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Seattle, 47North, 2021, trade paperback, 416 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, New. Straight, tight, and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. The Philip K. Dick award-nominated author of (R)evolution and (ID)entity concludes her Phoenix Horizon series of a world at war, a virtual search for identity, and the future of humanity. ISBN 9781503948501

Moscow USSR, Progress Publishers, 1975, hardcover, First English-language Edition, First Printing stated, Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight corner bumps. Dustjacket edge nicks, rubs, small scratches, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of reports, articles and speeches by future Soviet premier Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

Toronto, Clarke Irwin & Co, 1968, hardcover, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine end and corner wear, faint sticker ghost on front endpaper. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, short closed edge tears to rear flap fold, in new Brodart sleeve. This biography of the great Reformer vividly brings to life the Reformation's earliest years and Calvin's struggles with those respectable, bourgeois citizens who rejected the belief that the church should determine how they lived their lives. Bibliography appended.

Toronto, Clarke Irwin, 1967, hardcover, xiv-321 pp, First Edition in English translation by Margaret M. Cameron, First Printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, small surface scratch to front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. A finely-drawn portrait of Canada during the Revolutionary period depicting the interaction of the many pressure groups in Canada, the American colonies, and in Great Britain all attempting to manipulate one another for their own interests. Illustrated with 10 pages of black-&-white plates and two maps. Ten appendices reproducing the text of relevant contemporaneous documents, 8-page bibliography, 26 pages of author's notes.

San Jose CA, Hampton Books, 1988, hardcover, 302 pp, first edition, first printing by numberline, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge nicks, short closed edge tear to top of front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. Subtitled-How to Stop Being a Political Prisoner in Your Own Country, The Captive American offers a way out of the political and economic prisons we have let our leaders build. Illustrated with charts, graphs and drawn figures. Appended; checklist for Active Americans, Suggestions for Further Reading.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949, hardcover, vii-207 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, spine end and corner wear. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, short tears, small loss to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The true story of Hungary's Prince Primate who would not be bowed. Not by the Nazis, nor later by the Communists, who imprisoned him for life, but could not still his voice. Index appended.

Somerville MA, Candlewick Press, 2022, hardcover children's picture book (10" x 11.5"), 40 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, new pictorial dustjacket. A boldly transportive original tale, David Barclay Moore infuses history with wry folk wisdom, metaphorical power, and a splash of magic. Beautifully illustrated throughout with artwork by John Holyfield. ISBN 9781536213690

New York, F. Tennyson Neely, 1898, hardcover, 224 pp, First Edition, Good condition in blue cloth boards decorated with red and silver. Straight and very firmly bound with no markings, spots to boards, spine a bit faded, light spine-end and corner wear, stain to bottom edge, faint evidence of dampstain to top edge of a few pages. The Georgia native and popular Victorian author of 30 novels presents a Sherlock Holmes-style detective story featuring a taunting villain, a particularly gruesome murder, and an Indian mystic and master hypnotist in a castle with a secret dungeon.

New York, Oxford University Press, 2020, hardcover, xviii-550 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight, and clean with no wear or markings in bright, new pictorial dustjacket. The popular film scholar and author of When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood "British" Film 1939-45, and The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide returns with a definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars. Illustrated throughout with 50 black-&-white photographs of Grant's work and his personal life. Appended: Notes, Sources: Abbreviations, Select Bibliography, Filmography, Index. Foreword by Gary Giddins. ISBN 9780190053130

New York, Penguin, 2012, trade paperback, 353 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Signed by the Author without inscription on her personal bookplate opposite the title page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright pictorial card covers. A young woman in 1930's Massachusetts puts her personal dreams on hold to fulfill her father's dying wishes even as her town is threatened with flooding to create a reservoir for Boston. Additional promotional material (bookmark, postcard, business card) featuring the book's cover art laid-in. ISBN 9780143123514

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1958, hardcover, ix-259 pp, Very Good in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, previous owner's name and address to front endpaper, corner and spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, one closed edge tear, in new Brodart sleeve. A companion volume to the author's Community Organization: Theory and Principles, expands those topics and provides illustrative materials of the range and nature of problems which confront the practitioner in the field. In all, 21 separate cases are examined. Illustrated with tables, charts and diagrams.

