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Battlefields of the Civil War Arno Pr hardcover Very-nice clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 524 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Very-nicey illustrated throughout. Tight spine clean pages. 524 pages. PARTIAL CONTENTS: The Attack on Fort Sumter; Battle of Manassas First Battle of Bull Run; Battle of Shiloh; Peninsula Campaign; Second Battle Of Bull Run; Battle Of Antietam; Battle Of Fredericksburg; Battle Of Chancellorsville; Battle Of Vicksburg; Battle Of Gettysburg; Battles Of Chickamauga And Chattanooga; Battles Of The Wilderness And Spotsylvania; Final Struggle For Richmond; Campaign For Petersburg; Atlanta Campaign. Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Bible Stories For Children: The Pleasant Hour Series Barse & Hopkins hardcover New York: A photo of this book is available. Very-good clean copy of this vintage children's religion hardback. NO copyright indicated but circa bases upon the old postcard I fould inside book with a postmark. Pictorial clean green boards. Small tear in cloth along spine. Nicely illustrated by Hugo Von Hodsten. 62 pages. NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine. NO foxing. Pages show tanning. . Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. Illus. by Von Hofsten Hugo . 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Shonen Jump #14 Volume 2 Issue 2 VIZ paperback Near-fine copy of this over-sized book. "The World's Most Popular Manga" NO remainder marks or clippings. NO writing or marks inside book. February Issue. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 4to - over 9!" - 12" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The One Year Book of Personal Prayer Tyndale House Publishers hardcover Wheaton Illinois U.S.A.: Near-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 416 pages. Ideal for those wishing to develop a more regular prayer life. Each day the reader encounters a portion from the Psalms a selected prayer and a short inspirational quote emphasizing an important aspect of prayer. The short daily readings are designed to lift the heart and spark thoughts to use in personal conversations with God. Indexes of authors and Scripture provide easy access to material that readers especially want to find. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Longman's Green, And Co. hardcover Very-good ex-libris Holy Family Seminary - St. Louis copy of this hardback. Usual library markings. Inner pages are free from writing and tears. 424 pages. Tight spine clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show light tanning. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. Ex-Library. ISBN : 0 
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Serious and Unstable Condition: Financing America's Health Care Brookings Inst Pr paperback Washington: A photo of this book is available. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers show mild wear NO tears. Tight spine. NO tears inside book. 158 pages. 36 pages show yellow highlighting and/or writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO remainder marks or clippings. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Stage Fright: Its Role in Acting Univ of Chicago Pr hardcover Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: A photo of this book is available. Very-nice clean condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Gray boards with red lettering clean and bright. ONLY writing/mark inside book is a small numerical notation in book front on blank page. 156 pages. Tight spine bright pages. NO tears inside book. . Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Henry Holt & Company paperback New York New York U.S.A.: Very-good clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. NO tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. ONLY writing/mark inside book is nice gift inscription in book front on blank page: "Happy Mother's Day! Edward Abbey is one of my favorite authors and you're my very favorite mom so I thought you two would go well together". 225 pages. Synopsis From stories about cattlemen fellow critics his beloved desert cities and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers. Annotation Warhorse gadfly storyteller naturalist -- there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of essays displays the author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey-Wrench Gang at the height of his curmudgeonry. . Trade Paperback. Very Good . 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions Dover Publication, Inc. paperback Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine bright pages. Covers are clean and bright NO tears. Synopsis Classic of science and mathematical fiction charmingly illustrated by the author describes the adventures of A. Square a resident of Flatland in Spaceland three dimensions Lineland one dimension and Pointland no dimensions. Annotation Century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers; witty satire of Victorian society and unique insights into the fourth dimension. The Forward - Asimov The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions. Biography Edwin A. Abbott 1838-1926 received highest honors in mathematics classics and theology at St. John's College Cambridge and was Headmaster of the City of London School for twenty-three years. A progressive who emphasized the study of English over the traditional Greek and Latin curriculum he wrote the classic Shakespearian Grammar as well as various works of theology. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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B.B. Russell hardcover Boston: Very-good clean copy of this scarce hardback. Apparent First Edition. Dark-green boards with gilt lettering and decoration clean and bright shows light wear light bumping of corners. NO foxing. Pages show light tanning. 