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124: The Film Book Of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings
Ballantine NY 1978 034528139X First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Unpaginated pages; FINE/FINE. A larger 9 by 10 1/2 inch book. A near perfect copy. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips. Boards are Straight and Tips are Pointed. Spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has one very tee-niny closed tear at bottom front of DJ. In protective sleeve. A Bright, Beautiful, Clean copy. Fantastically illustrated. An Excellent Gift!
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40.00 USD
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1416: The New Yorker Magazine, March 12, 2001
Conde Nast Publications Inc CO 2001 First Edition Very Good+
110 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Name/address on address label covered with thin marker line. Solid, clean. Features: Master of the House by Sempe; Mixed Marriage, Episode Three: Irregardless, by Roz Chast.
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1417: The New Yorker Magazine, April 2, 2001
Conde Nast Publications Inc CO 2001 First Edition Very Good+
100 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Name/address on address label covered with thin marker line. Solid, clean. Features: Opening Day by Mark Ulriksen; Surroundsound by Roz Chast. and much more.
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1420: The New Yorker Magazine, June 4, 2001
Conde Nast Publications Inc CO 2001 First Edition Magazine Very Good+
102 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Thin marker line covers name/address on address label. Solid, clean. Features: Joe Klein's Letter from London Labour's Love Lost; Marisa Silver's Gunsmoke; cover Newfound Freedom by J. J. Sempe.
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1433: The New Yorker Magazine, December 11, 2000
Conde Nast Publications Inc CO 2000 First Edition Very Good+
132 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Thin marker line on Name/Address label. Solid, clean. Features: Annals of Law, Shotgun Eviction; Shouts & Murmurs; Dept of Human Resources; Letter from Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson; Fiction by Alice Munro; much more!
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1436: Texas Monthly Magazine, April, 2000
Emmis Publishing 2000 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good+
232 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Small line through address label. Solid, clean. Features: The Aggie Bonfire Tragedy - Why it Happened. What Happens Next by Paula Burka. and much more!
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1440: The New Yorker Magazine, April 23 & 30, 2001
Conde Nast Publications Inc CO 2001 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good+
202 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Name/Address label marked with thin marker. Solid, clean. Features: Louis Menand's Dept. of Avarice She Had to Have It; Rebecca Mead's Letter From Nevada American Pimp; Larissa MacFarquhar's Annals of Law So You Want A Divorce?
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2165: New Frontiers In Astronomy : Readings From Scientific American
W. H. Freeman NY 1975 0716705206 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
369 pages; Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Full Number Sequence. Shelf rub to back board. Name/date (written small and neat) on half title page. Boards are straight, tips are pointed spine is square and pages are clean. These are exciting and fast moving times in astronomy.
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20.00 USD
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3070: Texas : A Picture Book To Remember Her By
Cresent Books UK 1979 0517270870 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Small note neatly written on front fly-leaf. Bright brown boards with bright gilt lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and page are clean. DJ is Beautiful Texas scenes. Rubbing top of front flap fold with tiny chip. Beautiful in new protective sleeve. Unpaginated. 64 pages of color photography. Although the numerous photographs in this colourful book cannot bring back the many characters from Texas history they do show places and scenery of outstanding beauty and interest in this enormous, allfuent and fascinating American state.
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3740: Deceit
Soho Press NY 2001 1569472394 Original Wraps Fine
Galley/Proof; 8vo ; (pgs. 426) Fine - As New condition. Un-read Tight. NO reading creases. A Solid, Clean copy. Beautifully Illustrated Original Wraps. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Edition. An Excellent Gift. Soft cover - not a hard cover book.
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4669: PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE 20TH (TWENTIETH) CENTURY
Hackberry Press TX 2000 1931040001 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
608 pages; Fine/Very Good Plus. Fantastic Huge Tome. (8 1/2 x 12 x 2) Glossy Boards illustration same as DJ. Bright, Beautiful, Un-read Tight and Clean. DJ has one small closed tear front panel. Unseen in new protective sleeve. An Excellent Gift! Month by Month, Year by Year, an informative and richly illustrated portrait of the Twentieth Century. All the important events between 1900 and 2000 are explained in text and photographs. The book also contains over one hundred short biographies of the men and women whose lives were influential during the 20th century. Over 700 superb and evocative photographs. No priority for this book.
