Edwin A. Abbott Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions: The fourth dimension, humor, satire, logic combined into a sci-fi classic, Illustrations by Author, A SQUARE & Introduction by Banesh Hoffmann [Price: $4.00] New York, Dover Publications, Inc., c1952, Trade Paperback Fine/No jacket, 6th rev. ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 103 pgs (Minor rubbing and slight edge-curl, but otherwise in almost new condition.) Eleanor Hallowell Abbott --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Molly Make-Believe, Illustrations by Walter Tittle [Price: $20.00] New York, The Century Co., pub1910 c1910, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 211 pgs (B & W illustrations. Missing frontispiece. Cover lightly soiled. Some bumping to book edges.) Joel Achenbach Why Things Are [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Dean Acheson --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (1) Fragments of My Fleece [Price: $10.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1971, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 222 pgs (DJ price clipped with small chip at bottom spine portion.) Dr. Robert J. Ackerman Silent Sons [Price: $8.00] New York, Simon & Schuster, c1993, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 234 pgs (Has possible remainder mark on bottom.) Michael Adam Womankind: A Celebration [Price: $7.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1979, Trade Paperback Good/No jacket, 1st U.S. ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 160 pgs (Board has corner wear. Plastic film peeling from cover.) Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, Henry Cabot Lodge, editor [Price: $20.00 signed by third party] Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company, pub1918 c1918, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 517 pgs (Gilded top, Spine sunned. Spine cracked.) Richard Adams --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Watership Down [Price: $8.25] New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., c1972, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 429 pgs (A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing. Hinge cracked but no pages loose. DJ is lightly soiled with small nicks and tears around the edges. Price not clipped on dj. Picture of author on back inside dj cover.) Scott Adams --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Mgt Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions [Price: $4.00] New York, HarperBusiness, c1996, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 336 pgs (Picture of author and comic strip on back dj. Glue from price sticker on bottom of spine.) Franklin P. Adams, Deems Taylor and Jack Bechdolt The Book of Diversion [Price: $16.00] New York, Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., pub1925 c1925, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 282 pgs (Spine sunned. Corners bumped and slightly frayed. Price sticker on front pastedown.) Mortimer Jerome Adler --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Conditions of Philosophy: Its Checkered Past, Its Present Disorder, and Its Future Promise [Price: $30.00] New York, Atheneum, pub1965 c1965, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 303 pgs The Great Ideas Program: (10 Volumes Complete) [Price: $75.00] Chicago, Illinois, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., c1959, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom [Price: $20.00] New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, c1986, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 163 pgs (Previous owner's seal embossed in FFEP.) Six Great Ideas: Truth,Goodness,Beauty,Liberty,Equality,Justice--Ideas We Judge By, Ideas We... [Price: $7.00] New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, c1981, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 243 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Tape residue on front and back covers.) Jacob Bernard Agus The Meaning of Jewish History: (Volume 1 of 2) [Price: $8.00] New York, Abelard-Schuman Limited, c1963, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 231 pgs (DJ price clipped. Usual library marks.) Mitch Albom --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (2) Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson [Price: $10.00] New York, Doubleday, pub1997 c1997, Hard Cover As New/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 192 pgs (In excellent condition. Appears unread. Two small rubs on dj cover. Picture of author and subject on back inside dj.) Bess Streeter Aldrich --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) Miss Bishop [Price: $17.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c1933, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 336 pgs (Ex-Libris plate with former owner's name on ffep. DJ has some small tears and is lightly soiled.) A White Bird Flying [Price: $8.00] Garden City, New York, The Sun Dial Press, pub1944 c1931, Hard Cover Good/Poor jacket, 1944 Reprint ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 336 pgs (Bottom edge wear. DJ torn with missing pieces.) Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class [Price: $6.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1988 c1988, Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 309 pgs (Remainder mark of text top. DJ has slight edge crushing.) Edward Alexander Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Study of the Short Fiction [Price: $5.00] Boston, Twayne Publishers, pub1990 c1990, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 147 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) Frances Newton Symmes Allen The Plain Path [Price: $40.