546 pages. Frontispiece engraving of "The Imperial Family of Russia". Inside book there is also a very-nice engraving of Peter the Great. The engravings appear to be steel engravings. Engraving have onionskin overlay. Tight spine clean pages. ONLY writing inside book is previous owner's stamp on title page Library of A.J. Teeling. 5 pages have very-small closed tears outside page edge blank area. . Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Sin In The Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battle for America's Soul Random House Inc paperback Very-good clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean NO tears. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 367 pages. Synopsis Karen Abbotta TM s colorful nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters; their world-famous brothel the Everleigh Club; and the perennial clash between our nation's hedonistic impulses and Puritanical roots culminates in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers. Sin in the Second City offers a vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to twentieth-century modernity. . Trade Paperback. Very Good . 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Sin In The Second City: Madams Ministers Playboys And The Battle For America's Soul Random House Inc hardcover Like-new copy. Appears unread. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.95. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. 359 pages. The New York Times - Janet Maslin Sin and the Second City is assiduously researched. And it is well put together mixing brief and longer chapters rather than striving for a more arbitrary format. But Ms. Abbott has to narrate and debunk and her task is complicated. She had to wade through mountains of tabloid coverage about young women forced into prostitution; one such case about a woman named Mona Marshall whose story did not stand up to close scrutiny generated about a half-million pages of newspaper attention. It's no small matter to sift the facts from the hyperbole. Biography Karen Abbott worked as a journalist on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly and has written for Salon.com and other publications. A native of Philadelphia she now lives with her husband in Atlanta where she!s at work on her next book. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Body Engineering: How to Reinvent the Way You Look and Feel Perigee hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: Fine copy of this hardback. Stated First Edition NO writing marks or tears inside book. Illustrated. NO remainder marks or clippings. 207 pages. Tight spine - Bright pages. - Covering topics from weight gain to weight loss this total fitness book will help you get in stay and stay in shape. Through training and exercise you can learn to have the body you've long desired while improving your stamina and general health. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement William Morrow & Co hardcover Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. 232 pages. Nicely illustrated throughout. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Dustcover is clean and bright NO tears. In Black Profiles in Courage Kareem Abdul-Jabbar focuses on extraordinarily courageous black men and women who typified the virtues of integrity discipline and self-respect. Taken together their lives form a legacy from which African Americans of all ages can draw inspiration wisdom and pride. Some of these courageous heroes include Peter Salem - the slave blacksmith and volunteer soldier who turned the tide at Bunker Hill; Joseph Cinque - the leader of a daring revolt on the slave ship Amistad; Frederick Douglass - a self-taught writer and orator who escaped slavery and became one of the most famous black leaders of the nineteenth century; Harriet Tubman - the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who was also a spy and scout for the Union Army; Lewis Latimera son of slaves whose scientific work was integral to the achievements of Alexander Graham Bell Hiram S. Maxim and Thomas Edison. Hard Cover. Fine/Near-Fine. 4to - over 9!" - 12" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook: Creole Cuisine from New Orleans to Nova Scotia Random House Inc hardcover A photo of this book is available. Brand-new copy. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $35.00. NO writing marks or tears. Very-nicely illustrated throughout. Tight spine bright pages. 235 pages. Synopsis In the early nineties friends Daniel Abel Charles Leary and Vaughn Perret noticed something significant about Louisiana!s culinary landscape: the many of the indigenous foods and techniques that had once been so integral to Cajun and Creole cooking had vanished. Fueled by their appreciation for Old-World French farming and cooking styles as well as New World native products the three founded the renowned Chicory Farm and Chicory Farm Cafe. Their distinctive cheeses mushrooms and organic produce were soon featured in the best New Orleans restaurants and brought about a renaissance in small farms and local produce. Continuing their search for the roots of Cajun/Creole cuisine in 1996 the trio traveled to an area in Nova Scotia originally known as Acadia where French settlers early in the seventeenth century founded North America!s first culinary society: the Order of Good Cheer. When expelled by the British in the eighteenth century these French Acadians moved to Louisiana where they were called Cajuns. Out of the three partners! trip came the idea for a center for food learning that would also be a vacation destination. Trout Point Lodge a cooking school and resort located in the spectacular beauty of the Nova Scotia wilderness was born. Called extraordinary by Food & Wine magazine Trout Point has become one of the premier culinary destinations in North America. The Trout Point Lodge Cookbook explores the fascinating merging of the Creole Cajun and Acadian cuisines what the authors call New World Creole. Cooking with the most diverse healthful and fresh ingredients the authors presentoriginal and enticing dishes tailored for the home cook. Here you!ll find recipes for Wild Mushroom Pate Finnan Haddie Jambalaya Cashew Chili Lime-Grilled Cattail Root Sesame and Dill Encrusted Haddock and Blueberry Bread Pudding. Historical and cultural tidbits useful sidebars and unique cooking tips such as how to forage safely for wild mushrooms and how to smoke fish complement the delicious culinary creations within these pages. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the amazing dishes the dramatic wilderness and the stunning lodge itself this unique and inspiring cookbook brings a new cuisine. New World Creole to the table. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Barrett Wayne photographs. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Viking Press hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Great illustrations throughout by Dr. Seuss. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 112 pages. Product Description A polygon is a dead parrot. Respiration is composed of two acts first inspiration and then expectoration. They gave William IV a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry the beer. This priceless collection of ill-digested juvenile learning first published by Viking in 1931 as Boners compiled and edited by "Alexander Abingdon" was an enormous bestseller for over half a century and contains what are among the earliest published drawings by the unmistakable Dr. Seuss. Redesigned and repackaged with a vintage look Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls is a must for the legion fans of Dr. Seuss and the gift of choice on any occasion for anyone with a sense of humor--earthy cerebral subtle or sublimely silly! . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Dr. Seuss. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Double A Publications paperback Seattle Washington: A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. 325 pages. 6 pages show light highlighting yellow. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO other writing marks or tears inside book. Covers are bright and clean NO tears. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Defense Is Ready: Life in the Trenches of Criminal Law Simon & Schuster hardcover Near-new copy - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - 315 pages - Illustrated with photos. Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing marks or tears inside book. - The Defense Is Ready is about the making of a passionately committed American defense lawyer who believes that everyone accused of a crime no matter how heinous is entitled to a vigorous defense of his rights against the overwhelming power of a frequently callous state. Leslie Abramson's journey from eager young law clerk to one of the nation's premier homicide attorneys involved some of the most difficult and notorious criminal cases of the last two decades. Among those she describes with a frank insider's eye are the Bob's Big Boy case which involved the murders of employees and patrons during the robbery of a popular Los Angeles restaurant; the Chinatown trial in which defense sleuthing finally unraveled the mystery that surrounded the slaying of one police officer and the wounding of another by young Chinese gang members; and the startling acquittal she won for an immigrant Pakistani doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his own young son. Finally Abramson describes the series of disturbing and thought-provoking trials in which she undertook the defense of battered wives and abused children ultimately driven to kill their tormentors. Most celebrated among these were the two death penalty murder trials in which she represented Erik Menendez who along with his brother killed his parents after years of sexual and emotional abuse. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps Oxford Univ Pr paperback Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated throughout with graphic photos. 192 pages. Covers are clean NO tears. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald Dachau Belsen and other concentration camps and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. What they saw transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of that discovery by telling the story of the camp liberations as experienced by American GIs and other eyewitnesses including Eisenhower Patton Joseph Pulitzer and Margaret Bourke-White. Through their diaries letters and photographs we see how those Americans finally made the world believe what until then had only been rumored. Annotation When the Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps it transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Biography Robert H. Abzug is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Austin and the author of assionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform. Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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A Short History Of Psychiatry Hafner Publishing Company hardcover A photo of this book is available. Very-good ex-libris copy of this hardback Usual library markings. Inner pages are free from writing and tears. Stated Second Edition. Very-nicely illustrated. Tight spine - Pages show light tanning. 109 pages. Author was Professor of the History of Medicine - University of Zurich. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. Ex-Library. ISBN : 0 
