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Boston: Little, Brown and Company BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Janis Capone. PHOTOGRAPH: Leonard Freed--Magnum. JACKET DESIGN BY: John Renfer. CONTENTS: Photographs follow page 184; Author's Note; 1 Childhood and Soldiering 2 The War of Independence 3 Building a Mighty Army 4 Rabin Waits for Nasser 5 Nasser Waits for Rabin 6 The Six Day War 7 Introduction to Washington 8 New President on the White House 9 Anatomy of a Cease-Fire 10 The Search for a Solution 11 Rounding Out the Picture 12 Israel's New Prime Minister 13 The Interim Agreement with Egypt 14 The Spirit of '76 15 Taking Stock 16 The Risks of Peace; Index. SYNOPSIS: Here is the personal record of the outstanding military and political career of Yitzhak Rabin, the Jerusalem-born… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. BOOK: Ex-Library; Front, Rear Endpapers Pulled, Marked With Residue (Non-Sticky) From Removal of Library Markings, Jacket Cover, etc.; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped)/Ex-Library; Lightly Creased; Light Moisture Damage; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Adventures of H. M. S. Blonde; The Murders Aboard the Herbert Fuller; Grey Owl; Mary Celeste; The Lost Gold at Kejimkujik; Sadie Davenport. SYNOPSIS: That the truth can be not only stranger than fiction but frequently more terrifying and demonic is proven throughout this astonishing collection of frightening and enigmatic tales. From a massive store of true-life mysteries, Thomas Raddall has selected the six best - none hitherto fully explained, each compelling in its own bizarre way: a ship is found adrift at… 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

Toronto: Seal Books McClelland-Bantam, Inc., 1992. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE INCREDIBLE, TRUE STORY OF A WOMAN CAUGHT IN A WEB OF LUST, MURDER--AND SHOCKING INJUSTICE. SUB-TITLE: The Beautiful Ex-Cop and Convicted Murderer Who Escaped to Freedom and Won America's Heart. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY: Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: George Anich. CONTENTS: Foreword; Acknowledgments 1. The Heart of the Night 2. A Sigh of Relief 3. Growing Up Normal 4. On the Inside 5. The Beginning of the End 6. Last Chances 7. The Dance of Love 8. Sacraments and Sins 9. Building the Web 10. Madness Descends 11. The Nightmare Explodes 12. To Tell the Truth 13. Drowning Again 14. Searching for Help 15. Preliminary Lies 16. Drama and Death 17. Dog Days 18. Guns and Roses 19. To Have and to Hold 20. Troubling Transcripts 21. Choices of Chance 22. A Jury of… Read More

New York: Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1990. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK! PHOTOGRAPH: Michael O'Neill. CONTENTS: Introduction 1 The Marriage! 2 The Baby and the Movie Star 3 Forty 4 The Journey 5 The Hospital 6 Cancer 7 Chemotherapy 8 The War 9 The Wellness Community 10 The Comedienne 11 What's Funny about It 12 The Second Look 13 "Delicious Ambiguity" 14 Life 15 Alternatives 16 Change. SYNOPSIS: "I had wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end." In May 1989, "Saturday Night Live" comedienne Gilda Radner lost her long and painful struggle against "the most unfunny thing in the… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster BOOK: Front Board Pulled, Rear Board Discoloured From Sticker Removal; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. DESIGNED BY: Barbara M. Bachman. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. The Marriage! 2. The Baby and the Movie Star 3. Forty 4. The Journey 5. The Hospital 6. Cancer 7. Chemotherapy 8. The War 9. The Wellness Community 10. The Comedienne 11. What's Funny about It 12. The Second Look 13. "Delicious Ambiguity" 14. Life 15. Alternatives 16. Change. EXCERPT: Introduction - I started out to write a book called A Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife. I wanted to write a collection of stories, poems, and vignettes about things like my toaster oven and my relationships with plumbers, mailmen and delivery people. But life dealt me a much more complicated story. On October 21, 1986, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to… Read More

Toronto: Viking Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1996. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. FRONT COVER PHOTO BY: Paul Orenstein. BACK COVER PHOTOS COURTESY: Bob Rae. COVER DESIGN BY: Martin Gould. CONTENTS: Prologue--A Dose of Reality at Honey Harbour; One--Getting There; Two--Student Days; Three--English Adventures; Four--The Lure of Politics; Five--Up the Hill and Down Again; Six--No Soft Landings; Seven--In the Valley; Eight--How Sweet the Taste; Nine--"No, Premier"; Ten--Jobs, Jobs, Jobs; Eleven--Our Home and Native Land; Twelve--The Road to Charlottetown; Thirteen--Social Contract; Fourteen--Anyone Can Sail in Good Weather; Fifteen--Hard Choices; Sixteen--Losing & Leaving; Postscript; Index. SYNOPSIS: "Throughout my political life I have disagreed with the perspective that it is more moral to be out of power than in." When Bob… Read More

