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Dell, 1971. mass market paperback. fair: ex library copy, residue inside rear cover, stamps and writing. Dell 7859 192pp. first printing February 1971. #00474.

New York: Pocket Books, 1989. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 236pp. from Preface: "...Many people will privately admit their belief in psychic phenomena, but few will publicly acknowledge it for fear of ridicule. I believe the skills taught in Executive ESP: Access Your Intuition for Business Success will be used as a textbook in the business schools of the 1990s. It is time to take the New Age out of the closet and put its practical principles to work for you, now." #02676.

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1968. first edition. hardcover. near fine: all clean, square, tight./very good: mild edgewear, price penciled over, NOT clipped ($2.95). Ingrid Fetz. 12mo. 32pp. from front flap: "Talented new author Francine Jacobs tells all about the special times and places for wishing and the special rules one must obey in order to have one's wishes come true. Included are charms and incantations from all over the world. In Jamaica one need only have a coin to make a wish on the new moon, and in Japan one may write a wish on a long strip of colored paper and leave it, fluttering gently, teid to the branch of a bamboo tree. . . ." #01259, #02188, #02189.

New York: Harper and Row, 1975. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+ : mild shelf wear to boards and spine, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: age toning, NOT clipped ($8.95). 8vo 340pp. stated first edition. from rear flap: "Summer on a Mountain of Spices is as fresh and satisfying as a huckleberry, a novel of universal values and universal human appeal about the kind of people Arthur Kober immortalized." #01667.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. first edition. hardcover. Book VG+: touch of shelf wear else clean, square, unmarked, tight./DJ VG: mild age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo 483pp. from front flap: "In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. #02438.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1942. Revised Edition, first thus. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, toning to text block, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 385pp. Forum Books first printing August 1942. miniature biographies of famous chemists throughout history, from 15th century to mid 20th century. #01841.

Milady Publishing, 1966. first edition. hardcover. very good: agewear/soiling to boards, bumped corners, toning on endpapers. text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 4to 383pp. Comprehensive etiquette guide for young men: personal health and hygiene, personal, romantic, and business etiquette, care and choosing of wardrobe, public speaking, interviewing and working in the business world, more. . #00670.

Rinehart and Company, 1950. trade paperback. very good: edge wear to cover, text clean, binding tight. Duodecimo 317pp. introduction by Quentin Anderson. #00528.

New York: Heritage Press, 1967. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild foxing fore and top edge text block, else clean, square, tight, unmarked. Slipcover VG-: foxing and age toning, offset/shadow, else sound.. Colleen Browning. 4to 516pp. Sandglass pamphlet laid in. Introduction by R.W. Stallman, Illustrations by Colleen Browning. #02635 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

New York: Random House, 1951. softcover. good: crease along spine, hinge worn at half title page, name on FFEP, text clean, binding intact. 12mo. 438pp. Modern Library College Editions T47 with introduction by Fred B. Millett. #01118.

New York: New American Library, 1963. mass market paperback. Book G: lean and crease to spine, mild age wear to wraps and spine, writing on author bio page, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 559pp. Signet Classics CE 1000. afterword by Oscar Cargill. see pictures for synopsis. #02879.

Rinehart and Company, 1952. trade paperback. good: spine sunned and creased, minor shelf wear, text clean, binding tight. Duodecimo 360pp. Rinehart Editions 16. Introduction by Joseph Warren Beach. #00531.

Mysterious Press, 1987. mass market paperback. good. 234pp. "With the fascination of a true-life detective story set firmly in its historical context, this account of the Ratcliffe Highway murders describes a series of crimes that were to nineteenth-century London what the Jack the Ripper killings are to us today: the very symbol of murderous and unthinking brutality. [...] As the reader watches the rudimentary police system of Regency London coping with a major murder investigation, the Ratcliffe Highway Murders prove to be among the most interesting and mysterious in the English criminal calendar." #00585.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. Book Club Edition. hardcover. very good+: writing on FFEP, offset to paste downs from DJ flaps. else clean, tight, square./very good: age toning, NOT clipped. 8vo 185pp. BCE. first murder mystery novel by PD James to feature her female detective Cordelia Gray, also features her popular character Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh. #01248.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. book club. hardcover. very good/very good. Synopsis: Adopted at age eight, Philippa Palfrey learns that she is the daughter of a rapist and a murderess who is soon to be paroled from a life sentence for killing a child whose father seeks revenge. From back cover: "Innocent Blood moves to a climax as exciting and satisfying as anything P.D. James has yet given us. A novel of extraordinary power and originality, it is both a continuation and development of her talent." . #00044.

Warner Books, 1987. mass market paperback. good. 284pp. "The first victim was a priest without an enemy. The second victim, a monster of a man who spread hate wherever he went. The third corpse was that of a sweet spinster who was the soul of living kindness; the next, a seductive temptress who was the embodiment of sensual lust. And Adam Dalgliesh knew that unless he could find the hidden pattern in this seemingly senseless series of slayings, the nightmare of death would go on and on..." #00588.

Washington Square Press, 1963. first thus. trade paperback. very good: some light underlining in introduction, else clean text, binding tight, cover clean.. Duodecimo 313pp. first Washington Square Press printing July 1963 W604. #00516.

Harper and Brothers, 1955. hardcover. very good: bumped corners, crease in spine, age wear to boards. age toning to outside edges of text block, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 244pp. #00294.

New York: Bridgehead Books, 1954. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, mild toning/offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight/DJ Fair: age toning, chipping and corner wear, NOT clipped ($4), preserved under brodart cover.. 8vo 252pp. part of Bridgehead Books Library of Unusual Books. from front flap: "...No one has ever dared describe things like this before--but the moral indignation of the author is sufficient justification for the overwhelming incidents which build this book into the most terrifying of its kind ever published." #01827.

Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1991. softcover. Book VG: text clean, binding tight. 8vo 231pp. see pictures for synopsis. #01996.