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Emmaus: Rodale Press BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Looking Good, Feeling Good - Learning to make the most of your looks can help you to get the most out of life. It's called healthy narcissism. Chapter 2: Saving Your Skin - Nature gave you a made-to-order coverall. To keep it beautiful, pamper and protect it. Chapter 3: The Secrets of Healthy Hair - How to pamper your hair so it will look better than ever: Shiny. Luxuriant. Touchable. Chapter 4: The Smile Factor - Here's a beauty program to give anyone terrific teeth. Chapter 5: The Art of Makeup - Bring out your beauty with brushes, pencils and a palette of pigments. Chapter 6: Shaping Up - Exercise propels you toward enhanced health - and better looks - in the same motion. Chapter 7: Nurturing Your beauty - Discover the key nutrients that build beauty from the inside out. Chapter 8: For the Well-Groomed Man - A no-nonsense… Read More

Emmaus: Rodale Press, Inc. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Residue (Dried, Non-Sticky); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Complete Guide to Stress Relief. BOOK DESIGN BY: Linda Jacopetti. COVER DESIGN BY: Linda Jacopetti. CONTENTS: Introduction: Taking Control; Part 1: Handling Everyday Hassles; Part 2: Controlling Self-Made Stress; Part 3: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Major Stressors; Part 4: Preventing and Treating Physical Problems; Part 5: Coping Techniques That Can Backfire; Part 6: Coping Techniques That Work; Part 7: Seeking Professional Treatment; Appendix: Keeping a Stress Diary; Index. SYNOPSIS: Here are the best self-help techniques for defusing all kinds of stress--from everyday hassles to once-in-a-lifetime traumas. Suggestions range from the very simple (buy an electric garage-door opener if you're afraid of… Read More

London: Coronet Books Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1991. Previous Dealer Markings (Lower Right Corner of Front Cover and pp 0-10 Clipped); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: "I will survive," he promised the black silence. "I will survive and I will come back to haunt you. All of you . . . " It began like a page from the Kama Sutra. A beautiful French girl and her Indian lover locked in the white heat of illicit passion. The result was Michel. Thrown out on to the dangerous streets, he grew to ferocious manhood in the alleys of Saigon. He survived to wreak the most extreme vengeance for every beating and all the betrayals. Possessed of a raw sexuality and the flair of a master criminal, driven by a pitiless hidden violence, he left a trail of blood that stretched from the backstreets of Bombay to the boulevards of Paris. When the… Read More

New York: TOR Horror - Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Blurred Stamping on Upper Edge. The Cosmic Truth Behind Jules Verne's Fiction! ISBN: 0-812-53757-2 (Copyright Page)/0-812-53758-0 (Canadian ISBN); 812-53757-2 (Spine); 812-53758-0 (Canadian ISBN; Spine). SYNOPSIS: MUTANT SUPERMEN About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures while not daring to more than part the veil. Just what was it that restrained them from telling all?. First Edition 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Vincent Di Fate. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Scarborough: A Signet Book - The New American Library of Canada Limited Previous Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A Startling Experience in Science Fiction. New Earth - Where Lust is Religion, and Love is a Violent Public Spectacle! ALSO KNOWN AS: Flesh is a revised and expanded version of a novel by the same name first published by Galaxy Publishing Corp. SYNOPSIS: antlers up, the sunhero raced forth to an endless orgy on a fertile new earth. After 800 years of exploring the stars, Space Commander Stagg had returned to Earth. But Earth had become a new world. Where science and technology had reigned, now there was agriculture and tribal warfare. And mankind worshiped the Goddess and was content. Into this New Earth came Peter Stagg. They named him "Sunhero" and worshiped him accordingly. The secret rites… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book - The New American Library of Canada Limited Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Signet Double Science Fictions contain 2 complete novels. Fantastic Tales of Time and Space. BOOK 1 DETAILS - TITLE: Flesh. Hugo Award-winning Author of the Riverworld Series. ALSO KNOWN AS: Flesh is a revised and expanded version of a novel by the same name first published by Galaxy Publishing Corp. SYNOPSIS: After 800 years of exploring the stars, Space Commander Stagg had returned to Earth. But Earth had become a new world. Where science and technology had reigned, now there were agriculture and tribal warfare. And mankind worshiped the Goddess and was content. They named Stagg "Sunhero" and performed the secret rites. Endowed with the virility of a nation, and with foot-high antlers throbbing on his head, he set out on an orgiastic… Read More

New York: A Berkley Medallion Book - Berkley Publishing Corporation 2 cm x 2 cm Chunk Missing from Title Page; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ISBN: 0-425-03744-4/425-03744-4 (Copyright Page). SYNOPSIS: WELCOME TO RIVERWORLD It is not like our world - or any world that can be imagined by anyone but Philip Jose Farmer. It is huge and mysterious. It has a central river, rimmed by mountains, with a hidden source and an unknown end. Reborn there is every last soul who ever lived on Earth - from prehistoric apemen to moondwelling future civilizations. Reborn there is Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator of The Arabian Nights, explorer, brawler, scholar, womanizer - adventurer. His quest to discover the end of the river, the meaning of this world's existence - and lovely Alice Hargreaves (the real-life model for Alice in Wonderland) form… Read More

