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Heads by Harry: A Novel

By: Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1999

Seller ID: 2282640

ISBN: 0374168504

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 311 pp. You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles: a ...
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Horizons: Poems as Far as the Eye Can See

By: Yolen, Jane

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Honesdale, PA, Wordsong: 2002

Seller ID: 2261830

ISBN: 1563971976

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2002 Large Hardcover. When the sun rises, it lifts the curtain on the horizon, ushering in a brand-new day. And like a new day, each horizon is original. Sun, clouds, sky, water, even skyscrapers shape the distance and offer us new views and the chance to think about what lies beyond. Renowned poet and author Jane Yolen gives us her insights on horizons great and small in fourteen new poems. Inspired by Jason Stemple's stunning photographs of vistas found in deserts, swamps, mountains, and other scenic places, Ms. Yolen, in thoughtful, playful verse, allows ...
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Pinwheel

By: Yoon, Salina

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, LB Kids / Hachette Book Group: 2013

Seller ID: 2309860

ISBN: 0316221767

Binding: Board Book

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine head bumped. 2013 Board Book. Turn the wheel and watch each scene transform with spinning, eye-catching designs! Award-winning artist Salina Yoon's spectacular display of kinetic art immerses readers in a colorful, poetic journey. From a balloon-filled sky to the deep blue sea, Pinwheel reminds readers of the beauty all around them. Let the fun begin with every spin!
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All the Best Years

By: Young, Desmond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Borthers: 1961

Seller ID: 2279760

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket reverse very faintly foxed, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1961 Hard Cover. v, 342 pp. Young also write Rommel: The Desert Fox, the first biography of the WWII general. Illustrated with 24 pages of halftones. The author of the best-seller Rommel: The Desert Fox tells his own story in an autobiography as well-conceived and amusing as any of recent months. Born into a ship-salvaging family in Victorian England, the author's childhood of travel to exotic lands, of school and idle days at pre-War Oxford is a delight to read. With World War I the pace changes. Descriptions of co...
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The Philosophy of Henry James, Sr.

By: Young, Frederic Harold

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Bookman Associates: 1951

Seller ID: 2308167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed with some chips and tears, stain along bottom edge of jacket, jacket clipped. Minor pencil marginalia. 1951 Hard Cover. xiv, 338 pp. In this book--the first exposition of the entire range of Jame's philosophy--the reader will become acquainted with every passage of prime importance in all of James's writings. Moreover, the reader will also find in the accompanying exposition by Dr. Young, the articulation of James's philosophic system as-a-whole, an achievement which James himself did not present in his own writings. This book is of major importance to all those in...
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

By: Yousafzai, Malala; Lamb, Christina

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Little, Brown and Company: 2013

Seller ID: 2308391

ISBN: 0316322407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2013 Hard Cover. viii, 327 pp. The remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
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Map and Territory (Rationality: From AI to Zombies)

By: Yudkowsky, Eliezer

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Machine Intelligence Research Institute: 2018

Seller ID: 2306348

ISBN: 1939311233

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Owner's stamp on half-title page. 2018 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 186 pp. Glossary and Index follow text. If you live in an urban area, you probably dont need to walk very far to find a martial arts dojo. Why arent there dojos that teach rationality?Very recentlyin just the last few decadesthe human species has acquired a great deal of new knowledge about human rationality. Experimental investigations of empirical human psychology; and theoretical probability theory to interpret what our experiments tell us; and evo...
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Farewell Darkness: A Veteran's Triumph over Combat Trauma

By: Zaczek, Ron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Naval Institute Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2041255

ISBN: 1557509891

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1/4 inch tear to jacket corner, owner bookplate with name inked out on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. xiv, 344 pp. 8vo. From the jacket: ''I want to give something back,' the author insisted. His counselor at the Vet Center suggested, 'You can give the guys in treatment hope. You know what PTSD looks like from both sides. You can tell these guys what it's like, and what's different when you get beyond it.' Ron Zaczek had been a good crewchief. He was 'Zack' then: Marine Observation Squadron Three, '66-'68; Phu Bai, Dong Ha, Khe Sanh; 393 missions in Huey medevacs and gunships;...
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Consciousness: A User's Guide

