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Menasha Ridge Press, 1995. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. In 1992 Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom, took their young son to live in Alaska's interior wilderness, building a cabin out of logs, hunting for food, and letting the vast, harsh beauty of the Arctic close in around them. While Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness before -- in a life-altering experience she chronicled in Arctic Daughter -- this journey would be different. Dogged by sickness and hardships, cut off from the rest of the world, her family faced not only a test of endurance, but of its own well-being and survival.... From a daily struggle against the elements to an encounter with a grizzly bear at arm's length, from moments of breathtaking beauty and self-realization to a harrowing, six-hundred-mile river passage back to civilization, Arctic Son chronicles fourteen remarkable months in the Arctic. At once a portrait of courage and a heart-pounding adventure story, Arctic Son portrays a family's… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Another memoir by the author of The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams. Book and jacket are near fine with little edge wear, but the leading edge of the book was knocked hard by something thin that left a tiny ding on each board as well as the jacket. The dust jacket is not clipped.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1971. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/fair. Black and white photographs and Bill Maudlin's black & white illustrations.  "This book can serve a multitude of uses to a multitude of readers: A "sort of" history of WWII; the story of how a young man from humble and poor beginings won a pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning, how an aspiring cartoonist gained national recognition and how other aspiring cartoonists may go about becoming recognized themselves. Highly entertaining with one of the most humorous and climactic endings I have ever had the pleasure to read." - review by B Seymour"If you want a worms eye view of the grim reality of the WWII Italian campaign then here you go. Bill Mauldin is one of my all time favorite Writers and more importantly Cartoonist. This gritty, humorous book about one of Americas toughest campaigns is one of the best books I have ever read. His story about Patton is worth the price… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 1st Ballantine Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paper. Very Good +. “Truth arrives in microscopic increments, and when enough has accumulated–in a moment of recognition, you just know. You know because the truth fits. I was the only member of my family to lack the gene for numbers, but I do need things to add up. Approaching midlife, I became aware of a darkening feeling–was it something heavy on my heart, or was something missing? Grateful as I am for the opportunities I’ve had, and especially for the people who came into my life as a result, I couldn’t ignore this feeling. I had the impulse to begin a conversation with myself, through writing, as if to see if my fingers could get to the bottom of it. It was a Saturday morning eight or ten years ago when I began following this impulse to find the answers to unformed questions. Skywriting is what I call my personal process of discovery.”And so begins this beautiful and surprising… Read More

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/fine. With 160 illustrations including 75 in full color. Sophie's father, E.I. du Pont, founder of the du Pont company, came from France in 1802 and settled on the banks of the Brandywine Creek, four miles above Wilminghton, where he set up a gunpowder factory. A window on the America of the Early Republic is opened for us by young Sophie du Pont. A period of ten years in the family life of the du Ponts is illuminated by Sophie's letters, diaries, and sketches from the age of 13 until she was 23. Book and jacket are fine with little edge wear. The jacket is not clipped and it does not have a price on it. (Book club?)

New York: MJF Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Marvin Bileck. The author "thought he wanted to concentrate on New York itself, describing a series of walks around the city. But what emerged was the story of his own boyhood encounters with it, starting from Brownsville, the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood of his birth, then stretching out to alluring, mysterious Manhattan and from there to the world. Book is in fine condition with a tiny bump on the back cover's bottom edge. Dust jacket is fine, unclipped.

New York: Berkley, 1991. Paperback. Acceptable. The hazards of finding and following a spiritual path are well illustrated in this intimate account by a writer who helped to found the Native American Bear Tribe. Marlise James was a New York journalist in the early Seventies, with a Master's degree from Columbia, when a series of strange events led to her meeting medicine man Sun Bear. The details of James's transformation into a tribal commune leader, after fighting resistance from without (by Native Americans) and within, make absorbing reading. While her visions are not as glamorous as some, they retain more credibility, especially in the context of earthy ecological beliefs often difficult to handle (like learning to prepare and eat road kills). A worthwhile testimony from a gutsy lady. - Jeanne S. Bagby, formerly with Tucson P.L., Ariz. Book is in acceptable condition. Moderate edge wear and rubbing, creases to spine and front cover near the hinge, dark tanning to inside covers.… Read More