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New York: Pocket Books, 1999. Biography of the New York Yankee superstar. First edition paperback. 114 pages plus section of glossy color photographs. Color photo illustrated front cover; stats on back cover. In very good condition with a barely perceptable crease on front cover and tanned or discolored inside covers. Slight edgewear and light crease to top corner. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1987. Spanish translation of original English title It's O.K. To Say No To Drugs! 148 pages with black and white illustrations. Children's nonfiction, Spanish. Wear to covers; two school stamps. Por tu futuro... Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by detorie, Rick. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1954. # 47 in the Landmark Books Series copyright 1954, 9th printing 8vo size gray cloth bound hardcover with brown and blue decorations on spine and front cover and blue titles on spine and front cover; color illustrated endpapers showcase other books in the Series. Illustrated throughout with black and white and black and green illustrations. This is a biography of Dolley Madison (1768 - 1849) wife of the fourth president of the United States, James Madison. Dolley was first spouse to serve in the capacity of what is now known as the First Lady (a role she also filled on occasion for Madison's predecessor, Thomas Jefferson, who was a widower.) Dolley may be best remembered for her actions in saving a painting of George Washington during the 1814 British attack on Washington and the White House. Front cover has light soil, back cover has soil or foxing. There is small area on bottom corner of fep with adhesive residue where sticker was removed. We note soil on the… Leer más

New York: Scholastic, 1979. Nano nano. 36 pages with color photos and color illustrations. Blast down memory lane as color photos illustrate how to "Do the Spin." Disco-dance themed articles. Feature article on Mork and Mindy: Robin Williams and Pam Dauber. Pages 19-22 are missing; was color poster of Mork and Mindy. There may also have been a record that is no longer present. Color covers have rubbing wear and bumped top corner. Pencilled price on fep. Edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1966. 4to size square staple-bound pictorial softcover; 32 pages This volume is designed to teach counting through very short questions and blocks to be filled in by stickers in answer to the questions. New and unused, but there is some discoloration on all pages which looks like foxing but is probably due to the adhesive used. Please see our photos. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987. Young Adult Biography First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 81 pages including index and some black and white photographs From dust jacket flap: "Not until Eliezer Ben-Yehuda... determined to revive the ancient tongue of his people did Hebrew again become a living language... To rediscover and speak the language... he settled in Palestine. There, he insisted his family speak only Hebrew... His masterpiece, the Hebrew dictionary contains over 100,000 words, which today are written and spoken by Jews around the world." Ex-library with typical treatments, jacket has been laminated. Fep was clipped to remove barcode and there is some light soil to outside pages. The jacket spine is a different color but does not appear to be sunned as the titles are bright with no evidence of fading. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Scholastic, 1982. 12mo size mass market paperback; 123 pages From back cover: "No one can be buried alive - twice - and live to tell the story - but Jacques Winslow did. No one survives a 5,000-foot jump from an airplane without a parachute - but Nicholas Alkemade did... Here are people who met death face-to-face and walked away from it... They all escaped from death, death in the seas, death in the skies, death at the jaws of beasts. Incredible, strange and true stories." Edgewear to covers, tanned pages, penciled notation on inside front cover and sticker on book's spine. . 2nd. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Duell Sloane and Pearce, 1964. Full color pictorial cover with color illustrated endpapers. 157 bright, clean pages with color illustrations and decorations. This well cared for book has some minor edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine and some soil to exterior spine. We note penciled prices on endpapers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Dorling Kindersley, 1990. 64 pages lavishly illustrated with color photographs. In very good condition with some wear to dust jacket including a wrinkling at back bottom. Price clipped. Part of the Eyewitness Guides Series. Contents include: Powered flight; The first aeroplanes; The evolving plane; Light aircraft; Aero-engines; Jetliner; Landing gear; Controlling the plane; In the cockpit; On the flight deck; Helicopter; Hot-air balloon; Portable planes and more. From back cover: "Stunning, real-life photographs of pioneering flying machines, modern jetliners, helicopters and engines offer an "eyewitness" view of aircraft, old and new. See a Victorian steam-powered aeroplane...Learn why modern airliners need pressurized cabins...Discover how wooden planes are contructed (and) how jet engines provide thrust...and much, much more.". Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson and Company, 1941. One of the Basic Social Education Series, Richard W Bardwell, Editorial Director Rare title, unique binding. Storytelling is used to explain how people paid for things and how coins and other financial instruments came to be and how they work. 8vo size softcover has been rebound with black cloth hardcover with white titles on cover and spine while retaining the original color illustrated soft covers; 36 pages with black and white and color illustrations and decorations throughout. Color illustrated inside covers are the equivalent of endpapers. Some black and white photographs. Ex-library with typical treatments, spine and corners are worn and frayed. Pages have handling wear and light soil in the margins. Page 23 has a pencilled name in top margin and small spot in bottom margin. Pages 29 and 32 have stray pencil marks; we noted one creased page corner and the 'y' in the word money on the front cover has been filled in with blue ink. .… Leer más