By: Zeman, Adam

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Yale University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 2294353

ISBN: 0300092806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine head and spine base very lightly bumped. 2002 Hard Cover. xii, 404 pp. In this thought-provoking book, neurologist Adam Zeman offers an enlightening view of consciousness seen through the lenses of science and philosophy, enhancing his discussion with case studies of neurological patients and observations of young childrens expanding mental worlds.
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao

By: Zhisui, Li

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ., Random House: 1994

Seller ID: 2205040

ISBN: 0679400354

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. Chairman Mao's personal physician and confidant for twenty two years, takes us for the first time into the Chinese dictator's very private world.
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Omdurman

By: Ziegler, Philip

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1974

Seller ID: 2304672

ISBN: 0394489365

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, ink stamp on page base. 1974 Hard Cover. 237 pp. General Kitchener amassed his Anglo-Egyptian troops in Cairo and set off into the desert with a motley arm which, as time went on, included the Grenadier Guards, the Rifle Brigade and kilted Highlanders; The Camel Corps with 5,000 camels, infantry packed into trucks on the newly constructed railway line; and a flotilla of gunboats overloaded with cavalry and supplies. The going was often tough and the opposition from the Government in London seemed sometimes as obdurate as that provided ...
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Animal Husbandry: A Novel

By: Zigman, Laura

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 1998

Seller ID: 2282643

ISBN: 0385319002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Light spot on top page ridge. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. Author's first novel. Hers began as a simple Cow meets Bull story: she, Jane Goodall (no, not the Jane Goodall) was the single, overachieving prime-time talk show producer with her heart on the shelf; Ray was the young executive producer with the J. Crew good looks and, it seemed, a love life as lonely as Jane's. They met for drinks, fell in love (so she thought), and looked together for an apartment. Then suddenly, inexplicably, in only the ...
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Dating Big Bird: A Novel

By: Zigman, Laura

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2282644

ISBN: 0385333404

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 246 pp. With the laugh-out-loud humor and heartfelt wisdom that made Animal Husbandry a national bestseller, Laura Zigman's second novel introduces Ellen Franck, a successful single career woman whose one desire--a child of her own--throws her into the ever-growing ranks of the reproductively challenged. Ellen has a life many people dream about--a glamorous fashion industry job, an apartment in Greenwich Village, good friends--and yet Ellen feels herself at sixe...
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Her: A Novel

By: Zigman, Laura

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002

Seller ID: 2282645

ISBN: 037541388X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 209 pp. A smart, deeply satisfying romantic comedy about a woman's obsession with the return of her fianc's ex. On the Delta Shuttle between New York and Washington, Elise finds herself sitting next to Donaldtall, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. Shes left the world of women's magazines in Manhattan for graduate school in D.C. Hes left investment banking to become a teacher. They are both unattached. They exchange stories. They fall in love. One year later...
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A History of Medical Psychology

By: Zilboorg, Gregory; Henry, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1941

Seller ID: 2309704

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. Jacket flaps pasted down on front free endpaper. 1941 Hard Cover. 606 pp. This book is the first history of medical psychology in any language. Far more than an account of doctors and their endeavors, it deals broadly with the whole development of our culture as it tells the story of man's long struggle against mental illness. The history of medical psychology and the birth and development of psychiatry require an approach entirely different from that of the history of medicine and surgery. That medicine had no power over the mentall...
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The Rosemary Spell

By: Zimmerman, Virginia

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Clarion Books: 2015

Seller ID: 2203339

ISBN: 0544445376

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Two pages creased. Near Fine. 2015 Hard Cover. 273 pp. Part mystery, part literary puzzle, part life-and-death quest, and chillingly magical, this novel has plenty of suspense for adventure fans and is a treat for readers who love books, words, and clues. Best friends Rosie and Adam find an old book with blank pages that fill with handwriting before their eyes. Something about this magical book has the power to make people vanish, even from memory. The power lies in a poema spell. When Adam's older sister, Shelby, disappears, they struggle to retain their memories of her as they...
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The Bizarre Truth: How I Walked Out the Door Mouth First . . . and Came Back Shaking My Head

By: Zimmern, Andrew

Price: $6.00

Publisher: ., Broadway: 2009

Seller ID: 2203699

ISBN: 0767931297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 2009 Hard Cover. Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channels hit seriesBizarre Foods,has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything thats consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw camel kidneys in Ethiopia, putrefied shark in blood pudding in Iceland and Wolfgang Puck's Hunan style rooster balls in Los Angeles. For Zimmern, local cuisine bizarre, gross or downright stomach turning as it may be to us -- is not simply whats served...
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom

By: Zoya; Follain, John; Cristofair, Rita

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 2002

Seller ID: 2274255

ISBN: 0060097825

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 2002 Hard Cover. 239 pp. Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life. An epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope, Zoya's Story is a powerful testament to the ongoing battle to claim human rights for the women of Afghanistan. Though she is only twenty-three, Zoya has witnessed and endured more tragedy and terror than most people do in a lifetime. Zoya grew up during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan and was robbed of her mother and father when t...
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An Airplane in Every Garage

By: Zuck, Daniel R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2294709

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Corners lightly rubbed. 1958 Hard Cover. 192 pp. Drawings by Ted Groh. A book written in the 1950s by an author involved in airline mechanics and theory, on the practicality of people having a combination airplane/car for personal transportation. Comes with designs etc., for the construction of such a device, together with a pasted-in warning at the front of the book that amateurs should not construct the plane-mobile without proper instruction.
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American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking the World

By: Zug, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2015922

ISBN: 0465094058

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Corners lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. xviii, 286 pp. 8vo. From the jacket flap: 'Called a 'man of genius' by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard lived, by any standard, a remarkable life. In his thirty-eight years, he accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Tom Paine in Paris; was the first American citizen to see Alaska, Hawaii, and the west coast of America; and set out to find the source of the Niger by traveling from Cairo across the Sahara. His greatest dream, concocted with Jefferson, was to travel alone around the w...
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Image for Religion in New Netherland: A History of the Development of the Religious Conditions in the Province of New Netherland, 1623-1664 - A Dissertation Presented to the University of Louvain to Obtain the Degree of Docteur es Sciences Morales et Historiques

Religion in New Netherland: A History of the Development of the Religious Conditions in the Province of New Netherland, 1623-1664 - A Dissertation Presented to the University of Louvain to Obtain the Degree of Docteur es Sciences Morales et Historiques

By: Zwierlein, Frederick J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Rochester, John P. Smith Printing Company: 1910

Seller ID: 1981962

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink name on front endpaper, two words marked with ink on first page only. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 365 pp. 8vo. Fold-out map precedes text. A Ph.D. dissertation by a professor of church history at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, NY, exploring the religious landscape in early colonial New York. Chronology, bibliography, and index follows text.
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The Life and Letters of Bishop McQuaid, Prefaced with the History of Catholic Rochester Before His Episcopate, Vol. I

By: Zwierlein, Frederick J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, The Art Print Shop: 1925

Seller ID: 2275799

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, faint cup ring mark on front board, smudge on rear board. 1925 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 368 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Bernard John McQuaid (15 December 1823, in New York City 18 January 1909, in Rochester, New York) was an American Catholic priest, the first Bishop of Rochester, U.S.A. and the first president of Seton Hall University. McQuaid Jesuit High School is named in his honor.
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The World of Eric Carle: Around the Farm (Play-a-Sound)

By: [Carle, Eric]; Rader, Mark

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Illinois, Phoenix International: 2016

Seller ID: 2308578

ISBN: 1450805752

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A few pages crinkled. 2016 Large Hardcover. Put on your overalls and have a stroll Around The Farm in this amazing sound book! Your little one can press 30 different sound buttons while they read to bring the amazing art stylings of Eric Carle to life! This sound books is special because: Hands on interaction engages young readers; Multisensory reading experiences stimulate the imaginations of young readers; Sharing books with your little one strengthens your bond; Features the art stylings of Eric Carle, writer and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Includes an amazing...
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The Wild Olive: A Novel

