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Port Townsend: Loompanics Unlimited, 1989. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 145pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A practical manual designed for the police officer in charge of a burglary investigation and civilians interested in reducing their vulnerability to theft. includes: -- Illustrated Breaking and Entering Techniques -- Getaways -- Safecracking -- Fencing Operations -- Gathering Evidence -- A Guide to the Best Tools and Equipment.(Publisher).

New York: Scholastic Press, 2018. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Signed by author, Brian Selznick, in ink to title page. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 191pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Over 120 charming black-and-white illustrations throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Who is Baby Monkey?He is a baby.He is a monkey.He has a job.He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye!Lost jewels?Missing pizza?Stolen spaceship?Baby Monkey can help...if he can put on his pants!Baby Monkey's adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. With pithy text and over 120 black and white drawings accented with red, it is ideal for sharing aloud and for emerging readers.Hooray for Baby Monkey!(Publisher).

New York: Villard Books, 1993. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxii, 248pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers and edges. A spot of surface paper loss to front cover. Gray cloth over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in silver. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The whole world was fascinated by the harrowing story of Ernest and Regina Twigg, grieving parents of a mortally ill daughter. They discovered shortly before her death that she had been switched with their own healthy newborn in a small Florida hospital nine years earlier. Having searched out their birth child, the Twiggs battled to win custody of her from Bob Mays, the single parent who claimed that, regardless of biology, the Twigg's effort to separate him from his beloved little girl, Kimbery was cruel and unethical. In the Baby Swap Conspiracy, award winning investigative journalist Loretta… Read More

Utica, New York: Foster Bros. MFG. Co, 1913. Hardcover. Very good +. Hardcover. 10" X 7 7/8". Unpaginated, 28 leaves, printed rectos only. Enclosed in original box as issued. Baby blue cloth over boards, with pictorial title label to upper board. Mild wear to binding, with a touch of light soiling and shelfwear to cloth. Binding is firm and sound. Six pages feature handwritten notes for baby John Wilbur Terry Jr., born May 29, 1917. Original box shows heavy wear with tears to edges and extremities, parts of side of box missing, and light soiling; box is in fair condition. A charming and tender record of the birth of a child over a hundred years ago.

New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 201pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss their mistakes, misjudgements, and miscalculations on working with clients. Told through narratives, the failures are related with candor to expose the human side of leading therapists. Each therapist shares with regrets, what they learned from the experience, what others can learn from their mistakes, and the benefits of speaking openly about bad therapy.(Publisher).

Billing and Sons, Ltd, 1926. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 21pp. Mild wear to paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bump to head of spine, with creasing to covers and to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. The British author, Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884 - 1940) was a colonial administrator, Conservative politician, writer and editor. During the first World War Wilson served under Percy Cox in Mesopotamia (Mandatory Iraq). He later became the acting civil commissioner for Mesopotamia, where he worked to improve the country's administration through reconstruction and stabilization of the region. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Wilson was among a select few who successfully argued the case of adopting the name Iraq (rather than the Greek name Mesopotamia used by Westerners). In this work, reprinted from the Central Asian Society's Journal, Wilson attempts to examine the history and culture of the Bakhtiaris people… Read More

New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the… Read More

New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 349pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th'unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke, above, the smould'ring pine Stands a sad shattered trunk; and, stretched below, A lifeless group the blasted cattle lie. James Thompson, "The Seasons" (1727) have been investigating ball lightning for more than two decades. I published a ball lightning report in Nature in 1976 that received worldwide publicity and I consequently many people wrote to me with accounts of their own experiences. Within a very short time, I had accumulated about 200 firsthand… Read More

Los Angeles: Hyperion, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at half-title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vii, 372pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in green paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Almost sixteen years ago, Mateo Matisse's island homeland disappeared into the sea. Weary and hopeless, the survivors of San Madrigal's sinking escaped to New York. While the rest of his tight-knit Brooklyn diaspora community dreams of someday finding a way back home, Mateo--now a high school junior and piano prodigy living with his two aunts (one who's alive, the other not so much)--is focused on one thing: getting the attention of locally-grown musical legend Gerval. Mateo finally gets his chance on the night of the Grand Fete, an annual party… Read More

London: Privately Printed, 1920. Leather bound. Near fine. Leather bound. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". viii, 468pp. This privately printed edition is undated, published circa 1920. Halfbound in crimson morocco, lined in gilt, with red linen over boards. Spine lettered in gilt with floral gilt compartment and gilt fleur-de-lis. Toning to endpapers. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. This bright and handsomely bound edition of Honoré de Balzac's comic stories is illustrated throughout in forty-eight full page illustrations by French lithographer and caricaturist Albert Robida (1848-1926).

Athens, Greece: The Athenian Press, 1988. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/8" X 6". xii, 174pp. Moderate wear to pictorial wraps, with edgewear, scattered rubbing, ring stain, dust soiling, and Greek price sticker to rear. Binding is sound. Some pages slightly wrinkled; no signs of moisture, with occasional dog-ear, else unmarked. A worn but serviceable copy of this "funny side of Greece in the 1980s as seen by 'The Athenian's' star columnist," a collection comprising the atuhor's columns from Greece's leading English-language magazine from 1980 to the end of 1988, illustrated throughout by Susan Avela.

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 267pp. Hard bumping and mild rubbing to corners and edges of brown cloth hardcover binding. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Front board rather loose. Binding remains sound. Previous owner's label to front paste-down. Small stain to bottom of text block. Contents are clean and unmarked. Chapters include those on Austria, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Japan, Louisiana, and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, with an introduction by Rondo Cameron.

London: Pickering and Co, 1882. Hardcover. Poor. Hardcover. 7 1/8" X 4 3/8". 244pp. Dark blue cloth over boards, with torn paper title label to spine. Fraying, mild dust soiling to cloth, with corners bumped. Rear hinge cracked and completely separated, attached only by last 1/4" of cloth. Webbing visible to front hinge, cracked but holding. Bookseller notations pencilled to toned endpapers. Text block is sound. A quite worn, but complete and readable, copy of this collection of humorous and witty quotes.

New York: Mariner Books, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at bookplate at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens and buried secrets. When Ann Tran gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a beautiful lake house and has a charming professor boyfriend, but it all crumbles away with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns… Read More

London: Eyre & Spotiswoode, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". 223pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket designed by Harry More-Gordon, with light dust soiling and bumping to extremities. Erased pencilled notation to front flap. Wine-colored cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Corners bumped, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable copy of this novel of "two people adrift in that world which everywhere underlies the comfortable societies of the post-war age: the world of the refugee, the stateless person, the exile, those who live on their wits or their courage and for whom there are no hiding-places left" by novelist, screenwriter, and biographer Rupert Croft-Cooke.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1958. Heritage Club Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Heritage Club Edition. Hardcover. 10" X 6 1/4". xv, 563pp. Very mild wear to slipcase, with 1 1/2" tear to paper at top. Brown and white decorative over boards with spine backed in brown. Gilt lettering to spine. Very mild wear to covers and edges. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Heritage Club number iv:24 mini pamphlet laid in. A presentable Heritage Press edition of this classic novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1857.

Firenze: Glittering Images, 2003. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 12 3/8" X 9 5/8". 45pp. Text in English and Italian. Glossy pictorial paper over boards featuring wrap-around image. Mild edgewear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this collection of fetish photography by Italian comics artist Franco Saudelli (b. 1952), known for his erotic graphic stories, particularly his barefoot fetish scenes, with a foreword by Giuliano Compagno. This is an oversize item and will require additional shipping for priority or international orders. Please contact us for a shipping quote if you need this item shipped priority or internationally.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6". xxxviii, 495pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to front cover of jacket. Bound in white paper over boards with spine backed in brown and lettered in black. Previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.(Publisher).

Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, 2007. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xviii, 117pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Opinion continues to be divided over the subject of homework, particularly with regard to the amount and type of work set and the benefits of this method of assignment. The result is an inconsistent homework policy. This volume remedies the problem by providing valuable, practical guidelines on homework policy for teachers. The author pays particular attention to the structure of assignments, the role of home and community factors and the value of classroom follow-up.(Publisher).

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1836. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 4 3/4". xii, 108pp. Heavy wear to paper over boards with rubbing, toning, bumps, and soiling to covers, corners, and edges. Inked notation to front cover dated 1843. Cloth has been torn away at head of spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Inked notation at half title page reads, "Margaret Graham, Macon College, Ga. 'What is friendship but a name'." Rather heavy toning and foxing to pages. Binding is barely intact with text block connected to boards in two places by string. In this classic work of military history, author Jean Charles L. Simonde de Sismondi offers a detailed account of two of the most important battles in medieval European history: Cressy and Poitiers. With a literal interlinear translation and insightful commentary, this edition is an essential resource for anyone interested in the art of war.(Publisher) Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773-1842), a Swiss historian and political economist,… Read More