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Beijing, China: Foreign Languages Press, 2002. First Edition Stated . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8. 378 Pages. Chna's traditional way of health preservation has developed through the accumulated wisdom and experience of thousands of years, and is known throughout the world for its distinctive methods and effects. These methods are often closely related to the daily life of the people. They are simple, safe and effective, as well as being easy to understand and learn. This book is a summary of the many Chinese methods of health preservation, and has been written so as to be understandable and acceptable to Westerners, containing methods which they will find easy to learn and apply. Daily health preserving methods are introduced first, including the seasons, mental attitude, food and drink, entertainment, work, leisure and sex life. The next section contains some 60 different kinds of well-known, easy and effective health preserving methods and exercises, which are all suitable… Read More

New York: Chamberlain Bros. - A Member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4. Putorti, Jaime - Design. 234 Pages. This is an anthology of 20 erotic stories of female dominance. No defects noted and interior text pages are near flawless. The writers, mistresses, and scene players gathered together in this book know something about the farther shores of pleasure, means of transgression and transcendence that take you think know about the erotic and twist it into beautiful and frightening new shapes. Contents: I Am Your Kitten by Bianca James, Becoming the Goddess by Carol Queen, At the Power Exchange by Jessi Holhart, Submission-The Softer Side of S&M by Lilycat, Tagging Along by Jane Cassell, Afters by M. Christian, Paul in the Hospital by Clio Dubois and Margo Lin, The Rubber Chicken Scene by Greta Christina, Down in the Cinders by Marry Sheiner, The Littlest Dominatrix by Lisa Montanarelli, Duplicity by Shawna Kenney, A Recent… Read More

Pocket, July 1952 1st ed.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good, # 874, 234 pages, Tom Dunn Cvr, spine roll, tight white

New York: The Dial Press, 1975. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 5 1/2" x 8. 318 Pages. Bottom half of title page and reverse copyright pages are loose. Dust jacket price $8.95 is unclipped. One inch tear to bottom of dust jacket some lesser tears and wear. Contents: Charlotte Armstrong - The Second Commandment, Ed McBain - Nightshade, Earl Derr Biggers - The Dollar Chasers, Lawrence G. Blochman - Missing One Stage Struck Hippie, Michael Gilbert - The Cork in the Bottle, Edward D. Hoch - The Rainy Day Bandit, Robert L. Fish - Double Entry, Robie Macauley - The Barrington Quality, Michael Harrison - The Clew of the Single Word, Helen McCloy - The Pleasant Assassin, Michael Collins - No One Likes to Be Played for a Sucker, Jon L. Breen - The Vanity Murder Case, Berkely Mather - Terror Ride, Ellery Queen - Mystery at the Library of Congress.

New York: Pocket Books, 1963. First Pocket Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. # 4704, 218 pages

New York: Pocket Books, 1964. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Pocket Book Edition 1st printing January 1966 #50209, 182 pages. "Perhaps the Most Unusual Detective Novel Of Our Time".

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4. Gersh, Bill - Cover. 155 pages. Frist Printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition 1994. Fronispiece photograph of author on a bucking horse at age five. Tight book with no marks or stamps. Photographs by Elaine Querry and Foreword by Larry L. King. When Ron Querry left his job teaching English at the University of Oklahoma, he took up ranching, armed with a Ph.D. and a pair of tender feet. This is his account of his ranching career in New Mexico, in the course of which he married the beautiful lady rancher next door and learned the 24 hour a day job of dealing with a herd of stubborn cattle as well as assorted horses, dogs, cats, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes, and neighbors. The stories of his misadventures are warm-hearted and funny, with moments of defeat as well as victory---bittersweet picture of life in the latter-day West. Contents in 20 Chapters: My Heroes… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1995. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 8. 218 Pages. July 1995 Edition. A novel about the mysterious death of a young Indian dancer. There are no real people in this novel. However, many of the events and the settings are genuine: Gallup and Dulce, Taos Pueblo, the trading post at Pinon Canyon de Chelly, Shongopovi Village at Second Mesa---all are described as nearly as the author can recall having known them. Also the same may be said of the powwow at Taos Pubelo gym and the 99 Tasapkachinas on the plaza at old Shongopovi. There are few Navajos today who doubt the existence of witches. Accounts of witchery not unlike those in this novel may be found througout the anthropological and ethnological literature dealing with the Navajo.

Norman, OK, U.S.A.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4. Dixon, Maynard - Cover. 155 pages. Frist Printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition 1994. Tight book with no marks or stamps. Photographs by Elaine Querry and Foreword by Larry L. King. When Ron Querry left his job teaching English at the University of Oklahoma, he took up ranching, armed with a Ph.D. and a pair of tender feet. This is his account of his ranching career in New Mexico, in the course of which he married the beautiful lady rancher next door and learned the 24 hour a day job of dealing with a herd of stubborn cattle as well as assorted horses, dogs, cats, tumbleweeds, rattlesnakes, and neighbors. The stories of his misadventures are warm-hearted and funny, with moments of defeat as well as victory---bittersweet picture of life in the latter-day West. Contents in 20 Chapters: My Heroes Ain't Always Been Cowboys, Twas First to Beer Drinkin, Adios to All… Read More

New York: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 1993. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2" X 11. Quigley, Augrey - Illustrations. 64 Pages Indexed. Small Tear on lower back cover probably from a lable peel. Chinese landscape painting using simple brushstrokes and ink, step by step guide for creating classic Chinese landscape. The beginnings of Chinese painting are lost in the mists of time, as it evolved even before the art of calligraphy. At first the artists painted in symbols depicting people, nature and the life around them and these were used for decoration. The symbols were gradually expanded so that they could be used for communication as well. The two art forms - painting and calligraphy - are linked together as Chinese painting contains visible forms with an underlying philosophical concept, whilst calligraphy communicates in an artistic, impressionable way. Even as long ago as twelve thousand years, the earliest pottery was decorated with the aid of cord wrapped sticks and… Read More

Mississauga, ON, Canada: Random House of Canada, Limited, 1998. Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 194 pages. Blue boards with gold spine lettering. Dust jacket does not have price. For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father.

Maui, Hawaii: Gecko Group Books, 2018. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" x 9. 307 Pages. Eleven pages of inscribed inked-lines by the author on the copyright opposing page. No other defects to this otherwise as new book. Interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. The Dream Virgin A young comic book entrepreneur wins a Startup contest to work on her dream venture at a innovative business incubator in the Oregon Alps, but when a homicidal maniac escapes from the state prison mental ward, the teen's sponsored summer gets ambushed by a madman she must confront and destroy. Elfri Fleming travels to public libraries in the southwest with her ex-cop grandfather to teach kids the power of lucid dreaming. A converted school bus called the Dreamland Express, fifty-nine issues of her Dream Zoo comics, pure talent and calculated ambition helped the professional dreamer create a mobile enterprise with a loyal following who question why there have been no new comics for way too long.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Summit Books, 1987. First Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 478 pages indexed. Green-papered cloth with gold lettering on red-brown cloth quarter spine. Jacket is price clipped and has some edge chipping. Book has no marks, stamps or underlining. Tight straight little read book. List of works by Horney, bibliographical essay and notes. Illustrated by black and white photos. A vivd life of Karen Horney, the lively challenging psychoanalyst from Germany who demonstrated early that Freudian psycholo-analysis need not be static, and fought the male chauvinism of New York and Vienna. the narrative is consistently sustained and the book given profound reality by the author's use of Horney's unpublished diaries. It is a landmark book.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers - !t Books, 2004. First Edition First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 6" x 9 1/2. 276 Pages. Dust jacket price 23.95 is unclipped. Julio Santana is an arsonist. For a fee, Julio burns down buildings looked upon as unseemly by investors trying to transform the very face of the Spanish Harlem neighborhood he calls home. He has pocketed thousands of dollars from people who wnat to profit from ;the forced gentrification of his neighborhood, money he has used to make his parents proud by purchasing them a place of their own. He falls in love with a white woman who has just moved into his Harlem neighborhood, he makes it his priority to stop setting his own neighborhood ablaze. As Julio struggles to live up to his decision, he is surrounded by characters who both complicate and enlighten his life. In the end this is a work about what every city in America is currently undergoing. Usinghis signature prose, Quinonez paints the face of a neighborhood… Read More

Secaucas, New Jersey: The Citadel Press, 1973. Third Printing . Trade Paperback. Good. 8 1/2" X 11. Swiller, Al - Design. 220 Pages. Trade paperback that is square and free of marks and stamps. Covers show edge and corner wear. Joan Crawford was a typically American film star. She was American in that she projects enterprise, resiliency, and drive in her performances. She is also American in that she hangs on to her gains. She was a leading cinema personality for forty-three years through eighty films-and for ten of those years she has also been a successful businesswoman. Among her on-screen images: the shopgirl who aspires to better things; the ambitious prostitute who seeks respectability -- and the man to help her get it; the lady-thief who assumes the manners and mores of the aristocrats she is fleecing; the stenographer who wants to rise from a drab life on a ladder of men; the stranded carnival girl who seeks a haven; the man-shark who steals the husbands of less aggressive women. Miss… Read More