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Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 278 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, First Edition, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with white titles to front & spine. Purple top edge. Dust jacket with age toning, some soiling, price clipped, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning to endpapers & edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and blue cloth with black stamping, 334 pages. Clean copy. Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play--such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out--that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A gallery of the most compelling images from baseball's history. Beginning with a team portrait of the Cincinnati Red Stockings taken in 1869, the books charts the sport through the Black Sox scandal, when giants like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson roamed the field; all through the Babe Ruth years, WWII, the Negro League and Jackie Robinson's first day in the major leagues. As well as the many famous famous, many unknowns are also shown with the criteria for inclusion being the artistic merit of the photograph.

NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.

Hardcover. Spanish Fork UT, Hillcrest Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. SIGNED BY MERKT on front fly leaf. "The first biography to document the life and work of the remarkable Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949), whose prize winning decoys set a standard of excellence equaled by few and surpassed by none." In a dust jacket that has light sun fading to spine.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. Sharks have been on this planet for over 400 million years, so there is a lot they can teach us about survival and adaptability. For example: how do sharks, which unlike other fish are denser than water, stay afloat? They keep moving. When Jasmin Graham, an award-winning young shark scientist, started to feel that the traditional path to becoming a marine biologist was pulling her under, she remembered this important lesson: keep moving forward. If navigating the choppy waters of traditional academic study was no longer worth it, then that meant creating an ocean of her own. Jasmin joined with three other Black women to form Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS), an organization dedicated to providing support and opportunities for other young women of color. She became an independent researcher: a rogue shark scientist, seeking ways to keep these extraordinary endangered creatures swimming free. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 245 pages. Eight months after being horribly disfigured in a car accident, Dan Marriott has his face rebuilt by plastic surgery, but he must still struggle with an amnesia that could mean his death as he is stalked by an unknown killer. Originally titled "The Plastic Nightmare". Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st thus, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Honore Guilbeau, in rear, marbled covers with gilt title on leather spine, black slipcase. Minor corner bumps and light chip to spine edge, slipcase lightly cracked, overall, clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Small hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and white illustrations by Maurice Sendak. SIGNED BY SENDAK. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 25 tipped-in full color plates and black & white images by Hugh Thomson. Hinges intact but tender. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, Commercial Printing Co., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 305 pages, b&w illustrations. How to raise sheep as a business. Contents include: Choosing the breed of sheep; Selecting and judging sheep; fattening commerical lambs; producing and, handling wool; marketing lambs and sheep; etc. Name on front fly leaf, hinges have some loss of paper, otherwise a solid, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages. Hardcover with illustrated cover boards. What appears to be written on title page under author's name is "and Elizabeth Kent Tarshis" in black print letters. Black & white illustrations by Eloise Wilkin. Light foxing to copy throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Pess, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 79 pages. A children's chapter book following the story of a Turkish girl. Author McDonald was a pioneering journalist. Charming detailed full color and black and white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light soiling to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. More than 500 illustrations with 67 in full color. Here are countless examples of fabled but long-unseen American Sherlockian art: story illustrations, comic strips and cartoons, motion picture advertisements, and business advertisements incorporating the Holmes image. Stories are included also - hilarious American burlesques of Arthur Conan Doyle's Great Detective; and there are critics' reviews of old and new Holmes stage productions and of the many Holmes films. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1/4 black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Black/purple decorative dj in protective clear plastic. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 82 pages. Black & white illustrations by Erick Berry. Pink stain front cover. Story of a slave girl who lived at Mt. Vernon and was Nellie Custis's servant. Takes place at Mount Vernon in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Reprint, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with white decoration and color label on front, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations with fold-out diagrams in back of book. Covers show minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related bulletin from the California Historical Quarterly laid-in. Front endpaper and top edge stamped by 'American Seamen's Friend Society'.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, 1st , 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio, terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt. INSCRIBED BY GUEST on front fly leaf. 15 black & white illustrations in text. 69 pages + 50 pages of black & white plates. Guest was appointed Assistant Curator of the Freer Gallery in 1922, in 1938 the title was changed to Assistant Director; Guest authored numerous books in the area of Chinese Art.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by C.F. Payne, SIGNED by author. This inspirational picture book is based on the true story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and his bat, two of the greatest players in baseball history. Some say Shoeless Joe Jackson was the greatest hitter ever. But Shoeless Joe had a partner: his bat, Black Betsy. And if not for the faithful Black Betsy, Joe might never even have made it to the major leagues. Clean copy