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Charles C. Spink & Son and The Sporting News, St. Louis, Missouri, 1953. Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 576 pp. Text sunned with age, clean and unmarked. Stamp on title page for General Library, Veterans Hospital, Canandaigua, N.Y. The New York Yankees won the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers in the seventh game on a sixth inning home run by Mickey Mantle that turned out to be the decisive run. This guide contains official team pictures of all major league teams along with their respective rosters and season statistics for 1952. Few copies of these books have survived in readable condition.

Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1947), New York, NY, 1947. Cloth w/DJ. Condition: Very Good+. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). 2nd Edition, 2nd printing. Prentice-Hall Health and Sports Series, edited by Elmer D. Mitchell. 340 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked on glossy paper. Frontispiece drawing of author. PO attribution in pencil on front free endpaper. Not an ex-library copy. Rare vintage book on baseball techniques and strategy.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. 224 pages clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Not an ex-library version. Text has roughcut edge. Book and DJ are like new. First American edition, translated from French by Helen Weaver.

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 2086 pp. in two volumes. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. These two volumes are described by the authors as: "A new college anthology of American literature, with which is integrated a comprehensive historical and critical survey, must be designed to meet the needs of students whose perspectives are growing with our complex times."

American Education Press. Columbus, Ohio Condition: Good. (Copyright 1936 by The Educational Printing House, Inc., but 1940 reprint status is indicated by #3.40 210 on page one combined with the inside rear cover listing this book as an American Education Press publication.) Unit Study Book No. 210. Softcover, staple binding, 36 pages profusely illustrated (with photos & drawings). Ex-library copy with appropriate mark stamped on front cover and last text page. Bottom front corner of cover is missing. Contents are clean. Early version is somewhat scarce.
(Prior to WWII, The Educational Printing House, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio printed short, small paperback pamphlet books in the Unit Study Book series. The originals were often reprinted by The American Education Press, Inc. of Columbus, Ohio through 1940. The authors of the Unit Study Book series books were elementary school educators and frequent contributors of the My Weekly Reader, a popular children's periodical also published by the American… Read More

Galahad Books, New York, 1993. Revised, reset and updated edition. Book condition: Near Fine. Dust jacket condition: Near Fine. 490 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Dust jacket like new. A definitive book on dogs, their breeds and characteristics, development, breeding, first aid, diets, travel tips (both domestic and abroad) and animal safety by a reknown veterinarian.

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1904. 160 pp with color and black and white illustrations by Charles Copeland. Bumped top corners and light soil to covers. Front free-endpapers missing. Title page, front and rear pastedowns and a portion of text marred with adolescent pencil scribbling. Copy is still readable.

Ginn & Co., Boston, 1904. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. 160 pp with color and black and white illustrations by Charles Copeland. Bumped corners and light soil to covers, top spine frayed. Text clean and unmarked with light foxing throughout. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Exceptional condition for age.

C. L. Hammond and Company, Maplewood, NJ, 1952. Hardbound. First edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 256 pp includes Classification Key, Tables of Wildlife Refuses, Glassary and Index. Text white, clean and unmarked. Prior owner attribution in pencil on title page. Green and white pastedown and front free endpapers decorated with drawings of nature. Profusely illustrated with 320 original color paintings of animals and plants (282 by Walter Ferguson and 38 by John Cody) and 34 pages of colored maps. Rear cover has light shelfwear. Exceptional condition considering its age and scarcity.

Simon and Schuster, New York, 1954. Hardcover. Stated first printing. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 496 pp. Text clean, unmarked and off-white. Small food stain on pages 366-367. No foxing or prior owner attribution. B/w and dark orange illustrations in text. In 1948 Furness was performing in the television series Studio One which was broadcast live. She filled in for an actor to promote Westinghouse products during the advertisement break, and impressed the company with her easy and professional manner. They offered her a contract to promote their products and she subsequently became known for one of television's most recognizable series of commercials. Furness became famous for opening wide a refrigerator door, intoning, "You can be sure. if it's Westinghouse."