefold photo illustrates the courage of "Papa Gastounet" - the veteran statesman in his car in the midst of the crowd on his arrival in Paris to form a national government; Fascinating photos and text describe unknown monasteries of mysterious Tibet visited during a recent journey by the Royal Academy of Italy Expedition; Page of photos illustrates reptile skins and some fashions made from them; Chinese porcelain; Photos of great fissures in the earth in Bihar, India, caused by an earthquake; Interesting page of illustrations explains precautions against Thames pollution - testing water drift with floats; Photos of personalities of the week include Capt. B. E. Miles, Lieutenant Commander R. L. Tufnell, the signers of the Balkan Pact, Washington Singer, Dr. Bernard Hollander, Douglas Freshfield, the Maharajah of Darbhanga, Mary Duchess of Hamilton, Gen. Sir Percy Radcliffe, the young king of Afghanistan Zahir Shah, the constituent Council of the United Ireland party, and Mr. Gillie Potter at the Oxford Union; Nice one page De Reszke cigarette ad; and more. One page loose but present. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine

Adjustment to Severe Physical Disability - A Metamorphosis (series in Special education)

310 pages. Some highlighting/underlining. Designed for professionals-in-training, practicing professionals, and parents or families of disabled persons. Deals with 1. The social misconceptions that impede the physical, psychological, and social adjustment of disabled persons; 2. The effects these misconceptions have on the attitudes and effectiveness of those who work with disabled persons; and 3. existing services, laws, environmental changes, and technological advances that affect both the efforts of professionals and the lives of disabled persons. Authors are Professors of Special Education and Rehabilitation at Memphis State University. Book

The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change

With bibliographical references and Index. 459 pages.

L"Animal imperial. Traduit de l"americain.

in-8, 359 pp., broche, couv. illustree. Bel exemplaire. [TX-9] Nous sommes la premiere espece a tenir entre ses mains le pouvoir d'assurer consciemment sa propre survie...

The Law and the Prophets - the Inspring Story of Man's Search for Moral and Ethical Values Drawn from the Old Testament and Told through Over 130 Great Masterpieces of Religious Art

364 pages. 194 illustrations, including 173 in full color. "The text of this great picture-story is taken almost entirely from the King James Version of the Bible... A glorious representation of our great Old Testament legacy." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with slightest wear. Tight and square. An excellent copy. Book

ARISTOPHANES. A Metrical Version of The Acharnians The Knights And The Birds. With Occasional Comment. And An Introduction by Henry Morley.

pp. 281, (5) [Publisher's catalogue]. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Unopened. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 200mm. From Morley's Universal Library, uniformly bound with others in the series. Gilt lettered faux vellum spine over blue gray linen boards. Spine very slightly darkened. Henry Morley (1822-1894) was a popular lecturer and prolific writer who did more to promote education and love of literature than any other person in the Victorian era. LOC W48/BAG 12

Alberta Folklore Quarterly, March 1945, Vol. 1, No. 1

This publication "aims to print authentic first hand accounts interpretative of the region and its people; to encourage the collection and preservation of the traditional materials of Alberta; and to help foster a literature indigenous to this part of the Canadian West." - from inside front cover. Contents: The Chinook Yark; Sayings heard in Alberta Ukrainian Homes; Klondikers; A Famous Alberta Yarn - told by Oliver Aldridge, son of Mountaineer Bill Aldridge; Potato Bugs; The Edmonton Overland Route to the Yukon; Duhamel (Battle River Crossing); Ghosts - Gus Erickson of the Westlock district had problems with them; Bob Edward's version of how Medicine Hat got its name; Bob Edwards and I; A Bob Edwards Yarn about the "Eye-Opener" race of 1906; Some Northern Trails; A Famous Alberta Yarn about a Russian settler who made his own harnesses from rawhide; A Fast Runner - fanciful tale of a young Englishman and his sheep roundup; Attention Alberta Writers - information about the Alberta Folklore and Local History Project; Interesting details of "The Outlaw", an Alberta newspaper in 1896. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. The first issue of this wonderful publication. Book

Infinite abelian group theory (Chicago lectures in mathematics)

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 150 pages Chapters include Reduction theorms, Purity, basic subgroups and finitely generated groups, Projectives, injectives, pure projectives and pure injectives, Structure of te tensor product and the group of extensions, Direct sums of countable p-groups and Hill's version of Ulm's theorem, etc.