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London.: Kingfisher Books., 1959. First edition. 1st published, April 1959.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Moderate soiling on back jacket, with spine edge dampstain to jacket.. Lupton, L F (Cover and Frontispiece by).. 1 184 p. Red pebbled paper over boards. Black spine titles, kingfisher icon. Colorful jacket art. Adventure, mystery, Christian-based concluding chapter. The Man with Three Fingers was thought by the international police network to have died in a plane crash. He'd been a troublesome, dangerous, ruthless adventurer. But soon, the chase was on again, across the Atlantic to the Amazon, then on to an ancient Aztec city, and a mysterious crystal. Pagan priestcraft and Western ruthlessness enter a greedy partnership.

Introductory p.1-69, then, II. The President and his Cabinet; III. The President and Congress; IV. Foreign Relations; V. Concluding Observations. Stated First Edition F-P, (copyright page) but Book-of-the-Month 4-p. flyer tucked in (written by Henry Steele Commager) with no front end jacket pricing. Patten Foundation Indiana University Visiting Professor at London School of Economics. #4293 on front inside flap. Prior owner bookplate inside front board. Paste-on spine title box, off-white, red decoration. Tan sturdy weave cloth over boards. Better-quality text pages. Light edge wear to jacket w/ top spine crescent chip. Clean.

Archaeology / Anthropology / Eskimos / Alaska / Antiquities. J Louis Giddings (d.1964), professor at Brown University, director of its Haffenreffer Museum, was an excavator of archaeologic sites in Western Alaska. His other publications: The Archaeology of Cape Denbigh, Kobuk River People, Forest Eskimos. Re-issued in 1985 by University of Washington Press. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Numerous B&W photos. Minor short underlinings in pencil.

New York.: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1971. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. "To dearest Mabel with love from M, Sept '77", "May Sarton", above. Near fine jacket w/ light blemishing.. Dillon, Leo (Illustrated by), and Dillon, Diane (Illustrated by).. 1 Text in English, German. 47 p. 24 cm. Block print artwork. Audience: General/trade. A 17th century (circa) legend from the Sudan of West Africa, a tale of wars and heroes. This survives from an earlier greater epic, "The Dausi", sung or chanted by the bards of Diaru of the Soninke people. Accompanied by drumming or a calabash guitar, it tells of Gassire. a warrior son who renounced his noble birth, becoming the first Soninke bard. The city-state of Wagadu is the setting.

Columbia SC.: University of South Carolina Press., 1990. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light surface wear too jacket.. 1 Red woven cloth over boards. Black spine titles. 174 p. American Military History. Audience: General/trade. A rich narrative by a soldier of the First Kentucky or "Orphan" Brigade; the only surviving account observing that Brigade's engagements across the war-torn South.

New York.: Farrar, Straus and Young w/ Ballantine Books., 1953. First edition. 1st printing. Ballantine Original 36.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Loose title page. Minor cover wear. Short front corner crease, top.. Maguire (Cover art by).. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 222 p. Vintage paperback cover artwork. Author of "The Lost Weekend" and "The Fall of Valor" was known for writing about characters who faced ordinary challenges, but for not always reacting as most would. His sympathy was for human foibles. A small town New York resident when young, later a tuberculosis patient, he was living in Orford NH during the decade prior to this publication.

New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1965. Later printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 64 p. : 23 cm. B&W photo Illustrations, Maps. Audience: Children/juvenile. Chart.

New York.: W W Norton & Company., 1974. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Often read; discard from small NH library.. Gaydos, Tim (Jacket design by).. 1 Black cloth and turquoise paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 220 p. Frontispiece route map. Audience: General/trade. Believable tale set in the Arctic Seas. The world's first submarine oil tanker setting off from the north slope of Alaska, destination Boston by way of Baffin and Trinity Bays, is sabotaged while under its automatic guidance system. The oil spill is catastrophic, wiping out wildlife and Eskimo settlements, inhabitants facing gruesome death. Slowly, damage to the planet's ecosystem becomes apparent. Basil Jackson had previously published "Epicenter".

Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1977. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Clean covers and pages. Tight. Top page edges, dust soiling. Inside back cover, small black smudge.. 0 Cloth over boards. 258 p. RARE Non-fiction: Essays, lectures on funeral rites, ceremonies; Colonial America, 19th and 20th centuries. Author/editor is specialist in American social and cultural history.

New York.: Avenal / Crown Publishers., 1981. This, 1st print, "a" in print line. 1950 Farrar, Straus Co. ©.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light blemishing, as a useful and entertaining book should have.. 1 First edition. Red durable vinyl over boards. 668 p. Indexes. 24 cm. Audience: General/trade. Acquisition and preservation of books for some is a thirst, a fever, a lifelong pursuit in which some volumes are even read and reread. This is a thorough examination of books, of bibliomania, of the pleasures and challenges in reading, its history. And for some, permission as in the sport of fishing, to "catch and release", this bookseller's fervent activity. There is much to learn herein about books, no matter what one's collecting activity.

Henry Z. Walck, Inc, 1973. Rev ed.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. X-lbrary markings inside, otherwise clean. DJ had been protected. Little wear to book.. 0 72 p. B&W photos. Chapters: The Sport, The Cars, The Men, The Race, The Championship. Many photos at Darlington Raceway.

New York.: Berkley Books., 1996. First edition. 1st Berkley paperback printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Back cover creasing. K-mart retail label, lower back over scan label. Smooth spine and front. Clean.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade; Children/juvenile. RARE collectible youth science fiction (we hope it's fiction). Appearing two decades ago, among a series of scary youth paperback books, like the bugs themselves described herein, "The sleepers were seeds of life. They had lived before, and they would live again". Then the reader learns: Shockroach Central, there slept "cockroaches, plus". "The citadel was a nest, buried deep beneath the surface of a vacant lot". An urban tale, with two youths pictured on the cover, cowering in an elevator as an invasion of cockroaches climb aboard to share their space, and the small, smart, sneaky creatures were not using the elevator doorway. Other David Jacobs titles then were… Read More

Philadelphia.: The John C. Winston Company., 1944. First edition. Stated 1st. "A Wartime Book" conserving paper.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sine title darkened. Spine ends, corners bumped. Page blocks: soiling. Half title page top seam tear. Small corner damp stain inside top to all pages at spine.. Ayer, Margaret (Illustrated by). 1 Red cloth over boards. Blind-stamped angled front script titles w/ locket. Gold-stamped spine titles. Stitched binding. 4 p. l., 3-234 p. 22 cm. Full color frontispiece plate, Pen&Ink chapter headers, B&W. 2-color music themed end papers. Rare; reading copy. Historical fiction romance novel featuring the Marsh Family Band. In the opening pages, Laurel, the only daughter among several siblings, and her family are arriving by overnight train from Chicago to Iowaville, for their first summer performance, which will be at a Chautauqua gathering. A Chautauqua includes, readers learn, a study circle and lectures about personality and… Read More

Cambridge MA / London.: Harvard University Press., 2000. Enlarged Edition. [B].. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Bottom page block center stain.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. B&W photos, facsimile documents. Audience: General/trade. Autobiography first published in Boston in 1861 is combined here with an account her brother published that same year in England. In her Preface, Jean Fagan Yellin outlines the research path that validated the Jacobs Family history.

Heinle & Heinle Publishers, 1986. Unabridged.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 Trade paperback (US). 149 p. Guidelines for Planning.

Lincolnwood, Ill., U.S.A.: National Textbook Co., 1985. New 3rd ed.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some edge wear, no spine crease, worn spots on back cover, text looks clean and crisp.. 1 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes Illustrations. Audience; General/Trade Includes index. Bibliography: p. 237-243. Excellent photographic reference with B&W photos to illustrate different techniques. Includes the latest information on available materials and equipment. A great "nuts and bolts' guide to Photography.

Nw York.: B.W. Dodge., 1900. "Special Limited Edition".. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light cover wear. Age-toning.. 1 339 p. Royal blue cloth over boards. B&W oval cover inset: B&W photo small sailing ship. Red titles. 20 cm. Author William Wymark Jacobs, b.1885-d.1943, was known for his humorous short stories and novels. His early published works were "Many Cargoes", "More Cargoes", and "The Skipper's Wooing". This novel, set in Wapping on the Thames, with a girl looking upon a schooner. "A Master of Craft" was adapted for a film in 1922.

Philomel Books, 2000. First edition. 1st American; 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Front edge damp-stain, inside cover only 3 pgs deep; slight spine tilt; minor lower page wrinkling toward back, minor smudging, rear fep.. Fangorn. 0 Glued binding. Cloth & Paper over boards. 370 p. Pen&ink chapter heading Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. The Redwall series was not written in "order". The author places this storyline first, though it was 13th in publication of the series editions.

Philomel Books, 2003. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Spotty soiling, wear to titles on spine, but very readable.. Elliot, David. 1 Glued binding. Cloth & Paper over boards. 448 p. Pen&ink chapter heading Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile.

New York: Philomel Books, 2003. First edition. 1st impression;. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket.. Elliot, David. 0 Sewn binding. Cloth & paper over boards. 432 p. Pen&ink chapter heading Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile.