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1985Best.-Nr. 2333540St. Paul Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 7x5x0. First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. 1985 Trade Paperback. vii 229 pp. The basic aim of this book is to render explicit the essence of this process of bio-psycho-spiritual transformation in terms of our own indigenous Spiritual Tradition which we can find in the very basic Christian Prayers and Document.s Llewellyn Publications paperback books
2012Best.-Nr. 2315599Notre Dame Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Pencil marginalia throughout otherwise an excellent copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. x 198 pp. In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student faculty member and administrator Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of students and their parents. Roche develops three overlapping arguments for a strong liberal arts education: first the intrinsic value of learning for its own sake including exploration of the profound questions that give meaning to life; second the cultivation of intellectual virtues necessary for success beyond the academy; and third the formative influence of the liberal arts on character and on the development of a sense of higher purpose and vocation. Together with his exploration of these three values―intrinsic practical and idealistic―Roche reflects on ways to integrate them interweaving empirical data with personal experience. Why Choose the Liberal Arts is an accessible and thought-provoking work of interest to students parents and administrators. University of Notre Dame Press paperback books
1930Best.-Nr. 2305857New York: Sears Publishing Company Inc 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head light 1 inch stain along jacket spine jacket lightly soiled jacket flap corners trimmed - $2.00 list price still present. 1930 Hard Cover. 299 pp. "You start in this fast moving ultra-modern romance with a rich bachelor of early middle age and of settled character. To him through the mail comes a letter from the gold-digger district of New York saying that the writer is a young woman who will if he advances to her $25000.00 guarantee to marry a millionaire and become an established member of society within two years. He tears up the letter with a weary smile but the nerve of the girl intrigues him and almost against his will he calls upon her at her one room apartment in a west side hotel. She proves to be a decent and respectable young woman apparently well born with great beauty and charm but she is so clear so definite so cold-blooded in her plan that it appeals to his sporting instinct to treat the matter like a bet on a race course. He turns over the money to her with the distinct understanding that she is in now way to give him any quid pro quo - and then you are started on a most amusing story the outcome of which is too good to tell. Suffice it to say that the girl makes good in the two years by methods open to anyone without either any great stroke of luck or any improbable action. And the quid pro quo - well - ! Sears Publishing Company, Inc hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 123780Berkeley Los Angeles ET AL: University of California Press. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0520064305 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing; Revolution in Print tells the story of the French press from its origins in the seventeenth century to the Revolution of 1789. The book focuses on the role of the press in the political social and cultural life of France during this period and on the ways in which the press helped to shape the revolutions and the course of French history.; 8vo; 351 pages . University of California Press paperback books
1973Best.-Nr. 51309New York: Praeger Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first American edition/first printing in Very Good condition publisher's top-stain areas of adhesive residue to boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket; The Golden Hind is a historical novel written by T.W.E. Roche and published in 1814. The book tells the story of the first voyage of the Golden Hind a wealthy English ship captained by Sir Francis Drake. The novel is notable for its detailed depiction of the Golden Hind's voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and for its depiction of the English colonial settlement of Jamestown.; 8vo ; 200 pages . Praeger Publishers hardcover books
1986Best.-Nr. 33457Ottawa IL: Jameson Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0915463342 . A lovely first edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with bumped lower corner dings to upper board edges and minor foxing to page edges in alike dust-jacket with light edgewear; George Roche III's Going Home tells the story of his family's return to the small town of Roche MS after twenty-five years of exile. It is the story of the search for a new home the discovery of old friends and the struggles and triumphs of family and community. Roche a gifted storyteller weaves together the individual stories of his family and friends with a lyrical and deeply personal exploration of the Mississippi River and the Delta. This is a story of hope of reconciliation and of the enduring power of family and community.; 8vo; 182 pages; FSA . Jameson Books hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 627111New York: State University of New York Press 1989. Softcover. Very Good. First edition wrappered issue. 273pp. Illlustrated in black and white. Light edgewear crease and sunning on rear cover very good. Inscribed by Rock on the interior front cover: "For Graham with best wishes much appreciation Howard 11/89". Recipient is Graham Hodges the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. Hodges additionally contributes a blurb on the rear cover. State University of New York Press unknown books
