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NY: World Publishing, 1971. Leatherette. VeryGood. 5.63"x8.5" 490 indexed pgs. Black faux boards w/gold letters on spine. Family tree for paste dows. No DJ. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Ffep has crease. Possibley BOMC. "Brilliant . . . Indispensable." Los Angeles Times Here is the story of the rise and fall of the notorious Bonanno crime family of New York as only best-selling author Gay Talese could tell it. Source: Publisher Honor Thy Father is a 1971 book by Gay Talese, about the travails of the Bonanno crime family in the 1960s, especially Salvatore Bonanno and his father Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno. Wikipedia.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Paperback. Fine. 6.5"x9.25" 127 pgs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (w/price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY. Secure ship w/track #. Lewis County, located in far northeastern Kentucky, was formed in 1806 and named for explorer Meriwether Lewis. The county was once teeming with industry as a supplier of finished goods and agricultural products. Historically, the county's proximity to the Ohio River allowed the export of timber and salt, and in the 1800s, railroad transportation made Lewis County an influential source of railroad ties, boat-building materials, and barrels. In later years, the area was most popular for its health resorts, spas, and "sulfur waters," which attracted visitors from as far as New York and Chicago. The images in this volume depict the county's military influence, as Lewis Countians had strong allegiance to the Union during the Civil War. The photographs featured in Images of America: Lewis… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. Hardcover_vinyl spine. Used - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6"x8.5" 369 pgs. Black boards w/gilt Letters on front. Black vinyl spine w/gilt letters. DJ design by Lisa Amoroso. Jacket illustration c 1991 by Gretchen Schields. Photo of the author c 1991 by Robert Foothorap. Author's second book. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped. PON on ffep in ink. Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. Source: Publisher.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25" 353 pages First printing w/number line. Cream speckled boards w/gilt name in gilt box on front. Toast cloth spine w/gilt letters. Rust paste downs. DJ design c Honi werner. Jacke photo of Gu Jingmei c Amy Tan. Photo of author c 2000 Robert Foothorap. Book design by Marysarah Quinn. Chinese caligraphy by Jia-Xuan Zhang. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, & unclipped. Minor edge wear to DJ. GIFT QUALITY. A mother and daughter find what they share in their bones in this compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir. Ruth Young and her widowed mother have always had a difficult relationship. But when she discovers writings that vividly describe her mother's tumultuous life growing up in China, Ruth discovers a side of LuLing that she never knew existed. Transported to a… Read More

ny: Putnam, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Very Good/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.25" 474 pgs. X-library w/graphics. First printing w/number line. Green boards with design blind stamped. Navy cloth spine w/gold foil letters. DJ design by Honi Werner. Jacket photo c Nevada Wier/Getty IMages. Photo of author c Robert Foohorap. Book design by Amanda Dewey. Spine straight, binding tight, pages bright. X-library, unclipped. Red dot on bottom spine. On an ill-fated art expedition into the southern Shan state of Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour-and disappear. Through twists of fate, curses, and just plain human error, they find themselves deep in the jungle, where they encounter a tribe awaiting the return of the leader and the mythical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime. Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a fagade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light… Read More

NY: Mysterious Press, 1997. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. Racz, Michael. 5.5"x8.5" 292 pgs. Blue boards w/gold foil letters on spine. DJ design by Rachel McClain. Author photo Lou McClellan. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. When Jane Nichol's literary agent offers her the chance to travel to Georgia and write, she realizes that it's a perfect opportunity to leave MI5 (England's FBI) and her tortured past behind. But Jane soon finds that Savannah holds more than just atmosphere, for among its historic houses and murky swamps lies a dangerous, bitter enemy--and Jane will have to rely on all her years of espionage training to survive. A featured alternate of the Mystery Guild. Source: Publisher.

