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Bologna, Italy: S1 Editrice S.r.l., 1995. Assumed First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" X 8 1/2. 179 Pages Indexed. Since so many of Black's troubles in the Queen's Gambit can be traced to a cramped game, offhand it looks as though it would be good policy to get free play for the pieces, even at the cost of giving up the centre temporarily. This is the leading motif of the Queen's Gambit Accepted: a more comfortable game gets priority, equality in the centre will come later. Naturally, White is anxious to play "e4", as in all variations of the Queen's Gambit. By removing the pawn barrier Black makes the struggle to see whether White can force a favourable advance or not all the more acute. White must regain his pawn, but also prevent the liberating "eS", which would follow, e.g., on "3.e3". Consequently 3.lUf3 is most natural. Perhaps it should be mentioned that Black cannot afford to try to hold on to the pawn: if now 3 ... bS 4.a4 c6 S.e3… Read More

Independently published, 2020. Soft cover. Very Good. 282 pages. ??? iPhones are great! If you know how to use them! ??? The iPhone is arguably the best phone out there. Powerful. Takes great photos. And does just about everything. But easy to use? For some people, absolutely! But if you've never used it before-or if you have used it but want to get more out of it-it's a little intimidating. This book will help!

Boston and New York: Houghton Miffflin Company, 1935. Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6" X 8 1/2. 272 Pages. A 1935 reprint of the 1930 copyright. Ex-libris with two inked lines of owner's name and a one inked-line owner's name on opposing endpaper. No other marks or stamps to tight book with a slightly cocked spine, sunned spine, and flawless interior text pages. Short stories by Pulitzer Prize winning author of Laughing Boy. La Farge's short stories were published in The New Yorker and Esquire magazines. His more notable works, fiction and non-fiction, concern Native American culture Contents in Twelve Short Stories: Hard Winter, All the Young Men, Haunted Ground, A Family Matter, North is Black, Higher Education, The Goddess was Mortal, Dangerous Man, Love Charm, Women at Yellow Wells, Camping on My Trail, and No More Bohemia.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company - The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1966. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4. 246 Pages. Tan cloth with white lettering to the spine and impressed into the front board the author's last name. Laid in (pasted) are two clippings. One with his photograph that appears to be somewhat of an obituary. The other clipping is a short description of the present book. In and out of these essays wanders The Man with the Calabash Pipe, a sardonic bachelor who refused to light his heater since a likeable mouse is in residence underneath it. His aged friend the Horned Husband Kachina Chief is another recurring character, a walking embodiment of an Indian sense of humor. But the important person is Oliver La Farge himself, talking as if with a friend about the things that concern him most. Contents in 47 Essays: The Man with the Calabash Pipe: I, New Mexico and Santa Fe, Understanding the City Different, Smokeless… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1951. 4th Printing . Trade Paperback. Good. 5" x 8. 302 Pages Sentry Edition with very attractive stiff covers. 302 pages. Tight clean book with store stamp inside back cover. No other marks. A lyrical beautifully told tale of Navaho life. But it is more than that because it is a beautiful love story without sentimentality. La Farge was the anthropologist who wrote down the Navaho alphabet to preserve their language and he writes with authority and genius. A Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Racine, Wisconsin: Golden Press - Western Publishing Company, Inc.. Seventh Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/2" X 11 1/2. 213 Pages Indexed. This is a 1974 Seventh Printing. Very light wear to foot of spine. No other defects noted to this beautiful book with linen boards and map endpapers. This is a pictorial history of Native Americans by anthropologist Oliver La Farge author of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Laughing Boy. The text is based on the author's Pictorial History of the American Indian published by Crown Publishers, Inc. in 1956. This edition was especially prepared for young readers. Lavishly illustrated with color photos, archival prints, contemporary art, and specially commissioned paintings by Andre Durenceau on every page. Lucid and thorough presentation and highly rewarding for adult readers as well. Contents in Eleven Chapters: They Discovered America, The Kings of the South, The Iroquoians, The Wigwam People, The Western Farmers, The old… Read More

Denver, Colorado: Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office, 1987. First Ediiton . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2" X 11. Wellborn, Leigh - Design. 256 Pages. No marks or stamps and no defects noted. This background document, or class I overview, has been prepared according to the guidelines established in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cultural resources manual, section 8111. It describes the prehistoric cultural resources of the Little Snake Resource Area (LSRA) in the Craig District of the BLM. The objectives of this project were to inventory and compile the existing cultural resource information for the LSRA and to generate a document that would summarize this information in a cultural, historical context. The document will be used as a basic background guide for contracting archaeologists or for cultural resource managers who may be in the region for the first time. Preparing this document required two principal tasks: writing of a cultural resource overview and the… Read More

