Moss Robert William (16 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. © 1990 David Moss, Jerusalem (Cover Artwork) (illustrator). 148 + pp. September 1990, Vol. 10, Number 3, Part 3 issue only! ISSN: 0272-9601. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally or mildly shelf worn.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Some loss from spine head, light stain on bottom fore edge corner of a few pages, a few pages dog-eared, front and rear endpapers faintly foxed. Binding tight and square. 1890 Hard Cover. viii, 384 pp. Color frontispiece of an arctic aurora, monochrome plates, and hundreds of black-and-white illustrations in text. A collection of scientific articles contributed by numerous authors, including: The Northern Lights; The Mathematics of Plants; How the Wind Changes; Dreams; Why the Sea is Salt; The Anatomy of a Lobster; Rust; A Glass of Wine; Voyages in Cloudland; The Chemistry of Water; Nuggets and Quartz; The Sun Our Fire, Light, and Life; A Fish in the Water; A Microscopical Biography; Firing a Shot; What is 'Power'?; History Out of Refuse Heaps; What Is in the Interior of the Earth?; How Sunshine Warms the Earth; What Are the Stars Made Of?; The Protective Colours of Animals; Great Sea Reptiles; Shooting Stars; Continental Islands, and How They Were Formed; Teeth; How the River Severn Cut through Wenlock Edge; Moles and Mole-Hills; The Mariner's Compass; Spiders' Webs; Glaciers; Diamonds; The History of a Hen's Egg; Growth; The Magic Lantern; A Primrose; A Cannon Shot; Why the Rain Falls; The Story of a Volcano as Told in History; Can Science Conquer Rust?; How the Airs Were Discovered; What is 'Work'?; The Hand; How Glaciers Move; Dust; A Piece of Rock Salt; Protective Mimicry in Animals; The Physics of Music; Touch; Animal Colonies and Co-operation; Colour-Blindness; Oceanic Islands and Their History; Modern Explosives; The Gravel on the Garden Path; A Peat-Bog; A Piece of Iceland Spar; Polar Ice; Rubies and Sapphires; Weather Telegraphy; Lodgers and Boarders in Lower Life.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Light dampstain on edges, wrapper curled, good only. The third of a series of volumes highlighting writing from around the world. Authors include Margaret Mead, Hollis Summers, Jose Suarez Carreno, Peggy Bennett, Richard Eberhart, C. Tunnard, H.H. Reed, David Dempsey, Ignazio Silone, Louis Auchincloss, M.R. Kadish, Dyland Thomas, John Lee Wheldon, Hamdi Bey, Gene Bara, Robert Pinget, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Jay Leyda, R.S. Niedelman, Alberto Moravia, John Howard Griffin, Peter Matthieseen, Albert J. Guerard, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, William H. Matchett, Spencer Brown, Alexander Trocchi, Galway Kinnell, Patrick Boland, Howard Moss, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Byron Vazakas, John Ashbery, Harry Duncan, Herbert Morris, Lucinda Collins, and B. Rajan.

Staple Bound. Condition: Good - Cash. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. Small tears to the bottom of the front cover. A few markings throughout the book. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

1960. (Periodical) Very good. 59-146pp. Photographs, maps, tables, graph, bibliography, notes. Contributors include W.J. Cody (Plants of the Vicinity of Norman Wells, MacKenzie District, Northwest Territories), Antoon de Vos (A Study of Woodchucks on an Ontario Farm), Derek V. Elis (Comments on the Distribution and Migration of Birds in Foxe Basin, Northwest Territories), William W. Judd (Observations on the Habitat, Food, Reproductive State and Intestinal Parasites of the Smooth Green Snake at London, Ontario), Lloyd B. Keith (Observations on Snowy Owls at Delta, Manitoba), E.H. Moss (Spring Phenological Records at Edmonton, Alberta), Robert B. Weeden (The Birds of Chilkat Pass, British Columbia). Locale: Chilkat Pass--British Columbia; Delta--Manitoba; Edmonton--Alberta; Foxe Basin--Northwest Territories; London--Ontario; Norman Wells--MacKenzie District--Northwest Territories; Ontario. (Natural History, Birds, Fauna, Natural History, Owls, Snakes, Woodchucks).

INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.40. Publisher's card wraps lettered in black to upper, stapled. Inscribed by the author to the title page. Some marks to covers. Very good. Self published collection of poems derived from the author's experiences in the First World War for which he was awarded the Military Cross and Distinguished Conduct Medal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. h.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. Fair. 8vo, 144pp, printed wrappers. The scarce final issue of the 1932 series of William Carlos Williams's Contact, edited with Nathanael West (this issue includes an early version of a chapter of Miss Lonelyhearts, preceding the book version). While internally clean and unmarked, this copy has 1/2" losses/patches of wear to the bottom edge of the front and back covers (no text loss; mainly affects back cover and later ad pages), plus slight must. Not Signed.

