William Safire --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) Freedom [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1987 c1987, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1125 pgs (A novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Maps on front and back inside covers. Picture of author on back dj cover. Dj shows xome wear at corners and edges. Light dust residue on top book edge.) I Stand Corrected: More on Language [Price: $10.00] New York, Times Books, pub1984 c1984, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 468 pgs Take My Word For It: More on Language [Price: $6.00] New York, Times Books, c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 2nd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 357 pgs Carl Sagan --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (12) CHECK READING LIST (3) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science [Price: $5.00] New York, Random House, c1979, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Poor jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 347 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Rear board ink transferred to inside of jacket possibly from past moisture otherwise tight copy. DJ top has slight curling.) Contact [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Cosmos [Price: $7.00] New York, Wings Books, pub1995 c1980, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1995 2nd ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 365 pgs (Jacket slight crushing at top with inside front flap creased.) Jeffrey St. John Forge of Union Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent's Report on The First Federal Elections . . . [Price: $7.00] Ottawa, Illinois, Jameson Books, Inc., c1992, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 288 pgs Peter D. Salins New York Unbound: The CIty and the Politics of the Future [Price: $8.00] New York, Basil Blackwell, pub1988 c1988, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 223 pgs Harrison E. Salisbury Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and its Times [Price: $5.00] New York, Times Books, pub1980 c1980, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 630 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators with ffep clipped.) Michael S. Sample The Angler's Guide to Montana [Price: $6.00] Billings and Helena, Montana, Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc., pub1989 c1984, Trade Paperback Very Good/No jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 244 pgs (Moderate shelfwear to edges and corners. Small spot on bottom text edge. Pages clean, bright and unmarked.) Nicholas Samstag Persuasion for Profit [Price: $10.00] Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, pub1958 c1957, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 208 pgs (Spotted spine) Maurice Samuel I, the Jew [Price: $25.00] New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1927, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 275 pgs (Corners worn, headband torn, front hinge cracked) George Santayana --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (78) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel [Price: $7.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub1936 c1936, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 602 pgs (Green cloth cover with corners bumped and worn and spine top and bottom bent. Owner's label pasted on ffep.) Helen Hooven Santmyer --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) . . . And Ladies of the Club [Price: $5.00] New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, pub1984 c1982, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 4th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 1176 pgs (Spine is indented. Gentle shelf wear with mild rubbing and bumping to boards and edges. Outside of dj wrapped in protective lining, but dj has a wrinkle in the spine. Coffee stain on inside of dj. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Victorien Sardou Madame Sans-Gene [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Dorothy Sarnoff Never Be Nervous Again: The World-Renowned Speech Expert Reveals Her Time-Tested Method . . . [Price: $6.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c1987, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 216 pgs (Top dusty with remainder mark. DJ crushed at spine top.) George Sarton Ancient Science and Modern Civilization [Price: $10.00] New York, Harper & Brothers, pub1959 c1954, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st Harper Torchbook ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 111 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) A Saturday Review Book What I Have Learned: A Collection of Twenty Autobiographical Essays by Great Contemporaries... [Price: $8.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, c1968, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 318 pgs (DJ browned with small tears top and bottom of spine.) Dero A. Saunders The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon [Price: $6.00] New York, Meridian Books, pub1961 c1961, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 224 pgs (Usual Ex-library markings with ffep missing. Spine and corners bumped. Glass stain on front cover.) Vernon Scannell Not Without Glory: Poets of the Second World War [Price: $25.00] London, The Woburn Press, pub1976 c1976, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 245 pgs Sporting Literature: An Anthology [Price: $12.00] Oxford, Oxford University Press, pub1987 c1987, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 354 pgs Stanley Schachter The Psychology of Affiliation: Experimental Studies of the Sources of Gregariousness [Price: $10.00] Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, pub1967 c1959, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 7th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 141 pgs (Previous owner's name inscribed on front pastedown. Reader's notations and underlining in text. Boads slightly soiled.) Simon Schama Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations) [Price: $15.