NY: Public Affairs, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING with DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.17" H x 9.55" L x 6.34" W (1.2 lbs) 336 pages. Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Sewn binding. Secure ship w/track #. A brilliant takedown and exposé of the great con job of the twenty-first century-- the metaverse, crypto, space travel, transhumanism-- being sold by four billionaires (Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreesen, Elon Musk), leading to the degeneration and bankruptcy of our society. At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme--the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism--is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality, Jonathan Taplin… Read More

NY: Scribner's, 1987. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 179 pgs. Light red boards w/black letters. DJ #10905 designed by Tim Gaydos. Author photo by Cynthia Tapply. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. In Maine, Brady investigates a deadly business deal. He may be a millionaire, but Vern Wheeler never forgot that he is a son of Maine—land of big sky, wide lakes, and the fattest salmon on the East Coast. To escape the boardroom, he buys a rundown fishing lodge in the wilds of his home state, and with his brother turns it into the most fashionable retreat in New England. After years of happy fishing, the Wheelers have no interest in selling Raven Lodge. But a local Native American group won't take no for an answer. Claiming that Raven Lodge is located on protected land, the Native Americans threaten to sue for ownership of the property, and Wheeler sends his attorney, fishing enthusiast Brady… Read More

NY: Birch Line Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25" 625 pgs. First Printing. Purple boards. Yellow cloth spine w/purple metallic letters. Ocean blue paste downs. Jacket design by Steve Brower. Gift inscription on first fly page. PON in pencil inside front cover. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Shelf wear. So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family - including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumours, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind Michael Jackson, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre… Read More

NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1913. Reprint. Hardcover_cloth. Used - Good. Clarence F. Underwood. 5.38"x7.75" 378 pp. Red cloth boards. Embossed khaki letters on front. Black letters on spine. Frontispiece: "You darling!". List of B&W beautiful illustrations: 20,34, 122, 168, 240, 262, 374. Soiling to boards. POGI on ffep dated 1915. Edge wear w/fraying. Some depradation. Spine straight, binding tight. Not x-library. Some foxing. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington has an amazingly deft touch with characterization, and the tense relationship between town flirt Cora Madison and her quieter sister Laura is so compelling that the story has been the basis for a number of filmed versions. As with Tarkington's later novel The Magnificent Ambersons, The Flirt is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of a dysfunctional but ultimately loving family. Source: Publisher.

NY: Doubleday, 1922. Hardcover_cloth. Good-Collectible. Both editions are 5.25"x7.5" in Maroon cloth, design blind-stamped on front, gilt lettering on spine. Gentle Julia has 375 numb. pgs. & The Flirt has 378 numb. pgs. Both have spine straight, bindings loose, pages tone. Not x-library, no DJs, PONs. The Flirt has bleeding inside back boards w/markings. Moderate edge weat to both w/fraying all around. Some pages are loose. Secure ship w/track #. GENTLE JULIA: "Why, mamma, he's my Very Ideal! I'd marry him tomorrow!" Mrs. Atwater paused in her darning, and let the stocking collapse flaccidly into the work-basket in her lap. "Not at barely thirteen, would you?" she said. "It seems to me you're just a shade too young to be marrying a man who's already got a wife and several children. Where did you pick up that 'I'd-marry-him-tomorrow,' Florence?" "Oh, I hear that everywhere!" returned the damsel, lightly. "Everybody says things like that. I heard Aunt Julia say it. I heard Kitty Silver say it."… Read More

NY: Scholastic, 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. Physical Info: 0.7" H x 8.1" L x 5.5" W (0.8 lbs) 176 pages. Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product. Target Age Group: 07 to 10 First printing w/number line. Secure shipping in padded envelope w/tracking number. REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS.From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival.Read their incredible stories: The Children's Blizzard, 1888The Titanic Disaster, 1912The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919The Japanese Tsunami, 2011The Henryville Tornado, 2012. Accelerated Reader® Info: Quiz # (Quiz Name): 169884 (I Survived: Five Epic Disasters) Reading… Read More

NY: Harper & Row, 1977. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Near Fine. 5.75"x 8.5" 250 pgs. Red boards. DJ #1397 designed by Roy Kuhlman. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), unmarked. Some discoloration of dj spine w/faint water stain. Secure ship w/track #. In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collectively dubbed ?Peking Man,? they were one of the most important finds in the history of paleontology. And in 1941, in the chaos of World War II they disappeared. No one knows what happened, but there are plenty of theories, many with political implications. Claire Taschdjian's speculation as to what might have become of the priceless fossils could represent just another theory, but for one intriguing fact: Claire Taschdjian was one of the last people in the world known to have seen Peking Man. (With newly-commissioned material on the… Read More

