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Hardcover. New York, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Deckled fore-edge. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Blue cloth bound cover boards, two-color illustration on front cover board, a good deal of paint has chipped off (see image), white title on spine, slightly faded. Some soil/wear to covers. A bump to front right bottom corner of cover board (see image). In beautiful condition inside, no pages missing, page 84 is partially disconnected. Illustrations by Bessie Pease Gutman) quite vivid.

Hardcover. London, Titan Books, 3rd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 428 pages. William Gibson's never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson's never-produced first draft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Belgique, Lombard, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Color comics throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 117 pages, b&w illustrations by Tony Sarg, Stories of David and his friends having fun during the summer in a small town, Book has mild shelfwear.

Hardcover. New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 88 pages, illustrated with b&w photographs, gray cloth covers with black lettering. Review slip laid in. Mark from paper clip no longer present. Otherwise clean, very good.

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 2-color drawings by Jerry Joyner. Clean copy. Everything you need and don't need to know about mud including 'how mud acts'. Clean copy (no mud).

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 108 pages, with color illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. Spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Carcanet Press , 1st UK, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. Set against the backdrop of Italy between 1939 to 1944 - the months of anxiety before the country entered the war through to the tension following the Allied victory - "All Our Yesterdays" follows the lives of two families during the period of great turbulence and tells how the children grow into war and its aftermath. The boys flirt with revolution; Amalia marries a young German Jew; Concettina marries into a family that supports Mussolini; and Anna the youngest child, becomes pregnant when she is sixteen and is married off to Cenzo Rena, an eccentric family friend. War scatters them, but even war cannot break their bonds. All Our Yesterdays is about the endurance and resilience of people living through adolescence and early adulthood in a hostile world. Ex-lib with minor residue to rear endpaper and dust jacket taped to covers.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 11 color plates by Maria Kirk plus a 12th on front cover label. Front hinge paper split at gutter, causing front fly leaf to be seperated. Back hinge tender. Soil on rear cover board.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, gray cloth with orange stamping on spine. Tommy Hambledon, a British secret agent, investigates a case that includes stolen jewels, secret airplane plans, gangsters, and international assassins. Cheap paper tanned, dust jacket worn with chipping but no markings. Despite dj, a sound copy. One of the scarcer title by this author (actually a married couple).

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH JUMPING OVER THE MOON on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY STONE WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD IN FLIGHT on the front fly leaf. Unable to afford dance lessons, Fiona struggles to develop her skills while caring for her emotionally detached sister and longing for her family to heal from a past tragedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Beautiful copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound, accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Illustrated by Richard Krepel. Clean and bright. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Reprint, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on title page. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Full color dust jacket with light wear, minor chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 161 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. 342 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. A Kat Colorado mystery.

Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Softcover, staoled, 80 pages. Issue devoted to Edmond Hamilton, science fiction author. "Writer of Two Worlds" by Glen Cadigan. Iiiustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David Godine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with Dust jacket with light price sticker residue otherwise very good. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Gotham, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. A highly entertaining exploration of the complicated science of quantum mechanics made easy to understand by way of pop culture.As a young science fiction fan, physicist James Kakalios marveled at the future predicted in the pulp magazines, comics, and films of the '50s and '60s. By 2010, he was sure we'd have flying cars and jetpacks. But what we ended up with-laptop computers, MRI machines, Blu-ray players, and dozens of other real-life marvels-are even more fantastic. In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, he explains why the development of quantum mechanics enabled our amazing present day.

Softcover. New york, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 518 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Includes CD reading by Pullman.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st , n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by S. B. Pearse. Tender sewn hinge. Soil to endpapers, title-page. Edgewear to bottom corners, edges.