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Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Christopher Columbus...Older hardcover no dust jacket signs of tanning on its covers, very well manufactured edges of pages tanned faded wash from Top small split at title page, Atlantic Monthly press book, frontispiece ideal portrait of Columbus, contents, list of maps and charts Spanish coins in the Colombian air and their equivalents indexed in the back excellent Illustrated and papers of the Caribbean Sea, littered with black white illustrations throughout, middle of book fold out of his journey....Admiral of the Ocean Sea a Life of Christopher Columbus by Eliot, Morison Samuel- Little Brown & Co, printed bound USA -Haddon craftsmanship, Inc Camden New Jersey. Published -January 1, 1942 Binding: Hardcover, early printing none of them are stated, current ISBN 0196470706, 9780196470702, maps by Erwin Raisz, drawings by Bertram Greene. About 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.9 in. 680 pages, subject biography Christopher Columbus. Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- maybe… Read More

After Silence is Nancy Venable Raine's , response to her rapist's command to "shut up," a command that is so often echoed by society yet, internalized by rape victims. Beginning with her assault by a stranger in her home in 1985, Raine's,narrative of the ten-year aftermath of her rape brings to light the truth that survivors of traumatic experiences know--a trauma does not end when you find yourself alive. Book is in good condition, soft covers are good but do have a corner crease on the front. Pages are good but several have minor highlighting, pages are starting to tan as well. Overall this is a good readable copy.-- After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back, Nancy Venable Raine, second printing, Pub, Three Rivers Press, After Silence 1999 ISBN 0609804197, 9780609804193- 278 pages cover design Whitney G. Cookman Size: about 5.2 x 0.6 x 8.1 in Subjects Biography & Autobiography ' General Biography & Autobiography / General Social Science / Women's Studies/sexual assault/rape Ruth Reaser..LAX… Read More

Gift-able- excellent copy-Beginning with his appointment as Director of Central Intelligence in 1997, Tenet unfolds the momentous events that led to 9/11 as he saw-experienced them: his declaration of war on al-Qa'ida;CIA's covert operations inside Afghanistan; worldwide operational plan to fight terrorists; warnings of imminent attacks against American interests to White House officials in the summer of 2001; plan for a coordinated / devastating counterattack against al-Qa'ida laid down just six days after the attacks. Book is in like new condition Hard covers are very nice with no wear apparent. Pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is very good with only very minor wear marks. -- At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA Authors George Tenet, Bill Harlow Ed. First Edition 7th printing , Leah Carlson Stanic book Design,Jacket design Roberto de Vicq Cumptich, jacket photo Deborah Fein gold Publisher Harper Collins, 2007 ISBN 0061147788, 9780061147784 Length 549 pages, Huge thick about… Read More

# 6994 The August of Randy Cummings Paperback – January 1, 2009 R D Queue

Pub- ‎ Giant Killer Publishing (January 1, 2009)

423 pages

ISBN-‎ 0982041608

2 LB

Sublimely erotic & pseudo-romantic in style, The August of Randy Cummings amusing, often sarcastic tale of a young lawyer's quest to experience life on the road via motorcycle in August of 1977. Fast paced story, written from a horny male perspective, awash in the debauchery defining young America in the late 70's.

Nice hardcover copy dust jacket - does show jacket does show some wear, pretty buckram Brown boards gold titling spine minimum amount -ware minutiae on its edges. Nice first edition printed on nice photo quality paper, a more expensive alternative printed in UK, Great Britain. Author actually works in the printing business so he may be responsible for making sure and attractive book was put out. Residing in Norwich, Norfolk. ......Ava Gardner one of the last of the screens great love goddesses. Dark, sultry Beauty, earthy eroticism, putting her life before us on the screen.. her numerous Adventures, marriages, lovers, partying passion, bullfights with her strangely contrasting reticence echoed in her film parts. First of the kind containing photographs from all of Ava Gardner's major films. Elizabeth Taylor once said that she considered a budget be the most beautiful woman in the world.Book certainly Bears Witness to those words Augmenting an account of her tumultuous career and of her equally… Read More