New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1955. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. 190 pages, Dell # 911, slight spine cock, white pages

Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1984. First Edition Stated Second Printing . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2" X 8 3/4. 190 Pages. Signed by Robert Holt on the front endpaper with signature only. No inscription. Black boards with gold lettering to the spine. No defects noted to book. Few books have touched the subject of what happens on the Flight Decks of aircraft carriers. It has been documented that these decks are the most dangerous places in the world to work. There are thousands of carrier pilots and Flight Deck personnel who will attest to this. They have lost friends on these decks-men who were in the prime of their lives. Landing on a carrier under the best of circumstances is still a "controlled crash." The concentration necessary to successfully fly aircraft on and off carrier decks builds up a tremendous pressure on carrier pilots, both physically and mentally. For this reason, we make no excuses for the excesses that some carrier pilots engage… Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexco: LPD Press, 2001. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/2" X 11. Rhetts, Paul; Awalt, Barbe - Book and Cover Design. 295 Pages with a seven page comprehensive index. Gift quality condition. Interior text and illustration pages are near flawless. Original cover price $39.95. Cover painting is Hopi Katcina Dance first exhibited in 1923. Frank Applegate was a well-established artist on the East Coast when he moved to Santa Fe in 1921. He was immediately drawn into the art of the Native American and Hispanic cultures and became a moving force in the Santa Fe art scene. Applegate, along with Mary Austin, founded the Spanish Colonial Arts Society whose 75th anniversary is July 2001. Applegate was known for his watercolours, oil paintings, ceramics, and santos. This thoughtful and concise biography is written by Applegate's great-nephew and his wife who had access to family papers and to photographs by Ansel Adams. Contents: A Tribute to Gretchen… Read More

San Diego., California: Tracks Publishing, 2007. Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 224 Pages Indexed. This boxing handbook provides up-to-date, in-depth coaching for serious contenders. Weaving fundamental skills into a progression of drills that hone technique in increasingly complex, demanding, and realistic fighting situations, the handbook aids fighters in developing the reflexes of a complete boxer and teaches the move from a process-and-react mentality to one of seeing-and-reacting. Hundreds of sequential images illustrate vital steps in the progression from proper stance, effective footwork, and range to defense and counters, the importance of angles, and creating winning strategies. 900 Photos.

Providence, Rhode Island and London: Brown University Press and Kund Humphries, 1961. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Tatterred. 7 1/2" X 10 1/4" and 3" Thick. 564 Pages Indexed with Names of Persons and with 173 Illustration Plates, and foldout maps of Battle of Waterloo and The Russian Campaign of 1812. Blue boards with gold lettering to spine and cover. Six inked lines of gift inscription on the copyright page. No other marks to this otherwise as new book. Dust Jacket tattered around the edges but complete. Of all his works, the Imperial Guard was Napoleon's frnest creation. Molded from the flotsam of the French Revolution, this elite corps swept through Europe for fifteen years behind its indomitable master, sharing in his brilliant victories and bearing the brunt of his epic defeats with unfaltering devotion. This narrative, presented through the eyes of the participants in an incomparable drama of endurance, heroism, and fidelity, has been adapted for American… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Baen Books, 2001. Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. Stephen Hickman Cover Art. 331 pages. After the events chronicled in Bedlam's Bard, world saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck. His building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there's a new evil for them to guard against. When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very very rich.

DAW, 1991. Soft cover. Good/Good. Lee, Jody. 492 pages. Book is clean with white pages and a square, tight binding. Book has slightly bumped bottom spine. Dust jacket is clean and intact....BUT...it is taped to the book. Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her anscestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and his fiancee kidnapped. Drive by desperation and the knowledge that a scorcerer had led the journey which would prove but he first step on the road to the fulfillment of her destiny.

Unity, Maine, U.S.A.: Five Star, 2000. Hard Back. Very Good. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4. 276 Pages. April 2000 Edition. Five Star Standard Print Christian Fiction Series with glossy laminated pictorial boards. High quality paper with sewn binding. From the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, one dark, mysterious man rides for truth and justice. On his right hip hangs a Colt Peacemaker .45. In his pack he carries a large, black Bible. He is the legend known only as the Stranger. When the legendary John Stranger arrives in Apache Juncdtion, Arizona, he finds himself on the edge of a bitter war between sworn enemies: thetonto Apaches and the Ariizona Zunis. for over a centurly, the two tribes have waged hard-fought battles over sacred land. But in recent years, the stakes lhave risen higher than ever before. After the son of Arizona's governor is taken hostage during a dramatic wedding-day kidnapping, John Stranger is called upon to save the young man's life and avert a deadly weapons… Read More

New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc. - A Membe of The Tylor & Francis Group, 2000. Fourth Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9. 430 Pages. No defects noted to this As New book with flawless interior text pages. The legend of King Arthur has its roots in the fifth or sixth century, following the Roman withdrawal from Britain around A.D. 410. Not long after that time, stories began to circulate concerning the exploits of a hero and leader to whom the name Arthur would eventually be attached. Although it is clear that there was never a King Arthur corresponding to the legendary figure known to modern readers, there may very well have been a real model, or multiple models, for the king. But whether he lived or not, the tales about him captured the popular imagination and grew into one of the great and enduring legends of all time. The Lancelot-Grail Reader showcases in a single volume significant episodes from Garland's complete five-volume translation of the Vulgate and… Read More

Columbus, OH, U.S.A.: McGraw-Hill Children's Publishing, 1986. Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 649 Pages. Yellow covers with lamination loose about of 1/3 of the front lower edge. Slightly concave spine. Tight clean pages. Some soiling on exterior page edges. The Arthurian Encyclopedia is an astonishing accomplishment and a unique addition to the body of Arthurian literature and scholarship. Involves over 50 scholars and contains a wide range of entries in the arts. Arthurian characters, history, legend and acheology, themes, motifs and objects. A wealth of literatures. Its clear introduction, good select bibliography, bibliographies under many entries, cross-references, and illustrations make it a useful reference for both specialist and general reader. Indeed, it is a work worthy of the greatest and most international of legends.

Walnut Creek, California: Sufism Reoriented, 2001. Fifth Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7 1/4" x 10. Cobb, Diane - Cover. 159 Pages. Covers show some very minor wear and beyond that is a tight bright book with flawless interior text pages. Gift Quality. Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c. 1320-1389), though little known in the Western world, is the most beloved poet of Persia (Iran). To Persians, the poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend. The special gift of this friend is a poetry unique in world literature, a poetry that celebrates every expression of love in the universe. The lyrics of Hafiz overflow with a profound appreciation of the beauty and richness of life when seen through the eyes of love. With unerring insight, he explores the feelings and motives associated with every level of love, tracing each nuance of emotion in depth and detail. His poetry outlines the stages of the mystic's path of love-… Read More

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: City Lights Books, 1991. Third Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7 1/2" X 10. 126 Pages. January 1991 Edition. Tight bright book with nor marks or stamps. Interior text pages are flawless. Illustrations on every page, some in color. Betty LaDuke brings together in Companeras the personal stories and recent work of contemporary artists in the Caribbean, Central and South America. These urban and rural women, who work in such diverse situations as those in Haiti, Chile, and post revolutionary Nicaragua, are dramatically reshaping crafts and fine arts in a period of rapid political and economic change. This representative survey of fourteen countries includes professional painters and sculptors of the big cities, self-taught painters, and women who work in a variety of crafts media. Here are Brazilian lace makers, Amazonian potters, Bolivian and Guatemalan weavers, birthing doll makers in Peru. Some artists are determined to retain high standards in… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This listing is for two books, Volume I and Volume II of Diogenes Laertius. Both books have green boards with a modest date stamp on front pastedown and are clean with a square, tight binding and bright pages. Volume I is dated 1966 and Volume II is dated 1970 Books have minor wear on the page edges that is difficult to see in the scans, including some very light spots on top of page edges. Vol. I (No. 184) has a small crunch to the top right corner of the front of the book. They are in both Greek and English languages. Dust jackets are green with light wear to edges, light smudges to Volume I cover, small tear to bottom spine Volume I and front covers have the corners carefully cut These Loeb Greek Classics no. 184 and 185 is in both Greek and English languages with them being a side by side translation making this classic eminently readable for both the experienced scholar and amateur philosopher. The book you see in the images is… Read More