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New York: Praeger Publishers, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author and signed on ffep. First edition. Book is lightly bumped at head of spine; a few foxing spots to edges of text block; faint wave to fore edge of text block; no marks; binding is tight. 145 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Contents: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Thought-Western and Chinese; The Taiwan Issue: Geographical and Historical Contexts; The Changing Geopolitical Contexts of Sino-American Relations (1972-88); The Taiwan Relations Act and the Relocation of Taiwan; Resolution of the Taiwan Issue: ROC-PRC-US Relations; Bibliography; Index.

New York: Holiday House, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Ju-Hong Chen. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Eric Kimmel on title page. Stated First Edition. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and blue sides. Interior is clean, pages crisp. Dust jacket not price clipped, in an archival mylar sleeve. [32] pages. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Eric Kimmel (b. 1946) is an American author of children's books. His work has been awarded a Caldecott Honor and he has also won multiple Sydney Taylor Book Awards and National Jewish Book Awards. He is Professor Emeritus of Education at Portland State University.

New York: Lodestar Books Dutton, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Leo & Diane Dillon. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on title page. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line. Dust jacket rubbed along top edge of front flap, else fine; not price clipped; in a clear archival sleeve. [36] pages. 10.8 x 8.25 inches. A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the ducks for their colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks. Katherine Paterson (b. 1932) is an American writer of children's novels and picture books. She has won two Newbery Medals, two National Book Awards, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Illustrated by the Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team of Leo and Diane Dillon with brilliant watercolor and pastel paintings in the style of eighteenth-century Japanese woodcuts.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition [1925]. Oblong format. Parchment covered boards with embossed medallion on upper cover. Parchment split along outer hinge of upper cover; head of spine pushed; top fore-edge corners bumped. Interior clean and unmarked, pages bright. 22 color plates.

Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Charlotte Heaton-Sessions. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Emilie Michel on half-title page. Green cloth boards with white lettering on spine. Light fade area to tail of spine. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Dust jacket has very small chip at head of spine; short closed tear to top edge of rear panel; light rubbing at extremities; not price clipped ($2.50). DJ in archival sleeve. 133 pp. 9 x 6 inches. A collection of stories about Frunig and Frinnit, two elves who live in the Elves' Forest. Originally written for the author's French, Belgian, American, and Russian pupils in Switzerland during the early 1930s. Emilie Louise Michel (1909-1996) was born in Tacoma, Washington. She lived and received her preparatory education in Manchuria, Latvia, China, and Switzerland. She graduated from Reed college in 1930 and earned her bachelors degree at the University of Washington in 1936. Between 1930 and 1933 she… Leer más

Tualatin, Oregon: The Book Company, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good-. Plastic comb-bound booklet has a little fading to upper edges of wraps. Light edge wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. No date given. Ca. 1982.

Bloemfontein, South Africa: A. C. White P. & P. Co., Ltd., 1930. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover with beige cloth spine; papered boards and front cover illustration. Corners worn; some biopredation on front cover and on several pages near gutter (limited to bottom 1.5 inches). No statement of date (1930s). 20 illustrations. [42] pages. Six institutional copies located on OCLC (Northwestern, Princeton, NYPL, National Library of South Africa, University of KwaZulu Natal, Msunduzi Municipal Library). A collection of witty, comic, sometimes satirical tales featuring a variety of talking veld animals (and one talking sausage), including dassies, a meerkat, springbok, ant eater, elephant and others). A few feature the Picannin, who is very clever and attempts to teach the animals. The white adults who appear are found quite absurd. [Ref: Jenkins, E. (2006). National Character in South African English Children's Literature, Routledge]

Ojai, California: Parents Theosophical Research Group, 1967. Soft cover. Good. Saddle-stitched in card covers. Coffee stain on front cover. Interior is unmarked and generally clean. Illustrated. Includes a short list of titles published by the Parents Theosophical Research Group on the inside of the rear cover. 68 pages. Scarce. One copy noted on OCLC (Olcott Memorial Library, Wheaton). Nineteen animal stories by various authors, chosen to help convey the realization that we are all brothers of the Kingdom of Earth. ''As parents and grandparents, we can see that a direct experience in living brotherhood is given to our children. There is no better way to promote the understanding of brotherhood between the kingdoms than to allow little humans and little animals to grow up together.'' Contributing authors include: Merry Hart Baxter, Dr. M. Louise Chadwick, Betty Gray, Nadine E. Hunter, Ruth R. Hayden, Hilda Kemp, Hazel Koals, Joyce Lambert, Mary D. F. ''Pelita''… Leer más

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed and numbered [113/300] on the limitation page, first edition. Boards in maroon cloth with papered sides (fleur-de-lys pattern). Very faint wear to the bottom corners of the top board. xii, 63, [1] pages. 9.2 x 6 inches. Placed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Twenty pieces written for Updike's ''Talk of the Town'' column in The New Yorker between 1955 and 1959, including the very first.

1920. Soft cover. Very Good+. Staple-bound in thin card wraps. No date (published circa 1920's). Light soiling to rear cover. Previous owner's name on inside of front cover, otherwise interior is clean. Frontispiece portrait of Markham. [12] pages. 6.8 x 5 inches. Philosophical reflections of the American poet, Edwin Markham (1852-1940), as recorded by Fred Lockley, who had recently spent an hour talking with him. The subject of Markham's was "the unveiled mystery of life and the veiled mystery of death." Markham had been the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oregon for the years 1923 to 1931. Fred Lockley (1871-1958) was an Oregon journalist and historian, who at one point had been the tutor of the future United States President Herbert Hoover. This copy of A Talk with Edwin Markham belonged to Ruth Hopkins Strode, the society editor for the Oregon Journal & Oregonian, 1926-1944.

