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New York: Rodale Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hard Back The Personal Journey of John Paul II and Jerzy Kluger. First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket AS NEW. Archival protective cover. Jacket not price-clipped. Handsome purple cloth binding w/bronze titles, bright and clean, tight and solid volume. 406 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1998, Rodale Press, New York, USA

New York: Kensington Books, 2015. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight and solid book. Set in the spring of 1848 when Thoreau returns to Plumford, Massachusetts in search of a fellow conductor on the Underground Railroad who has gone missing with the escaped female slave he was assigned to transport. With his friend, Dr. Adam Walker, Thoreau finds the conductor, shot to death on a back road. And then another conductor found dead--and a letter was found from someone claiming to have been hired to assassinate anyone caught harboring fugitive slaves. This assassin must be caught. 298 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 2015, Kensington Books, New York.

New York: St Martins Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition, 1990. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. A highly illustrated colorful biography of one of the most celebrated dark heros of the past- and the beginning of communism, the end of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, and the end of Russian paganism. Slight scuff to upper corners, else Fine. In brown cloth with bright and bold gilt titles to spine, tight, solid and square. The glossy brown jacket with portrait of Rasputin on front is very nice, clean and unmarked--but with chips to upper corners. With over 150 color and black and white photographs and illustrations, the full power of this "Rascal Master" is portrayed in an evocative and dramatic style. 208 pages. 7.75 x 8.75 inches. 1990, St. Martin's Press, New York.

Chicago, Illinois: Phoenix Books/The University of Chicago Press, 1964. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Fourth Impression, 1964 Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. An authoritative account of the early history of man's distinguishing trait--the ability to use tools, which distinguishes him from all other creatures on the earth. A richly illustrated, basic study of the early history of man's tool-making career and an introduction to the implements of wood, bone, shell, stone, and metal that were the first tool-making resources. Book is clean and unmarked with light wear around edges of cover, hinge rubbed. Pages all intact, lightly toned, free from any markings. 159 pages, indexed. 8 x 5.25 inches.

New York: E P Dutton, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Jacket. A quest for justice against power beginning with America's founding, as seen through the story of a highly placed family whose private lives are played out in the public arena. Book has slight rubbing of lower edges of boards, else Fine. Tan linen backed binding, golden boards, very clean, no marks; tight and solid. Internals Fine, clean, unmarked. 434 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1981, E P Dutton, New York, USA

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. National Book Award-Winner Joyce Carol Oates, writing here as Rosamond Smith, turns her literary skills to this suspenseful, psychological tale of a serial killer. Clean and unmarked black and orange binding has slight wear to lower edge and spine heel; tight, solid and square binding, Internals as new. 296 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 2001, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York.

New York: Plume/Penguin Group, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. "We Were the Mulvaneys" celebrates the miracle that allowed a family to bridge chasms that that opened up between them, and to reunite in the spirit of love and healing. A tribute to the value of hope and compassion. Clean and unmarked gently used book. Tight and square glued binding. Tips of the lower corners of a few pages creased. Pages clean and unmarked. Text block fore edge has two light marks across edge. 454 pages. 9 x 1.2 x 6 inches. 2001, Plume/Penguin Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. Archival protective cover. In rust and speckled tan binding, gilt titled, sparkling clean and bright, tight and solid volume. Set in the 60s--pitiless in exposing the follies of the time-- the self-lacerating extremes of the intellectual life, and of the bizarre 'sisterhood' of sororities. "I'll Take You There" is a revelation of the risks and rewards of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual. 290 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2002, HarperCollins, New York, New York, USA

A Mentor Book/The New American Library Publisher, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. A Mentor Book/The New American Library Publisher, 1975. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used, clean and unmarked book, faint cover wear. Pages toned, else fine. A reconstruction of the most disturbing and crucial slave uprising in America's history, led by Nat Turner, in 1831. The savage reprisals that followed intensified the forces of change that plunged America into the Civil War. 223 pages. Reference Notes, Index, Maps. 12mo. 1975, A Mentor Book/The New American Library Publisher

New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. 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. Slight forward lean to binding, else Fine. Slight wrinkling to jacket spine head and heel, else Fine. President Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics, a politics that builds upon shared understandings that pull Americans together, his vision for the future. 375 pages, indexed. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 2006, Crown Publishers, New York.

