Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Art, music, drama/theater

Coloring Book

Delightful puzzle-and-coloring book invites children to discover "what's wrong" in a series of charming pictures. In each scene there are a number of odd things -- objects that do not belong where they are, people behaving strangely, and events that are impossible in real life. Captions indicate number of "mistakes" in each picture. Solutions.

What's Wrong with This Picture?

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The Man and His Music

James Gibbon Huneker (1857–1921) was a distinguished American newspaper critic, an essayist, and a prolific author. His writing style is remarkable — unrestrained, informal, full of brilliant insight — and this style plus Huneker's wide knowledge of art and literature as well as music has kept his literacy work alive. Chopin: The Man and His Music reflects the intimate, thorough knowledge of Chopin's music that Huneker acquired while studying to be a concert pianist and his unusually keen insight into the character of the great Polish composer whose music he adored.
The book is divided into two parts. The first treats Chopin's life — his youth in Poland, his emigration to Paris, the famous George Sand episode, his sickness and death — and comments on Chopin as a teacher and as a pianist and performer. The second part discusses the entire body of Chopin's music, piece by piece. Huneker notes his own overall impression of the individual compositions as well as the impressions of Schumann, George Sand, Chopin's biographer Frederick Niecks, many of the great pianists, and others. He directly compares differing editions of Chopin's #65533;tudes, Preludes, Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, Sonatas, and other works edited by von B#65533;low, Kullak, Riemann, Mikuli, and Godowsky in their detailed treatment of fingering, phrasing, pedaling, tempo indication, and so forth.
Huneker's entire work is reprinted here unchanged, thoroughly edited in running footnotes by Herbert Weinstock to correct the exuberant Huneker's inaccuracies and to add information that modern musical scholarship has unearthed. Weinstock has also provided an engrossing introductory essay on Huneker, and has amplified the bibliography to include modern books and articles on Chopin.
A classic in musical biography and commentary, this work is unsurpassed for sympathetic understanding and insight into Chopin's life and music. It will interest equally music students, pianists, and music lovers.


Chopin

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Edgar Poe

Presents nine short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe, including the title work, a tale of buried treasure that combines romance and adventure.

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

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James Rhoades

Virgil

Cover is a little warped as shown in pictures 

California

With the Eclogues, Virgil established his reputation as a major poet, and with the Georgics, he created a masterpiece of Latin poetry. Virgil drew upon the tradition of Greek pastoral poetry, importing it into an Italian setting and providing in these two works the model for subsequent European interpretations of the genre. The Eclogues unfolds in an idyllic landscape, under less-than-tranquil circumstances. Its shepherds tend their flocks amid not only the inner turmoil of unrequited love but also the external pressures of the civil war that followed Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. Forced from their homes, the dispossessed shepherds voice a heartfelt longing for peace. Dryden declared the Georgics "the best poem by the best poet," and through the ages, it has been much admired and imitated. A paean to Italy and the country's natural beauty, it rejoices in the values of rustic piety, the pleasures of family life, and the vitality of the Italian people.

Eclogues and Georgics

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Florida

Bundle Irish and Celtic Fairy Tales

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Twenty-nine realistic drawings, accompanied by fact-filled captions, depict the Titanic docked in Southampton, England; the ship's captain and officers on the bridge; passengers dining and strolling on deck; the ship striking the iceberg; survivors huddled in lifeboats; and more.

No maritime disaster before or since has captured the public's fascination.
The Titanic carried far too few lifeboats to accommodate the 2,227 people on board.
In less than three hours, the ship sank, carrying over 1500 crew members and passengers to their deaths. Only 705 survived.
Many books, movies, and documentaries have immortalized the tragic events of that fateful night, including the Academy Award-winning 1997 film directed by James Cameron.

Arkansas

Impressive illustrations dramatically portray events leading up to and including the sinking of the "unsinkable" White Star liner. Descriptive captions accompany 29 realistic drawings of the Titanic at dock in Southhampton, England; passengers dining, strolling on deck, and relaxing in the elegant first class lounge; the ship striking the iceberg; more.

The Titanic Coloring Book

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Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood set their sights on men who will perfectly match their disparate personalities, with unexpected results.

Sense and Sensibility

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From its origins as a sharpened stick in the days of cave dwellers, the sword developed over the centuries into one of mankind’s deadliest and most widely used weapons. This fascinating volume traces the development of the sword in 44 carefully researched, ready-to-color drawings. Authentically costumed depictions of sword-wielders both famous and obscure include Queen Boadicea, King Charlemagne, a twelfth-century Muslim warrior, a Puritan of the seventeenth century, and many others.
Detailed, informative captions accompany finely wrought illustrations of a Sumerian bronze sickle sword (3000 B.C.), an elaborate Babylonian iron sword (600 B.C.), a steel sword of the Chinese Han dynasty (200 B.C.), a Scottish “Claymore” sword (1500), a Spanish basket-hilt broad sword (1650), a pirate “buccaneer” cutlass (1700), a Confederate artillery officer’s saber of the American Civil War period (1864), and 37 more.
Coloring book fans, students of weaponry, and armchair swashbucklers will all relish this rich pictorial history of the sword and its many variations.


Adult Coloring Book

From prehistoric sticks to the rapiers wielded by the Louis XIV's Musketeers, this volume chronicles the history of the sword in 44 carefully researched, ready-to-color drawings of the weapons and authentically costumed figures of the people who wielded them. A rich pictorial history for coloring book fans, students of weaponry, and armchair adventurers alike.

History of the Sword

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Gardening with Herbs for Flavor and Fragrance

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

Best guide to subject. 267 individual pieces in 175 photographs: chairs, footstools, tables, clocks, stoves, other pieces. Additional 60 photos show finials, decals, peggings, caning, drawers, more. Captions provide details on size, color, wood, etc.


Illustrated Guide to Shaker Furniture

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Dover trift editions paperback. some cover wear, in good shape.
Unabridged English translation

Michigan

The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky.
The play also functions as a magnificent showcase for Chekhov's acute observations of his characters' foibles and for quizzical ruminations on the approaching dissolution of the world of the Russian aristocracy and life as it was lived on their great country estates. While the subject and the characters of the work are, in a sense, timeless, the dramatic technique of the play was a Chekhovian innovation. In this and other plays he developed the concept of "indirect action," in which the dramatic action takes place off stage and the significance of the play revolves around the reactions of the characters to those unseen events.
Reprinted from a standard edition, this inexpensive well-made volume invites any lover of theater or great literature to enter the world of Madame Ranevsky, Anya, Gayef, Lopakhin, Firs, and the other memorable characters whose hopes, fears, loves, and general humanity are so brilliantly depicted in this landmark of world drama.



The Cherry Orchard

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Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to-color drawings portray inventors and their historically important devices in an informative survey of advances in science and industry. Illustrations include Cousteau's aqua lung, Morse's telegraph, Gutenberg's printing press, Ford's assembly line, and many others. Captions provide background information.

Great Inventors and Inventions

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1972 Dover. wear to cover. stains on edges.

Two of the finest future histories ever written, each concerning a central question: If and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive? Odd John is the definitive fictionalization of the mutated superman who has to decide what to do with his gifts, while Sirius concerns a dog with superhuman mentality.

Odd John and Sirius

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William James

1956 Dover edition. Shelf wear and lightly tanned pages.

Intellect, will, belief, chance, and free will are among the topics touched upon in two works by the American psychologist

The Will to Believe and Human Immortality

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Emily Brontë

Virginia

Against a background of English moors in the eighteenth century, the lives of two families become intertwined through marriage, passion, and the dominating force of a man called Heathcliff.

Wuthering Heights

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Lucretius

W. E. Leonard

The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, De Rerum Natura — On the Nature of Things — theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of Epicurean thought.

On the Nature of Things

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Massachusetts

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire.
An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards -- providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace.
Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.

An Ideal Husband

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Delaware

On December 7, 1787, at the Golden Fleece Tavern in Dover, Delaware's legislature ratified the United States Constitution, and Delaware thus became "The First State." While still a hub for legislative matters, Dover also boasts a restored downtown, modern industry, rolling farms, and numerous special events that all give the town a unique identity. A few miles away from the bustle of Legislative Hall, horses and carriages still pull Amish farmers along pristine country roads. The memorable photographs and detailed captions in Images of America: Dover offer a fascinating look at the nation's first state capital, including its residents, events, farms, and local architecture.

Dover, Delaware

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Euclid

Thomas Little Heath

Some minimal highlighting and cover wear as shown in pictures

Math

Volume 1 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical apparatus analyzing each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes. Vol. 1 includes Introduction, Books I and II of Elements, lines, angles, intersections, etc.

The Thirteen Books of the Elements

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New York

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories. The four selections in this volume span his entire writing career and are among his best-known stories. They include: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," one of Twain's most amusing pieces of folk humor, first published in 1865; "The £1,000,000 Bank Note," a lighthearted exploration of the power of money; "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," a masterfully written short story about greed; and his last work, "The Mysterious Stranger," a novelette published posthumously in 1916, presenting Twain's rather grim views of God, man, and the universe.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

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Rich selection of 73 works by the English "metaphysical" poet. Included are "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "To His Mistress Going to Bed," "Death Be Not Proud," "Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward," "Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness" and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Selected Poems

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Dover Thrift Editions

A superb collection of 25 works features the poet's masterpiece, "The Waste Land"; the complete Prufrock ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Rhapsody on a Windy Night," "Mr. Apollinax," "Morning at the Window," and others); and the complete Poems ("Gerontion," "The Hippopotamus," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and more). Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

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🌸Such a wonderful play by Oscar Wilde! 
🌸This copy is in like new condition (minimal cover is wear), all pages inside are clean and free from annotations. #paperback #fiction #anidealhusband #dover #oscarwilde #unabridged #wilde #drama #plays #classic

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Anna Pomaska

What's Wrong with This Picture?

James Gibbons Huneker; Herbert Weinstock (Editor)

Chopin

Edgar Allan Poe

The Gold-Bug and Other Tales

James Rhoades; Virgil

Eclogues and Georgics

Joseph Jacobs and Philip Smith

Bundle Irish and Celtic Fairy Tales

Peter F. Copeland

The Titanic Coloring Book

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Bruce LaFontaine

History of the Sword

Helen Morgenthau Fox

Gardening with Herbs for Flavor and Fragrance

Robert F. Meader

Illustrated Guide to Shaker Furniture

Anton Chekov

The Cherry Orchard

Bruce LaFontaine

Great Inventors and Inventions

Olaf Stapledon

Odd John and Sirius

William James

The Will to Believe and Human Immortality

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

Lucretius; W. E. Leonard

On the Nature of Things

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

Timothy A. Slavin; Peter F. Slavin

Dover, Delaware

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

Euclid; Thomas Little Heath

The Thirteen Books of the Elements

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

John Donne

Selected Poems

T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband