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New Lexington, OH: The MacGahan, American Bulgarian Society. Near Fine. 1993. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B&W maps; 6 3/4 x 10; 40 pages; Hard cover is dark blue with gold lettering on front . Covers have light bumping, sunning and rubbing. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Inscribed on a free end paper, written in black ink, in what appears to be a European hand, perhaps Pantev? "How the European Chauvenists drove Americans to Historical defeat. (1918-1919)." Translated by Dr. Diana G. Pisheva. Illustrated with 6 b/w maps, at rear of book. "On the 75th anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference." Published first in Historical Review v. 1, 1981 of the Bulgarian Academy of Science. Scarce title, listed in World Cat. Dr. Pantev was born in 1939 in the village of Racovica, region of Vidin. ... In 1961 he got a degree in History at Sofia University. Between 1962 and 1965 Prof. Pantev worked in the History Museumin Vidin. Now he is a professor, doctor of… Read More

New Lexington, OH: The MacGahan, American Bulgarian Foundation. Near Fine. 1993. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B&W maps; 6 3/4 x 10; 40 pages; Hard cover is dark blue with gold lettering on front . Covers have light bumping, sunning and rubbing. Pages are clean and tight, seems unused. Inscribed on a free end paper, written in black ink, in what appears to be a European hand, perhaps Pantev? "How the European Chauvenists drove Americans to HIstorical defeat. (1918-1919)." Translated by Dr. Diana G. Pisheva. Illustrated with 6 b/w maps, at rear of book. "On the 75th anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference." Published first in Historical Review v. 1, 1981 of the Bulgarian Academy of Science. Scarce title, listed in World Cat. Dr. Patev was born in t939 in the village of Racovica, region of Vidin. ... In 1961 he got a degree in History at Sofia University. Between 1962 and 1965 Prof. Pantev worked in the History Museumin Vidin. Now he is a professor, doctor of… Read More

Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing Ltd.. Fine. 2007. Sixth Printing; Softcover. 1846031338 . Duel Series; B&W and Color & Map; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 80 pages; Soft cover has blue spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures and maps. 'Winston Churchill claimed that the "U-boat peril" was the only thing that ever frightened him during World War II. A formidable foe, the U-boat was developed from a small coastal vessel into a state-of-the-art killer, successfully stalking the high seas picking off merchant convoy ships. It was not until the destroyer escort was introduced, alongside the development of destroyer groups with dedicated anti-submarine tactics, that there was an effective means of defence and attack against the U-boat peril. Gordon Williamson describes the design and development of these two deadly opponents, their strengths and weaknesses and of their tactics, weaponry and training. He provides an… Read More

New York: Collins Reference. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0062701398 . B & W and Color; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; xxviii, 498 pages; Hard cover green with gold lettering on black spine. Book appears to be unused, pages are clean and tight. DJ is in mylar cover. Illsutrated with b/w drawings and 4 color charts. Sections cover virtually everything you need to know about a horse, from buying one to breeding them. 4 appendices. .

Minnetonka, MN: National Historical Society. Near Fine. 1995. Hardcover. Hard cover is black with white lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with dozens of b/w maps, photographs and tables. States on copyright page ''Special commemorative edtion by the National Historical Society..." 21 chapters detailing the decision and actual campaigns. Also includes: concordance of code and native names for islands in Kwajalein Atoll; bibliographical notes; list of abbreviations; glossary of code names; basic military map symbols; index. ; B&W Illustrations; 7 x 9; xvii, 414 pages; Slight rubbing/scuffing on cover. .

