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2007. Signed and inscribed by author on title page First edition: Stated First Impression with full numberline 8vo sized pictorial hardcover; 326 pages with double page map in the front of book. From page 21: "I awoke. Perspiration stung my eyes. Straw from my pallet scratched against my face. Blinking, I drew a deep breath and wiped my face with my hands. They felt cools against my cheeks. Stretching my arms, I felt again that pain between my shoulder blades. Still there! I wished it would go away. Why should it still bother me now, more than five years since he day I had washed ashore? The wounds to my head had long since healed, though I still remembered nothing of my life before being thrown on the rocks. So why should this would last so much longer? I shrugged. Like so much else, I would never know...." Bumped corners and bumped top of spine and tiny bump to right side. . Signed by Author. First. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

New York: American Historical Publications Inc., 1997. 96 pages with black and white and color illustrations. Includes: The Gamble that Made Grant; Churchill and France: the Doomed Rescue; Why the Maginot Line Worked; Lepanto: The Fighting Galley's Last Hurrah; Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb. Minor wear to covers; curl to corners. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Magazine. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Watertown, Massachusetts: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2002. Inscribed and signed by author on title pages. "Count, read, count, read!" Unnumbered pages, about 20 with full color illustrations. Crease to top corner throughout and tiny crease to bottom front tip. Wear to tips. This book is designed to "help teach about patterns." Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Glass, Roger. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chicago: Laurel Book Company, 1923. Edited by Stewart Lee Garrison. Green cloth covers with gilt titles on spine. This volume includes some black and white illustrations. Used as a textbook, this slim volume has notes on the fep, blank reverse of frontispiece, copyright page and rear endpapers. There are also pencil marks on contents page. We noted marginalia on at least one page. Dull gilt titles on spine and cover and green covers have edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Leatherette. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. 173 bright pages. Cover has some rubbing wear and sticker on spine. Name on fep. We noted underlining on the three pages in the introduction. Black and white illustrations. Text is in Spanish. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Day, Allen J.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2006. by Rodney A. Ellis, Misty Y. Gould, Kimberly Crane Mallory and Suzanne L. Shatila 4to size softcover; 283 pages. Book is three-hole punched by the publisher. Contents include: Assessment, Planning and Preparation for Organizations and Communities Case Study Techniques of Organizational and Community Assessment Strategic Planning Contingency Planning Effective Communication for Agencies, Groups and Communities Case Study Forming a Task Force or Committee Working with a Board of Directors Effective Recruiting and Hiring Effective Financial Management and Fundraising Case Study Workbook pages are blank and waiting to be completed. Covers have wear and edgewear, front cover is curled and corners of covers and first few and last few pages are curled. We note edgewear or handling wear to pages prior to the Table of Contents. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket.… Read More

New York: E.C. Publications, 2008. Ex-library with small library sticker on front. No other markings. 48 color illustrated pages. Only light handling wear. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Magazine. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Macmillan, 1942. Wear to jacket with some chipping around edges. 121 pages with some black and white illustrations. We noted pencilled brackets on 22 pages with some underlining on several pages. Several previously folded page corners. Notes: "lites, siren, all clear" pencilled on fep. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. Illus. by Hokinson, Helen E.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Metropolitan Opera This is the book with the text of the opera; it contains no music. 12mo size softcover; 131 bright, white pages. Dual language book: text on the left page is in Italian, text on the right page is in English. Edgewear and some rubbing to covers, light crease on front cover, price sticker on back cover. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Private Press.

Garden City, NY: De Luxe Editions Club Red cloth spine under tan boards. Gilt decorations and title on spine are dulled. 224 tanned pages. A volume from the De Luxe Editions Club. Pencilled price on fep. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefit charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Iowa Press, 2010. 8vo size trade paperback; 160 pages From back: "Quite simply, (the author's) magnum opus: the book he has spent his entire writing life building toward: a persuasive and even moving summing up of everything he knows about the essay, especially the protean, inherently probematizing, stylized nature of the form. An extremely valuable correction to any misconception of 'nonfiction as truth.' -- David Shields" In great condition with only turned back page corner and very light crease on back cover. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Now in Hebrew - the classic children's story of the adventures of Madeleine and her little friends who live in a convent... Folio-sized pictorial hardcover; unpaginated - about 45 pages with full-color illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. In great condition with only bumped head and heel of spine. . Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: Warner, 1988. 12mo size mass market paperback with color illustrated covers; unpaginated - more than 100 pages with black and white cartoon illustrations throughout, many full page From back cover: "There's plenty of Yo-Ho-Ho's and Laughs in the High C's when you join the Glee-Faring Crew of characters aboard Mad's Don Martin Sails Ahead." Light wear to covers, small area of adhesive on front cover where sticker was removed; lightly tanned pages. . Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 8vo size illustrated slipcase contains three 9.25 x 6 card sets for Easy, Medium and Hard exercises. From slipcase: "This box brings into your home Public Television's inimitable Maggie and the unique body improvement program ... (from those) who want to be lithe and svelte and this incredible 45-year-old grandmother... On each card Maggie demonstrations and 'talks' you through the exercises... Every problem is coped with. Thick waist? Flabby thighs? Big bottom? Bad back? Short breath? Overweight? Fit as a fiddle and want to stay that way? Maggie tells you what to do and what not to do... All her experience, persuasiveness,and humor are crammed into this box." This box set would have originally contained a booklet (not included) and 60 cards for each category. The Easy set is missing cards 21 and 27. Card 2 has a half inch tear in the margin and cards 55 and 56 have a fox mark or spot. Card 39 is missing from the Medium set and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First Edition. 243 lightly toned pages with black and white illustrations. Bumped corners and fray at top of spine. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper, 2015. Target Edition Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 496 deckle edged pages From dust jacket: "The voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, Frankie Presto, a Spanish war orphan raised by a blind music teacher. At nine years old, Frankie is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six magical strings. But Frankie's talent is touched by the gods, and it weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock and roll." Bumped heel of spine, jacket has edgewear, average wear and tiny abrasion on spine. . First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2005. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 152 pages including index From dust jacket: "The 11 former-confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region's dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interest it served is examined here, as well as the central role in the politics and 'culture wars' flowing from the transformative Civil Rights Movement and the other social justice movements of the 1950s and 1960s." Appears unread, penciled price on fep, bumped top of jacket spine. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan, 1927. One of several works of historical fiction by the authors. 276 pages. Blue cloth covers have sunned spine, bumped head and heel of spine and a bump to top back, scratch on front cover and two small spots on back. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Knipe, Emilie Benson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Signed by author on ffep. First Edition with full numberline 302 pages plus a center section of color photographs on glossy stock From jacket: "Tania Aebi is the first American woman - and the youngest person ever - to sail around the world alone. (This book) tells the story of the coming-of-age of this troubled young girl - an 18-year-old whose life was going nowhere until she made the inner journey that would prove to be just as extraordinary as her true-life edge-of-the-seat adventure. Tania was a teenager working as a bicycle messenger in New York CIty and hanging out in Lower East Side bards until 4:00 a.m. when her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college education or a 26-foot sloop. The only catch was that if she chose the sailboat she would have to sail around the world - alone - and do some growing up along the way." Jacket is price clipped; light wear to jacket, bumped head and heel of spine and some very light… Read More

New York: Warner Books, 1997. Signed (with full name) and inscribed and signed again (with first name only) on title page. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 291 pages From dust jacket: "Meet Katinka O'Toole. High school valedictorian. Radcliffe graduate. Published author. Ex-wife of a noted Joycean scholar. Writing instructor at Harvard. And in love with her mailman. There's something about a man in uniform. Especially when it's Louie Cappetti." Bumped head and heel of spine, slightly cocked spine, light wear to jacket. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.