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New York: Atheneum, 1978. Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4. 82 pages. Revised Edition. (was written in 1973 and revised for stage production in 1978). Light wrinkle in the front endpaper as a result of a glue problem at manufacture. Otherwise a very clean straight book with flawless interior. The author has taken a strange moment of truth, the simple settling of accounts at the death of a parent, and enlarge it into a portrait. Most of us have through the circumstances of mortality, but Leonard has made fun and art out of it. A play with charm and love that you can remember Long after it has gone. Its warmth and humor and actuality is the oddly funny story of our lives. - Clive Barnes.

The Overlook Press, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. Book has date stamp on back cover and a few creases to both covers. Pages and inside covers have some age-tanning. So it is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian and author, who has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to discover?or rediscover?a path into magic, past and present. And so it is for Rosie Rasmussen, a single mother grappling with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her young daughter Samantha's inexplicable seizures. For Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, another path unfolds: she's drawn into a cult that promises to exorcise her demons. It is the dark of the year, between Halloween and the winter solstice, and the gateway is open between the worlds of the living and the dead. A great cycle of time is ending, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder must take sides in an age-old war that is… Read More

DC, 2023. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. Still Sealed in shrink wrap. This Omnibus collects the entire Dark Nights Metal Saga.

DC Comics, 2019. Soft cover. As New. New Book in Shrink Wrap. As the first book in an all-new DC series, DC Poster Portfolio: Stanley "Artgerm" Lau showcases art of one of most revered artists of our time. DC Comics presents the artwork of illustrator Stanley "Artgerm" Lau, featuring 20 of his most stunning pieces starring some of the greatest superheroes and super-villains in comics history. Featuring favorites from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and Harley Quinn, the art collected in this poster book showcase is perfect for framing and display.

Rennes, France: Editions Quest-France, 2004. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 7 1/2" X 10 1/4. 128 Pages. Fine condition. Gift Quality. Very attractive book with jacket flaps. This is the April 2004 Edition with 350 photographs, illustrations, and maps. Printed on very high quality glossy paper with colour photographs on every page. A complete insight into the different D. Day soldiers, illustrated with more colour photographs taken especially for the book. A wide variety of weapons, headgear, uniforms, vehicles and equipment has been photographed with detailed captions, to make this book a lively and colourful testimony to "The Longest Day" and the days that followed. Contents: Preface, The German Occupation, The Atlantic Wall, German Soldiers' Military Equipment. The Resistance in Normandy, Distinguishing Between the Waffen-SS and the Heer, Code name: "Overlord", Lying in Wait, Map of Operations, British Airborne Operations, The Alarm is Raised, American Airborne… Read More

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9. 189 Pages. Inscription by author on the title page "you've been DILF'd xok. Signed by Stepahnie St. Klaire". It's not a dirty book about a romp in the sack, but it's 5-star Hot and pee in your pants funny. If you hate enemies to lovers, swoony firefighters, strong sassy heroines, and surprise babies with a twist...this book isn't for you. Uh Oh! Women are setting their lawns on fire and sticking random cats in trees all over town so they can dial 911 and get a glimpse of Jack Decker's hose. When a firefighter looks like he does, it's no wonder hearts are ablaze all over the city because he is H-O-T...hot! The ladies around town may want to heat up Jack's sheets and let them smolder, but he has his eye on the blonde firecracker neighbor with the stick up her...Jules is the feisty know it all next door who isn't impressed by the bachelor, or rumors of… Read More

St. Paul, Miinnesota: Motorbooks International - An Imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 2004. First Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 8 1/2" X 11. 160 Pages Indexed. Black boards with silver spine lettering and book is in brand new condition. Bentley has a fabulous history of racing and of prestigious road cars. But the new owner of the company is the Volkswagen Group, which has a history-as the name translates-of building basic transport for the people. Bentley has already been back to Le Mans for its new owner-and won. But will the cars win on the boulevards of Monte Carlo and San Francisco? Will they preserve, enhance, or destroy the great motor brand of the 1920s? So far the signs are good, with the launch of the Continental GT-a 212-mph coupe. This book looks at how you keep faith with an old image while bringing it up to date. The designers have to worry about legislation, fashion, and competitor pressure while creating the best car of the day. Author Richard Feast has talked to early… Read More

ToÌ"kyoÌ" : Kadokawa Shoten, ToÌ"kyoÌ" : Kadokawa GuruÌ"pu Paburisshingu. 2008 ;, 2008. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Dust jacket is also very clean with lots of color, gloss and beautiful edges. Book is in Japanese language.

