New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, 2003 A strong and sympathetic portrait." - New York Times Book Review. Born in 1856 in upstate New York, Baum was a classic "late bloomer" who tried acting, selling and editing. Finally, in his late 30s, he took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to selling the stories he'd been tellin to his sons and their friends. After a few books were published with varying success, The Wonderful Wizard o... more information

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003 From the jacket: Astlebury Music Festival is going to be the party of the year - a weekend of loud music, dancing, crowd-surfing, staying up all night, not to mention meeting about a million totally lush festival-going boys. Too bad Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, collectively known as LBD, or Les Bambinos Dangereuses, are banned from going by their fun-hating ogre parents. ("It's far to dangerous, what with all those hairy lads sniffing about. An... more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913 Gene Stratton-Porter is a very well-known author from Indiana, who wrote about the Limberlost area. Laddie figures into several of her books, as a rambunctious boy who loves the woods of the Limberlost, and has many adventures there. 541 pages; the pictorial cloth cover has wear at the top rear corner, and the spine top is worn. The spine is sunned. The front free end papers have a gift message written in ink. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.... more information

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New York: Golden Press, 1971 Illustrated by The Walt Disney Studio and adapted by Samuel Armstrong, 1971. Cover very lightly scuffed on edges, first page and last two pages slightly creased on bottom right, otherwise pages fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Chicago, IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1963 To St. Francis, poverty, which most of us regard as a negative thing and an abstraction, was our Lady Poverty, a person and a playmate; yes, the bride of the religious. But there is a deeper reason why the saints loved poverty - because they were following our Lord Jesus Christ. Being rich, for our sakes he became poor; if he stripped himself, on earth, of all the glory and privileges that belonged to a divine person, was it too much that they should strip themselv... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1908 The time period is Louis XVI. This novel combines romance and gallant men coming to the rescue of a beautiful girl. It reminds me a bit of Cinderella, except that the lady lives in a grand castle with her own servants. 389 pages, illustrated in black & white. Cover has a pastedown illustration on the cover in fine condition. The lettering on the spine is slightly worn. 5" x 7 5/8... more information

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Viking Press, 1985 337 pages, no marks or tears. Garrison Keillor's popular radio show, Lake Wobegon, is finally in print with lots of fun and clever anecdotes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.... more information

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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1976 Summary: From the jacket flap - These 13 stories, focusing principally on black characters in rural N. Carolina in the early 1900's, are as affecting as they are earthy. They follow the authors favorite themes: the white man's injustice to his black neighbor, the horror of capital punishment, the power of poverty to negate hard work and good intentions. 153 pages; the jacket is scuffed at all points. It also has two tiny closed tears ... more information

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Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr, 1999 There is a sense of deep national crisis that gives rise not only to the past, which is reflected in French cinema, but also to films thhat are permeated, albeit in different ways, by a profound melancholy. The mournful weight of the past is, certainly, most intense in the cinema of Alain Resnais: In his films, repressed and shifting memories seem to hold thought and action captive. But, to varying extents, a similar sense of paralysis affects the protagoni... more information

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Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A.: Cooper Square Pub, 1999 It is good finally to have roughly a quarter of Stevenson's essays available in one volume. Their value lies in their vivacity and style; they exhibit a descriptive immediacy and a strong sense of character." - Library Journal. Stevenson's essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of his best essays - the only anthology of its kind - spans his b... more information

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London, England: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1986 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The wicked witch, Ermyntrude, became the arch-enemy of Lark who, until the lifestone was dropped down a chimney and into her lap, was just a wooden doll. The lifestone made her alive, though her joints were still wooden-looking. The author is a highly acclaimed actress who has made over forty films, has worked extensively in television and played leading roles in the London, New York, and Paris theatre. The binding of this book is ... more information

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New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1995 NEW - The author of this book created a new picture-book edition especially for young readers from the 1938 classic. It is the same story, though. Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, returning to Joe. She is finally taken to the remotest part of Scotland - too far a journey for any dog to make alone. But Lassie is not just any dog. This story... more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1979 Under sentence of death, Anne Paget accepts a surprise offer of a part in Regulus, an opera Beethoven wrote. It is to be staged in Lissenberg to celebrate another international peace conference. Arriving in the green and secure valley, Anne soon realizes that hers has indeed been a gamble. Greeted with acclaim and moved from understudy to star, she is more aware of the dangerous crosscurrents that underlie the glittering society of Lissenberg. Sabotag... more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: HarperCollins, 2003 Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro? Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer and mystic or a dangerous charlatan whose revolutionary notions and influences threatened to undermine the monarchies of France and Russia. He was the leader of an exotic brand of Freemasonry, and was indisputably one of the most influental and notorious figures of the latter eightenth century, overcoming poverty and ignoble birth to become the darling - and ba... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001 This stunning book tells the complete story of the last military contest of the Vietnam War. Ranging from fierce firefights on a Cambodian island to a surreal black-tie dinner in the White House, the entire story about the hijacking of the U. S. merchant ship, S.S. Mayaguez, untold until now, is revealing in a riveting narrative of combat, courage, and governmental blunders that serves as a metaphor of the entire war. 384 pages, including appendices, ... more information

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United Kingdom: Sutton Pub Ltd, 2000 The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the greatest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centers, which acted as a means of colonization. In the 1530s the Spanish, led by the conqui... more information

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2005 Sea ice and midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night - the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world - the last imaginary place on Earth. In this fascinating book renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic. Combining anthropology, history, and personal memoir, this book dispels romanticized notions of the Artic as a world apart, exotic and isolated, revealing a lan... more information

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New York: Hyperion Books, 2008 A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question. When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - "Really ... more information

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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, 2003 The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958 it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, but most of the 174 on the shift did not. Nineteen miners were trapped. The hope of finding life underground faded and families made funeral preparations. Then, a miracle: Rescuers stumbled across a broken pipe leading to a cave containing survivors, then ... more information

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Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1998 This is a terrific novel. I could hardly put it down! From the jacket: The time is 1986. Travis Doyle, a restless Vietnam veteran now working as an insurance claims adjuster in the Bay Area, is dispatched to Hawai'i to investigate fire damage at a geothermal drilling site located in volcanic lava fields. The last thing he expects is to confront the mystery of an ancient spirituality and an indigenous world view that tests and challenges his own. He enc... more information

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