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Price: $35.00
Publisher: Lexington MA/Toronto, Lexington Books / D. C. Heath and Co.: (c.1982)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22774
ISBN: 0-669-05232-9
Condition: Very Good+
(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [minor bumping at top of spine, slight wear evident at several corners, a touch of fading to spine, bookseller's label on front pastedown, some light pencil-underlining and annotation on the first few pages and throughout the last couple of chapters]. (figures, tables, B&W photographs) Everything you might want to know about Radar Cross-Section Estimation and Control (Chapter 1), Passive Enhancement Techniques (surveyed in Chapter 2), Spatial Coverage of Radar Reflectors (Chapter 3), Radar Cross-Section Measurement Techniques (Chapter 4), and more, so much... View more info
![Image for Sundays at 2:00 with the Baltimore Colts [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23656.jpg)
By: Bagli, Vince, and Norman L. Macht
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Centreville MD, Tidewater Publishers: (c.1995)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23656
ISBN: 0-87033-476-X
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean book, slight curling to upper right corner of front cover, bumped at base of spine, soft diagonal crease in rear cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Bagli on the half-title page; the inscription is to Mort Olshan, founder and publisher of "The Gold Sheet" and a pioneer in the sports betting information industry. "Thirty players, coaches, officials, and broadcasters talk about their lives and times with the Baltimore Colts from 1953 to 1984. Among them: Raymond Berry, Weeb Ewbank, Gino Marchetti, Tom Matte, Earl Morrall, Don Shula, and Joh... View more info
By: Baker, Eric, and Tyler Blik
Price: $15.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: (c.1985)
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 23074
ISBN: 0-87701-360-8
Condition: Near Fine
[light handling wear only]. Trade PB (B&W and color reproductions) This book "presents a fascinating colletion of the most ingenious designs and devices ever to represent a commercial product or serve. These two remarkable decades were times of sloganism, radio jingles, and visual puns. In terms of graphic design, the trademarks bridges the simplistic naiveté of the early century with the studied sophistication of the Madison Avenue approach. [This] is a book for the graphic designer and commercial artist, and will delight the nostalgia buff and collector of Americana." View more info
By: Balkin, Harry H.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1941
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 23252
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[a touch of wear to extremities, pocket on rear pastedown (see notes), generally a nice clean copy; jacket shows edgewear and light rubbing, minor paper loss at both ends of spine]. (pen and ink drawings) "This book explains simply the famous Balkin system of reading character at sight scientifically. It will show you exactly how to judge others accurately and tell at a glance whether they are dishonest, stubborn, generous, sensitive, thick-skinned, impatient, etc. and how to deal with them. Learn here how to make friends and how to know the people you meet every day; how to judge your ow... View more info
By: Barnard, Upton
Price: $65.00
Publisher: San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company: (c.1959)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23277
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [bumping to base of spine resulting in slight cracking of binding at that point, otherwise just lightly shelfworn on the bottom edge, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket lightly soiled, shows a little wear along the top edge, spine slightly browned with a couple of tiny stains]. (halftone photo frontispiece) "An authentic historical account of the day when the Livery Stable was one of the hubs of social activity in practically every American community. The arrival of the automobile erased the Livery Stable from the community picture, but here is the accou... View more info
By: Barry, Philip
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann: (c.1938)
Edition: 2nd impression
Seller ID: 22960
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj
[a decent solid copy, light soiling and age-tanning to edges of text block, light shelfwear, old tape marks on endpapers; the jacket has some shallow chipping and a couple of small tears along top edge, and appears to have been slightly trimmed along the top and bottom edges (since it's about 3/16" shorter than the book itself)]. The noted playwright's only novel, about "one memorable evening in the lives of a number of vaudeville artists." He also adapted the book for a dramatic version, "Here Come the Clowns," which opened on Broadway in December 1938; although it wasn'... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: (c.1989)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23395
ISBN: 0-679-72555-5
Condition: Near Fine
[virtually as new, with just a touch of handling wear]. Trade PB (color reproductions) Oversize-postcard size reproductions (approx. 5"x8") of one-sheet posters or lobby cards from 31 B-movie classics, including TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE, DETOUR, GUN CRAZY, CRY BABY KILLER, BLONDE SAVAGE, PRIVATE HELL 36, and so forth. The follow-up to a previous compilation, "Lost, Lonely, and Vicious." View more info
![Image for Harrah's Automobile Collection [limited/numbered edition] [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23354.jpg)
By: Batchelor, Dean, with photography by John Lamm
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Pontiac MI, GP Publishing: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23354
ISBN: 0-917473-00-0
Condition: Near Fine
(no dust jacket; full leather, in slipcase, as issued) [just a touch of wear to the spine extremities, and note that the limitation/signature page at the front of the book seems to have been tipped in rather sloppily, and would probably come loose if you gave it a good tug (so, don't); the slipcase has just a touch of wear along the bottom edge and a couple of faint scuff marks, hence also Near Fine]. (B&W and color photographs) SIGNED on the limitation page (stating this to be #246 of 500 copies) by the author and photographer, and also by Clyde Ware (author of the Introduction) and Phil Hil... View more info
By: Beahrs, Oliver H., Paul D. Kiernan, and John P. Hubert Jr.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Company: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23320
ISBN: 0-7216-1602-X
Condition: Fine
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice and clean, essentially as new with no discernible wear]. (B&W drawings, author photo) From the Foreword: "Drs. Kiernan and Hubert were surgical residents when they conceived the idea of putting together an atlas based on the surgical techniques of one of their mentors, Dr. Oliver H. Beahrs, truly a master surgeon, who recently retired from the active staff of the Mayo Clinic after performing some 25,000 operations." Working from their own notes while residents on Dr. Beahrs's service, and "with the addition of expert commentary from Dr. Beahrs,&#... View more info