New York: Crown SF Classics - Crown Publishers, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Scratched; Lightly Chipped; Lightly Soiled Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 5451. EDITED AND INTRODUCTION BY: Martin Harry Greenberg. FOREWARD BY: Isaac Asimov. SERIES EDITOR: George Zebrowski. CONTENTS: Retrieving the Lost - Isaac Asimov; Introduction - Martin Harry Greenberg; Sail On! Sail On!; Mother; The God Business; The Alley Man; My Sister's Brother; The King of Beasts. SYNOPSIS: Winner of the Hugo Award as "The Best New Writer of 1952" for his first published novel, The Lovers, Philip Jose Farmer was and still is known as a science fiction pioneer, and he is certainly one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read SF authors at work today. His ground-breaking stories swept away the taboos of the 1950s and opened up… Read More

New York: A Dell Trade Paperback - Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. Unauthorized! Unabridged! Uncensored! Six Seasons of Bloopers, Flubs, Technical Screw-ups, and Picayune Plot Discrepancies for Discriminating Fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation. SYNOPSIS: STARDATE 41153.7-46999.9; STARSHIP ENTERPRISE; REGISTRY NCC-1701D; WE'RE WATCHING YOU . . . IS THERE A CONTROL PANEL INSIDE THE TURBO LIFT? (NO . . . EXCEPT IN THE EPISODE BROTHERS). DO OR DON'T PERSONNEL HAVE TO TAP THEIR BADGE TO ACCESS THEIR COMMUNICATOR? (ONLY WHEN THE WRITERS FEEL LIKE IT). Yes, we're fans. But we're not unobservant. Some of us even have Vulcanlike logic. Author Phil Farrand figures that even if you love somebody, you can tell them about that dab of mustard on their upper lip. So here's a compendium for Trekkers who are unafraid of pointing… Read More

New York: A Signet Book - The New American Library, Inc. Times Mirror, 1974. Previous Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. When tough cattleman Zack Keech became undercover agent for the railroad he despised, violence was bound to erupt! BOOK NUMBER: Q5911. SYNOPSIS: TRAIN-TRIGGERED STAMPEDE! The herd they had tailed 1000 miles from Texas had survived parched-dry land and forded dangerous rivers. They'd come through storm and lightning; two men died in the mission. But nothing prepared them for the wild stampede when the cattle refused to cross the strange new tracks and the engineer cut loose his whistle. The result was disaster for Zack Keech and his father Brandy Ben. Later Zack found himself working as undercover agent for two odd railroad owners and notorious Wild Bill Hickok himself. The action entangled cattlemen,… Read More

New York: A Dell Book - Dell Publishing a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1989. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A Brilliant Collection of Short Fiction from the Best-Selling Author of The Pledge and The Confessions of Joe Cullen. SUB-TITLE: 31 Zen Stories. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. UFO 2. The Hole in the Floor 3. General Hardy's Profession 4. Echinomastus Contentii 5. Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal 6. A Matter of Size 7. Show Cause 8. The Martian Shop 9. The Pragmatic Seed 10. The Trap 11. The Hoop 12. The Cold, Cold Box 13. The Talent of Harvey 14. The Wound 15. The General Zapped an Angel 16. The Price 17. The Vision of Milty Boil 18. Cato the Martian 19. Not with a Bang 20. The… Read More

Heritage jeunesse Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover. SYNOPSIS: Que le spectacle commence! Prends un siege et apprete-toi a te mesurer aux jeux fous de Theo L'Embrouille. Du plaisir page après page!. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Tony et Tony Tallarico. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. BOOK: Front Free Endpaper Missing; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Heavily Chipped (Portions Missing); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Frenchman presents the great American sage so that everyone may know him intimately. Printings Before Publication 75,000 Copies! With 15 illustrations and 5 maps. SUB-TITLE: The Apostle of Modern Times. With Illustrations. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE The Rearing of an XVIIIth Century Radical; BOOK TWO The "Way to Wealth"; BOOK THREE Dr. Franklin Builds an Empire; BOOK FOUR His Excellency, Doctor Franklin, the Patriarch; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: The many-sided Franklin, whose varied activities have puzzled so many historians, had nevertheless a central purpose in life, and the unity of his career can be understood only from that point of view; he was before all and always a moral leader. The… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1983. Repaired; Previous Owner Markings (Graphic Stamp and Signature in Marker to Half Title Page, with Bleed Through to Title Page); Mildew Spots From Page 156 to Rear Cover Inclusive; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Heavily Soiled; Heavy Moisture Damage (Staining); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. Reshad Feild, Author of The Last Barrier A Journey Through the World of Sufi Teaching. BOOK NUMBER: RD 457. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Reshad Feild, author of The Last Barrier, lives in Santa Cruz, California; he is a popular speaker in New Age circles in England, Canada, and the United States. REVIEWS: "Beautiful and moving, The Invisible Way is an enlightening exploration of the Sufi tradition, illuminating the nature of reality, the meaning of life and death, and the mystery of love. 'This volume continues the autobiographical account of Feild's spiritual search begun in The Last Barrier.… Read More

