Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Athabasca

By: MacLean, Alistair

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday : 1980

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 006541

ISBN-13: 9780385172042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Red quarter-cloth over black boards, gold lettering, map of northwest Canada and Alaska on pastedowns, 326 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, light mark diagonally across front board. Edges of pastedowns and end papers near the hinges are faded and there is a disparaging comment by previous owner on front end paper. Text is clean and bright with the top corner creased on a few pages. Jacket in new Brodart, price clipped, spine sunned, minor edge wear and soiling, some chipping at top and base of spine and corners, small tears along top and bottom of front flap. "Bey...
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Editor in Politics

By: Daniels, Josephus

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina : 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8738

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Dark blue cloth with gold lettering. Corners a bit worn, minor edge wear, sunning and rubbing to spine and front board, a little speckling to leading edge. Jacket in new Brodart, price clipped, spine sunned, minor edge wear and darkening, a little chipping at base of spine, 3/4" chip at top. ; Xix + 644 pp, index, numerous photos. ; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 644 pages; " 'These things I saw, and part of them I was, ' says the Tar Heel Editor - and his claim is justified on every page. The very texture of North Carolina life is revealed - its form and substance laid bare with peculiar immedi...
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N is for Noose [Large Print]

By: Grafton, Sue

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co : 1998

Edition: Large Print Edition

Seller ID: 9483

ISBN-13: 9781568657585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Black boards with gold lettering. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, some edge wear with a little chipping primarily at top and base of spine. A nice copy. ; Spine slightly slanted, small dent along top edge, 1" scratch on front board. DJ has very minor shelfwear. A bright, attractive copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 514 pages; "Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriff's office-a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the townsfolk were saddened but not surprised: Just shy of 65, Newquist worked too har...
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Paul Bunyan

By: Dolbier, Maurice

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1959

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 005519

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

54 pp. #Y-9 in the Legacy Book series. Boards are green with dark green and gold lettering and a dark green and gold square medallion of a bird on the front board. Some dampstaining on boards, with minor edgewear. DJ intact but shows edgewear. A nice copy.

A lively collection of tall tales about Old Paul, from the birth of "The Baby That Shook the Earth" to the attempt by Paul and the Seven Axemen to fell the Tree of Evil. Engaging black and green ink drawing by Leonard Everett Fisher.
Age Level: Grades 3-6; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Research and Public Health

By: Charles, Sir John, K.C.B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

114 pp., index. Navy cloth boards with reddish-gold lettering. Corners slightly bumped, PO bookplate. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ a little spotted, shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, crease along spine, small tear. Text has underlining in light pencil on a few pages. "It was the wish of the founder of the Heath Clark Lectures that they should emphasize the educational, cultural and humanistic aspects of preventive medicine rather than its most recent technical achievements. In the Heath Clark Lectures for 1959 Sir John Charles has attempted to meet these requir...
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Survivor In Death [signed] (In Death #20)

By: Robb, J. D. [Nora Roberts]

Price: $27.50

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 2005

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 007471

ISBN-13: 9780399152085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Spine cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear. Jacket has minor edge wear and rubbing, light cover creasing. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed by author on tipped in page. #20 in the In Death series featuring Eve Dallas, NYPD, 2059 A.D. "No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best copy in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband, Roarke, at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the...
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Teen-Age Football Stories

By: Owen, Frank (Editor)

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1948

Seller ID: 006140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

252 pp., orange boards with brown lettering. Spine very slightly slanted and a little soiled, very minor edgewear, PO name inside. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ has shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, and edgewear including a few small tears. Text is clean and unmarked.

A vintage collection published in 1948 of selected football stories targeted towards teenagers by H.C. McFadden, B.J. Chute, John Gartner, Russell Gordon Carter, Bob Eddy, William F. Strube, H.W. Sandberg, and John Everett Dodge.
Age Level: Young Adult; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The 'G' Man's Son At Porpoise Island (#2 in G-Man Series)

By: Robinson, Warren F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company : 1937

Edition: Early Reprint

Seller ID: 006453

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

251 pp., red cloth boards with black lettering. Front board has light spotting near top, edgewear along bottom edge. DJ in new Brodart protective plastic wrap. DJ has shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, and wear along edges, spot at top. Cracked at front hinge, PO name inside in pencil. Text is yellowed, but clean and unmarked. A nice copy. "Another exciting exploit of Stanley Sandborn, whose father is a Secret Service Agent, and his chum the irrepressible, wise-cracking John Tallman. In this book they go exploring themselves right into the clutches of a powerful ring of intern...
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The Affair

By: Snow, C. P.