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Chance: A Guide To Gambling Love The Stock Market & Just About Everything Else MJF Books hardcover Near-new copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Dustcover is shows light wear NO tears. Tight spine clean pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 161 pages. Synopsis: In Chance celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory!the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear layman's terms and shows its practical applications. What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance you'll learn to increase your odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market. For thousands of years the twin forces of chance and mischance have beguiled humanity like none other. Why does fortune smile on some people and smirk on others What is luck and why does it so often visit the undeserving How can we predict the random events happening around us Even better how can we manipulate them In this delightful and lucid voyage through the realm of the random Dr. Aczel once again makes higher mathematics intelligible to us. Publishers Weekly: The baffling for some subject of chance and luck is demystified in this sketchy but engaging treatise. Mathematician Aczel Fermat's Last Theorem includes some equations but mostly sticks to grade-school arithmetic and a few easy story problems in explicating the mathematics of probability. He untangles a number of urgent conundrums including why buses always seem to run late why any group of 31 people will include two with the same birthday and why random walks can model the stock market. The book abounds in counterintuitive life lessons. You shouldn't gamble he says but if you do then you are better off probability-wise if you blow your whole wad on a single spin of the roulette wheel than if you parcel it out in smaller bets. And the lovelorn can take comfort in knowing that if you just keep dating the odds are surprisingly good that your soul mate will turn up. Indeed "you will maximize your probability of finding the best spouse if you date thirty-seven percent of the available candidates in your life and then choose to stay with the next candidate who is better than all previous ones." Aczel's treatments of some topics like game theory are so perfunctory as to barely register but his light touch generally makes probability come alive. Hard Cover. Fine/Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science Atria Books hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $25.00. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 275 pages. Tight spine bright pages. Synopsis He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet Leon Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton Galileo Copernicus and others before him Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 in Paris inside the Pantheon and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III that Foucault swung a pendulum and demonstrated an extraordinary truth about the world: that it turns on its axis. Pendulum is a fascinating journey through the mind and findings of one of the most important and lesser-known characters in the history of science. Through careful research and lively anecdotes world-renowned author Amir D. Aczel reveals the astonishing range and breadth of Foucault's discoveries. For in addition to offering the first unequivocal proof of Earth's rotation Foucault gave us the modern electric compass and microscope was a pioneer in photographic technology and made remarkable deductions about color theory heat waves and the speed of light. At its heart Pendulum is a story about the illustrious period in France during the Second Empire; the crucial triumph of science over religion; and most compelling the life of a struggling self-made man whose pursuit of knowledge continues to inform our notions about the universe today. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia And Discovers His Old Country Harper & Brothers hardcover Very-good copy of this hardback. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tan boards with front board illustration Clare Leighton's woodcut "Roadmakers Dalmatia" Boards show light surface stain toward outside bottom edge on front and back boards. Map endpapers. Nicely illustrated with photos. 372 pages. NO foxing. Pages show tanning. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing or tears inside book. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Fawcett Columbine paperback Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are clean NO tears. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 305 pages. Synopsis Pinehill in the years of the Depression. Into this small Southern town come the Bairds -- Harry and Cynthia and their daughter -- fugitives from the burdens of their life in Connecticut. He has fled his job marginal at best; she a flirtation gone too far. To the people of Pinehill the Bairds look like glamour like rich Yankees like movie stars. For the Bairds Pinehill holds the hope that they will regain their innocence and once again be rich and in love. As the Bairds come to know the people of their 'exotic' idyllic retreat and as they are changed in unexpected ways Alice Adams brilliantly opens up for us a variety of little societies each with its own intricate rules and beguiling etiquette -- a world inhabited by individual characters caught up in private scandals long-held secrets dangerous love affairs dreams desires fears and betrayals. Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography A New York Graphice Society Book / Little, Brown and Company hardcover A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Very-nice clean copy of this over-sized/heavy hardback. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $50.00. Red boards with metallic-silver lettering clean and bright - 2 corners show light bumping. Beautiful photographs throughout. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Dustcover is clean no tears - shows light sun tanning around edges. 402 pages. Publishers Weekly An accomplished musician ardent conservationist master photographer and teacher Ansel Adams 19021984 made a major cultural contribution to the American nation which awarded him the Medal of Freedom. This life story describes his boyhood discovery of California's Yosemite and High Sierra a land he loved and photographed the remainder of his life. He traces the development of his esthetic beliefs and technical style including the widely emulated Adams ``zone system'' of scenic composition and exposure. A chapter on his early efforts offers one of the best definitions yet articulated about photography as art. There are lively accounts of his acquaintance in conservation work with several U.S. presidents and of relationships he had with photographer colleaguesStieglitz Steichen Weston Georgia O'Keeffe Nancy and Beaumont Newhall Paul Strand Dorothea Lange Imogen Cunningham Edwin Land and others. The 270 illustrations here include personal shots of family friends and wilderness high jinks as well as many Adams masterworks like ``Yosemite Half-Dome'' and ``Moonrise Hernandez.'' BOMC featured alternate. October Biography In a career that spanned over six decades Ansel Adams was at once America's foremost landscape photographer and one of its most ardent environmentalists. A master photographer teacher and naturalist the profound impact of his work continues to expand as each generation discovers the magnificent luminous beauty of his art. Mary Street Alinder was Executive Assistant to Ansel Adams from 1979 to 1989 and worked with Ansel Adams on many of his books during that time. She is co-editor of Ansel Adams: Letters and Images . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near-Fine. 4to - over 9!" - 12" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Last Days Of Wolf Garnett Jove Pubns paperback New York New York U.S.A.: A photo of this book is available. NO remainder marks or clippings. 186 pages. Covers are clean NO tears. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's initials in book front. Tight spine clean pages. NO tears inside book. Pages show light tanning. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6!" - 7!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Harmony Books hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $20.00. 277 pages. NO writing marks or tears. Tight spine clean pages. Full-page photo of author on back dustcover. 277 pages. Synopsis It's not just a trilogy any more. In the fifth book of this popular series Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life and immediately all hell breaks loose. In short it's up to him to save the world from total multi-dimensional obliteration the Guide from a hostile alien takeover and the daughter he never knew he had from herself. A tall order to say the least. And one he's really not up to thank you very much. "Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.He is anything but harmless." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Annotation The legions of Adams addicts waiting to thumb a new ride down the galactic highway were thrilled with Mostly Harmless a New York Times hardcover bestseller for three months. Now the trade paperback version carries on the outrageous space odyssey that brilliantly explores new dimensions in cosmic oddity. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Up Against The Wall Mother ... On Women's Liberation Glencoe Press paperback A photo of this book is available. Stated Fourth Printing. Very-good clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Nicely illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 520 pages. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Grosset & Dunlap hardcover Very-good clean copy of this hardback. Apparent First Edition. NO remainder marks. Inside top-front dustcover flap has been clipped. Dustcover is clean - shows light tearing at top and botom edges. Green boards with black lettering & drawing of an airplane on front are clean & bright. show light wear. Pictorial endpapers planes in combat. 219 pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine. Pages show browning. The Air Combat Stories For Boys series. Hard Cover. Very Good /Good. Illus. by Gretter J. Clemens . 12mo - over 6!" - 7!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. price inside dustcover: $19.95. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Illustrated with photos. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Covers are clean NO tears. 308 pages. Annotation A hard-hitting story of personal intrigue high living malfeasance bad management and outright plunder at the highest levels of business and government. Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Big Umbrella ... And Other Essays And Addresses On Christian Counseling Baker Book House paperback Grand Rapids: A photo of this book is available. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 265 pages. CONTENTS: The Big Umbrella; Is Society Sick; Grief As a Counseling Opportunity; Evangelism In Counseling; Demon Possession and Counseling; You Are Your Brother's Counselor; How You Can Get the Most Out of Counseling; Can Your Marriage Succeed Today; Parental Sex Education; Drugs and Your Child; Group Therapy - or Slander; The Christian School Teacher and His Disciples. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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J.B. Lippincott hardcover A photo of this book is available. Ex-libris copy. Usual library markings. Inner pages are free from writing and tears. Tight spine. 248 pages. Pages show light tanning. "Equal Suffrage Wmen Vote No Vote - No Census Votes for Women. The story of a dream and of the women who made it come true. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. Ex-Library. ISBN : 0 
