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New York, NY: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2002 St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York. 2002. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; two small nicks to front wrap; light edge and tip bumps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 244 pp 12mo. On January 27, 2001 Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop were found slain in their home by combat knife stabbing. Two Vermont stellar high school students were arrested (James Parker and Robert Tulloch) without resistance. What was planned as an easy robbery quickly went wrong ending in murder charges and long prison sentences. A clean very presentable copy.

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press / Association of the United States Army, 2011 Naval Institute Press / Association of the United States Army, Annapolis, MD. 2011. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Printing and First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 240 pp 8vo. Walter Short is forever associated with the Pearl Harbor attack and the Army Air Corps planes caught on the ground. This book acknowledges that Short bore responsibility for certain charges, but it also provides ample evidence that his superiors worked hard to blame him and ADM Kimmel as a way of avoiding exposure of their own culpability. A clean pristine copy.

Chicago, IL: Council Oak Books/Chicago Review Press , 2021 Council Oak Books/Chicago Review Press, Chicago, IL. 2021. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition by Council Oaks Books. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 338 pp 8vo. This is the story of a search for two lives, the author's unknown Osage Indian Heritage and the scraps of history he could find that would lead him to the killer(s) of his grandmother on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma in 1925. Part murder mystery, part family memoir, and part spiritual journey. A clean pristine copy.

Wichita, KS: Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association (KIOGA), 1987 Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association, Wichita, KS. 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bottom board shelfwear; lightly bumped upper tips. DJ: Very Good light edge bumping; light rubbing to panels. Red cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine and front board. Maps as endpapers, 239 pp 4to. This book is commissioned by the KIOGA in commemoration of its 50th Anniversary. It treats all aspects of the industry from its beginnings to the present in a vivid narrative style which belies the depth of the scholarship. This book is the result of two years of original research into the history of the Kansas oil and gas industry. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: Vantage Press, 1982 Vantage Press, New York. 1982. Hardcover. Revised and Updated Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumping to head and tail; light bottom edge wear. DJ: Very Good; small closed tears and light chipping to tail. Maroon buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 383 pp 8vo. This book begins the engrossing and indeed shocking account of how the United Church of Christ was formed from a merger of the Evangelical, Reformed, and the Congregational Christian Churches. The merger was the product of manipulation, misleading assurances, and frequent cover-ups allowing the Congregationalists to be talked out of their historic and uncompromised rights as members in self-governing local churches in a free and untrammeled national fellowship. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Publishers, 1976 Thomas Nelson, Publishers, Nashville, TN. 1976. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace dust soiling to textblock edges. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($6.50); slight chipping at head and tail; small moisture spot at tail; light rubbing to panels. Rust colored boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 159 pp 8vo. After his mother's death, fifteen-year-old Joe joins forces with a retarded young man as they develop a decent life for themselves and attempt to stay out of the courts that would assign them to a foster home where he would lose his dog, Tiger and also his bond money that he put in his paper route and his bowling alley job. Being a self-sufficient young man, he learned from his friend about his rights and eventually earned his emancipation at age 15. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2001 PublicAffairs, New York. 2001. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumping to head tail, and upper tips; two small stains on the textblock fore edge. DJ; Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head and tail; moisture stain on the spine with warping of the paper. Yellow paper over boards with dark brown overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 242 pp 8vo. A startling debut novel based on a true story: A courageous young woman forces her small Kansas town to acknowledge the dark secrets of one violent night and the ugly prejudice that will tear it apart. . The year is 1911. After attending college in Wichita for two years, Margaret Chambers returns home to teach in the one-room schoolhouse of her youth. Trouble brews quickly. The God-fearing citizens of this small, weather-beaten town feel… Leer más

New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2001 PublicAffairs, New York. 2001. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O notation of where and when the book was purchased and signed. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ; Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); light bumping to head and tail. Yellow paper over boards with dark brown overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 242 pp 8vo. A startling debut novel based on a true story: A courageous young woman forces her small Kansas town to acknowledge the dark secrets of one violent night and the ugly prejudice that will tear it apart. . The year is 1911. After attending college in Wichita for two years, Margaret Chambers returns home to teach in the one-room schoolhouse of her youth. Trouble brews quickly. The God-fearing citizens of this small, weather-beaten town feel threatened by the bright-eyed,… Leer más

New York, NY: Random House, 1956 Random House, New York. 1956. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Black paper over boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine with gilt and black lettering on the spine in a black shadowbox; FBI seal embossed on the front board. Gold endpapers. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 368 pp 8vo.This is the story of the FBI and its chief, J. Edgar Hoover, as Mr. Hoover would like to have it told. After a foreword by J. Edgar Hoover, the book begins by illustrating the FBI in action in the apprehension of the despicable criminal Jack Gilbert Graham who planted a time-bomb in a United Air Lines plane in order to kill his own mother on whose life he had placed high insurance. Then Mr. Whitehead reverts to the FBI’s beginning. That was in the original Federal Bureau of Investigation of 1908, which was mostly the… Leer más

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996 Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1996. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on FFFP. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; edge bumps; light wear at tip covers. Gray boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 212 pp 8vo. Medicine can keep death at bay but death will claim us all and we are less well informed about how to race death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual needs of the dying. This brings together authorities in the humanities to reflect on medical, cultural, and religious responses to death. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Philadelphia, PA: David McKay Company, 1948 David McKay Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1948. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light wear to head, tail, tips, and board top and bottom edges; small moisture splashes to tinted textblock top; toning to peripheral edges of boards. No DJ. Tweed pattern boards with black cloth overlay on the spine; red and white lettering on the spine. 163 pp 8vo. This book has a collection of stories that originally appeared in The American Weekly in 1946-48. In this book are great stories of great fights by great editors and their reporters on the side of the people. The stories adhere as closely to the truth as our American Weekly research staff could get. These adventures of brave editors have been or will be matched at some time or other in the history of almost every newspaper published in America today. These are stories of editors and reporters who found something afoul of legality, civil rights, or… Leer más

