Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

A Profile of the Negro American

By: Pettigrew, Thomas F.

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. : 1964

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

vii-xiv, 250 pp., 12 figures, references, index. Spine slightly slanted, a little bumping along bottom edge. DJ sunned around spine and edges. Text is unmarked and not yellowing. A solid copy. From the dust jacket: "In this significant book, Thomas Pettigrew presents a lucid report on the Negro American at mid [20th] century. He provides a many-sided view of him - his personality, his genetic composition, his mental and physical health, his intelligence, his crime rate, and his current protest. This volume offers new insights, both social and psychological."; 8vo - over 7¾" ...
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An Introduction to Brazil

By: Wagley, Charles

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press : 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

xi + 322 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine, index, bibliography, some b/w photos. Spine slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, gift inscrip. on front end paper. Jacket shows a little rubbing and soiling, some edge wear, and a small chip at bottom of front cover. An attractive copy. "A highly readable, authoritative account of the evolution of Brazil as a nation and of Brazilians as a people." The author describes the Brazil of the 1960s in its unity and diversity, regions, social classes, Brazilian community structure, family and education, and religion and the state...
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Annals of the Time Patrol

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Nelson Doubleday, Inc : 1983

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Black cloth over navy boards, blue lettering. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear, a little chipping and closed tears along top edge of back panel. Overall, a nice copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 312 pages; To Manson Emmert Everard, 30-year-old veteran, engineer, bachelor, outdoorsman - and decidedly independent spirit - it sounds like an ideal opportunity. Especially the foreign travel. But, as he steps into the office, he has no idea how foreign. For Manse Everard is being recruited for the Time Patrol. "Once accepted, Manse is ferried by time shuttle ...
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Arundel

By: Roberts, Kenneth

Price: $14.75

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1956

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 9413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Black boards with gold lettering on spine, 486 pp plus listings and printing histories of other Kenneth Roberts books. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, some sunning especially to spine, a little edge wear, a little chipping to top and base of spine and along top edge of back panel. A nice copy. ; Front pastedown is "The Abenaki Country traveled by Steven Nason and Col. Benedict Arnold's route through the Wilderness in 1775 to attack Quebec." Back pastedown is "Plan de la Ville de Quebec - 1775." ; 7" - 9" Tal...
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As the Crow Flies

By: Archer, Jeffrey

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, HarperCollins : 1991

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002930

ISBN-13: 9780060179144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket shows a little edge wear, some rubbing, dampstain inside back panel of jacket. A nice copy. "Born in the East End of London at the turn of the century, Charlie Trumper retains as his earliest memory his grandfather's sales patter from behind his fruit and vegetable barrow, and when Granpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. But is isn't long before he's spreading his wings beyond the teeming streets of Whitechapel, his burning ambition to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The...
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Bear Island

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1971

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 002532

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, minor edge wear, spine slightly slanted. Jacket shows some creasing, moderate edge wear and scuffing esp. along flaps and spine, spine sunned. A little yellowing along edges, but a nice copy. "October is no time to be aboard ship in the Barents Sea, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. But that's where the cast and crew of Olympus Productions find themselves. And even before they reach their destination, the ship's doctor has his hands full. Three men are violently murdered, and the company's unspoken fears are confirmed: a pathological killer awaits them on the lonel...
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Breakheart Pass

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $7.25

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1974

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 005037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Spine a bit slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear esp. to top and base of spine. Sparkly brown cloth boards. Jacket shows moderate edge wear with several small tears at top and base of spine, a little darkening. A nice copy. In "Breakheart Pass" Alistair Maclean takes on the American Old West -- and takes no prisoners in taming it. If you have seen the old television program "The Wild, Wild West" this book bears some broad similarities (or vice versa). Moving from the frigid wastes of the Arctic to the blizzard shrouded mountains of the West, MacLean delivers action and sus...
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Charity Girl

By: Heyer, Georgette

Price: $10.95

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co : 1970

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 005391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little browning but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket shows some edge wear and a little chipping, some darkening. A nice copy. "The Viscount thought he had seldom seen a more pathetic picture. Not only was Cherry Steane's countenance woebegone, but the shoes and the hem of the duffle cloak she wore were sadly muddied. She looked to be hot, tired and despairing. Cherry succeeded in mastering her agitation. 'I beg your pardon!' she uttered. 'It was only because you look so kind, sir, and talked to me last night-that I ask you to take me...
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Chronicles of Old Salem

By: Robotti, Frances Diane

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Bonanza Books : 1948

Edition: Reprint Edition

Seller ID: 004103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

129 pp., index, black and white photographs. Spine slightly slanted, some foxing along edge, gift inscription inside. DJ has some edgewear, sunned along edges, 2 1/2" tear along bottom back edge of spine. "Here in the most selective form is covered the colonial expansion of England during which Massachsetts was founded. The growth of Salem is traced from 1626 to 1932 against the state and national scene. The author traces the history of witchcraft from 1484, when a Papal decree made it a crime, to Salem's participation in the mass madness. The book covers the Quaker whippings, t...
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Clone

By: Cowper, Richard

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company : 1972

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 001833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight spine slant. Jacket has some edge wear/chipping, spine sunned. "Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harassed earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter's fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin, and Desmond (as alike as podded peas) are blissfully unaware of each other's existence. . . Till some aw...
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Cousin Kate

By: Heyer, Georgette

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Toronto, Bodley Head : 1968

Edition: First Canadian Edition

Seller ID: 006406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

First Canadian Edition, 318 pp, red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, a little edge wear, small store sticker at bottom of front end paper. Jacket in protective wraps, spine sunned, some edge wear and creasing primarily along top and bottom edges with some small, mostly closed tears along edges, prce clipped. A nice copy. "The sudden invitation to live with her Aunt Minerva at Staplewood came as a complete surprise to young Kate Malvern. Now an orphan with no future, she gratefully accepted Lady Broome's offer, never dreaming there was anything s...
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Date with a Career

By: Nickerson, Jan

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc. : 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners very slightly bumped. DJ shows minor chipping/tears w/ small crease at bottom edge. A bright, attractive copy.

