Nimble Books LLC » My LibraryThing http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress An innovative, idiosyncratic independent publisher Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Battle at Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare by R. G. Grant http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-r-g-grant/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-r-g-grant/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:10:57 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://1539040d27cd8a80a2f7d2801fb6730d wfzimmerman's review: "Found this gem used at the Book Stop in Petoskey, Michigan, where I paid lower than the lowest price on Amazon.com. Incredibly beautiful color interior from the folks at Dorling Kindersley, who make better-looking books than just about anyone."
DK ADULT (2008), Hardcover, 360 [...]]]> wfzimmerman's review: "Found this gem used at the Book Stop in Petoskey, Michigan, where I paid lower than the lowest price on Amazon.com. Incredibly beautiful color interior from the folks at Dorling Kindersley, who make better-looking books than just about anyone."
DK ADULT (2008), Hardcover, 360 pages]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-r-g-grant/feed/ 0 Battle at Sea: 3,000 Years of Naval Warfare by the dread pirate R. G. Grant http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-the-dread-pirate-r-g-grant/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-the-dread-pirate-r-g-grant/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:10:57 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://c3fac2c97faa09b2a3fe3078548a1f02 wfzimmerman's review: "Found this gem used at the Book Stop in Petoskey, Michigan, where I paid lower than the lowest price on Amazon.com. Incredibly beautiful color interior from the folks at Dorling Kindersley, who make better-looking books than just about anyone."
DK ADULT (2008), Hardcover, 360 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Found this gem used at the Book Stop in Petoskey, Michigan, where I paid lower than the lowest price on Amazon.com.

Incredibly beautiful color interior from the folks at Dorling Kindersley, who make better-looking books than just about anyone.”
DK ADULT (2008), Hardcover, 360 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/08/battle-at-sea-3000-years-of-naval-warfare-by-the-dread-pirate-r-g-grant/feed/ 0 In Search Of History: A Personal Adventure by Theodore H. White http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-theodore-h-white/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-theodore-h-white/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 01:27:11 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://97a82c23c1c39d853bd533c837cd16c6 wfzimmerman's review: "Earlier this year I published MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2008 by political reporter Mark Curtis. The design for that book was a conscious homage to White's immensely successful MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. So I was thrilled by come across this book, White's autobiography and summation, at a recent garage sale. It is a deeper, more insightful, and sadder book than I remembered. White had several different fascinating lives, including ten years as a China hand, ten for Henry Luce's TIME, and another twenty as the famous author the MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. He wrote this book from a sense of profound disillusionment with American politics, which may be part of the reason that the book is written in an unusual style with mostly first person interrupted periodically with stilted yet touching third-person views of himself. My current copy is very aged so I probably will not keep it, but keep an eye out for a high quality first of this or any of his earlier books, including the China and Europe books."
Warner Books (1979), Edition: First Printing, Paperback, 561 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Earlier this year I published MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2008 by political reporter Mark Curtis. The design for that book was a conscious homage to White’s immensely successful MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. So I was thrilled by come across this book, White’s autobiography and summation, at a recent garage sale.

It is a deeper, more insightful, and sadder book than I remembered. White had several different fascinating lives, including ten years as a China hand, ten for Henry Luce’s TIME, and another twenty as the famous author the MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. He wrote this book from a sense of profound disillusionment with American politics, which may be part of the reason that the book is written in an unusual style with mostly first person interrupted periodically with stilted yet touching third-person views of himself.

My current copy is very aged so I probably will not keep it, but keep an eye out for a high quality first of this or any of his earlier books, including the China and Europe books.”
Warner Books (1979), Edition: First Printing, Paperback, 561 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-theodore-h-white/feed/ 0 In Search Of History: A Personal Adventure by the dread pirate Theodore H. White http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-the-dread-pirate-theodore-h-white/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-the-dread-pirate-theodore-h-white/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 01:27:11 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://7aad693221e4f4cbaab78401a9b91a91 wfzimmerman's review: "Earlier this year I published MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2008 by political reporter Mark Curtis. The design for that book was a conscious homage to White's immensely successful MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. So I was thrilled by come across this book, White's autobiography and summation, at a recent garage sale. It is a deeper, more insightful, and sadder book than I remembered. White had several different fascinating lives, including ten years as a China hand, ten for Henry Luce's TIME, and another twenty as the famous author the MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. He wrote this book from a sense of profound disillusionment with American politics, which may be part of the reason that the book is written in an unusual style with mostly first person interrupted periodically with stilted yet touching third-person views of himself. My current copy is very aged so I probably will not keep it, but keep an eye out for a high quality first of this or any of his earlier books, including the China and Europe books."
Warner Books (1979), Edition: First Printing, Paperback, 561 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Earlier this year I published MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2008 by political reporter Mark Curtis. The design for that book was a conscious homage to White’s immensely successful MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. So I was thrilled by come across this book, White’s autobiography and summation, at a recent garage sale.

It is a deeper, more insightful, and sadder book than I remembered. White had several different fascinating lives, including ten years as a China hand, ten for Henry Luce’s TIME, and another twenty as the famous author the MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT series. He wrote this book from a sense of profound disillusionment with American politics, which may be part of the reason that the book is written in an unusual style with mostly first person interrupted periodically with stilted yet touching third-person views of himself.