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1991 c1991, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 333 pgs Leonard Schapiro Russian Studies [Price: $7.50] New York, Elisabeth Sifton Books - Viking, pub1987 c1986, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 400 pgs (Has remainder mark on bottom with blue smudge on text edge. DJ has small hole on back.) Richard Schickel Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1985 c1985, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 299 pgs (DJ has edge wear.) S. (Samuel) Schoenbaum William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life [Price: $17.50] New York, Oxford University Press, pub1977 c1977, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st abridged ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 376 pgs (Previous owner's name on FFEP. DJ price clipped with edge wear and slight soling.) Joseph A. Schumpeter Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process [Price: $50.00] New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, pub1964 c1964, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 1st thus ed, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 461 pgs (FFEP missing, otherwise very good, mylar covered) Steven Schwartz Compute!'s Guide to Nintendo Games [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) It Doesn't Take a Hero: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf: The Autobiography, Written with Peter Petre [Price: $10.00] New York, Linda Grey Bantam Books, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 530 pgs (Dj shows some wear with small tears and bumping. Picture of author on back dj cover. Pages clean, bright and unmarked.) John Scott Treasured Volume: An Anthology of Poems [Price: $8.00] New York, N.Y., The Oak Tree Press, Inc., c1967, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 125 pgs (previous owner's name on FFEP) Sir Walter Scott --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (285) CHECK READING LIST (11) Quentin Durward: The Lake English Classics-Revised Edition with Helps to Study, Edited for School use by William Edward Simonds, Ph.D. [Price: $12.00] Chicago, Illinois, Scott, Foresman and Company, c1919, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 16mo (6.50-6.75 in. tall), 605 pgs (Previous owners' names on inside front cover. Rear binding loose. Spine has some small tears. Some bumping & rubbing to boards. Minor discoloring on end pages & text edges. Interior is aged, but text is clean with no markings.) Mabel Seeley The Stranger Beside Me [Price: $4.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1951, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 272 pgs (Previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket torn and soiled, missing several chips.) Erich Segal --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) Prizes [Price: $8.25] New York, Fawcett Columbine, pub1995 c1995, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 470 pgs (Gentle shelf wear. A tight, clean copy in a very good dj. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Gerald Segal The World Affairs Companion: The Essential One-Volume Guide to Global Issues [Price: $20.00] New York, A Touchstone Book - Simon & Schuster, pub1991 c1991, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, new ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 310 pgs Annemarie Selinko --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Desiree, Translated from the German [Price: $9.00] New York, William Morrow & Company, c1953, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 495 pgs (Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Some rubbing and fading to spine. Interior aged, but text clean.) Choon Leong Seow (C.L. Seow) A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew [Price: $15.00] Nashville, Tennessee, Abingdon Press, pub1993 c1987, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 308 pgs (Used as student textbook and reference. Pencil markings throughout book.) Anya Seton --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Avalon [Price: $9.45] Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, c1965, Hard Cover/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Winthrop Woman [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) David Severn (pseudonym of David Unwin) The Wild Valley: First published in England under the title FOXY-BOY, Illustrations by Lynton Lamb [Price: $5.00] New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., c1963, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st U.S. ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 165 pgs (Ex-library with usual xlib distinctions and markings. Synopsis of book pasted on FFEP. Light bumping and rubbing to cover and spine. Clean internal text.) Merle Severy Everyday Life in Bible Times: National Gegraphic Book Service, Under editorial guidance of Melville Grosvenor and Frederick Vosburgh [Price: $8.00] Washington, D.C., National Geographic Sciety, c1967, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 448 pgs Charles M. Sevilla Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History [Price: $20.