London: Corgi Books A Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd., 1966. 3 Puncture Holes Pierce Front Cover Through to Page 23, Diminishing in Severity with Each Page (Vandalism) with Minimal Impact to Text; 3 Puncture Holes Pierce Rear Cover Backward Through to Page 210, Diminishing in Severity with Each Page (Vandalism) with Minimal Impact to Text; 1 Puncture Hole Pierces Book Through Front Cover to Back Cover at Base of Spine and Top of Spine Each (Vandalism) with No Impact to Text. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. T. Lobsang Rampa is the author of seven extraordinary books, each one immensely readable and thought provoking. They are: THE THIRD EYE: A great bestseller wherever it was published. Well over 100,000 copies have been sold in the Corgi edition alone. DOCTOR FROM LHASA: In which Lobsang Rampa provide that mortal man can discipline his mind and body to survive starvation and torture. THE RAMPA STORY:… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. BOOK: Erratum Note Affixed to Front Free Endpaper; 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. DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY: Jeremiah B. Lighter. JACKET PHOTO BY: Herman Estevez photographed at The Russian Tea Room Café 1989. CONTENTS: The beginning 1 The actors 2 All those others 3 On the road and out of town 4 Hollywood at home 5 Hollywood abroad 6 Hollywood anonymous 7 Where would we be without them? 8 Growing up in Hollywood and elsewhere 9 The celebrity connection 10 Gathering places 11 Let's make a deal 12 The space race 13 On the air! 14 Practical jokes 15 Some funny people 16 Opera 17 The end. SYNOPSIS: Tony Randall's wit, intelligence, prodigious memory, and unreasonable love of storytelling is amply demonstrated in this vastly entertaining… Read More

London: Orion Books Ltd, 1997. Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: An Inspector Rebus Novel. REVIEWS: "I would be surprised to read a better crime novel during the rest of 1997" - Marcel Berlins, The Times. "Scots cop John Rebus, an outstanding creation, is enmeshed in a complex case involving dodgy police procedures, serial killers old and new, Glasgow gangland and the oil industry. Very ambitious and very confident" - Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph. "Rankin captures, like no one else, that strangeness that is Scotland at the end of the twentieth century. He has always written superb crime fiction . . . what he's also pinning down is instant history" - Literary Review. "A powerfully complex crime novel that offers a panoramic portrait of modern Scotland, from Glasgow gangland to the oil platforms of the North Sea" - Mail on Sunday. "Most intricate, involving a serial killer seemingly emulating the Bible John… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The True Story of Pat Bennett, Her Daughters, and Their Seventeen-Year Search. BOOK NUMBER: 14620. CONTENTS: Author's Note; PART ONE Survival; PART TWO The Search; PART THREE Confrontation; PART FOUR Justice; Epilogue; Acknowledgments. SYNOPSIS: This is the riveting true story of a woman, her three daughters, and their seventeen-year search for the man who abandoned them. Pat Bennett and David, a handsome Marine private, fell in love and married young. Pat gave birth to two baby girls in quick succession. But when she became pregnant with their third child, David began to spend his nights away from home. One day he threw a few clothes in the trunk of his car, drove away, and never returned. Shy and insecure, Pat was left with her children, a baby on the way, and no money, food,… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Dan Rather, CBS News White House Correspondent and Gary Paul Gates. SYNOPSIS: In this crisis year, this hard-hitting, powerfully readable book, through its brilliant analysis of events and men and its inside information on the day-to-day operation of the Nixon White House, contributes a stunning insight to our understanding of how Watergate happened. Here are the inner workings of the Nixon White House as they unfolded in the years leading up to the break-in. Based on interviews, on-the-scene observations and hard pursuit of the facts, the book shows how Nixon's disciples acquired so much power, how they used it to elevate or destroy each other, and how, eventually, they set in motion the forces that have "left an indelible… Read More

New York: Perennial - HarperCollinsPublishers Inc., 2000. Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER; Essays for a New Century; Includes More Than a Dozen New Essays. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chapter 1 In the News, Across America; Chapter 2 Foreign Policies, Global Perspectives; Chapter 3 The Washington Scene: Politics and Politicians; Chapter 4 Tributes; Chapter 5 The Lighter Side; Acknowledgments; Index. SYNOPSIS: Ranging from political campaigns to public school crises to turmoil in Russia, the bestselling author and CBS Evening News anchor examines the tragedies and triumphs that shape our nation. Complete with new essays on recent events, Rather explores America at the end of the twentieth century and looks ahead to its future as we enter the twenty-first. With his distinctive blend of frontline energy and a journalist's knack for a good story, Rather looks at the awesome struggles and everyday accomplishments he's witnessed at home… Read More