New York: Doubleday, 2003. 54th Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2. 454 Pages. This is the April 2003 edition and 54th printing.. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon… Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexico: Sunbelt Editions, 2017. Assumed First Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9. Manno, Lois - Cover Design. 214 Pages Indexed. Author's signature "Enjoy! Dave D." on the front endpaper. With wars among the city-states raging in early Renaissance Italy, the enigmatic genius Leonardo da Vinci was producing some of the most lavish theatrical productions and banquets Europe has ever seen in the Sforza Court in Milan, while personally living a nearly monastic life, eating the most basic vegetarian foods. Leonardo's food history is just a part of the fascinating and little known story of the origins of Italian cuisine. The tale begins in the early Renaissance with the first superstar chefs, Maestro Martino and Platina, whose cookbooks literally set the stage for the evolution of the cooking of Italy. Both of these cooks moved away from the use of imported spices in favor of local aromatic herbs. The introduction of new crops into Italy soon transformed the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Regan Books, 2003. First Edition First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Very Good/Near Fine. 6" x 9. 307 Pages. Mancow Muller is one of the nation's most famous radio persoanlities and the man who shut down the Oakland Bay Bridge as a political act. He is the creator, writer , and the ringmaster of what has been called the funniest, fastest-moving and most diveerse radio show inn history. His Morning Madhouse is syndicated nationally from Chicago. When Mancow loses his dad to cancer, he has a meltdown, spiraling down Freedom Road on a nonstop death ride: racing the autobahn, inhaling Amsterdam's pleasures, narrowly escaping an illegal visit to Castro's Cuba, suffering a near-fatal nervouse breakdown, and cavorting under dog piles of women. These adventures end him on a mind trip through his past. Terrorist teachers, hellfire preachers, and jails masquerading as public schools attack his intelligence and independence. He questions everything. Do we already… Read More

Minneapolis, Minnesdota: Dillon Press, Inc, 1978. Second Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6 1/2" X 9 1/2. 74 Pages. There are three signatures on the front endpaper: Daisy Hooee Nampeyo, Shirley Benn Nampeyo, and Cheryl Pinto Nampeyo V. A biography of the Hopi Indian artist famous for her pottery, sculpture, and jewelry. On the cover Daisy Hooee Nampeyo decorating a Hopi pot in the traditional way with with a yucca fiber brush and paint made from dried bee weed. A noted potter, Daisy Hooee Nampeyo is passing on her art to her children and grandchildren, as she and her sisters in turn had learned it from their grandmother, Nampeyo. Threatened with blindness when she was twelve years old, she left the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona to have corrective surgery performed in California. Her friendship with a wealthy patron of the arts led to studies abroad in painting and sculpture. When she returned to Arizona as a young woman, she took up pottery making, a craft she had… Read More

New York: Scholastic Books, Octobere 1974 1st, 1974. First Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Good. Ocotber 1984 TK1050, 252 pages

