Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 SIGNED by the illustrator on the title page. This is the first book written by the author, and the original copyright was in 1949. It was made into a movie in 1953 and won an Oscar for best color cinematography. the story takes place in 1859, when a mysterious and charismatic man rides into a small Wyoming valley. He joins homesteaders who take a stand against a bullying cattle rancher as they battled for territory and survival. This classic story illuminates the spirit of the... more information

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Racine, WI: Western Publishing, 1983 #201-54.This story is about an elephant who loved to dance, but every time a foot came down it shook the entire jungle. When he kicked, he knocked over a tree or a bush. A parrot, and then all of the other jungle animals he met, made fun of him because he was so baggy and saggy. The binding and pages are clean and bright. There are no marks or tears on the pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Channel Press, 1966 In this broadly based analysis of the Christan funeral, Dr. Jackson explains its significance, meaning, and function. An illuminating study of its history is given along with a probing evaluation of the demands and expectations placed upon it by modern society. The Christian funeral is seen as an effective vehicle for encouraging emotional stability, realistic self-appraisal, and spiritual insight on the part of all concerned. Included are 20 sample meditations that carry a qua... more information

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Groundwood Books, 1997 Ages 3 - 6. Jacob has done what every child loves to do - enter the contest on the back of a cereal box. And sure enough, there is a little pioneer log cabin waiting for him ont he kitchent table when he gets home from school. But when he lifts off the roof, he's a bit surprised to find four little girl dolls lying in four little beds. He is even more surprised when his parents say good-night and four little voices answer. Out of the cabin come four hungr... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1990 A boy's search for an explanation to a persistent dream leads him to a Anasazi cliff village, 700 years ago, where a lovely young Indian girl needs his help to ensure the survival of her people. 211 pages, no marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Company, 2001 In a series of seven moving short stories based on her experiences as a private investigator, Kelly James draws us into the mystery that is Africa.She navigates among warring political factions, poachers, tribesmen, witchdoctors, prostitutes, the poverty stricken, and the sick. She exposes us to a world where truth is ephemeral, where compassion, though frail, still seeps through the grit and dust. "Witchdoctor" captures a journey ... more information

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Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1940 This biography of Andrew Jackson follows him from his childhood, to marriage, through wars. He also had numerous wards for which he paid for college. There are numerous paintings, drawings and photographs included. Binding has only one spot on the back.The lettering is gilded but somewhat faded. The page tops are dyed the same color as the book, a sort of dark blue. ... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: SchirmerTrade Books, 2002 The definitive and authorized biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time, first published in 1974, is now printed in a revised, updated edition. Lavishly illustrated, this biography is the first book to trace Wodehouse's career from his first magazine contribution in 1901 through the show-business years to his one hundred books that have given so much pleasure to readers for so many years. The author is a professor of Fine Arts a... more information

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New York: Random House, 1959 Robinson Jeffers has dominated American poetry as the leading exponent of rugged native poetry. Each of his books has added to his stature as a poet. Mr. Jeffers, with the help of Mrs. Una Jeffers, has chosen for this volume one hundred and twenty-five of his most significant poems, including such long narrative works as Roan Stallion, Tamar, The Tower Beyond Tragedy, Descent to the Dead, and the best of his shorter lyrical writings. In addition, the author contributes an illumi... more information

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988 Story of a reporter, set in 1935 Texas; she comes home with a new husband to take over dad's newspaper business. While she's out finding stories she uncovers the "Texas Murder Machine." The discovery and a personal tragedy leads her to strip bare the secrets of her hometown. 396 pages. Jacket is protected by a plastic that is fine in the front but scratched on the back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2003 Anti-Catholicism has a long history in America. And as Philip Jenkins argues in The New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent strain of hatred - once thought dead - is alive and well in our nation, but few people seem to notice, or care. A statement that is seen as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can haunt a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, but it is still possible to make hostile and vituperative public statements about Roman Catholicism without fe... more information

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Garden Ciy, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955 This book discusses the necessity of the church, several parts of the bible and how the church relates to them, and the future of the church. The red cloth binding is fine, no wear but has the remnants of a label wrapped around the front, spine, and back.188 pages, all fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Utah Pr, 1998 Includes a foreword by Don D. Fowler. Before Lake Powell there was Glen Canyon. For more that 1,300 years the canyon was home for generations of a prehistoric people now known as the Anasazi. As work began on the Glen Canyon Dam in 1957, so did a massive five-year operation to inventory the archaeology, geology, history and ecology of the canyon and its tributaries before they were submerged beneath Lake Powell. In this interpretive summary, Jesse Jennings sh... more information

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New York: Harcourt, 2002 Awarded Denmark's Golden Laurels for Best Book of the Year. "When Carsten Jensen set out by train from Denmark on a journey to the East, he expected to find lands of rich history and culture, and people undergoing radical change at the end of the twentieth century. In this illuminating narrative of his travels, there is this and much, much more. He examines the reverberations of the Tiananmen Square massacre in China, always attuned to the restless air of expectancy in the ... more information

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Waco, TX: Word Books Publishing, 1984 What do women really want? The author digs deep to find out why women's problems have been only partially solved by legislation, why women have so much difficulty in discovering their true identity and self-worth, and how men have been affected by women's new self-awareness and changing status. Insightful discussion focuses on such volatile issues as abortion and homosexuality; the chain of family authority, including the biblical "submission"; the rol... more information

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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Press, 2002 Using material newly obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Fred Jerome weaves information from Einstein's almost two-thousand-page FBI file with the history of the period to create a spy-story-like narrative that also explores Einstein's political dimension. From the moment Albert Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, until his death in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, assisted by several other federal agencies, began feveris... more information

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New York: Henry Holt And Co., 1992 Nothing drives a family crazy faster than an old black fly on a summer day. Especially when the family's a little crazy already. And the fly is as bad as they come. "Shoo fly! Shoo fly! Shoo," cry Baby and Mama and Gram. But this fly won't shoo. He knows every low-down trick in the book - and he won't rest until he's gone through them all. This is a fabulous picture book with exuberant, explosive, and funny chaos created by one mean fly - all in a... more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001 For ages 4 - 8. Dr. Frankenstein names his new creation Nine - not because cats have "nine lives," but because that's how many cats it takes to make him. However, Nine isn't terribly popular at the castle, and he's lonely. So the doctor creates a companion who turns out to be more than Frankenstein's cat bargained for. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid! The story is very funny and the illustrations are great. The jacket back has a little rough spo... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2001 The last thing young Cassie Andreas saw was an organized team ruthlessly murder her nanny and the Secret Service agents on duty to protect her. And to free Cassie from the terrors in her own mind, Melissa and Jessica Riley must risk their own safety and sanity and place their trust in a mysterious, charismatic man. But does he really want to help? Or is his show of concern all a treacherous charade? The binding has a bump on the bottom back, and the DJ has a very sma... more information

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Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., 1954 This is a children's text book just brimming over with wonderful works by well-known authors. Short stories, poetry, and a glossary of the more unusual words are all included. The pages are bright, and all illustrated. 360 pages, with 8 sections of reading. There is a light erasure mark on the front front endpaper, and the back free endpaper is missing. There is moderate wear to the corners and spine ends. The binding is tight and the pages clean. This ... more information

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