Pleasantville: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1994. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Missing. PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Mike Newton. CONCEIVED, EDITED, AND DESIGNED BY: Collins & Brown Limited. EDITOR: Sarah Hoggett. ART DIRECTOR: Roger Bristow. DESIGNED BY: Carol McCleeve. CONTENTS: Introduction; Drying Flowers; SPRING - Spring; Spring Flowers; Spring Basket; Fireplace Arrangement; Arrangement in a Glass Bowl; Top-of-cupboard Arrangement; Spring Garden; SUMMER - Summer; Summer Flowers; Topiary Rose Trees; Larkspur Bowl; Welcome Wreath; A Pot of Roses; Summer Hat; Herb Pot Arrangement; Pair of Lavender Pots; FALL - Fall; Fall Flowers; Wheatsheaf; Shelf Arrangement; Harvest Swag; Architectural Arrangement with Roses; Decorated Basket; Tapestry of Flowers; WINTER - Winter; Winter Flowers; Christmas Table; Centerpiece; Christmas Door Wreath; Christmas Garland; Christmas Tree; Techniques; Suppliers; Index; Authors' Acknowledgements. SYNOPSIS:… Read More

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1957. BOOK: Previous Owners (Multiple) Markings (One Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper, Another, With Gift Inscription, Neatly Inked to Dedication Page); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped), Inked; Heavily Creased; Heavily Chipped; Heavily Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. 'Miss Read', author of Village School. CONTENTS: January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; December. SYNOPSIS: In her first book, Village School (now in its fifth impression), 'Miss Read' gave a picture of the small but detailed world of a typical primary school in a remote country area--a world people by the children themselves, Miss Clare the venerable infants' teacher, glum Mrs Pringle the cleaner, the vicar, and other inhabitants of Fairacre. It was a picture which,… Read More

London: Coronet Books Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks, a division of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1979. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. THE SENSATIONAL BESTSELLER. THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY--AND ITS SENSATIONAL AFTERMATH. CONTENTS: PART ONE: ROBBERY 1. The First Firm 2. The Information 3. The Second Firm 4. Preparations 5. The Great Train Robbery 6. Flight from the Farm. PART TWO: RETRIBUTION 7. Arrests 8. The Trial 9. Escape 10. The Good Life 11. Prison 12. Release. PART THREE: CORROBRATION 13. In Pursuit of Proof; Epilogue; Appendix: What Happened to the Money; Bibliography. SYNOPSIS: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERS TELL THEIR STORY. On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of 2,500,000 Pounds. It was called the crime of the century, and the thieves were… Read More

New York: Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1979. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE THUNDERING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! Piers Paul Read, Author of Alive. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Principal Characters and Their Associates; Introduction: Otto Skorzeny; ROBBERY 1. The First Gang 2. The Information 3. The Second Gang 4. Preparations 5. The Great Train Robbery 6. Flight from the Farm RETRIBUTION 7. Arrests 8. The Trial 9. Escape 10. The Good Life 11. Prison 12. Release CORROBRATION 13. In Pursuit of Proof; Appendix: What Happened to the Money; Sources. SYNOPSIS: PIERS PAUL READ The bestselling author who wrote the greatest story of human survival, ALIVE, now writes about the men who enacted the crime of the century--and a secret more shocking than the crime itself. THE TRAIN ROBBERS For over a decade they captured the world's imagination. Now, for the… Read More

New York: The Reader's Digest Association Limited, 1992. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Corners, Spine Bumped; Edges Moderately Soiled. SYNOPSIS: A Journey of Discovery Through 15,000 Years of World History: Food and Drink - Fads and Fashions - Homes and Furnishings - Heating and Lighting - Plumbing and Sanitation - Work and Wages - Sports and Amusements - Arts and Music - Courtship and Marriage - Crime and Punishment - Weapons and Warfare - Health and Medicine - Religion and Morality - Transport and Travel - Money and Trade - Inventions and Education - Politics and Government - Death and Burial.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Random House, Inc., 2000. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Light Moisture Damage. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining on Reverse, From Spine of Book); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan. BOOK DESIGN BY: J. K. Lambert. JACKET ILLUSTRATION: Gabi Rona, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. JACKET DESIGN: Robbin Schiff. SYNOPSIS: Starting in 1950, shortly after they met, and up through the 1990s, Ronald Reagan wrote letters to his wife, Nancy. In this beautiful book, those extraordinary letters are woven into a moving portrait of a long and loving marriage, as Nancy Reagan shares not only the letters but also her reflections on them, and on the life that she and Ronald Reagan shared, from courtship, young marriage, and the White House years on through to her life today. No matter what else was going on or where… Read More

Lutterworth Press, 1981. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Panel; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Story of Isobel Kuhn. CONTENTS: 1 God Has a Plan 2 "But I'm Not a Man!" 3 Road-Blocks 4 The Scum of Your Nature! 5 Slowly Westward 6 Lisu at Last 7 Under the Shadow 8 "I Will Bring Thee Again" 9 Business as Usual 10 Danger on All Sides 11 "But We are Old" 12 Going Home. SERIES: 8th in series; Stories of Faith and Fame edited by Cecil Northcott. SYNOPSIS: Isobel Kuhn's is a unique missionary story. Her short vivid life was given to the Lisu people in China. In their remote country she discovered the Lisu amongst their mountains and valleys. Isobel Kuhn loved the Lisu and her life bore the marks of one who seeks and finds people for God.. First Edition 7th Impression. Hard Cover. As New/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More