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New York: Warner Books A Warner Communications Company, 1978. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. From the man who brought you Star Wars, a novel of man's war against the state. MOVIE TIE-IN: based on the screenplay by George Lucas and Walter Murch. SYNOPSIS: Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime. Meet the nameless man who dares to pit himself against the state. Star Wars director-author George Lucas's original story of man's war for humanity in the 25th century. - and - THE PERFECTLY CONTROLLED SOCIETY. Its citizens are conceived in test tubes, nourished in vats, educated intravenously, watched by monitors, made docile by drugs. The Adam of this 25th century Eden is THX 1138; the Eve is his beautiful roommate LUH 3417. Having yielded to the temptation not to take her state-prescribed drugs, she lures THX into committing… Read More

Los Angeles/Allen Park/Agincourt: Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers, Inc./Versemonger Press Distributed in Canada by Gage Publishing Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Transcendental Meditation. CONTENTS: What TM Is Not; What TM Is; What TM Does; Learning TM; TM--Solution to All Problems. SYNOPSIS: TM is Transcendental Meditation. TM is simple, natural, easy, effortless, effective, and fun. TM is not a religion, a diet, a life style, concentration, contemplation, or difficult. TM takes 15-20 minutes twice daily. TM gives energy, enjoyment, peace, happiness, rest, self-actualization. This book is about TM, contentment, creativity, intelligence, awareness, health, efficiency, alertness, joy.... Paperback. Good. Illus. by Barry Geller. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Glasgow: The Literary Press, 1959. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. Have a Quiz-Game Party! 1500 Entertaining & Instructive Questions (with Answers); 60 Different Subjects; Be Your Own Question-Master To-night! SUB-TITLE: A Varied and Instructive Selection of 1500 Questions with Answers, Arranged in 60 Sections. CONTENTS: Literature I (Shakespeare, Dickens); Literature II (General); Quotations (Poetry); Famous Quotations; English Language I; English Language II; Foreign Words and Phrases; Pseudonyms; Nicknames; Geographical Terms; The British Isles; Scandinavia; Germany and Austria; Holland and Belgium; France; Switzerland and Italy; Spain and Portugal; Exploration and Discovery; Canada; Asia; Africa; Australasia; The U.S.A.; Statesmen in History; The Commercial World; Famous Battles; World War II; Natural History I; Natural History II; Gardening; Famous Women; Knighthood and Chivalry; Famous… Read More

London: Peerage Books, 1984. BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Lightly Chipped; Lightly Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Camera; The Foundations of Picture Making; Components of an Image; The Quality of Light; The Art of Composition; The Creative Camera; Using Lenses; Making Multiple Images; Artificial Light; Basic Cine - by Gunther Hoos. SYNOPSIS: Take Better Photographs is a comprehensive and fully-illustrated guide to creative photography. It will help the camera-user to understand and get the best from his equipment, whether it is an automatic cartridge camera or a technically more sophisticated single lens reflex. The book includes beautifully-illustrated chapters on the foundations of picture-making: selecting an image; using light and colour; composition; and the special effects which can be achieved with different lenses and filters. Drawing on many years' experience, Michael… Read More

Emmaus: Rodale Press, Inc. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Residue (Dried, Non-Sticky); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Complete Guide to Stress Relief. BOOK DESIGN BY: Linda Jacopetti. COVER DESIGN BY: Linda Jacopetti. CONTENTS: Introduction: Taking Control; Part 1: Handling Everyday Hassles; Part 2: Controlling Self-Made Stress; Part 3: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Major Stressors; Part 4: Preventing and Treating Physical Problems; Part 5: Coping Techniques That Can Backfire; Part 6: Coping Techniques That Work; Part 7: Seeking Professional Treatment; Appendix: Keeping a Stress Diary; Index. SYNOPSIS: Here are the best self-help techniques for defusing all kinds of stress--from everyday hassles to once-in-a-lifetime traumas. Suggestions range from the very simple (buy an electric garage-door opener if you're afraid of… Read More

McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Edges Lightly Soiled. SPONSORING EDITOR: Caroline Carney. EDITING SUPERVISOR: Fred Dahl. PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Suzanne Babeuf. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Refusing to Live Without Career Satisfaction 2. Achieving Success Without Losing Yourself 3. Standing Up for Your Rights 4. Using Positive Politics to Advance Your Career 5. Getting a Life When Your Job Is Everything 6. Knowing When It's Time to Move On 7. Taking Care of Yourself When You've Lost Your Job 8. Using Plateaus to Transform Your Life 9. Turning Your Dreams into Reality. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Diane Tracy speaks before thousands of people each year in the course of conducting workshops and seminars for companies, national associations, and local organizations. Her client list includes Hoffman-LaRoche, IBM Canada, Young & Rubicam, Ernst & Young, the United Nations, and the American Society for Quality Control. Ms. Tracy has appeared on more… Read More

Toronto: Del Rey Ballantine Books, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, 1991. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; Front Matter Up to Title Page Missing; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Light Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Heavily Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Anne McCaffrey, Author of The Dragonriders of Pern. SERIES: 2nd in series. SYNOPSIS: TALENT SEARCH. As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center. Feisty and streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary knack for languages to eke out a living in the Linear developments, where the poor struggled to make ends meet… Read More

