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Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, 1982, hardcover, 154 pp, First Edition stated, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, slight spine lean, apparent printed signature and inscription to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight corner and spine-end nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A factualized novelization of the life of Eskiminzin, chief of the Aravaipa Apache, who sought peaceful coexistence with the white settlers and established a model community of trust and self-determination on the San Carlos reservation. Illustrated with period photographs from the Arizona Historical Society. Introduction by Morris K. Udall. Selected Bibliography appended.

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972, hardcover, 184 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head of spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, one short closed edge tear to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. This anecdotal account of the beginning of the modern consumer movement shows how a new awareness of the need to safeguard the public interest has been steadily growing. Appended: Suggestions for Further Reading, Index. ISBN 9780374321932

Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1963, hardcover, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in original glassine dustjacket. Straight tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket chipped and split at head of spine. Nine letters written to Louis Untermeyer by Ezra Pound between 1914 and 1931. Three are partially reproduced to show Pound's unique hand-writing and typing styles. Edited by J.A. Robbins. Appended: Notes, Works Cited.

New York, Macmillan, 1967, hardcover, xii-275 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few light spots to red topstain, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, rubs, slight edge nicks, one short closed edge tear, in new Brodart sleeve. The educator and co-editor of the Journal of Parapsychology presents a follow up to her 1961 book Hidden Channels of the Mind with this clear and readable account of all aspects of extrasensory perception both in a laboratory setting and through dramatic case histories described in letters and interviews with private individuals. Index appended.

Auckland NZ, New Zealand Wing of the Confederate Air Force in association with Raymond Enterprises Ltd., 1983, hardcover, 199 pp, Limited Edition or 5000 copies of which this is #895, Signed and inscribed by the Author on the front endpaper, inscription reads 'To Allan, Happy Landings, J.G. Allan, 8-23-84', Very Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine-end bump. Dustjacket has rubbing, edge nicks, closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of stories mostly related to the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea and the joint celebration of it's 40th anniversary by American and New Zealand airmen. Profusely illustrated throughout with photographs and maps.

New York, Carlton Press, 1971, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, Very Good in Good dustjacket, Signed and Inscribed by the author to the original owner on the half-title page, " I am sure, Clara that you will enjoy your copy of Eagle Wing. Sincerely, your friend, J. Arch McLeod". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, corners lightly bumped. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, nicks, short closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. A pillar of the Saskatchewan educational system for many years, Mr. Mcleod tells in novelistic form the story of an educational experiment in a small Saskatchewan community almost half a century ago.

New York, Atheneum, 1966, hardcover, 243 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light nicks, scuffs to heel of spine, one closed edge tear, in new Brodart sleeve. A fictional reminiscence set in France between the wars which pays tribute to the reckless abandon, generosity of spirit, and unconventionality of the author's father.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1962, hardcover, vii-304 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, light spine end bumps. Dustjacket, price-clipped, rubs, small edge chips and short closed tears, scuffs to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An account of Chinese writing in the fields of history, philosophy, and poetry from the Chou dynasty to the middle of the Latter Han dynasty, about 1100 B.C. to A.D. 110. Foreword by Wm. Theodore De Bary. Appended: Suggested Readings, Chronology, Index. ISBN 9780231025799

New York and Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1893, small hardcover (6" x 4"), xviii-311 pp, from the Crowell's "Handy Volume Classics" series of which 36 volumes were in print at the time, Good condition in highly decorated gilt boards and backstrip, top edge gilt. Straight, tight and clean, a few light pencil marks throughout, a couple of incidental scrapes and perforations to two pages of introduction, front and rear hinges starting but very firm. About 80 of the earlier poems of James Russell Lowell with a 12-page biographical sketch of the popular poet by Nathan Haskell Dole. Illustrated with an unidentified black-&-white frontispiece plate and four additional plates depicting certain aspects of the poems, laid in is a small illustrated catalogue of Crowell's "Handy Volume Classics" to date.

London, Angus & Robertson, 1963, hardcover, 208 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few page corners ruffled. Dustjacket price-clipped, light edge nicks, faint dampstain to heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. Accounts of some of the more memorable earthquakes in recent history, occurring worldwide along the well-mapped earthquake belts. Illustrated with 12 black-&-white plates from maps, drawings and photographs.

New York, Total Sports, 1998, large format hardcover (9" x 11"), xiii-210 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Association Copy, Signed by the author and inscribed to the American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould with a bookplate to the front pastedown identifying the book as 'From the Library of...', Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slightest spine-end and corner bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine sleeve. The sports historian and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written', presents a cultural history of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century with sports, those who participated in them, and the many legendary venues that housed them at the center. Profusely illustrated throughout with both black-&-white and color photographs, many from the author's personal collection. Appended:… Leer más

New York, Total Sports, 1998, large format hardcover (9" x 11"), xiii-210 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Signed and inscribed by the author " For Alan - With best wishes and many thanks, Larry Ritter", Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slightest spine-end touches. As new dustjacket, unclipped, bearing original price. The sports historian, and author of The Glory of Their Times, often called 'the greatest book about baseball ever written', presents a cultural history of New York City in the first half of the twentieth century with sports, those who participated in them, and the many legendary venues that housed them at the center. Profusely illustrated throughout with both black-&-white and color photographs, many from the author's personal collection. Appended: Bibliography, Addendum, Index. Foreword by Lawrence Block. ISBN 9780965694964

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981, hardcover, 278 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Fine, Signed by the Author without inscription on the front endpaper. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight touch of foxing to text block edges, in Fine unclipped dustjacket bearing original price, in new Brodart sleeve. The author's first and most successful novel, awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a finalist for best first novel at the 1982 American Book Awards. The novel was mentioned in Larry McCaffery's list of the 100 greatest books of the 20th century. ISBN 9780374146337

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1917 hardcover, 304 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fair condition lacking dustjacket. Straight and tight with no markings, boards soiled, darkening to text block edges, spine-end and corner wear. A collection of eight short stories by this close friend and biographer of Joseph Conrad.

London, Chatto and Windus, 1954, hardcover, 188 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, gift inscription to front endpaper, light spine-end and corner wear, fading to board edges. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, large chip to top edge of front panel, edge nicks, rubs, fading to spine, a few small spots at rear, in new Brodart sleeve. The much-loved broadcaster and author of nearly 100 previous books presents a collection of twenty-eight of his favorite talks including memories of Sir Edward Elgar, Ellen Terry, Henry James, Going to the Pantomime, The Nineties, and The Vanished Colour and Scent of London.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977, hardcover, xxi-209 pp, First Edition in English translation by Grete Heinz, First Printing, Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket, light edge nicks, one corner tape-repaired, spine faded, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of ten essays which originally appeared in journals between 1927 and 1932 and are now accepted by a new generation of historians as models upon which to base analyses of other institutions and periods. Editor's notes appended. ISBN 9780520028807

Greybull WY, Pronghorn Press, 2020, trade paperback, 292 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Signed by the Author on the title page, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers. The award-winning author of Unbroken, and The Widow Smalls and Other Stories returns with a novel of North Carolina in the 1950s as a pampered son and heir begins to question everything he thought he knew when suddenly thrust into the role of head of his extended family. ISBN 9781941052372

New York, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022, hardcover, 272 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing by numberline, New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in new unclipped dustjacket bearing original price. This tale of a young girl who stumbles into a magical realm ruled by a wicked witch is a haunting and ultimately uplifting middle grade novel about grief, family, and decades-old magic. ISBN 9781665904476

Calgary, Detselig Enterprises, 1988, hardcover, viii-149 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fine in Fine dustjacket, Signed and Inscribed by the Author to the previous owner on the dedication page. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket, slightest of edge bumps, in new Brodart sleeve. Jack Donoghue's own story of his WWII experiences as part of No. 3 PR Unit in Europe, the credible link between the men at the front and the people at home. Illustrated throughout from black-&-white photographs. ISBN 9780920490754

Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967, hardcover, xii-203 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight tight and clean, inscription to front pastedown endpaper, tape marks on front and rear pastedowns. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in new Brodart sleeve. Dr. Benne explores the role of education in resolving the modern problems of personal identity and community. Appended: Notes, Acknowledgments.