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U.S.A: Crown Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover and Dust Jacket in Near Fine Condition. A collection of short stories by the winner of the Pen/Nelson Algren Award, set in the Great Lakes Region, of church bazaars and fish frys, bittersweet tales that celebrate a vanishing small-town way of life and the silent strength of people facing great odds. Bound in red half cloth with black title, yellow cloth-wrapped boards, very clean and unmarked with slight wear to bottom edges, else fine. Internals are as new. Clean and bright white Jacket with red and black titles has slight wrinkling around spine ends, not price-clipped. 242 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Crown Publishers, New York,1988.

New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Publisher: Herder and Herder, 1971. First published in English in 1971 by Herder and Herder. Quarto Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Foreword by Julian Symons. 10.5 x 7.75". 191 pages. A magnificent illustrated history of crime fiction, presenting the most popular detective and thriller writers, from Edgar Allan Poe, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, and others, to more contemporary favorites like Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming, Len Deighton, and others. More than 350 illustrations of rare book covers, sketches, caricatures, photos--a unique gallery of mystery writers from the very start of crime fiction to 1971. Illustrated endpapers; Title Page Vignette. Pale blue cloth binding with gold banner stripe with skeleton; very clean, tight, solid sewn binding. Light, narrow sunned strip alone upper edge of front cover. Internals As New. Pages are glossy… Read More

U.S.A: Coward-McCann, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Coward-McCann. 1939. A Novel in Verse-First Printing. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Bound in blue cloth, silver titled on spine, clean and unmarked, spine lightly sunned with one small very pale reddish spot on spine, lightly rubbed on edges; tight and solid sewn binding. Pages clean, completely free from any markings, lightly toned. Bookplate on endpaper; date in pencil on rear endpaper. Back side has a few whitish spots. Christopher La Farge, 1897-1956, was a novelist and poet who was best known for writing verse novels about life in Rhode Island. "Each to the Other", his second verse novel, is considered at least partly based on his own life growing up in Rhode Island, centers around the difficulties between father and son. 422 pages. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Coward-McCann, New Yorl, 1939.

New York: Viking/Penguin Group, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing of First Edition. As New with an As New Dust Jacket. The extraordinary story of how a young woman's life- the author's - ideas, and prejudices, everything she once believed, were utterly transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy. The journey of a terrified, young secretary in her twenties who rose in her job to become one of President Mandela's most loyal and devoted associates. She here pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him, a teacher who taught her the most valuable lessons of her life. This is a book about love and second chances, and honors the lasting and inspiring gifts of one of the great men of our times. 368 pages. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 2014, Viking/Pernguin Group, New York.

Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Verard. Type: Hardback French language hardcover ex-library book in Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. A French Allegory finished in 1482, about the struggle between life and death, although it has often been considered a poem in honor of Charles the Bold. Text is in French, Introduction is in English.This unusual and hard-to-find book is a facsimile of Olivier De La Marche's Le Chevalier Delibere, Edition of Paris, Antoine Verard, 1488, and was made by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. It was published by the Rare Books Division, Library of Congress, Dec 1946. Second Printing.The Reproduction was made from the copy in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. It is a Re-bound Hardcover Book in Good Condition. . Illustrated with woodcuts by Verard. Text is in Gothic script. Bound in white quarter cloth w/gilt titles, blue… Read More

USA: Open Court Publishing Company, 1974. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Includes Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on La Mettrie and Extracts from La Mettrie's "The Natural History of the Soul". Philosophical and historical notes by Gertrude Carman Bussey. Clean cover designed by Friso Henstra, edges worn all around cover, no creases; soundly bound, square, Black mark on bottom edge of page block. A few pages with notes written by text, otherwise quite clean, no creases. The French text in this volume is taken from a Leyden edition of 1748. The translation of this work, which is also included in this volume, is the work of several hands. It is founded on a version made by Gertrude Bussey and has been revised by Professor Calkins. This is La Mettrie's chief philosophical work, the best known 18th century statement of mechanistic materialism. 216 with index of names and titles. 5.2 x 8 inches. Open Court… Read More

DK Publishing, Inc, 2001. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Fine Trade Paperback by Dorling Kindersley Publishing. 1997, exquisitely illustrated in full color. All pages are of coated paper. Glossy, bright, colorful illustrated wraps with French flap. Internals As New. Hard to beat this guide-- museums, theaters, walks, maps, excursions, hotels, restaursants, architecture---.314 pages, indexed. 8.75 x 5 inches. First American Edition 1994, reprinted with revisions. This is the 2001 printing. DK Publishing, New York.

U.S.A: Fireside Book/Simon &Schuster, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Cover is clean and bright, unmarked, a bare touch of edgewear. First page has prev owner name and a small print mark along the fore edge. Pages are clean, completely unmarked. A book of ancient spiritual insights that offers a practical path by which people of any faith can uncover the Divine Spark within. 334 pages. 8.4 x 5.5 inches. Fireside Book/Simon &Schuster, New York, 1998.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First US Printing.Translated by Linda Coverdale. English language.version. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Bound in navy half cloth gilt titled with cream paper-wrapped boards; very clean, bright and unmarked handsome volume. Binding is tight and solid, square, with sharp corners. Bottom edges of boards lightly rubbed, else Fine. Internals are as new. A story of the childhood world of seven brothers and sisters in occupied France during WW II that captures the essence and struggle of a small town in war-torn France. Their story moves via a series of powerful vignettes from their loving childhood world into the dimly comprehended one of occupied France. 259 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1992.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Simon & Schuster, 1993, Fifth Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket as New. Full color photographs. Brown print and drawings. 32 pages of lavish color photographs by Simon Metz. More than 100 foolproof recipes tested in all the most popular models of bread machines. Basic breads, healthy grains and high-fiber breads, old-fashioned country breads, baguettes, bread sticks, Swiss Farmhouse loaves, flatbreads, calzones, bagels, brioches, and even more. 207 pp indexed. 8vo. 1993, Simon & Schuster. ISBN10: 0671880233, ISBN13: 9780671880231