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, pub1912 c1912, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 345 pgs (Front and back covers discolored with speckling. Some bumping to book edges. Age-toned interior.) Frederick Lewis Allen --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Only Yesterday and Since Yesterday: A Popular History of the 20's and 30's (2 volumes in 1) [Price: $10.00] New York, Bonanza Books, pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 713 pgs (DJ has 1 inch closed tear near spine.) Hervey Allen --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (3) Action at Aquila [Price: $10.00] New York, Farrar & Rinehart, c1938, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 369 pgs (Some rubbing to cover edges. Previous owner's signature on ffep. Age-toned interior.) Anthony Adverse: All Three Volumes in one Book, Decorations by Allan McNab [Price: $15.00] New York, Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., pub1933 c1933, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1224 pgs (Writing on front flyleaf. Stamped as discarded by Waupaca Public Library on front flyleaf and on title page. Slight soiling on cover and edges.) Anthony Adverse: All Three Volumes in one Book, Decorations by Allan McNab [Price: $9.00] New York, Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., pub1936 c1933, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1224 pgs (Some rubbing to cover edges. Boards soiled. Interior age-toned.) The City in the Dawn: Containing: The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, and Toward the Morning, Edited and arranged as a continuous narrative by Julie Eidesheim [Price: $7.00] New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc., c1950, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 696 pgs (Some rubbing, bumping, and light soiling to boards and cover edges. Age-toned interior. Sunned spine.) Toward the Morning [Price: $5.00] New York, Rinehart & Company, c1948, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 458 pgs (Nice for age.) Steve Allen --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) Dumbth: And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter [Price: $9.00] Buffalo, New York, Prometheus Books, c1989, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 359 pgs (DJ is price clipped.) Joseph W. Alsop, Jr. I've Seen the Best of It: Memoirs [Price: $9.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, c1992, Remainder Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 495 pgs (DJ has some slight edge wear.) A. Alt, O. Eissfeldt, P. Kahle and R. Kittel Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Editio funditus renovata [Price: $50.00] Stuttgart, Germany, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, pub1990 c1977, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 1574 pgs (Old Testament in Hebrew. Sewn-in ribbon marker. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding. Few small scratches on spine.) Robert Alter The Art of Biblical Narrative [Price: $3.00] New York, Basic Books, Inc., c1981, Trade Paperback Good/No jacket, 5th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 195 pgs Richard D. Altick The Art of Literary Research [Price: $7.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1963, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 6th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 276 pgs To Be in England [Price: $10.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., pub1969 c1969, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 294 pgs (Back text pages stained. Ffep missing. DJ covered in mylar.) David Altshuler The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections [Price: $6.00] New York, Summit Books, c1983, Trade Paperback Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 288 pgs Stephen Edward Ambrose --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II [Price: $15.00] New York, Simon & Schuster, c1998, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 396 pgs The American Red Cross Basic First Aid: (4 volume set) [Price: $5.00], Trade Paperback As New/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) (Sealed in original plastic.) American Heritage Magazine Great Stories of American Businessmen: from American Heritage--The Magazine of History [Price: $20.00] New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., c1972, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 382 pgs (DJ has corner wear with minor curling at bottom edge and chipping at spine bottom.) Walter Anderson Read With Me [Price: $7.50] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 179 pgs Wilford Raymond Anderson Viking Explorers and the Columbus Fraud: Pros and the Con Man [Price: $20.00] Chicago, Illinois, Valhalla Press, c1981, Marked as Sample Offset 70# Vellum Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 139 pgs Ralph K. Andrist The American Heritage History of the 20's and 30's [Price: $20.00] New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., c1970, Hard Cover Fine/Fair jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 416 pgs (DJ has several tears) Penelope Angell Matting & Framing: The Hobbyist's Complete Picture Framing Book [Price: $9.00] New York, Drake Publishers Inc., pub1976 c1976, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 124 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators. Missing ffep.) Charles Angoff A Literary History of the American People: Two Volumes in One [Price: $15.00] New York, Tudor Publishing Co., pub1935 c1931, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, New ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 790 pgs (Previous owner's name of front pastedown. Cover aged and soiled with edge wear) Anonymous --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (49) One Day: A Sequel to Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn [Price: $10.00] New York, The Macaulay Company, pub1909 c1909, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 301 pgs (Spine sunned and slightly cocked. A little corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing, some page yellowing and some soiling to endpapers.) Anonymous (Joe Klein) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics [Price: $8.25] New York, Random House, c1996, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 366 pgs (Gentle shelf wear. Price not clipped on dj. A clean, bright, tight copy.) Judith Appelbaum How to Get Happily Published: (Fourth Edition) [Price: $5.00] New York, HarperCollins, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 317 pgs Bryan Appleyard Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man [Price: $10.00] New York, Doubleday, pub1993 c1992, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 269 pgs Hannah Arendt --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (8) Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish WOman [Price: $8.00] New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pub1974, Hard Cover Fair/Very Good jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 236 pgs (Usual ex-library markings, mylar covered) Richard Armour --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) Armour's Almanac: or Around the Year in 365 Years [Price: $10.