Hardcover. Washington DC, Brookings Institution Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. The author analyzes why it is uneconomical to develop Siberia as the Russians have historically envisioned. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart and Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in red and black. No dust jacket. The author's second novel ("The Haploids" was the first), a science fiction about an unseen race living among us, the Capellans, that for millions of years have harvested a crop of their own planting - the thought forces released by humans at death. Now that source is threatened by the advance of science. 244 pages. A tight copy, usual tanning to the pages. Small worm hole to top edge, margin, not affecting text. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Childrens Press, revised ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Describes in simple text how the Indians of the sea coast, plains, deserts, swamps, and woodlands lived and how their way of life was influenced by the environment. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 139 pages. Translated by Leigh Hafrey. "A young writer attempts to examine the effects of political division on love, life, and identity in the twin city of Berlin and the relationship of inhabitants of Berlin with the Wall", Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A harrowing odyssey of love and betrayal on the high seas-and in the shadowy corners of the human heart. At fifty-nine, Harold Snow has seen his share of death. His baptism of fire came on his twenty-first birthday, on a navy ship in the Coral Sea, when a Japanese kamikaze pilot slammed into the deck. Years later, in the aftermath of a typhoon in the Bay of Bengal, he lay awake on a ship surrounded by thousands of drowned corpses and listened to the sharks feed. Now, serving as boatswain aboard the Tarshish, a decrepit tanker whose papers are as suspect as its seaworthiness, a weary Snow feels death creeping closer than ever. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with $2.95 on flap. No date on title page, copyright 1954 on copyright page, no other printings. Front fly leaf missing so book opens to half-title page. Otherwise clean and bright.
Hardcover. Moscow, Raduga, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated glossy boards. Color illustrations by Kirill Ovchinnikov. Three old Egyptian tales: Jedi The Magician, The Seafarer and The Snake, How the Thief Outwitted the Pharaoh. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rand McNally, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 48 pages, illustrated in b&w by Dugald MacDougall. The story of 6-year-old Zulu girl who has many adventures when she goes to the store for the first time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket with $2.00 on flap. First edition with colophon on copyright page. Chunk gone from dj at top corner. An adventure set in Alaska, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Every country has its folk hero--real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. In spite of these exalted duties he was as human as any man. Barbara Walker has put together only a sampling of the hundreds of Hoca tales that exist. She has captured in English the same directness typical of a Turkish storyteller as he relates one of the well-known, well-loved stories of the wisdom or foolishness of Nasreddin Hoca. 72 pages. Illustrated by Harold Berson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young Alexander Nairn's adventures in the Caribbean make a spectacular and original story. A full-blooded novel of slavery, piracy and high adventure. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, The Wascowmium, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages, color illustrations. Essay by Mark Waskow. INSCRIBED BY MCGARRELL on the title page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 512 pages. Over the course of her career, Nico was an ever-evolving myth: art film house actress, highly coveted fashion model, Dietrich of Punk, Femme Fatale, Chelsea Girl, Garbo of Goth, The Last Bohemian, Heroin Junkie. Lester Bangs described her as 'a true enigma.' At age 27, Nico became Andy Warhol's newest Superstar, featuring in his one commercial break out hit film Chelsea Girls and garnering the position of chanteuse for the Velvet Underground. It wasn't Nico's musical chops which got her the gig; it was her striking beauty. Her seeming otherworldly and unattainable presence was further amplified by her reputation for dating rock stars (Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, among others). She became famous for being Nico.