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Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer Inc. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. 0851155596 . B&W Illustrations & Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Ewart Oakeshott's love of swords began early in his life. In fact, one of his earliest memories was holding a smallsword when he was four years old. The sword was in the collection of his uncle, the British adventure novelist Jeffery Farnol, a noted collector of edged weapons. This sword, still a cherished part of the Oakeshott Collection, is a practice smallsword dating about 1690 with an ormolu (literally, "ground gold") hilt and a square-sectioned rebated blade marked "Tomas Ayala." Under his uncle's guidance, a young Ewart would help clean and maintain the collection. In this setting, his…
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The Archaeology of Weapons Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry
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Verified Statements Of Candidates For Office At The Nominating Municipal Election To Be Held On Tuesday, April 18, 1967
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Oakland, CA: Abbey Press, Inc.. Very Good. 1967. Pamphlet. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized pamphlet made from newsprint paper, folded and unstapled. The booklet is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The paper used is overall toned and there are some light creases to the rear cover. The text pages are equally toned. The pamphlet includes photos and statements from the municipal elections for April 18, 1967 for Oakland California, including candidates for mayor: Sam K. Cook, Jr. Paul Montauk, John H. Reading, Felix F. Chialvo, Curtis Lee Baker, Edwin D. Baker, Sr. , along with councilmen and schoolboard members. .
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The Church Mouse
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New York: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket. 1972. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0689300581 . Color Illustrations; The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name which has been marked over with a black marker on the front pastedown page. "Oakley is best known for the Church Mice series of picture books (1970 to 2000) , next for the Foxbury Force series (1994 to 1998). He also won a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award Special Citation in 1980 for the picture book Graham Oakley's Magical Changes. It features detailed scenes drawn on pages that are cut in half, permitting the user to "turn" the top and bottom halves separately. The combinations are surreal; the original whole-page drawings are already strange. In 2001 it was republished in…
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Hazards Of Time Travel
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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New York: Harpercollins. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2018. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0008295441 . This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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First Love
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Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0880014571 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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Halfway to Heaven My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
by Obmascik, Mark
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New York, NY: Free Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1416566996 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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Inland A Novel
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New York, NY: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2019. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0812992865 . Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The Tiger's Wife was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2010. It is a novel set in an unnamed Balkan country, in the present and half a century ago, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her. These concern a "deathless man" who meets him several times in different places and never grows old, and a deaf-mute girl from his childhood village who befriends a tiger that escaped from a zoo. It was largely written while she was at Cornell, and excerpted in The New Yorker in June 2009. Asked to summarize it by a university journalist, Obreht replied, "It's a family saga that takes…
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Blue At the Mizzen
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New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0393048446 . Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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The Rendezvous and Other Stories
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New York, NY: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0393036855 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean but has noticeable fading / color change to the spine. .
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The Commodore
by O'Brian, Patrick
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New York, NY: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0393037606 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a very thin strip of fading to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of a vertical crease to the front dust jacket flap. "This is the seventeenth novel in the best-selling Aubrey / Maturin series of naval tales ... Much of the Commodore takes place on land, in sitting rooms and drafty castles, but the roar of the great guns is never far from our hearing. Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade, but their ultimate destination is Ireland." "In the early 1990s the series was successfully relaunched into the American market by the interest…
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The Assault on Tony's
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New York, NY: Grove Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0802115926 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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The Nuclear Age
by O'Brien, Tim
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 039454286X . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "One attribute of O'Brien's work is the blur between fiction and reality; labeled "verisimilitude", his work contains details of the events he encountered. His conscious, explicit, and metafictional approach to blurring the distinction between fact and fiction is a unique aspect of his style. In the story "Good Form" in The Things They Carried, O'Brien discusses the distinction between "story-truth" (the truth of fiction) and "happening-truth" (the truth of fact or occurrence) , writing that "story-truth is sometimes truer than happening-truth." He suggests that story truth is emotional truth; thus the feeling…
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Frontiers in Space
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Pasadena, CA: California Institute of Technology. Very Good+. 0. Trade Edition. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light rubbing to the spine ends and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Mount Wilson is a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. With only minor topographical prominence the peak is not naturally noticeable from a distance, although it is easily identifiable due to the large number of antennas near its summit. It is a subsidiary peak of nearby San Gabriel Peak. It is the location of the Mount Wilson Observatory, which is an important astronomical facility in Southern California with historic 60-inch (1,524 mm) and 100-inch (2,540 mm) aperture telescopes, and…
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Wireless
by O'Connell, Jack
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New York: Mysterious Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0892965460 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "O'Connell has stated that the post-industrial urban decay of Worcester was an influence on Quinsigamond, the fictional city where his novels are set. " (from Wikipedia) .
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Lyrics
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San Francisco, CA: A. L. Bancroft & Company. Very Good+. 1881. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 3150197414 . SIGNED EDITION. This book has been signed by the author on the contents page, with a short inscription. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have noticeable rubbing, bumping and fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a former owner's address label on the top edge of the front pastedown page. This is the author's first "book. Daniel O'Connell (II) (1849 23 January 1899) was a poet, actor, writer and journalist in San Francisco, California, and a co-founder of the Bohemian Club. He was the grand-nephew of Daniel O'Connell (17751847) , the famed Irish orator and politician. O'Connell's strict classics-oriented education in Ireland stood him in good stead for his early career…
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All In The Family
by O'Connor, Edwin
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Boston, MA / London, England: Atlantic / Little Brown. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0316626422 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright. The front cover has several small spots of rubbing. The spine of the book has light toning and ground in dirt. There are a couple of small edge nicks to the dust jacket edges as well. "His last novel, All in the Family, appeared in 1966. (It has no relation at all to the later television series of the same name. ) It is a story of a Massachusetts family with a father who has political ambitions for his sons. As with The Last Hurrah, it is not a roman à clef but the clan is certainly reminiscent of the Kennedy family. "Edwin O'Connor, the author of The Last Hurrah, summed up the era in his final novel, All in the…
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Buffalo Soldiers
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New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0679415084 . This is the author's first novel. " This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "He is the author of a novel, 1993's Buffalo Soldiers, which was adapted into the film of the same name. The literary magazine Granta called him one of the most promising young novelists, and novelist James Carroll, in a positive review in The New York Times, called him a "fine novelist." In the United Kingdom, Buffalo Soldiers was highly praised by the reviewer of The Independent, who called it "powerful" and said that the novel's denouement was "delicate, unflinching and deeply moving." Other reviewers praised his portrayal of American military life in Germany, including its…
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Aerobatics Today
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New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0312007590 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Ver y Good- condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book covers have edge wear, rubbing and some beginning fraying. The rear book cover has some spots of whitish discoloration to the bottom edge. The text pages are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in unfortunate shape, with large chips, heavy edge wear and rubbing, nicks, tears and just general use. "In 1993 he (Charles Robert O'Dell) used the Hubble Space Telescope to discover in the Orion Nebula a new class of objects, the proplyds, providing clear-cut proof that ordinary star formation includes disks from which planets can form. Since then, his research has concentrated on how these objects are created and interact with their natal material. An avid aviator, he participated as a pilot on the USA team in the FAI World…
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The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day
by O'Dell, Scott
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Boston, MA: Houghton and Mifflin. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0395218926 . This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean, but does have a couple of small nicks, some beginning generalized toning, along with a couple of spots of foxing to the rear cover. "Scott O'Dell (May 23, 1898 October 15, 1989) was an American author of 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books. He wrote historical fiction, primarily, including several children's novels about historical California and Mexico. For his contribution as a children's writer he received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1972, the highest…
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Cornerstones of California
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San Francisco, CA: Bank of America. Very Good-. 1942. 1st Printing. Pamphlet. B&W Illustrations; C1942. This is a small format pamphlet with thin printed paper covers and a stapled binding. The pamphlet is in Very Good- condition. There is a tear to the bottom spine of the pamphlet and the covers have some ground-in dirt and light toning. The text pages are clean and bright. This is Bank of America advertisement with interesting historical information about California. In this case, the pamphlet describes the 58 different woodstocks used to create a trowel used to help set the cornerstone of the Bank of America head office in San Francisco, CA. In 1941. The different woodstocks each came from one of the 58 counties of California. .
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