[New York]: Pointed Leaf Press, 2012. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author and several notable ventriloquists, including Jeff Dunham, Jimmy Nelson, Jay Johnson, and others. Boards in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine with large portraits on front and rear. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and signed by him on the title page. Multiple inscriptions by ventriloquists appear on three pages near the front. Small scuff on front cover; starting crack to lower quarter of inner front hinge (binding is still firm); light handling, else fine. 151, [1] pages. Approx. 12.5 x 12.5 inches. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. Inscribed at the 2013 Vent Haven Ventriloquists' ConVENTion by the following: - Jimmy Nelson (1928-2019) and Danny O'Day & Farfel + Jimmy's wife Betty - Jeff Dunham and the guys - Jay Johnson (of ''Soap'') and Bob - Mark Merchant and Wing Tip Shu - Buddy Big Mountain and Wendell P. Snodgrasz - Dan Horn & Orson - Mark Wade and Grits + Jody Wade -… Leer más

New York: Dial Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Kellogg with a drawing of a dog on the ffep. Stated first printing. Pictorial boards. Faint thumbing on a couple pages, else fine. Bottom corner of dust jacket's front flap is clipped, but publisher's price still present in upper corner. DJ in archival sleeve. 32 unnumbered pages. 10.75 x 8.8 inches. Pinkerton, a lovable Great Dane, and his feline sidekick, Rose, join their young owner on a trip to the woods. When they encounter Dr. Aleasha Kibble's Fox Hunting Academy results in a zany escalation of events, including a hair-raising balloon ride with Pinkerton aboard. Steven Castle Kellogg (b.1941) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. In 1989 he won the Regina Medal for his "continued, distinguished contribution to children's literature." He has also been the recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Irma Black Award for… Leer más

London, U.K.: Tank, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good. Book has small bumped area at bottom edge of front wrap. Fore edge of front wrap has a little light wear/scuffing. Pages are clean and binding is tight with no creases to spine. The title of this edition is "Picturesque." Photography and fiction magazine with many thought provoking and evocative photos. 301 pp. 15 cm x 18 cm.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Copyright page states ''First, second and third printings before publication / Published, August, 1924''. Purplish-burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket spine faded; top right corner of front panel chipped; not price clipped ($2.50 net); in an archival mylar sleeve. 286 pages. Carl Van Vechten's 1924 novel, set in the year 1897, partially set it the fictional town of Maple Valley, Iowa, wherein a European countess returns to her hometown in the midwest, encountering and shocking the Main Street mentality of its inhabitants. In 1925, it was adapted into the film A Woman of the World, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Pola Negri.

San Francisco: Corporate Scenes Press, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good+. Velo-bound book has a light crease near spine on front. A little rubbing to surface of clear front cover. A tiny bit of bumping at upper front fore edge corner. One tiny chip to fore edge of clear cover. Book also includes the 1981 Duffala article "English Through Music." Few pen notes on last page. All other pages are clean. Binding is tight. Published 1987. 105 pages.

Barcelona, Spain: Edicions 62 - La Caixa Les millors obres de la Literatura Catalana, 1979. Soft cover. Good. Ex library book has stamps on ffep, title page and last page. A few small blemish spots on insides of front and rear cover. Front cover a couple faint creases. Crease to spine. A few pages have been dog-earred. No marks. Binding is sound. First edition for Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Catalana, 1979. 4.5 x 7.25 inches. 221 Pages.

Fitzgerald, Georgia: Fitzgerald Publishing Company, 1911. Soft cover. Good. Card covers show toning around edges and have some minor soiling. Frontispiece portrait of the author has a dampstain in the fore-edge margin, else interior is generally clean. pp. x, [11]-293. A response to Ernst Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Henry Drummond's The Ascent of Man, and M. Alfred Binet's The Psychic Life of the Micro-Organisms in which the author discusses the place of the psychic/vito-energy or soul-life in the development of organisms. Also included are the author's critique of Prohibition and vaccination (in chapters 92-94). Hermann Wettstein (1840-1937) was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1848. He was a watchmaker and jeweler by trade. In 1900 he was a resident of Fitzgerald, Georgia, and by 1913 had relocated to San Francisco, where he resided until his death.

[New York]: Arcadia House, 1968. Hardcover. Fair/Very Good. Ex-library. Boards in green cloth with blue lettering on spine. Usual library markings on book, but dust jacket is clean. Aside from a few minor spots of soiling and one library rubber stamp, the pages of text are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket faded along spine; not price clipped; in a new archival mylar sleeve. 189 pages. A very scarce copy of Television Nurse (no copies currently in the trade and no record of any copies having been sold on in the past twelve years). The story revolves around Clare, a young nurse at a small California hospital, who has a strong emotional attachment to her adoptive brother Larry (their mother thinks they should marry) and is uncertain about her engagement to Hal, the hospital's staff psychiatrist. The story of these tangled relations and Hal's behavior unfolds in an unsettling fashion. Florence Stonebraker (1896-1977), aka Florence Stuart, was a prolific author whose work included risque pulp fiction,… Leer más

Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., 2002. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Book is very lightly bumped at head and tail of spine. No marks. Binding is tight. Dust jacket has a little light edge wear with a couple small closed tears at top edge. A few scuffs to surfaces. DJ has been placed in an archival clear cover. 9.75 x 11.25 inches. 156 Pages.

Kanniyakumari, India: Hari Kumari Arts. Soft cover. Very Good+. Book has light edge wear and a little rippling to front fore edge. A little rubbing to surfaces. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Fold-out map in back. Looks unread. 128 pages.