Grand Rapids, MI: Bethany House Publishers, 2006 Bethany House Publishers, Grand Rapids, MI. 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; small folds in last two pages. DJ: Near Fine; light bumping to head and upper tips. Green textured paper over boards with tan overlay on the spine; red lettering on the spine. 288 pp 8vo. This book is written by Terri Schiavo's attorney and based on what he witnessed in her life to feel that forcefully taking her off a feeding tube, as he husband demanded, was akin to murdering her as she was not in a persistent vegetative state and he life was very much worth saving. A clean very presentable copy.

San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1958 The Naylor Company, San Antonio, TX. 1958. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight suntanning to spine. DJ: Near Fine; front flap upper corner is cut but not for price-remainder? but price is printed on rear flap at bottom; suntanning to spine and top edges of DJ. Khaki cloth boards and spine with bright red lettering on the spine. 227 pp 8vo. Fighting pens clash with blazing six-guns and flaming death as frontier Arizona newspapermen establish law and order by focusing the light of pitiless publicity on the corrupt politician and callous killer. This is a group of true experiences of frontier editors who with sheer guts, a few broken down fonts of type, a hand composting stick and a hand operated, flat bed press brought justice, law and order to the roughest parts of the west. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992 Thunder's Mouth Press, New York. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($21.95); closed tear on front panel at bottom; rubbing to panels; deep scratches on rear panel. Black paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 325 pp 8vo. This book was written directly after the Gulf War of 1991, where the president unleashed brutal military strikes against and overmatched adversary, not just to win but to annihilate the enemy in a war concocted by foreign policy planners. The moving accounts of the destruction of human life by an overzealous American military are the basis for charges of 19 violations of International Law and a scathing indictment of US activities in the Persian Gulf. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992 Thunder's Mouth Press, New York. 1992. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine: NOT Price Clipped ($21.95). Black paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 325 pp 8vo. This book was written directly after the Gulf War of 1991, where the president unleashed brutal military strikes against and overmatched adversary, not just to win but to annihilate the enemy in a war concocted by foreign policy planners. The moving accounts of the destruction of human life by an overzealous American military are the basis for charges of 19 violations of International Law and a scathing indictment of US activities in the Persian Gulf. A clean pristine copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1992 Delacorte Press, New York. 1992. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; bumped head and tail; small splash stains on fore edge. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($21.00); light rubbing to panels. Tray boards with black cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 286 pp 8vo. Carlson spent months preparing for an evening drive with his parents to kill them by the roadside. Carlson was diagnosed as suffering from a multiple personality disorder and the court had to decide which of Carlson's seven personalities that inhabited his body really killed his parents. A clean very presentable copy.

Bartlesville, OK: Buffalo Dale, 2010 Buffalo Dale, Bartlesville, OK. 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Brown cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 310 pp 8vo. This story is about the most famous unsolved murder in the southwest and the life of the man who held the key to that murder. On September 26, 1970, E.C. Mullendore III, the heir to the three hundred thousand acre Cross Bell Ranch Empire in Oklahoma was murdered in his own home. The only other person with him was ranch employee Damon ‘Chub’ Anderson who was also shot. At the time of his death Mr. Mullendore held the largest life insurance policy in the United States. As a result of mistakes made during the investigation no one has ever been charged in the murder despite the involvement of numerous law enforcement officials, lawyers, investigators and TV personalities but Anderson was one of the suspects.… Leer más

Bartlesville, OK: Buffalo Dale, 2010 Buffalo Dale, Bartlesville, OK. 2010. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to the upper rear corner of the spine; small printing stains on the textblock top. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 310 pp 8vo. This story is about the most famous unsolved murder in the southwest and the life of the man who held the key to that murder. On September 26, 1970, E.C. Mullendore III, the heir to the three hundred thousand acre Cross Bell Ranch Empire in Oklahoma was murdered in his own home. The only other person with him was ranch employee Damon ‘Chub’ Anderson who was also shot. At the time of his death Mr. Mullendore held the largest life insurance policy in the United States. As a result of mistakes made during the investigation no one has ever been… Leer más

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970 Simon & Schuster, New York. 1970. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light surface scratch on front board; slight wear to head, heel and tips from shelving. DJ: Near Fine; closed tear on rear top of cover; light rubbing and surface scratches on cover. Green cloth boards and spine with bright yellow lettering on spine. 253 pp. This book is an inside look at the advertising business on Madison Avenue. It is clearly the work of an original in a business that doesn't breed too many of them. What he has to say about advertising and the people in it is funny, tough, trenchant and readable as hell. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

Los Altos, CA: David and Lucile Packard Foundation, 1994 David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA.1994. Softcover/ Trade Wraps. Center for the Future of Children Publication. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bump to tail; scant rubbing to panels. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 255 pp 4to. This issue features 14 articles regarding divorce and its effects on children. The articles presented summarize knowledge and experience in selected areas that are relevant to improving public policies in the US which have an impact on the well-being of children who experience the divorce of their parents, remarriages, relocations, or desertion by one or both parents. A clean very presentable copy.