Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1973 Here is the story of one day inthe lifeof a young peasant girl who lived in Domremy, France in 1425. The day during which this story takes place is precious to the girl because it is her feast day, the day on which she becomes twelve years old. She has gone to mass, received a beautiful present and is minding her family's sheep with something quite extraordinary takes place. The girl of this story is Joan of Arc and it is on her feast day that she first hears ... more information

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New York: Educational Publishing Company, 1915 This book is very engaging because it touches upon so many subjects and has numerous photographs and drawings to illustrate the subject. The cloth binding is light green with black lettering and decoration. The corners are worn, one through to the board underneath. The spine is rounded with no lettering. The boards have some dark spots on them. The spine is tight. 240 pages, some have small spots; one has a tear that has been fixed. 12mo - over 6¾" ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1994 This truly incredible volume is a reprint from 1985. Paul Jamieson provides an introduction to the Adirondack Park. The photographs are separated by subject, including Streams, Rivers, and Waterfalls, From the Mountain Tops, Lakes and Ponds, In the Woods, and By the Road. There is also a map of Adirondack Park. The author/photographer spent a great number of hours in these woods as a boy, and so knew many of the places others might miss. The photos are be... more information

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Lyon, MS: Derrydale Press, 1997 NEW - This book about Atlantic Game Fishing covers the sport from Martha's Vineyard and Cape Hatteras down to Florida, Bahamas and Bermuda, and all the way up to Nova Scotia. It also has a section on Tackle and Ethics. This Blue Water Classics collection was printed in a quantity of only 2,500. The print is delightfully large (no eyestrain here!) and is a reprint from the original published 1937 by the Kennedy Brothers. This book is filled with color, half-tone, and black... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003 With colorful narrative detail this book, the companion volume to The History Channel series of the same name, brings to dramatic life the extraordinary stories behind 20 groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science. It is a field populated by the bold, eccentric, and inventive likes of Werner Forssmann, a doctor who had so much confidence in his theory of catheters being inserted into human hearts for diagnostic puposes that he ... more information

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Switzerland: Edition Stemmle, 1997 As early as 1968 Benedict J. Fernandez documented the confrontation between highly vocal minorities and the "quiet majority." A number of photographs from that time have been reproduced in this book. Here was a new phenomenon, even for late-1960s America: The confrontation with minorities who saw it as a part of their constitutional right to free speech that the public would also listen to their views. Many of his photographs contributed significantly to public a... more information

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997 The author of this memoir lived in Japan during her childhood, and her adult years in the United States. She went back to Japan in the 1990's to tend to her gravely ill grandmother; modern postwar Japan made a great impression on her, which she discusses in juxtaposition with her life in the United States. Many subjects are important to both countries including facets of how the war affected individuals, biracial/bicultural families, last farewells of k... more information

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New York: Atheneum Publishing Slight wear at the edges. Weekly Reader Children's Book Club. 74 pages, no yellowing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Weatherhill, 1995 This is a beautiful cloth-bound volume. During the Meiji period (1868-1912) the Japanese laid the foundations for what is now the most advanced nation in Asia. Like Victorian Britian, a potent model, Meiji Japan was characterized by faith in progress, civilization and the growth of empire. The architecture and feats of engineering described and illustrated in this volume stand as monuments to the dynamism and ambitions of the age, and to Japan's transformation from an isolate... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945 A compilation of stories previously published in the magazine Harpers. Includes short stories by such authors as Mark Twain, E. B. White, Jean Kerr, James Thurber, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., Shirley Jackson, John Updike and many others. 304 pages including index; no marks or tears noted. The medium green cloth binding has a spot on the front that is much lighter than the rest. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947 John Fischer believes that there are several clearly discernable reasons why the Soviet Russians behave as they do. First, the havoc wrought by the Nazi invaders has convinced them that they can never again let their security be jeopardizd by a state of affairs like that of prewar years. Other pressures - historic, economic, and political - have molded the Soviet habits of thought and action into a clearly defined pattern. This book is neither a defense or an indictment... more information

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New York: Aladdin Books, 1956 This is the story of a family moving West from their tired farmland in the Ozarks to get a homestead in the Promised Land. Like many others they were going to participate in a race at the Cherokee Strip to win land, and they had a special horse named Sprinter. Their daughter, Becky, was responsible for feeding him and taking care of this special horse while they made their way very slowly (25 miles a day) toward their destination. Many things happen along the way, and even when... more information

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Chicago, IL: Associated Authors, 1938 The bright red and yellow binding cover a book full of fun for groups of people. It includes simple rules for a successful party, ice breakers and partner finders, quiet games, active and inactive games, races and relay, and pencil and paper games. Also included are games to be played in the car, parties for special occasions and parties for each month of the year. There are pencil checks next to some of the items in the Table of Contents, and also in the book. The bind... more information

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Dodd. Mead & Company, 1985 The jacket has a few scuffs along the sides. Price not clipped. Binding has bent edges on the spine ends. 128 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Padell Book Company, 1951 The author is a former inspector of Federal prisons. "Why is there such a wall of silence encircling the subject of Sex in Prison? We are living in a frank and realistic age, yet the subject of sex in prison - so provocative, so vital, so timely in view of the recent epidemic of prison riots - is shrouded in dread silence. The voluminous literature concerning American prisons is not only sparse when it comes to dealing with this important subject of sex, but has evaded its dis... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt and Company, 1987 Binding is fine, black with gold lettering on spine. 224 pages, all pages are fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom, Inc., 2003 Words along are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways. Aho." Thomas Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief. Part of the World Wisdom series. 133 pages, with decorated end papers. 16mo -... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bulfinch Pr, 2001 NEW - Still in shrink wrap. This is a beautiful book that takes a look at Vietnam as it is now. "On the floodplain of the Red River Delta the rice land is flat, as though leveled with a rolling pin. From a road that runs along the top of a dike you can look out across an enormous vista of rice fields. In the middle distance there may be a walled village or a mountain, such as those that appear in Sung landscape paintings." From the author. Beautifully ... more information

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Boston, MA: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1965 The first biography of the life of Dylan Thomas. 9 pages of photographs. The binding has shelfwear on the bottom spine.The dust jacket has a tear at the top in the fold about 1" long. All is tight, no other marks or tears noted. 353 pages, not including 3 appendices, and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1925 These two volumes complete the memoirs of Sir Almeric Fitzroy (1851 - 1935). The memoir begins with a biographical note, with the actual dated entries beginning August 9th, 1898. This began with his appointment to the Clerk of the Council as head of the Administrative Staff. The memoirs discuss his work and family life during his 25-year occupation of this position. He served on many Committees and Royal Commissions, such as those on Physical Deterioration, Midwiv... more information

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