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U.S.A: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Clean, bright, solid, unmarked volume bound in pink half cloth w/silver and gilt titles, with pink boards. Jacket dark green with a large letter S. on the front, with light wear to extremities. A modern version of Hawthorn's "The Scarlet Letter". The S of this story is for Sarah Worth who goes West to Arizona to join the commune of a Hindu religious leader called the Arhat. This novel takes the form of letters and tapes that she sends to her husband, mother, daughter, brother, hairdresser, psychiatrist , dentist--to keep her old world while trying to create a new one. Author John Updike is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 279 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1988, Alfred A Knopf, New York, New York, USA
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S. - A Novel
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S Is Fos Silence: Kinsey Millhone Mysteries
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USA: Marian Wood Book/G P Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Binding of Blue quarter cloth with green titles, purple boards with S imprinted in green foil on front board. Bright, clean, unmarked. Wear to spine heel. Binding is tight & solid, square with sharp corners. .Glossy jacket is clean and bright with light wrinkling around spine head, spine heel front edge scuffed. Not price-clipped. 374 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Marian Wood Book/G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 2005.
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THE SADDAM HUSSEIN READER
by MUNTHE, TURI (EDITOR)
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New York: Thunder's Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc, 2002. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Ex-Library Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Selections from leading writers on Iraq. Used Retired library book with wear to cover, book has been used/read. Cover is clean, light crease down middle. Text block edges show use. Pages clean and unmarked. Page edges have small marks. Clear and readable book. 556 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 Inches. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2002.
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SCHRIFTENREIHE Der GESELLSCHAFT FUR zEITMEBKUNDE UND UHRENTECHNIK
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Berlin, Germany: Verlag Der Deutschen Uhrmacher-Zeitung, 1937. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. TRADE PAPERBACK IIN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.267 pp. Brown paper cover with black triple stripes down each side, black lettering. The book is clean, tight, unmarked and untorn. The cover is in good condition with slight scuffing at bottom of the spine. The lower corner turns up slightly. There are a few small spots on the back cover. This is a science/mathematics/physics book of some kind. Pages are clear and clean. Includes charts and diagrams.
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SEABISCUIT: An American Legend
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New York: Ballantine Books, 2002. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. The true story of how three men and a great racehorse captivated the world. Charles Howard bought a horse in 1935 for a bargain-basement price and entrusted him to Tom Smith and Red Pollard. While training him they discovered he was a horse with intelligence, awe-inspiring speed, and a ferocious competitive will. It was the beginning of four years of drama, in which Seabiscuit overcame a run of bad fortune to become one of the most spectacular performers in sports history. Cover is clean and unmarked, beginning of a crease to upper corner, , slight lean to spine, pages clean, with bracketed paragraphs, underlined text, a few notes--on a few pages. 399 pages with Notes and Index. Reader' Guide. 5.5 x 8.25 2002, Ballantine Books/Random House.
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SEED
by Norris, Charles G
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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback 1930 reprint of Doubleday, Doran & Company First Edition, 1930. Hardcover in Very Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. A novel about birth control--interesting to compare ideas about this then (1890-1930) and now. Brown cloth binding, very clean and unmarked; light wear to extremities. Brown tinted top edge, brown endpapers. Tight and solid binding, hinges intact. Small stain on pages 1 and 11, otherwise clean, toned, no creasing. 436 pages. 8.25 x 5,5 inches. 1930, A. L. Burt Company, New York.
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SENATOR FULBRIGHT: Portrait of a Public Philosopher
by Coffin, Tristram
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New York: E P Dutton, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Jacket. Fine gray cloth binding with silver titles, very clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Page block edges are clean and white. Internals are spotless. Jacket is unclipped, clean, has light chipping along edges, more so around spine head and heel. This is the first biography to be published about Senator Fulbright, a controversial man of reason. The story of his 23-year Congressional career and the development of his views on foreign policy. 378 pages with Sources and Index. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. E P Dutton, New York, 1966.
