Hardcover. NY, Templar/HarperFestival, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. With 12 original holograms, color illustrations and die-cut windows, a spooky story in which a grandfather takes the children on a fossil hunt, but when they find a giant bone in a cave, the past comes to life in a ghostly form. Minor wear to top of spine

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright pictorial boards, 208 pages, color plates. The queen of American Jewish cooking (Houston Chronicle) revises her children's classic for a new generation. In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and feasting, and for Joan Nathan, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young, Nathan published the first version of this book, which covers nine Jewish holidays and includes step-by-step instructions for kids and their families to prepare accessible feasts. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grand-children's generation (Out with the Pot Roast! In with the Tahini Shakes!) and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are dishes old and new, traditional and novel, and mouthwatering recipes that everyone will enjoy, from Moroccan Apricot Chicken and Chicken Schnitzel Tenders to Mushroom Kreplach Dumplings and Veggie Quiche.Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays, instructions for how to celebrate them, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Whizzard Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket depicting Alice stretching to put an envelope into a red cast iron Victorian postal box, illustrated with philatelic color images (stamps and covers mainly) relating to Alice by Tenniel, pictorial end-papers with B&W images of Lewis Carroll & Sir John Tenniel, 48 pages. An unusual reprise of postal images relating to Tenniel's classic illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Bookplate on dedication page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Company, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times best-selling author Charles Todd. Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a wounded soldier confined to a wheelchair to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated by the King. The next morning when Bess goes to collect Wilkins, he has vanished. Both the Army and the nursing service hold Bess negligent for losing the war hero, and there will be an inquiry. Then comes disturbing word from the Shropshire police, complicating the already difficult situation: Wilkins has been spotted, and he's killed a man. If Bess is to save her own reputation, she must find Wilkins and uncover the truth. Clean copy.

Softcover. Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A draft of Beattie's 1995 novel bound in black plastic spiral binding. No date, no markings. 500 pages, doubled-spaced.

Hardcover. NY, Silver, Burdett and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 146 pages plus glossary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Switzerland through adventures with Anton and Trini. The World's Children Series. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY TATUM on the front fly leaf. In this readable and scholarly work, Tatum looks at the enduring appeal of Apuleius' novel, the sophistication and artistry the work, and places The Golden Ass within its ancient contexts. This is the first book-length study of The Golden Ass. It is aimed at both specialists and a general audience.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 736 pages. The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone, Twain's uncensored autobiography is available in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsupressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Volume 1 ONLY ( of a planned 3 volume set). Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 5th pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with Booker List sticker. Two old friends-Daniel, a centenarian, and Elisabeth, born in 1984-look to both the future and the past as the United Kingdom stands divided by a historic, once-in-a-generation summer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Oblong folio in color pictorial jacket; 208 pages most in color. The Templo Mayor precinct at Tenochtitlan in Mexico was an important center in Aztec ceremonial life, providing the setting for displays of highly-energized rituals. This book uses the latest archaeological research and cutting-edge computer-generated three-dimensional color imagery to reconstruct the spaces where these ritual dramas were played out. Through a series of isometric drawings and sections cut through buildings, the author has created a compelling reconstruction of how the temple looked, and how it evolved from a scatter of mud and thatch huts to become one of the most impressive urban complexes in the world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hardie Grant Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 255 pages, color illustrations. Following Benoit's guidance, you will make classic doughs, including puff pastry, choux pastry and brioche, learning how to create stand-out bakes with perfect texture and flavour. Try your hand at crispy, buttery Palmiers, classic viennoiseries like Pain aux Raisin, build pies and tarts including Tarte Tatin and Salted Caramel Millionaire Chocolate Tart, and make traditional offerings such as Coffee & Orange Creme Brulee and Macarons, as well as impressive recipes like Lemon & Grapefruit Dacquoise. With this masterclass from Chef Patissier at Le Manoir Aux QuatSaisons and judge of Bake Off: The Professionals, you will be inspired to create your own masterpieces at home. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Iola WI, Krause Publications, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages illustrated in color and b&w. SIGNED BY ALL THE BENOITS on the front fly leaf. Bryce M. Towsley picks the brains of three of the most successful white-tailed deer hunters in America today-Larry, Lane, and Shane Benoit. In this comprehensive volume, Towsley hunts for the real reasons behind the Benoits' unbelievable knack for taking trophy bucks. While most people know the Benoits for their incredible tracking abilities, they are no longer one-dimensional in their hunting techniques. It is true that there may be no better deer hunters in America, but as Shane Benoit is quick to point out, "The white-tail survives because it is so adaptable, and if the white-tail hunter is to continue to survive and be successful, he had better follow their lead by learning to change and adapt too." Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Clinton ME, self-published, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled binding, 103 pages illustrated with b&w photos, maps, one a fold-out. Engaging history of the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad from its incorporation in 1854 to its last run in 1933. Full of stories. and anecdotes handed down by actual workmen on the railroad or members of their families, on all the important events in the life of the railway, and examines the role it played in the small Maine communities through which it passed. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 319 pages, color illustrations. This stunning cookbook collects 100 of the most timeless and seminal recipes from the first leg of Bobby Flays monumental career in one place, for the first time ever. At the age of sixteen, Bobby Flay left high school and the idea of traditional education behind to pursue a life in professional restaurant kitchens. Through his groundbreaking restaurants, cookbooks, and numerous television shows, Flay has built a body of work that is one of the most influential in American culinary history. His stamp can be felt in restaurants across the country, as well as at the dinner table in many families' homes. Read the essays, absorb the photography, and most important, cook tantalizing dishes from this book. Bobby Flay has put decades of his daily work into these pages. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Burlington VT, New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green card covers with dark blue lettering. 60 pages of listed subscriber phone numbers with ads throughout plus a 24 page classified business section. Directory covers Bristol, Burlington, Charlotte, Essex Center, Essex Junction and Richmond. Small perforated hole in upper corner, clean, bright copy of uncommon Vermont ephemera.

