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New York: Crown Publishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 051755285X . Translation by Ralph Manheim. Illustrations by Maurice Sendak. NY: Crown, (1984). First Edition. First Printing. 10 x 10 1/4 in. xiv,102pp. Full-page color and intext illustrations throughout. Gray cloth, silver letters. Fine condition in fine dj (price of $19.95). Sendak designed sets for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's Christmas production of Nutcracker and in this book has created new pictures. Hanrahan A119. ISBN 051755285X; Illustrations in color throughout; 10 x 10 1/4 inches; 120 pages .

New York & Washington: Frederick A Praeger. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1199058491 . New York & Washington: Frederick A. Praeger, (1969). First American Edition. 8vo. xvi,299pp, Index, Bibliography. Maroon cloth. Fine condition in near fine dj (tiny tear). Numerous illustrations including color plates. "Villa" originally meant "farm", its meaning found in this study of Roman villas found in Britain. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages .

Blounts Creek: Taste of Carolina. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1986. Original Edition. Softcover. 0961926201 . (Blounts Creek: Taste of Carolina, 1986). 8vo. 64pp. Softcover, fine condition. Vignette illustrations. Recipes from the Great Depression to World War II. Chapters on: Carolina Farm People, Bread, Meat, Seafood, Vegetables, Desserts/Cakes/Pies, Fun Foods, and Old Remedies. ISBN 0961926201; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages .

Tiffin, OH: Hans Abbott. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Original Edition. Softcover. Tiffin, OH: Hans Abbott, n.d. (c. 1964). 11 x 8.5 in. 42pp plus wrappers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of racers, often with their racing car and many with reproduced signatures. Those who have raced at various speedways: Fremont, Millstream, Sandusky, Oswego, Toledo, Shangri-La, Millstream, Capital City, Cloverleaf, Butler, Lorain, Mt. Clemens, Kalamazoo, Lorain County, and Columbus. Center of magazine features a 1-page commemorative spread on Nellie Ward who died on August 23, 1963 at an Owego Shangri-La event; and Jim Seese who died in a Tri-City Speedway event on August 24, 1963. Rare.; Photographs; 11 X 8.5 inches; 42 pages .

New York: American Institute of Physics. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0735402981 . Workshop, Kalamata, Greece, 13-17 June 2005. Edited by David K. Abe and Gregory S. Nusinovich. Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2006. First Edition. Large 8vo. xiii,504pp, Index, CD in rear pocket. Photographs and figures. Hardcover. Fine condition, no dj as issued. ISBN 0735402981; AIP Conference Proceedings, CP 807; Photographs, figures, CD; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 518 pages .

J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good. 1966. Hardcover. Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott, (1966). First Edition. 8vo. 220pp. Endpaper map, photo-illustrated. Hardcover. Book in fine condition. Rear panel of dj lightly soiled, few short tears. ; 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.2 inches; 220 pages .

London: Cornell Maritime Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1981. 1st Thus. Hardcover. 0870332848 . (London): Conway Maritime Press, (1981). First thus, first published in 1948. xiii,219pp, Index. Orange boards, fine condition; dj very good plus (spine faded). 20 plates, numerous figures in text. Sir Abell's direct personal experiences involving the theoretical and the practical aspects of ship construction for the Navy and merchant fleet inform his text. ISBN 0870332848; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Grove Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0802110622 . NY: Grove Press, (1988). First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 143pp. Hardcover. Fine condition, owner's name in blind-stamped, in very good plus dj (rubbed). From dj: "Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) is still frequently described as the finest and most influential modern Hebrew poet." Series Jewish Thinkers. ISBN 0802110622; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 143 pages .

New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. xi,301pp, Index, Bibliography. Cloth, near fine condition (minor spot on fore-edge of text block), no dj (issued?). Frontis portrait of Burr, map endpapers. During the first decades of the Union, "Disloyalty to the Union was not then looked on as the heinous crime it is today" (Preface). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages .

N.p.: Louisiana State University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. N.p.: Louisiana State University Press, (1968). First Edition, Second Printing. Large 8vo. xvi,529pp, Index. Maroon cloth, unworn, fine condition; dj lightly worn and soiled, very good. 28 maps and charts, endpaper map. ; A History fo the South, Volume 4; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 529 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 999737603X . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 221pp. Olive green cloth, near fine (slight erasure on front endpaper), dj unworn but spine color changed to green, very good. First Prize to Joyce Carol Oates (In the Region of Ice), Second to Donald Barthelme (See the Moon?), Third to Jonathan Strong (Supperburger); stories by John Hill Ford, John Updike, Richard Yates, others.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385128479 . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 308pp. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dj. First Prize to Woody Allen (The Kugelmans Episode), Second to Mark Shorer (A Lamp), Third to Robert Henson (The Upper and the Lower Millstone); stories by Alice Adams, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Mark Helprin, others. ISBN 0385128479; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385008295 . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 312pp. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dj. First Prize Harold Brodkey (His Son, in His Arms), Second to John Sayles (I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205), Third Prize to Alice Adams (Roses, Rhododendrons); others by Josephine Jacobsen, William Goyen, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, John Berryman, Rosellen Brown, others. Award for Continuing Achievement to John Upike (Separating). ISBN 0385008295; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385079842 . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 296pp. Hardcover. Book in fine condition, dj very good plus (price-clipped, tiny nick to lower edge of front cover panel). First Prize to Robert Hemenway (Stephen Patch), Second to William Eastlake (The Biggest Thing Since Custer), Third to Norval Rindfleisch (A Cliff of Fall); others by Jonathan Strong, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, James Alan McPherson. Joyce Carol Oates won the Continuing Achievement Award for Unmailed, Unwritten Letters, and How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages .

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1920. First Edition in book form. 8vo. 371pp, Index. 7 illustrations. Cloth, overall very good condition, upper right corner bumped throughout, head and foot of spine moderately worn, owner's blind-stamped emblem. From Preface: "it was the author's intention to interest rather than instruct, to suggest the importance of certain authors and books, perhaps to rouse the reader to probe deeper than the writer himself had done into subjects of which here the mere surface is touched."; 7 illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 9997376064 . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 344pp. Hardcover. Book very good condition(stain on front free endpaper), in fine dj. First Prize to Florence M. Hecht (Twin Bed Bridge), Second to Guy A. Cardwell ( Did You Once See Shelley?), Third to Alice Adams (Gift of Grass); stories by Reynolds Price, Josephine Jacobsen, Joyce Carol Oates, Eldridge Cleaver, Leonard Michaels, others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385041764 . Edited and introduced by William Abrahams. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition (stated). 8vo. 272pp. Hardcover. Very good plus (small spot on lower edge of text block), in very good dj (rear cover panel lightly soiled). First Prize to John Batki (Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie), Second to Joyce Carol Oates (Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!), Third to Judith Rascoe (Smalls Sounds and Tilting Shadows); stories by Anne Tyler, Jack Mathews, Alice Adams, Rosellen Brown, Donald Barthelme, others. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 282 pages .

Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of America. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0933852517 . Edited by Department of History U.S. Naval Academy. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, (1985). First Edition. 10.25 x 7 in. iii,213pp. Blue cloth, fine condition, no dj as issued. Few maps and illustrations. 24 papers by 24 contributors. Some of the contributions: Admirals and the Assembly in Classical Athens; Medical Men of the Old Navy; Admiral Nelson as Popular Hero; Role of Malta in Italian Naval Operations, 1940-43; German U-Boats in the Caribbean Sea; much more. ISBN 0933852517; 10.25 x 7 inches; 216 pages .

New York: Clarkson Potter. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2011. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0307719553 . New York: Clarkson Potter, (2011). First Edition, Third Printing. 10.25 x 8.25 in. 304pp, Index. Color photographs by Rinne Allen. Yellow hardcover, fine condition, no dj as issued. From Introduction: "Hugh's menus, like his restaurants [in Athens, GA] and this cookbook, are a lot like Hugh: ever-changing yet consistent, with nuances and surprising flourishes, intense yet laid back, simple yet serous, never stuffy or pretentious or fussy." ISBN 9780307719553; Color Photographs; 10.25 x 8.25 inches; 304 pages .

New York & London: W W Norton & Co Inc. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1990. First Edition; Softcover issue. Softcover. 0393029018 . New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company / Worcester Art Museum, (1990). First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Softcover Issue. 12 ¼ x 9 ½ in. 304pp, Artist's Biographies, Bibliography. 100 items fully catalogued and illustrated in color. Contributions by Clinton Adams and Karen F. Beall. Softcover, fine condition. ISBN 0393029018; 100 illustrations; 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 304 pages .