38 pp.; 38 x 28.8 cm.; loose leaves; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; February 1988 issue of Cover: Arts New York, edited by Jeffrey C. Wright. Contents include: "Wall Patrol," Valery Hallery; "Rauschenberg Interview;" "Alien Barnstormers;" "Artists Space," by Mina Roustayi; "Group Shows," by Cyuphers, Schwendenwein; "Artist Statements," by Borofsky, Rose; "Cubans at Mocha," by James Graham; "Laurence Nelson Wilbur;" "New Romantics," by Michael Scholnick; "Dance Diary," by Hughes, MacKay; "Dancenoise," by Tom Murrin; "Jim Carroll, George Kaats;" "Poems," by Michele Corriel; "Broadcasters," by William Kelley; "Video and Folk," by Wooster, Manning; "Afro-Caribbeat," by Jonathan R.; "Marianne Faithfull, " by Paul Paddock; "Record Reviews," by Kelley; "Rubber Road Giorno," by Daivd Ulin; "Opera, Theater," by Savage, Martin; "Carpenter - A Live Doll;" "Recipe, Flash," by Chase Roe; "Charles Sheeler," by Jeff Wright; "Literature," by Ron Kolm; "NY Quickies," by Paul Steiner; "Valentine Lingerie," by Cassaniga, Scobie "Sculpture, Listings." Cover design by Gina Moss. Fair / Good. Yellowing of covers and chipping of corner and edges of covers with light chipping of edges of pages. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size additional shipping will be required for international orders.

Softcover. Condition: Gut. 8°, 16 (6) s., illustr. orig. Klammerbrosch., etw. gebr.spurig (kl. Knickspur, Brosch. a. Rückseite gering fleckig), im Übrigen guter Zustand, in englischer Sprache Englisch.

5 vol.: vol. 1: 57 pp. ; vol. 2: 58 pp. ; vol. 3: 42 pp.; vol. 4: 66 pp. ; vol. 5: 50 pp.; 5 vol.: 23.2 x 14.6 cm. (each); glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Volumes I-V of "Summary of a Workshop," a biannual series of symposiums on contemporary art sponsored by the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation and held at various North American locations. Each symposium was accompanied by a catalogue which summarized the conversations that took place. Volume I: "The Relationship Between Art and Architecture," held in Santa Monica, CA, January 21-22, 1989. Participants included: Frank O. Gehry, Daniel Buren, Jean-Louis Cohen, Cesar Pelli, Donald Judd, Irving Lavin, Germano Celant, Henry N. Cobb, Christopher Knight, Mildred Friedman, John Chamberlain, Peter Eisenman, Robert Irwin, Michael Graves, Nancy Wexler, Henry T. Hopkins, and Michael Rotondi. Volume II: "Art + Architecture + Society," held in Toronto, Canada, July 22-23, 1989. Participants included: Henry T. Hopkins, Michael Rotondi, Diana Agrest, Lynda Benglis, Scott Burton, Adele Freedman, April Greiman, Alanna Heiss, Craig Hodgetts, Walter Hopps, Catherine Ingraham, Eric Owen Moss, Matt Mullican, Larry Richards, David Ross, Alexis Smith, and Leon Whiteson. Volume III, "Art Fairs : Plans and Process," held in Los Angeles, CA, December 5-6, 1989. Participants included: O. Kelley Anderson Jr., Brian Angel, Dr. Alberto Anfossi, Rosina Gómez Baeza, Dr. Emil Bammatter, Thomas P. Blackman, Van Deren Coke, Michelle De Angelus, Milton Esterow, Anita Kaegi, Claudio Bruni Sakraischik, Allan Schwartzman, Leif Ståhle, Tamara Thomas, Robert Thomson. Volume IV, "Conservation and Contemporary Art," held in Richmond, VA, June 4-5, 1990. Participants included: Henry T. Hopkins, Billie Milam, Albert Albano, James Bernstein, Sharon Blank, Victoria Blyth Hill, Tom Branchick, William Leischer, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Ross Merill, Roy De Forest, Tim Ebner, George Herms, Duane Hanson, Rotraut Klein-Moquay, Ida Kohlmeyer, Miriam Shapiro, Paul Brach, Zora Sweet Pinney, and Nora Halpern Brougher. Volume V, "Support for the Arts in Unsupportive Times," held in Los Angeles, CA, December 4-5, 1990. Participants included: Nora Halpern Brougher, Henry T. Hopkins, Cee Scott Brown, Marie Cieri, Pamela Clapp, Gary Garrels, Stanley Grinstein, David Ireland, Steven D. Lavine, Bella Lewitzky, Lisa Lyons, Anne MacDonald, Peter Norton, Max Palevsky, Claire Peeps, Dr. Thomas Reese, Joy Silverman, Tina Summerlin, Ella King Torrey, Joel Wachs, and Frederick R. Weisman. "Twice each year the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation conducts workshops dealing with issues of importance to those involved in the creation, exposition, collection, conservation and education of international contemporary art in all of its manifestations. These workshops bring together approximately eighteen experts in closed session for two days. The topic is determined by the Foundation but the direction that conversation takes is determined by the participants. There is no agenda. The workshops are taped, transcribed, edited, published in the present form and distributed to participants, interested parties, museums and libraries." -- Henry T. Hopkins, director. Very Good / Fine. Set of 5 volumes. Light rubbing and yellowing of cover edges and light yellowing of pages, otherwise Fine. Contents clean and unmarked.

Condition: Good. Five Letter-Sized Pages, Signed on Exposition Letterhead by dignitaries and civic officials connected to the Exposition, some stamped with the names of their organizations. Good with losses, marginal tears, creasing, perforations & some staining.Provenance: Letters and Autographs from a Who's Who in California 1914 - 1917, to the author Ellis A. Davis, regarding Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona. Sold by Cherokee Book Shop to Frederick Ruffner, Jr., the founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

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