Search Results: Titles starting with I from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books

New York.: Fawcett Crest., 1975. First edition. Fawcett Crest Edition. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean interior. Age-toning.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 224 p. Audience: General/trade. In the 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, satirist and syndicated news columnist Art Buchwald had two years worth of funny stuff to impart since the night of the Watergate break-in by Nixon's team of serious-minded goofballs. Here are some "grim fairy tales" and other masterworks.

Fawcett Crest Books / Ballantine, 1994. 1st Ballantine.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Barely any creasing. Minimal edge bumping.. 1 241p. Korean War era fiction: Unexpected flowering of love and family cohesion in the confusion and danger of war. A peasant farming family in Korea is heading away from encroaching Chinese and the army of the North. They come upon a wounded and unconscious boy in a ditch. The mother wants to care for him, the father thinks she is crazy. The boy does not die; the father begins to think the boy has magic in him.

New York.: Random House Children's Books., 1978. First edition. 1st printing, this edition.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 40 p. Yellow glossy paper over boards; Cat and the Hat w/ Jr. reading green book. 21x28 cm. The Cat in the Hat tells the young cat he does not read with his eyes shut often as it makes his eyebrows red-hot. It's much speedier to read with open eyes. This is a delightful silly-sounding look at the "serious pleasure of reading".

New York.: Grosset & Dunlap., 1974. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Filippone, Lorraine (Illustrated by).. 1 344 p. 24 cm. Pen & Ink artwork. Subtitle: "With 160 choice international recipes and expert kitchen opinions". Kitchen Talk and Kitchen Work: 2 parts including descriptions of kitchens in different lands as well as recipes.

Penguin Books, 2000. 7th printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 314 p. B&W & color photo sections. Movie tie-in illustrated cover. Not as seen here. Memoir: At 25, needing to recover from auto accident injuries and a divorce, author Kuki Gallman left Italy (1972) to convalesce in Africa with the man whom she would then marry. Enchanrted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Splendor came with a price. The joy and drama are herein described. Story was a Columbia Pictures Industries movie, with Kim Basinger.

Vintage Books USA, 1979. V-944.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Slight top front corner curl. Age-toning to paper.. 0 246 p. Slightly larger than standard massmarket dimensions. B&W full cover author portrait. Short Story collection (8). Project for a Trip to China; Debriefing; American Spirits; The Dummy; Old Complaints Revisited; Baby; Doctor Jekyll; Unguided Tour.

New York.: George W. Stewart., 1940. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Bookplate: Presented to the Free Public Library, Watertown, by the Personal Book Shop, April 1940.. 1 Blue cloth over boards. Black spine titles. 64 p. 20 cm. Pen&Ink artwork. Stitched binding. A short, compact book about books. Dedication: "To those who have a book and want more". Resourcefulness in book storing, displaying, shelf sizes, bookplates, bookends.

New York.: Scholastic., 1986. First edition. 1st Scholastic.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor cover edge wear.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Cover B&W photo 1964: MLK Jr w/ daughter Yolanda. Audience: Children/juvenile. Biography for young readers. The dream: "We will have a finer land, a better people". When he was a boy, Martin knew when something was wrong. When he grew up, he made speeches, he led marches, he made everyone think about what was fair. He was an important leader in America, and a great teacher.

New York / London.: W. W. Norton & Company., 1974. 1969 edition. 2nd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Spine creasing. Light edge and surface wear.. Sarton, Mabel Elwes (Cover and frontispiece B&W photo by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Cover 1929 portrait: author and her father. Audience: General/trade. Memoir essays: Poet, essayist, and fiction writer May Sarton recalls her Belgian childhood and her parents. George Sarton, her father, was a historian of science, recognized for his brilliance. Her English mother, Mabel Elwes Sarton, was in many ways an artist, and devoted to family. Themes: Shady Hill School, Cambridge MA; theatrical training and entrepreneurship; pre-war encounters with writers Virginia Woolf, S.S. Koteliansky, others. B&W photos of the author, family, friends, are interspersed with the text.

New York.: Scholastic / Cartwheel Books., 2006. Trade paperback. Fine.. 1 Cartoon type artwork. Cover w/ red blocks as border. Color Illustrations. 23 cm. 32 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Simple words. Short sentences. Wonderful, spirited shaggy white dog chasing a frisbee.

Putnam Publishing Group, 1994. Hard cover. New. No dust jacket as issued. new; remainders marking. dePaola, Tomie. 1 Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: Children/juvenile.

New York.: The Vanguard Press., 1957. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Top jacket spine missing / damaged 3 inches. Rear jacket soil spots, scuffing.. Bolasni, Saul (Jacket art by).. 1 Turquoise cloth over spine w/ silver and maroon titles; Black paper over boards. Jacket art from painting. 477 p. 22 cm. March Cost is one of 3 sisters with 3 brothers, natives of Glasgow, all became well-known writers. Known for her novels, this biographical work was lauded as her masterpiece on publication. "I, Rachel" characterizes the actress and the woman. Indeed, the author toured with an acting company following study in the dramatic arts, as well as in drawing, painting, and sculpture, at the Glasgow School of Art ages 9 to 17. Her listed works are "Her Grace Presents", "The Hour Awaits", "The Dark Star", "The Dark Glass", and "A Man Named Luke". Later works included "After the Festival" and "The Countess".

Boston: The Globe Newspaper Company, 1941. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Tight. Unmarked. Clean, save for a few front cover surface blemishes to visible on angle.. 0 160 p. Navy blue cloth-covered boards. Silver front cover title. Sturdy, high quality paper. Acknowlegment: "Twenty of the 34 reprints from the 1940 editions of the Boston Globe appearing in this book were written by members of the staff of the Globe, " back page. The remaining originated in other publications and were syndicated; permissions granted for this reprint. Great general interest news and feature editorial columns of 1940, regionally and nationally.

Whitman Publishing / Western Printing., 1966. Three F Productions.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine. Slight edge wear. Sturdy, tight. Age-toning.. Anderson. Al (Illustrated by), and Kollar, Ernie (Illustrated by), and Miller, John (Illustrated by).. 1 210 p. Includes illustrations. Illustrated B&W photo cover, front, actors Bill Cosby & Robert Culp; Color artwork, back cover. End papers w/ silhouettes. Youth fiction series based on the television "I Spy" stories about Cold War secret agents, played by actors Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. This episode is about a defection from the Soviet Union.

Random House., 1986. No pricing on jacket.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Prior owner ink stamp, bottom edge and inside.. 1 Blue Cloth and paper over boards. 262 p. Audience: General/trade. Biography: New Hampshire Teacher-Astronaut. Determined to be the first citizen astronaut and to show the students of America that anyone can reach for the stars, Christa McAuliffe and 6 other NASA astronauts clinmbed aboard the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, and left the bounds of earth. In less than 2 minutes from lift-off, all would perish as the rocket-shuttle exploded. It has been 25 years, and the NASA program continues to play a role in education. One dream realized. Accompanying this book is a broadsheet newspaper double, p. 1-2, 11-12, January 28, 1986, The Portland, Maine, 'Evening Express', with pages 1 and 12 devoted to coverage of that morning's Challenger event and McAuliffe.

Little Brown and Company, 1996. First edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.. 0 Glued binding. Paper over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade.

Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Minor edge soiling. Book front lower corner, small spot of white paint. Tight. DJ had been protected.. 1 336 p. 22 cm. 3 B&W photo sections. Black and red cloth covered boards; silver stamped spine and cover titles. More than an autobiography, but an account of the business and emotion in gambling, a history of Reno, Nevada, from the perspective of a teen apprentice on the midway, who acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of gambling and its personalities. He then parlayed a penny-ante bingo parlor into one of the world's largest gambling casinos Harold's Club.

Fitzwilliam NH.: West Hill Press., 1986. Presumed 1st. No print line. Short print run.. Trade paperback. Very good. Slightest edge wear. Minor surface scuffing. Clean interior.. 1 64 p. Trade paperback with the author's artwork simply presented. Text is all lower case, without punctuation, from the cat's viewpoint. Classic moral tale: When summer turned to fall and vacationing families had themselves turned to distant routines, the author took note of a lingering cat in the yard. She called her Betty and watched as the season cooled, and Betty stayed, interested in playing with the little girl who lived there. She would find a home inside, and this is her story, told in free verse with human help. She had searched for a home when had been abandoned perhaps by thoughtless summer folk, and in her end note, facilitating author Rosalind Welcher expressed the hope that vacationers might read Betty's story.

Berkley Books, 1997. Algonquin Books, 1996.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine creasing. Back cover, center edge blue ink staining (leaky pen? ); no text loss. Lower back corner stain. Minor cover wear.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Satire of American pop culture, the title phrase being a memorized greeting spoken by immigrant Alfredo Santayana. Described by the Dallas News as a "don't ask, just read it" book.

Pleasantville NY: Reader's Digest Young Families, 1993. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 32 pages. Index. Color illustrations by various artists. 9.25x11.25in. For the young reader and family: Astronomy; Galaxy; Science; Space Exploration; Stars; Sun; Planets.