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Nassau County (located on Long Island in New York State) Telephone/Address business directory for 1983. Area code 516. Per the inside front cover note: "This issue corrected to September 17, 1982". Two catalog numbers: NC 51307 for New York Telephone; NN 51308 for Bell System. Pages are very yellowed but not brittle. Alphabetical listing by business categories including professions. Includes: Nassau County Road Map, Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority bus routes, & zipcodes for both Nassau County & sister Suffolk County (also located on Long Island). Intact 10 pages of "Gold Pages" coupons at the back of the directory. Vivid & informative reflection of 1980s business activity in Nassau County.
Cover illustration description: bright yellow background with a rainbow emerging from a telephone directory on the front cover & extending to the back cover & ending in a "pot of gold".

Junior High School literature anthology textbook (may also be used for High School level). Includes selections of poetry (one long & 10 short narrative poems, patriotic poems, humorous poems, lyrics, Bible psalms), essays, speeches, letters, short stories, biography & autobiography excerpts, & an excerpt from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. Included, for instance, "Evangeline", "Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the Gettysburg Address, biographical excerpt by Quiller-Couch of Florence Nightingale, autobiographical excerpt by Benjamin Franklin, David & Goliath from the Bible, & many other classics of literature. Preface & Foreward by the editor who, at the time [1935], was Principal of James Fenimore Cooper JHS in NYC; also an Acknowledgments pg. & Table of Contents; difficult words are defined at the bottom of the page; many selections come with questions for discussion.

Literary journal of Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.Vol. 26, No. 4, 2005Cover illustration: Untitled (Light Under the Door), 1999, by Orit Raff.Managing Editor: Carolyn Kuebler; Poetry Editor: C. Dale Young.Table of Contents:Poetry by: Ron De Maris, Douglas Goetsch, William Logan, Kevin Prufer, Paisley Rekdal, Mark Rudman, Mark Bibbins, Michael Collier, Charles Jensen, Laura Kasischke, David WooFiction by: Norman Lock, Castle Freeman, Jan Ellison, F.D. Reeve, Sheila Heti, Alyce MillerTranslations: 48 pg. translation into English from Persian of the "Legend of Seyavash" from the Persian epic "Shahnameh" ("Book of Kings") by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (c. 940-1020 C.E.), translated by Dick DavisLiterary Lives: "Flaubert Comes of Age" by Frederick BrownFilm: "In the Absence of Marjorie Keller" by Robin BlaetzReader's Notebook: "Theodore Roosevelt and the Masculine/Feminine Complex" by Rob HardyRevaluations: "Notes on Candide" by Michael WoodRediscoveries: "The Mental Attitude of the Educated Classes" by… Read More

Libbie Block (1910-1972) was a popular short story writer & novelist starting in the 1930s until 1971. She wrote more than 100 short stories & several novels.
This is an anthology of 20 of her short stories edited by Pat Duggan who also wrote the forward.
Reading copy. Binding generally intact but some cracking inside the front cover & between pgs. 190-191 & between pgs. 194-195. Pages somewhat yellowed but not brittle. Prior owner checked off in ink in the Table of Contents the stories read.
Stories included in this volume:
1) Pussy Kitten; 2) Lipstick; 3) Star Boarder; 4) Mahree; 5) The Secret; 6) No Man Tells Everything; 7) Monogram In Blue; 8) The Cave; 9) Ever-Loving; 10) Saturday Night; 11) Cats Know Who Hate Them; 12) Unless Love Is Music; 13) Marriage Marks The Spot; 14) Take Thee, Corinthia; 15) Size 3 1/2 Double-A; 16) The Menace; 17) What Husbands Never Know; 18) Devil's Hat; 19) I Still Love Him, Katie; 20) A Trifle For Eliza.

Set of 3 government-issued nuclear power-themed booklets as follows:1) "Emergency Handling of Radiation Accident Cases for Hospital Administrators" issued in 1969 by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 10pgs. Provides guidelines for hospitals in case of radiation accidents;2) "In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack & Natural Disasters" (H-14) issued in March 1968 by the Dept. of Defense Office of Civil Defense, 96pgs with numerous two-color illustrations. Handbook with advice on how to prepare & react to a nuclear attack or natural disaster;3) "The Unusual Story of Our Nuclear Submarine Fleet and the Men Who Made It Happen", 16pg booklet reproduced from the February 1970 issue of Navy magazine. Numerous black & white photographs. Articles by Elton C. Fay, John G. Norris, Rear Admiral E.P. Wilkinson (the 1st nuclear skipper), & Charles W. Corddry on the subjects of the nuclear navy, Polaris, the Nautilus & the Narwhal, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the meaning of the U.S. flag, &… Read More