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The Aden Effect (A Connor Stark Novel)

By: Berube, Claude

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2012

Seller ID: 2295912

ISBN: 1612511090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2012 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 260 pp. In this exciting contemporary thriller, pirates are capturing ships at will off the Horn of Africa and the navies of the world cannot protect the international shipping lanes. In response, the newly confirmed Ambassador to Yemen, C.J. Sumner, is assigned by the White House to negotiate access to the rich oil fields off the island of Socotra and to convince the Yemenis' to help deter the pirates. Meeting with resistance to her diplomatic overtures, Sumner becomes desperate as the White House ...
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Great Railway Stations of Europe

By: Binney, Marcus; Hamm, Manfred; Foehl, Axel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 1985

Seller ID: 2295694

ISBN: 0500013462

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge very faintly foxed. Minor general wear. 1985 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Includes 107 illustrations, 50 in color. Briefly traces the history of railway stations, shows stations in Britain, Germany, Finland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, and Holland, and describes each terminal's background.
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Attack on Quebec: The American Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776

By: Bird, Harrison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 2294643

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top edge of rear jacket panel very faintly foxed. 1968 Hard Cover. 255 pp. Endpapers illustrated with a map of British Canada after the Quebec Act, 1774, showing invasion routes taken by Brig. Gen. Montgomery and Col. Arnold, Sept.-Nov. 1775. For this dramatic re-creation of an American Revolutionary campaign, Harrison Bird has assembled his cast with a practiced hand. It includes Arnold's colorful captains, one of whom was the redoubtable Daniel Morgan from Virginia; Aaron Bur; the exquisite Lieutenant John Andre; George Washington; General Philip Schuyler; and Joseph Brant, th...
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Pancakes-Paris

By: Bishop, Claire Huchet

Price: $50.00

Publisher: The Viking Press: 1947

Seller ID: 2294770

ISBN: 0670537829

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Boards very faintly foxed. 1947 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Illustrated by Georges Schreiber. There was magic in that box of pancake flour. Charles was sure that if he just knew how, he could make French crepes for Mardi Gras, the crepes they always had to celebrate the day before Lent in Paris. But how to make French crepes from a package of ordinary American pancake flour - that was the puzzle. Charles could read French quite well - he was just ten years old - but he couldn't read English, and all the directions on the box were printed in English. It was a difficult problem...
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VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health... For Good

By: Bittman, Mark; Ornish, Dean

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers: 2013

Seller ID: 2275575

ISBN: 0385344740

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor general wear. 2013 Hard Cover. xi, 276 pp. Six years ago, an overweight, pre-diabetic Mark Bittman faced a medical directive: adopt a vegan diet or go on medication. He was no fan of a lifelong regimen of pills, but as a food writer he lived—and worked—to eat. So neither choice was appealing. His solution was a deal with himself. He would become a “flexitarian.” He adopted a diet heavy in vegetables, fruits, and grains by following a healthy vegan diet (no meat, dairy, or processed foods) all day. After 6:00 p.m. he’d eat however he wanted, though mostly in ...
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War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000

By: Black, Jeremy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2294525

ISBN: 0300072023

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page edges very faintly toned, otherwise in excellent condition. 1998 Large Hardcover. 334 pp. In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over the past half-millennium and argues the importance of viewing the rise of European power within a wider international context. Investigating both land and sea warfare, Black examines weaponry, tactics, strategy, and resources as well as the political, social, and c...
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By: Boatner, Mark M., III

Price: $15.00

Publisher: David McKay Company: 1966

Seller ID: 2299741

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed, two small tears to jacket spine head, rear jacket flap corner clipped (price still intact). Ink name on front free endpaper. 1966 Hard Cover. xviii, 1287 pp. Nearly 2,000 entries, approximately a third of which are biographical, including Patriot army and navy officers, and statesmen, Loyalists, British statesmen, British, French and German officers, medical men, jurists, and clergymen. 15 major campaigns, including 200 land actions, varying form major battles to skirmishes. 20 naval actions. 100 entries on political issues and events. Profusely illustrate...
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The Crane Wife

By: Bodkin, Odds

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Gulliver Books / Harcourt Brace & Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303011

ISBN: 0152014071

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. When Osamu, a lonely sail maker, nurses an injured crane one blustery night, he never suspects that this simple act of kindness will change his life forever. Weeks later a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep, seeking shelter from a storm. Osamu again offers his help, and soon the sail maker and the stranger fall in love and marry. But when he learns of his wife's gift for making magic sails, ambition replaces compassion--and Osamu risks losing the great happiness he has found. With majestic ...
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The Blue Duchess

By: Bourget, Paul; Tristan, Ernest

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London / New York, Greening & Co. / Brentano's: 1908

Seller ID: 2303648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards lightly toned, minor pencil marks. 1908 Hard Cover. 288 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Bourget was born in the cathedral city of Amiens about fifty years ago, but there are a number of other interesting things to say about him. Like so many famous authors, he began, in 1873, with verse. Probably the verse did not bring him the instant fame that we all desire with our first book, for he soon turned to prose, which of course as Saltus has hinted, is more difficult. Again, it is probable that verse and prose are not really so very far apart, but are related, as an angel is relat...
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Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution

By: Bowers, Claude G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1950

Seller ID: 2294644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, minor surface tears to jacket spine which do not obscure text, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. Ink name on front free endpaper, minor ink marginalia, ink notes on rear free endpaper,. 1950 Hard Cover. xiii, 535 pp. Rescued from obscurity in this the first English biography, Pierre Vergniaud, genius and orator, whose eloquence held the violence of the French Revolution in check from 1791-93, is here given his due. On the one hand he fought the excesses and inequities of the regime, on the other the terrorism of the Re...
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The Revolution of Little Girls

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: 2271005

ISBN: 0679400907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (June 3, 1991) by author without inscription. A nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the w...
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Mourning the Death of Magic: A Novel

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.: 1977

Seller ID: 2271006

ISBN: 0025142704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 214 pp. An intensely powerful, understated novel about contemporary Southern life, the struggle of the new generation with themselves, their past, and their region.
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The Redneck Way of Knowledge: Down-Home Tales

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2271007

ISBN: 039451050X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 159 pp. This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-again Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her alte...
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Terminal Velocity

By: Boyd, Blanche McCrary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1997

Seller ID: 2271009

ISBN: 0679430083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. In 1970 I realized that the Sixties were passing me by. I had never even smoked a joint, or slept with anyone besides my husband. A year later I had left Nicky, changed my name from Ellen to Rain, and moved to a radical lesbian commune in California named Red Moon Rising, where I was playing the Ten of Hearts in an outdoor production of Alice in Wonderland when two FBI agents arrived to arrest the Red Queen . . . So begins Blanche McCrary ...
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Without a Hero and Other Stories

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 2274266

ISBN: 0670849634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Top page ridge faintly foxed. 1994 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 238 pp. Fifteen darkly satirical stories by the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of If the River Was Whiskey feature a couple in search of the last toads on earth, and a real-estate wonder boy on safari.
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Water Music: A Novel

By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book/Little, Brown and Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281544

ISBN: 0316104671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine lightly toned. Page ridge very faintly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 437 pp. Author's first novel. Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music—a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s tremendous gifts as a storyteller. Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London’s seamy gutters and Scotland’s scenic...
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African Lives: White Lies, Tropical Truth, Darkest Gossip, and Rumblings of Rumor--From Chinese Gordon to Beryl Markham, and Beyond

By: Boyles, Denis

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988

Seller ID: 2295950

ISBN: 1555840345

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Top edge very faintly foxed. 1988 Hard Cover. xi, 225 pp. Offers a series of portraits of the white tribe in Africa that demonstrates the great European spirit of adventure in figures past and present, including Blixen, Rhodes, Markham, and Ian Smith.
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Classic Airplanes

By: Boyne, Walter J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Publications International, Ltd.: 2001

Seller ID: 2299507

ISBN: 0785345248

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Very minor general wear. 2001 Large Hardcover. 144 pp. Men and women have looked to the skies and dreamt of flight since prehistory, but it was not until 1903 that powered, sustained flight become a reality. Today, aviation technology encompasses a myriad of disciplines, from aerodynamics to weapons systems. And then there are the numberless human factors: the creative urge, political and military dominance, national pride, and the economic gambles of the enormous corporations that manufacture combat and civil aircraft. Above all else, though, is that dream of flight - a dream t...
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Modern Tendencies in World Religions

By: Braden, Charles Samuel

Price: $8.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1933

Seller ID: 1842729

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Includes original jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, front jacket flap corners clipped (price still present), jacket lightly toned with minor wear to corners. 1933 Hard Cover. 343 pp. A 1933 comparative study of world religions and how the modern world affects them. Includes chapters on Hinduism, Japanese & Chinese religions, Islam, Russian religions, and Judaism. Also includes an appendix and suggestions for further reading.
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The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel

By: Bradley, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2274256

ISBN: 0060104910

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges very lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. x, 432 pp. The son of a moonshiner and the grandson of a slave, a brilliant but bitter Black historian wades through the dark secrets of his heritage to reconstruct and, finally, to accept his family's tragic history.
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Wonders of the West: A Novel

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Fawcett Columbine: 1993

Seller ID: 2270801

ISBN: 0449906566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s Los Angeles, teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast.
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The Incantation of Frida K.

By: Braverman, Kate

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Seven Stories Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2270802

ISBN: 1583224696

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket flaps very faintly toned. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 235 pp. I was born in rain and I will die in rain, begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds o...
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

By: Brock, Pope

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown Publishers: 2008

Seller ID: 2196232

ISBN: 0307339882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Rear jacket flap stained. 2008 Hard Cover. 324 pp. In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned “Dr.” Brinkley into America’s richest and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention of the great quac...
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24 Hours

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1930

Seller ID: 2265826

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned. 1930 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession, and Early Autumn. Inspiration for the film starring Clive Brook and Kay Francis, directed by Marion Gering. Originally published serially as Shattered Glass; this edition released simultaneously with a signed, limited edition of 500 copies (this copy is not signed). Bromfield was also known for his scient...
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