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1) The Same River Twice - Honoring the Difficult: A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purple Ten Years Later
Walker, Alice

The Same River Twice - Honoring the Difficult: A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purple Ten Years Later
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By using journal entries, letters from fans and critics, media commentary, and fragments of her own script, Alice Walker reco... read more

Scribner, 1996. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. Remainder mark, else fine. A Meditation on Life, Spirit, Art, and the Making of the Film The Color Purple Ten Years Later. Includes Walker's screenplay for The Color Purple, which was never used. Also, entries from the author's journals and correspondence and essays and articles on the controversy in the African-American community upon the film's release. Also, three new essays in which the author looks back at the events ... more information

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2) The Satire of Saki: A Study of the Satiric Art of Hector H. Munro
Spears, George James

Exposition Press, [1963]. Hardback First Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Some shelfwear, one small corner bump. Very small edgetear. 127 pages including bibliography. ... more information

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3) Savoring the Southwest: Symphony Guild Cookbook
Roswell Symphony Guild [Paul Horgan]

Roswell Symphony Guild Publications, [1988]. Hardback 3rd Edition Fine in Fine dust jacket. Two-page essay, 'About the Southwest' by Paul Horgan plus a one-page of biographical information about Horgan. Color plates show the work of 13 New Mexico artists, including Henriette Wyeth, Peter Rogers, Peter Hurd and Rogers Aston. Cover art by Angus McPherson. Includes more than 500 recipes. 329 pages, including index, plus one page of order forms. Measures approx. 10.5 by 7.5 inches. ISBN: 096124660x ... more information

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4) Saying What You Mean: A Commonsense Guide to American Usage
Claiborne, Robert

W.W. Norton, 1986. Hardback 1st edition Fine in Near Fine DJ An entertaining, provocative discussion of words and usage. ... more information

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5) Scarne's Guide to Casino Gambling
Scarne, John

Simon & Schuster, 1978. Hardback 1st edition VG/VG Everything you need to play well in Gambling Casinos by one of the world's foremost gambling authorities. Some edgewear to DJ. Bump to upper fore edge corner of back board. Mild staining to top edge. ... more information

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6) Scattered Gamma Rays From Thick Uranium Sources: Geological Survey Bulletin 1052-A
Sakakura, A.Y

U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1957. Softcover Good condition. Cover faded, previous owner stamps. 50 pages. Experimental and Theoretical Geophysics. ... more information

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7) The Scientist and Archaeology
Pyddoke, Edward (editor)

Phoenix House, 1963. Hardback 1st Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Dust jacket is scuffed, edgeworn. Previous owner name on first endpaper. Nine specialists each working on different aspects of archaeological problems contribute. The articles are: Resistivity Surveying in Archaeology by R.J.C. Atkinson; Soil-Science Helps the Archaeologist by I.W. Cornwall; Pollen Analysis by G.W. Dimbleby; Petrological Examination by F.S. Wallis; The Examination of Ceramic Materials in Thin Section by H.W.M. Hodges; Fluo... more information

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8) Search for Liberation: Featuring a Conversation Between John Lennon and Swami Bhaktivedanta
Lennon, John and Swami Bhaktivedanta (edited by Jeff Long)

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1981. Mass Market PB 1st Printing Good condition Scuffing and creasing and pages browned, but unmarked. Based on a 1969 conversation between the swami, John Lennon and Yoko Ono at Lennon's home, Tittenhurst Park. 66 pages. ISBN: 0892131098 ... more information

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9) Second Nature
Hoffman, Alice

A conventional suburban woman becomes involved with a semi-wild man she picks up and brings home. Coping meanwhile with divor... read more

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. Hardback 1st Edition, 1st Printing Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A hint of scuffing on dust jacket, else fine. A modern day fairy tale. ISBN: 0399139087 ... more information

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10) Secrets and Surprises: Short Stories
Beattie, Ann

Random House, 1978. Hardback 1st Edition Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on endpaper and one small stain on top edge. Light edgewear on dust jacket. Author's third book ... more information

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11) Selected Papers from the 1970 Uranium Symposium at Socorro, New Mexico: Circular 118
Roman, Ronald J. and Baker, Don H. Jr., compilers

New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 1970. Softcover Good condition Staple bound, 11 x 8.5 inches, 61 pages. Contains Hyrometallurgical Aspects of Mineral Exploration by Dale C. Matthews; Uranium Exploration in Southwest Texas by Leonard M. Taucher; Exploration Geology Methods in the Grants Mineral Belt by David C. Fitch; The Beneficiation and Refining of Uranium Concetrates by N.R. Leist; Production of Uranium Tetrafluoride and Uranium Metal by E.W. Mautz; and Microbiological Leaching of Uran... more information

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12) The Selected Papers of Ernst Kris
Kris, Ernst

Yale University Press, 1975. Hardback Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Some small tears on dust jacket. Blue cloth binding. Foreword by Anna Freud. 537 pages including index and bibliography. ISBN: 0300018568 ... more information

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13) The Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen
Patchen, Kenneth

New Directions, 1946. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Some edgewear, three small tears on dust jacket, one small stain on rear. Contains more than 80 of Patchen's poems. Laid in is an postcard inviting the recipient to the Ball & Chain Club Christmas Party in Iowa City on December 13, 1946. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the poems, but since it's been residing with the book for better than 50 years, I'm leaving it in. ... more information

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14) Selected Problems of Adolescence: With Special Emphasis on Group Formation - The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Monograph No. 3
Deutsch, Helene

International Universities Press, [1967]. Hardback Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket sunned, two tears on rear. 135 pages. ... more information

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15) Selected Writings of Bertram D. Lewin
Lewin, Bertram D. (edited by Jacob A. Arlow)

Pyschoanalytic Quarterly, [1973]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Previous owner name on top edge, light wear at corners of dust jacket, else fine. 597 pages. Contains 40 papers plus Lewin's curriculum vitae, bibliography, references and index. Sections are: Early Clinical Studies, The Psychology of Mania, The Dream Screen, Clinical Applications of Dream Psychology, The Pursuit of Knowledge and the Nature of the Mind, Psychoanalysis and Education. ... more information

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16) Self-Help Construction of 1-Story Buildings
Gallant, Peter

Peace Corps, 1977. Softcover Very Good condition Illustrated by Nancy Bergau; edited by Jim Seaton and Peter Hunt. 8.5 x 11 staple bound. Program & Training Journal Manual Series Number 6. 235 pages. ... more information

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17) Seven Gothic Tales
Dinesen, Isak

Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, c. 1961. Hardback Book Club Ed. VG/VG+ Lower corners slightly bumped, dent on top of boards, inscription on first free endpaper. Light edgewear on DJ. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. ... more information

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18) The Seven Madmen
Arlt. Roberto

David R. Godine. Hardback 1st American edition Near Fine book in Near Fine dustjacket A bizarre masterpiece by an author who was thrown out of school at age eight for writing a note to his teacher that read, " Senorita, Let us run away to the sea. Dressed in black velvet I shall carry you away to my pirate ship. I swear by the corpse of my hanged father that I love you. " Originally published in 1958. Translation copyright 1984. ISBN: 087923492x ... more information

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19) Sexual Identity Conflict in Children and Adults
Green, Richard

Basic Books, [1974]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner name on bottom edge, some light shelfwear ISBN: 0465077269 ... more information

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20) Sexuality and Man
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States

Charles Scribner's Sons, [1970]. Hardback 1st Edition Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Some edgewear on dust jacket. Previous owner name on top edge and first free endpaper. Introduction by Mary S. Calderone. 239 pages. ... more information

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