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USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Paintings and Drawings By Horacio Butler. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back A 1943 Printing of this Classic Novel Published in 1916 by Alfred Knopf, originally published in 1904. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Paintings and Drawings by Horacio Butler. 12 full page Paintings (many protected by laid in onion skin), reproduced in offset lithography from color separations prepared by Louis Schwarz and engraved chapter head plates. Red/orange cloth w/blue lines and gilt titles and decoration of foot prints on spine, and on front, blue titles and gilt design of a bird and snake in the jungle. Clean and unmarked. Edges are rubbed and spine head and tail and corners are scuffed. Sewn binding is tight, solid and square. Senor Butler's painting for the jacket (which is missing) has been reprinted in the back of the book, prior to the "Notes on the Production of This Volume", tissue protected--a tropical… Read More

Cincinnati, Ohio: WordTech Editions, 2012. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used book-- clean and unmarked, whisper of wear to corners, internals as new. 93 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 2012, WordTech Editions, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Type: Advanced Reading Copy (ARC) Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean an bright cover, only wear is a small chip to spine head. Tight binding. Internals as new. In this second episode of the Softwire, Haarsma takes readers on another lightning-paced, cyber-fueled ride through the amazing universe he introduced in The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1. 298 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1964. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First US Printing. Translated from the German by Ewan Butler. A look at America in the after math of the assassination of John F Kennedy through the eyes of a naturalized American citizen who served in the US Army in WW II, a celebrated European journalist and novelist. He identifies America's longing to return to a simpler past, its boastful materialism, its ant-intellectualism, its political naivete, and its racial prejudice. Challenging, provocative, prophetic. Hardcover in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Jacket price-clipped. Binding of copper full cloth with gilt titles, very clean and unmarked, slight rubbing of some edges; tight and solid sewn binding. Pages clean and unmarked, lightly toned, some top corners faintly creased. Jacket is clean, rubbed, with moderate wear to extremities. 310 pages. 8.75 x 6 inches. Coward-McCann, New York, 1964.

Seattle, Washington: Hara Publishing Group, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Hara Publishing, Third Printing, 2003. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Very clean red wraps, lower corner ruffled, whisper of wear to upper corner; binding tight and solid. Internals in Fine Condition. Historical biography. Claus Hackenberger has written his story based on his personal experiences during World War II, from a less than idyllic childhood to the horrors of the battlefield to slave labor in prison camps and finally to life in a debilitated Germany. 374 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. 2003, Hara Publishing Group, Seattle, WA

Garden City, New York, USA: Garden City Publishing, 1931. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover in Good Condition. No Jacket. Illustrated, with the author's new preface to this Star Edition. Purple cloth binding with gilt titles on spine, blind-stamped crest on front; clean and unmarked, all edges rubbed, lightly scuffed corners, spine head with moderate wear, spine heel scuffed. Sewn binding is tight, innder hinge is cracked. Rough cut on all edges. Endpapers foxed. Frontis: Portrait of Henry VIII (about 1543) from the painting after Holbein.in the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle. Pages are clean, no highlighting, no markings of any kind, moderately toned. Hackett has set out to show what Henry VIII was REALLY like. There are differing opinions about this--was he a lion or a weakling; was he iron-willed or flabby; was he a savior of a waster? So Hackett tries to see human nature apart from the tyranny of politics and the obsessions of… Read More

New York: Family Circle, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Quarto in Near Fine Condition. No jacket. Clean and unmarked volume in green illustrated laminated binding, tight and solid, internals as new. Detailed instructions to make decorations, gilfts, window treatments, ideas for themes, and including Christmas recipes. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w. 300 pages indexed. 8.2 x 10.2 inches. 1986, Family Circle, New York.

Summertown, Tennessee, USA: Book Pub Co, 1996. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Paperback Cookbook in Very Good Condition. Introduction by Mark Messina, Ph. D. and Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D. which details the health benefits to using soyfoods in your cooking. Clean and unmarked, trace wear to cover edges, tight glued binding. Pages very clean and completely free from any markings, one page has been dog-eared. Nutritional analysis for each recipe. Recipes using soyfoods like tofu, tempeh, soymilk, miso, textured vegetable protein. The recipes in this book are delicious, easy to prepare, familiar dishes incorporating soyfoods of all kinds.160 pages w/index. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1996, Book Publishing Co., Summertown, Tennessee, USA

John Wiley & Sons, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. John Wiley & Sons, 1995. Softcover in Very Good Condition. Foreword by Peter Lynch. Glossy, bright, clean, unmarked cover with a touch of wear to upper edge. Binding is tight, solid and square. Internals lightly toned, completely clean, no markings of any kind, no creases. 336 pages. Tables. Notes. Index. 8vo. 1995, John Wiley & Sons.

Germany: Bastei-Lubbe-Taschenbuch, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Christophers Tod means Christophers Death. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition, Clean and unmarked wrappers with whisper ot wear to upper front corner. tight and solid, pages clean, no markings, no creases. I think this is about a child who is born with some things wrong and she struggles to survive. 240 pages. 7 x 4.5 inches. 1993, Bastei-Lubbe-Taschenbuch, Germany

San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1993. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback As New. b/w photographs. Scott and Kimberly Hahn tell the full story of their spiritual journey that led them to embrace Catholicism. 182 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 1993, Ignatius Press, San Francisco,

U.S.A: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in NEAR FINE Condition with a Dust Jacket AS NEW. Prev owner brief inscription on ffep, otherwise book is as new. Clean and unmarked, tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Internals immaculate as is unclipped jacket. Fast-paced novel of action in the TV-News room, rivalry between two ambitious TV correspondents-at work and in love-and the attempt to take over the airwaves in an extremist revolutionary cause. Engrossing reading. 564 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches. Doubleday, New York, 1990.

New York, Edinburgh, London: Churchill Livingstone, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 1996. Hard Back First Edition. Large, Heavy Hardcover in Very Good Condition, with textbook binding. Very Clean and unmarked, with damage to binding on spine tail, corners scuffed. Interior is spotless, fully illustrated in color and b/w throughout. Edited by Duane E. Haines, Ph. D., Professor and Chairman, Dept of Anatomy, the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Three sections designed to be used as independent but interrelated segments of information: Section I Essential Concepts, dealing with neuron structure, function, and communication and with development; Section II Regional Anatomy, covers the ventricles, meninges, and external vasculature of the central nervous system, the spinal cord and each division of the brain; Section III, Systems Neurobiology. 498 pages. 8.75 x 11.25" tall. Churchill Livingstone Publishers, New York,… Read More

New York London: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. 18 maps. Color and b/w photographs througout. A 20,000 mile journey on the yacht 'Whisper' undertaken by Hal and Margaret Roth, from San Diego south around Cape Horn and then north to the United States--a journey frought with adventure, danger, storms, a wreck just before reaching the Horn from which they were rescued by a Chilean navy patrol boat--good reading for the arm chair voyager, the nautical buff, and the lover of adventure. Cream half cloth with gilt titles, red coth over boards, very clean and unmarked; a touch of wear to lower corners and lower front cover edge. Tight, solid and square binding. Upper edge of text block foxed. Pages very clean and completely free of any marks or creases. Clean jacket has light wear to some etremities, inner front flap creased. 288… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A: Macrae Smith Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback The Nature of Man Series. An exploration of the advantages and disadvantages of the various means of transportation used by man from prehistory to the present day. OUT-OF-PRINT HARDCOVER BOOK AND JACKET IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Mylar jacket cover. Illustrated. Binding of green cloth with sharp and bright gilt lettering, very clean and unmarked. No wear to extremities. Sewn binding tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Bottom edge of text block has a few very tiny dots. Internals are spotless, no markings, no creasing. Interesting illustrations of various modes of transportation, from the days of the earliest travels. Green jacket is clean and unmarked with light edgewear. The Earliest Travelers; Wheels: And the Roads to Roll them on; Engines; Water Travel; The Great Iron Horse; The Automobile; The Age of Flight; Urban Transportation; The Future of… Read More

USA: Villard Books/Random House, 1993. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Trade Paperback Edition in Very Good Condition. 28 pages of photographic illustrations on coated paper. Book is clean and unmarkedwith slight wear to cover edges. Soundly bound, tight & solid, square. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind, no creases or tears. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist provides our first panoramic view of the twentieth century's pivotal decade. The Fifties is a "sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that David Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today." 800 pages. 6 x 2 x 9.25 inches. Villard Books/Random House, New York, 1993.

New York: Hyperion, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Hyperion 2008. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Maps by Paul J. Pugliese. A meticulously researched book, conjoining all of the factors of this tragic war: the military tactics and strategies of both sides; the international diplomacy; the internal politics; and the personalities of the various players. Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" was the defining work on the Vietnam War; now, three decades later, he sheds light on another dark corner in our history, the Korean War. In historical terms, it of course precedes the Vietnam War. xii, 719 pp. Glossary of Military Terms; Maps; Notes on Map Symbols; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 9 x 5.75 x 1.5 inches. 2008, Hyperion Press, New York. ISBN10: 0786888628, ISBN13: 9780786888627

New York: Hyperion Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine gray cloth with gilt titles to spine, spine head slightly compressed, faint edge of sunning to upper edge of front cover. Tight, solid and square. Internals as new. A true story told by reporter and historian David Halberstam about Engine 40, ladder 35, located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 2 rigs carrying 13 men set out from this firehouse: 12 of the men would never return. Firehouse takes us to the epicenter of the tragedy. Through the kind of intimate portraits that are Halberstam's trademark, we watch the day unfold. In addition the reader comes to understand the culture of the firehouse itself, why so many are eager to follow in their father's footsteps and serve in this dangerous profession, why it is a calling more than just a job. 201 pp. 6… Read More

Scribner, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Scribner, 2001. First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with Good Dust Jacket. Black cloth backed with gilt titles, golden boards, slight wear to lower corners and spine head and heel, former owner name on endpaper, pages completely clean and unmarked, slight wave to last few pages. Solid and tight binding. Politics and decision making in America in the nineties. 544 pages. 9.5 X 6.25 X 1.75 inches. 2001, Scribner.

New York: Putnam Pub Group, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in FINE Condition. Introduction and Afterword by Stephen Ambrose. Heavy, solid book in navy half cloth with silver titles, navy paper-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked; no edgewear. Photographic illustrations. Interior is also Fine. Four years and three months of diaries left behind by H R Haldeman when he died were published for the first time in this book, revealing a fascinating portrait of an era and a White House that still haunts American history and politics today. He provides a clear view of the triumphs and tragedies-the Cambodia bombings, Kent State, Watergate, the Vietnam peace negotiations, Russia and China trips, the fall of Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger' manipulations and much more. And a view of Richard Nixon himself. 698 pages with index. 9.5 x 6.25 x 2 inches. Putnam Pub Group, New York, 1994.