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New York: Harcourt Brace & World / BOMC, 1954. Hardcover. Good/good. Good book in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has small closed tears and chips, now in new removable protective cover. Red cloth covered boards with gold print; bumped. Illustrated end papers. Prior owner's name on the half-title page. Harcourt, Brace, and World / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1954 edition but no stated printing; 762 pages. Massively illustrated and indexed. 8vo (6.5"" x 9.5"")

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Very good book in VG- dust jacket. Jacket has light wear, now in new removable protective cover. Dark red cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine and gold illustration on the front. Pages are clean and unmarked. Simon and Schuster / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1963, ISBN: 9780207942273 from a later printing. 802 pages, massively illustrated. 8vo (7"" x 9.75"") Series won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good book in good dust jacket. Jacket has light wear, much fading on spine, now in new removable protective cover. Dark red cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine and gold illustration on the front. Pages are clean and unmarked. Simon and Schuster / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1961. 729 pages, massively illustrated. 8vo (7"" x 9.75"") Series won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good book in VG- dust jacket. Jacket has light wear, now in new removable protective cover. Dark red cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine and gold illustration on the front. Pages are clean and unmarked. Simon and Schuster / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1961 edition but later (1980s) printing, ISBN: 9780671013202. 729 pages, massively illustrated. 8vo (7"" x 9.75"") Series won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Very good book in VG- dust jacket. Jacket has light wear, slight fading, now in new removable protective cover. Dark red cloth covered boards with gold titles on the spine and gold illustration on the front. Pages are clean and unmarked. Simon and Schuster / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1965. 898 pages, massively illustrated. 8vo (7"" x 9.75"") Series won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Alexandria, VA: American Diabetes Association, 2009. First thus. mass paperback. good. 4th edition 2009, first printing of this edition. Spine has faint creases but is straight. A few pages have yellow highlights or pencil notes. American Diabetes Association mass paperback, first printing (complete number line), ISBN: 9781580403153, 830 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 7"")

New York: Doubleday, 1962. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lawrence Ratzkin. Complete three volume set. Pages clean and unmarked. Doubleday hard covers with dust jackets, set of three, 1962, ISBN: 9780102301120, 363 + 395 + 438 pages, cover art by Lawrence Ratzkin. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Original publiser's edition, not a book club reprint. Basis of the Ken Burns documentary series, The Civil War. Each volume originally published separately as follows: Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951), Glory Road (1952), and A Stillness at Appomattox (1953). A Stillness at Appomattox won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

London: The Reprint Society, 1956. 1st thus. Hardcover. good/missing. Ralph Thompson. Dust jacket missing. Bound in yellow cloth, with gold print in black label on the spine. Prior owner's name on front free end paper; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. The Reprint Society hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1956. 254 pages, many illustrations by Ralph Thompson. 12mo (7.5"" x 5"") The Bafut Beagles by British naturalist Gerald Durrell tells the story of Durrell's collecting expedition to the Cameroons, made in 1949, with Kenneth Smith. Originally published in 1954, it was Durrell's third book for popular audiences.

New York: Modern Library, 1977. hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket has some soiling and a small closed tear on the rear hinge; is not price clipped; now in new removable protective cover. Some highlighting and underlining throughout, mostly in the section, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex.

New York: Walker, 1987. Hardcover. good/good. Book club edition in good condition. Jacket has light wear, now in new removable protective cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Walker / Science Fiction Book Club hardcover with dust jacket, 1987, ISBN: 9780802710031, SFBC# 12009, 241 pages. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.5"")

New York: Pocket, 1978. Mass Paperback. Good. Prior owner's embossed name on title page, otherwise very good to like new condition. Pocket mass paperback, Dec. 1978 edition, 3rd printing; ISBN: 9780671476441. 253 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 7"") Collection of 23 nonfiction essays from various sources.

New York: Modern Library, 1931. first thus. Hardcover. fair. First Modern Library edition, missing dust jacket. Fair condition. Balloon cloth covered boards with gold torchbearer on front, and gold lettering on the spine; spine is faded; boards are worn with bumps, and fraying at corners and ends of spine; small closed tear in fabric on spine. Rockwell Kent end papers. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly darkening with age. This is Modern Library binding style 6. Modern Library hard cover, missing dust jacket. First edition 1931 (stated), Modern Library #76, 517 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.5"") The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense.… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1988. hardcover. very good/very good. Very good book in like jacket. Beautiful condition. Dust jacket is in new removable protective cover; slight age darkening to spine. Blue boards, quarter bound in blue cloth, with gold letters on the spine and front. End papers are maps. Pages are clean and unmarked, deckle edges; remainder mark top edge. Many illustrations and photos. Knopf / Book-of-the-Month Club hard cover with dust jacket, 1988, ISBN: 9780394553337, 347 pages. 8vo (6.5"" x 9.5"")

Almost like new. Spine has faint crease, but is straight. Cover has tiny corner bumps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction #96 (Vol. 35, No. 96, Spring 2006), edited by Farah Mendelsohn. 136 pages. Contents: Editorial, by Farah Mendlesohn; Forced Marches and Desert Quests, by Sean McMullen; The Future of Race: Colonialism, Adaptation and Hybridity in Mid-Century American Science Fiction, by Helen Addison-Smith; Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home as Answer to Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, by Warren G. Rochelle; Environmental History and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, by Janna Knittel; Ken MacLeod and the Practice of History, by Sherryl Vint; Becoming Utopia in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Series, by Delila Bermudez Brataas; plus letters, and book reviews. Letters by David Ketterer and Chris West; Review: Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson • review by Niall Harrison; Review: The Limits of Enchantment by… Read More

Fine condition, almost like new. Anchor trade paperback, April 2018 printing, ISBN: 9780385492287, 470 pages. 8vo (5.5" x 8.5")

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019. First thus. Trade paperback. Fine. Signed first paperback edition. Signed by the author on the title page, signature only. Like new, not read. Simon and Schuster trade paperback, first printing March 2019, ISBN: 9781451690460, 373 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"") In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as a missionary's daughter in Haiti during a time of upheaval -both in the country and in her home.

New York: Dover, 1999. Trade paperback. VERY Good. Almost like new, just a couple of scuffs on the back from sticker removal. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dover trade paperback, 1999 edition, ISBN: 9780486404417, 395 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"") Unabridged republication of English translation by Clements Markham, first published in 1907 by Cambridge University Press. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index.

New York: Modern Library, 1931. hardcover. Good/Good. Good condition; jacket now in new removable protective cover.

First printing of this edition. Very good book in good dust jacket. The finish coating is separating at the top on the back of the dust jacket; otherwise, very good. Dust jacket now in a new removable protective cover. Black boards, quarter bound in red cloth, with gold print on the spine. No markings inside, binding is squaare and tight. Acid-free paper. Dorset hard cover with dust jacket, 1986, 1st printing (complete number line), ISBN: 9780880290814. 334 pages. 8vo (5.25" x 8.25") Edited with an introduction and notes by David Hey. Reprint of a 1981 Penguin Classics mass paperback; first printing of this book was in 1834 at the Middle Hill Press in Worcestershire by Sir Thomas Phillips. Before that, the manuscript was kept in the family for one hundred years after its completion in the early 1700s. Droll descriptions of the families and everyday life of the small town of Myddle, in Shropshire, in 1700.

New York: Wiley, 2000. Trade paperback. good. Good condition. Cover and spine have creases; spine is straight. Pen mark on title page; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Wiley trade paperback, 4th printing, ISBN: 9780471078647, 346 pages, many photographs, fully indexed. 8vo (6"" x 9"")