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7436: Nippon, The Land And Its People
Nippon Steel Human Resources Development Co. ,ltd Japan 1988 4311700024 Reprint Trade Paperback Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
392 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Beautiful Vinyl covers with dust jacket over this Trade Paperback. No creases. Name on first page. Soft bump botom corner tips. Solid, clean. Two ribbon book markers. Beautiful! Text in Japanese and English.
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8132: Catalogue Of Selected Color Reproductions Volume I & Volume II (set)
Raymond & Raymond, Inc. NY 1936 No Printing Noted Hardcover Good
Ex-Library; Unpaginated pages; Good/No Jacket. TWO volumes. Metal Post Binding. Used for SMU Library Reference with stamps, spine label, nameplate. Just a bit of shelf rub at corner tips. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Binding reinforced with clear tape, because of use and to keep clean. Boards are straight, spine is square and pages are otherwise clean. Each book is two inches thick. Beautiful reproductions and prices of famous art.
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35.00 USD
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11713: Time Dreams
Kangam Publishing MO 1979 First Edition; First Printing Soft Cover Fine
105 pages; Fine condition. No creases. Solid, clean. Collection of bizarre science fiction in the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights. No editor/Author stated.
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25.00 USD
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12585: Origin Of Birds
1999 4608511161 Trade Paperback Near Fine
52 pages; Fine condition. Text in JAPANESE. ALL text, publishing information, (except for title Origin of Birds) is in Japanese. No creases. Solid, clean. Beautiful color pictures of birds, dinosaurs and archaeology findings.
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25.00 USD
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13462: The 1981 J. R. R. Tolkien Desk Calendar
Ballantine NY 1980 Spiral Near Fine Illustrated by Brothers Hildebrandt
Near Fine condition. The 1981 J. R. R. Tolkien Desk Calendar in Near Fine condition, beautifully illustrated by The Hildebrandt Brothers. Small gift inscription on inside front cover. Pages are very, very lightly age tanned. Solid, clean. These thirteen paintings were inspired by The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Fantastic illustrations.
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100.00 USD
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16285: The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction - 12 Volume set - January through December 1966
Mercury Press, Inc. NY 1966 First Edition Magazine Very Good+ Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, George Salter, Garry Morrow, Mel Hun
Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Digest size magazine. Complete 12 volume set. January through December, 1966. Some have just a bit shelf rub at cover edges - and some have light shelf rub to white on back cover. Some have very light age tanning to outside page edges. No spine creases, no tears. One, May, has very light water stain on first several pages. March has very light stain on bottom corner tip - not even on the margin. All are essentially unread, "As New Tight". Bright, Beautiful covers. Great Reading. A Collector's Dream. Scan available on request.
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60.00 USD
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16286: The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction - 12 Volume set - January through December 1967
Mercury Press, Inc. NY 1967 First Edition Softcover Very Good+ Illustrated by Jack Gaughan, Gary Morrow, Chesley Bonestell, Rich
Very Good Plus to Near Fine condition. Digest size magazine. Complete 12 volume set. January through December, 1967. All copies are solid. No spine creases. January has a Light stain bottom left corner of front cover. June back cover has a chipped bottom edge. July is in Good condition - it has wavy pages (only at the edges), very light front hinge crease, stain middle of back of cover with very tiny chip at the center of stain. November has tiny light stain bottom page edges - just barely on the margin. Tiny chip top spine tip. Some have a tiny bit of shelf rub at cover edges - most do not. All copies are tight with bright, clear, beautiful covers. Great Reading. Scan available.
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16306: SOCIAL SCIENCES 2 SELECTED READINGS VOLUME I - A SECOND-YEAR COURSE IN A THREE-YEAR SEQUENCE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
University of Chicago Press IL 1946 First Edition; First Printing Trade Paperback Very Good
369 pages; Very Good condition. Rub with tiny tear to top spine edge - effecting first page. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Prior owner's name on top edge of front cover. It appears the name of the book was not originally printed on the spine and someone neatly printed title/publisher on spine. Solid, clean. Contains PORTIONS of: Folkways by William Graham Sumner; The Principle of Population and its Effects on Human Happiness by T. R. Malthus; Ancient Law by Henry Sumner Maine; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit by Max Weber.
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16784: The Prince of Egypt, Collector's Edition Storybook
Dutton NY 1998 0525460543 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine with no dust jacket
48 pages; Fine/No Jacket - as issued. Beautifully illustrated boards. Illustrated throughout. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. The story of Moses and Rameses - from the movie The Prince of Egypt. An Excellent gift!
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10.00 USD
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17438: Slow Cooker Magic in Minutes
Publications International 2003 0785391193 Notebook Binding Fine
Fine/No Jacket. Notebook binding. Still in manufactures shrink wrap. Solid, clean. An excellent gift! Imagine coming home to a piping hot dinner every night of the week. Sound too good to be true? Not with Slow Cooker Magic in Minutes! Inside you'll find recipes for family favorite main dishes, hearty soups and stews, mouthwatering sides, and even irresistible desserts all made in your slow cooker.
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18.00 USD
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17538: Chinese History in Brief
Kwang Hwa Taiwan 1991 First Edition; First Printing Stapled wraps Very Good+
51 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Soft indent to back top cover and several pages from mis-storage. Solid, clean. No author given. Illustrated with photos.
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15.00 USD
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19247: The Hermitage Buildings and Interiors
Alfa-Colour Finland 1996 5900959015 Trade Paperback Near Fine
146 pages; Near Fine condition. As New, tiny bit of shelf rub at spine edge. No crease. Solid, clean. Fantastic photos of The Hermitage, its buildings and interiors. Its paintings, sculpters and art works. Includes the 'paid slip' - in Russian. Includes The Winter Palace; The Small Hermitage; The Old (large) Hermitage; The Raphael Loggias; The Hermitage Theatre; and, The New Hermitage. Large (over 8 1/2 x 11) Media mail only.
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23.00 USD
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17943: Aa Treasures of Britian, and Treasures of Ireland - Fourth Edition
W. W. Norton NY 1980 Fourth Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
680 pages; Very Good Plus/Very Good. Gift inscription on half title page. Name sticker on front end paper and half title page. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Over 700 color photographs, 200 drawings and 40 pages of maps. Many, many fold out maps. Price clipped DJ has small chips at edges. Now in protective sleeve. This book is a traveller's guide to the riches of Britain and Ireland.
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30.00 USD
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3723: Aaron, David Crossing By Night
William Morrow NY 1993 0688092969 Softcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Farrell, Russell
Galley/Proof; (6 x 9 1/4); Now, this is really neat. A soft cover book with a DJ. DJ has silhouette of a man in a hat (black silhouette - red background) The original wraps of the book has a train with flying eagle and a Maltese cross. (pgs. 363) Fine/Fine - As New condition. NO reading creases. Un-read Tight. A Solid, Clean copy. Beautifully Illustrated Original Wraps. Advance Copy. An Excellent, Unusual Gift.
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25.00 USD
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4313: Aaron, Henry J. BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS OF RETIREMENT ECONOMICS
Brookings DC 1999 0815700636 First Edition; First Printing Softcover Fine with no dust jacket
289 pages; Fine condition. No flaws. With all the talk about saving Social Security, hardly anyone grasps how individuals and families think about retirement beforehand, decide how and when to prepare for it, and experience it when it happens. This is what this facinating book is about...
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4498: Abbey, Lynn JERLAYNE
Daw Books NY 1999 0886778093 First Printing Paperback Good with no dust jacket Illustrated by Martucci, Griesbach
519 pages; Good condition. Read and re-read with many more readings left. Reading creases. Slight lean. Well read - Great story. Solid, Clean. With Faerie in danger can Jerlayne, an elfin woman, unlock the secrets which will save her world?
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18354: Abbey, Lynn Guardians (Ace Fantasy Book)
Ace NY 1982 044130589X Second Printing Paperback Very Good+
380 pages; Very Good Plus condition. SIGNED and inscribed by Lynn Abbey on title page. To Bob - My favorite - To you. Super light front hinge crease. No spine creases. Tiny bump to back top corner tip. Just a bit of shelf rub at the edges. Solid, clean. She can feel the evil on the other side of the rift, growing stronger, feeding on her fear, waiting for the moment when it will be powerful enough to break through into a helpless world. To stop it, Lise must learn what it means to be a witch. Great reading!
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17731: Abbot, Willis John The Story Of Our Navy, From Colonial Days to the Present Time, Volume I
Dodd, Mead and Company 1916 Reprint Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
282 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Volume I only. Illustrated board. Illustrated with black & white photos. Outside page edges are lightly age tanned. Soft bump at corner tips. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. A history, told in a popular, narrative form, of the US Navy, from its beginning to May 1, 1916. Excellent reading!
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17732: Abbot, Willis John The Story Of Our Navy, From Colonial Days to the Present Time, Volume II
Dodd, Mead & Co NY 1916 Reprint Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
561 pages; Very Good/No Jacket. Volume II only. Illustrated board. Illustrated with black & white photos. Outside page edges are lightly age tanned. Soft bump at corner tips. Tiny bit of shelf rub at spine tips. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. A history, told in a popular, narrative form, of the US Navy, from its beginning to May 1, 1916. Excellent reading!
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3325: Abbott, Tony The Weird Zone, Zombie Surf Commandos From Mars
Scholastic, Inc. NY 1996 0590674331 First Edition; First Printing Paperback Fine Illustrated by Steadman, Broeck
97 pages; Fine condition. NO creases. A Solid, Clean copy. Great illustrations in black and white. An excellent gift. you are about to enter a place like no other. A place in the exact center of intergalactic weirdness. It is a place where the unbelievable happens every day. So Look both ways. Keep your eyes open. Welcome to the Weird Zone!
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6594: Abell, Aaron I. American Catholic Thought On Social Questions
Bobb-Merrell IN 1968 0672600900 First Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
571 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Just a bit of shelf rub at cover edges. No Creases, Just a bit of rub to spine edges. Solid, Clean. Covering the entire sweep of American history, this unique new series draws its material entirely from primary sources.
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15.00 USD
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19855: Abnett, Dan Revenor, The Omnibus (A Warhammer 40000 Omnibus)
Black Library UK 2009 1616641061 Book Club Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
891 pages; Fine/Fine. Large, heavy book - Media Mail Only! New book. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is also Fine. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Contains the novels: Ravenor, Ravenor Returned AND Ravenor Rogue, plus two short stories and an introduction by the author. Great Reading!
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25.00 USD
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16476: Abraham, Stanley Charles The Public Accounting Profession: an Application of Futures Research Methods to Identifying and Clarifying its Problems, Vol. II
University of California CA 1976 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket
712 pages; Near Fine/No Jacket. Volume II ONLY. Outside page edges very lightly age tanned. Attractive black cloth boards with bright gilt lettering. Oversized heavy book. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. An excellent gift! A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Management. This volume is the second of two that report on a study of changing environment and the problems of the CPA profession. The purposes of the study include determining where the professional might direct its energies now as a result of recognizing its most critical current and future problems.
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200.00 USD
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19201: Abraham, William Israel National Income and Economic Accounting
Prentice Hall NJ 1969 0136095119 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Good
Ex-Library; 232 pages; Good/No Jacket. Book is solid - binding and hinges. Ex-Library of Standard Oil Company - reference library. One stamp on the title page, pocket inside back cover. Spine label. There was a Standard Oil Company label on the front cover, at the top edge, which came off - leaving a discoloration to the cloth. Flaps of the jacket are scotch taped inside front board. No other markings. Just a bit of shelf wear at spine tips and corner tips. This fascinating book provides a thorough exploration of the different economic accounting systems now in use throughout the world.
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5769: Aburdene, Patricia; Naisbitt, John Megatrends For Women
Villard Books NY 1992 067940337X Stated First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
388 pages; Near Fine/ Very Good Plus. Name in ink on fly leaf (small & neat). Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has closed tear at top flap fold. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! From Good Ole Boy politics to the medical establishment, from organized religion to professional sports, the women of the 1990s are challenging and overturning the male-dominated status quo, reintergrating female values and perspectives and recasting the social, political and economic megatrends of the day...
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13.00 USD
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10013: Ackerman, Forrest J. Best Science Fiction For 1973
Ace NY 1973 1st Ace Edition; First Printing Paperback Good
268 pages; Good condition. Heavy reading creases. Bit of shelf rub at cover edges. Solid, clean. The top writing by the top talents in the field, a feast of imaginative tales by the finest science fiction authors of the present day and Frederick Pohl's World SF Convention Guest of Honor Speech...
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13173: Acton, H. B.; Gordon, David; Shearmur, Jeremy (Eds) The Morals Of Markets And Related Essays
Liberty Press IN 1993 0865971072 First Edition; First Printing Trade Paperback Fine
258 pages; Fine condition. Full number sequence. No creases. Solid, clean. An excellent gift! Harry Burrows Acton (1908-1974) was a prolific scholar with particularly wide-ranging interests in philosophy and its history. Although his earliest work was on metaphysics, his principal reputation rests on his writing in three fields: moral and political philosophy, the history of modern philosophy, and the critical study of Marxism.
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15787: Acuna, Rudolph Teacher's Guide: the Story of the Mexican Americans - the Men and the Land
American Book NY 1969 First Edition; First Printing Softcover Fine
10 pages; Fine condition. Stapled softcover 10 pages. TEACHER'S Guide. Text is in English. Full number sequence. Solid, clean. The story of the Mexican Americans depicts the Mexican Americans' contributions to the building of the American Southwest. Its purpose is to portray Mexican Americans realistically as participants in American History, narrating their roles in the past and amplifying their responsibility to the present and future of the United States. Also in this Teacher's Manual are Teacher's Historial Overview with references to other books on the subject of Mexican Americans, Geography of the Southwest, Indians of the Southwest, the Early Explorers. Glossary is included with Spanish and English.
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16254: Acuna, Rudolph The Story of Mexican Americans: the Men and the Land
American Book Company NY 1969 Second Printing Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket Illustrated by McConnell, Gerald
140 pages; Near Fine/No Jacket. Illustrated boards with dark brown lettering. Inside front panel is printed This Book Belongs to form for school - blank. Tiny bit of shelf rub to white on boards. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Many photo illustrations, paintings, and sketches, plus beautiful wrap-around-artwork to cover. The history of the Mexican is very rich. The Mexicans are mestizos - a mixture of Indian and Spanish, inheriting thousands of years of rich heritage from both of these peoples. The Mexican American, while today an American citizen, shares in this history.
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16256: Acuna, Rudy Cultures in Conflict - Problems of the Mexican Americans
Charter School Books NY 1970 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine with no dust jacket
144 pages; Near Fine/No Jacket. Illustrated boards with ivory background, brown and gray lettering. Soft bump to back bottom corner tip. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. An excellent gift! Who are the Mexican Americans? Problems in Understanding Cultures; How Does the Past Effect the Present; What are the Barriers to Progress? How do Living Conditions Change? Where is the Mexican American? And Do the Problems have Solutions?
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18271: Adams, (Franklin) Robert Castaways In Time
Donning 1979 0915442965 First Printing Paperback Near Fine Signed by Author
221 pages; Near Fine condition. SIGNED by Robert Adams AND Polly Freas AND Kelly Freas on the half-title page. AND than again by Robert Adams on the dedication page. No inscriptions, just signatures. No creases. Tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Solid, clean. An excellent gift! There are times when a house in the suburbs is not a house in the suburbs. Especially when you look out your window and see that your neighbor is a medieval castle in England. Great reading! ; Signed by Author
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700: Adams, Douglas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Simon & Schuster Trade NY 1987 0671625829 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Paul Bacon
247 pages; Near Fine/Fine. S&S remainder mark. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. Colors bright and sharp. In protective sleeve. Cover art work by Paul Bacon. An excellent gift! A ghost - horror - detective - time travel - romantic comedy epic. Great Reading!
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11045: Adams, Douglas Mostly Harmless
Ballantine NY 1993 0345379330 1st Ballantine Edition; First Printing Paperback Fine Illustrated by Cross, Peter
277 pages; Fine condition. No creases. Solid, Clean. The fifth in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy. Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. He is anything but harmless.
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12875: Adams, Glenda The Tempest Of Clemenza
Faber and Faber MA 1996 057119897X First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Minor, Wendell
299 pages; Fine/Fine. Un-read tight. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. An excellent Gift! Highly recommended for those who enjoy literature, metafiction, feminist concerns, or a damn good read.
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11.00 USD
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17971: Adams, Henry The United States in 1800
Cornell University Press NY 1955 Trade Paperback Very Good
132 pages; Very Good condition. Reading creases. Cover and outside page edges age tanned. Just a bit of shelf rub at the edges. Solid and clean. This book is the United States history in the 1800's. Adams was a many-sided genius. The Boston Unitarian who could write in profound appreciation and insight of the glass and glamour of Chartres was no ordinary workaday historian.