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 255 pgs William Shakespeare --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4431) CHECK READING LIST (43) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare Made Easy (edited by Alan Durband) [Price: $2.95] Woodbury, New York, Barron's, c1984, Trade Paperback Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 236 pgs Zohar Shavit Poetics of Children's Literature [Price: $50.00] Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, pub1986 c1986, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 200 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators. Mylar covered.) George Bernard Shaw --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (295) CHECK READING LIST (3) Seven Plays [Price: $8.00] New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, pub1951, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, possible 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 911 pgs (Edge and spine wear. Corners bumped.) Irwin Shaw --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (5) CHECK READING LIST (4) Rich Man, Poor Man [Price: $8.25] New York, Delacorte Press, c1970, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 723 pgs (Cloth on spine is creased. Some small markings on text edges. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. DJ is soiled with small nicks on the edges. Price clipped on dj. Picture of author on back dj cover.) Richard Shea The Book of Success [Price: $8.00] Nashville, Tennessee, Rutledge Hill Press, pub1993 c1993, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 192 pgs Sidney Sheldon --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (15) CHECK READING LIST (11) If Tomorrow Comes [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Rage of Angels [Price: $8.25] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1980, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 504 pgs (Light corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing. Some smudging on text edges. Interior text clean. Spine slightly cocked. DJ has light soiling with small nicks & tears around the edges. Picture of author on back dj cover) Samuel Shellabarger --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (3) Captain from Castile [Price: $8.00] Garden City, New York, The Sun Dial Press, pub1946 c1945, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Good/No jacket, Reprint ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 503 pgs (Previous owner's bookplate on front lining. Gentle shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping and light soiling to boards. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Interior is aged, but text is clean and unmarked. Hinges loose.) The King's Cavalier [Price: $3.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c1950, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 377 pgs (Ex-library book with usual disclaimers. Library stamps on title page. Discoloring on end pages and text edges. Some soiling and browning to text pages.) Lord Chesterfield and His World [Price: $12.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, pub1951 c1951, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 456 pgs (DJ has edge wear and small tears) Lord Vanity [Price: $6.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, c1953, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 473 pgs (Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Some bumping and rubbing to spine and cover edges. Small chip in top cover edge. Minor discoloration to end pages and text edges. Interior is aged, but text is clean and unmarked.) Prince of Foxes [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Naomi Shepherd The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine [Price: $8.00] San Francisco, Harpre & Row, pub1987 c1987, Hard Cover As New/As New jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 282 pgs Richard Sherman The Bright Promise [Price: $4.00] Boston, Little, Brown and Company, pub1947 c1947, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 373 pgs (Former owner's signature in ink along with "OK" on FFEP. Minor bumping to spine and cover edges. Minor discoloring on end pages and text edges. Binding tight and straight. Several interior pages were folded over. Clean internal text.) David E. Shi In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and President [Price: $10.00] Salt Lake City, Utah, Peregrine Smith Books, pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 350 pgs John A. Shimer Field Guide to Landforms in the United States [Price: $12.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, c1972, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 272 pgs Debra Shipley and Mary Peplow England's Undiscovered Heritage: A Guide to 100 Unusual Sites and Monuments [Price: $10.00] New York, Henry Holt and Company, c1988, Trade Paperback Fine/No jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 160 pgs William Lawrence Shirer --- CHECK READING LIST (2) Berlin Diary [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Max Shulman --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) Anyone Got a Match? [Price: $7.50] New York, Harper & Row, c1964, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 221 pgs (Previous owner's bookplate on FFEP.) Henryk (Henrik) Sienkiewicz --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (4) Quo Vadis, Translated by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated by author. [Price: $15.00] New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, pub1955, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 422 pgs (Great Illustrated Classics with an introduction and descriptive captions by Allen Klots, Jr. Minor bumping to book edges. Interior aged, but text is clean.) Georges Simenon --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) Intimate Memoirs [Price: $10.00] San Diego, California, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1984, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 815 pgs John Simon Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline [Price: $5.00] New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., c1980, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 222 pgs (DJ has small tear along spine edge.) May Sinclair --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Mary Olivier [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Isaac Bashevis Singer --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Shadows on the Hudson, Translated by Joseph Sherman [Price: $7.00] New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, pub1998 c1998, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 548 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Wrapped in mylar.) Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Our Hearts Were Young and Gay [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Harry Slochower Thomas Mann's Joseph Story: An Interpretation [Price: $20.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, c1938, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 109 pgs (Corners are bumped and edges have wear. Text browning.) Jane Smiley --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Moo [Price: $20.00 printed signature] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1995 c1995, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 414 pgs (A Review Copy with laid-in "Dear Bookseller-"signed sheet. Cowhide illustration on lining papers. Both book and dj in excellent condition. Clean, bright, tight copy in unclipped dj.) A Thousand Acres [Price: $3.50] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., pub1992 c1991, Hard Cover Fair/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 11th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 371 pgs (Borzoi book with picture of author on back inside dj cover. Missing back endpaper. Several pages had been dog-eared. Small soil spot on bottom of front board. Clean text, tight binding. DJ in excellent condition, and not price clipped.) Betty Smith --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (2) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Price: $8.25] New York, Literary Classics, Inc., c1943, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 10th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) (Remnants of label or bookplate on front paste-down. Some soiling and rubbing to boards and spine. Some bumping to cover edges and corners. Minor discoloring to end pages and text edges. Pages yellowing, but text clean. Back hinge cracked.) Francis Hopkinson Smith --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (2) Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero, Illustrated by A. I. Keller [Price: $9.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub1909 c1908, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 9th Impression prtg, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 482 pgs (Inscription and date (Oct. 1, 1910) on front flyleaf. Cover has gentle shelf wear with some light rubbing and fading. Minor discoloring on end pages and text edges. Interior aged, but text clean.) Fred R. Smith Photography Year 1975 [Price: $8.00] New York, Time-Life Books, pub1975 c1975, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 242 pgs (Corners worn and black cloth spine faded.) Hedrick Smith Rethinking America [Price: $10.00] New York, Random House, c1995, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 474 pgs Lillian Smith --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (2) CHECK READING LIST (1) Strange Fruit [Price: $3.00] New York, Book Find Club by arrangemt w/ Reynal & Hitchcock, c1944, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 371 pgs (Top of spine is chipped. Some soiling to end pages and text edges. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover. Interior is aged, but text is clean. Hinge loose.) Logan Pearsall Smith --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (18) A Treasury of English Prose [Price: $10.00] London, Constable & Co. Ltd., pub194?, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 215 pgs (DJ has some wear to edges, but now in mylar cover.) Martin Cruz Smith --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Gorky Park [Price: $8.25] New York, Random House, c1981, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 365 pgs (Price clipped on dj. Light soiling to boards. Some rubbing and bumping to boards and spine. Tight binding. Interior text clean. DJ is lightly soiled with a small chip on the top edge.) Robert S. Smith Lawyer's Model Letter Book [Price: $35.00] Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1978, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 438 pgs (Oversize book like-new condition.) James Harry Smith and Edd Winfield Parks The Great Critics: An Anthology of Literary Criticism [Price: $7.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., c1939, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 766 pgs (cover soild and sunned, notes pencilled on FFEP) Rodney A. Smolla Free Speech in an Open Society [Price: $15.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1992 c1992, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 429 pgs Charles Percy Snow --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (2) The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: The Rede Lecture 1959 [Price: $4.00] New York, Cambridge University Press, pub1961 c1959, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 7th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 58 pgs (Endpapers spotting.) Variety of Men [Price: $10.