1914Best.-Nr. 96128New York: Knickerbocker Press 1914. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis photos 148p. Original blue cloth. 21 cm. Top edge gilt. Some cover spotting and wear mostly on and round backstrip which is otherwise sound. Spine lettering darkened. No jacket. Roche came from a prominent white femily in Mobile Alabama. The first part of this book is Roche's discussion of slavery and what she saw as Black inferiorioty. What makes this book special is that pages 65-148 focus on the Clotilde probably the last known American-owned slave ship which brought a cargo of African captives to Mobile Alabama in 1859 and the subsequent experiences and opinions of those captives based in part on Roche's interviews with Cudjoe Lewis also known as Kazoola and Poleete two of the African captives on the Clotilde. Portions of the Roche book appear almost word for word and sometimes word for word in Zora Neale Hurston's article "Cudjo's Own Study of the Last African Slaver" in The Journal of Negro History Vol. 12 No. 4 Oct. 1927 at pages 648-664. Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
1971Best.-Nr. 94764n.p. 1971. Very Good. 33 sections. pages unnumbered. Several folding pland and elevations at end. Three ring notebook. 38 cm. Contents about 3 cm. thick. This report begins with a two page submission letter from Kevin Roche and addressed to August Herkscher New York Parks Commissioner. The letter refers to this as the final condensed report and states that they are submitting 50 copies of this Master Plan Report. Perhaps this is one of those copies. unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 94754n.p. 1968. Paperback. Very Good. pages unnumbered approximately 140 pages. Printed on one side. It seems to have been printed by a photocopier. 28 cm. paperback books
1791Best.-Nr. 81561Paris: Chez Lecler 1791. Paperback. Very Good. 74p. Stitched pamphlet. 22 cm. Light soiling. French text. Chez Lecler paperback books
1979Best.-Nr. 627050New York: New York University Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. 340pp. Foxing on page edges very good in a near fine dust jacket with light toning. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: "For Graham A fellow historian a good fellow Howard 4/12/86". Recipient Hodges is the prolific and important author or editor of many important books on various subjects particularly the African-American experience. New York University Press hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 338412Cork: Ossian Publications 1982. hardcover. fine/very good. Three volumes in one as issued. 75; 66; vi 82 pages. 4to green boards d.w. areas of rubbing to edges and spot of rubbing to spine with tiny hole. Cork: Ossian Publications 1982. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Ossian Publications unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 626830Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 251pp. Some foxing on the top page edge thus near fine. Inscribed by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges. Additionally laid in is a note from Gilje gifting the book to Hodges. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 626835Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1992. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 288pp. Black and white illustrations. Faint spotting on the page edges else fine. Inscribed by Paul A. Gilje and Howard B. Rock to noted scholar of African-American history Graham Hodges. Cornell University Press hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 40374London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1944. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. 48pp. Original illustrated wrappers and title page. "Those Three" Hitler Mussolini and Tojo is a splendid collection of 44 anti-Axis cartoons by Catalan artist Mario Hubert Armengol 1909-1995 published with a foreword by Catalan historian and founder of the Anglo-Catalan Society Dr Josep Maria Batista I Roca. In this work Armengol displays the bombed out German cities as chimney teeth and window eyes rugged against the sky. Mussolini is depicted as Hitler's puppet always taking orders from the Fuehrer. and always failing. Other cartoons show Pétain hunched in greatcoat and French military trousers with senile wrinkles and bedraggled moustache walking with the squinting squit-faced Laval in his jet black coat and pinstripes. Both clutch their coat flaps together against a cold wind as they stumble past the ruins of France. Behind them is an angry scowling Marianne. Her face is despair hardening into hatred and Laval and Pétain dare not look back at her. Mario Armengol's masterpiece though is "The Fakir wants Comfort." It shows Gandhi looking ambiguously at a bed of nails marked "Made in Japan" which has just been delivered by Japanese general and premier Tojo in uniform. Behind Gandhi is a clean white bed with bright white headboard marked "Made in England". The background is black but streaming down like stalactites of blood. It is of course an echo of the greatest of Britain's war-leaders Winston Churchill's famous description of Gandhi in 1930 as: posing as a fakir. striding half-naked. to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor. Wrappers partly rubbed and creased along edges. Pages slightly rippled throughout. Four pages disbound but present. Wrappers in overall good- interior in good to very good condition. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 626610New York: Columbia University Press 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small quarto. xiii 445pp. Profusely illustrated. Fine in about fine dust jacket with two tiny nicks. Nicely Inscribed by both authors to Graham Hodges a noted scholar of New York City and African-American history who is thanked in the Acknowledgments: "For Graham Always in your debt in great appreciation to a historian and wonderful friend. Howard." and "For Graham with admiration and esteem. Deborah." Issued as part of the Columbia History of Urban Life Series. Columbia University Press hardcover books