Chicago: Chicago Review Press. New in New dust jacket. 2019. First Printing; Hardcover. 1613739273 . 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches; 194 pages; Hard cover is black with silver lettering on the spine. ' In the aftermath of Prohibition, America's top scientists joined forces with AA members and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism is a disease. They had no proof, but they hoped to find it once research money came pouring in. The campaign spanned decades, and from it grew a multimillion-dollar treatment industry and a new government agency devoted to alcoholism. Five years in the making, Joe Miller's brilliant, in-depth investigative reporting into the history, politics, and science of alcoholism shows exactly how AA became our nation's de facto treatment policy, even as evidence accumulated for more effective remedies-- and how, as a result, those who suffer the most often go untreated. US of AA is a character-driven, beautifully written… Read More

New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc. , Publishers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0810939169 . Color and b/w illustrtions; 9 1/4 x 11 1/4; 136 pages; Hard cover has slight bumping. DJ has light rubbing/scuffing. Black cover with white outline of pig on front and white lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. "...take an affectionate look at the many-sided relationship between humans and pigs and the art people have made to reflect that bond. Presented in 165 illustrations, 90 of them in color, are some of the most beguiling, dignified, haunting, cuddly, and ferocious images of pigs from antiquity to the presnt, along with excerpts from writings about them. Sprinkled throughout are sidebars, aphorisms, and little-known facts about these fascinating but often misunderstood creatures". Bibliography; index. Oversized, 4#. Bound and printed in Italy. .

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0374380279 . Remainder; Color Illustrations; 9 X 8.80 X 0.40 inches; 32 pages; Hard cover Is purple boards with darker purple spine, shiney silver lettering on spine. Red P remainder mark on front end paper. Slight bumping to covers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has some small tears at top of spine rubbing, scuffing and bumping; in a mylar cover. Pages not numbered, 32 pages. The story [text] is on the verso page, and the full color illustration, by the author, is on the recto [right] page. For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Chanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago. .

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0374380279 . Remainder; Color Illustrations; 9 X 8.80 X 0.40 inches; 32 pages; Hard cover Is purple boards with darker purple spine, shiney silver lettering on spine. Red P remainder mark on front end paper. Slight bumping to covers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has some small tears at top of spine rubbing, scuffing and bumping; in a mylar cover. Pages not numbered, 32 pages. The story [text] is on the verso page, and the full color illustration, by the author, is on the recto [right] page. For the first time since her grandfather's death, Rachel feels close to him as she and her grandmother celebrate Chanukkah with the simple menorah that he had made many years ago. .

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Softcover. Cover is original, heavy, gray paper with black lettering on front. Pages are clean and tight; some pages uncut; appears unused. Published February 28, 1925. Illustrated with 7 pages of b/w plates and 11 b/w figures. Sections are: Pottery styles at Nieveria; Non-pottery collections; conclusions; stylistic identification of material ilustrated by d' Harcourt; explanation. ; University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology Series; Vol. 21; B&W Illustrations; 7 x 10 3/4; 24+ pages; Cover has some light edge wear, bumping and sunning. .

New York: R.R. Bowker Company. Very Good. 1959. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover is brown with gold lettering on spine. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Standard reference work for years. Includes: alphabetical list of indexing services; classified list of periodicals; index and key to subjects. Real blast from the past before the internet! Overweight; 5#. ; Ex-Library; 7 x 10 1/4; xvi, 825 pages; Has small amount of typical, former library markings. Shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing; library call # on spine. .

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0879519371 . Cover is glazed boards. DJ is in a Brodart cover. Purple endpapers. Slight cocking to spine; pages are clean and tight; printed on high quality, glossy paper. This is a NEW book. Forward by Terry Pratchett. Extensively illustrated with mostly color pictures, photos and drawings. Sections are: Types of Fantasy; Fantasy Cinema; Television Fantasy; Who's Who of Fantasy; A-Z of Fantasy Characters & Entities; Fantasy Games; Fantasy Worlds; Fantasy Magazines; glossary. Oversized, 4#. 2 copies available. ; Color Illustrations; 9 1/4 x 11 1/2; 256 pages .

Philadelphia: Gary Gentile Productions. Near Fine. 1992. Softcover. 0962145343 . B&W and Color; 6 X 9"; 152 pages; Soft cover has a black spine with white lettering. Very slight rubbing to the covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures. 'Gary Gentile is a wreck diver. It has been suggested that Gary Gentile may be the most experienced wreck diver in the world...During the early 1990s, Gentile pioneered the use of mixed gases in wreck diving...He also published the first book on technical diving, The Technical Diving Handbook, and the field began to gain recognition as a separate stratum of the sport from conventional recreational diving. In many of his books Gentile notes that before technical diving was recognised as a sub-stratum of the sport, divers who consciously engaged in planned decompression diving were shunned by major diver training agencies as "gorilla divers". ' Glossary; index. .