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, c1967, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 270 pgs (Very light shelf wear. A few small spots on text top edges.) John Snyder Commercial Artist's Handbook [Price: $10.00] New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, pub1973 c1973, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 1st ed, 1st prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 264 pgs (Pocket glued to front pastedown and name stamped on head otherwise nice copy.) Franklyn Bliss Snyder and Robert Grant Martin A Book of English Literature, revised by Franklin Bliss Snyder [Price: $10.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1937, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, April 1937 prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 780 pgs (2 volumes in 1, previous owner's name of FFEP, cover edge wear, page edges foxing and soiled) Robert Sobel N.Y.S.E.: A History of the New York Stock Exchange 1935-1975 [Price: $10.00] New York, Weybright and Taley, c1975, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, possible 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 398 pgs Panic on Wall Street: A Classic History of America's Financial Disasters . . . [Price: $15.00] New York, Truman Talley Books, c1988, Trade Paperback Fine/No jacket, 1st trade ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 531 pgs Society of Illustrators Library of American Illustration Magic and Other Realism: The Art of Illusion [Price: $20.00] New York, Visual Communication Books, c1980, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 111 pgs (dj price clipped) J. Alberto Soggin Introduction to the Old Testament: From Its Origins to the Closing of the Alexandrian Canon, Translated by John Bowden from the Italian [Price: $30.00] Louisville, Kentucky, Westminster/John Knox Press, c1989, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 3rd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 608 pgs (Part of The Old Testament Library series. Dj has rubbing and some small tears.) Aleksandr (Alexander) I. Solzhenitsyn --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (4) August 1914, Translated by Michael Glenny [Price: $7.00] New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pub1978 c1972, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 622 pgs (Maps on endpapers. Dj shows bumping and rubbing with a taped tear on the bottom front and small tears on the edges. Spine and book edges slightly soiled. Picture of author on back dj cover.) The First Circle [Price: $8.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1968, Hard Cover Good/Poor jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 580 pgs (Upper spine bumped and stained. DJ stained and badly torn.) The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II, Thomas P. Whitney, translator [Price: $5.00] New York, Harper & Row, pub1973 c1973, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 660 pgs (Spine sunned and bumped. Black cloth cover is rubbed. Stain on tail.) The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation I-II, Translated by Thomas P. Whitney [Price: $30.00] New York, Harper & Row, c1974, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 660 pgs (Author's picture on back cover of dj. Light dust residue on top book edge. Some soiling to inside of dj.) Theodore C. Sorensen --- CHECK READING LIST (1) Kennedy [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Patricia Meyer Spacks The Female Imagination [Price: $9.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1975 c1975, Ex-Library Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 326 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators.) Frank Hamilton Spearman --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (1) Nan of Music Mountain [Price: $5.00] New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, pub1916 c1916, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 430 pgs (Cracked hinge, edge wear, foxing, good reading copy) Herbert Spencer --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (39) The Penrose Annual 1970: Volume 63 [Price: $25.00] New York, Visual Communications Books, c1970, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 224 pgs (Corners bumped slightly otherwise very good. DJ shows corner wear.) A.M. Sperber Murrow: His Life and Times [Price: $7.50] New York, Freundlich Books, c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 3rd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 795 pgs Robert E. Spiller The Roots of National Culture: American Literature to 1830 [Price: $6.00] New York, The Macmillan Company, pub1933 c1933, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 758 pgs (Blue cover bumped, worn and soiled.) Bryant A. Stamford and Porter Shimer Fitness Without Exercise: The scientifically proven strategy for achieving maximum health w/minimum effort [Price: $10.00] New York, Warner Books, pub1990 c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 277 pgs L.S. Stavrianos Lifelines from Our Past: A New World History [Price: $12.00] New York, Pantheon Books, c1989, Remainder Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 276 pgs (Remainder mark on text top.) Danielle Steel --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (35) CHECK READING LIST (36) Daddy [Price: $4.00] New York, Delacorte Press, c1989, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 243 pgs (Former owner's name on front lining. Graphics company stamp on back flyleaf. Some gentle rubbing and bumping to dj. Binding straight and tight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Picture of author on back dj cover.) The Gift [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Journey [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Wallace Stegner --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (3) CHECK READING LIST (2) Angle of Repose [Price: $15.