New York: Storey Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Create glowing, three-dimensional home furnishings with handmade paper. Helen Hiebert shows you how to use paper to craft textured lampshades, patterned window treatments, and stenciled room dividers that gently diffuse light and fill your home with a stylish warmth. Discover techniques to..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 1999. Eleventh Printing. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To..... More
Illinois IL: Human Kinetics, 2014. Trade Paper. Get in the best shape of your running career with the help of Daniels’ Running Formula, the book that Runner’s World magazine calls the best training book. Premier running coach Jack Daniels provides you with his legendary VDOT formula to guide you through..... More
London: New Holland, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. A scuba-diving handbook. It features text and step-by-step photographs and illustrations, leading the novice scuba diver from the earliest stages of underwater training through to diving in open water. Adopting a general approach - mindful of the differences between the various certifying agencies..... More
Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1969. Paperback. Fawcett book no. R2058. More
London: Profile Books, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had stumbled on one of the most extreme sports in existence: a quest to extend the frontiers of human experience, in which divers..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 1984. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. A sailing book for the person who has sailed or cruised before but now commands his own boat. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. George Ulrich. First Edition. Seventh Printing. Softcover (outsized). On James Crockett via The Guardian: Guest blogger Amanda Thomsen is a landscape designer whose Kiss My Aster blog graces Horticulture magazine. She takes up the family gardening theme begun by Garden Monkey with a...... More
Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts, 2003. Softcover. Outsized. More
New York: Anchor Books, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. More
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc., 1981. Third Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. This extensively illustrated and highly respected dive manual includes the information necessary to learn open water diving. Timely discussions include ecology and scuba techniques, equipment and safety materials, women's diving issues and concerns, expanded CPR information, air sharing, and hand signals..... More
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. Leonard Shecter (ed). First Edition (presumed), Seventh Printing. Hardcover. From NPR (April 26, 2012): Fifty years ago, a young pitcher won his first major league game for the New York Yankees. Jim Bouton went on to become a top-flight player. But..... More
Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1974. Hardcover. More
Netherlands: Rebo Publishers, 2006. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Westport, Conn. Associated Booksellers, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover (cloth). More
Arundel, UK: Fernhurst Books, 2001. Softcover. Most sailors want to try their hand at racing before they've mastered every skill. Written for all race classes. this blueprint for the beginning racer lends advice for surviving the first few races without being put off by the system or the competition. Included..... More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1997. M. Kuwata (jacket design). First Edition. Thirty-fourth printing. Hardcover. The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of..... More
Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company, 1967. Roberto Berdecio. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Third Edition. Reprint. Paperback. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates..... More
Arundel, West Sussex: Fernhurst Books, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. New boats - New courses - New challenges - New problems - New solutions. The new asymmetric boats and the new short courses demand new skills, techniques and strategies to win. Nobody has adapted better than John Merricks and Ian..... More
New York: Peebles Press, 1979. Steve Lesberg (photos). First Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Outsized. 160 black and white photographs Heavy/outsized book; please note additional shipping charges. More
Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 2001. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd, 1983. First Edition thus. Hardcover. The Japanese sword combines unbreakability, rigidity, and lethal cutting power, and it is in the resolution of these conflicting practical requirements that it emerges as a triumph of the forger's art. The mystique of the sword lingers on in our age..... More
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