U.S.A: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback A good reading copy of this biography of Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain and the House of Windsor, including the history of Great Britain. Bound in black half cloth gilt titled, with purple cloth wrapped boards also with gilt title. Clean and unmarked with light wear to spine head and heel. Fore edge of page block has a pale stain and a few tiny spots. Internals clean and unmarked with slight waviness to some pages near upper left corner. Two twelve page illustration sections. Tight and solid. Endpapers with Genealogy Chart. Includes Notes on Names and an illustration page of the Royal Homes and Palaces. xxxii, 349 pages with Sources, Chapter Notes and Index. . 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1977.

New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 2013. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Used Condition. Translated from the Swedish by Steven T Murray. Clean and unmarked wraps with all edges rubbed, a crease down spine, glued binding tight and solid, pages also clean, no marks of any kind, no creases. Includes a Reading Group Guide and Author Q & A. A dark novel of revenge, estrangement, loveless lives, loveless marriages. 506 pages. 8.5" x 5.5". 2013, Free Press/Simon and Schuster, NY

New York London: Abbeville Press, 2004. First US Edition. Paper. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First US Edition. Paperback in Good Condition. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. 368 pages, 8 page section of art works on glossy paper. Brown illus wraps clean, with light crease down front near fore edge and first few pages, light wear around cover edges, spine heel lightly scuffed. No spine creases. Binding tight and solid, square. Pages completely clean and free from any markings. Laclotte was art historian, curator, teacher, and museum director at the Musee de Louvre (1951-1994) and the chief curator for twenty years, working on such projects as the Musee d'Orsay in Paris; Musee du Petir Palais in Avignon, while enriching the Louvvre collections with masterpieces by Piero della Fancesca, Georges de la Tour, and Vermeer. Later he oversaw the 'Grand Louvre' project which transformed the museum and made its glass pyramid one of the city's most… Read More

Sisters, Oregon, U.S.A: Multnomah Books, 1998. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback A 2-in-1 Volume from Chrstian Family Book Club, 1998. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Includes "A Dream Fulfilled" and "Suffer the Little Children". Books four and five of the exciting and romantic adventures of traveling medical specialist Breanna Baylor in the Angel of Mercy Series. 285 pages. 8.5" x 5.75". 1998, Multnomah Books, Sisters, Oregon, U.S.A.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin, USA: Walker and Co, 1981. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Book Two. Large Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Just a whisper of wear. Easy step-by-step Instructions, new techniques & ideas. Try a fun maybe new to you craft with this book of woodburning techniques, coloring techniques and patterns. 74 pages. 8.25 x 11 inches. 1981, Walnut Hollow Farm, Dodgeville, Wisconsin, USA

Nashville, Tenessee, USA: Thomas Nelson, 2014. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Whisper of wear to cover edges, else Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked wraps; solid and tight glued binding. Set in 19th century England, at a boarding school. 312 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 2014, Thomas Nelson Publisher, Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, Tenessee, USA: Thomas Nelson, 2014. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback As New. Bright, clean, unmarked wraps; solid and tight glued binding. Set in Darby, England, 1819, awash with isolation, lonliness, secrets in Willowgrove Hall. 344 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 2014, Thomas Nelson Publisher, Nashville, Tennessee.

, Anstey, Leicestershire, England: Cornell University Press, 1969. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Blue cover is clean, worn around edges, has a small scrape on the front, lower left, and a hole-punch in the upper right corner. Soundly bound, square. Minimal underlining and comments towards back of book; notes written on the title page, otherwise pages clean, no creases. In this Beveridge Award-winning study, Walter LaFeber of Cornell University probes beneath the apparently quiet surface of late nineteenth-century American diplomacy, undisturbed by major wars and undistinguished by important statements of policy. He finds that those who shaped American diplomacy believed expanding foreign markets were the cure for recurring depressions. This book is based on the assumption that economic causes were the most important of many forces driving America to world power. 444 pages with bibliography and index. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Cornell University… Read More

Omaha, Nebraska: Addicus Books, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Slight wear to front corners, else Fine. Bright, clean, unmarked wraps, tight and solid glued binding, square, internals in Fine condition. In May of 1946, six desperate inmates attempted to escape from Alcatraz--the result was one of the bloodiest uprisings in the history of American prisons. The U.S. Marines, five Coast Guard ships and a Navy destroyer were involved in quelling this uprising. Ernest Lageson, Jr. brings us this insider's account of both the notorious riot and life inside the most infamous prison in American history. Ernest Lageson, Jr. was the son of one of the guards shot; he was a teenager at the time of the riot and remembers waiting with other hostage families, waiting to hear if their loved ones were alive. 279 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. 1999, Addicus Books, Omaha, Nebraska.

Wheaton, Illinois, U.S.A: Tyndale House Publications, 1998. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Black cover with gold and blue lettering is clean and unmarked, light edgewear; lower corner is creased and corners are upturned. Tight glued binding, square. Pages are clean and unmarked. The continuing drama of 'those left behind'. 413 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Publisher: Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House, 1998.