Ganite Falls, Minnesota: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1993. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 166 Pages. Tight square book with covers showing light wear. Interior text pages are near flawless. This book collects the poems of rancher-poet-essayist Linda M. Hasselstrom. The book contains the complete texts of Linda's earlier work, Caught By One Wing 1990 and Roadkill 1987, both out of print, and adds 28 previously unpublished poems including the perennial favorite, Mulch, a preface, a brief autobiographical sketch, and an alphabetical index of titles. Here are Linda's observations on the past, present and future of her life in the West, touching on local history Homesteading in Dakota, her childhood Tomboy, ranching Rancher Roulette, living on the land Now I Know Grouse, lessons learned from older relatives Handbook to Ranching, and the unanticipated changes in her life Walking the Dog. There is a band of writers today examining where their region has come from… Read More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1968. First American Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/Good. 5 1/2" x 8. 229 pages near future government control novel. Dark blue boards with black and silver lettering and decorations. Light green endpapers. Tight attractive book with unclipped 8.95 dust jacket. Somewhere on the vast Dakota plains stands the Project, a self-sufficient, self-sustaining compound surround by a vast perimeter of electrified wire. A macabre community where scientists and military men operate in an atmosphere of Horror. Where getting in can be difficult, getting out impossible under Colonel Umber's plan of complete governmental control. Science Fiction similar to 1984 and Brave New World.

New York: Hay House, Inc., 2013. First Edition Fourth Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 209 Pages. November 2013 First Edition Fourth Printing. As new condition. Interior text pages are near flawless. What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy. Not the kind of happy that comes and goes like a can of flaked tuna but an enduring happiness. The deep-down happiness that makes you purr from the heart. Before leaving for a teaching tour to America, the Dalai Lama poses a challenge to his beloved feline, HHC (His Holiness's Cat): to discover the true cause of happiness. Little does she know what adventures this task will bring! A hair-raising chase through the streets of McLeod Ganj leads to an unexpected revelation about the… Read More

New York: Hay House, Inc., 2015. Third Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. Grigoriou, Amy Rose - Cover Design. 198 Pages. No defects noted. Interior text pages are tight, bright, and white. If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being. A twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes, perhaps, a snuffling noise or a meow. Cats may indeed be capable of great mindfulness, but we are thinking beings too. In my own case, unfortunately, a being who thinks rather too much. In the latest installment of the Dalai Lama's Cat series, His Holinesss Cat (HHC) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this, being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind, and to… Read More

Neptune City: T F H Publications, Incorporated, 1995. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/4" x 8. 224 Pages Indexed. Stiff clossy pictorial covers with reading crease. Some very minor edge wear and remainder mark. Interjior is flawless. This book, illustrated with almost 200 full-color photos and drawings, prsents sensible, easy-to-follow recommendations about selecting and caring for a Dalmatian. It concentrates on providing readers with the information they need and want, all given in an interesting and easy-to-read style. following is just a partial listing of the topics covered: History of the Daolmation, Description of the Dalmatian, Grooming, Selecting YOur Dog, The New Family Member, Feeding Requirements, Accomodations, Preventive Dental Care, House-breaking and Training, Behaviour Modification, Health Care, Breeding, The Show Dog World, Owner Concerns, and Traveling With Your Dog.

Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network - Asia-Pacific Peoples Enironment Network, 1988. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 196 Pages. Light wear to covers. Interior text pages are flawless. The Narmada Dams project is going to be India's greatest man-made environmental disaster. Funded by the World Bank, the project will uproot over a million people, most of them tribals, depriving them of their homes and their livelihood. It will also submerge 350,000 hectares of forest, leading to the extinction of valuable plant species and the mass slaughter of wildlife. The authors, who had access to official documents related to the project, give a detailed study of the dams' impact, and expose the large-scale manipulation and fraud that led to the approval of the project. Also included are exclusive interviews with top officials of the Narmada Valley Development Authority, one of whom has already joined opponents to the dams. The Third World Network is a grouping or… Read More

New York: Hyperion Books, 2013. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 6 1/2" X 9 3/4. 287 Pages. Book and jacket are new and protected with vinyl covering since purchased. From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to a Nation, Rorke Denver, the bestselling account of how he helped create the U.S. Navy SEALS of today. Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy SEALs--the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield, ideal warriors for the kinds of wars America is fighting now. With his years of action-packed mission experience and a top training role, Lieutenant Commander Denver understands exactly how tomorrow's soldiers are recruited, sculpted, motivated, and deployed. And finally into a lieutenant commander directing the indoctrination, requalification programs, and the "Hero or Zero" missions his SEALs undertake. He has also served as flag aide to the admiral in… Read More