Honolulu, Hawaii: Linda a Fischer. Near Fine. 1999. First Edition. First Printing; Soft Cover. 0966635000 . AUTHOR SIGNED. On the copyright page, under the printed number line is hand noted '591/2190'. Soft cover is heavy, glazed paper with yellow lettering on brown spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. "...has written an incredible, personal account of her ordeal within that [US Army] organization. It reads like a good mystery novel but it's all true. She was a victim of sexual harassment by one man, then a victim of a dismissive and insensitive bureaucracy. It's obvious that the seeds of what she encountered were planted during WWII. There has never been enough training given to either men or women to cope with each other in a military setting..." Suggested reading list at the back. ; 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 Inches; xiii, 235 pages; Cover has slight edge wear and rubbing. ; Signed by Author .

Tucson, Arizona: KW Publications. Near Fine. 2005. Softcover. 0962478970 . 8 3/4 x 11 x 1"; xxi, 360 pages; Soft cover has black plastic comb binding. Slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. Pages are not numbered sequentially, the page #s jump around. Ca. 360 pages. Laid in is a signed letter from Weiss. .

Camden, Maine: International Marine Publishing. Near Fine. 1987. Fifth Printing; Soft Cover. 0877422443 . B&W Illustrations; 134 pages; Soft cover has slight rubbing/scuffing. Burgundy cover with white lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight, appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs and drawings. "Ultralight canoe and small boats are things of beauty, their apparent delicacy concealing great strength. They are lapstrake-constructed from marine plywood planks, each plank overlapping the one below it in a gracefully curved hull...." 3 appendices; glossary, index. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Printing; Hardcover. 0395659671 . Remainder; B & W ; 9.5 X 0.5 X 12.25 inches; 61 pages; Hard cover is glazed boards. White spine with black lettering, matching the DJ. Black remainder mark on bottom of text block. DJ has slight rubbing, scuffing; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Traces, in detailed drawings and text, the development through the ages of a fictional Islamic city in North Africa. .

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Fine. 1999. First Edition. First Printing; Paperback. 0520218604 . B&W Illustrations; 8.80 X 6 X 1.10 inches; xv, 543 pages; Soft cover has a green spine with yellow lettering. Light rubbing. Several page corners have a small crease, but otherwise, pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with 46 b/w pictures.' Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents—letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories—detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captivating mosaic of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making a home for themselves and their families in San Francisco from the Gold Rush years through World War II. The personal nature of these documents makes for compelling reading. We hear the voices of prostitutes and domestic… Read More

Ashland, OR: Portable Press. Near Fine. 2002. Tenth Printing; Paperback. 1879682656 . Uncle John's Bathroom Reader #8 Series; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches; 324 pages; Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Slight rubbing to covers. Pages clean and tight. 'Now bathroom readers will no longer have to make agonizing choices between light reading and more serious stuff. Uncle John's Ultimate Bathroom Reader has it all....Reading enjoyment covers a variety of to pics in 50 different sections: science, history, pop culture, politics, movies, conspiracy theories, myths, unsolved mysteries, and more.' .

San Diego: Portable Press. Fine. 2005. Third Printing; Paperback. 1592232671 . 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches; 307 pages; Soft cover has blue spine with red lettering. Pages clean and tight. 'What do Yoopers and Trolls have in common? Not much to hear them tell it, but both types of Michigander appreciate great bathroom reading. And they're proud to call Michigan home! Celebrate the state that brought us Motown, Henry Ford, and the world's only floating post office. So no matter which peninsula you call home, get ready for a funny, unforgettable visit. Read about Feather bowling Shipwrecked in Paradise Go to Hell and back in Hell, Michigan Michigan's other famous Ford: a president named Gerald The Red Flannel Festival, and other ways Michiganders brave the winter How a 1966 Michigan State University game changed football forever Michigan's role in the birth of rock 'n' roll. Test your knowledge of the Great Lakes Detroit's Whiskey River Smelt dipping 101 And much,… Read More