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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! 1st Edition Stated - Clean In Text. Binding sound. Light wear on price clipped dust jacket. Some discoloration on ffep. . . . . . . . . . . The iconoclastic head football coach at Penn State offers his observations and opinions on winning and losing, education, discipline, race relations, fame and its pressures, faith, the media, motivation, and leadership. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) The call of a patriot -- 2.) What college football means to me (and what pro ball doesnât) -- 3.) A family tree grows in Brooklyn -- 4.) Vigil -- 5.) Not-So-Divine Providence -- 6.) The possible importance of college football -- 7.) A foreign country -- 8.) The rookie coach -- 9.) Head coach -- 10.) . . . Those white pants -- 11.) A grand experiment -- 12.) About winning and losing -- 13.) Undefeated, untied and unchosen -- 14.) Grab-bag champions -- 15.) Quarterbacking in black and white -- 16.) A Heisman with tears -- 17.) License to hunt -- 18.) Throwing the book -- 19.) Sons, daughters, and parents -- 20.) If a coach wants love, he also gets losing -- 21.) The prize -- 22.) A bigger number one than football -- 23.) The happiest hundredth -- 24.) The Hellfires of 1988 -- 25.) Phoenix -- * INDEX.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 168 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use, crisp pages and clean text. Slanted spine. Warped cover. Cover slightly detached from front pages. Previous owner's name written on first front-end page.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN 0898622182. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and creases to edges and corners of covers, slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages, slight curl to spine edge. No Signature.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, softcover, cover has a bit of rubbing, but interior is fine, clean and unmarked, in black pictorial wraps. A book/record guide to blues theory & lead guitar improvisation based on recorded examples in the styles of outstanding contemporary guitarists. No demonstration record. 96 pp. includes: blues theory, backgrounds, voicings, progressions, extended chords, derivation of solo notes, chromatic blues scale, advanced techniques and fret chart and fingerboard.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 68 pages. Peter Franklin "Normans Saints and Politics: Forensme-choice among Fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants" / Michael Gardner "Population in Decline: St. Kilda 1856-1891" / Charles J Withers "Moarl Statistics: A note on language and literacy in the Scottish Highlands in 1822" (SL#131/2).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Boris Ford "Freedom In Education: Thoughts Provoked By Mr Bantock" / D J Enright "Goethe's 'Roman Elegies'" / Marius Bewley "Mencken AndThe American language" / J C Maxwell "'Timon Of Athens'" / F R Leavis "The Novel as Dramatic Poem (III)" / H A Mason "A Note On Intellectual Life In The USA".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Collection of stories by Spanish authors including Borges and Cervantes. First edition, review materials laid in, hardcover, small bump to top edge of front cover, tiny spot to top edge, otherwise tight and square, a NEAR FINE copy in a VG dustjacket which is a touch soiled, has a sticker-pull and a long thin scrape to the front, a bit of fading to the spine, a touch of wear at the spine ends and corners and some very light edgewear along both the top and bottom edge.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. George F Kennan "A Note on Russian Foreign Policy" / R Prawer Jhabvala "An Experience of India" / Malcolm Bradbury "Our Writers Today" / Gordon Rattray Taylor "A New View of the Brain" / John Weightman "A Visit to Levi-Strauss" / Earle Birney - 6 poems / Martin Turnell "Francois Mauriac" / lle "'A World at Peace'" / Arnaldo Momigliano "Eduard Fraenkel" /D J Enright "Mishima's Way" / Paul Theroux "Hemingway's 'I M Lewis "On the Philosophy of Witchcraft"Last Novel' / William Walsh "Hear the Word of the Critic" / Shirley Chew "The Best of Dickens" / Michael Edwardes "Himalayan Blunder (the Sino-Indian War)". …

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004. 96 pp. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004 only! Essentially, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Fallen Angel (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Three paperback lot of weird/evil stories all in about Very Good or better condition: Chill (1967 Bantam H3206 PBO); Note (1958 Ballantine 268 PBO), and; Fu Manchu (1967 Pyramid R1303 3rd printing). Richard Powers (Odd Note); Len Goldberg (Fu Manchu) (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004. 96 pp. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004 only! Essentially, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Fallen Angel (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 217pp; Index. Blue cloth HC with gilt lettering on spine; top page edges stained red. Owner's name written on front blank endpaper. No library markings. Contents clean and textually unmarked. Published 1944; reprinted 1945.

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004. 96 pp. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004 only! Essentially, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Fallen Angel (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004. 96 pp. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004 only! Essentially, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Fallen Angel (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 76 pages. "L Bradley "An Enquiry into Seasonality in Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Part Two." / P E H Hair "A Note on the Incidence of Tudor Suicide" / K S Duffy "An Approach to Parish Register and Census Work" / David Creasey "Occupations, Migration and Literacy East London, 1580-1640" (SL#131).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Scarce. First thus. Fine dark indigo leather hardcover with gilt design on cover and titles (22-karat gold) on hubbed spine. Silk moire end pages; gilt text block/page edges; ribbon marker. 8vo. [5] vi, 533 pp. Photos; illus.; index. Facsimile of original 1935 edition. Ships fast with tracking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. (1995) 308 pp. Original red leather covers w/ gilt decorations on binding. Gilt title and four raised bands on spine. Binding very bright and clean. All edges gilt w/ salmon moire endpapers. Faint "scratches" to gilt on foredge of text block. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice. …

Hardcover. dj. Octavo, xvii, 729 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Ex-library with library stamps to edges and endpapers, call number on spine, library pocket on rear flyleaf barcode label on rear panel. Spine is cream with black and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar; taped to boards, light edge wear. Boards in black cloth. Illustrations: 2 pages of b&w plates (facsimiles). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. 1412079. FP New Rockville Stock. …

Reprint of the 1910 Ninth Edition published by Cassell and Company. [16], ix-xx, 1-804, i-xxvii, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 17.25cm. No dust jacket (as issued). Full dark blue leather binding; bright gilt stamping to boards and spine with latter additionally embellished by four raised bands. All edges gilt. Blue silk moire endpapers; sewn-in blue silk ribbon page marker. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. Laid-in at front endpapers is a Firearms Classics Library form letter along with envelope containing seven unused FCL bookplates. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.75 pounds (2.15 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Reprint (first published in 1938) "privately printed for the members of The Firearms Classics Library." [6], i-xii, 3-641, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 27.25cm x L 20.75cm. No dust jacket (as issued). Full black leather binding; several white streaks at board edges and margins; spine embellished with five raised bands; bright gilt stamping to both boards and spine. All edges gilt. Sewn-in black ribbon page marker; silk moire endpapers light blue towards centers but lavender at margins probably due to dye instability. Pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.75 pounds (2.6 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Like New. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004. 96 pp. Number 24/Winter-Spring 2004 only! Essentially, clean, fresh, sharp copy with very light shelf wear. Fallen Angel (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. 1-217 pp. International Labor and Working-Class History. Number 72 (Fall 2007). Softcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 82 pages. Ernest Giddey "Homage to Rene Rapin (1889-1973)" / John A Meixner "Ford and Conrad" / Raymond T Brebach "The Making of Romance, Part Fifth" / Charles Rose "Romance and the Maiden Archtype" / Paul L Wiley "Two Tales of Passion" / Stefan Zabierowski "Conrad's Polish Career, 1896-1968" / Jean Kennard "Emerson and Dickens: A Note on Conrad's Victory". (SL#82).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 69 pages. William E Messenger "Conrad and His 'Sea Stuff'" / Joel R Kehler "The Centrality of the Narrator In Conrad's 'Falk'" / R W Stallman "Checklist of Some Studies of Conrad's The Secret Agent Since 1960" / Giklbert M Cuthbertson "Freedom. Absurdity, and Destruction: The Political Theory of Conrad's A Set of Six" / Stanley Renner "A Note on Joseph Conrad and the Objective Correlative" / John E Saveson "Conrad, Blackwood's and Lombroso". (SL#82).…

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 431 pp., illustrated. Bound in full green leather, with raised bands and elaborately decorated boards and spines. Title in gilt on spine. Silk moire end papers. a.e.g. Silk book marks. Unused publisher's bookplate laid in. A Near Fine copy. Facsimile of the 1948 edition. E. Stanley Smith (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good.

Faux or Real Leather. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint--Special Edition.. 217 pages. From the last page of the book: "This special edition of American Guns in the War with Germany by Edward S. Farrow has been privately printed for the members of The Firearms Classics Library. Film was prepared from an original 1920 edition. The book was bound by New Hampshire Bindery. Endleaves are 300-denier silk moire. Edges are gilded, and the spine is brss-die stamped in 22-karat gold. Cover stampings and design of tahe edition by Selma Ordewer." The binding looks like leather but it is not mentioned as such in the description Size: 7.5 x 5. The Firearms Classics Library.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. (1995) 308 pp. Original red leather covers w/ gilt decorations. Gilt title and four raised bands on spine. Binding very bright and clean. All edges gilt w/ salmon moire endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 282 pp. Original blue leather covers w/ gilt decoration to binding, and gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Four raised bands on spine. All edges gilt w/ blue moire endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w photos and figures. Contents very nice.

Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Near Fine. Bird song identification in Western North America. Three cassettes in red plastic carrier, including 64 page birding guidebook; all in near fine condition. Cassettes and book appear unused. John Sill (illustrator).