Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1953 A Rand McNally Tip-Top Elf Book. Alphabet illustrations on each page. Cover has normal wear on edges, title page is torn about 2 1/2" from bottom left, is also taped into book; all other pages in fine condition; all pages lightly yellowed on edges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Lexington Books, 1993 Drawing on comprehensive information available on the complex legal and ethical issues related to AIDS, attorney William F. Banta explains employers', employees', and applicants' rights and responsibilities as defined by the American with Disabilities Act, OSHA, COBRA, the National Labor Relations Act, state and local laws, arbitration awards, and the Centers for Disease Control. He clarifies the complex issues of hiring, firing, insuring, ... more information

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Charles Schriber's Sons, 1898 2 volumes. # 20 and 21 in the series. Ex-library, binding is very good with slight wear on edges. The pages are in good condition, no marks, but yellowed with age. 632 pages, not including notes and glossery; pages are gilded on top. A red ribbon bookmark is included. Other volumes are available in this set. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.... more information

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New York: Free Press, 1992 With the continuing prospect that Roe v. Wade may be overturned, the war in our society over reproductive rights is continuing to gain momentum. The author provides a lively and dramatic account of how abortion first became a political issue, beginning in the early 1970s when a disaffected group of young Republican party strategists had the idea of trying to forge a new conservative coalition out of previously disparate single-issue constituencies. They scored numerous successes. ... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1995 This is a thrilling tale of greed, abandoned medical ethics, and ambition that go awry in the newest area of medical intervention: cosmetic psychopharmacology. No shelf wear, but the binding is cocked. The jacket is fine, bent over at the spine. 404 pages, no tears or marks. Prior owners name on the front end page. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000 This book retrieves the lives of Victorian women - writers, actresses, poets, journalists, sculptors, and social reformers - celebrated in their day but forgotten in ours. The author focuses in particular on the Americal Charlotte Cushmon, the most famous English-speaking actress of her day; and on the Scottish Jane Welsh Carlyle, a brilliant London hostess who gave up private ambition to become the wife of her friend Thomas Carlyle. Of this book Glor... more information

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New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 Across the Sabbath River is a beautifully written, brilliantly researched book, and a very elegant detective story. The crime involved is 2,700 years old: The disappearance of the Lost Tribes of Israel, whose fate has been shrouded in mystery. I wholeheartedly recommend this book - it's both entertaining and an important work of biblical scholarship that will haunt the imagination long after the last page has been turned." - Robert Littell, author of The Com... more information

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A Bullfinch Press Book, 1980 Eleven paintings included, by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Numerous b&w drawings as well. This book includes 80 poems that express Dickinson's wide voice. 164 pages, including notations from the artist's notebook. Spine is slightly cocked. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr, 1995 The harsh environment of caves - dark, damp, sparse of food - is home to a variety of 'bizarre' creatures. Biologists, for their part, often treate thee delicate, colorless organisms having no eyes, or at least greatly reduced eyes, as mere oddities with little to tell us about a topic as grand as evolution. Focusing on one cave-dwelling crustacean, Gammarus minus, this books shows that, to the contrary, cave life can provide a valuable empirical model for the st... 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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New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1999 In most places, human beings dominate the picture. But in a few spots. nature rules unchallenged." So writes Bill McKibben in his uplifting introduction to Adirondacks, a book that reveals nature's glory, and the unique give and take between people and wilderness in the vast Adirondack Park. Bigger than the Grand Canyon, Glacier, Yellowstone, and Yosemite National Parks combined, the Adirondack Park contains a stunning array of mountains, wildlands... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Remi Books, 1983 This is the dramatic story of one woman's determination to know the truth of her adoption. In a painful struggle and against steep odds. Katrina pressed her claim for answers, whatever those answers might be. The struggle began in April 1973, when Katrina discovered that an adoption agency in New York was holding a secret file on her. Before that moment, her origins and early childhood were a vacuum. But access was denied to that file. Katrina persevered, challengi... more information

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Iola, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Krause Pubns Inc, 2000 This is the book to help bring your autograph collection to the next level. There are many pitfalls you can avoid once you learn to spot the clues. The fact is that many collectors purchase phony items every day. This book goes beyond the obvious to give you the knowledge to make smart acquisitions and become an informed collector. Learn to detect forgeries through paper, typefaces, ink types and signature evaluation, spot autopen and ghost signatures, locate ... more information

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New York: Macmillan and Company, 1929 This is a small text book about how Colonial America. Using interesting language, some illustrations, and quizzes one can learn quite a bit from this little book. The frontispiece is in color, the other drawings in black & white. The subjects are split into three parts: 1) How the Colonists came to America; 2) Home Life in Colonial Days; 3) How the Pioneers lived. This appears to have been a teacher's copy or a smart kid because where one is to begin is noted in... more information

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Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1879 This book is a lovely book from the Star Series, and within that series is a Young Folks Heroes of History. It follows the travels of Magellan as he made his way around the world. The book is illustrated in black & white, artist unkown. The jacket is red cloth and has a painting on the cover of a candle billowing up; a boy's face appears in a circle surrounded with painted fleur de lis done in green and tan, and below the boy are stacks of books in black... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Checkerboard Press, 1986 Original copyright 1919. This book is beautifully illustrated with the original drawings of Milo Winter. 129 fables are included - some are 1/2 page, some 1-2 pages. All are illustrated, which makes this a great book to read to children. After each fable is the moral to the story. Included are The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, The Mischievous Dog, The Astrologer, The Beetle and the Eagle, The Mole and His Mother, and lots more. There is a small depression... more information

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965 This book is a career diplomat's candid appraisal of the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965. The writer tired of his Service being debased by the White House, congressional committees, and the American people. This book is written boldly and bluntly, and is an informed inside analysis of what goes on in the Foreign Service and how the Service can be improved. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Iola, Wisconsin, U.S.A.: Krause Publications, 1999 This book goes where no stamp-error collecting book has gone before - around the world! Follow 50-year stamp collecting veteran Paul Greenlaw on a journey around the globe to seek out the most interesting and collectible errors. Not only are these much-sought-after stamps appealing to any collector, they're affordable - all priced at $200 or less. And no one could present his findings in a more interesting and entertaining way than Greenlaw. This compre... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1991 The expeditions traced in this book are to West Africa in part for a wildlife survey of Senegal, Gambia, and the Ivory Coast. Eastward to Zaire in search of the rare Congo peacock, and in early 1986 the author returned to central Africa with an ecologist. This is a lyrical and sobering account of vanishing worlds and what is replacing them. Through Matthiessen's eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures in the wil... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: The New Press, 1993 Which African artworks were made for religious and political leaders? How are African masks used? Why are the artists usually not identified when African sculpture is exhibited in the Western museums? These and other intriguing questions are explored in the handsome, full-color portfolio, designed to introduce newcomers to African art and aesthetics. In addition to twenty-four 81/2" x 11" unbound images, the African Art Portfolio comes with a twenty-... more information

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