Beatles Undercover is a reference book, which explores the origins and evolution of The Beatles' contributions to other artists' music, along with a brief biographical sketch of each of these artists. In short, this book is about The Beatles' admiration for and generous support of their friends fellow musicians. It's neither a price guide nor a discography per se. Nor, expose the artists' personal lives or critique their work.-Rock and roll reference collection..The Beatles influenced the world... have been in other musicians' recording sessions influenced collaborated had their music recorded by other musicians, every garage band could do a few standards..an in-depth bio on the people who played with John, Paul, George & Ringo. Doris Troy, David Peel, Denny Laine, Jo Jo Laine - material -a serious interest in the Beatles, interestingly thumbnail overviews of the careers of all the non-Beatles artists, -- Soft cover former library book is in acceptable condition. Covers show some wear. First two… Read More

* Being Flynn 0393341496 -first published -2015, this copy reissued 2012, full numbering line bright clean crisp copy no markings inscriptions- appears to have been lightly read if it all-book design by love dog studio-production designer- Anna -quad graphics Fairfield,originally published as cover artwork 2011 focus features LLC Another Bullshit Night in Suck City:A Memoir now motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano-original description of first book, A Focus Features production, Nick Flynn's moving memoir of his relationship with his father is directed by Paul Weitz, whose films include About a Boy and Little Fockers--Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City tells the story of the trajectory that led Nick and his father,streets,shelter, find each other.… Read More

Excellent copy – Cover has French folds. Cover is very good showing almost no wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. In 1976 Fr. Jorge Bergoglio was just 39 years old– serving as provincial superior of the Jesuits of Argentina, the military overthrew the government in a coup. The dictatorship went to work against subversives communist adversaries through abductions, tortures, and even murders, resulting in the disappearance of about 30,000 people. Much has been made about the mysteries of Bergoglio's actions during this time of upheaval. Did he fail to act against human rights violations or guilty of delivering opponents into the hands of the regime? did his courage and compassion prompt him to save lives? Scavo uncovers how Bergoglio built an elaborate network consisting of clandestine passageways,secret hideouts,covert automobile rides, all in attempt to save what has been estimated at more than 100 people from torture, imprisonment, death. Bergoglio's List is a collection of personal stories from… Read More

* Beyond the Sky and the Earth is the story of her time in a Himalayan village, immersed in Bhutanese culture and the wonders of new and lasting love....Jamie Zeppa was 24 when she left a stagnant life at home & signed a contract to teach for two years in the Buddhist hermit kingdom of Bhutan. Much more than just a travel memoir, Whether you're travelling to Bhutan, looking for the best travel writing around, or wishing to be transported to a culture, mindset, spiritual ethos wonderfully different from your own, a joyous and lush memoir that will transform the way you think of faith, Western life, & love........... Oversized paperback book in very good condition. Covers are good with minor signs of use. Pages are clean, unmarked but are starting to tan at edges from age. Nice reading copy........ Beyond the Sky and the Earth, Author Jamie Zeppa, Riverhead Books; Reissue edition (May 1, 2000), ISBN 157322815X, 9781573228152, Book size about 5.5 x 1 x 9.1 in., 303 pages,......... Ruth Reaser..LAX… Read More

*Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt - Mr. Neihardt has a unique, realistic and poetic understanding of a vanished time and people, and the ability to make from them a story that would be widely read simply as a good book...... Over-sized paperback book in good condition. Covers are good with minor wear most at edges, corners. Spine is tight with all pages securely attached. Pages clean, unmarked. Overall a nice copy of this book printed in larger type....... Black Elk Speaks, Author John G. Neihardt, Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (1971), Cover design by Betty Sieler, ASIN: B001DLLZPE, 280 pages, Book size about 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 in., 11th bison book printing December 1970 , LCCN 61 - 7236 ,Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know what you're getting into-City-Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it - in - transit....... Black Elk Speaks by John G. Niehardt 5102 PB Grn History 21 old stock

* Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos, Clancy Sigal, excellent copy , over sized paperback wonderful shape lightly read - if that -small amount of shelf wearing its edges from being shelved- Hilarious memoir-Clancy Sigal's- as a young Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, peddling writers, actors in a blacklist-crazed "golden age" movie industry of the 1950s. Atom bomb tests light up the night sky,everyone is either naming names or getting named in the McCarthy witch hunt. By day a fast-talking salesman - at night he's the point person of a small circle of anarchistic oddballs. Dogged by two FBI agents who want to be set up with starlets &have a screen test. Trailing him as he goes from studio to studio hustling clients like Humphrey Bogart, Donna Reed, Jack Palance, Peter Lorre, Stanwyck. Barred from a studio he brazenly uses a bolt cutter to break through the chain-link fence to make a deal.- Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos- Soft… Read More

*Excellent copy - Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse... covers of book are gray, silver, black glossy kind of an interesting effect ...the dust jackets itself is a 7/8 wrap, with titling in bold red - white type, printed on extremely nice cottonee, deckle Edge paper - book is tight lightly read black and white illustrations & pictures throughout heavily indexed × Illustrated end papers, VG small amount of shelf wear, had a book bumped at top spine - see the pictures.... exciting story wonderful profiles of both men presented in a beautifully bound volume...Bloody Crimes: the Chase for Jefferson Davis and The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln -Author James L. Swanson - Ed. Later printing first edition deckle edges Publisher Harper Collins, William Morrow Company New York, 2010 -ISBN 0061989851, 9780061989858 - Maps created Kieran McAuliffe book design Richard Oriolo, hardcover, VG with DJ -464 pages with extensive index . Subjects History ' General ,… Read More

Very nice hardcover -pretty blue boards -spine wrapped darker blue -gold title on spine- spine not creased- a threshold Edition- end papers consist of a family tree- see pictures to review photos of condition -It's A Memoir of childhood and family by the author- she's also published 5 best selling children's books about American history has a Ph.D and is more than just a vp's wife- second printing copyright 2007 by author -book design by Jo O'Meara jacket design by Min Choi-jacket photos childhood photo by Lloyd Bowman- it's amazing how much she looks like that toddler picture -backgroud Sky by Ken Davies / Master fieldfile- tutle type Iskra Johnson -printed in the United States.-..In Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she… Read More

* The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer prize-winning book - very good condition, yellow boards blue wrapped spine, with gold titling decorative in pages, deckle Edge pages. Lightly read, small amount of edgware, dust jacket does have a small amount of ruffling at top, clean crisp re- giftable copy... thick heavy book spine is not creased...The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism - Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster January 1, 2013, Ed. Full number line - about - 6.2 x 2 x 9.2 . Pages 928, - ISBN-141654786X,9781416547860- book V / G , D/J good ---Jacket design Jackie Seow, interior design Joy O'Meara, jacket art Getty Images.-- Subjects Roosevelt, Theodore. Taft, William H. U.s. Politics government, history 20th century, Republican Party. Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft .......LAX Vespa, Los Angeles Culver City- maybe this will do it!-At least you know… Read More

Buried Alive: The Biography of Janice Joplin, Harmony Books,Myra Friedman,Harmony Books imprint Crown Publishers Inc 8th printing copyrights 1973, 1974, 1983, 1992 by author. Originally published by William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1973. over sized softcover, about 6 x 0.8 x 8.9 in Edition published by Harmony Books, a division of Crown Publishers Inc.interior the book is clean and unmarked, fresh, A new &updated version of the Biography of Janis Joplin, Buried Alive. Slight scraping of cover, front and back and minor curling of the corners of the cover. Cover design by Susan Mitchell, cover photographs by David Gahr Buried Alive: The Biography of Janice Joplin, Harmony Books,Myra Friedman,Harmony Books imprint Crown Publishers Inc 8th printing copyrights 1973, 1974, 1983, 1992 by author. Originally published by William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1973. over sized softcover, about 6 x 0.8 x 8.9 in -- Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin --- Myra Friedman Pub Harmony Books, 1992 - ISBN… Read More

Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley Paperback – 1992-life and career of Bob Marley and the milieu that shaped his spiritual and political beliefs,undisputed sovereign of reggae music and a revolutionary soul-prophet whose music continues to have a major impact on people of throughout the world, societal frameworks he railed against, the philosophy he espoused and fascinating insider-information on the intrigues of the reggae music business.-Excellent copy book-appears to not have been used -read.-glossy covers just the slightest amount of minutia on its edges from being in existence- spine type- pages clean unmarked - oversize paperback copy-Timothy White, Billboard editor in chief since 1991, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack June 27, just as the magazine was going to press. He was 50. Timothy collapsed in an elevator..Timothy was also the author of several books, including "Catch a Fire" -- an award-winning biography of Bob Marley -- and acclaimed biographies on the Beach Boys ("The… Read More

*Celestine voices from French Village Jillian Tindall- Nice shape lightly read – some shelfware- good small amount of edgware / chipping on edges - scuffs back- tanning edges of pages - not bad just due to age. Spine tight- uncreased- Minerva books- UK cover -design button design company- cover photograph Lyle Lawson- Minerva Edition published 1996 by Mandarin paperbacks- reprinted 1996 twice- printed bound Great Britain by Cox Wyman Limited - derived from- a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette.Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village--- Celestine- Author Gillian Tindall-1996 Pub Random House -Random House UK- Mandarin paperbacks -1446485714, 9781446485712- 304 pages Subjects Biography & Autobiography / Historical / Military / Political History / General/ Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry-… Read More

* Vintage copy- Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi - In the south of Italy, between Apulia and Calabria, lies a land that is barren, desolate, and malarial, where the peasants live out their existence in poverty and in the presence of death. it was here in primitive Lucania, at the start of the Ethiopian war (19350, that Carlo Levi, doctor, painter, philosopher, man of letters, was confined as a political prisoner because of his uncompromising opposition to Fascism. Christ Stopped at Eboli is Levi's classic, starkly beautiful account of a place beyond hope and a people abandoned by history....... Oversized paperback book in good condition. Cover show some wear most at corners, edges but slight scuffing on face and back is present. Spine/hinges are tight with no loose pages. Pages are good, unmarked but are starting to tan from age. Closed page edges have some checking. A solid reading copy...... Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Author Carlo Levi, Editor Farrar, Straus and Giroux,… Read More

**Attractive book-beautiful silvery gray boards silver titling on spine –attractive darker gray wash on top of pages – minimum wearing to head/foot of book small amount of shelfware top / bottom edges previous owners name on front gray and paper dust jacket is ruffled have small tears-clipped--Describes ten years in the writer's life, from 1929 when he left England for a stay in Berlin, through his years of wanderings around a troubled Europe to his 1939 arrival in the United StatesHis friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, E. M. Forster, -Pictures included for your review – aid decision process--Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City-sent media mail –- questions can be answered via customer service phone or customer emailing message services -gift delivery instructions-alternative expedited deliveries need to be requested & adjusted price wise...-you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in… Read More

** Confessions of a mail order bride - American life through Thai eyes, excellent copy darker caramel colored boards - wrapped with a darker beige on spine gold titling, pink lavender end papers Interiors clean & unmarked - some spotting on the edges of the pages themselves, might have been stored somewhere near Beach... Slight amount of wear on the corners from shelving the dust jacket has some small tears at corners... excellent copy still giftable... wanting to leave Thailand in pursuit of a college education, after the murder of her brother in the street-- author signs up for the marriage broker, ends up marrying a American professor....Confessions of a mail order bride: American life through Thai eyes Wanwadee Larsen ASIN: 0882820516 Confessions of a Mail Order Bride Hardcover good, DJ / VG Jacket illustration / Anthony Russo, jacket design Norma Erier-Rahn Publisher New Horizon Press, Far Hills, NJ 1989 ISBN 0882820516, 9780882820514, LCCN 89-043331- 324 pages Subjects Social Science ' Sociology… Read More