Item 2796Night Bus
New York: Dell, 1951. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo unpaginated. Dell 10¢ Book 3. see pictures for synopsis. Scarce copy. #02861.
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Item 4479How to Read a Book
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. hardcover. 8vo. 398pp. fifth printing of original 1940 edition. from Preface: "This is, in short, a book about reading in relation to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I said it was a "light book." I meant that it was much easier than.....
Item 5157A Clinician's Guide to Binge Eating Disorder
New York: Routledge, 2013. softcover. 8vo. 267pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05240.
Item 90Silent Spring
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Lois and Louis Darling. first. hardcover. Stated first edition first printing of Rachel Carson's extended essay on the environmental impact of indiscriminate pesticide use, a hugely influential book credited with leading to a ban on the pesticide DDT for agricultural use in the US and the.....
Item 919Betty Crocker's All-Time Favorites
Golden Press. spiral bound hardcover. 4to. From rear cover: "Here are the Betty Crocker classics. The red-white-and-blue, tried-and-true recipes that you can always count on--whatever the occasion. They're the recipes that homemakers keep asking for, again and again. They're the traditions passed down from generation to generation. #01000.
Item 711Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?
WW Norton & Company, 1997. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 256pp. First edition. From front flap: "We live in a medical fool's paradise, comforted, believing our sanitized Western world is safe from the microbes and parasites of the tropics. Not so, nor was it ever so. Past--and present--tell us that tropical.....
Item 110Stage-Coach and Tavern Days
MacMillan, 1901. hardcover. a history of taverns and stage coaches in colonial New England. Earle was an important historian of early life in New England because of her focus on smaller sociological details, as evidenced by this and other books she wrote including Home Life in Colonial Days, Child Life.....
Item 1745Laboratory Experiments in General Zoology
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1929. hardcover. 8vo 90pp. from Foreword: "The course in General Zoology at the University of Pittsburgh has been built around the local needs, conditions and training of its staff with the recognition that in the great majority of cases this will be the student's only contact.....
Item 584Heroes, Heroes, Heroes
Franklin Watts Inc., 1956. Bill Lohse. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 246pp. from front flap: "Heroes are made, not born," is the theme of this exciting collection of stories about people who acted with courage beyond the call of duty when the need came. These are stories of perfectly ordinary people.....
Item 1864Progress and Poverty
New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1945. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. hardcover. 12mo 571pp. Fiftieth Anniversary edition, fifteenth printing. from Preface to Fourth Edition: "Beginning with a brief statement of facts which suggest this inquiry, I proceed to examine the explanation currently given in the. name of political economy of the reason.....
Item 2131In This Our World
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1914. fifth edition. hardcover. 12mo 217pp. fifth edition 1914, originally published 1893. first poetry collection of noted early American feminist, whose short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a staple in feminist anthologies. This collection of 73 poems was her second published book but first book.....
Item 1865The Lord as Guru
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 256pp. from front flap: "...In The Lord as Guru, Daniel Gold explores the dynamic between holy men and tradition among the sants of North India. Yogis and devotees who expressed themselves in verse, the sants emerged in an epoch that.....
Item 578Loving
Viking Press, 1949. first American edition. hardcover. Octavo 248pp. first American edition. from front flap: "The most interesting novel of the last ten years," V.S. Pritchett said of Loving in a front-page article in the New York Times. This enthusiasm for the works of Henry Green is shared by the.....
Item 736From Heaven to the Prairie
IWP Publishing, 1980. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 289pp. + 19pp. b/w photos. From front flap: "The words of Darwin Gross bring an understanding to so many controversial subjects. Soul in the form of man occupies a physical body that may be one of seven colors, each individual here to experience.....
Item 106Children of Dune
Berkley, 1976. first edition, ninth impression stated. hardcover. ninth impression. third book of the original Dune trilogy. NOT a BCE. red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, very nice clean copy. #00064.
Item 1490Memoirs of William Hickey (4 vol.)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Fourth Edition. hardcover. 8vo, 4 vols. fourth edition. memoirs of British lawyer (1749-1830), famous for its portrayal of life in late 18th century London, Madras, Calcutta, and Jamaica. #01553.
Item 2442Walt Whitman
London: Nonesuch Press, 1967. hardcover. 8vo 1156pp. seventh impression. from front flap: "The Nonesuch WHITMAN in the Compendious Series. The aim in this series is to give, by clever editing and appropriate critical apparatus, a true conspectus of certain great writers in one volume, and, by proper planning of the.....
Item 4287Eating Disorders and the Brain
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 238pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04368.
Item 187Nonsense Books
Little Brown and Company, 1926. Edward Lear. hardcover. 394 pp. 1926 reprint of original 1888 edition with all original illustrations. Nonsense Cookery, Nonsense Alphabets, Nonsense Botany, more. #00103.
Item 59Gift From The Sea
Pantheon, 1955. hardcover. Second printing before publication, February 1955. An overall near fine copy of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on the lives of Americans, particularly American women, in the mid-20th century. She shares her meditations on youth and age, love and marriage, peace, solitude, and contentment. Occasioned by her visit to.....
Item 4082DBT Skills Training
New York: Guilford Press, 2015. Second Edition. spiral bound. 4to. 422pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04162.
Item 1227Young Audubon
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1943. Will Forrest. hardcover. 12mo. 198pp. first edition from Bobbs Merrill Childhood of Young Americans series. scarce copy. #01295.
Item 2194The Pendle Hill Reader
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950. hardcover. 8vo 208pp. from front flap: "Here is an unusual collection of writings--unusual in their diversity of religious outlook, and unusual in the unity of purpose that animates them. The distinguished authors who contributed to it are united by the fact that all have.....
Item 659Let Me Do the Talking
Doubleday and Company, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 275pp. Rare in DJ. from front flap: "A witty, inside-the-agent story of the literary business with particular attention to Charles Gabriel, bachelor, who moves with the speed of light through literary circles and never quite finds time for love. That is, until.....
Item 1213Heritage of Freedom
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 4to. 150pp. from front flap: "This book gives the history and significance of each of the more than 125 documents exhibited on the Freedom Train's year-long run to 300 American cities, and reproduces in facsimile about thirty of the most interesting.....