Greensboro, North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds Publishing Inc., 2003. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out. Very firmly bound, appears to have never circulated. From back: "The Italian Galileo Galilei's experiments in force, motion, and acceleration provide the first quantifiable evidence of how the natural world works." 144 bright, white pages; illustrated. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1942. First Edition 8vo size red cloth bound hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 184 toned rough cut pages with black and white illustrations One of the Childhood of Famous Americans Series From jacket: "It was a very different world from ours in which George Washington grew up with his little sister Betty and his three younger brothers. On his father's plantation in Virginia there were a hundred slaves, some to keep the big house in order, some to care for the tobacco crop, others to run the shops - ... George was interested in all that went on and tried to learn as much as he could. He fared well at Master Hobby's school, except with his spelling lessons. George was no speller." Toned pages with some light tanning to inside covers. Original booksellers sticker on bottom of fep, small abrasion on top of fep where sticker was removed. Jacket has edgewear and sunned spine with a small chip from heel and a quarter inch… Leer más

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1953. Illustrated by Lawrence Dresser with black and white drawings 8vo size red cloth bound hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 184 toned deckle edged pages. Inside of jacket is an overview of the series. One of the Childhood of Famous Americans Series, number 26 From jacket: "It was a very different world from ours in which George Washington grew up with his little sister Betty and his three younger brothers. On his father's plantation in Virginia there were a hundred slaves, some to keep the big house in order, some to care for the tobacco crop, others to run the shops - ... George was interested in all that went on and tried to learn as much as he could. He fared well at Master Hobby's school, except with his spelling lessons. George was no speller." Jacket has edgewear and some minor chipping to head and heel of spine; there are several small tears at edges. Bookplate on reverse of fep; fep has textural changes,… Leer más

New York: Golden Books, 1963. Adapted from the Horizon Book of Lost Worlds by the editors of Horizon Magazine 4to size pictorial hardcover; 180 pages including index with numerous black and white and color photographs Contents include: Egypt Mesopotamia The Strange World of Indus Valley Crete: The Island of Minos Mycenae: Home of Gods and Heroes The Vanished Worlds of Anatolia Eturia Cambodia The Riddle of the Maya From back cover: "Here is a fascinating volume about once important civilizations that disappeared from the earth: the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, the Indus Valley people, the Minoans of Crete, the Myceneans of Greece, the peoples of Anatolia, the Etruscans, the Far Eastern Khmers, and the New World Maya." Golden Books of this period have a lamination film which is peeling and chipped. Bumped and worn head and heel of spine and corners and a two inch tear to spine seam on front. There are pencil marks on bottom of book, a stray pen mark on outside covers and names… Leer más

New York: David White Company, 1968. From jacket: "Great ideas in communications...aims at the much more revealing question - why? Why did the Phoenicians invent the alphabet...why did Marconi...see the possibility of radio..." 172 pages with some black and white illustrations. Ex-library with typical treatments; jacket covered with mylar; library binding. Barcode has been clipped from top of fep and we note some tape transfer marks. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Jewish Publication Society of America, 2001. 8vo size trade paperback with photo illustrated covers. 108 pages with black and white drawings and glossy stock section of black and white photographs. From back: "Hank Greenberg was a legend in Jewish households in the 1930s and 40s... Greenberg worked just as hard at accepting his role as a Jewish symbol as he did at improving his baseball skills. He wanted to be known "not only as a great ballplayer, but even more, as a great Jewish ballplayer." His dream became reality in 1956, when he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Almost new, but with two flaws, one of the photo page corners is creased as is one regular page and someone has penciled a moustache on the photo of Hank on the front cover. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ellison, Mick. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications International, 2014. Bumped and worn corners and head and heel of spine, small tear to top of spine. Covers have light scratches from handling. Interior pages are in excellent condition. . First. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1963. Stories, Songs, Facts and Fun from Five Countries Being Assisted by the United Nations Children's Fund Very Rare Title 4to size staple-bound softcover with color illustrated front cover; 64 pages with black and white illustrations, maps, photographs and sheet music. From back cover of Book 4: "(This book) has information about the flags, festivals, games, what people eat and wear as well as example of folk songs of the countries included. -- N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Review" Edgewear and rubbing wear to covers, creases on front cover, creased bottom corner of back cover and one page. There is a name, now faded, on front cover and also on fep. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961. Stories, Songs, Facts and Fun from Five Countries Being Assisted by the United Nations Children's Fund Very Rare Title 4to size staple-bound softcover with color illustrated front cover ; 64 pages with black and white illustrations, maps, photographs and sheet music. From back cover: "(This book) has information about the flags, festivals, games, what people eat and wear as well as example of folk songs of the countries included. -- N.Y. Herald Tribune Book Review" Edgewear and rubbing wear to covers, light crease on front cover. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. An Official Major League Baseball Book Step-by-step instruction and sound advice about hitting mechanics, strategy and conditioning 4to size trade paperback; 88 pages with black and white photographs throughout From back: "Learn how to hit from baseball's best players. Develop these good habits now and, wo knows, you might find yourself hitting in the big leagues, too." Among the players whose photographs appear are: Harold Baines Sal Bando Wade Boggs Jose Canseco Walt Hriniak Mickey Mantel Kevin Mitchell Babe Ruth Ryne Sandburg Daryl Strawberry Ted Williams Moderate wear to covers with two small areas of adhesive residue from price stickers, bumped bottom back corner of covers and pages. . First. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.