Hardcover. London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. The first British edition featuring wrap-around color pictorial artwork by Frederick S. Remington (The Sign of the Buffalo Scout,1907). 487 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index; illustrated in photos, reproductions, double-page frontis map. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to dust jacket. Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives. Ashley Bryan has long been known for his interest in and illustration of African American spirituals and poetry. Here he puts his gifts of illustration to work in a way that seems to reflect his dedication to both. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, R. Worthington, 1st, 1877, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with green cloth spine, 412 pages with many Victorian-era b&w engravings. Color frontis, color plate of boy with snowballs, loose and laid in. Page 397 also loose, laid in. Binding shaken but holding. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Schocken Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 326 pages. Ivan Roots covers the period from 1642-1651, during which the English Civil War took place. The book discusses the causes of the war, the battle of Worcester, the fall of the Protectorate, and the aftermath of the war. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed, 1st, 2024, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 238 pages, color illustrations. Tom Parker Bowles, award-winning food writer, restaurant critic, and son of Queen Camilla, blends history, monarchy, and gastronomy to provide a fascinating window into the world of royal tastes and traditions as far back as Victorian times. An intimate cookbook exploring 200 years of British royal food, studded with anecdotes, delectable tidbits, and nuggets of history, featuring 100 accessible recipes. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 672 pages. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Arthur Baker, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with partial fading, 449 pages, b&w illustrations. The definitive biography of the larger-than-life figure of the French Revolution who was found guilty of loyalist inclinations and executed at the guillotine. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 580 pages. 1940-1949: Destruction and Reconstruction. This volume covers the 1940s, when fascism came to a climax and World War II led to the extensive destruction of Europe. But the second half of this decade was also a time of reconstruction, democratization, and the related search for new social values. Unlike in Nazi Germany, in fascist Italy Modernism was able to advance in architecture and design - as proved impressively by the buildings and designs by Carlo Mollino, Gian Luigi Banfi, Franco Albini, and Giuseppe Terragni that are documented herein. After the war, Organic Design emerged alongside the International style. This edition reflects upon the economic, social, and cultural problems of the time, but also shows how the force of the avant-garde continued to thrive in Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the USA. Reports and features on modern industrial design and furniture, as well as domestic and business interiors stand side by side with articles about novel prefabricated houses. In publisher's shrink wrap. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blind-stamped green cloth. Gilt decoration to spine. Light yellow end papers. Frontispiece with Iilustrated title page. B&w illustrations. small stain at top of gutter to first 5 pages, previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY , Harper, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. From New York Times best-selling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings. Copyright page says First Edition, but line below suggests 2013 printing. First published in 2011. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Schenkman Publishing Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, black cloth with white lettering on spine. 247 pages, b&w photographic illustrations, color folding map tipped-in at front pastedown, rear pictorial endpaper. This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. This work, at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the intensive study of a small, local place. Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and the neighborhood's first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American settlement. By 1967 the neighborhood was mostly African American; Black Power was ascendant; and Detroit would experience a major riot. Immersed in the daily life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to think about local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different sort of geography led him to create a work that was nothing like a typical work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book and a major theoretical contribution to urban geography that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd Ed., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Vibrant color illustrations throughout. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. There are fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.

