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About this Item: Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012. Hardcover. Condition: As New. priced (24.99) Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Yellow Birds is a gut wrenching, wye opening look at the realities of Iraq war and the profound impact it made on all the participants. Book is as new, unmarked and never opened. The priced(24.99) jacket is as new. The yellow Birds is an unforgettable novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq about two soldiers trying to stay alive. " The war tried to kill us in the spring". So began this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar Iraq, twenty one year old Private Bartle and eighteen year old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a distant war on mothers… Read More

About this Item: Little, Brown and Company, New York and Boston, 2012. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Very fine first edition book in very fine priced (24.99) dust jacket. A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the unforgettable story of two soldiers trying to stay alive. Written with profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a distant war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a novel in which you feel like you are experiencing every jolt and fear. This is a remarkable read. This is the authors first novel.

About this Item: Harper/Collins, New York, 2007. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Oy Vay, what a book. AS NEW First edition in a priced 26.95 dust jacket. Book is pristine, unmarked and probably unread. for sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling State of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his bestselling novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier& Clay. Very fine read and a very fine book.

Chicago, Illinois: Joesph J. D'Ambrosio, 1970. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Joe D'Ambrosio. Joe D'Ambrosio was one of America's finest and most innovative printers and book designers. He was also a fine artist and a master at silk screening and serigraphs. This volume of story-graphics was produced completely by hand, type is set in 10pt. Century Schoolbook Bold using a flat bed printing press and sundry silk screen techniques. This is the artists first book in a long line of work spanning three decades. This book is number zero zero one of 100 copies. The first. Signed by D'Ambrosio on colophon page and inscribed to collectors Pat and Trudy Magarick in 1991. I would assume this book is from the artist personal collection, given to his good friends of many years. The book is bound in silver cloth, and consists of 44 leaves which are produced with art paper, tracing paper, newsprint, silver foil, gold foil, machine-copy paper, black construction paper and… Read More

About this Item: Viking Books for Young Readers, New York, 2008. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Susan Kathleen Hartung (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book is AS NEW in a fine dust jacket. A little boy learns about how the animals around him at the beach, at the zoo, and on his family's small farm are growing bigger and bigger. He is growing too, and soon he leaves his crib for his very own big bed! Wonderful growing up book with heartwarming illustrations.