My current copy is very aged so I probably will not keep it, but keep an eye out for a high quality first of this or any of his earlier books, including the China and Europe books.”
Warner Books (1979), Edition: First Printing, Paperback, 561 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/in-search-of-history-a-personal-adventure-by-the-dread-pirate-theodore-h-white/feed/ 0 The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-isaac-asimov/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-isaac-asimov/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 01:26:37 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://d95050ec19638e086f012c20b3e83de5 wfzimmerman's review: "I don't think I had ever read this book until the recent Tor reissue. It is perhaps the best of all the Galactic Empire novels before the Foundation series, almost entirely because of the profoundly moving conclusion where Asimov thinks brilliantly and wisely about what the greatest good of the greatest number means in a galaxy with one quadrillion people. The world of Sark is referenced extensively in the 'three Bs' follow-on to the FOUNDATION series."
Tor Books (2009), Hardcover, 240 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “I don’t think I had ever read this book until the recent Tor reissue. It is perhaps the best of all the Galactic Empire novels before the Foundation series, almost entirely because of the profoundly moving conclusion where Asimov thinks brilliantly and wisely about what the greatest good of the greatest number means in a galaxy with one quadrillion people.

The world of Sark is referenced extensively in the ‘three Bs’ follow-on to the FOUNDATION series.”
Tor Books (2009), Hardcover, 240 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-isaac-asimov/feed/ 0 The Currents of Space by the dread pirate Isaac Asimov http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-the-dread-pirate-isaac-asimov/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-the-dread-pirate-isaac-asimov/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 01:26:37 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://e434adb4b5023fbe8af80dc835b4a09f wfzimmerman's review: "I don't think I had ever read this book until the recent Tor reissue. It is perhaps the best of all the Galactic Empire novels before the Foundation series, almost entirely because of the profoundly moving conclusion where Asimov thinks brilliantly and wisely about what the greatest good of the greatest number means in a galaxy with one quadrillion people. The world of Sark is referenced extensively in the 'three Bs' follow-on to the FOUNDATION series."
Tor Books (2009), Hardcover, 240 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “I don’t think I had ever read this book until the recent Tor reissue. It is perhaps the best of all the Galactic Empire novels before the Foundation series, almost entirely because of the profoundly moving conclusion where Asimov thinks brilliantly and wisely about what the greatest good of the greatest number means in a galaxy with one quadrillion people.

The world of Sark is referenced extensively in the ‘three Bs’ follow-on to the FOUNDATION series.”
Tor Books (2009), Hardcover, 240 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-currents-of-space-by-the-dread-pirate-isaac-asimov/feed/ 0 The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-santaroga-barrier-by-frank-herbert/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-santaroga-barrier-by-frank-herbert/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 18:04:14 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://fd5ede72c2fe1dcffdd415ee30aba8eb wfzimmerman's review: "remarkably undated -- a gripping and terrifying read."
Tor Books (2002), Mass Market Paperback, 256 [...]]]> wfzimmerman's review: "remarkably undated -- a gripping and terrifying read."
Tor Books (2002), Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-santaroga-barrier-by-frank-herbert/feed/ 0 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The First Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by H. W. Fowler http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/a-dictionary-of-modern-english-usage-the-first-edition-oxford-worlds-classics-by-h-w-fowler/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/a-dictionary-of-modern-english-usage-the-first-edition-oxford-worlds-classics-by-h-w-fowler/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 18:00:51 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://cd21a2bb0da180a3e051679c73390be6 Oxford University Press, USA (2009), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 832 [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Very excited to find this copy of the 1926 first edition of Fowler’s indispensable guide at the Ann Arbor District Library book sale on Saturday.”
Oxford University Press, USA (2009), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 832 pages

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/05/a-dictionary-of-modern-english-usage-the-first-edition-oxford-worlds-classics-by-h-w-fowler/feed/ 0 STORIES TO REMEMBER Volume 1 by Thomas B.costain & John Beecroft http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/stories-to-remember-volume-1-by-thomas-bcostain-john-beecroft/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/stories-to-remember-volume-1-by-thomas-bcostain-john-beecroft/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:21:31 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://299132a794fc1f33fbb242996e1a5b4c Doubleday & Company, Inc (1956), [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Costain’s historical fiction is one of George R.R. Maritn’s inspirations.”
Doubleday & Company, Inc (1956), Hardcover

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]]> http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/stories-to-remember-volume-1-by-thomas-bcostain-john-beecroft/feed/ 0 STORIES TO REMEMBER Volume 1 by the dread pirate Thomas B.costain & John Beecroft http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/stories-to-remember-volume-1-by-the-dread-pirate-thomas-b-costain-john-beecroft/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/stories-to-remember-volume-1-by-the-dread-pirate-thomas-b-costain-john-beecroft/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:21:31 +0000 wfzimmermans reviews from LibraryThing tag:www.librarything.com://913eabcd13459f1ff95f723428a4c994 Doubleday & Company, Inc (1956), [...]]]> wfzimmerman’s review: “Costain’s historical fiction is one of George R.R. Maritn’s inspirations.”
Doubleday & Company, Inc (1956), Hardcover

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