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Softcover. Condition: As new. In times of Corona, children have many questions. This lovingly illustrated pixie story accompanies families through an extraordinary time. It was created with expert advice from the Beratung des Bernhard-Nocht Instituts für Tropenmedizin entstanden. Text in German. As new. First edition. Dorothea T…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A companion to the Hornblower chronicle furnished by Parkinson, piecing together the full story of the Hornblower epic, the fictional biography chronicling the rise of Horatio Hornblower from a midshipman in 1794 to a revered admiral of the fleet in 1847. Northco…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. Mass Market Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Signet 1019, first Signet printing with period cover art by Zuckerberg. Creasing to covers, cle…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. The book contains an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital." Negroponte's tex…

Hardcover. Condition: Vey good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. American educator and poet devoted to anti-communist pursuits, Root published several books of poetry that met with a measure of critical acclaim; amongst his admirers was his former teacher, Robert Frost. Very clean, No writing. Edition not specifi…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. The Pig-Tale, taken from Sylvie and Bruno, describes in fourteen polished, mock-solemn stanzas, a fat pig's ultimately fatal campaign to learn how to jump, Illustrated by Leonard B. Lubin. Dust jacket has wear to the corners and a small closed tear…

Softcover. Condition: Like New. Red Cavalry or Konarmiya is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the PolishSoviet War and are based on Babel's diary, which he maintained when he was a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Michael Bell, formerly a curator at the Public Archives of Canada, has gathered a fascinating anthology of drawings and water-colours by pre-Victorian and early Victorian artists in Canada. Painters in a New Land really does give a vivid sense of what its title d…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel…

Softcover. Condition: As new. First edition. One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art and inventor of the graphic novel. Character sketches and timeless snapshots of the eccentric denizens of the American city that perfectly capture Eisner's genius and powers of o…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Throughout her life, Mariel Hemingway encountered struggles that shaped who she is today. She presents in this memoir a testament to her own triumph over what some people see as "the curse of the Hemingway family." First printing with somemild rubbing to the top edge of th…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. 48 pages. 1ère et 4 ème de couverture illustrées en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, dans le texte, sous la forme de bandes déssinées. Illustré par Uderzo. French Asterix comic book, illustrated by Albert Uderzo. (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death…

Softcover. Condition: very good. Second Edition. An educational training text about spaceflight and the future. Most likely written as a textbook to go along with classes held by the Civil Air Patrol for older students, as their mission at the time was aerospace education. The intention of this book was to orient students regard…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Includes material on William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, the Grimke sisters, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, Charles Sumner, and Bleeding Kansas. Dust jacket with a small closed tear at the cro…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. For decades the long, snow-capped range of the Cordillera Blanca has challenged the climbers of the world. The last supreme challenge was Huantsan: 21,000 feet of deep crevasses, of soft, trencherous snow, of knife edges and vertical walls and trem…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "All children grow up. All except one." That special child is Peter Pan, and since making his debut on the stage in 1904 as a play, this eternal youth has carried boys and girls off to magical, marvelous Neverland. It's a trip that all kids want to make, and with this easy-to-read…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. After experiencing military intelligence with the Army Intelligence Service at Miami Beach, Marcos Spinelli produced this true novel of character and atmosphere post Pearl Harbor. Dust jacket with ware and soiling, first edition protected in removabl…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Good book for a beginning preacher. For the Protestant minister who may be tempted to conclude that preaching is no longer of great importance, this book should be required reading. The author shows that preaching the Christian Gospel has always been and is now o…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. An account of the successful 1999 expedition to find George Mallory's and Andrew Irvine's bodies on Mount Everest, documenting the group's findings, the artifacts discovered and the expedition itself, offering new insight into what happened to Mallory and Ir…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Richard Olsenius's elegantly composed black-and-white photographs of rural Minnesota capture the dignity of his subjects, the beauties of the landscape as well as the enduring values and eccentricities of the communities rooted there. First printing with only minimal…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. Photography of dramatic poses expressing emotions in black and white accompanied by verses. As issued without a dustjacket, minor rubbing to the glossy back cover. First edition, inscribed by Mitchell: "For Mo with gratitude! Our work together is where all this begun." Size: 9½" -…

Softcover. Condition: New. Katalin Karikó is an acclaimed Hungarian-American biochemist whose perseverance in the face of setbacks paved the way for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines now being administered to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. For her achievements, Karikó has received many prestigious awards, including the Swiss…