Price: $10.75

Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons : 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, bookstore sticker inside front cover, slight darkening. Jacket has some edge wear/chipping, darkening, a couple 1" chunks gone at base of spine. "The story revolves around a case of scientific fraud. Charged with this, a young scientist has been dismissed from his academic post; and now, with the revelation that Donald Howard may be innocent, the Affair makes a moral and political crises which splits the college from top to bottom. The case is re-opened, with Lewis Eliot in the crucial role of advocate for Howard. As the tension mounts over the Affair, C.P. Snow pins...
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The Corridors of Time

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: $9.75

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1965

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 9472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Blue boards with black lettering. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, a little edge wear, a little soiling. Jacket in new Brodart, some sunning and soiling. A nice copy. ; 7" - 9" Tall; 209 pages; "It was only the beginning of a strange and tortuous mission when the beautiful and cunning Storm Dalloway rescued Malcolm Lockridge from the electric chair. Death was to become a small price to pay for a cause that spanned past centuries and went beyond tomorrow. Storm was a key leader of the Wardens, who were struggling for supremacy over the Rangers, and Brann their key figure. But the Wardens ...
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The Khanna Study: Population Problems in the Rural Punjab

By: Wyon, John B. & Gordon, John E.

Price: $33.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press : 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004294

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

xxiii-437 pp., 119 figures, 42 tables, 5 appendices, glossary, Khanna Study Papers, references, index. Brown boards very slightly curved, minor edgewear, PO name inside, text has some margin notes, but text is not obscured. DJ lightly scuffed, 1" tear and edgewear along top, blank label past across bottom of spine. "This volume describes a field study of population dynamics conducted in rural India between 1953 and 1959 and presents selected findings from a 1969 follow-up investigation. The aim of the study, which was motivated by the realization that rapid population growth was be...
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The Last Gasp

By: Hoyle, Trevor

Price: $7.75

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers : 1983

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 000081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Minor edgewear/bumping, stain along outside bottom of boards, but not inside. Jacket has minor edgewear with a couple of tiny chips; crease on inside front flap, and a small tear in the top back. Bookplate inside front board, owner's name written inside back board.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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The Man Who Couldn't Sleep

By: Maine, Charles Eric

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company : 1956

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 003285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, minor shelfwear, small bump on top edge of board, pastedown/free endpaper starting to yellow. DJ shows yellowing inside, very minor edgewear w/ one small tear. Copy of clean and unmarked. "The year is 1962. Inventor Philip Maxwell has just discovered psychotape - which can be played back for total reproduction of the emotions of whoever has made the recording. Maxwell, who has happened on the device only through his research for a means of alleviating his total insomnia, is amazed when the Hollywood cinemogul Zakon takes a sudden and violent hand in exploiting ...
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The Sand Pebbles

By: McKenna, Richard

Price: $810.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 006470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Orange cloth with gold lettering, 597 pp., South China map on end papers. Signed by author on half title page "Richard McKenna, Chapel Hill 1962". Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped with a little chipping to bottom corners, slight edge wear, owner's name on front paste down. Pages 181-189 sunned except for about 1" strip at top, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. A little spotting to top and leading edges. Dust jacket in new Brodart, price clipped, spine sunned, some darkening and edge wear, some chipping along top edge and at base of spine, 3/4" chip at base, 3/8"...
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Tough to Tackle

By: Christopher, Matt

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company : 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 001188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

Ex-library with only about 3 stamps, a date due pocket, and Brodart wraps taped to the boards. Pages bright and clean. Corners slightly bumped, slight shelf wear. "More than anything else Boots Raymond wanted to be a quarterback. But when he joined the Apollos football team he was bitterly disappointed. Because of his size and the League regulations, he couldn't be a quarterback and the coach assigned him as a tackle. Miserable in this position, Boots fumed at being restricted to the line and it wasn't long before the coach took him to task for his attitude. After a while, and some good advic...
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Wilderness for Sale: The Story of the First Western Land Rush

By: Havinghurst, Walter

Price: $27.00

Publisher: New York, Hastings House, Publishers : 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 006322

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

372 pp., bibliography, 17 illustrations tipped in, index. Brown cloth board with rubbed gold lettering. Pastedowns have map of "The Old North West" extending from the Hurons and West Virginia to Illinois and Missouri. Minor edgewear, corners slightly bumped, textblock curved at spine. DJ sunned and worn along edges with a few small chips at spine and flap ends. Text is light and clean. Part of the American Procession Series. "In 1795, fifty million acres between the Ohio River, the Great Lakes and the mighty Mississippi were a silent wilderness broken only by open forest mead...
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Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket