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World Out of Mind
Doubleday, c. 1953. Hardback Book Club Edition Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket missing chips at spine ends, small tears, soil. Author's first novel. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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Cinnamon Skin: The Twentieth Adventure of Travis McGee
In the 20th and second to last novel featuring Travis McGee the intrepid detective helps out his buddy, Meyer. Meyer lent his boat to his niece, Norma, and her husband, only to have the boat explode with the couple on it in the middle of the Florida Keys.
Harper & Row, 1982. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. A couple tiny closed tears on edge, very slight fading on spine. ISBN: 0060149906 ... (more information)
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$25.00
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Geology and Ore Deosits of the Kern River Uranium Area, California: Contributions of the Geology of Uranium: Geological Survey Bulletin 1087-F
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1960. Softcover Good condition Previous owner stamps on cover, some fading. All geologic maps and plates present in pocket and in very good condition. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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Helena: A Novel
University of California, 1984. Hardback 1st English-language edition. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Stamp on bottom edge, else fine. First English translation of author's third novel, which remains one of his most popular with more than 20 Portuguese editions. Originally published in Brazil in 1876. Set in Rio de Janeiro in 1850, the story is one of mystery and romance with a penetrating look at 19th century Brazilian high society. ISBN: 0520048121 ... (more information)
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$20.00
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Guidebook to the Geology of Utah Number 2: Some Structural Features of the Intrusions in the Iron Springs District
Utah Geological Society, 1974. Softcover Reprint Very Good condition. Previous owner stamp, else fine. All plates present in back pocket. Reprint of the 1947 Guidebook. ... (more information)
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$10.00
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Proud Monster
North Point Press, 1987. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket has pen indentations on the back, else fine. Collection of vignettes set in World War II Europe creating a fictional mosaic of horrors and exploring the human capacity to inflict and endure cruelty. Forms the first of a trilogy of works focusing on World War II. ISBN: 0865472793 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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The Conversations at Willow Creek
The final night of an Australian-Irish criminal in 1827: Carney is to be hanged, and is being guarded by a group of soldiers in a hut on a creek bank. Their officer, a man named Adair, decides to spend Carney's last night in the hut with him. This novel documents their dreams, memories, and the bits of conversation that occurred that night, as well as how those events have become the stuff of legend.
Pantheon, 1996. Hardback 1st American Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Remainder mark and small pen mark on bottom edge, else book is fine. Dust jacket has one small nick along foreedge, else fine. By the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, & ex-convict & bushranger, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the han... (more information)
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Water Treatment and Sanitation: A Handbook of Simple Methods for Rural Areas in Developing Countries
Intermediate Technology Publications, 1983. Softcover Reprint Good condition. Edgewear. 96 pages. Designed for technicians and leaders of rural communities who wish to develop a water supply and sewage disposal scheme. ISBN: 090303123X ... (more information)
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The Black Swan
Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hardback 1st American Edition Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some small, closed edged, very small chips at spine ends. Dust jacket spine lightly sunned. Translation from the German by Willard R. Trask. Written near the end of Mann's life and filled with themes of aging, loss, menopause, a feminine counterpart to his classic novella Death in Venice. The central character is Rosalie, a 50-year-old widow who falls in love with her son's tutor. ... (more information)
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$30.00
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Masturbation: From Infancy to Senescence
International Universities Press, 1975. Hardback Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge. Some edgewear. Examines masturbation in terms of its broad psychodynamic significance throughout development. ISBN: 0823631508 ... (more information)
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$15.00
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Psychiatry in Transition: Selected Papers of Judd Marmor, M.D
Brunner/Mazel, [1974]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge. 32 papers covering General Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Social Psychiatry. ISBN: 0876300700 ... (more information)
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$17.50
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Killer Market
The irrepressible Judge Knott is back, but this time she's the suspect when a man at the International Home Furnishings Market turns up dead with Judge Knott's handbag mysteriously beside him.
Mysterious Press, 1997. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket, else fine. A Judge Deborah Knott Mystery. ISBN: 0892966548 ... (more information)
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$11.00
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Guidebook to the Geology of Utah Number 2: Geology of the Central Wasatch Mountains, Utah
Utah Geological Society, 1952. Softcover Very Good condition. Previous owner stamp, else fine. All plates present in back pocket. Contributors include: Gordon L. Bell, Frank C. Calkins, Max D. Crittenden, Armand J. Eardley, Arthur E. Granger, Hubert Lambert, and Byron J. Sharp. ... (more information)
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Guidebook to the Geology of Utah Number 18: The Wasatch Fault Zone in North Central Utah
Utah Geological Society, 1964. Softcover Very Good condition. Previous owner stamp on back cover, else fine. All plates present. 62 pages. Contributors include: H.J. Bissell, W.R. Buss, Clifford G. Bryner, R.E. Marsell, and W.L. Stokes ... (more information)
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Final Curtain
Little, Brown, 1947. Hardback 1st American Edition Good condition Gray cloth w/ orange letting. Spine quite sunned. Small sticker mark on first free endpaper, toning throughout. Shakespearean actor Sir Henry Ancred dies at his family's estate, and Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn is called in to investigate. Also features Alleyn's wife, Agatha Troy, who has been hired to paint Sir Henry's portrait. The character of Agatha is much like Marsh herself. ... (more information)
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Wilderness Mineral Potential: Assessment of Mineral-Resource Potential in U.S. Forest Service Lands Studied 1964-1984 - Volume 1 and 2
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984. Hardback Near Fine condition. Pictorial boards, some light shelfwear. Volume 1 551 pages, covers Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and Georgia. Volume 2 pages 552-1183 , includes Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Illustrated... (more information)
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$60.00
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Out of Silence: A Journey Into Language
Henry Holt, 1994. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Story of one autistic boy, and his struggle to learn to speak. Also a broader look at autism as it relates to language and the totality of language. ... (more information)
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$12.00
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Feather Crowns
In the year 1900, a Kentucky farm wife named Christianna Wheeler gives birth to quintuplets. Thousands of strangers mob her home; the fate of the babies (and what happens afterwards) sends Christie and her husband far from home, in a turbulent time in America.
HarperCollins, 1993. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Set in 1900, the novel tells the fictional story of a Kentucky farm wife who creates a national stir by giving birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in North America. ISBN: 0060167807 ... (more information)
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Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
A speculative history that maintains that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli knew each other and collaborated on a fantastic project to transform Florence into a seaport by diverting the Arno River. Written by a professor of government at Dartmouth College.
Free Press, 1998. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Fine dust jacket. Book is new, unread. Tells the story of the alliance between Leonard da Vinci and Machiavelli and their ambitious plans to create system of canals that would make the Arno River navigable from Florence to the sea - one of history's greatest 'might-have-beens.' Fascinating look at the friendship of two of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance. ISBN: 0684844524 ... (more information)
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Death in a Cold Hard Light
When an athletic young man is found drowned in the choppy waters near Nantuckett, Detective Merry Folger suspects foul play. As she follows up one dead-end lead after another, she begins to realize that many of the answers may lie with her father, the island's police chief. But how deeply will Merry's love for her father interfere with her usually sound, straightforward judgement? When a second body washes up, she sees her choices quickly dwindle.
Bantam, 1998. Hardback 1st Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Author. Fourth Merry Folger/Nantucket mystery. Mathews also writes Jane Austen mysteries under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron. ISBN: 0553104640 ... (more information)
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$40.00
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