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U.S. Postal Service, 1996. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Has a picture of James Dean of the front cover. 63 pages. Beautiful full-color illustrations! This book is a must for any stamp collector. Makes a great gift! This book illustrates and details each 1996 Commemorative Stamp. Each stamp gets 2 large pages of pictures and history. There is also a spot provided on the page to put the stamp in the b ook..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very rare book! A must have for any Spiderman collector. The first full length novel. "Stan Lee Presents." Introduction by Sta n Lee. 176 pages. Some slight yellowing on inside edges otherwise in fantastic shape. A great collector's piece..

New York: The New American Library/Signet, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st printing. 191 pgs. Color painting of Joe DiMaggio on front cover, b/w photos and illustrations by Lenny Hollreiser. The inside stor y of our National Pastime! Lively anecdotes of big leagues and big leaguers; Game-wise tips for fans and players, young and old with a special chapter "How To Score" by Red Barber. Bright, solid exce p t for front cover a little fragile, front cover bottom outside corner creased, lamination starting to peel on top front & back cover edge, bottom of spine has a 1/4" light tear on edge, front cover to p outside tip creased, back cover bottom outside tip creased. All in all I think any baseball collector would be very pleased with the condition of this 1949 book..

New York: Books Inc. 1939. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Date not shown but I have Toby Tyler from the same set & the date 1939 is in that one. Printed for Playmore, Inc., Top & bottom of sp ine & spine edges rubbed, 2-1/2" crease down spine, 1/4" square piece of spine shows the white (like the blue coating was peeled off). This book looks fantastic for it's age..

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprints issues #7-9 of the Marvel comic book in full color. The third volume of the complete marvel Conan containing The Lurk er Within, The Keepers of the Crypt and The Garden of Fear. Creases on front and rear cover.Top & bottom of spine rubbed. Inside looks great! A must for a conan or marvel comic collector..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Golden Books Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0307159515. 1st printing. Glossy oversized hardcover. Illustrated with color photos from the movie. Front cover bottom right corner sli ghtly bumped & has slight wear. Otherwise book is in fantastic condition. A collector's gem..

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1966. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Harper Novel of Suspense. Green boards with black felt next to spine. Dust jacket top & bottom of spine & 1/2" along the top edge of the front cover next to the spine is bumped and rubbed. 240 pages. This is an extremely nice collectible for 1966. "Perhaps it was ordained that Louis Schweitzer, who had for twenty years been a quiet, orderly man - a translator for the international organization Europahaus - should have been bicycling through the sunny pasture at the moment the man in the ditch croaked out 'Thirst.' Louis found the source of the feeble voice, a man in pain, whose life was beginning to ebb, a man much out of place in that rural setting, lying face down in a ditch in city clothes. A man in trouble - how bad the trouble was ..

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1967. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. "In the early summer of 1902 John Barrington Ashley of Coaltown, a small mining center in southern Illinois, was tried for the murder of Breckenridge Lansing, also of Coal town. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, at one in the morning he escaped.." The book takes us through the murder, the courtroom drama and one family's struggle to survive it all. Blue boards with black spine with gold lettering. 435 pages. Top & bottom of spine bumped. Dust jacket top & bottom of spine bumped and rubbed and 4 outside corners tips slightly rubbed. A nice addition to a vintage book collectors collection..

Garden City, New York: Doubleday Publishing, 1966. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible. Vintage. Black and White Photos. Bob Hope's Christmas visits to troops in Vietnam. What he brings to the GI's in Vietnam, Thailand and way stations will never be in Santa's sleigh - one-of-a-kind presents like Janis Paige, Anita Bryant, Kaye Stevens, Joey Heatherton and Carroll Baker. Five of the loveliest! And there's Bob Hope with that kind of humor that GI's eat up.255 pp. Top & bottom of spine and rear cover top left corner tip slightly bumped and rubbed. Both bottom outside corner tips slightly rubbed. Dust jacket top & bottom of spine and rear cover top left corner heavily rubbed with small pieces missing. All 3 other outside corner tips and top edge of front cover rubbed. 1/2" closed tear on front cover top edge..

Chicago: The Lakeside Press - R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1993. Hard Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lakeside Classic reprint. Christmas 1993, Lakeside Press Book. Great Collector's Books. Trying to complete the set or start a new set? Limit ed edition printed annually (beginning in 1903) for Donnelley's employees' & best customers' Christmas gifts. Get off to a good start with these 8 books of the original Christmas Lakeside Classic boo k s from 1989 to 1996 of the set. Ask or search my books, (all under collectables), if interested in all 8 books I have. Top edge Gold Gilt!! 91st in the annual Christmas series. Fascinating personal na rratives by Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, and Buffum, a prospector and later a politician..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1989. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0399134360. 1st printing. Gardner's 8th novel in the James Bond cycle. "Fraught with the intrigue, explosive action, and tech nological wizardry that Bond fans have come to expect.a tour de force in the rousing Ian Fleming tradition." When terrorists hijack a British aircraft carrier and take hostage high ranking observers f rom all three super powers, the price demanded is higher than any country is willing to pay. With control of the ship, they have control of the world. Commander James Bond is on board on special ass ig nment. Lower front cover edge has a very tiny puncture like staple, starts on cover & goes slightly onto book, the corner is also rubbed slightly, top & bottom spine of jacket is rubbed & has a co u ple small 1/4" tears, 1/2" tear on back of cover on the top..