By: [King, Bail]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1910

Seller ID: 2306891

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear. 1910 Hard Cover. 346 pp. Green cloth boards. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Lucius Hitchcock. A beautiful young girl, Olive, an artist under whose gentle life a tragic sin lies. She is an outcast from the people of her father, She has a studio in the woods and one day a handsome young fellow, an innocent fugitive from justice finds shelter there. From the opening chapter it seizes the reader's attention, and this grip isn't released until the last word is said. It is--above all else--a remarkably human story.
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Louis-Philippe Memoirs, 1773-1793

By: [Louis-Philippe]; Hardman, John

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1977

Seller ID: 2296789

ISBN: 0151588554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Tears along top edge of jacket previously mended on rear side of jacket, jacket faintly toned. Boards very lightly soiled, top page ridge very faintly foxed. 1977 Hard Cover. xxxiii, 476 pp. An illuminating eyewitness account of the French Revolution, set down by the last Bourbon to become King of France. Louis-Philippe began writing his memoirs in 1802 and continued working on them throughout his life... Includes 34 photographs illustrating people and period.
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History of Monroe County, New York [1788-1877]; with Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Palatial Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Important Manufactories, from Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability

By: [McIntosh, W.H.]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts, Ensign & Everts / Press of J.B. Lippincott & Co.: 1877

Seller ID: 2307408

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. Two surface tears on front board, bottom edge of boards rubbed, some pages creased, ink scribble and ink stamp, second blank and frontispiece taped, tissue guard mostly missing. 1877 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 320 pp. The original 1877 printing of this exhaustive history of Monroe County, profusely illustrated with very high quality engravings, along with maps of Monroe County and the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790.
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Word Index to Poe's Fiction

By: [Poe, Edgar Allan]; Pollin, Burton R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Gordian Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2307500

ISBN: 0877522251

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Page ridges foxed, pencil date on front paste-down endpaper, related papers laid in. 1982 Large Hardcover. xviii, 485 pp. This volume was developed in response to an urgent need for an instrument to authenticate unsigned texts of Poe that he could have inserted into the journals that he edited during his energetic editorial career: Southern Literary Messenger, Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, Grahams Magazine, The Mirror, and the Broadway Journal. In addition it can and, I trust, will serve many other purposes for students of the words of Edgar Allan Poe: the analysis of ...
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Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

By: [Sackville-West, Vita; Nicolson, Harold]; Nicolson, Nigel (Editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1992

Seller ID: 2292335

ISBN: 0399136665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1992 Hard Cover. x, 452 pp. A collection of correspondence between the poet-novelist and her diplomat-politician-author husband spans fifty years to recount their turbulent and open marriage, Vita's lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, their colorful circle of friends, and more.
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The Tempest

By: [Shakespeare, William]; Beneduce, Ann Keay

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Philomel Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2303012

ISBN: 0399227644

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. A very nice copy. 1996 Large Hardcover. A lavish young reader's edition of the classic Shakespearean tale follows the adventures of cast-out duke Prospero, who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda, and the magical spirits helpful Ariel and evil Caliban.
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The Strike at Shane's: A Prize Story of Indiana

By: [Stratton-Porter, Gene]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: The American Humane Education Society: 1893

Seller ID: 2130423

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

First edition. Possible variant state, differing from other 1893 editions we found in two ways: 1) does not include 10 pages of advertisements; 2) does not designate it as Gold Mine Series No. 2. 1 inch chip from corner of front wrapper, two tiny internal chips to front wrapper, light stain to top edge of front wrapper and first couple pages. 91 pp. Printed wrappers, stapled binding. Thought published anonymously, this short novel has recently been attributed to Gene Stratton-Porter, famous for her novel The Girl of the Limberlost ('Gene Stratton-Porter: Novelist and Naturalist by Judith Reick...
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