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704 p. Foxed. XLib bookplate (Juniata College). Embossed XLib stamp on title page and elsewhere. Early manuscript ownership of Michael D. Pouts?, 1862 on first fly leaf. Lacks Frontis? Lacks rear fly leaf. 185 mm. Original worn full leather binding. Title continues: "In A Period Of More Than A Half Century; With Reflections On Various Subjects, Religious, Moral, Political And Prophetic. Fourth Edition, Revised, Corrected And Improved." Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) was an eccentric itinerant American preacher, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He was an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. This autobiography at one time was the second best-selling book in the United States, exceeded only by the Bible. S&S/AI 18605. Very good. Hardbound. AI BX 1 x2
In-8 p. (mm. 227x140), brossura orig., pp. CXIV; 98. In buono stato.
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. 101 pages with many b&w photos of sculpture throughout the chathedral depicting such things as God ,Cain, sleeping Magi, devils, judas, hanging, devil of despair devil of the simon Magus Capital, tympanum, angels, devil's claws, heaven, Dammed, blowing angel.
In-8 (cm. 24.50), cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta editoriale illustrata, pp. 338, (2), con illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori fuori testo. Traduzione, introduzione e note di Arnaldo Pini. Abrasioni alle cuffie e a due punte della sovracoperta, peraltro volume in buono stato di conservazione (good copy).
AN IMPORTANT BIBLIOGRAPHY / BOOKSELLER'S CATALOGUE. Reprint. 40 pp. plus two pages with 12 wood-engravings depicting devils. Hundreds of items thoroughly (and often wittily) described. All items priced. 4to. Publisher's cloth. FINE AND BRIGHT.
Unpaginated. "His morality encompasses everything from aggressive criticism of corruption and hypocrisy to praise of new nations and of beautiful women." - Timothy Dunn in The Peace Bulletin. Recital handout laid in. Gift greetings upon front flyleaf else unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Playing with stripes; Swatch collection #34; Stripe up the band; Rainbow rugs; The Buchanan tartan for a blanket; Confetti napkins; wear stripes and have a devil of a good time; Schubert's serenade - a striped, brushed shawl; Three-color shawl; Warp-faced band with weft fringe on a rigid-heddle loom; Medieval Egypto-Islamic textiles - a study of two examples; Beyond Fibonacci - sequels to series; Teaching textile arts to high schoolers; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Cordell Bank - an underwater island; Preserving a common heritage - Treatment of marine artifacts; Tiger of the sea whips; Queen conch at the crossroads; Bermuda mystery waves; Garadiavolo - the devil monster hoax; Save the babies - Strategies of marine animals; there was a Moby Dick; The fuzzy sea butterfly. Sound copy. Book
96 pages. Very attractively illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Chapters include: The History of Jigsaw Puzzles; Themes and Variations; Schoolmasters Puzzle Their Brains; Puzzle the Devil; Nature Puzzles; Going Places; Tell Old Tales; Pieces of History; The Puzzle is the Message; Puzzle Key Pictures; plus index. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Spray of small purple dots to bottom edge and bit of half-title page. Minor bit of adhevise on glossy back cover. A lovely gift for your special jigsaw puzzle afficionado. Very nice copy. Book
Mm 125x185 Volume nella sua brossura originale con titolo al piatto e al dorso, 133 pagine. Leggeri, inevitabili segni del tempo alla copertina, interno ottimo. Spedizione in 24 ore dalal conferma dell'ordine.
Features: Baskets by John McQueen; How to buy a floor loom; Inside the Hangchow Silk Factory; Lynn Rothrock's Devil Dolls; and more. Sound copy. Prior owner's name on front cover. Magazine
Features: Demon in the Dark - Heinkel's 219 Owl; Flying Tiger - Myth, Legend, Reality? - An exclusive interview with General Robert Scott, Author of "God is My Co-Pilot"; New Combat Role for the F-111 - a magnificent fighter-bomber comes into its own. Art: Curtiss P-40E in R.A.F. markings; Grumman F-111B with Phoenix missiles Book
1 18,5x12 cm., pagg.274, brossura , pagine intonse, 3o illustrazioni, in lingua francese. Buone condizioni.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty untrimmed page edges and bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with small stains to rear and small piece missing from top of sunned spine. 270pp. The Devil's temptation of Saint Anthony. One of 625 copies of a Limited Edition. A translation into English by Rene Francis from the 1849-1856 manuscripts edited by Louis Bertrand, New edition illustrated with twelve drawings by Katherine Low.