Hardcover. Hermes Press/Aristo , reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 144 pages. The Iron Devil was Frank's most erotic and ambitious masterpiece - it's full of mouth-watering surprises! This series was originally printed in the 1990s, and has risen again in a deluxe hardcover. It also includes the three-issue sequel, The Devil's Angel! Featuring original art from the short lived series, this will bring the XXX-treme action back to a wider audience! Features an essay and original art. Adults only. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. San Francisco, COLOR, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color illustrations. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear, light chipping. Autry and his horse Champ find plenty of grave trouble brewing as soon as they get into the redwood country to investigate a gang pirating timber in the forests along the Chicapoo River. B&w drawings by Erwin Hess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Mason/Charter,, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 355 pages. Bibliography, appendix, notes, index. This biography reveals both the public and private sides of George Canning, and is also a study of international opportunism in an age when "empire" was an exalted concept. Name on front fly leaf,otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorn Books, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket, 243 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Switzerland, Edita S. A. Lausanne, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large folio in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, color and b&w illustrations, many tipped-in color plates. Essay on Gothic tapestry by Pierre Verlet; essay on classical tapestry by Michel Florisoone; contemporary tapestry by Adolf Hoffmeister. An essay titled "The Weaver's Art" is by Francois Tabard. Lacks slipcase. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.

Hardcover. Boston , Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. In this, the second of D.B. Johnson's picture books about a bear modeled after Henry David Thoreau, the author takes another short piece from Walden to riff on, this one about how Thoreau built his cabin. In the picture book, the bear named Henry builds a small cabin in the wilderness, using borrowed or inexpensively purchased materials. One by one, his neighbors stop by to tell him that his cabin doesn't have enough room, doesn't have enough light, doesn't have the space for dancing. Henry assures each of them that his cabin is "bigger than it looks," and he shows each of the questioning neighbors and friends where he will eat (outdoors), where he will read (outdoors) and where he will dance (outdoors). Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Funk & Wagnalls , 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth. b&w frontis. portrait, 541 page biography, works of the great nineteenth century American preacher, lecturer, orator, and journalist. From the American Reformers Series. Spine is sunned, gilt lettering on the cover. Ex-lib with endpapers marked, stamped. Interior clean.

Hardcover. San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that unfolds to become a poster. A unique collaboration between two artists- one Russian, one American- joined forces to create this marvelous picture book. In the story, a single mouse runs around shouting "HERE COMES THE CAT!" again and again--in both English and Russian--until everybody he knows is worried sick. Just when the tension can't get any tenser, the cat arrives... with a giant wheel of cheese! A big party breaks out... Originally published in 1989. Clean copy. INSCRIBED BY CO-ARTIST ASCH on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket, 160 pages. ".based on the Gino Speranza Lectures delivered in Columbia University by Broadus Mitchell as a part of the national celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 237 pages. Endpaper maps. Day-by-day eye witness account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the seven weeks that followed. Dr. Hachiya, himself wounded in the blast, was director of a major Hiroshima hospital. Translated and edited by Warner Wells, M.D. One of the best first hand accounts; much on the the gradual "discovery" of radiation sickness. The dust jacket's rear panel has photo of the author's surviving family. Bookplate opposite half-title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Seeley And Co., reprint, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, 296 pages. B&w frontis portrait with tissue guard. Ex-lib with stamping, bookplate to endpapers, interior clean.

Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 264 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white images. Includes two fold-out color maps. The publisher's laud Powell's travel book for its "discussion of historical, religious, racial, and political questions for those contemplating a travel to French North Africa, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco during the 1920s." Rear hinge cracked, spine with small tears/punctures otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 397 pages. This documentary history chronicles what in duration and volatile intensity was the most important love relationship in H.L. Mencken's life, one that he tried to obscure and hoped would remain buried within the copious record of his achievements as author and editor. The love between Marion Bloom and Mencken flourished during a period when he wrote frequently about women's issues. In Defense of Marion both illuminates Mencken's ambivalent attitudes toward the "New Woman" and presents a particularized social history of the intellectual and personal aspirations of many women during the early twentieth century. Bloom and Mencken met in 1914 and became lovers within a few months. Their intimacy continued, on and off, until about a year before Mencken's marriage to Sara Haardt in 1930. Edward A. Martin, who supplies a wealth of interpretive notes and commentary, tells of the Mencken-Bloom affair not only through selections from their letters and diaries but also through excerpts from the personal writings of others who were close to the two and who often complicated their relationship. Such relevant figures include Sara Haardt; Estelle Bloom, Marion's sister; Theodore Dreiser, Estelle's lover and employer as an editorial assistant; and the movie star Aileen Pringle, with whom Mencken was infatuated. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, BisPublishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps with flaps. 393 pages. Infiltrate is a comprehensive collection of contemporary, cutting-edge New York design. It features established and emerging studios together with some extraordinary, little known companies and individuals. Each of the 30 ground-braking designers is interviewed and all artwork is captioned. Infiltrate is full of creative energy, experiments, challenging ideas and unexpected solutions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 287 pages, color plates. 120 go-to Italian American favorites for all the red-sauced, pan-fried, crispy-cornered, baked-until-bubbly comforting classics youll want to eat every night. Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli may be a French-trained chef, an Iron Chef, and a short-order-chef to her daughter, Ava, but at her core, she is an Italian American home cook. Her moms heritage was Sicilian and her dads people were from Bari; she pledged allegiance to her fathers marinara on weekdays and to her moms on the weekend and grew up eating at many of the red-checked-tablecloth trattorias throughout New York City. She still stops in to chitchat with the shop owners in Little Italy, where she buys the milkiest fresh mozz, the most thinly sliced prosciutto, and the crunchiest biscotti. These are the recipes that are favorites for so many of us, whether your family is from Italy or not. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Co., reprint, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 325 pages plus publisher's ads, 5 b&w plates. Fully bound in forest green. Text and picture on front cover. Black and gilt decorated spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 306 pages. Records of 62 conferences held in Tokyo between March and December of 1941 provide direct access to the thinking and planning of Japan's highest leaders as they prepared for war. Indexed, with 12-page appendix. First published in 1967, no dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. Amherst MA, Warring States Project, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. This book is an overview of the history of Early Christianity. Each chapter is based on one selection from Jewish texts or from those produced by the Jesus sect of Judaism. It gives a sense of how things happened, from the words of certain ancient prophets, to Jesus' effort to bring about those prophecies, to the efforts of his followers to reshape their expectations after his death. It follows the movement as it came to regard Jesus himself as divine, a process which eventually led to the separation of the sect from the parent religion. It ends with a glimpse of a surviving early Christian church on the shores of the Black Sea, and how it appeared to the Roman administrator who was in charge of executing those who, like the Early Christians, refused Emperor worship. From the evidence of two deaconesses whom he tortured, which Pliny reported to Emperor Trajan, we too learn what were the regular practices of that church. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Feiwel & Friends, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Instagram superstar Eva Chen is back with Juno Valentine and the Fantastic Fashion Adventure, featuring illustrations by Derek Desierto in a story thats equal parts fashion fairy tale and guide to girl power.Its school picture day and Juno Valentine is having a fashion emergency! Her mom wants her to wear fabulous florals, her dad wants her to wear rainbow ruffles, but Junos not sure what to choose. And just when Juno thinks her conundrum couldnt get any more complicated, her little brother, Finn, disappears into the magical hall of shoes! In an epic chase through time, Juno gets some help from female icons like Simone Biles, Audrey Hepburn, Annie Oakley, and Michelle Obama. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Silver,Burdett and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 160 pages plus vocabulary. Illustrated in color and b&w by Constance Whittemore. Children's reader to introduce children to Germany through a trip with Karl and Gretel. Clean, bright copy.