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1971, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 569 pgs (Edge weat at corners and spine.) Edward Steichen --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Family of Man: The greatest photographic exhibition of all time--503 pictures from 68 countries [Price: $1.50] New York, The Museum of Modern Art, c1955, Hard Cover Very Good/Poor jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 192 pgs (DJ soiled with edge chips and numerous closed tears repaired with tape.) Shifra Stein The Good Life: Personal Expressions of Happiness by Paul McCartney, Helen Hayes . . . [Price: $7.00] Kansas City, Missouri, Hallmark Cards, Inc., c1973, Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 61 pgs (Cover has slight corner and edge wear. DJ is price clipped with slight edge wear.) de Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle) --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (4) The Red and the Black, Translated by Joan Charles. Illustrated by Frede Vidar [Price: $6.00] Garden City, New York, The Literary Guild of America, c1949, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 328 pgs (Slight soiling on front cover.) George Stevens (1) Speak for Yourself, John: The Life of John Mason Brown, with Some of His Letters and Many of His Opinions [Price: $7.00] New York, The Viking Press, c1974, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 308 pgs (DJ slightly soiled with two small closed tears near spine top.) Noel C. Stevenson How to Build A More Lucrative Law Practice [Price: $20.00] Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Executive Reports Corporation, c1967, Soft Cover Fine/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 250 pgs (Various pagings by section-approximately 250 pages overall. Previous owner's stamp on inside cover.) Robert Louis Stevenson --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (77) CHECK READING LIST (10) Across the Plains [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Black Arrow [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) A Child's Garden of Verses [Price: $9.00] Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Company, pub1946 c1946, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 142 pgs (Illustrated cover is worn and spine cloth faded.) David Balfour [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Dynamiter [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Ebb-Tide [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Island Nights' Entertainment [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Kidnapped [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Merry Man and Other Tales and Fables [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) New Arabian Nights [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Poems and Ballads [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Prince Otto [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) St. Ives [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Travels with a Donkey [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Weir of Hermiston [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in One Volume [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: 6 Vols-With an Introduction to the Life and Works of Stevenson by Marion Miller [Price: $90.00] New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons,, Full-Leather Poor/No jacket, New Century Lib ed, 18mo (5.75-6.50 in. tall) (Wear, tearing, cracking, and rubbing on edges and corners of leather. No date listed. Marble end papers, ribbon markers, top edges gilt. Leather is rubbing off.) The Wrecker [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Wrong Box [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Donald Ogden Stewart By a Stroke of Luck!: An Autobiography [Price: $15.00] New York, Paddington Press Ltd., c1975, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 302 pgs (Usual ex-libris indicators. SALE stamp on bottom edge. DJ price clipped.) James B. Stewart --- CHECK READING LIST (1) The Prosecutors: Inside the Offices of the Government's Most Powerful Lawyers [Price: $7.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1987 c1987, Possible Remainder Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 378 pgs Mary Stewart --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (7) CHECK READING LIST (6) The Crystal Cave [Price: $6.00] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1970, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 529 pgs (Maps on endpapers. Dj has rubbing, small tears and corner bumps. Picture of author on back of dj.) The Hollow Hills [Price: $6.00] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1973, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 501 pgs (Sequel to The Crystal Cave. Maps on front and back inside covers. Picture of author on inside back dj. Rip in front of dj.) The Ivy Tree [Price: $7.50] New York, M.S. Mill Company and William Morrow & Company, pub1961 c1961, Hard Cover Good/Poor jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 320 pgs (Former owner's signature on ffep. Some corner bumping, minor soiling to boards, light edge rubbing, and some age toning to endpapers & interior text. DJ is soiled with several large tears & chips. Picture of author on back dj cover.) The Last Enchantment [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) This Rough Magic [Price: $6.00] New York, M.S. Mill Co. and William Morrow and Company, pub1964 c1964, Hard Cover Fair/Fair jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 336 pgs (Front endpaper missing. Some discoloration to text edges. Dj shows bumping and rubbing with some small tears on the edges. Back dj cover is taped and has a picture of the author.) Touch Not the Cat [Price: $8.25] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., c1976, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 276 pgs (Gentle shelf wear. Tight, clean copy in a dj with some rubbing but no tears. Picture of author on back dj cover.) The Wicked Day [Price: $6.00] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc, pub1983 c1983, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st U.S. ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 453 pgs (Maps on endpapers. Picture of author on back of dj. Slight wrinkling and some small tears in dj. Minor discoloring on dj and text edges. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Tight binding.) Irving Stone --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (6) The Agony and the Ecstasy [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Greek Treasure [Price: $19.95 signed], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Love Is Eternal [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) The Passionate Journey [Price: $3.50] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., pub1949 c1949, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 337 pgs (Faded cover with obvious shelf wear. Discoloration to end pages and text pages. Interior is aged, but text is clean. Hinges cracked.) Those Who Love: A Biographical Novel of Abigail and John Adams [Price: $5.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1965, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, book club (BCE/BOMC) ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 662 pgs (Previous owner's signature on front inside cover. DJ is faded and chipped with several small tears. Picture of author on back dj cover. Minor discoloring on end pages and text edges. Internal text clean. Binding straight and tight.) Anthony Storr Churchill's Black Dog, Kafka's Mice and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind [Price: $12.00] New York, Grove Press, pub1988 c1988, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 310 pgs Human Aggression [Price: $8.00] New York, Atheneum, pub1968 c1968, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 127 pgs (Slight edge wear.) Gerald Stourzh and Ralph Lerner Readings in American Democracy: Volume 1 for Sessions I - VI and Volume II for Sessions VII - X [Price: $10.00] Chicago, American Foundation for Political Education, c1958, Trade Paperback Very Good/No jacket, 1st revised ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 483 pgs (Encased in slipbox. Slight sunning and some scrapping to spines.) Lytton Strachey --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) CHECK READING LIST (3) Queen Victoria [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Queen Victoria [Price: $7.00] San Diego, California, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, pub1989 c1949, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 327 pgs Gene Stratton-Porter --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (6) CHECK READING LIST (6) At the Foot of the Rainbow [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) At the Foot of the Rainbow, Oliver Kemp, painter, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, designer/decorator [Price: $12.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlop, c1916, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 252 pgs (Pictorial cover on red cloth. Edge and corner wear.) A Daughter of the Land [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Freckles, Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford [Price: $5.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c1904, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 427 pgs (Covers stained and faded. Discoloration on end pages and text edges. Front hinge is torn. Interior is aged, but text is clean.) The Harvester [Price: $5.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, c1916, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 516 pgs (hinge cracked, edges worn, browning, previous owner's name pencilled on ffep, good reading copy) Laddie [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Laddie: A True Blue Story, Herman Pfeifer, illustrator [Price: $12.00] New York, Grosset & Dunlap, pub1913, Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 541 pgs (Gift insription on ffep. Edge wear. Hinge slightly loose. Cover boards stained.) Michael O'Halloran [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) Michael O'Halloran [Price: $9.45], Hard Cover, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall) James Street The Revolutionary War: Being a De-Mythed Account of How the Thirteen Colonies Turned a World Upside Dwn [Price: $6.00] New York, The Dial Press, pub1954 c1954, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 180 pgs (Usual ex-library marking in a rebound book.) William Styron --- READ AUTHOR QUOTES (4) CHECK READING LIST (3) The Confessions of Nat Turner [Price: $8.25] New York, Random House, c1967, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 428 pgs (Some rubbing and bumping to boards and spine. Spine is slightly cocked. Clean interior text. DJ is protected in plastic. Picture of author on back of dj.) John L. Sullivan, James Piereson and George E. Marcus Political Tolerance and American Democracy [Price: $10.00] Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, pub1982 c1982, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 278 pgs (Sale stamp on bottom text edge. DJ worn on front edge.) David Sweetman Van Gogh: His Life and His Art [Price: $15.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 391 pgs Paul Szep The Next Szep Book [Price: $2.95] Boston, Faber and Faber, c1985, Trade Paperback Very Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 154 pgs
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