Search Results: U.S. Non-fiction from High Park Books

Brooklyn, NY: Damon Publishers, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good+/No DJ Issued. An absorbing account of typical Caribbean-native experiences in the core of the Big Apple. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 154pp. Uncommon.

Honolulu, Hawaii: The Contemporary Museum Biennial of Hawaii Artists, 1995. Good +. Green, stapled softcover commemorating the June 21- August 20, 1995 art exhibit at Honolulu's The Contemporary Museum. Exhibiton also ran at the Hui no'eau Arts Center from september 9 - October 14, 1995. Features work by Gail Bakutis, Gaye Chan, Sally french, Don Ed Hardy, Garnett Puett, Frank Sheriff and David Ulrich. With introduction and essays by James Jensen, Associate director for Exhibitons and collections. Assumed First Editon. 1 B&W and 6 colour reproductions. and biographies of artists. Square 8vo ( over 7¾" - 9¾" tall) format 20pp. Irregular wax stain on front cover and slight curling to top corner, O/W very good+ condition.

New York: Miramax Books / Hyperion, 2004. First Printing . Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No DJ Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy. Tim Russert's warm and engaging memoir of American life in the 1950's and the special bond he shares with his father - the irrepressible Big Russ. 336pp. Slight touching to several corners.

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas Publishing, 1988. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good+. An analysis of the difficult problems resulting from job stess in policing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on front & spine. Near fine condition except former owner's name on title page. Slight rubbing to corners. Pages fine except for the signature. 4 to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 134pp. Yellowish -white DJ with blue lettering has very slight soiling & slight edgewsear, - o/w near fine condition.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine +. Memoirs of the American fiction, essay & travel writer. Advance Reader's Edition in plaid, decorative slipcase. 293 pages. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Slipcase in near fine condition with slight rubbing to corners. SIGNED on inside blank page.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1999. First Printing . Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine/No DJ Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The veteran journalist chronicles the series of small human errors that resulted in the loss of fourteen forest fighters on Storm King Mountain in Colorado in 1994. The author is the son of Norman Maclean who wrote the classic account of the Mann Gulch forest fire, ' Young Man and Fire'. Advance Reading Copy. 275pp. Almost fine condition.

Casablanca, Morocco: Idéale. Paperback. Very Good -/No DJ Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Leo Sarkisian. Artwork (mostly portraiture) by Sarkisan - America artist, musician, musicologist, scholar and humanist who lived in and travelled the African continent Presented by the American Cultural Center. Text in English and French. Stapled , illustrated wraps. Brochure design and test by Floyd Wade. Unpaginated. 22 pages of color and B&W art and photographs. Some edge/corner/spine wear, soiling and rubbing. Pages clean, tight and unmarked.

New York: New Viewpoints, 1974. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The author was a psychiatrist and New York City's commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services for part of the Lindsay administration. Fill died in 2001. First softcover edtion 136pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor yellowing to white illustrated soft covers & slight edgewear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Essays looking at the description & analysis of complex societies and the study of such associated phenomena as sociological environmental development, industrialization, and urbanization. Minor edgewear and rubbing. Pages clean and tight. 207pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Montclair: Allanhels, Osum & Co., 1990. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. (Conservation of Human Resources Ser., No. 9) Foreword, analysis and commentary by Eli Ginzberg. 238pp. DJ has a 1/2" tear at bottom spine and some curling at top and bottom edges. Pages clean, tight and unmarked. Not a former library book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

American Express, 2002. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine +/No DJ Issued. A company tribute to the employees of American Express after the September 9, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre. Includes unused Windows CD. 32 pages with color and B&W photos, including 2 pages of B&W photos of the 11 employees who died in the World Trade Centre. Beige, oblong (7 /4" X 9 1/4") cloth with black type on front and spine.

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Essays and criticism on Salinger by Arthur Mizener, Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Leslie Fiedler, Joan Didion, Ihab Hassan, Granville Hicks and others. Introduction by Henry Anatole Grunwald. 287 pages with index and contributor notes. Ex-library with espected stamps, cards and stickers. Price clipped but jacket is free of tears due to mylar cover. Binding slightly loose but pages clean, tight and unmarked. 287 pages with index and contributor notes.

New York,: Warner Books, 1996. First Printing . Original Wraps. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. A story of a feisty bulldog named Faccia Bello, "beautiful face," who, in his short time in the world rescues his master from a spiritual malaise, teaching him how to become truly alive. Advance Reviewer Copy. 104pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine +. The first of 3 volumes of private journals of Susan Sontag, one of the important American writer-intellectuals of the 20th century, edited by her son. These early journal entries demonstrate her ferocious intellect, hunger for experience and culture as she grows into one of America's leading minds. 318pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slightest of wear at upper spine of dust jacket.

Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2002. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A urban hosrse lover visits, works and lives the cowboy life on the Tequesquite ranch in New Mexico Reprint of the 1980 tilte published by William Morrow. Black hardcover with white illustrated DJ. 208pp. Unread copy

Hanover, New Hampshire: Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth College, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second Printing - 1989. 72 pages.