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company - Litton Educational Publishing, Inc., 1978. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Fashionable, well-fitting hats have always been an important clothing accessory. This book shows both the beginning and experienced needlecrafter how to create dozens of simple, attractive, and easy-to-wear hats in keeping with the casual and practical dictates of contemporary fashion. There are classic and novelty hats, warm and cold weather hats, dressy and everyday hats, and hats for fun and hats for sun. Ten basic hat shapes, all made with the single crochet stitch, include a ribbed headband, small-brimmed cloche, large-brimmed cloche, roller-brimmed cloche, watch cap, beret, hood, helmet, turban, and peak cap. Then there are many ideas for adapting those basic designs to make hats of fabric and… Read More

Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. Previous Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. . . . incorporates creative involvement with a rhythmic, performance-oriented approach. Uses today's sounds to develop knowledgeable musicians. BOOK NUMBER: 1313. CONTENTS: Student's Practice Guide; Your Instrument; Snare Drum Note Primers; Unit 1 Single Strokes; Unit 2 Double Strokes; Unit 3 Rim Sounds; Unit 4 Rudiment; Unit 5 Rim Shot; Unit 6 Rudiment; Unit 7 Multiple Bounce Rolls; Unit 8 Eighth rest; Unit 9 Tonal Variations; Unit 10 Rudiment; Unit 11 Independence; Unit 12 Rudiment; Unit 13 Snares On & Off; Unit 14 Double Stroke Rolls; Rudiments Studied in This Book.. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Coos Bay: Vision Books, 1989. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Discolouration Where Sticker Was Once Affixed; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Eight steps that can save your life! 300,000 copies in print! CONTENTS: Preface by Ken Keyes, Jr.; Introduction by Benjamin B. Ferencz. STEPS TO LASTING PEACE AND PROSPERITY First Step: Insist on Your Ultimate Human Right; Second Step: Understand What Needs to Be Done; Third Step: Become a Peace Patriot; Fourth Step: Recognize Our Great Progress; Fifth Step: Make the U.N. Effective for the Nuclear Age; Sixth Step: Tell Your Friends and Neighbors; Seventh Step: Do Your Daily Deed for Peace; Eighth Step: Give Yourself a Peace Prize!; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1 Expanding Your Personal Power; Appendix 2 Highlights of the United Nations; Appendix 3 The Anatomy of Peace by Reves; Appendix 4 Circulate the Proclamation.. First Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over… Read More

New York: TOR A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1990. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover; Heavy Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Suppose we fought a nuclear war? Suppose we already had... SYNOPSIS: KINGDOM COME...AND BACK AGAIN! World War Three finally struck in 1962. Atom bombs fell like the wrath of God...but it was not quite the end of the world. In the Adirondacks and elsewhere, a handful of men and women hang on to a simple, primitive existence. Now, decades later, the survivors are troubled by strange dreams of another Earth, a world of computers and electricity and television, a world that has escaped nuclear devastation...so far. Another war is coming. Even bigger than before. And as the wall between the worlds dissolves, so does humanity's hope for a second chance.... First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by David… Read More

New York: Ace Books A Division of Charter Communications Inc. 1st Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The best stories from the Hugo-winning magazine. Fritz Leiber, Brian W. Aldiss, Avram Davidson, Robert Nathan, Russell Kirk, Samuel R. Delany, etc. CONTENTS: Introduction; Cyprian's Room - Monica Sterba; Out of Time, Out of Place - George Collyn; Von Goom's Gambit - Victor Contoski; Bumberboom - Avram Davidson; Fill in the Blank - Ron Goulart; Balgrummo's Hell - Russell Kirk; Corona - Samuel R. Delany; The Inner Circles - Fritz Leiber; Problems of Creativeness - Thomas M. Disch; Encounter in the Past - Robert Nathan; The Sea Change - Jean Cox; The Devil and Democracy - Brian Cleeve; Randy's Syndrome - Brian W. Aldiss. SYNOPSIS: Thirteen tales to stop the heart and unsettle the mind. This selection from the cream of one… Read More

New York: Ace Books A Division of Charter Communications Inc. Previous Dealer Markings (Including Hole Punched in Lower Right Corner of Front Cover); Repaired; Light Creasing on Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked. 11 Best from the Hugo Award-winning Magazine! Featuring Harlan Ellison's Hugo Award-winner, The Deathbird; Frederik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Poul Anderson, Stephen Tall and more. CONTENTS: Shaffery Among the Immortals - Frederik Pohl; A Different Drummer - Raylyn Moore; The Deathbird - Harlan Ellison; Born to Exile - Phyllis Eisenstein; Thus Love Betrays Us - Phyllis MacLennan; The Animal Fair - Alfred Bester; Is It the End of the World? - Wilma Shore; The Bear With the Knot on His Tail - Stephen Tall; Birdlime - B. L. Keller; The Problem of Pain - Poul Anderson; Sooner or Later or Never Never - Gary Jennings. SYNOPSIS: The 20th volume in this distinguished series includes such… Read More