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London, U.K.: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition, 1st UK Printing. Perfect boards & binding, clean & unmarked interiors. Trace of wear to edges of unclipped DJ, no tears, no chipping. 6.75" by 8.75". - - - It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell - a talk with his young daughter just home from school - that inspired this chilling tale of a child's vulnerable mind. She had memorized the text of the Pledge of Allegiance, but when he asked her a few questions about the Pledge, he realized she had no concept of what the words meant. Clavell wrote this story to show how patriotism can be reshaped in a person's mind with a few simple and reasonable explanations.. Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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Kilmarnock, Scotland: Burns Federation, 1979 NEAR-FINE 1st Printing, First Edition trade paperback, 200 pages, excellent covers, nicely illustrated, includes the list of 973 Robert Burns clubs, and many interesting articles and essays, including: Burn's Contemporaries, The Bard Now Standing on Platform One, The Funeral of Robert Burns, The Songs of Robert Burns, Russian Writers meet Robert Burns, Burnsians in Moscow, 1978, Torrance Golden Jubilee, Organising a Burns Supper, Highland Mary's Bibles, A Tribute to Neil Campbell, Burns Pistols sold in South Africa, Fred Belford, an Honorary Life Member, Burns and Kilmarnock, Robert Burns Festival 1977 & 1978, Robert Burns Garden at Largs, Satire and Humour in the Poetry of Burns, The Motherwell Conference 1977, Burns Federation Centenary, Robert Burns - What Ailed Him?, A Canadian Tour, Numerical list of Clubs on the Roll, Alphabetical list of Clubs on the Roll. . Soft Cover. more information

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Random House, 1997 NEAR-FINE/NEAR-FINE First Edition, 2nd Printing. A beautiful unmarked copy with tiny tear at tip of spine only - otherwise Fine: crisp, clean, unmarked, no wear to boards, binding or pages. 6.5" by 9.5", 249 pages, illustrated. - From the unclipped DJ: "His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey - girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes", and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it - like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators - seem like miracles.". Hard Cover. more information

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Hyperion Books, 2002 Near-Fine/Near-Fine First Edition (stated), 1st Printing. Small creases on front of unclipped DJ, one page with top edge crease, otherwise as-new in all respects. 6.5" x 9.5", 176 pages, section of b&w photos. The true story of the nine Pennsylvania coal miners from the Somerset area, who were trapped underground for more than three days - the accident, the terrifying ordeal, the rescue. . Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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