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., c1962, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 161 pgs (Inscription on ffep.) Margaret Neilson Armstrong --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian [Price: $9.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1938 c1938, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 387 pgs (Illustrations on lining papers. Some soiling to spine and cover. Lettering on spine faded. Interior is aged, but text is clean and unmarked.) William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature: Revised & Augmented by F.W. Gingrich & F.W. Danker from W. Bauer's 5th Ed., 1958 [Price: $50.00] Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, pub1991 c1979, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 2nd ed, 8th prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 900 pgs (Book pages clean, bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Some markings and wear to dj with small tears on top edge of dj.) Raymond Aron In Defense of Decadent Europe [Price: $7.50] South Bend, Indiana, Regnery/Gateway, Inc., c1979, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 297 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) Sholem Asch --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Apostle: A Novel Based on the Life of St. Paul, Translated by Maurice Samuel [Price: $20.00] New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1943, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 754 pgs (Dust jacket torn and soiled.) The Nazarene, Translated by Maurice Samuel [Price: $8.00] New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1939, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, possible 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 698 pgs (Spine sunned. Back hinge slightly loose. Some soiling to text edges. A little corner bumping and light edge rubbing. Interior age-toned but text is clean. Minor discoloring on endpapers.) Isaac Asimov --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (15) CHECK READING LIST (3) Foundation's Edge: The Fourth Novel in The Foundation Series [Price: $3.50] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1982, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 366 pgs (Some smudging on dj and some slight discoloring to page edges. Picture of author on dj.) The Hugo Winners: Volumes One and Two (in one book) [Price: $8.00] Garden City, New York, Nelson Doubleday, Inc., c1971, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, possible book club ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 849 pgs (Slight corner wear with spine ends crushed.) Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1978 c1978, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 240 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators. Ffep missing.) James Atlas The Great Pretender [Price: $6.00] New York, Atheneum, pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 277 pgs Louis Auchincloss --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Embezzler [Price: $5.00] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1966, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 6th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 277 pgs (A little corner bumping. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Binding straight and tight. DJ is lightly soiled with some small closed tears.) Fables of Wit and Elegance [Price: $14.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, c1972, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 268 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Cloth cover edges worn and sunned.) Pioneers & Caretakers: A Study of 9 American Women Novelists [Price: $6.00] Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota Press, c1965, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 202 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. FFEP torn out.) The Style's the Man: Reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and Others [Price: $9.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, c1994, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 177 pgs Jean M. Auel --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Plains of Passage [Price: $3.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c1990, Hard Cover Fair/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 760 pgs (Maps on endpapers. Half of back endpaper missing, but text complete. Spine cocked. Some pages wrinkled. Some shelf wear to dj. DJ has tear on back spine. Picture of author on back dj cover.) The Shelters of Stone: A Continuation of the Earth's Children Saga [Price: $7.50] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c2002, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 753 pgs (Ex-library with usual xlib distinctions. Library labels on spine and ffep. Library stamp on title page. DJ protected in mylar cover. Maps on endpapers. Interior text clean. Picture of author on back inside dj cover.) David S. Awbrey Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy [Price: $10.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c1999, Remainder Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 260 pgs Herbert R. Axelrod Dr. Axelrod's Mini-Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes [Price: $20.00] Neptune City, New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications, Inc., c1987, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, Mini ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 992 pgs (Color plate illustrations throughout.) James Ayars We Hold These Truths: From Magna Carta to the Bill of Rights [Price: $7.00] New York, The Viking Press, pub1977 c1977, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 165 pgs
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