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Ashland, KY: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1990. 2nd Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. Collectible - Near Fine. 8.75"x11.25". 306 indexed pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - LILES w/GI. Edited by Chuck D. Charles. Author assisted by Betty Stuart Baird. Spine straight binding tight, pages clean and bright. Minimal shelf wear. GIFT QUALITY. Will require extra for shipping. This book is concerned with good plain cooking, but it is not just a collection of recipes. We have tried to incorporate memories, photographs and quotations from six generations of the Jesse Hilton Stuart family to make it interesting and helpful to collectors of Jesse Stuart memorabilia. It covers a time period from cooking on the open fire or wood-burning stove in iron pots, preserving pork by the old salt-cure methods, and milking cows by hand to modern day microwave cookery.

Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. Paperback. Fine. 9"x12" 112 pages. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge wear. Secure ship w/track #. See second photo for song list.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1946. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.25"x1.25". 434 pages. BCE. Nautical blue cloth boards with a ship impressed on front, dark gold letters on spine. Nautical blue paste downs with silhoette of matching ship in white in center. Deckled side edge. Painted red top edge. Jacket drawing by Lynd Ward. Photo of Garland Roark on back of DJ. PON in ink on title page. Year on title page. Spine straight, binding tight, slight toning. Soiling to exposed edges insided DJ. Outward crease in spine. Edge wear to DJ with tiny nicks and rubs. In mylar. See photos. During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bulliion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus. Debut as a movie starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara, Byron Barr, and others in 1949 with Director Edward Ludwig.

NY: Harper Collins, 2023. Hardcover_boards. New/New. 39TH PRINTING. Physical Info: 1.1" H x 8.3" L x 5.8" W (0.8 lbs) 288 pages. Features: Price on Product, Ikids, Excerpt. Target Age Group: 08 to 12. Secure ship w/track #. On her journey by car from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, 13-year-old Salamanca Hiddle tells the story of her friend Phoebe, who receives a message from a "lunatic" and who must cope with the disappearance of her mother. But beneath this story is Sal's own story, and that of her mother, who left home one day and never returned. Accelerated Reader® Info: Quiz # (Quiz Name): 10299(Walk Two Moons) Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Middle Grade Point Value: 9.0.

NY: Delacorte, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover_clothspine. Used - VeryGood/Fine. 6.25"x8.25". 261 pgs. X-Library w/graphics.. First Printing. Black boards w/black cloth spine & gilt letters. Photography by Albert Watson. Jacket Design by Phil Rose. Book designed by Susan Maksuta-Santoro. Spine straight, binding tight. I have this fantasy that I can live my life like a tiger in the jungle - eating whatever I want, having sex whenever I want, and roaming around butt naked, wild and free...It sounds difficult and complicated, but it doesn't have to be. Everything you need to set yourself free is right there inside you. If you close your eyes and concentrate, you can feel it in the blood rushing through your veins and the thumping of your heart. When you can feel your inner spirit, peace will overcome you, and you'll be ready to break through that mirror or fly through that window and flourish. Or it may be something as simple as opening a door and stepping into a land you've been checking out all along.… Ler mais

Minneapolis: North American Fishing Club, 1990. First Edition. FauxLeatherbound. Near Fine-Collectible. 6.25"x9.25" 314 indexed pages. 12th printing. Blue leather boards. Walleye photo on front board w/gold foil letters. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. Part of the COMPLETE ANGLER'S LIBRARY, by the North American Fishing Club. This book covers: understanding walleyes, getting the right equipment for walleye fishing, where to find walleyes, and catching those walleyes! Then, of course comes the eating, but you're on your own for that! This book presents various ways of catching walleyes, including information on walleye senses, the walleye life cycle, the necessary equipment, and where to find walleyes. Source: Publisher.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1958. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Disney, Wilmar, Simon, Colman, Kenworthy Jr., Perkins. 8"x10"x.75". 80 pages; cream speckled cloth boards, copper embossed letters on front and spine. PGI on first fly paper. Manufactured in Switzerland. From the Walt Disney Motion picture of Felix Salten's Original Story. Text by Roy Edward Disney. Adapted from the screen play by Winston Hibler and Ralph Wright. Marc Barraud Production. True-Life Fantasy of the love between two squirrels Perri and Porro and their relationships with the many other forest animals, both firends and enemies, with whom they share the difficult problems of survival. This is a medium of superlative color photography, vivid narration and fine printing into this beautiful book. Many beautiful mounted photographs of various animals in the wild.

Coat of Arms, 2014. Paperback. New. Ian Kim. 8"x8". Cover has violin w/two robins sitting on it. Each poem has paper of different color w/beautiful illustration. "A Waltz with Words" is a collection of poems written by Clara Lehmann and illustrated by Ian Kim (Insoo Kim). The poems and illustrations are playful, unique, and appropriate for children or for adults. Inspired by Shel Silverstein, the Appalachian mountains, and her grandmother (Eleanor Mailloux), Lehmann dedicates these poems to her twin daughters, Sophia and Lucy. We hope you will enjoy them just as much as the girls do!

New York: Random House, 1965. FauxLeatherbound. Used - Near Fine/Good. 6"x8.75". 919 pages. BCE Red faux leather w/black lettering on front and spine. Top edge painted green. DJ design by Barry Martin. Author photo by Emma Gene Hall. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Chips along edges of DJ. FBC bumped. The story begins in the fall of 1862 and ends on Dec. 21, 1881 - the fateful day when the railroad came to Butte and closed the first phase of Montana Territory's tumultuous existence. Between those dates Miss Winsor's novel ranges back and forth between the primitive mining camps in the newly opeing Northwest and the worlds of finance and high society in NY. The leaders in both sectors were possessed of the same overweening drive, skill, recklessness and selfishness that characterized the American "aristocracy" of the period. Indeed, they often were members of the same families - or linked their fortunes by convenient marriages.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1969. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.75"x8.5" 417 indexed pgs. Black cloth boards w/gold letters on spine. DJ design by Janet Halverson. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Edge and shelf wear to DJ. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. Weapons - who makes them, who sells them, who buys them...and where does the money come from?

NY: Viking Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Collectible - Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.5"x9.4" 406 indexed pp. 3rd printing. Blue boards. Black cardstock spine w/gilt letters. Jacket images: Conan O'Brien appears on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kevin Winter / Getty images; Television, Seth Joel / Getty Images; Power cord, Colin Anderson / Getty Images. Author photo Beth Carter. Designed by Daniel Lagin. Set in Palatino LT Std. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light soiling to back of DJ. Light shelf wear to outsided of DJ. Bill Carter, executive producer of CNN's docuseries The Story of Late Night and host of the Behind the Desk: Story of Late Night podcast, details the chaotic transition of The Tonight Show from host Jay Leno to Conan O'Brien--and back again. In 2010, NBC's CEO Jeff Zucker, had it all worked out when he moved Jay Leno from behind the desk at The Tonight Show, and handed the reins over to Conan O'Brien.… Ler mais

Garden City: International Collectors Library, 1949. Leatherette. Near Fine. Eichenberg, Fritz / Don Sibley. 5.75"x8.5" War & Peace 696 numbered pgs. Anna Karenina 736 numbered pages. Almond leatherette boards w/beautiful gilt designs on front and spine. Speckled light almond paste downs. Red silk ribbon marker. War and Peace tralated by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. Anna Karenina translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. Deckled edges. Faint foxing to top edge. Spines straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unmarked, no DJ. Secure ship w/track #. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the… Ler mais

Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 1984. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - VeryGood. Katherine Potter.. 5.75"x8.75"x1.25". 419 pgs. X-library w/graphics. Large Print. Pictorial hardboards. Spine straight, binding tight, pages slightly toned. Pencil ghosts from library. No other markings. Minimal edge and shelf wear. Intro by Denis Mack Smith. "A classic of World War II, here in its first American edition. War in Val d'Orcia is Iris Origo's elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. With the immediacy only a diary can have, the book tells how the Marchesa Origo, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner, kept La Foce and its farms functioning while war threatened to overrun it and its people. She and her husband managed to protect their peasants, succor refugee children from Genoa and Turrin, hide escaped Allied prisoners of war-and somehow stand up to the Germans, who in dread due course occupied La Foce in… Ler mais

NY: Harper, 2024. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING W/DJ wrapped in mylar. Features: Price on Product. Physical Info: 1.1" H x 9.2" L x 6.1" W (0.9 lbs) 304 pages. Secure ship w/track #. "Few friendships have had such far-reaching implications for the world--from finance to technology to philanthropy--than that between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. After meeting at a party in 1991, the two played cards and golf, shared jokes, swapped trade secrets, ate junk food, talked and listened. Their growing friendship would impact each man and lead to change on a grander scale, culminating in the development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which holds nearly $50 billion in assets. How did such an unusual union blossom? In what ways specifically did each man begin to influence the other? How did these two avid wealth accumulators jointly decide to address some of the world's most critical problems--poverty, disease, inequality--by giving their wealth away? And what, finally,… Ler mais