1875Best.-Nr. 48055Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co 1875. Good. Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. 16.5x33cm printed in black. Stock worn toned and chipped with a few instances of soiling extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850-1970 largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831 before the company's incorporation. This broadside however was not issued until several decades later. The extensive railway inspired the tune "Rock Island Line" covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly. No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May 2026. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co unknown books
1878Best.-Nr. 1392St. Louis. 1878. A fine guide to Texas in this period listing resources by county. Without the folding map which is usually lacking. 282pp. Illus. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Some edge wear else good. Lacks the map. HOWES R389. MORRISON 3073. hardcover books
1900Best.-Nr. 54627Seattle; Skagway. ca. 1900. Alaska circa 1900 A collection of photographs taken by Seattle photographer Frank La Roche. La Roche 1853–1934 a Philadelphia native transplanted to the Northwest established a photography studio in Seattle in 1889. He undertook many trips to Alaska documenting the Klondike Gold Rush at length from 1897 to 1899. This group contains images of Juneau Sitka Fort Wrangell here spelled Wrangle and Taku Glacier. Two images are of Chilkat Tlingit Indians and one photo of the Seymour Rapids in British Columbia is also included. Each is numbered and captioned in manuscript or in print within the negative. Exemplary images from this noted landscape photographer of Alaska and the West. Overall very good. unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 171972Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1969 Western film. After the Civil War a Union officer and a Confederate officer are forced to band together in order to defend their respective traveling parties against bandits and revolutionaries. Shot on location in Sonora and Zacatecas Mexico and in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Cream titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper and production No. 175 dated December 3 1968. Title page present dated December 3 1968 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL with a credit for screenwriter James Lee Barrett and story credits for Stanley Hough. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/4/68 and 1/17/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped to the fore-edges bound internally with three gold brads. Pitts 4638. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. List3882Charlestown Massachusetts 1890. Double-sided printed cardstock measuring 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ inches. Some small stains and manuscript pencil markings. Excellent. A card advertising Martin J. Roche's Steamship Office and Catholic Book Store in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston likely from the early 1890s. Roche was a steamship agent in Boston from about 1885 on advertising steamship travel especially from Ireland in Catholic newspapers like the Sacred Heart Review in which he also authored a recurring column titled "Our Irish Letter."1 The card notes that Roche is also an "Agent for 'S.H. Review'." Newspaper advertisements indicate that he opened the Catholic bookstore aspect of his business in about 1891; the card advertises "Irish Song Books Histories and Story Books of all kinds; also Prayer Books Rosaries Scapulars Statues etc. at the lowest prices". At the time-subsequent to the wave of Irish immigration during the famine-most Irish immigrants were young unmarried women. Many settled in the Boston area. 1 The Sacred Heart Review 1 no. 14 April 6 1895 21. . unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 3910First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only slight foxing to the top exterior text block else as new and unread. A lovely copy of this biography of Jim Croce written by his widow and singing partner Ingrid Croce with a forward by Arlo Guthrie; a scarce title in the first printing. Not remaindered not price-clipped not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box. Da Capo Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 35577TRADE CATALOGUE ROCK ISLAND COMPANY. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. Rock Island Illinois: 1885. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. 62 pages. First edition. The thirteenth annual catalogue by this company. Illustrated with price list laid-in. The red covers are printed in gold. Some chipping and wear to spine. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 140949360Guildford UK: Genesis Publications 2013. First edition. First edition trade issue. Signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on title page; copy #453 of 2000 total. One of the few early copies in the non-deluxe issue comprising copies numbered 351-2000 and not having a laid-in print to get Reed's signature before he passed away. Unpaginated. Folio. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt white green and red stamping; vinyl picture disc laid in pocket at rear. Fine with just a hint of rubbing to gilt Near Mint album in a Fine slipcase housed in publisher's cardboard mailing box. Complete as issued. The heyday of the former Velvet Underground frontman's solo period in photographs. Showcases several of Lou's album covers beginning with Transformer one of the most iconic images of modern music. The book also features unseen outtakes studio sessions spontaneous shots and friends including Andy Warhol Mick Jagger Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Genesis Publications unknown books