New York: A Del Rey Book Published By Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1977. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: Silence Please; Big Game Hunt; Patent Pending; Armaments Race; Critical Mass; The Ultimate Melody; The Pacifist; The Next Tenants; Moving Spirit; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; The Reluctant Orchid; Cold War; What Goes Up; Sleeping Beauty; The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch. SYNOPSIS: WELCOME TO THE "WHITE HART" You come upon the White Hart quite unexpectedly in one of these anonymous little lanes leading down from Fleet Street to the Embankment. It's no use telling you where it is...for the first dozen visits a guide is essential. From the outside it looks like any other pub... And so the reader embarks on 15 hilarious and wholly delightful adventures in Tales from the "White Hart" - and - INGENIOUS, HILARIOUS, WHOLLY DELIGHTFUL stories such as these could come only… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled. by Arthur C. Clarke, Co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. BOOK NUMBER: HPL 47. CONTENTS: I Remember Babylon; Summertime on Icarus; Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...; Who's There?; Hate; Into the Comet; An Ape About the House; Saturn Rising; Let There Be Light; Death and the Senator; Trouble With Time; Before Eden; A Slight Case of Sunstroke; Dog Star; The Road to the Sea. SYNOPSIS: Fifteen stories by "our ablest practitioner of science fiction," ranging from the sinister rescue of a sputnik in the Pacific to startling and amusing adventures on the moon, in a comet's tail, on Mars and Venus, in the rings of Saturn, and on the asteroid Icarus only seventeen million miles from the sun. The long concluding story, The Road to the Sea, is set thousands… Read More

Scarborough: A Signet Book - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973. Previous Dealer Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: I Remember Babylon; Summertime on Icarus; Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...; Who's There?; Hate; Into the Comet; An Ape About the House; Saturn Rising; Let There Be Light; Death and the Senator; Trouble With Time; Before Eden; A Slight Case of Sunstroke; Dog Star; The Road to the Sea. SYNOPSIS: THE GRAND TOUR OF OUTER SPACE AWAITS YOU. FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNIVERSE - FIFTEEN TALES OF MAN AND THE STARS. Moons, comets, planets, the stars - all these are the realm of "the acknowledged king of science fiction," Arthur C. Clarke. Delight in the wonder of Saturn's rings. Ponder how man can escape from the heart of a comet. Learn how a simple tool of astronomy can be… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. BOOK: Tape and Sticker Residue on Front, Rear Endpapers; Corners Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: The inimitable Pearl is in rare form in Talking to Myself. This is a free-swinging book that follows literally its title though it will be an unusual reader who doesn't decide pretty soon that Miss Bailey is talking to him too. Crammed with anecdotes and with highly independent opinions about contemporary life, this book at first seems, however lively, to have little unity. But the further one reads, the clearer it becomes that there is a hidden order to the whole work. Miss Bailey discusses with obvious delight, sometimes with passion and sometimes with humor, the state of the nation, the American family, the conflict between the generations,… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Moderately Scuffed; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Memoir of My Times. ALSO KNOWN AS: Part of this book, in slightly different form and under the titles given below, first appeared in the following publications: "You Know Who I Seen?" in The Nation; "Frank," "The Polling Place Memory," "Glasses," "Soap Opera Memories," and "Xmas Memory" in Chicago Magazine; "View From the 2nd Story: To Pros on the Break-In" in Rolling Stone Magazine. JACKET FRONT PHOTOGRAPH BY: Jess W. Brodnax III. CONTENTS: BOOK ONE 1. The Visit 2. Dreamland 3. Do You Like Bruegel? 4. The Greatest Story Ever Told 5. I Ring the Bell 6. The Dream-possessed 7. The Man Who Shook the Hand of the Man Who Shook the Hand of Napoleon 8. A Free and… Read More

New York: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1987. Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Theirs was a tempestuous love, flamed by passion's brightest blaze! SYNOPSIS: Married at sixteen to the sensual, powerful Lord Nicolas de Rochambeau, the fiery Johanna de Pomeray defied her husband . . . who presumed to buy her obeisance with precious silks and jewels. By day the castle resounded with his demands, and with her bold protests. But by night he wooed his dark-haired beauty, who could not resist the depths of his molten passion. Only Nicholas knew how much he needed Johanna's love . . . even as he rode away to join a dangerous Crusade. Captured by the enemy, he battled his way to freedom, enraged that she had not sent ransom for him. When he returned in triumph to England, his lady stood before him, her green eyes flashing with fury and desire. Now Nicolas vowed to unravel the mystery of his wife's… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. From the author of At Dawn We Slept. SUB-TITLE: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring. CONTENTS: Introduction; Preface; Major Characters; The German Embassy in Tokyo as Sorge Knew It in 1941; Part 1: Forging the Ring; Part 2: Turning the Ring; Part 3: Spinning the Ring; Part 4: Breaking the Ring; Appendix; Notes; Chronology; Bibliography; Articles by Richard Sorge for the Frankfurter Zeitung - 1940; Articles by Richard Sorge for the Frankfurter Zeitung - 1941; Articles by Richard Sorge (R. S.) for the Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik; Index. SYNOPSIS: Target Tokyo is a riveting account of espionage on a grand scale. Bristling with suspense, it tells the story of Russian-born Richard Sorge and the ingenious spy ring he masterminded in Japan before and during World War II. A major work of World War II history,… Read More

London: Teach Yourself Books, 1972. Cover Neatly Laminated by Previous Owner; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A complete working course. BOOK NUMBER: 05536 7. CONTENTS: I. Functions; II. Variations in Functions. Limits; III. Rate of Change of a Function. Gradients; IV. Differential Coefficient. Differentiation; V. Some Rules for Differentiation; VI. Maxima and Minima Values. Points of Inflexion; VII. Differentiation of the Trigonometric Functions; VIII. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions; IX. Hyperbolic Functions; X. Integration. Standard Integrals; XI. Some Elementary Methods of Integration; XII. Integration of Algebraic Fractions; XIII. Areas by Integral Calculus. Definite Integrals; XIV. Integration as a Summation. Areas; XV. The Lengths of Curves; XVI. Solids of Revolution. Volumes and Areas of Surfaces; XVII. Uses of Integration in… Read More

Avon BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 3342. SYNOPSIS: Nineteenth-century England, San Francisco and New Orleans provide the colorful settings for this grand-scale historical romance that embraces two worlds. Haunted by the memory of her aristocratic father's desertion of his mistress and children, Mara O'Flynn grew up despising men. She sought her livelihood in the theater, where, as a beautiful actress, she found vengeance in enchanting and discarding suitors, teasing them with subtle promises of ecstasy only to reject them with an air of finely tuned cruelty. It was an amusing sport . . . until the young Lord Julian - half mad with desire - shot himself! Then Mara, with her brother Brendan and his small son Paddy, departed for America. Brendan hoped to… Read More

New York: A Leisure Book - Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The missiles are ready. The countdown has begun. Annihilation seems inevitable, unless . . . SYNOPSIS: IN WASHINGTON, D.C. . . . the President of the United States, obsessed with electronic gadgetry, relies completely on the all-powerful computer to make vital decisions affecting the nation's security. His every thought and action are controlled by an electronic device operated by his two most trusted advisors. IN MOSCOW . . . the Russians plan to use war games as a cover for a nuclear attack on a U.S. squadron. In the meantime, the KGB has infiltrated the top echelons of President Weinstein's staff, seizing control of the computer banks - and of the President's mind. As the Russian missiles are primed for attack, rival computer experts… Read More

New York: A Signet Book New American Library A Division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1989. Doodling Impressions on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. FROM DEATH ROW--SHOCKING DETAILS NEVER BEFORE MADE PUBLIC...EXCLUSIVE REVELATIONS IN BUNDY'S OWN WORDS. BOOK NUMBER: 451-AE6355. SYNOPSIS: FROM DEATH ROW--BUNDY SPEAKS. Ted Bundy seemed to have it all. He was the all-American boy--a charming, clean-cut, and articulate law student. To the many women who loved him, he was "beautiful." But to his victims, he was a sadistic monster, a master manipulator, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 innocent young women dead. On Death Row, Bundy--who still seemed too handsome and appealing to have committed such unspeakable crimes--discussed his violent urges and acts face-to-face with the authors. Based on over 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Bundy… Read More

New York: A Signet Book New American Library A Division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1989. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. FROM DEATH ROW--SHOCKING DETAILS NEVER BEFORE MADE PUBLIC...EXCLUSIVE REVELATIONS IN BUNDY'S OWN WORDS. BOOK NUMBER: 451-AE6355. SYNOPSIS: FROM DEATH ROW--BUNDY SPEAKS. Ted Bundy seemed to have it all. He was the all-American boy--a charming, clean-cut, and articulate law student. To the many women who loved him, he was "beautiful." But to his victims, he was a sadistic monster, a master manipulator, whose grisly killing spree left at least 30 innocent young women dead. On Death Row, Bundy--who still seemed too handsome and appealing to have committed such unspeakable crimes--discussed his violent urges and acts face-to-face with the authors. Based on over 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Bundy himself, Ted Bundy: Conversations… Read More

Collection Folio - Mercure de France SUB-TITLE: Vie et Aventures de Salavin. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; 1st Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DATE: Cet ouvrage a ete achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de l'Imprimerie Bussiere a Saint-Anand (Cher), le 15 janvier 1973. Depot legal: 1er trimestre 1973. SYNOPSIS: La petite Christine s'etait engage sur la voie a niveau devant laquelle un convoy de marchandises restait interrompu. L'enfant etait la, debout entre les rails, son gros carton tenu a bras-le-corps comme un tambour ou comme une poupee. Elle etait la, distraite, insouciante, et l'un des troncons du train venait, monster aveugle, de se metre en marche a la rencontre de l'autre troncon. Les puissants tampons rouilles avancaient . . . Georges Duhamel, de l'Academie francaise (1884-1966),… Read More