NY: Fleming H. Revell Company, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_pictorial boards. New. FIRST PRINTING .Physical Info: 1.0" H x 8.5" L x 5.5" W (1.4 lbs) 384 pages. Secure ship w/track #. On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena D browska send their father off to defend Poland against the looming threat of German invasion. The next day, the first bombs fall on Warsaw, decimating their beloved city and shattering the world of their youth. When Antonina's beloved Marek is forced behind ghetto walls along with the rest of Warsaw's Jewish population, Antonina turns her worry into action and becomes a key figure in a daring network of women risking their lives to shelter Jewish children. Helena finds herself drawn into the ranks of Poland's secret army, joining the fight to free her homeland from occupation. But the secrets both are forced to keep threaten to tear the sisters apart--and the cost of resistance proves greater than either ever imagined. Shining a light on the oft-forgotten… Ler mais

NY: Signet, 1993. 1st Edition Thus. MassMarketPaperBack. Very Good-Collectible. First printing. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Minimal edge wear w/small creases to BLC of front. Faint fading to covers. The third masterful novel in King's epic saga "The Dark Tower." Roland, the Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted mirror image of our own. Source: Publisher.

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 326 pgs. Black boards w/gold foil letters to spine. Book design by Jaye Zimet. DJ design by Charles Rue Woods and Jaye Zimet. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price) & unmarked. Gift Quality. Secure ship w/track #. he was sworn to protect the innocent, but no one told her what to do about the guilty. FBI Special Agent Jay (née Janet) Fletcher is very good at what she does. An agency hacker, Jay can use computers to find out anything about anybody--but she doesn't always go through the proper channels. When Jay blows a murder case by obtaining evidence before she gets a warrant, she's bounced from D.C. to Santa Fe, where helping out on an arson detail is supposed to keep her out of trouble. Missing the power, the thrill, of her old assignment, she practices using her computer tracking system on an ongoing investigation into Santa Fe's own serial killer. Goodreads.

NY: Little, Brown & Co, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 261 pgs. X-library w/graphics. First printing. From #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin, an unlucky spy gets one last chance at redemption. Miles Flint is a spy who has been making some serious mistakes. His last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, and after getting too close to his current subject he wound up in police custody. But something is wrong at the agency that has nothing to do with Miles' errors. Why did his last suspect know more about Miles' assignment than Miles did? Why have so many operatives recently resigned? Despite the Director's assurances, Miles begins his own investigation, to the dismay of his colleagues and even his own wife. Then Miles is sent to Belfast on a routine mission, a mission that confirms his darkest suspicions -- and threatens his life.Source: Publisher.

W. Palm Beach, FL: Humanix Books, 2023. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Fine-Collectible/Fine. Physical Info: 1.1" H x 9.0" L x 6.1" W (1.35 lbs) 275 pages. First printing. Features: Dust Cover , Price on Product. Secure ship w/track #. GIFT QUALITY. In A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes the reader on a "road trip" through over fifty years of journalism and American life, serving as a "watchman" on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes. A watchman "keeps guard over a building at night, to protect it from fire, vandals, or thieves." Thomas is a believer that certain values and principles never change and has critiqued misbehavior and wrong-headedness by people on "his side" from the start. "If values and Truth mean anything," Thomas says, "they must be applied equally. Hypocrisy and heresy cannot be ignored no matter the source." In the book, Thomas does not stigmatize labels, such as "conservative" and "religious," because Thomas says: "It allows… Ler mais

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover_clothspine. Collectible - Acceptable/VeryGood. 6"x8.5"x1.25".283 pgs. X-library. Hunter green boards. Cream cloth spine w/hunter green letters. Hunter green paste downs. Cover painting by Allen Manham. Typography design by Robert Anthony. Author photo by Arthur Brilliant. Book design by Irving Perkins. Spine straight, some separation from hinge, unclipped. Firt fly paper torn out, AN EXQUISITE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND EVIL Elizabeth was a woman apart from all others of the Scottish Highlands - her beauty spoke of delicate heather and dark moors; her intelligence guided her family's weaving mill to success and wealth; and her clairvoyant vision touched the future with prophecy... and the present with danger. Calum was heir to the haunting Castle Faillie, a tract of shrouded moor that seemed to be forever under the spell of the past - of an ancient Latin manuscript, of a forgotten tartan weave, and of the memory of a woman not long dead." Goodreads 3.19.