Indianapolis, IN: Que Corporation, 1995 User level: New, casual. The most complete reference from the best selling series of computer manuals and books. This manual will help you learn basic commands and feature as well as how to customize the operating system to best suit your needs. Beyond that, discover tips and techniques for optimizing Linux. Also includes in-depth coverage of the Internet and networking. CD-Rom included, which includes the complete Linux 32-bit operating system, Xfree86 GUI and source... more information

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Alexandria, VA: Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, 2004 When diplomatic ties between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the United States were severed in 1979, no one could have predicted that their relationship would flourish as it has. Over the course of the last quarter century, however, the lasting friendship and enduring goodwill between Taiwan and the United States have continued to grow ever deeper, ever broader, ever stronger. To provide a comprehensive overview... more information

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New York: Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc., 1988 The Poky Little Puppy was the very first Golden Book. They have now come out with a new book with a lot more puppies! They are all Poky's brothers and sisters, and as puppies, they are waiting for their dinner, and always looking for something to eat. Unpaginated; fully illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1994 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR - This is a delightful story of a naughty little kitten, Sagwa, who lived in the House of the Foolish Magistrate. One day Sagwa was napping in the Foolish Magistrate's study. From her perch high on a bookshelf, she heard the newest rule: No singing until the sun goes down. A terrible rule, Sagwa thought. After the Foolish Magistrate left the study, Sagwa jumped down from her perch and landed right in the ink pot! Sagwa was instant... more information

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New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992 INSCRIBED by the author and artist. This is an engrossing story that begins in modern day America, when Ying-ying hears her granddaughters talk about their wishes on a rainy afternoon with nothing to do. Thinking back to a time when she had many wishes too, Ying-ying tells them a story about the Moon Festival from her childhood in China. Unpaginated, every other page is a full-color illustration describing the story, and there are small illustrations on the text pages a... more information

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Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1957 1957; HB with DJ. Edited by John Beecroft. Jacket has several chips and small tears along top and bottom. Binding itself is very good, one small dent mark at bottom. Comprised of three complete novels (Alice Adams, Penrod, The Magnificent Ambersons) as well as 7 short stories and 3 portions from other novels. 732 pages, lightly yellowed from age. 5.75" x 8.5" high. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Bantam Books, 1959 Cover is good, some edgewear and scuffs, no tears. 184 pages, yellowed with age. Complete and unabridged. No marks or tears noted 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916 This would be a fun gift - the binding is attached upside down! It has slight bumps at the corners, otherwise fine. Cover is wheat color in a pattern of linen. 249 pages, 5.25" x 8.25" high. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press, 2003 This richly detail ethnographic work tells the story of a period of deep civil unrest in India. In 1975 Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency which gave her the power to silence opposition through arrests and censorship, and to introduce a new program of reform which included draconian campaigns of slum clearance and family planning. In the capital city of Delhi access to basic civic amenities became dependent on the production of a sterilization certificat... more information

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1993 His Majetsy's elephant is Abul Abbas, a gift of the Caliph Haron al-Rashid to his friend Charlemagne, Emperor of the West. Along with the elephant comes a golden talisman containing a fragment of the True Cross. Along with the talisman comes trouble. Only Charlemagne's daughter Rowan, whose mother was a witch, and her friend Kerrec, the elephant's keeper, know how much trouble. These two youg people understand magic. But do they understand... more information

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2001 Widely regarded as one of the rare eminent scientists who is also a graceful writer, Ian Tattersall takes up some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary theory in this extraordinary set of essays. Tattersall stresses that living creatures, including humans, are not finely enginered organisms with every component perfectedly adapted to their function. We are - thank goodness - jury-rigged, improvised beings, owing as much to chance as to adaptation. And t... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004 In 1756, as a deadly comet hurtles toward London, Dr. Sabian Blake and his fourteen-year-old housemaid, Agetta, struggle against dark forces that seek an ancient, powerful book in Blakes possession that would enable them to carry out an evil plan in which Agetta unknowingly plays a pivotal role. 259 pages. Small black mark on bottom of pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.: Naiad Press, 1982 Faultline is an outrageous, zesty, funny lesbian novel that takes the rest of the world in stride. Sheila Ortiz Taylor has created a cast of characters that includes Arden, Chicana, Indian, white mother of six children, and 300 rabbits (currently in an Amelia Earhart phase), a six foot tall black drag queen child care worker, Youth for Christ on motorcycles, and an aging ex-hooker in Mexico running a trailer park for tourists. If you don't find yourself in... more information

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New York: Harcourt Childrens Books, 2002 Jon Jeffers is the loneliest nine-year-old on Earth. It's 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt is president, and it is a time of thrilling scientific advancements in the world. But Jon is stuck on a tiny rocky island nineteen miles off the coast of San Francisco with his mother, his lighthouse-keeper father, and his only friend, a dog named Smacks. If only Jon could fly, he could escape this forsaken pile of rocks - and the ghosts of the shipwrecked sailors who haunt it -... more information

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Random House, 1981 DJ is near fine; 1 chip and a few marks on the spine. Binding is fine and attractive. Book spans the years 1903-1945. 528 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Chicago, IL: American Book Company, 1915 Tennyson's poems were edited by Mary F. Willard, a principal at a Chicago school that has since disappeared. The binding is near fine with the slightest wear at the spine, top and bottom. One set of sentences is bracketed in pencil near the beginning of the book, and there may be others because they are almost too light to see. Light pencil marks appear on the inside covers and first three pages (two are blank) as though some child was given this scrawl on. 196 p... more information

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Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S.A.: Sheridan House Inc, 2001 A volume of Reed's Maritime Library. Here is a seafaring adventure spanning three generations. In 1938, Caplin, skippered by Commander R.D. Graham with his daughter Marguerite as mate, set out from England to sale around the world. Sixty years later, Commander Graham's grandson, Captain Ian Tew, bought Independent Freedom in New York and, with his aunt's account of the voyage as a guide, sailed in Caplin's wake. The side-by-side account... more information

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Köln: Konemann, 1999 England may not have a monopoly on snobbery, but the nation is a past master in its practice, as Thackeray realized when he embarked on his priceless satirical account of the snobs of England. Serialized in Punch in 1846/7, his hilarious portraits covered the snob royal and aristocratic, the city, military and clerical snob, snobs on the continent, in the country and in the club, and many more varieties of the species. Snobs are always with us, and one pleasure of reading Thackeray... more information

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New York: Villard Books, 1997 It was 1957, I was twelve years old, me and my mother June were gassing up the Buick at the filling station in Welch, West Virginia, on our way to the rest of our lives." So begins this novel, a funny and tender road story of a mother and daughter's search for the turn on the map that will bring them the good life. June uproots her daughter Lily from her West Virginia home, only to fall prey to a world as dangerous and absurd as the one they left behind. Through Lily&#... more information

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Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1928 The First Earl of Oxford, H. H. Asquith, had a very diverse life, public and private. This memoir starts with his earliest years, including schooling. He was a British politician, elected to the House of Commons in 1886, where he served as home secretary (1892 – 95). A leader of the Liberal Party, he became prime minister in 1908. His plan to limit the powers of the House of Lords was enacted by the Parliament Act of 1911. He led Britain in the ear... more information

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