Search Results: Parenting from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

New York: Viking Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Book primarily from a family therapist challenging conventional wisdom that only fathers and male figures can "make" a boy into a man. Fine first printing in a NF jacket..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Roiphe's examination of American motherhood, based partly on her own experience as a young single mother. First printing, near fine in like jacket. A nice copy.

Far Hills, NJ: New Horizons Press, 2006. Advance Reader's Copy . Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A thoughtful parenting book for gay and lesbian parents, covering adoption, conception, traditional parental roles, legal issues, etc. NF paperback (actually an advance copy), with a small bend to the lower right front corner. Otherwise clean and unmarked

Gerard Case, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG with just a little discoloration to wraps. Self published pamphlet on fossil collecting from a well regarded draftsman and amateur paleontologist. Signed by the author. Includes laid-in a hand drawn map pointing readers to a fossil site in Marlboro, NJ

New York: Hyperion, 1998. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Subtitle works as description " Advice from the Trenches on Pregnancy, Childbirth, Cool Names, Clueless Doctors, Potty Training and Toddler Avengers". Parenting advice from the founder of the Hip Mama zine. Kind of a what to expect when you're a hip/progressive mom to be. Near fine paperback.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Helpful guide for the new dad, one of the standard titles in this category. Very good--a touch of soil to page edges, top of rear corner a bit bent.

Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of this book on keeping kids safe from bullying and other physical and emotionally violent situations. NF in like jacket, this is a first printing.