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Amsterdam.: Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie., 1984. Trade paperback. Very good. Slight reading wear.. 1 94 p. Aqua blue, black, w/ white titles, paper covers. Glued binding. 4x8.25in. B&W photos, facsimile document illustrations. Commemorative history and introductory guide to the World War II Nazi Holocaust, specific to the Netherlands and its people, but inclusive of the wider international history. Westerbork in the Netherlands and Auschwitz in Poland are focuses of this booklet. The first was where Dutch Jews were gathered, to be shipped to the latter. Murdered were 100000 Dutch Jews after being sent to Poland, whose people before 1980 asked other countries to join in Commemorating those lives.

Warszawa, Poland.: "Nasza Ksiegarnia" N.K. / P.W.L.D., 1957. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Age-toning. Light edge wear.. Czasznickiej, Zofii (Illustrated by), and Kozlowska, Helena Roj (Color illustrated plates by).. 1 96 p. Includes illustrations. Yellow cloth over spine. Color illustrated paper over boards, 6.5x6.5in. 17cm. Stitched binding. Folklore / Poland. Folk country style artwork. End papers picture a hunter in the mountains, a mountain goat and a bear.

Mexico.: Manuel Porrua / Libreria Mexico., 1975. 2nd edition; 1965 1st.. Trade paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Clean covers and text pages.. 1 159 p. Illustrated paper covers, gold and white graphic block pattern with black folk image, black titles. RARE. Publisher series at back lists 53 titles, most are biographies in the history of Mexico.

Great Britain.: Oxford University at the Clarendon Press, Amen House., 1962. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Light top page block and cover soiling. Tight.. 1 Yellow sealed cloth over boards. 28cm. 63 p. plus 12 grayscale plates at end. Author Preface. List of Plates. Index. Art and Book Publishing History: The Anglo-Saxon narrative; The Twelfth-Century Renaissance of the Classical Tradition; Pictorial Representation and Liturgical Drama.

New York: Macmillan, 1930. Reprint, 2nd edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Rubbing to edges and corners; Tight, square, clean. Prior owner's note inside front cover: Property of Selig Howland, Rutland Convention 1930, Gift of Publishers.. 0 671 p. Illustrations, diagrams, maps, index, appendix; B&W photos; Color and B&W maps. Red cloth covered boards, black front titles; pressed geometric design on front perimeter. Gold titles, spine. 6.25x9.5". Rutland reference probably Rutland, Vermont, in prior owner note inside cover, "Property of Selig Howland, Rutland Convention 1930, Gift of Publisher". The preface notes two problems with history education in America: studying only American history w/o studying European may lead to isolationism, and studying history w/o integrating it with geography makes it less relevant or interesting. Substantial revisions, additions, and corrections have been made to this edition, based on feedback from… Read More

Troll Communications., 1996. First edition. #1 in print line.. Trade paperback. Good.. Gore, Leonid (Illustrations by).. 1 26 p. Horizontal color-illustrated paper covers. 13x21cm. Stapled binding. Gray tones to inside art. Bat diagram. Bat theme with suggested hauntings: Haunted Wood poem, Nightmare on Alien Street (look for the flying saucer), Creepy Cackles (Where Do Ghosts Swim? The Dead Sea), Queen Nefertiti verse, Flashlight Fun, Dinomania (a cave family living in the Jurassic Age, playing a computer game, dodging dinosaurs), Hocus Pocus magic trick, Ghoulish Giggles (Why is Dracula so unpopular? Because he's a pain in the neck. ), The Moon, excerpted R.L. Stevenson poem.

Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 6th printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Lower page edges have seen a minor spill at corner, looks like coffee. Else clean, nice.. 0 Cloth and paper over boards. 384 p. In this well-paced novel set in Wisconsin, young folks a year out of college have their routines, the glow has gone from an 8-year coupling of our speaker and Mike. Her restless mind asks, is this what and who she wants? Then Mike dives into the reservoir, too shallow, and she begins to move into unknown emotional territory as he lays in a coma. Her chance to begin again challenges expectations, loyalties, family, friendships.

Shelburne VT.: Chapters Publishing., 1997. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Leister, Bryan (Cover art by), and Sullen, Barbara (Inside Pen&Ink art by).. 1 Textured copper-toned paper over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Featuring cats, 22 stories. Entertaining, nicely done artwork.

Durham NH: The Senior Class University of New Hampshire at Durham, 1958. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 346 p. Includes ad section. B&W photos; Green spot color. UNH yearbook. Dedicated to Edward York Blewett, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, service to UNH since 1926. Students, faculty, activities, sports, ads.

New York.: William Morrow & Company., 2013. First edition. 0513 on lower front flap. Stated first.. Hard cover. Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Jacket has top front edge creasing. Official "signed by the author" front jacket label has rumpled corner, there loose.. 1 Paper over boards. 239 p. Audience: General/trade. Mystery fiction set in Italy. Caterer and sometime sleuth Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, head to Italy for a romantic wedding anniversary celebration and a reunion with former assistant cook Francesca Rossi. Before traveling to Tuscany, they stumble upon a dying man in the Piazza Farnese. Then, a twisting set of events at Cecina della Rossi, familiar Rome faces appear there in Tuscany. The murder soup thickens.

Penguin Books, 2004. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 160 p. Fiction, Paris: Way too smart and self-aware, 25-year-old Aramaic scholar Antoine is desparate. Too much on his functioning mind; he must denounce his intelligence in order to be happier. He tries alcoholim, stock trading, prescription drugs...Witty and powerful.

Persea Books, 1977. Published in 1950; New Preface, 1977.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean text pages. Moderate cover and edge wear; spine creasing. Minor corner bumps.. Minervini, Louise Painter (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245p. Audience: General/trade. Out of print for more than 20 years, this biographical novel tells the real story that doesn't change much over the decades: the coal mining life and organized labor conflicts, set in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. The authentic Dolly Hawkins (later Cooper) voices the days and nights of herself a younger member of coal mining generations, descendents of Daniel Boone era pioneers; she speaks of her life, her loves. She is part of the tradition where women serve as both the spiritual and physical strength for others.

Princeton: Pyne Press, 1974. Reprint. from 1904 Macmillan;. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ protected by clear cover.. 0 xxi, 583, xx p., [1] leaf of plates: ill.; 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Published in 1980 under title: Thomas Nast. Reprint of the 1904 ed. published by Macmillan, New York. Includes indexes.

New York.: Walker & Co., 1987. First edition. First Printing.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Tight. Clean text pages.. 1 193 p.; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2. Paper over boards. Green illustrated dust jacket. American Western adventure. Joe Ryan encounters a variety of characters and problems as he travels through New Mexico to find his sister.

Dublin NH.: Yankee Books., 1981. First edition. 1st edition, stated.. Trade paperback. Very good. Light cup ring, lower cover. Clean interior, light edge wear.. Heckman, Gordon. 1 Trade paperback. 152 p. B&W cover art w/ brown covers. Subtitle: "A rollicking romp through the past as it really was--fun-filled stories of growing up in New England in the early 1920s". In the early 20th century, the author was a boy born in Durham NH, living in the forefront of change: the wood stove was giving way to steam heat, the outhouse to indoor plumbing, the pony cart to the Franklin touring car (from back cover notes). These tales and others are recalled with humor and a light heart.

Philadelphia.: Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery., 1875. Wraps. Fair. Covers soiled, edge-chipped.. 1 40 p. Pamphlet w/ gray thin paper covers, black ink framed titles. String bound. 15 cm. Pen&Ink illustrations. Cover title: "Paine's Short-hand Treatment of Disease, Vox Popula, Vox Dei; Medicina, Vox Dei". Contents: Preface w/ new discoveries; Medical and Surgical Practice; Helminthology; Catarrh Vapor and Catarrh; Pulmonary Consumption and Bronchitis; Dyspepsia; Neuralgia; Liver Complaint; Scrofula; Rheumatism; Epilepsy; more. Testimonials at back.

Vintage Books., 1978. First edition. V-353; 1st Vintage.. Trade paperback. Very good. Near fine. Top page block darkening. Lower left front light surface cut.. Topazio (Cover portrait art by).. 1 Trade paperback. Cover art portrait in grays. B&W photos. Audience: General/trade. Writer Marcel Proust, b.1871-d.1922, in this definitive biography of his early years, is brought to life in the gardens of Auteuil and Illiers, and shown to be fiercely attached to his mother. Detailed are his years as a schoolboy, a soldier, a young man in society, a lover of women and of men, and an invalid.

Chicago IL: T.S. Denison & Company, 1915. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Spine ends & corners stressed. Binding leaves pgs 303-314 loosening at bottom.. 0 370 p. Includes illustrations. Green cloth covers, gilt college gate scene, titles front; gilt titles spine. Relevant design elements in B&W where space. 4pgs publisher promos. Contents: Salutatories; Valedictories; Where Brook and River Meet; Histories; Prophecies; Specialties; Novel Programs Suggested; Baccalaureate Sermons.

Garden City NY.: Garden City Books., 1956. First edition. Illustrations copyrighted 1956 by Palazzo.. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Test and art pages very good. Covers have spine end, corner wear. Inside covers, plain first end papers have soiling, ink pen scribbles.. 1 80 p. Turquoise blue cloth over boards; red titles, front & spine. Colorful end papers after 1st. Color artwork throughout. 32 cm. Classic Edward Lear short rhyming tales (18) with great art. Cushioned at center, "A Nonsense Alphabet".