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A SENSE OF HISTORY The Best Writing from the Pages of AMERICAN HERITAGE
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U.S.A: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1985. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Black half cloth w/ gilt titles, black boards with blind-stamped eagle on front; bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid. No defects. Jacket is clean and bright with edgewear and chipping of spine head, closed tear on bottom edge. A number of public figures, authors and scholars were asked to consider one question: What is the one scene or incident in American history that you would have liked to witness-- and why? Their answers are in this book. Includes such notable authors as Alfred Kazin, David McCullough, Bruce Catton, Wallace Stegner, William Manchester, to name just a few--there are over 50 authors whose essays, addresses and lectures discuss incidents and people in American history, from colonial times to Vietnam. 8vo. 832 pages. 1985, American Heritage Publishing Co, USA
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A SENSE OF HISTORY The Best Writing from the Pages of AMERICAN HERITAGE
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USA: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1985. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE Book in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket in clear archival protective sleeve. A number of public figures, authors and scholars were asked to consider one question: What is the one scene or incident in American history that you would have liked to witness-- and why? Their answers are in this book. Includes such notable authors as Alfred Kazin, David McCullough, Bruce Catton, Wallace Stegner, William Manchester, to name just a few--there are over 50 authors whose essays, addresses and lectures discuss incidents and people in American history, from colonial times to Vietnam. Black quarter cloth w/ gitl titles, black boards with blind-stamped eagle on front; bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid. Jacket is clean and bright with slight edgewear. 832 pages. American Heritage Publishing Co., USA
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SIBERIA
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New York: Random House, 1943. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Third Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition/No Jacket. Illustrated with 9 full page photographic plates. Clean blue full cloth binding is clean, light wear to extremities, slight lean to spine, inner hinge cracked, binding tight and solid; full color maps to endpapers. Pages faintly toned along edges, quite clean, no markings of any kind. Some topics: SIBERIAN RAILROAD MARCH OF THE SEVENTY THOUSAND JAPAN THE ARCTIC MONGOLS JEWS SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA. 416 pages, indexed. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1943, Random House, New York.
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SILVER: The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques
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Washingotn, D.C.,: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition First Printing. Hardcover Quarto and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective jacket cover. Title page has slight grayish edge near upper corner. Beautifully illustrated with 25 color plates and 120 b/w photographs. Contents include: The Working of Silver, Silver in Antiquity, European and English Silver, Variations on the Baroque, Variations on Classicism, The Nineteenth Century-Eclipse of the Craftsman, Silver in the 20th Century, Advice for the Collector.128 pages with Glossary, Reading and Reference; Some public collections of prints,and index. 11 x 9 inches. 1981, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Washington, DC
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SILVER: The Smithsonian Illustrated Library of Antiques
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Washingotn, D.C.,: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition First Printing. Hardcover Quarto in Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Archival protective jacket cover. Jacket shows some rubbing, shelf-wear. Beautifully illustrated with 25 color plates and 120 b/w photographs. Contents include: The Working of Silver, Silver in Antiquity, European and English Silver, Variations on the Baroque, Variations on Classicism, The Nineteenth Century-Eclipse of the Craftsman, Silver in the 20th Century, Advice for the Collector.128 pages with Glossary, Reading and Reference; Some public collections of prints,and index. 11 x 9 inches. 1981, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Washington, DC
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SIR WALTER SCOTT
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USA: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1987. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Originally published by Cassell in 1932. Some notes in the margin and underlining by a previous reader. Clean, unworn cover; pages clean, untorn, toned. Tight glued binding. John Buchan, 1875-1940, was a Scottish novelist and public servant who combined his public life career with writing thrillers, historical novels, histories and biographies. At his death he was Governor-General of Canada. Buchan had a trained historical imagination that places Scott in his time and place to show the reader the real man. An inspired biography. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, 1771-1832; historical novelist, playwright, and poet. 382 pages. 8vo. 1987, Cassell & Company, Ltd., USA
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SLAN
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Garden City, New York, U.S.A: Nelson Doubleday, 1968. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book Club Edition in Very Good Condition with Good Vintage Dust Jacket. Jacket painting by Gary Viskupic. First Published 1940, by Street & Smith Publications, Inc., for "Astounding Science-Fiction", October-December, 1940. Binding of brown paper-wrapped boards, orange titles to spine,very clean and unmarked with light wear to spine head, lower edges rubbed. Internals in Fine Condition. The Slans--mutants, superior human beings capable of taking over the world but mostly killed out in the Slan Wars--but some remain, feared and hated by the human government. Fast-paced and engrossing, a novel that explores the concept of human evolution. 176 pages. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 1968, Nelson Doubleday, Garden Cith, NY
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SLOTS! How To Improve Your Odds
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Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, Ltd, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and bright red/gold.white cover, trace wear to extremities. Pages clean, no underlining, no highlighting, no creasing. Explore the world of slots and find a strastegy that works for you. 80 pages. 5.2 x 7.6 inches. Publications International, Ltd. Lincolnwood, Illinois, 2001
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SMIL: Adding Multimedia to the Web
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Indianapolis, Indiana: Sams, 2001. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Printing, 2001. Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. xviii+ 390 pages. 9.25" x 7.5". Clean and bright, glossy wraps in green and blue, slight wear to corners, tight & solid binding, internals as new. Learn how to use SMIL (SYNCHRONIZED MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATION LANGUAGE) to synchronize and position video, pictures, animation, audio, and text to steram presentations via the Web. Sams, Indianapolis, Indiana
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SON": A Psychopath and His Victims
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Atheneum, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Atheneum, 1983, Third Printing of First Edition. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Illustrations. Numerous newspaper articles about these horrific crime laid in. Signed Photograph of Shelly Monahan, one of the victims. Navy cloth backed spine with silver titles, black cloth boards, very clean. whisper of wear to corners. Hinge cracked in about the center of the book in the photograph section. , tight and solid with endbands. Internals in Fine Condition. The crimes of Fred and Ruth Coe: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge and Family Tragedy in Spokane Washington., 1980s. For months, the story of a mother, a son and a city, were enmeshed in a tragedy that made headlines across the nation--1981 arrest; Feb 1985 found guilty. 519 pages. 8vo. 1983, Atheneum.
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THE SON OF A STAR: A History of the Jews
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London, Great Britain: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Translated from the Danish by F. H. Lyon. Illustrated. Hardcover Book and Unclipped Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Mylar Jacket Cover. Clean red cloth with black design around the spine w/gilt titles. Bright, unsoiled, bottom edges rubbed. Sewn binding tight and solid. Frontis: Aerial Photo of Masada. Fifteen illustrations in b/w. Pages clean and unmarked, lightly toned. Jacket of grey and red has edgewear at corners and spine ends, rubbed along fold edges. The first of three volumes on the history of the Jews during the dispersal, this volume coves the period from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 to Hadrian's suppression of Simeon's insurrection in 135. 224 pages with index. 9 x 5.5 inches. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1960.
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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE
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USA: The Peter Pauper Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Lovely Small Book of Poetry in Very Good Condition, Retired Library Book. 4.75" x 7.75" tall. Unpaginated. No publishing date given. Decorative cloth boards with blue vine type floral design on boards and jacket. Pale rose color panel in center with author name and title in white. Lib markings as usual: Number/name stickers on front of jacket, card and stamp on loose ep. No others marks. Each sonnet has an illustration of blue flowers and different types of musical instruments. Pages are clean, bright, unmarked. 1992, The Peter Pauper Press, USA
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SONS OF THE PROFITS or There's No Business Like Grow Business -- The Seattle Story 1851-1901
by SPEIDEL, WILLIAM C
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Seattle, WA: Nettle Creek Publishing Co, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback 8th Printing. First published 1967. The "lusty, checkered past" of a great city--SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition.with a good dust jacket protected in archival sleeve. Endpaper maps of 'Composite Map of Seattle's Birthplace' and 'Seattle the Day of the Great Fire, 1889. Binding of orange cloth w/dark brown titles, very clean, whisper of corner wear. Tight, solid, square volume. Upper edge of text foxed. Pages are clean with no marks. Jacket is price-clipped, spine heel chipped, corners lightly scuffed, a slit near the hinge. Now protected with an archival sleeve. 345 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Nettle Creek Publishing Co, Seattle, WA 1974
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