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Harper & Row, NY, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "As Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Officer Jim is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. As the layers of each case are peeled away, it becomes clear that they are connected, and that Leaphorn and Chee have entered into the dangerous arena of superstition, ancient ceremony, and living gods." [Pub. Info] STATED FIRST EDITION

Alfred A. Knopf, NY [A Borzoi Book], 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Nancy Wood has known Tao Pueblo in northern New Mexico for more than twenty-five years, becoming involved with its people, its history, its ancient and enduring culture." [Dust Jacket] The black-and-white photography of Nancy Wood combined with some historical photographs create an image of the Pueblo and its people as never before. Not just a picture book, the text explains, describes, and tells the reader a story that encompases the Taos Indian with pride, understanding and love for people known for decades. A compelling and worthy book. Larger Format. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. On October 29,1857, Henry Thoreau wrote in his journal of a dream that had come to him fo perhaps the twentieth time. He saw a mountain standing east of Concord, where the land is low and flat, and climbed to its summit: 'And are there not such mountains, east or west, from which you may look down on Concord in your thought, and on all the world?' This dream was more real than imaginary, for during his brief, energetic life... Thoreau climbed several mountains in New England and wrote fine accounts of his experiences." [Dust Jacket] Slight wear to the dust jacket. STATED FIRST PRINTING.

The University of Chicago Press, 1947. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine . University of Chicago classics professor, David Grene, known for his translations of ancient Greek literature. There is some very minor chipping to the dust jacket. There is a protective mylar cover. This is a 1st edition; 7th printing.

Farrrar Straus Giroux, NY. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST US EDITION.

Jonathan Cape , 1991. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylara cover. 1ST UK EDITION.

Knopf , 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover.

Harper & Row, NY. Hardcover. Fine. "Mini-biographies of nearly everybody: scientists, inventors, thinkers, writers, entertainers, who made a difference in the 20th century, until about 1990, when it was published."" [Pub. Info] 2000 entries by 300 contributors. 60 subject categories. 865 pages. 1ST EDITION

Appleton-Century, NY , 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The best novels of Edith Whartton are classics. Such books as 'Ethan Frome' and the Pulitzer Prize-winner 'The Age of innocence', have proved to be of unique importance in American letters… Born into New York's 'Four Hundred' she shocked her set by putting them into novels so penetrating that they soon had a 'secces de sccandale'. Inevitably she found herself leading two lives - that of a proper Manhattan matron and that of an intimate of Henry James and other less socially acceptable writers and intellectuals." [Dust Jacket] There is a protective mylar cover. SECOND PRINTING.