Autobiography from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, 1950. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. With Maps & Illustrations. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1950 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine with light rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. Maps to covers' verso. Book dealer stub to rear endpaper. History of the development &… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/None. Edward Shenton (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright, showing faint discoloration. Vintage 1942 Charles Schribner's Printing. DJ/None. Silver embossed, green line boards/NF; sound, showing fading to spine & browning to back spine edge. Cross Creek was home to novelist Marjorie Rawlings (1896 - 1953), and,… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. 1961 First Edition, Printing 30. Biography of Ishi (ca. 1860 - 1916), one of the Native Americans in Northern California to have lived most of his life without contact with Euro-American culture. Ishi literally means "man" in Yahi.… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: Univ of California, 1961. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/trace edge rubs, faint creasing to front cover & light discoloration to back. PO name to fEP. 1961 First Edition, 23rd Printing. Biography of Ishi (ca. 1860 - 1916), a Native American of Northern California who… Read more about this item

Lincoln, NB: Bison Books/Univ of Nebraska, 1971. 1st Edition 8th Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Vintage 1971, 8th Printing. Illustrated soft cover/NF, w/trace shelfwear & rubs to lower edge of spine & trace spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper leading text edge. Acclaimed, realistic biography by Nebraska novelist, writer and teacher Mari… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1953. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. 1953 Vintage Edition. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; Price clipped w/nips to upper front edge & light surface wear; under mylar. Anthropologist, historian, author Alice Lee Marriott (1910 - 1992) was a Specialist in Indian Arts & Crafts with… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1985. First American Edition 8th Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Pamela Valois (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF showing trace discoloration, else Fine. Gift inscription to first title page. COVER ART: Photo portrait of Julia Child on front, and Kay Seidell on back. Intimate portraits of 32, much admired, Californian… Read more about this item

Freidburg, Germany: Visaphone, 1962. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/None as Issued. J. Neumeister (Illustrator). Text/Strong & sound w/sporadic marginalia and underlining. Illustrated boards/sound w/nips, chips & surface wear. Published 1962 w/3 long-playing records (alas, NOT INCLUDED). Historic resource, via a German/English language guide prepared for English speaking travelers visiting 1960s Germany, Austria and Switzerland half-century past. Vernacular language… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press/ Ohmsha Ltd, 2009. First Edition, 4th Printing . Paperback. New/None as Issued. Keita Takatsu (Illustrator). Professor Hideo Nitta, faculty member in the Dept of Physics, Tokyo Gakugei Univ. uses the genre of fiction, graphic novels & Manga cartoons to de-mystify physics. First published 2006 in Japanese under the title "Manga de Wakaru… Read more about this item

Lexington, MA: DC Heath & Co., 1970. First Edition . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/VG; sound w/faint corner creasings & light surface wear. Anthology. Classic, character descriptions in literature. Examples in the study of the English language in writing and rhetoric. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. 120 pgs in 33 essays… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1989. First Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Archival Family Photos. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ (author's portrait on front & back)/VG; price-clipped. PO name to fEP. Memoir. Posthumous publication of Louis L'Amour's (1906 - 1988) account of his wandering years as an interant worker… Read more about this item

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Co, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. Lee Phillips (Photographer); Jackie Dodson (Author-Illustrator). BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Text/ NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Arts & Crafts. Handbook to home made rugs for all who have a sewing machine, scrap materials, and a love for… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. J. Wolf (Illustrations & Calligraphy). Text/Bright, clean, AS NEW. Gilt embossed wine linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; trace edge & surface wear; under mylar. Upper text edge dyed blue; light spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 -… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Workman Publishing Company, 1988. First Edition, 3rd Pinting . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Donna Ruff (Illustrator). Text/VG; Near New & clean. Softcover/VG; strong & sound w/edge rubs & faint creasing to lower front corner. Textbook for the Careers Through Culinary Ars Program (C-CAP). Classic French cuisine for professionals and everyone, updated by modern… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL: Wrox Press Ltd, 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. Faint soiling (liquid drip?) to lower edges of last 10 pages. Lucid tutorial the Java programming language. Beginning with basics (Java syntax, data types, and objects/classes) to thorough coverage of advanced topics such as operators, loops,… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co, 1985. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Fine. Ansel Adams (Author-Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed Brick-red linen boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/Fine. PO label to fEP, and, spot to leading text block. Prodigiously illustrated, autobiography of landscape photographer/conservationist known for his b/w photographic images of the American West. Ansel Adams… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1915 vintage, highschool, mathematics textbook. Primary, historical resource to algebra as was taught a century ago in California. Text/Near new w/light soiling. Maroon linen boards/Good; sound w/marked fading & discoloration. DJ/None. PO name to front cover verso (Algebra 1st Year, Freshman, UUHS, Mendocino… Read more about this item

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Text/Bright, Clean, AS NEW; English translation. Gilt embossed, brick red linen boards/NF. DJ/Poor; intact w/marked edges losses to upper/lower spine. Upper text block dyed red. 1963, third autobiography of four by Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986), French writer, intellectual, political activist, feminist… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956. First Edition, First Thus First Thus. Hardcover. New/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright; First Edition, First Thus. Green linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/VG w/nips, chips & small loss to upper back spine edge; under mylar. Maps to endpapers. History of the opening of America's Far West. 7th Vol. of the Mainstream of America… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Lyons Press, 1999. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. First published 1966. Autobiography/memoir. Life story of American author, folklorist and educator William A. Owens, (1905 - 1990). Reflections on a remarkable journey from a one-room schoolhouse situated in a rural, poverty stricken area of Texas while earning of… Read more about this item