Search Results: Authors starting with A from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: New Century Publishers, 1946. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Charles Keller (Illustrator). Text/As New. Stapled softcover/Good; intact w/edge rubs, faint creasing to lower front corner, & closed tears to spine. Vintage 1946 dialogues addressing social problems familiar to our world. Time: end of World War II. In 1945 some US 930,000 veterans return to no home --- their requests to pitch tents in open spaces for themselves & their families turned down. A top selling, persuasive argument for Socialism versus Capitalism in the light of American social disorders --- housing & jobs for veterans, anxieties of farmers & small business versus coddling of German & Japanese bankers. Philadelphia born A.B. Magil, (1905 - 2003), also known as Abraham B. Magil and "Abe" Magil, was a Yiddish-speaking, full-time Communist Party Member & journalist for the Daily Worker. 63 pgs. A civil dialogue, and, social active ideas to improve… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Ortho Books, 1982. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1982, First Edition. Softcover/NF; strong w/trace shelfwear. Rich & lucid guide on planting & maintaining trees, shrubs & flowering plants that thrive in shade. 96 pgs augmented w/color line drawings & photos, in 6 parts: I, Many Shades of Success; II, Color in the Shade; III, Shade Gardening Practices; IV, Creating & Modifying Shade; V, Creating Gardens in the Shade; and VI, Plant Selection Guide, followed by Index. Guide includes pointers on minimizing root competition.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/New & Bright. 1936, First American Edition. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF; upper text block in gilt, w/rough-cut edges to leading & lower blocks. DJ/None w/clipped inner flap pasted to 2nd fEP stating this is a Book-of-the Month Club selection. PO bookplate roughly torn from front cover verso & PO name strike-out to fEP, showing discoloration. Frontispiece: 1926 portrait of author by Francis Dodd. English classical scholar & poet Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936) is best known for his cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad. This posthumous volume of 48 poems was published 1936 by his brother Laurence as enpowered in the poet's will. This 1936 Alfred A. Knopf American edition includes instructions frome the poet's will and some textual differences from the British edition published the same year. 73 pgs, the first poem is The Easter Hymn, of which the first stanza… Read More

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1928. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Thus. Red embossed black linen boards/NF w/light surface wear. DJ/None. English-American novelist Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1888 - 1964), brother of Cosmo Hamilton & Sir Philip Gibbs, wrote 16 novels and two books of poetry; known for The Persistent Lovers (1915) adapted to film 1922 film under the same title, and Soundings (1925), best-seller in the US. This 1928 historical novel is the story of Michael Gordon and Patricia Wade following World War I. Michael, now a major, left Oxford to Egypt, wounded & sent home from the Darnelles, in Ireland during the Sinn Fein, and was in France for the last 2 years of war where exposure to mustard gas threatened blindness for the remainder of his life, proposes to Pat. For both, and the reader, life patterns are hard to predict.

Berkeley, CA: Shakespeare Publications, 2014. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 2014, First Edition, First Thus. 5-act drama written in the style of Shakespeare, and, with dialogues entirely drawn from Shakespearian lines ... but with a new plot and cast of characters. A tribute to the power of Shakespeare's mastery of language in terms of the "wit, fluency, acuity, and force of his verse and prose" by A.K. Ludwig. Tale is set in Renaissance Sicily and Burgundy. The Shakespearian lines (modified in use of proper nouns, verbs & tense, and locations as necessary)are all found in the Concordance. A new drama meant to be performed. An admirable intellectual exercise.

London, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1964. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed dark blue linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price clipped w/trace shelfwear. First published 1953; this is the 1964 printing. This collection fills the gap between World's Classics Five Elizabethan Tragedies and Five Restoration Tragedies. These 5 plays, written between 1603 to 1640, in 497 pgs, are: 1, George Chapman's (c. 1559 -1634) 'Bussy D'Ambois'; 2, Francis Beaumont (1584 -1616) & John Fletcher's (1579 - 1625) 'The Maid's Tragedy'; 3, John Webster's (1580? - 1635) 'The Duchess of Malfi'; 4, Philip Massinger's (1583 - 1640) 'The Roman Actor'; and, 5, John Ford's (1586 - 1639) ''Tis Pity She's a Whore'. Spellings modernized, augmented w/footnotes facilitate reading. Fine copy.

New York, NY: Dutton Books for Young Readers/Penguin Books, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Ernest H. Shepard (Ilustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/Fine. DJ//NF w/faint discoloration to back cover. PO name to front endpaper. A tale in verse, or an anthology of poetry, from English author Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956) of the beloved teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and, of course, Chistopher Robin. First published in 1924 with illustrations of E. H. Shepard (1879 1976); this is a redesigned copy of 1988. Volume begins with an introduction entitled "Just Before We Begin", asking readers to imagine for themselves who the narrator is --- might well be Christopher Robin! The 38th poem, "Teddy Bear", originally appeared in Punch magazine of Feb 1924, marks the first appearance of Winnie-the-Pooh, first named "Mr. Edward Bear" by Milne' son Christopher Robin Milne, or Billy Moon, to whom the book is dedicated. The sequel is Now We… Read More

New York, NY: Century Music, 1942. First Edition, First Thus . Soft Cover/Sheet Music. Very Good/None as Issued. 3-page Vintage sheetmusic, vocal/piano. Text/Clean. Closed tears fortified by archival tape.Most popular Neopolitan love song in the waltz mode. 1898 work of instant success of Italian composer Alberto Pestalozza (1851 - 1934) with lyrics by Carlo Tiochet. This is the 1942, Century Music printing transcribed for piano by Walter Rolfe and words in English: "Ciribiribin, the lovely face, the witching eyes that slay my heart/ Ciribiribin, the two red lips for one sweet kiss when lovers part/ Ciribiribin, the lovely face, the witching eyes that slay my heart/ Ciribiribin, for one kiss when lovers part".

Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2020. 1st American Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 2020 First Edition, First Thus. Softcover/Fine. Set in wealthy Atherton, CA. Fast moving, suspenseful novel from noted American contemporary novelist A.R. Torre (pseudonym of Alessandra Torre). A battle between two next-door-neighbor Silicon Valley wives over one of the two husbands, as in "All's Fair in Love & War"! In one corner is Cat Winthrope --- effortlessly beautiful, in a prize house, of high social standing, wife to successful & handsome, albeit demanding, William. In the other, hard working Neena Ryder --- wearing off-the-rack clothing, married to Matthew who adores her, but a demolition contractor, commanding little social respect & extra cash. Neena resolves to seduce William, "trade-up-on-husbands" so to speak, and, if unsuccessful, at least be paid off a big sum to "walk away". To Neena, Cat symbolizes of all the… Read More

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Historical Society, 1981. Volume 22, No 4 of Winter, 1981 . Soft Cover/Journal. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY. Quarterly journal. COVER ART: "Main Street, Tucson, mid-1870s"; photograph. NOTE: Soil spots showing on COVER ART, belong to the archival photo. This Winter 1981, Volume 22, No 4 issue w/archival photos, features: 1, The Spectacular Zeckendorfs (Floyd S. Fierman); 2, Carlos Montezuma & the Fort McDowell Yavapai Community (Peter Iverson); 3, Carlos Montezuma's Crusade Against the Indian Bureau (Janet McDonnell); 4, The Don Scott Story as Told by Annette Scott (Don Scott); and 5, Index to Volume 22 (M.C. Fowler).

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Historical Society, 1980. Soft cover. Near Fine/None As Issued. Archival Photographs & Maps . Text/2 very tidy check marks to pg 2, else brand new & bright. Softcover;/Fine; Cover photo: Southern Pacific Railroad bridge at Yuma, CA of 1877. Vintage 1980 Volume 21, No 1 w/archival photos & maps. 110 pages, essays are: 1, The Southern Pacific Caper (Constance Wynn Altschuler); 2, Leo in Pursuit (Jack C. Gale); 3, Horeseback to Mount Balsy: A Ranchwomans's Holiday (Virginian Culin Roberts); 4, James D. Houck: The Sheep King of Cave Creek (Frances C. Carlson); 5, The Word on the Frontier: Anglo Protestant Churches in Arizona, 1859-1899; and 6, The dunn-Howland Killings: Additional Insights (Henry F. Dobyns & Robert C. Eular)

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Historical Society, 1980. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs & Illustrations. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1980 Summer issue, Volume 21, No 2. Soft Cover/Fine. Cover Art: 1924 photo of Arizona Wonder Circuit Tours' "Wonderbus" in the high country near Flagstaff. Essays & authors in this issue are: 1, Viva Clarkdalel! (Patricia Paylore); 2, John Huguenot Marion: Frontier Journalist; 3, Pencil Pushers & Ink Slingers: The Globe Newspaper War of 1911 (Todd Mills); 4, "Camping Deluxe": A Tour through Arizona in 1924 (Warren McArthur, Jr. & David H. Hoober); and 5, Pete Blaine Goes to Washington (Peter Blaine, Sr., & Michael S. Adams). 226 pgs.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1979. Vol 20, No. 2 (Summer) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/, light rubs to upper front corner, trace soiling to lower back & nips to lower edge. COVER ART: Pioneer aviators, Tucson c. 1920, photo by Albert Buehman. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Summer issue (268 pgs) are: 1, Flying Gypsies in the Southwest; 2, Jose Maria Redondo; 3, Mansions of Main Street (Tucson); 4, Lewis Douglas Grows Up; and 5, "A Million Dollars Worth of Fun": Will Barnes' Arizona Place Names.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1978. Vol 26, No , 1, 3 & 4 only . Soft Cover/3 Issues of 4. Near Fine/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. 3 ISSUES ONLY OF 4. 1978, Volume 19, Numbers 2, 3 & 4 of 4. For all 3 copies, Text/BRAND NEW. Softcovers/Fine. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Spring: the MISSING ISSUE. Essays in the Summer issue includes Tucson's Tent City, the Steward Observatory, and biography of the First Chief Justice, William F. Turner. Autumn issue, Arizona ranger, Colorado at Yuma,. And Winter; The Arizona Strip, birth of Yuma, and the Sharlot Hall Museum.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1981. Vol 22, No 1, Spring 1981 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. COVER ART: Tucson's Congress Hotel fire, 1934; photo. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Spring issue (158 pgs),are: 1, Arizona's Last Great Indian War: The Saga of Pia Machita; 2, Hard Times in Tucson; 3, From Mud Village to Modern Metropolis: The Urbanization of Tucson; 4, Metal Mining & its Associated Industries in Tucson; and 5, Proper in Any Parlor: Furnishing Styles in Frontier Tucson.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1982. Volume 23, No 1 (Spring) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Autumn issue (350 pgs) are: 1, Charleston Townsite Revisited; 2, A Centennial Commemorative: United Verde Copper Co, 1882-1982; 3, Copper Mining & Landscape Evolution: A Century of Change in the Warren Mining District, Arizona; 4, Gaining a Foothold in the Paradise of Capitalism: The Western Federation of Miners & the Unionization of Bisbee; and 5, Clifton: Photography & Folk History in a Mining Town.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1982. Volume 23, No 1 (Spring) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Spring 1982 issue (114 pgs) are: 1, Hiram Walter Read: First Postmaster of Arizona Territory; 2, Heroines on the Arizona Frontiers: The First Anglo-American Women; 3, "And the sword will give way to the spelling-book": Establishing the Pheonix Indian School; 4, The Marvin Affair; and 5, Recollections of Arizona: A Personal Perspective.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1984. Vol 25, No 4 (Winter) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Winter 1984 issue (468 pgs) are: 1, Ida Genung of Peeples Valley: A Woman of the West; 2, Ana Frohmiller: Watchdog of the Arizona Treasury; 3, Edmund Francis Dunne & the Public School Cotroversy, 1875; 4, A Tough Job For a Gentle Lady; 5, The Orme School on the Quarter Circle V Bar Ranch; and 6, Public Education vs. The Press: The Morrow-Mathews Feud, 1941-1968

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1983. Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Quarterly journal of Arizona history & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Summer 1983 issue (219 pgs) are: 1, Searching the Southwest fo Medicines; 2, La Paz - Gatewau to Territorial Arizona; 3, The Prison Diairy of William Jordan Flake; and 4, Louis C. Hughes, Arizona's Editorial Gadfly.

Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Soc, 1977. Volume 18, No 3, Autums 1977 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. COVER ART: Roosevelt Dam, 1916, photo. 1977, Autumn Quarterly journal of Arizona History & adjacent regions (U.S. Southwest & US-Mexico borderlands) w/archival photos. Essays in this Autumn issue (386 pgs) are: 1, Sunbelt Capital; 2, Phoenix Has Risen - Now What?; 3, Carl T. Hayden - Phoenician; 4, Dwight Heard in Phoenix; 4, Water for Phoenix - Building the Roosevelt Dam; 5, Phoenix & the Salt River Valley; 6, Jews in Early Phoenix 1870-1920; 7, Italy in Phoenix; 8, Men Out of China; and 9, A Shirttail Full of Type, followed by 8 book reviews.