New York,NY: Paperback Library Inc. 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very scarce. I couldn't find another. A true story of a father's search for a lost child told with genuine candor and tende rness.makes moving reading." The top & bottom of the spine and 3 outside corner tips are rubbed. Top of spine is bumped. A few small light creases on front cover, a crease down the spine, 2 creases a cross spine, 3 light 1" creases on back cover, p.o.'s name on Fep (you can see the imprint under the light on the outside of the front cover), a small 1/32" closed tear on outside front edge..

Chicago: The Lakeside Press - R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1995. Hard Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lakeside Classic reprint. Christmas 1995, Lakeside Press Book. Great Collector's Books. Trying to complete the set or start a new set? Limited edition printed annually (beginning in 1903) for Donnelley's employees' & best customers' Christmas gifts. Get off to a good start with these 8 books of the original Christmas Lakeside Classic books from 1989 to 1996 of the set. Ask or search my books, (all under collectables), if interested in all 8 books I have. All the top edges of the pages have a golden finish. 93rd in the annual Christ m as series. An eyewitness account of Sewall's voyages of the USS Saratoga in 1850-54 which established diplomatic and trade links with Japan..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Captures all the heat of the spectacular film production, documenting in words and brilliant photographs the challenges faced by filmmaker Alan Parker in turning one of the world's most successful musicals into a contemporary Hollywood movie. Fully illustrated in color. Photographs from the film by David Appleby and Cinematography by Darius Khondji. 125 pages. Some light rubbing on top & bottom of spine. Bottom of spine slightly bumped..

Dallas, TX: Galina, Inc. 1969. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8" x 10-5/8" Book size. A great piece to add to any space collector's collection. Great as a gift. Goes through & describes the Apollo program from the beginning (with pictures) to the landing of the 1st man on the moon (with pictures)..

The New American Library, 1965. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "Bond returns to London as a homicidally brainwashed stooge of the KGB. He is immediately taken in hand, rewashed, and se nt on his merry way to hamstring, not help, one of his mortal enemies, Francisco Scaramanga, whom he meets in deadly combat on the island of Jamaica". Jamaica provides the setting for this thrilling B ond adventure. Gold lettering on book spine. All this description is the dust jacket.Yellowing of dust jacket, spine has 1/4" hole in it, 1" tear on back cover near spine, 1/2" tear on front cover t op edge, rubbing on edges & tips of corners, jacket is all intack though..

New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Beautiful pictorial inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" fantasy saga. A series of paintings by Joan Wyatt are all reproduced in this portrait album for the first time. Beautiful full page color! Each painting is highlighted with an authoritative explanation by Jessica Yates, Secretary to the Tolkien Society in Great Britain. 64 pages. Wonderful paintings of The Lord of the Rings. The artist followed Tolkiens descriptions faithfully. The paintings are mainly sweeping landscapes, giving us Rivendel, Minas Tirith, the Balrog, Helm's Deep and Issengard, to name a few. The paintings are beautifully done and compliments the books nicely. Some of the best Middle Earth artwork I have ever seen. Tolkien art at the time of publication was dominated by the Hildebrandt brothers calendars, which I heard best described as looking like "wax work still-lifes." Ms. Wyatt's paintings are light years removed from that kind of art. She works with a… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0-15-253900-X. Geraldo Rivera knows from his own childhood experiences that growing up in a poor neighborhood has never been easy. Living in an apartment with too much heat or none at all, going to an old rundown school, avoiding winos and junkies in the nearby park - these things are all part of Miguel Roble's life on New York's Lower East Side. But they are by no means his whole life. In this highly realistic, personal narrative, eleven-year-old Miguel also talks about the love the members of his close knit family hav e for one another, the jokes and laughter and fun shared with friends, and his amibtion to make a better life for himself. Miguels's story is a sensitive portrayal of life in a predominently Puerto R i can neighborhood that carries a message of hope for the many other Miguels in America. Great collector book for any Geraldo Rivera fan. The book spine top… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press - R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1994. Hard Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lakeside Classic reprint. Christmas 1994, Lakeside Press Book. Great Collector's Books. Trying to complete the set or start a new set? Limit ed edition printed annually (beginning in 1903) for Donnelley's employees' & best customers' Christmas gifts. Get off to a good start with these 8 books of the original Christmas Lakeside Classic boo k s from 1989 to 1996 of the set. Ask or search my books, (all under collectables), if interested in all 8 books I have. Top edge Gold Gilt!! 92nd in the annual Christmas series. While not the first c ow boy actor, this movie giant from the silent film era surely had the largest following. He was idolized by millions and ranked alongside Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. In gr ow ing up, his close contact with Sioux Indians helped him understand and appreciate their culture and lifestyle. He learned his craft… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press - R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1990. Hard Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fanny Kelly's fascimile autograph on the 3rd page with her picture. Lakeside Classic reprint. Christmas 1990, Lakeside Press Book. Great Collector's Books. Trying to complete the set or start a new set? Limited edition printed annually (beginning in 1903) for Donnelley's employees' & best customers' Christmas gifts. Get off to a good start with these 8 books of the original Christmas Lakeside Classic books from 1989 to 1996 of the set. Ask or search my books, (all under collectables), if interested in all 8 books I have. Top edge Gold Gilt!! 88th in the annual Christmas series. The author was born in Canada in 1845, and emigrated with her family to Kansas in 1856. She married in 1864, and was headed for Idaho when her wagon train was attacked and she was captured by the Ogalalla Sioux. She was held for five months, then lived with the Blackfeet for a short time,… Read More