Make Believe Ideas:First 100 Words Board book (Hardcover)
- Paperback 2021, ISBN: 9781848792333
Hardcover
New York. 1985. Readers International. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0930523040. Translated from the Czech by George Theiner. 154 pages. hardcover. Cover design & ill… More...
New York. 1985. Readers International. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0930523040. Translated from the Czech by George Theiner. 154 pages. hardcover. Cover design & illustration by Jan Brychta. Barbed wire motif based on poster by Michel Granger. FROM THE PUBLISHER - MY MERRY MORNINGS is a collection of short stories, one for each morning of the week. Seven witty stories, one for each day of the week, give a vivid picture of Prague before the Velvet Revolution. These stories from the mid-1980s were smuggled out of Czechoslovakia, where Ivan Klima’s work has been banned since 1970. They include ‘A Thief’s Tale,’ ‘A Christmas Conspiracy Tale,’ and ‘A Foolish Tale.’. Immediately after the revolution, Klima’s books, unearthed after twenty years in the underground, were a sensation. My Merry Mornings had a press run of 155,000--enormous in a country of 15 million people (that was before Czechoslovakia split in two in 1993). Love and Garbage sold 100,000 copies; My Golden Trades, 80,000. Ivan Klima published his first collection of stories in 1960, followed by essays, novels, plays, children’s books and five more collections of stories, none of which have been able to be published in Czechoslovakia since 1970. His works have been translated into German, but only one group of stories entitles A SHIP NAMED HOPE has been published in English (1970, now out of print). While Klima was still able to work openly at his profession of writing in Czechoslovakia, has was a journalist on a popular magazine, then an editor in the Ceskoslovensky spisovatel publishing house. From 1964 to 1968 has was on the staff of Literarni noviny, the weekly journal of the Writers Union, the most prestigious and outspoken intellectual publication in the country. In May 1969, after the crushing of the Czech reform movement, most of the dozen or so Writers Union publications, including its weekly, were closed. inventory #600 ISBN: 0930523040., 0, 1960 Soil Survey of Alamance County, North Carolina CD-RUnited States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation ServiceAlamance County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 151,131. Its county seat is Graham. Formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east, Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events, textile manufacturing, and agriculture.Alamance County comprises the Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Statistical Area. The 2012 estimated population of the metropolitan area was 153,920.Before being formed as a county, the region had at least one known small Southeastern tribe of Native American in the 18th century, the Sissipahaw, who lived in the area bounded by modern Saxapahaw, the area known as the Hawfields, and the Haw River. European settlers entered the region in the late 17th century chiefly following Native American trading paths, and set up their farms in what they called the "Haw Old Fields", fertile ground previously tilled by the Sissipahaw. The paths later became the basis of the railroad and interstate highway routes.Alamance County was named after Great Alamance Creek, site of the Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771), a pre-Revolutionary War battle in which militia under the command of Governor William Tryon crushed the Regulator movement. Great Alamance Creek, and in turn Little Alamance Creek, according to legend, were named after a local Native American word to describe the blue mud found at the bottom of the creeks. Other legends say the name came from another local Native American word meaning "noisy river", or for the Alamanni region of Rhineland, Germany, where many of the early settlers came from.During the American Revolution, several small battles and skirmishes occurred in the area that became Alamance County, several of them during the lead-up to the Battle of Guilford Court House, including Pyle's Massacre, the Battle of Lindley's Mill, and the Battle of Clapp's Mill.In the 1780s, the Occaneechi Native Americans returned to North Carolina from Virginia, this time settling in what is now Alamance County rather than their first location near Hillsborough. In 2002, the modern Occaneechi tribe bought 25 acres (100,000 m2) of their ancestral land in Alamance County and began a Homeland Preservation Project that includes a village reconstructed as it would have been in 1701 and a 1930s farming village.During the early 19th century, the textile industry grew heavily in the area, and so the need for better transportation grew. By the 1840s several mills were set up along the Haw River and near Great Alamance Creek and other major tributaries of the Haw. Between 1832 and 1880, at least 14 major mills were powered by these rivers and streams. Mills were built by the Trollinger, Holt, Newlin, Swepson, and Rosenthal families, among others. One of them, built in 1832 by Ben Trollinger, is still in operation. It is owned by Copland Industries, sits in the unincorporated community of Carolina and is the oldest continuously operating mill in North Carolina.One notable textile produced in the area was the "Alamance Plaids" or "Glencoe Plaids" used in everything from clothing to tablecloths. The Alamance Plaids manufactured by textile pioneer Edwin M. Holt were the first colored cotton goods produced on power looms in the South, and paved the way for the region's textile boom. (Holt's home is now the Alamance County Historical Society.) But by the late 20th century, most of the plants and mills had gone out of business, including the mills operated by Burlington Industries, a company based in Burlington.By the 1840s, the textile industry was booming, and the railroad was being built through the area as a convenient link between Raleigh and Greensboro. The county was formed on January 29, 1849 from Orange County.In March 1861, Alamance County residents voted overwhelmingly against North Carolina's secession from the Union, 1,114 to 254. Two delegates were sent to the State Secession Convention, Thomas Ruffin and Giles Mebane, who both opposed secession, as did most of the delegates sent to the convention. At the time of the convention, around 30% of Alamance County's population were slaves (total population of c. 12,000, including c. 3,500 slaves and c. 500 free blacks).North Carolina was reluctant to join other Southern states in secession until the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861. When