Search Results: Non-Fiction from Astro Trader Books

[MAJOR HAROLD MELVIN HAYS]. CHEERIO! SIGNED & INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1919. First Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, a few trivial soiling specks to covers, in brown-beige cloth and titles stamped in red type on cover and spine, pages are clean, bright and binding tight. A about fine copy. Scarce presentation copy SIGNED, INSCRIBED, dated 1921 on the ffep. Major Hays (1880-1940) was part of the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps of WWI. (Not to be confused with WWII Airborne medic veteran Harold Hayes of 807th Airborne that crashed landed in Albania in 1943). Scarce in this fine condition and rare presentation copy, signed and inscribed WWI memorabilia, highly collectible. 291 pgs. 8vo.

[MICHAEL CONNELLY]. CRIME BEAT. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA., 2006. First Edition, First printing. True first edition with full number line. Condition: Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright and binding tight. Dust jacket is unclipped with light shelf wear. Signed by author Michael Connelly on the title page. This is a non-fiction collection from author Michael Connelly as a crime reporter before becoming a novelist of his famous Harry Bosch detective series.Modern first hardboiled crime detective non-fiction, signed collectible. 384 pgs. 8vo

[MARK P. FRIEDLANDER JR., GENE GURNEY, CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER]. FIVE DOWN AND GLORY. Ballantine Books, New York, 1958. BB F488K with 50 cent price on the spine. First Edition Thus. Condition: VG+. Appears unread, creases to extremities, light staining to outer text block, scuffs to covers, overall pages are clean, slightly age toned yet generally bright and binding tight. Neat previous owner inscription on intro page. Foreword by Cast, Eddie Rickenbacker. Front cover art of P-38 by Bob Blanchard. Aviation military history and fighter pilots, collectible. 245 pgs. 16mo.

[BRUCE MACGREGOR, TED BENSON]. PORTRAIT OF A SILVER LADY: THE TRAIN THEY CALLED THE CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR. Pruett Publishing Co., 1977. First Edition, Second printing. Condition: Near Fine / VG+. Appears unread, with original silver boards, title stamped on spine of book and illustration on front of slipcase, minor book creases to extremities, faint soiling to covers, minor indent to spine and one centimeter closed tear to slipcase, else pages are clean, bright and binding tight. With original publisher's slipcase, this unusually rare version has boards that are simply silver coated, not one-quarter black bound as the commonly found first edition version, this second printing version appears to not have been issued the dust jacket with the cover painting by Howard Lockhart Fogg. With over 400 historic photographs. The original California Zephyr train route was from Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City and several other cities. In 1983 it was operated by Amtrak until… Read More

[ALLY ACKER]. REEL WOMEN: PIONEERS OF THE CINEMA, THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS, 1896 TO THE PRESENT. Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, 1991. Softcover. First Edition Thus. Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, light creases to extremities, mild shelf wear, pages are clean, bright and binding tight. Rare signature, inscription and dated on the half-title page by documentary filmmaker, author Ally Acker. Illustrated with over a 100 rare photo stills. Film history reference book, rare signed collectible. 374 pgs. 8vo.

[DR. EDITH IGLAUER DALY]. FRANCES WALKER (EDITOR). SPECULARIA 1934. Hathaway Brown School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1934. First Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine / Very Good +. Appears gently read, with one-quarter brown cloth over paper boards, light rubbing to corner tips, boards are very clean, mild scattered foxing to a few pages, page edges throughout, overall pages and are very clean, bright and binding tight. Previous owner inscription in erasable pencil on title page. Signed by editor in chief Frances Walker of this rare 1934 Hathaway Brown School for Girls senior alumni album book on the first pastedown. Additional signed and inscribed by numerous fellow senior classmates, faculty staff on both first and rear endpapers of then senior student Edith Iglauer. Earliest known published work that contains several poems and one short story by Canadian journalist and writer Edith Iglauer. Under the senior synopsis pages in the "prophecy" section, she is the only one named destined to be "Writer of Repute"… Read More