London UK, Arthur Barker, 1960, hardcover, 214 pp, first edition, first printing, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, top corners bumped. Dustjacket unclipped with original price, light edge nicks, light rubs, in new Brodart sleeve. The third in Prescot's series of comic judiciary reminiscences.

Garden City NY, Doubleday, 1973, hardcover, 135 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, board edges worn, rear board mottled, bottom edge of text block remainder speckled. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, tiny chips to head of spine, displays well in new Brodart sleeve. Elaine Wagner's first novel, a murder mystery set in charming Provincetown Mass. ISBN 9780385003186

New York, Walter J. Black, 1950, hardcover, 182 pp, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, foxing to edges and endpapers. Dustjacket shows slight edge nicks, tiny closed edge tears, touch of foxing to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The 37th installment of an astonishing 86 Perry Mason books from Erle Stanley Gardner. At the time of his death in March of 1970, in Ventura, California, Gardner was "the most widely read of all American writers" and "the most widely translated author in the world," according to social historian Russell Nye.

London, Peter Davies, 1965, hardcover, x-182 pp., First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no markings, faint scuff and sticker remnants to front pastedown under dustjacket flap, slight spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. Fourteen true cases of mysterious illness and the stories of the men and methods used to solve them. List of Principal References Consulted appended. ISBN 9780432160503

New York, Talos Press, 2015, hardcover, 389 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no markings in new unclipped dustjacket bearing original price, tiny nicks to dust jacket edges. In a near-future Tokyo society, based on an action-transaction economy, a Transaction Authority liquidator is mysteriously burdened with a huge debt and must restore balance to his personal account before he falls into bankruptcy and social death.

Tucson, Arizona Archaeological Society, The Arizona Archaeologist Number 37, 2008, large format paperback (8" x 11"), x-126 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, As New condition. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in illustrated grey card covers. An examination of the summer 1949 excavation of the Catclaw Cave, a rockshelter on the Colorado River, the artifacts recovered considered to have originated with the Cerbat Branch of the Patayan Culture during two separate occupations. Profusely illustrated throughout with 41 figures including photographs, drawings and ground plans, and 4 tables. Appended: List of Figures, List of Tables, References Cited, Fish Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Lower Colorado River Basin, Arizona, A New Pleistocene Bighorn Sheep from Arizona.

New York, Tor Teen, 2019, hardcover, 304 pp, New. Straight, tight, and clean with no wear or markings in new unclipped dustjacket bearing original price. A thought-provoking near future YA thriller that could not be more timely as it explores issues of online privacy, artificial intelligence, and the power and perils of social networks. ISBN 9781250165084

Victoria BC, The Sisters of Saint Ann, 1966, hardcover, first edition, first printing, Very Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, name and date on ffep, corners and spine ends bumped, colour offsetting to endpapers from laid-in newspaper clippings. Dustjacket unclipped, rubs, edge chips, in new Brodart sleeve. The story of the order's early days through the first century of service in Western Canada. Illustrated with 10 pages of black-&-white plates. Laid in are several items including; a literary review of the book's original publication in 1966, a newspaper biography of the author as she began her teaching appointment at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Education 1966, a column written by the author under the heading "Home and Family" for the Edmonton Journal dated 1968, two folding, pictorial prayer cards for the Beatification of Mother Marie Anne, Foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of Saint Ann, 1809-1890, dated 1955 and 1956. A unique copy including… Leer más

London, Epworth Press, 1984, trade paperback, xii-145 pp, First Edition, Very Good condition in bright, pictorial card covers. Straight, tight and clean, name and gift inscription to half-title page, slightest corner bumps. The Methodist minister and naturalized South African citizen, held in jail for fifteen months and tried for High Treason, reflects upon his experiences of 30 years' increasing involvement with the struggle for liberation, and the revitalization of his faith.