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17977: Adams, Henry The Education of Henry Adams, an Autobiography
Houghton Mifflin NY 1961 Reprint; Twelfth Printing Paperback Very Good
517 pages; Very Good condition. Light front hinge crease. No spine creases. Cover and outside page edges lightly age tanning. Solid and clean. Henry Adam turned a sagacious eye upon himself and the tumultuous age in which he lived, and (in the words of Van Wyck Brooks) revealed a phase of American history with unparalleled boldness and truth.
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19760: Adams, John Joseph (Ed) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Night Shade Books CA 2009 1615235515 Book Club Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
454 pages; Fine/Fine. New book. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is also Fine. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Great cover art work by David Palumbo. Here are the improbably adventures of Sherlock HOlmes, where nothing is impossible, and nothing can be ruled out. Featuring stories by Stephen Baster; Tanith Lee; Michael Moorcock; Stephen King and many others.
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12077: Adams, Richard Shardik
Simon & Schuster NY 1974 0671220152 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Perkins, Irving; Palacios, Rafael (Map)
604 pages; Fine/Very Good Plus. Full number sequence. Board are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny, light stain bottom spine end. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Shardik is a fantasy of somber - indeed of tragic character, centered upon the long awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the Ortelgan people.
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18327: Adams, Robert The Savage Mountains, (The Horseclans # 5)
Macdonald 1985 0356108392 Reprint Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
164 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Outside page edges just a bit age tan. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! The Army of the Confederation is on the move again in the next step to reunite all the tribes of the land once known as the United States.
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18340: Adams, Robert Death of a Legend (The Horseclans series #8)
Macdonald UK 1985 035610981X First British Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
185 pages; Near Fine/Near Fine. Outside page edges age tanning. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has age tanning at top and bottom edge inside the flap. Now in protective sleeve. When the Witchmen caused the Earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with their lives.
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18341: Adams, Robert Witch Goddess (Horseclans Series #9)
Macdonald UK 1985 0356109860 First British Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
208 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Outside page edges age tanning. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. In protective sleeve. Fantastic cover art work. Stranded in a land peopled by wild cannibal tribes and monstrous half-humans, Bili of Morguhn and his small band of warriors have sworn to aid the mysterious Prince Byruhn of Kuhmbuhluhn in his war against the savages. Great Reading!
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18342: Adams, Robert Horseclans Odyssey (Horseclans Series #7)
Macdonald UK 1985 035610947X First British Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
241 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Outside page edges age tanning. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. In protective sleeve. Fantastic cover art work. The Call has gone out and the clans are gathering to hear the words of their war chief, Milo of Morai - words of prophecy that promise an end to wandering and a land of their own. Yet before they can abandon their present hunting grounds, the Horseclansmen have one last debt to settle.
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16191: Adams, Stephen D. James Purdy
Barnes & Noble Critical Study NY 1976 0064900142 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Van Vechten, Carl
166 pages; Fine/Very Good Plus. Attractive brown cloth boards with bright gilt lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is just a tiny bit of shelf rub to panels. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! This book seeks to define the steady progress of Purdy's art and to explore his evolving themes and preoccupations. Adams starts with Purdy's Early Stories and Malcolm; then The Nephew; Cabot Wright Begins and Eustace Chisholm and the Works; The House of the Solitary Maggot and Jeremy's Version, and lastly, I am Elijah Thrush and In a Shallow Grave. There is a Bibliography and Index.
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15836: Adams, William; Momaday, Natachee Scott; Hsu, Kai-Yu; Paredes, Americo; Paredez, Raymond Multi-Ethnic Literature: Instructor's Guide
Houghton Mifflin MA 1972 0395136911 First Edition; First Printing Paperback Very Good+
156 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Trade PAPERBACK. No creases. Un-read tight. Tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. Bottom outside page edges has a "Multi-ethnic Education" stamped on it. Soft bump to bottom corner tips. Solid, otherwise clean. In recent years vigorous attempts have been made in school districts throughout the nation to eliminate the "great lie of silence" that has haunted the American public school curriculum for centuries. There are many excellent books about Afro-Americans, but few which relate their experiences to those of other American ethnic groups such as Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, and European Americans. Even few books describe multi-ethnic teaching strategies and materials. We have reached a point in our history in which multi ethnic approaches to the teaching of ethnic studies is not only appropriate but essential. Appendixes and Index. This book discusses Multi-ethnic Literature of each group.
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5912: Adler, Mortimer J. The Angels And Us
Macmillan Publishing Co. , Inc NY 1982 0025005502 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Russo, Anthony
205 pages; Fine/Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. FJ is great! In protective sleeve. Includes Fascination of Angels; Significance of Angels; Angels as Object of Religious Belief; The Reality of Angels; The Possibility of Angels... and much more... An excellent Gift!
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6790: Adler, Mortimer J. Six Great Ideas, Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Liberty, Equality, Justice
Collier Books NY 1984 0020720203 Third Printing Trade Paperback Fine
243 pages; Fine condition. No creases. Solid, clean. The great ideas that we judge by - Truth, Goodness and Beauty. The ideas we act on - Liberty, Equality and Justice...
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11531: Adler, Paul Saucer Hill
Avon NY 1979 0380476134 First Edition; First Printing Paperback Fine Illustrated by Schleinkoffer,david
203 pages; Fine condition. As new condition. No creases. Unread tight. Solid, clean. California, 1999. They came from the faraway Planet of Azyda. They took Bianca, the only woman Alfons ever loved. But what did they offer? Invasion, salvation or doom?
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8406: Adler, Robert Z. (Ed) National Monetary Policies And The International Financial System
University of Chicago IL 1974 0226013901 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
331 pages; Near Fine/Very Good. Light red pencil underlining one sentence in Forward. Bright red boards with bright silver lettering. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has light half ring from coffee cup. Tiny chip top edge of front panel. Now in protective sleeve. In a concluding , Harry G. Johnson points out that the workability of an exchange system depends less on the system than on the stability of the policies of the countries involved....
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17619: Akwhurst, Gary (Ed) The Service Industries Journal, Volume 23, Number 5, November 2003
Frank Cass 2003 Paperback Near Fine
170 pages; Near Fine condition. Soft bump top corner tips. No creases. Solid, clean. Some topics: Risk Reduction in Purchasing Organizational Professional Services; The Moderating Role of Confidence in Expectations and the Asymmetric Influence of Disconfirmation on Customer Satisfaction; The Impact of Chinese Culture on Service Predisposition; and, much more.
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13596: Al-Anon Family Group Al-Anon's Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions
Al-Anon NY 1989 0910034249 Tenth Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
150 pages; Near Fine/Near Fine. Bright green boards with bright gilt lettering. Tiny bit of shelf rub at bottom spine tip. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny closed tear back panel top edge. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! The Steps and Traditions of Al-Anon have helped restore hundreds of thousands of people to joyful living. The Steps outline a program of recovery for any person who feels deeply affected by someone's else's drinking.
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7450: Al-Shaykh, Hanan The Story Of Zahra
Anchor Books NY 1986 0385471300 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
215 pages; Fine/Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is great! In protective sleeve. Zahra, which, because of its courageous and frank treatment of personal, sexual, and political themes, remains, fourteen years after its original publication, banned in several Arab countries. This vividly imagined and gripping portrayal of a contemporary woman's life in war-torn Beirut is certain to considerably expand her readership here in the U. S... An excellent gift!
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7111: Albert, David Z. Quantum Mechanics and Experience
Harvard University MA 1994 0674741129 First Edition; Third Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
206 pages; Fine/very good plus. Un-read tight! Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has sunned spine. In protective sleeve. A new kind of uncertainty has become a principle of science. This book is an original and provocative investigation of that challenge, as well as a novel attempt at writing about science in a style that is simultaneously elementary and deep. It is a lucid and self-contained introduction to the foundations of quantum mechanics, assessable to anyone with a high school mathematics education, and at the same time a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of that subject.
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12005: Albert, Marvin H. ; Riambau, Esteban (Trans) Cuando Llegue Septiembre
Plaza & Janes, S. A. Spain 1962 First Spanish Edition; First Printing Paperback Very Good+
156 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Text in SPANISH. Paperback with illustrated dust jacket. Light tape residue on fly leafs - from covering the covers with cellophane - no tape was on book itself. No creases. Very, very light age tanning to outside page edges. Solid, clean. Text in Spanish. Originally in English "Come September", and made into a film with Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida.
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14735: Albrecht, Robert L. ; Finkel, Leroy; Brown, Jerald Brown BASIC
John Wiley & Sons NY 1973 0471020486 First Edition; First Printing Trade Paperback Very Good+
325 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Full number sequence. Front hinge crease. No spine creases. Just a bit of shelf rub to cover edges. Solid, clean. The prime purpose of the book is to teach BASIC - the programming language. For this text, we have chosen a variety of examples ranging from the fields of social science, business, humanities to the simple statistics used in psychology, education and business. You do not need an extensive background in mathematics or science.
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15198: Albrecht-Carrie, Rene The Meaning of the First World War
Prentice-Hall / Spectrum NJ 1965 0135673704 Thirteenth Printing Trade Paperback Near Fine
181 pages; Near Fine condition. No creases. Un-read tight. Just a bit of shelf rub to edges. Solid, clean. An excellent gift World War I snapped the social and political bonds that held together the prewar world of the nineteenth century.
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7392: Alcock, Leslie Arthur's Britain
Pelican England 1973 0140213961 Reprint; First Printing Trade Paperback Near Fine
415 pages; Near Fine condition. Name on front fly-leaf. No creases. Outside page edges lightly age tanned. Solid, clean. Several pages of illustrations of the land of Cadbury Castle in Somerset, originally identified as Camelot. The land and the stones and pottery found. Mr. Alcock is an Archaeologist and quite an authority on this period.
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6334: Alcott, Louisa May; Aiken, Joan (Afterword) EIGHT COUSINS, OR THE AUNT HILL
Dell NY 1990 0440422310 Sixth Printing Softcover Near Fine
A Dell Yearling Classic; 269 pages; Near Fine condition. Just a tiny bit of shelf rub at edges. NO creases. Un-read tight and clean. An Excellent Gift! Orphaned Rose Campbell can't bear the thought of one more dreary day at boarding school. With no where else to go, she arrives at the Aunt Hill to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins...
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12877: Alden, Paulette Bates Feeding The Eagles - Short Stories
Graywolf Press MN 1988 1555971113 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Woldorsky, Rochelle
179 pages; Fine/Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine. In protective sleeve. An excellent Gift! Miriam says farewell to her family's longtime summer cabin, reconciles herself to her new life, and comes to a seasoned appreciation of life's healing powers.
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5759: Aldiss, Brian New Arrivals, Old Encounters - Twelve Stories
Harper & Row NY 1979 0060100559 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
224 pages; Fine/Fine. Unread tight. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine and has fantastic art work by Jim Cherry! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! A short book that shouldn't be begun unless the intentions are to finish in one sitting. It's a fascinating journey one million years into the future.
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5774: Aldiss, Brian A Tupolev Too Far - And Other Stories
St. Martin's Press NY 1994 0312105657 First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Sharov, Sergei
200 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has tiny bit of shelf wear at spine tips. Tiny chip top spine tip. Tiny rub at top corner tips. In protective sleeve. An excellent gift!
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925: Aldiss, Brian W. A Soldier Erect
Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan, Inc. NY 1971 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good dust jacket Illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak
272 pages; Fine/Very Good. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Red cloth boards, with gilt lettering. DJ is lightly shelf rubbed on front panel and spine. Front flap fold is very lightly rubbed with tiny chip at corner tips. There is a very light stamp inside flap. A Bright, Beautiful, Tight, Clean copy. An excellent gift! One of the most irreverent and wildly funny books yet to appear about the way World War II combat soldiers behaved - really behaved - while on leave in foreign countries.
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5739: Aldiss, Brian W. The Year Before Yesterday - A Novel In Three Acts
Franklin Watts NY 1987 0531150402 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Illustrated by Lago, Ray
227 pages; Fine/Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ has fantastic wrap around art work. In protective sleeve. An Excellent Gift! A novel in 3 parts makes this a very unique work: The Impossible Smile, 1965, 1st published in altered form on Science Fantasy under the pen name Jael Cracken; Equater, 1958, First published in New Worlds. Later published as Ace Double under the title Vanguard from Alpha; And this one, with the 3 combined, in The Year Before Yesterday. Using a devious style...Aldiss ingeniously questions our ideas about how people..should behave. This is his first new novel since the highly acclaimed Helliconia Trilogy.
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906: Aldiss, Brian W. (Ed) Galactic Empires, Volume II (Two)
St. Martin's Press NY 1977 0312315287 First American Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Karel Thole
295 pages; Fine/Near Fine. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. Bright Black boards with Bright Gilt stamping. DJ has tee-niny bit of shelf rub bottom spine tip. Two tiny, tiny dings on front panel, looks like two more stars in the picture. Now in protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Some of the stories have been undeservedly neglected since their publication in obscure and now defunct sci-fi magazines; others are acknowledged classics.
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