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New York: W. W. Norton & Company BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age, Sun Exposure; Bottom Edges of Book Speckling Over-Spray Show on Lower Edges of Jacket (Red); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. By the Author of The Killing Zone. SUB-TITLE: A Soldier's Return From Vietnam. BOOK NUMBER: 5493. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 Intensive Care Ward; Chapter 2 Intensive Care; Chapter 3 Clark Air Force Base; Chapter 4 The 249th Evac; Chapter 5 Fitzsimmons Army Hospital; Chapter 6 Home to Indiana; Chapter 7 Return to Fitzsimmons; Chapter 8 Welcome Back; Epilogue: A Soldier's Return. SYNOPSIS: Three million Americans took part in the Vietnam War. This figure is so large it is almost an abstraction. But the war was not an abstraction. It consisted of hundreds of thousands of shattered lives and shattered limbs. Every soldier who fought in Vietnam was changed by the war.… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Rear Board Moderately Soiled; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. James H. Jones, Author of Bad Blood. BOOK NUMBER: 11-97. BOOK DESIGN BY: Antonina Krass. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Arnold Newman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Calvin Chu. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE; PART TWO; PART THREE; PART FOUR; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; Photographs appear between pages 460 and 461. SYNOPSIS: Today, Alfred C. Kinsey's legacy is under siege. In this, the age of HIV, human sexuality is once again bitterly contested terrain, much as it was when Kinsey was attacked in the 1940s and 1950s by the custodians of morality and the forces of McCarthyism. Outraged by his shocking discoveries, the Reader's Digest demanded accusingly of Kinsey: "Have our conventions and morality...been outmoded by the findings of modern science?" Billy Graham, one… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1986. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The wife of the Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov tells the full, uncensored, harrowing story of their years in the Soviet city of Gorky. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY: Alexander Cook. SYNOPSIS: That Alone Together was even written is extraordinary. In late 1985 Elena Bonner, wife of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, suddenly received from Soviet authorities a three-month visa (later extended to six) to visit her family in the United States and be treated for heart, eye, and leg ailments. While recuperating from multiple bypass surgery in Newton, Massachusetts, she decided to write an account from her perspective in America of what has happened to Sakharov and herself during their past three years of involuntary exile in the Soviet city of… Read More

New York: A Dell Book Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. Repaired; Moderately Scuffed on Rear Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. BOOK NUMBER: 10413. CONTENTS (ORDER OF BATTLE): Illustrations follow pages 320 and 640; Preamble: Reveille; Prologue: First Call; I. Ruffles and Flourishes (1880-1917); II. Charge (1917-1918); III. Call to Quarters (1919-1935); IV. To the Colors (1935-1941); V. Retreat (1941-1942); VI. The Green War (1942-1944); VII. At High Port (1944-1945); VIII. Last Post (1945-1950); IX. Sunset Gun (1950-1951); X. Recall (1951); XI. Taps (1951-1964); Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Copyright Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: Douglas MacArthur. Inspiring, Outrageous... A Thundering Paradox of a Man. He was brave, brilliant, flamboyant, and… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers BOOK: Remainder Mark; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Journey Home. DESIGNED BY: G. B. D. Smith. JACKET PHOTO BY: David Rubinger/Time Magazine. CONTENTS: Preface; "See You in Jerusalem"; The Spokesman; The Turncoat; Show Trial; On Captivity and Freedom; The Winding Road to Freedom; Homecoming; Epilogue: Washington and Moscow; Photographs follow page 152. SYNOPSIS: "She had no marriage license. No rabbi. The groom was in jail. But Nataliya Steiglits was undeterred. She was determined that within two weeks she would marry Anatoly Shcharansky." So begins the first full account of the riveting story of love and politics that flooded diplomatic channels between Washington and Moscow and reverberates still in headlines around the… Read More

New York: A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. The #1 New York Times Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 06991400. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1999 feature film of the same name. AWARDS: 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award; 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award; 1997 ABBY Award; 1997 Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "Frank McCourt's book is deeply moving, for his searing story is true. No one has ever written about poverty or childhood like this. That Frank McCourt lived to tell the tale is amazing. That he could create out of such squalor and misery a flawless masterpiece is nothing short of miraculous." - Mary Breasted. "Frank McCourt is a writer whose unflinching eye for family tragedy is matched only by his capacious heart in forgiving it. Having waited a half-century to tell his tale, McCourt uses his ripened talent to… Read More

New York: A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster Inc. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Light Moisture Damage (Staining). The #1 New York Times Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 06991400. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1999 feature film of the same name. AWARDS: 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award; 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award; 1997 ABBY Award; 1997 Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "Frank McCourt's book is deeply moving, for his searing story is true. No one has ever written about poverty or childhood like this. That Frank McCourt lived to tell the tale is amazing. That he could create out of such squalor and misery a flawless masterpiece is nothing short of miraculous." - Mary Breasted. "Frank McCourt is a writer whose unflinching eye for family tragedy is matched only by his capacious heart in forgiving it. Having waited a… Read More

New York: A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster Inc. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Heavily Soiled. The #1 New York Times Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 06991400. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1999 feature film of the same name. AWARDS: 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award; 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award; 1997 ABBY Award; 1997 Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "Frank McCourt's book is deeply moving, for his searing story is true. No one has ever written about poverty or childhood like this. That Frank McCourt lived to tell the tale is amazing. That he could create out of such squalor and misery a flawless masterpiece is nothing short of miraculous." - Mary Breasted. "Frank McCourt is a writer whose unflinching eye for family tragedy is matched only by his capacious heart in forgiving it. Having waited a half-century to tell his tale, McCourt uses his ripened talent to reincarnate the desperate Ireland of his boyhood, a… Read More

New York: A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. BOOK NUMBER: 11990799. DESIGNED BY: Brooke Zimmer. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Kaye. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1999 feature film of the same name. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, will be published in the fall of 1999. AWARDS: 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award; 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award; 1997 ABBY Award; 1997 Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "A monument to the self-perpetuating power of the human spirit . . . An accomplished, authoritative, and shimmering example of the… Read More

New York: A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. BOOK NUMBER: 11990799. DESIGNED BY: Brooke Zimmer. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bill Kaye. MOVIE TIE-IN: This book was the basis for the 1999 feature film of the same name. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, will be published in the fall of 1999. AWARDS: 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award; 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Award; 1997 ABBY Award; 1997 Pulitzer Prize. REVIEWS: "A monument to the self-perpetuating power of the human spirit . . . An accomplished, authoritative, and shimmering example of the… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1979. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining). DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The Times and Trials of Patty Hearst. BOOK NUMBER: 0579. JACKET DESIGN BY: Mel Brofman. CONTENTS: Opening Reflection; January 26-February 2 Week One; February 2-8 Week Two; February9-15 Week Three; February 16-22 Week Four; February 23-29 Week Five; March 1-7 Week Six; March 8-14 Week Seven; March 15-21 Week Eight; Closing Reflections; Index. SYNOPSIS: For Shana Alexander, Patty Hearst's abduction was, as she says, "the journalistic event of a lifetime." Ms. Alexander sensed from the beginning that despite heavy newspaper and book coverage, the Hearst case was misconceived and misunderstood, and she grasped its relationship to what was occurring elsewhere in America as no one else did. In… Read More

New York: Summit Books A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 06861945. DESIGNED BY: Edith Fowler. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY: Gamma-Liason. JACKET DESIGN: Robert Anthony, Inc. SYNOPSIS: Peopled with movie stars and dictators, tycoons and royalty, Ari tells of bitter family feuds and tenuous alliances, international scandals, lawsuits, passionate affairs, and chicanery in the world of the very rich. No one was richer, more powerful, more publicized, or more outrageous than Aristotle Onassis. Combining shrewd cunning, extraordinary energy, and amoral charm, the Green Onassis rose from the brutal back streets of Smyrna, Turkey, to run an international business empire. He… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Previous Owner Markings (Name, School Designation, One Circled Number and a Two-word Note Neatly Inked to Blank Page of Front Matter); Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: This new Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published by the University of California Press in the University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Volume 16, No. 7, April 15, 1920. The publisher is grateful to the Library of Columbia University for making a copy of this book available for reproduction purposes. COVER DESIGNED BY: Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. ISBN: 486-20096-5 (Copyright Page)/0-486-20096-5 (Spine). PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, Inc. New York. A DOVER EDITION DESIGNED FOR YEARS OF USE! We have made every effort to make this the best book possible. Our paper is opaque, with minimal show-through; it will… Read More

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Very Candid Autobiography of Baron Philippe de Rothschild. ALSO KNOWN AS: First published in Great Britain in 1984 under the title Milady Vine by Jonathan Cape Ltd., 30 Bedford Square, London WC1, England. DESIGNED BY: Rhea Braunstein. JACKET PHOTO BY: Brassai. JACKET DESIGN BY: James K. Davis. CONTENTS: About Joan; About the Rothschilds; I All the Sounds of the Earth; II How Many Miles to Babylon?; III It's the Wrong Time and the Wrong Place; Monsieur de Rothschild's Works; Photographs appear following Pages 82 and 242. SYNOPSIS: As rare, warm, tantalizing and provocative as the wine he loves, Baron Philippe de Rothschild's autobiography is an irresistible delight to be savored and enjoyed. A best seller in… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1959. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. PREFACE BY: Cleveland Amory. CONTENTS: Preface by Cleveland Amory; PART ONE: LIVE EASY 1 The Sunflower Path 2 My Poetic Legs 3 To Marry or to Tarry 4 The More Abundant Life 5 Fleshpots of Egypt 6 High Stakes and High Jinks 7 Global Hitchhike 8 East of Suez 9 Strained Interlude 10 Pillar of Propriety 11 Most Dangerous Woman in Europe 12 The War As I Fought It 13 Taking the Bumps 14 The Literary Bug; PART TWO: SPEAKEASY 1 Return of a Native 2 Park Avenue Whoopee 3 The Philanthropic Speakeasy 4 Silver Mattresses 5 Country Club in Manhattan 6 The Bar Sinister 7 By Repeal's Early Light; EPILOGUE The Melody Lingers On.. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hirschfeld. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1998. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. From the Creators of the Bestsellers Sisters and Mothers and Daughters. BOOK DESIGN BY: Brian Mulligan. JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS BY: Sharon Wohlmuth-Teacher. JACKET DESIGN BY: Amy C. King. CONTENTS: Introductions; Alexandra Rosen, Morgan Strauss and Juliette Snyder; Morrie Schwartz and Charlie Derber; Patti LaBelle and Norma Gordon; John Seedorff and Terri Higgins; Gail Morgenstern, Carol Coan and Toby Schachman; Julio Macat and John Jopson; Andrea Bendewald and Jennifer Aniston; The Yadrutas Club; Catherine E. Clark, Vagabond and Dazy; Rick Rutkowski and John Hockenberry; Lucia Ahn, Maria Ahn and Angella Ahn; Allen Booth and Gayle Austin; Betty Colangelo and Orianna Eliasoph; Gay Talese and A. E. Hotchner; Greta… Read More

London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd An imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group, 1980. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Personal Library Name Stamp to Front Free Endpaper); Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Rise & Fall of the du Ponts of Delaware. CONTENTS: Genealogical Tables; Prologue; Part One The Family; Part Two The Cousins; Part Three The New Regime; Part Four Coup d'Etat; Part Five All in the Family; Part Six The End of an Epoch. SYNOPSIS: When Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald went to live in Wilmington in 1927, Scott wrote to his editor that "there is a kind of feudalism... The du Ponts, an immense family, mostly female, dominate the town." In fact, by the 1920s the du Ponts had more money than any other single family, including the Rockefellers, the Mellons or the Guggenheims, but unlike these others, they kept quiet about it. Ever since… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1985. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. The highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect (at the time he was Under Secretary General of the United Nations) tells an extraordinary story--of the inner workings of the Kremlin, of his own conflicted life as a diplomat, and of the frightening world of espionage into which he was drawn. BOOK NUMBER: 3/85. JACKET DESIGN BY: Robert Anthony. SYNOPSIS: In April 1978, Arkady Shevchenko--United Nations Under Secretary General and former adviser to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko--shocked the world diplomatic community by seeking refuge in the United States. The most important Soviet official ever to defect to the West, Shevchenko thus renounced what had been a meteoric career in his country's foreign service. Breaking with Moscow, reveals the reasons behind Shevchenko's… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. Only one book, only one family could follow The Canadian Establishment - A story that has never been told. SUB-TITLE: The Rothschilds of the New World. CONTENTS: Author's Note; Part I - Mr. Sam; Chapter 1 - The Rothschilds of the New World; Chapter 2 - Mr. Sam; Chapter 3 - Running for the Red Chamber; Chapter 4 - Hidden Roots; Chapter 5 - Getting into Booze; Chapter 6 - Murder at Beanfate; Chapter 7 - At the Bar of Justice; Capter 8 - Oh! To Be a Bronfman; Chapter 9 - The Death of a Titan; Part II - The Inheritors; Chapter 10 - Growing Up in the Belvedere Palace; Chapter 11 - Phyllis; Chapter 12 - Minda; Chapter 13 - Edgar; Chapter 14 - Leo; Chapter 15 - Gerald; Chapter 16 - Mitch; Chapter 17 - Peter; Chapter 18 - Charles; Epilogue; Appendices; Index. SYNOPSIS: THE DYNASTY "Except that they are almost… Read More