Lincoln called up troops, Governor John Ellis replied, "I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina." After a special legislative session, North Carolina's legislature unanimously voted for secession on May 20, 1861.No battles took place in Alamance County, but it sent its share of soldiers to the front lines. In July 1861, for the first time in American history, soldiers were sent in to combat by rail. The 6th North Carolina was loaded onto railroad cars at Company Shops and transferred to the battlefront at Manassas, Virginia (First Battle of Manassas).Although the citizens of Alamance County were not directly affected throughout much of the war, in April 1865 they witnessed firsthand their sons and fathers marching through the county just days before the war ended with the surrender at Bennett Place near Durham. At Company Shops General Joseph E. Johnston stopped to say farewell to his soldiers for the last time. By the end of the war, 236 people from Alamance County had been killed in the course of the war, more than any other war since the county's founding.Some of the Civil War's most significant effects were seen after it ended. Alamance County briefly became a center of national attention when in 1870 Wyatt Outlaw, an African-American Town Commissioner in Graham, was lynched by the "White Brotherhood," the Ku Klux Klan. He was president of the Alamance County Union League of America (an anti-Klan group), helped to establish the Republican party in North Carolina and advocated establishing a school for African Americans. His offense was that Governor William Holden had appointed him a Justice of the Peace, and he had accepted the appointment. Outlaw's body was found hanging 30 yards from the courthouse, a note pinned to his chest reading, "Beware! You guilty parties both white and black." Outlaw was the central figure in political cooperation between blacks and whites in the county.Holden declared Caswell County in a state of insurrection (July 8) and sent troops to Caswell and Alamance counties under the command of Union veteran George W. Kirk, beginning the so-called Kirk-Holden War. Kirk's troops ultimately arrested 82 men.The Grand Jury of Alamance County indicted 63 Klansmen for felonies and 18 for the murder of Wyatt Outlaw. Soon after the indictments were brought, Democrats in the legislature passed a bill to repeal the law under which the indictments had been secured. The 63 felony charges were dropped. The Conservatives then used a national program of "Amnesty and Pardon" to proclaim amnesty for all who committed crimes on behalf of a secret society. This was extended to the Klansmen of Alamance County. There would be no justice in the case of Wyatt Outlaw.Holden's support for Reconstruction led to his impeachment and removal by the North Carolina Legislature in 1871.The county was once the state leader in dairy production. Several dairies including Melville Dairy in Burlington were headquartered in the county. With increasing real estate prices and a slump in milk prices, most dairy farms have been sold and many of them developed for real estate purposes.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 435 square miles (1,130 km2), of which 424 square miles (1,100 km2) is land and 11 square miles (28 km2) (2.5%) is water.The county is in the Piedmont physiographical region. It has a general rolling terrain with the Cane Creek Mountains rising to over 970 ft (300 m) in the south central part of the county just north of Snow Camp. Bass Mountain, one of the prominent hills in the range, is home to a world-renowned bluegrass music festival every year. There are also isolated monadnocks in the northern part of the county that rise to near or over 900 ft (270 m) above sea level.The largest river that flows through Alamance County is the Haw, which feeds into Jordan Lake in Chatham County, eventually leading to the Cape Fear River. The county is also home to numerous creeks, streams, and ponds, including Great Alamance Creek, where a portion of the Battle of Alamance was fought. There are three large municipal reservoirs: Lake Cammack, Lake Mackintosh, and Graham-Mebane Lake (formerly Quaker Lake)., United States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service, 2006, 3, HARPER BUSINESS. PAPERBACK. Brand New. No shipping to PO BOX, APO, FPO addresses. Kindly provide day time phone number in order to ensure smooth delivery. 100% Customer satisfaction guaranteed! We use Fast Shipping via DHL/FEDEX/UPS, HARPER BUSINESS, 6, Cohen & West, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1957. First Edition. 184 pages. This is an ex-Library book. White dust-jacket over red cloth. Book is ex-library with expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Tape marking to pastedowns. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Spine has crushing to both ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing., Cohen & West, 1957, 2.5, Barnes & Noble, 1963. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1963. 100 pages. Red patterned dust jacket over orange cloth. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards are a little rub worn with some slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a little crushed.With some sunning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners., Barnes & Noble, 1963, 2.5, Sourcebooks, 2018-03-06. Paperback. Very Good. Pages unmarked, modest wear., Sourcebooks, 2018-03-06, 3, Independently published, 2021-08-02. Paperback. Used:Good., Independently published, 2021-08-02, 8, Whitman Publishing Co, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. 383 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Moderate tanning to pastedowns and endpapers, with pencil inscriptions to front. Moderate cracking to hinges, causing boards to be loose. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly warped, with small split to front joint of spine., Whitman Publishing Co, 1947, 2.5, London: Neville Spearman, 1955, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1955. 100 pages. Grey pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped and spine ends are a mildly crushed. Sunning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Foxing to interior. Loss to spine ends., London: Neville Spearman, 1955, 1955, 2.5, Make Believe Ideas, 2010-07-04. Hardcover. Like New. Item may have minor cosmetic defects (marks, wears, cuts, bends, crushes) on the cover, spine, pages or dust cover. Dust cover is intact. Every effort is made to ensure pages are clean and not marred by notes, highlighting or names written inside book. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges., Make Believe Ideas, 2010-07-04, 5<