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The Final Epidemic: Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science paperback Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are bright and clean NO tears. 254 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Peoples Book Club Edition / Consolidated Book Publishers hardcover A photo of this book is available. Nice copy of this "wartime" hardback. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $2.75. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's sginature in book front in two places: "Jules Meyer". NO tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. NO foxing. Pages show tanning. 471 pages. Orange boards with gilt lettering clean and bright - shows light wear. A romantic novel about a young doctor when America was in the making. Hard Cover. Very Good /Fair. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric Cambridge Univ Press hardcover Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears. 270 pages. Synopsis: A first full-length history of the Western Electric Company the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. Review "This overview of the operation and evolution of a leading firm over a vital era of American business history is recommended for undergraduate and graduate library collections." Choice ".a compact and highly readable account of a hitherto largely neglected company." Albert Churella Business History "Manufacturing the Future provides a valuable overview of Western Electric's history an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates studying the American economy." John Abrahamson. "The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes.into such a brief account are highly praisworthy." Enterprise & Society "Manufacturing the Future is a thorough and well-structured book that clearly and succinctly- in 218 text pages- covers the most seminal points in Western Electric's history. The Book's emphasis on the relationship between the firm and the Bell System is well placed and its arguments are convicing. The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes.are highly praiseworthy." Enterprise & Society Product Description Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric is the first full-length history of the Western Electric Company the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As a manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Western Electric made new products such as telegraphs telephones an early computing machine radios radar and transistors. The book demonstrates through Western's 1882 acquisition by Bell Telephone that vertical integration was a lengthy process rather than a single event. It also shows the coming of age of industrial psychology and describes the advent of civil rights in corporate America. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Police Patrol: Tactics and Techniques Prentice Hall hardcover A photo of this book is available. Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Green boards with light-green boards clean and bright. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Illustrated throughout. 329 pages. Tight spine clean pages. Author was Coordinator Administration of Justice - Santa Ana College. Hard Cover. Near-Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Macmillan Co. hardcover A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $6.95. Forest-green boards with silver lettering clean and bright. Illustrated with photos. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show light tanning. 240 pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Dr. Adams agreed to serve as president of Michigan State University for nine months. Armed with laughter and love here is an unconventional professor's story of how he triumphantly passed. April 1 1969 Dr. Adams assumed his temporary position; exactly one week after he faced his initiation a student protest against police recruiting on campus. He went to the protest to engage the students in a dialogue which ensued as debate without Robert's Rules of Order. Unstructured and chaotic but he defused a potentially explosive situation.and established his own pattern for resolving conflicts without mass arrests injury and disruption of the academic process. One of the first of many tests as he dealt with black students occupation of Wilson Hall an anti-ROTC demonstration a strike by university employees and the October 15 Vietnam Moratorium. Deliberately making himself available to students local police press state legislature etc. he ran his administrative with a willingness to listen and a certain barbed wit. This book offers a unique insight into the political and emotional tumoil of a major American university during a time of great upheaval and change. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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A.L. Burt Company hardcover A photo of this book is available. Very-good clean copy of this hardback. Red boards with artwork on front clean and bright - shows only light wear. NO foxing. Pages show light tanning. NO writing or tears inside book. Tight spine. 170 pages. Previous owner's bookplate in book front on blank page Viola Rohlk Dieterman. Nicely illustrated by George F. Kerr. NO remainder marks or clippings. Hard Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. Illus. by Kerr George F. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Walking the Blue Ridge: A Guide to the Trails of the Blue Ridge Parkway Univ of North Carolina Pr paperback Chapel Hill North Carolina U.S.A.: Near-fine condition. Stated REVISED EDITION. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are bright and clean NO tears. 255 pages. Illustrated throughout. Tight spine clean pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis For this updated edition of the classic Parkway trail guide Leonard Adkins has rehiked many of the trails reworked the descriptions of their physical features added new trails and deleted trails that have closed. The book includes hikes for every skill and interest level from five-minute "leg-stretchers" to overnight hikes. In addition to trail length and difficulty Adkins notes points of interest and natural features to be found along each trail. Biography Leonard M. Adkins is a veteran hiker who has logged more than 16000 miles and authored ten books on travel and the outdoors. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The War For All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo Viking Press hardcover New York New York U.S.A.: Near-fine condition. Stated First American Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $30.00. Nicely Illustrated. NO tears inside book. 534 pages. 8 pages in book front have underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. IF not for this I would have rated this book as Fine. Dustcover is clean and bright NO tears. Synopsis The bestselling authors of "Nelsons Trafalgar" return to the Napoleonic War in this epic narrative of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815 a period marked at the beginning by Napoleons seizing power and at the end by the War of 1812. Booklist In the nineteenth century the British created the greatest maritime-based empire in world history. That empire was made possible by the domination of the Royal Navy which was forged in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the fires of the Napoleonic Wars. The Adkins who are both historians and archaeologists have written a narrative history of British naval conflicts from 1798 to 1815. In that span the Royal Navy engaged almost every major naval power including France Spain Holland and even the U.S. Naturally the Adkins describe the exploits of naval icons including Nelson and Hood but their account is most engrossing when they utilize eyewitness accounts of ordinary seamen to capture the intensity of battle as well as the grind of day-to-day life aboard a warship. The Adkins display such superb technological knowledge of their subject that they can be excused for their occasional delving into "Britannica Rules the Waves" enthusiasm. A superior work of maritime history that both scholars and general readers should enjoy. Biography Roy Adkins and Lesley Adkins are both historians and archaeologists and fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London. They are the authors of several works of history. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near-Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s South End Pr paperback Boston MA: A photo of this book is available. NO remainder marks or clippings. Illustrated. Covers are clean NO tears. NO tears inside book. 394 pages. Writing and/or highlighting throughout. Does NOT interfere with reading. Synopsis An important collection of essays that gives voice to contemporary Asian-American activism offering thoughtful radical analyses on a range of pressing issues. politicalmulti-cultural asian american Publishers Weekly This collection of 18 essays by activists and academics should provoke recognition that discussions of race in the U.S. must go beyond the binary black-white model. Glenn Omatsu contributes a valuable overview of Asian-American activism dating it to the 1968 student strike at San Francisco State University. In a stimulating essay exploring the Los Angeles riots Bong Hwan Kim notes that simply trying to foster dialogue between blacks and Koreans to solve racial tension is useless without an agenda for social transformation. Sonia Shah observes that Asian women's groups have yet to develop a specifically Asian feminism though Asian women are victimized by highly particular stereotypes of dress beauty and accent. Jessica Hagedorn and David Mura argue that their hybrid identities can be a source of richness. Addressing mainstream politics Milyoung Cho traces political battles in New York City's Chinatown warning that race-based voting can be self-defeating. Other essays address protests against the musical Miss Saigon domestic violence and the future of Asian-American studies. Aguilar-San Juan is a former editor at ess. Jan. . Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Arcadia Pub paperback Near-fine condition. SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author in book front on title page "To Laura a great Cub fan. Best wishes Art Ahrens". NO other writing or marks inside book. Tight spine bright pages. Very-nicely illustrated throughout. 128 pages. Covers show light wear NO tears. NO remainder marks or clippings. Synopsis: The Chicago Cubs of the mid-1920s through 1940 were one of the most talented and exciting ball clubs the city ever produced. The Northsiders enjoyed 14 consecutive winning seasons and claimed the National League pennant four times 1929 1932 1935 and 1938 but fell to a dominant American League club in each World Series appearance. Four legendary baseball names led these Cub teams during this amazing stretch. Three eventually landed in Cooperstown McCarthy Hornsby Hartnett and many believe the fourth Grimm should have joined them. This was also the era when Cubs Park was transformed into Wrigley Field under the guidance of Bill Veeck Jr. with its trademark bricks and ivy hand-operated scoreboard and outfield bleachers. Biography: Art Ahrens longstanding member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Old Timers Baseball Association of Chicago!revisits this unforgettable era with all the aplomb of a master storyteller and the passion of a lifelong Cub fan. Ahrens has co-authored with the late Eddie Gold of the Chicago Sun-Times five previous titles on Cubs history and wrote chapter three "Chicago Cubs" for the Encyclopedia of National League Team Histories. This is the pictorial history he has been itching to do for years. . Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Putnam Pub Group hardcover A photo of this book is available. Very-nice clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. Dustcover is clean - shows 3 small closed tears. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Tight spine clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. 