"A young girl’s determination assures her future in her chosen field."
Age level: Young Adult; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Free India in Asia

By: Levi, Werner

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press : 1954

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 003491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

161 pp, orange boards, notes, index. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, text bright and clean. Jacket shows some edge wear, chipping, darkening. A nice copy. "The citical importance of India to theglobal future of democracy is recognized throughout the world, but perhaps less well understood is the significance of India's future political course of her relations with the other Asian nations. Written in 1952, this carefully documented study surveys India's position in the whole of Asia and her relations with each of the countries in the area, with emphasis on developments since India's ind...
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Hot Money

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $7.70

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1988

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 004869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Spine a bit slanted, corners bumped, slight edge wear, a little rubbing, name marked out on front paste down. Jacket shows some edge wear, a little chipping at top of spine along with a couple small tears, spine is sunned. Overall, a nice copy. "With his five ex-wives and the nine children between them, it's no great surprise that spectacularly wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke should preside over a motley clan in constant conflict with one another. But when violent death strikes the least likable of his former spouses, Malcolm himself feels threatened, and he calls on his most capabl...
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In Praise of Practical Fertilizer: Thoughts from Near New Burlington

By: Baskin, John

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc : 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

0393015637 Spine slightly slanted, minor edgewear/bumping, PO names inside. DJ has some edgewear and three 1/2" tears. Text is bright and attractive. "When New Burlington, Ohio, a farming village a century old, was flooded by the Corps of Engineers to make way for a recreational lake, and its people moved out of the village to the surrounding towns and countryside, John Baskin was the last to leave. He wrote of the life and death of New Burlington in a book that Newsweek called 'marvelous . . . .as rich and various as life itself.' Now John Baskin makes his home in a farmhouse set...
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Liberty and Property

By: Coleman, R. V.

Price: $18.75

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Red cloth with gold lettering, xiii + 606 pp, index, chapter notes, 28 full page maps, 62 b/w illustrations from original paintings and engravings. Spine cocked and a bit faded, corners bumped, a little edge wear, some spotting to bottom and leading edge, owner's name on front end paper. Pages appear clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear and small tears especially at top and base of spine, a little rubbing and darkening. A nice copy. "Here in a single volume is a straightforward, authoritative, fascinating account of the dramatic ghrowth, and the commercial and politic...
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Longshot

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $7.75

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1990

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 001548

ISBN-13: 9780399135811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slightly shelf-cocked, remainder mark on bottom edge. Jacket shows some creasing, edge wear, slight soiling. "John Kendall is a writer whose books run the gamut from travel guides to manuals on safety in the jungle and the desert. His agent touts him as inquisitive and capable, but he knows that his client has a strong impulsive streak. When John, in the hungry interval between the acceptance and the publication of his first novel, turns to work that will at least pay the bills, the decision seems less an impulsive act than a matter of necessity. Although he knows little...
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Louis Pasteur - Free Lance of Science

By: Dubos, Rene

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1976

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 005071

ISBN-13: 9780684145006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, name on front end paper. Jacket shows minor edge wear and rubbing, front flap creased back about an inch from the edge. An attractive copy. "This is a reissue of the 1950 biography of the French chemist who was the founder of the microbiological sciences. The author has provided an important introduction which throws new light on the subject. The word 'pasteurization' is now part of the international vocabulary - as meaningful to the housewife as to the food technologist and the research biologist. The development of pasteurization techniques, however,...
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Mistrals Daughter

By: Krantz, Judith

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002933

ISBN-13: 9780517549063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket has 1" chip at rear base of spine, slight edge wear, sunning to spine, some rubbing. A nice copy. "Only Judith Krantz could tell the story of three passionate heroines whose shared legacy-and destiny-is their love for the same dominating, tempestuous man-the great painter Julien Mistral. Mistral, like the fierce wind of Provence that shares his name, leaves no one in his path unchanged. . . . Mistral's Daughter covers decades of eventful, richly detailed drama as the story progresses from the glorious party of the 1920's through WWII up to the...
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Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era

By: Jenkins, Peter

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press : 1988

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 004554

ISBN-13: 9780674588325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

xxxvi + 417 pp, index, bibliography, 16 pp of b/w photos. Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, phone numbers written on back end paper and back flap of jacket. Jacket shows a little rubbing and several tears primarily along top edge, a little chipping to top edge. A nice copy. "With a remarkable blending of historical knowledge and intellectual excitement, political journalist Peter Jenkins examines [the phenomenal success story of Thatcherism], making clear that the time was ripe for Mrs. Thatcher to proclaim that 'conviction' rather than 'consensus' politics in combination with reviv...
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Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket