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New York: Viking, (2005). Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 398 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: At any given time everyone on earth is wearing or using something made with cotton. That’s power. As fiber, oil, or seed, cotton finds its way into thousands of products, from lipstick to gunpowder to crackers to money. Never a stranger to controversy, the plant that has touched off wars, inspired astonishing inventions, and laid waste to entire ecosystems now pits American growers against underdeveloped nations in a fierce struggle for survivial. No other legal crop has created as much instant wealth or left such a devastating trail of human misery in the form of slavery. Circling the globe and cutting across centuries, Stephen Yafa tells the amazing story of this infinitely adaptable fiber that has -- again and again -- reinvented our world and radically altered the way we live. Domesticated simultaneously in Peru and India some 5,500 years ago, cotton was… Read More

New York: Scribner, [2000]. Octavo, blue backed white boards (hardcover), 478 pp. Fine (As New), in like, As New, dust jacket. Illustrated. “About town, written with all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, tells an endlessly fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker’s archives...At his disposal are thousands of smoking guns -- three thousand boxes of correspondence, interoffice memos, and edited manuscripts and galleys. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Jospeh Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done...To read this remarkable book...is to read an intimate biography of one of this century’s most enduring, and important,… Read More

Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai [The Society for International Cultural Relations], 1967. 5th printing. Octavo, tan patterned boards, 55 pp. Color photo, b&w photos. Near-Fine.

Zondervan, (2014). First Edition. Octavo, hardcover, gilt letters, 297 pp + ads. Fine in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Countering the Bad News about the Good News. “Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?” Philip Yancey has been asking this question all his life, a question more relevant now than ever. Research shows that in a twenty year span starting in the mid-nineties, favorable opinions of Christians have plummeted drastically. And opinions of evangelicals have taken even deeper dives. Yet despite the turn away from Christianity, interest in spirituality is rising. Why the disconnect? Why are so many questioning, “What’s so good about the Good News?” Even more important, how can Christians make a positive, grace-filled difference in a world of desperate need? In this important new book, New York Times bestselling author Philip Yancey explores what may have contributed to hostility toward Christians, especially evangelicals. He then offers… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First American Edition. Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, vii + 408 pp. Near-Fine; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The courage, the determination and the luck of a handful of men; upon these slender threads did the fate of the beginnings of North American colonization depend. Captain Yardley has written the record of the various efforts made to establish an English colony in Virginia before the sailing of the Mayflower. It is a story of adventure and hardship bravely met. The dangers of the Atlantic crossing, the riggors of the winters and the treachery of the Indians all combine to make one wonder how that small hand hung on and secured this country for the English-speaking people.

Shrewsbury, PA: Entangled Publishing, LLC., (2023). Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 517 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general -- also known as her tough-as-talons mother -- has ordered violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away... because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter -- like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. Yet, with every day… Read More

Ward Hill Press, (1991). [Unsung Americans]. Octavo, hardcover (slick white boards), 98 pp. Fine (As New). Unsung Americans: This biography series presents the achievements of Americans of different cultural and racial backgrounds who, with singular visions and unrelenting determination, helped create a stronger, more diverse and democratic nation. Over the course of her career, Zora Neale Hurston collected two volumes of black folklore and wrote four novels, an autobiography, and numerous short stories and essays. Today she is known for her celebration of the African-American spirit, and for the tales and traditions she helped preserve.

Buffalo, N.Y.: Henry Stewart, [1960]. 9th edition. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled, 56 pp. Photos, maps. Very Good.

London: Century, 1985). First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver letters, 342 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: ‘The fastest man in the sky... a solid gold hero... the stuff of legend.’ Chuck Yeager has been described as all these things and more. A double-ace fighter pilot in the Second World War, the first man to break the sound barrier, the most daring and courageous test pilot, whose exploits inspired The Right Stuff, and the most colourful character ever to rise to the rank of US brigadier general. Chuck Yeager’s story is truly the stuff that dreams are made of. Fascinated by planes ever since he can remember, Yeager went straight from school to the US Air Force where, despite frequent brushes with the authorities for his hell-raising exploits, he quickly earned a reputation as one of the most skilled and fearless pilots. Within months of the USA entering the war, Yeager had scored no fewer than eleven Messerschmitts in one flight, and had a… Read More

Deland, Fla.: John B. Stetson University, 1968. Folio, cloth, 358 pp. Photos, portraits. Near-Fine.

Newport, New Hampshire: Friends of the Richards Library, 1993. First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by both Authors. Octavo, stiff white illus. wrappers, 80 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to covers. From Preface: The date on the engraved sandstones resting on the ground in front of the present Richards Free Library in Newport, New Hampshire testifies to the fact that the town’s original public library building was completed in 1888. Its dedication took place on Washington’s birthday in 1889... For the last hundred and more years, Newport’s public library has been the only educational institution available to all of the townspeople throughout all of their lives... This short book is an attempt to recount the essential elements of the history of the Richards Free Library in its first 103 years. Volumes of minutes of trustee meetings, handwritten for the first sixty years but easier to read after that, have been the primary source of information, though reference… Read More

New York: The Dial Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo, rose cloth (hardcover), xv, 476 pp. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. “A woman caught in an inescapable web of evil; a woman fated to destroy: this is Fanny Turner of Frank Yerby’s new novel of New Orleans at the turn of the century...A magnificent portrayal of a tortured woman, The Girl from Storyville is set in a world as inherently dramatic as any Frank Yerby has ever explored.”

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, (1999). Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. wrappers), 127 pp, [i]. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth century, the camaera has been used as a tool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past and can open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and asense of history. In this fascinating visual history we see Worcester through the eyes of those who have lived, worked, and played there for the last 120 years. We are led on a journey down Main Street of the past, and watch it grow and expand along with the surrounding community. The people wh omake up the heart of this community are here as well; while daily life has changed a great deal over the last century, the pride and pasion for life characteristic of the people of Worcester remain strong to this day. Lois Yeulenski is a native and lifelong resident of Worcester and has long been itnerested in… Read More

New York: Arbor House, (1987). First Edition. Octavo, cloth & boards (hardcover), 180 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription, in dust jacket with mylar portector.

Charlotte, NC: Sally Hill McMillan and Associates, Inc., (1996). First Edition. Quarto, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, marbled endpapers, 208 pp. With bound Supplement. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Between the Catawba and South Fork Rivers lies a place known as Belmont, a sort of Piedmont peninsula. The currents of its two rivers have kept Belmont connected to the flow of history. Yet the rivers may have protected Belmont from being overrun by that “progress” that has parched the identity of so much of the New South. It is a city distinct from the rest of its region, from the United States and from the world. Thus, while their values have remained relatively unchanged, the people of Belmont have been integral to the time-swept story of the Carolinas. Though Belmont’s lifeblood flows through roots sunk deep in the past, the people here have always been ready to chart their own course into the future. Eighteenth-century families, drifting… Read More

Tallahassee: The Florida Historical Society, 1933. Octavo, paperbound, [41] pp. Near-Fine, with tanning along edges. Contents: The Secession Movement in Florida, 1850-1861, Part I; Journal of Lieut. Col. James Grant, June-July, 1761; The Paton Leslie Papers: Letters of John Innerarity and A. H. Gordon.

The Florida Historical Society, 1937. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, printed wrappers), [79] pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) and slight chipping to spine. Contents: The Union Bank of Tallahassee (Kathryn T. Abbey); Early Orange Culture in Florida and the Epocal Cold of 1835 (T. Frederick Davis); The Defeses of the Floridas: Report of Capt. James Gadsden to Gen. Jackson, 1818; The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters of Gov. Gayoso to Wm. Panton, 1797; The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest in Florida History: Branden Castle, Thelma Gray and Historic Landmarks of my Country, John Pikula; The Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society.

The Florida Historical Society, 1931. Octavo, paperbound, [55] pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). Contents: International Rivalry in the Creek Country Par I: The Ascendency of Alexander McGillivray, 1783-1789 (Lawrence Kinnaird); Sir John Hawkins in Florida (Edgar Legare Pennington); The Forbes Purchase: A Letter from James Innerarity to William Simpson, 1804; A Historical Sketch of My Home Town, Dania (Lillian Jordan).

Tallahassee: The Florida Historical Society, 1942. Octavo, paperbound, [81] pp. Missing upper cover. Contents: That Odd Being De Brahm; John Milton, Governor of Florida; Research Projects on Florida Subjects; United States Marshals for the Districts of Florida; From A Remote Frontier; New Books; Notes; The Florida Historical Society.

The Florida Historical Society, 1942. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, printed wrappers), [81] pp. Large rectangular piece missing from upper cover; otherwise, clean & tight, with light foxing (age darkened spotting). Contents: That Odd Being, De Brahm (Charles L. Mowat); John Milton, Governor of Florida (Daisy PArker); Research Projects on Florida Subjects (Watt Marchman); United States Marshals for the Districts of Florida (James B. Whitfield); From a Remote Frontier (Mark F. Boyd); New Books; Notes; The Florida Historical Society.