ix, 208 pages. Footnotes. Index. "A compelling yet tragic tale which, sadly, reflects little credit upon any of the participants." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
Features: Francophone Forces Fight in Concert in Nouveau Caribou; The Okanagan - The Fight in the Depths of the Sea; Survival is Guaranteed - Yard Ferry Personnel (YFP); Military Photography; Corporal Bob Smith - karate expert; Three ex-servicemen help to put a man on the moon - D. Denton Clark, Jack Thompson and Harold Bolton; Maintenance goes to the devil (Maintenance System Working Group); A Victoria Cross (V.C.) Won Far from the Presence of the Enemy - Private Timothy O'Hea, Saturday 9 June, 1866. Sound copy. Magazine
Contents: Diet and Cancer - confronting the modern diet with stone age physiology; Helium-rich supernovas; Artificial chromosomes; Synchotron radiation; The ancestry of the giant Panda; Demons, engines and the second law of thermodymanics - Maxewell's invention of a molecule-sorting demon; Early farming in northwestern Europe; Modeling Tidal Power. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features include: The Road to Wonderland - Construction of a highway and tunnel through a mountain wilderness in the South Island of New Zealand; Kamal Ram's Come-Back - tale of a stationmaster at Manijan, in northern Assam; Saga of the Snow-Dogs - An account of the Arctic Husky; The Hut-Tax Affair - a tale from Northern Nigeria; All Aboard For Adventure - Part I of a tale of 5 young Americans who set out on a sailboat for tropic seas; The Beneficent Bamboo; Dogsbody - an amusing incident involving a very junior officer aboard a British freighter; The Telephone Mine - Adventures of two South African prospectors in search of King Solomon's Mines; Our Leopard - A Kenyan farmer's story; Down Texas Way - the story of 3 youngsters, a gang of desperate escaped convicts, and a night alarm; Appointment with the Devil - An extraordinary story from Abyssinia; Illustrated in black and white. Covers and spine missing. Contents in decent condition. Magazine
In 16. Dim. 16,5x10 cm. Pp. 548+(4). Bella edizione del 1836 della nota opera spirituale del missionario Gennaro Maria Sarnelli (1702-1744) nato a Napoli. Nella prima parte compendio della sua vita. seguono le orazioni mentali, le insidie e frodi del demonio, la necessità ed efficacia della preghiera, vari esercizi e meditazioni, la vita del venerabile Angelo Fiorucci. Bella legatura in piena pergamena coeva. In ottime condizioni. Copertina in piena pergamena in ottime condizioni generali con lievi usure ai margini e dorso. Legatura in buone condizioni. All'interno le pagine si presentano in ottime condizioni con rare fioriture. Lieve brunitura al margine inferiore sino a pag. 235. Usure alla prima carta bianca. Beautiful edition of 1836 of the famous spiritual work by the italian missionary Gennaro Maria Sarnelli (1702-1744) born in Naples. In the first part compendium of his life, mental oration, need and efficacy of prayer, different exercises and meditations, little songs and life of Angelo Fiorucci. Beautiful parchment coeval cover In very good conditions. Parchment coeval coverin very good general conditions slightly worn in the edges and spine. Binding in good conditions. Inside pages are in very good conditions with occasional foxings. Slight yellowing in the lower edge until pag. 235. Wearings in the first white page.
xi + 515pp., 25cm., brochure originale (dos renforcé et plastifié), dans la série "Bibliothèque Thomiste" volume XIX (19) section historique no.16, pages toujours non coupées, poids: 1.2kg., R99295
8vo., Second Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pale blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in in 1977. VERY SCARCE.
64 pages. Features: Jack Chambers (1931-1978); Where have Venus, Moses and the Devil Gone?; Persona - the sculpture of Colette Whiten; Myth and Metamorphosis - Mary Frank; The Artist's Artist - Giorgio Morandi; Drawing in Painting - Paul Fournier and Tony Calzetta; Joy Hoyland in Mid-Career; A Kenneth Lochhead Retrospective; The Artist as Curator of the Imagination; Documenta 6 - Painting; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
216 pages. Colour photography throughout. Text in English. Features: The Mundanthurai sanctuaryis Tamil Nadu's haven for wildlife enthusiasts; The Unknown Lucknow; Bharatpur's Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary; Devil Rays off the coast of the Maldives; Nagpur and Indian aviation achievements; Suits that make the man; Jijoy Chowdhury's evocative images of a winter morning in Kolkata; Kurukshetra is steeped in mythological grandeur; Sakinalu packs a punch for the Telegus; Sri Lanka's capital; Bentota Beach; Sigiriya Rock; Buddhist art; Sri Lankan cuisine; Tea and golf in Nuwara Eliya's green hills; Baila; Sri Lankan writers; Tamilian tales; Geoffrey Bawa's architectural style; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: Hosstail's Small Talk - 'Me - An Old-Timer?'; The Soldier Who Never Quit - General Guy V. Henry; The Baron of Cananea - William E. Green; Through the Black Range - Solitide has returned to the Devil Mountains; Indian Women Warriors; Walt Coburn's Tally Book; Wife of a Panhandle Sheriff - Sophia Connell; A Locked Door - memories from northern Colorado country; Mathew 'Bones' Hooks of Amarillo - a story of a black cowboy and white flowers; Where Schoolboys Packed Pistols - Tombstone; Rekindling Camp Fires - the exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) (Wa-si-cu Tam-a-he-ca) Part III of the authentic narrative of sixty years in the Old West as Indian fighter, gold miner, cowboy, hunter and army scout; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: He Met the Devil; Pet Brown, Championship Wrestler; When Annie Oakley was Accused of Theft; Butch and the Fine & Dandy Kid; Bucketfull of Pay Dirt; A kind word for Lucius; Trails Grown Dim; The Deadly Garment; Death Hollow; Six Horses; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine