berlin shirley (6 risultati)

Small Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2021 Small Hard Cover. vii, 271, [1] pp. This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irene Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time. Includes: The Fir Tree; The Cat on the Dovrefjell; A Christmas Party and a Wedding; St Anthony and His Pig; Boys; Midnight Mass; Reginald's Christmas Revel; The Legend of the Christmas Rose; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; Noel; Dancing Dan's Christmas; The Necklace of Pearls; One Christmas Eve; The Christmas Turkey; Green Holly; Christmas Morning; A Child's Christmas in Wales; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes; The Gift; A Visit to the Bank; The Prisoners; The Leaf-Sweeper; A Christmas Memory; The Loan; Christmas Eve; The Loudest Voice; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country; Santa's Children; Christmas; Just Because of Xmas; Noel. Texas. 1956; The Ghost Ships.

Condizione: New.

Large Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed and signed by author ('For Leslie - Enjoy your continued explorations! Rosalie Neilson'). 2013 Large Softcover. 128 pp. Foreword by Shirley Berlin, Chair of the Braid Society. Documents the layouts and designs of the 1,157 unique 2-color patterns for the 16-element Japanese braid known as Kongo. It details and illustrates the process for determining that this is the definitive number of patterns available in the braid structure, and provides instructions for creating each one. The evolution of the kumihimo braid shows pattern spots ranging from 1 through 8 spots, after which the designs are duplications of previous patterns. An historical perspective of the braid is included along with a comprehensive bibliography for kumihimo instruction, as well as a listing of selected titles for kimono, samurai armor, Japanese history, and the general subject of fiber arts. Signed by author.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand pp. 108 2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. 398 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography.tears at top & bottom of spine, tape residue along spine, cover is age-toned, bookplate inside front cover, pencil notes on table of contents, small chip on back cover edge, binding is loose but all pages are bound, includes 5 page reprint of "Exploratory flights of Admiral Byrd (1940)" by Roger Hawthorne. Expedition on auroral phenomena, bacteriology, botany, cosmic rays, glaciology, magnetism, medicine, meteorology, micropaleontology, ornithology, petrography and petrology, physiography, physiology, seismology, structural geology, and zoology.

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