255 pages. From Publishers Weekly The territory held by old feline warrior Dom Bryndle called a Quorum is home to a well-disciplined tribe of feral stray catsand one wet-bottomed kitten named Solo. On the other side of the Great Fence live the Owners a carelessly cruel breed useful mainly for the "grail" they discard for the ferals have forgotten the ways of wild cats and come to depend on the Owners for survival. Solo feels the tug of the old ways and heeding the voice that speaks within him he reluctantly accepts the mantle of leadership. After saving his fellow Quorum members from the final depredations of the Owners he leads them on a perilous journey to a promised land where all can live free and wild. Although it clearly follows in the footsteps of Watership Down this slim first novel is so syrupy-sweet as to be almost indigestible. Aiken develops an imaginative language for her characters to speak but stops short before creating an equally clever animal society relying instead on a model that comes uncomfortably close to America in the 1950s. Copyright Reed Business Information Inc. From Library Journal Barely out of kittenhood Solo emerges to lead his pack of feral cats on a trek from their home near the Great Fence to a place of safety far from the dangers and temptations of the beings known as Owners. Less buoyant than Tad Williams's Tailchaser's Song LJ 11/15/85 this cat fantasyAiken's first novelnevertheless captures the same range of emotions and charm as Richard Adams's now-classic Watership Down and should appeal to fans of both books. JC Copyright Reed Business Information Inc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good . 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Ainsworth Financial Service hardcover Mason City Illinois : A photo of this book is available. Very-good copy of this farm book - Red boards with gilt lettering - NO writing or tears inside book - Tight - clean pages - 365 pages - Illustrated. Pages show tanning. . Hard Cover. Very Good /Good. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics Unwin Hyman / Routledge paperback New York New York U.S.A.: Near-fine condition. Stated THIRD EDITION. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. Illustrated. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 309 pages. Synopsis This highly successful text has been substantially revised to take account of the considerable changes in Chomsky's recent ideas. The chapters on grammatical innateness child language acquisition and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten and new material and references throughout the book make it completely up-to-date with key developments in the field. Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925 Lyons Pr paperback Guilford CT: Like-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine clean pages. Very-nicely illustrated. NO writing marks or tears. 178 pages. From the Publisher Wallace Akin was two years old when the Tri-State Tornado picked up his house-with he and his mother inside-and dropped it atop two other collapsed buildings. Across town his father lay unconscious near his auto shop close to death and Akin's brother managed to crawled from beneath the collapsed shop. All survived. Many others were not as fortunate: Earlier that afternoon a supercell thunderstorm had spawned a tornado so deadly that it set records against which we still measure all other tornados. The storm ripped through southeast Missouri southern Illinois and southwest Indiana killing 695 people and wounding 2000 in a record-breaking 219-mile 3-hour path of destruction. His hometown was the worst hit losing 243 people to the tornado. Using first-person accounts from his family and neighbors newspaper stories and diaries Akin offers a blow-by-blow account of the storm from its first sighting to its final minutes. He also attempts to explain how it began-and how it changed his life. As a young adult Akin realized that the weather service could have warned its victims; research on tornado prediction had ceased for no apparent reason. This combined with his upbringing in a town traumatized by weather led him to choose a career in geography specializing in climate. In The Forgotten Storm he explains in clear language why tornadoes happen and how modern man may be making these storms more severe and more frequent. The result is a book both thrilling and horrific renowned for its ability to touch people's lives by allowing forgotten tales of heroism and personal loss to come spiraling to the surface one that adds to our understanding of the battle between man and nature. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Linguistics : An Introduction to Language and Communication The MIT Press paperback A photo of this book is available. Stated SECOND PRINTING. Very-good clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers show light wear NO tears. 357 pages. Illustrated. Tight spine clean pages. ONLY writing inside book is previous owner's name in book front on blank page Cheryl A. Fuisley - SSU Spr. 80. NO tears inside book. Previous owner's last name printed on outside page edges Tinsley. . Trade Paperback. Very Good . 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Anchor Books paperback New York New York U.S.A.: Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 281 pages. Synopsis A powerful and moving novel by the Arab worlds leading woman novelist about four women coping with the insular oppressive society of an unnamed desert state. Annotation Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom. . Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Kensington Pub Corp / Strapless paperback ensington Pub Corp / Strapless Near-fine condition. NO remainder mark or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. 306 pages. . Trade Paperback. Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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Harvest Books paperback Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine bright pages. NO writing marks or tears. 169 pages. Synopsis Gotz and Meyer two noncommissioned SS officers are entrusted with an assignment !not a big one! but one that requires efficiency. Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck in which they are asphyxiated. The nameless narrator of Gotz and Meyer a Jewish school!teacher discovers Wilhelm Gotz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives. Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings he organizes a class trip. The school bus becomes Gotz and Meyer!s truck and the teacher and his students merge with Belgrade!s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7!" - 9!" tall. ISBN : 0 
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