NY: Citadel Press Kensington Publishing Corp, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ in mylar. Features: Index, Price on Product. Physical Info: 1.2" H x 9.1" L x 6.2" W (1.0 lbs) 272 pages. Secure ship w/track #. In 1932, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend's flight lesson. It changed her life. In less than a year, a girl with a wicked sense of humor, a newfound love of flying, and a tough can-do attitude earned her pilot's license and headed for China to help against invading Japanese forces. In time, Hazel would become the first Asian American to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots. As thrilling as it may have been, it wasn't easy. In America, Hazel felt the oppression and discrimination of the Chinese Exclusion Act. In China's field of male-dominated aviation she was dismissed for being a woman, and for being an American. But in service to her country, Hazel refused to be limited by gender, race, and… Read More

Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. Collectible - Near Fine. 6"x9". 184 pages. Photo of noodler holding catfish on front. Cover and text disign by Kirkby Gann Tittle. A-F Paper. List of Titles: The Name of the Nearest River; Things Both Right and Needed; The Coal Thief; Equator Joe's Famous Nuclear Meltdown Chili; This Device Must Start on Zero; At Late or Early Hour; The Evening Part of Daylight; We Were Men and the Fire Made Us; A Lakeside Penitence; A Courier Among Green Trees; Winter in the Blood; The Author.

NY: SmithMark, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover_cloth. Fine/Fine. Jeffrey Burn. 10.13"x13.38". 256 pgs. Light rust cloth boards. Gold foil letters on spine. Hieroglyphic art work for paste downs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Price covers extra shipping costs for weight. Before Columbus came to America, the population of Native Americans - the first, aboriginal peopes - was about 5 million. By 1890, it was 250,000. During the same period the white population in the U.S. increased from o to 75 million. As it did so, it usurped the ancestral lands of the Indians who had inhabited the continent for centuries and destroyed both the delicate balance of their economy and an age-old way of life. Pivotal events such as the removal, in the 1830s, of the Southeastern tribes to whatwas called Indian Territory, the Long March of the Navajo to imprisonmentat Fort Sumner in 1864, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 marked… Read More

NY: Seabury Press, 1973. Hardcover_boards. Used - VeryGood. 5.5"x8.25" 178 indexed pps. Tan boards w/gold foil letters to spine. DJ flaps glued to inside board and ffep. PON inside front board. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library. A very uplifting and encouraging book of truths and a guide to further reading of scriptures from the King James version of the Bible. It should be left out for reading whenever one gets a free moment, as also should the Bible. I found this book in an antique shop, although the copyright is 1973. I guess that might make it 'vintage'. Anyway, I was delighted to find it. Source: Goodreads - Donna.

Ny: ECCO, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.25" 360 pgs. Signed by author. First Printing. Black boards. ECCO blindstamed on front. Red card stock spine w/black metallic letters on spine. Book design by Suet Yee Chong. DJ design by Allison Saltzman. Jacket illustration courtesy of The NY Public Library. Author photo by Margaret Hanshaw Taylor. Faint bumps to back bottom corner. Small mended tear to back bottom edge of DJ. Toned top edge. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Author's second novel. "M. Glenn Taylor's plain spoken eloquence on labor, race, and war recalls the voices in Studs Terkel's inspired Working. The Marrowbone Marble Company is a novel of stirring clarity and power." —Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Lark and Termite Author M. Glenn Taylor was nominated for the National Book Critic's Circle Award for his novel The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart.… Read More

NY: Pegasus Books, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING with DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 2.0" H x 9.0" L x 6.2" W (1.7 lbs) 608 pages. Features: Price on Product, Illustrated, Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, Using new sources that are now available for the first time, we are tantalizingly at the end of the lifespan of Orwell's last few contemporaries, whose final reflections are caught in this book. The way we look at a writer and his canon… Read More

NY: Columbia, 1993. Sleeve-Near Mint. Vinyl-Near Mint/Jacket-Good. Case has one of the posts missing to hard to close. Genre: Rock, Pop Style: Acoustic, Soft Rock. Sweet Baby James; Traffic Jam; Handy Man; Your Smiling Face; Secret O' Life; Shed A Little Light; Everybody Has The Blues; Steamroller Blues; Mexico; Millworker; Country Road; Fire And Rain; Shower The People; How Sweet It Is; New Hymn; Walking Man; Riding On A Railroad; Something In The Way She Moves; Sun On The Moon; Up On The Roof; Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight; She Thinks I Still Care; Copperline; Slap Leather; Only One; You Make It Easy; Carolina In My Mind; I Will Follow; You've Got A Friend; That Lonesome Road.