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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Constellations. Square tall 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine with a blind-stamped sperm whiale & calf on front cover, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting constellations; several blue-white whale decorations as chapter headings by Leonard Everett Fisher, olive drab endpapers, 213 pages + [1] About the Author & the Type. Victor B. Scheffer (1906 - 2011) was an American biologist and the author of eleven books relating to natural history.<br/><br/>His 1969 prize winning book The Year of the Whale became a popular classic of marine biology. That book, called "remarkable" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,[5] received wide attention and appeared on American best-seller lists. In a review in the New York Times, famed naturalist Loren Eiseley wrote that "Scheffer knows, as Melville knew, that it is an 'unwritten life' he seeks to chronicle.…
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THE YEAR OF THE WHALE
by Scheffer, Victor B.
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THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION; A Novel
by Chabon, Michael
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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED & SPECIALLY BOUND PUBLISHER'S EDITION, 8vo, white quarter cloth over black boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (with circular "Autographed COPY" sticker), [xii] + 414 pages. One of Michael Chabon's more important novels in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Winner of the 2007 Nebula award; the 2008 Hugo Award; the 2007 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History; and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2008). In Chabon's alternate world: after World War II, Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for Jewish refugees. In this rugged environment, Detective Meyer Landsman and Berko, his half-Tlingit buddy, investigate the death of a heroin-using chess prodigy.
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YOKNAPATAWPHA; Faulkner's "Little Postage Stamp of Native Soil"
by Kerr, Elizabeth M.
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New York: Fordham Press, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo, gray cloth with blue label & silver lettering on spine, illustrated with B&W frontispiece of Faulkner plus 16 glossy plates, Mylar-protected dust jacket of map for Yoknapatawpha County--duplicated as map endpapers, top edges blued against dust, [xiv] + 284 pages. Excellent study of the relationship of topography to character in Faulkner's famous Yoknapatawpha County. Exceptional Condition! Dj price-clipped, else Very Fine.
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YOU BELONG TO ME
by Clark, Mary Higgins
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New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, light blue ribbed quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over matching light blue boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with embossed view of a building painted by Shasti O'Leary, 317 pages. Mary Higgins Clark Conheeney (1927 - 2020), was a best-selling American author of suspense novels. <br/> <br/> SIGNED and in FINE/NF Condition. Tight, bright, clean with slight rubbing to dj (unclipped). No previous owner or reminder marks.
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YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE; Siobhan Fallon
by Fallon, Siobhan
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New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, blue quarter cloth over blue boards with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a house and grassy hill taken by Michael Dova, 226 pages + [2] About the Author. "A fascinating, rare glimpse into the domesticity of war. This is a wonderful debut." --Jill Ciment Siobhan Fallon is the author of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone, which is a series of interconnected short stories about military life. She also received the 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: internally & externally! No remainder markings.
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YOURS IN TRUTH; A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
by Himmelman, Jeff
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New York: Random House, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Near Fine/Fine. in-text B&W photos. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), white quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over matching white boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with caricature of Ben Bradlee by Joe Ciardiello, 495 pages + [1] blank + [2] Image Credits + [2] About the Type. Weighht: 1 lb. 14 oz. Jeff Himmelman is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where he has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award; his writing has also appeared in New York, GQ, Washingtonian, and The Washington Post.<br /> <br /> Solid Copy. Entry on front free endpaper. Page 477 folded and straightened.
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YOUTH'S ILLUSTRATED BIBLE HISTORY:; Embracing Distinguished Characters, Remarkable Events, Manners, Customs, Institutions, Natural History, Arts, Sciences, &c, &c., of Bible Lands and Times. / Edited by D. W. Thomson, A.M....to which is added a complete Chronological History...by Dr. John Blair, LL.D. / Elegantly Illustrated with nearly 300 Engravings
by Thomson, D. W., ed
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New York: Masonic Publishing Company, 1871. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Near Fine/None. B&W engravings. Quarto (9 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 1 5/8"), decorative gilt binding image of the ten commandments at top of spine and Jesus teaching four children at its foot plus eaborate leafy decorations & double-rule borders on covers, profusely illustrated with ~ 300 B&W engravings (full-page plates and in-text images), World Chronology by Dr. John Blair, Index, a.e.g. [all edges gilded], 544 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 14 oz, Very Solid, clean, bright and well-illustrated 19th century Bible for young--and old--with around 300 B&W engravings (plates and in-text images).<br /> <br /> Apart from 3 clustered spots of foxing on the title page (showing through to the copyright page), there isn't any foxing on other pages or plates, which remain clean and quite bright. Uniform light age-toning. Gilt on spine and page edges (a.e.g.) remains bright. Moderate…
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