USA: Broadway Books, 2004. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Very clean and unmarked, Tightand solid glued binding. Pages very clean, no underlining, no highlighting. compelling memoir from President Barack Obama, in 2004. A beautiful book of self-discovery. 442 pages. 5.25 x 8 inches. 2004, Broadway, Books, New York, New York, USA

Madison, Wisconsin: Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. IISigned by Author. ISigned by Author Signed by Author Type: Hardback Second Printing. Inscribed and signed by author on Title page. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Fine red full cloth binding, gilt titles, very clean, square with sharp corners, tight & solid. No specific defects, handsome volume. Clean unclipped jacket has slight wear to extremities. David Obey, the longest-serving member of the U.S.Congress in Wisconsin history, has worked hard to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In this, his autobiography, he looks back on these years and traces the dramatic changes in the workings of the U.S.Congress since his first election in 1969. A stirring memoir of political warfare and also indispensable reading for persons of all political persuasions who wish to understand how Congress has functioned and… Read More

New York and London: W W Norton, 1995. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Remainder First US Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. The seventeenth novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series of naval tales, historical fiction. Clean, tight and solid book, very small indentation to upper edge, and a touch of wear to lower corners. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Internals very clean and free from any markings, no creases, not toned. Jacket clean and bright, not price-clipped, slight ruffling along some edges. 282 pages. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. W W Norton, 1995, New York and London.

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Clean and unmarked wrappers; tight and square binding, sharp corners.. Internals clean and free from any markings. An adventurous sea story - the first book in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels that establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R. N. and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. 412 pages. 7.5x 5.25 inches. Publisher: Norton, New York and London. 1990 (first published 1970).

USA: W W Norton, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean, unmarked card wrappers,no creasing; small scuff to bottom front spine edge, slight wear to edges; tight glued binding. Internals clean and free from any markings. An adventurous sea story - the SECOND book in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels. The time is 1803 and Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens; Jack Aubrey, taking refuge in France from his creditors, is interned. He escapes from France, from debtors' prison, from a possible mutiny, and pursues his quarry straight into the mouth of a French-held harbor. 496 pages. 7.5x 5.25 inches. Publisher: Norton, New York, 1990 (first published 1972).

Plume/Penguin Books, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Red and white wraps with green titles is clean and unmarked with slight wear to lower font corner, first three pages have tiny nick to lower corner. Glued binding tight and solid, square, no spine creases. Internals toned, otherwise as new. 29 stories selected from Edna O'Brien's short fiction Her stories of an Irish childhood portray a young girl's view of obsessive love, and often wrenching pain between mother and daughter, between close friends, between women and lovers, in a country where sex is invariably linked with tragedy. 461 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 1985, Plume/Pnguin Books.

New York: Beekman House, 1972. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Adrian Lascom. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. 7" x 9" tall. 192 pp. 174 Illustrations, b/w. Inner hinges cracked, with a few pages partially loose from binding. Two-toned brown cloth is free of any stains, marks, faded at upper front spine edge, rubbed along edges. Interior is clean, pages unmarked, pages in very good condition. Wonderful illustrations--note the one on pp 94-95 spread--it's great. A detailed comprehensive history of Ireland, but short enough for one who wants to know more about Ireland without doing a life study. 1972., Beekman House, New York

Broadway Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Broadway Books, 1998. First Broadway Books Trade Paperback Published 1998. Very Good Condition. Light wear to cover edges. Clean and unmarked gently used book. An enduring work of fiction about men and war; they carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, bibles, and each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried images of a nightmarish war. A classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul. 272 pages. 8vo. 1998, Broadway Books.

USA: Penguin Group, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Editor's Choice--Best of 1994--New York Times Book Review. Bright, clean unmarked stiff cover with light wear to cover edges. Former owner name on first page. Pages very clean, no creases, no markings. A story about the moral effects of suppressing the truth, about the abuse of history, and what happens when you pretend there is no history. 303 pages. 5 x 8 inches. Penguin Group, New York, 1995.

Boston, Massachusett: Little Brown & Co, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Remainder First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Black half cloth w/bright gilt titles, turquoise boards, with upper edge slightly sunned, rem mk on lower edge, clean and unmarked, binding tight,solid and square. Photographic illustrations. Internals As New. Bright, clean, glossy jacket, faint wear to some extremities. A behind-the-scenes tour onto sound stages with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, inside meetings with David Geffen and Peter Guber, on location in New York City with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer and into heated negotiations over "The Hot Zone". A savy and entertaining guide to Hollywood and movie-making. 246 pages, indexed. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1996, Little Brown & Co., Boston, Massachusetts.