By: Beebe, Ralph
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1941)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22785
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [nice clean solid copy, with just a bit of shelfwear to the bottom edge, attractive private-library bookplate on front pastedown; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny tears and minor paper loss at several corners, a little creasing, 2-inch tape-repaired closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel, vertical creasing to front flap, a few nicks to edges of rear panel]. Two of the land campaigns of the War of 1812 furnish the setting for this novel. "It is chiefly the story of the Ohio country and Michigan Territory, and the campaigns of the Western Army against the B... View more info
By: Begin, Menachem
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Henry Schuman: (c.1951)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 23201
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[good sound copy, light shelfwear, bottom rear corner heavily bumped (which has affected many of the book's pages, giving them a soft diagonal crease at the bottom corner); jacket moderately edgeworn, slightly darkened along spine, a couple of tiny tears at top of front panel, very slight paper loss at spine ends, small chip at upper left corner of rear panel, soiling to rear panel]. The future Israeli Prime Minister's memoir of his role, as commander-in-chief of the underground army known as the Irgun Zvi Leumi, in the struggle to drive the British out of Palestine, which "opens in a Sov... View more info
![Image for Little Ol' Boy; a play in three acts [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/22994.jpg)
By: Bein, Albert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York/Los Angeles, Samuel French: (c.1935)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 22994
Condition: Good
[moderately worn copy, two unsightly stains at left side of front cover (bleed-through from rusty staples binding the text block), some discoloration to spine; no markings in text]. Drama set in a boys' reformatory in the American Southwest. According to the copyright page, the play was first copyrighted in 1929 under the title of "Road Out of Hell," and was "revised and rewritten [in] 1933." The Foreword by Barrett H. Clark gives a good deal of biographical information on the playwright (described as a "short, stocky, lame young man"), who had himself served a term ... View more info
![Image for The Madness in Sports: Psychosocial Observations on Sports [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23236.jpg)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts: (c.1967)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23236
Condition: Very Good in Poor dj
[solid copy, light shelfwear, some irregular fading to cloth due to missing pieces of dust jacket, pencilled commentary at top of page 174, faint evidence of erased pencil notes at various other places throughout text; jacket is heaviy rubbed and somewhat tattered, with considerable paper loss at top and bottom of front panel and at base of spine, various other chips and tears]. SIGNED and DATED (Mar. 8, 1968) by the author on the ffep. "Now a noted psychiatrist has written a brilliantly perceptive study of the factors underlying this potent force in our national life. Dr. Beisser's new ... View more info
By: Benham, Clarence
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: (c.1950)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 23290
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
[solid clean book except for some minor white staining to both the front and rear covers; jacket lightly dampstained along the bottom edge of the rear cover (probably the source of the aforementioned staining), one-inch ragged piece missing from top of spine, one-inch closed tear and associated diagonal creasing at bottom of front panel, some edgewear here and there]. "Forty-odd years ago [the author] was a young man looking for adventure. So he tried his hand at diving with the pearling fleets in the waters of Torres Straits, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Solomon Islands -- and found ... View more info
![Image for Lindbergh [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23230.jpg)
By: Berg, A. Scott
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1998)
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23230
ISBN: 0-399-14449-8
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear; jacket shows a teensy bit of handling wear, effectively rendered invisible by new mylar jacket protector (included)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For _________ / A. Scott Berg / 1999." Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of "The Lone Eagle," "one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history." Signed by Author View more info
![Image for Blood and Sand [movie tie-in edition]](/assets/images/product/22838.jpg)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: [1941] (c1919, 1922)
Edition: Madison Square Books (reprint)
Seller ID: 22838
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj
[light shelfwear, previous owner's name rather clumsily inked out at top of ffep; jacket shows wear and tiny tears at several corners, spine a little faded, internally tape-repaired tear at top of spine, a little scuffing to front panel, wrinkling/creasing at top of rear panel]. (photographic dust jacket) Tie-in for the second (1941) movie version of Blasco Ibañez's classic novel of the rise and fall of a great matador, beautifully Technicolored by director Rouben Mamoulian for 20th Century-Fox. And speaking of color, have you ever seen a REDDER dust jacket in your whole life, to say nothing... View more info
![Image for Relations: Selected Poems 1950-1985 [*SIGNED*]](/assets/images/product/23350.jpg)
By: Booth, Philip
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1986
Edition: 1st Edition (softcover issue)
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 23350
ISBN: 0-14-058-5605
Condition: Near Fine
[nice clean book, very light handling wear only]. Trade PB SIGNED by the author/poet on the title page, beneath which he has also written "Castine / Maine / 1990." "The poems that compose [this book] -- generous selections from six previous books and wonderfully vigorous new poems -- describe and illuminate the still unfinished arc of Philip Booth's work, reflecting inward and outward changes yet sustained by a resilient sense of place." That place was, in fact, Maine itself -- according to Wikipedia, Booth (born in New Hampshire) lived a substantial part of his life in Cast... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1925
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 23199
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [worn but intact, light staining to covers, diagonal red line of undetermined origin/purpose across bottom right corner of front cover, vintage bookseller's label (Unity Pegues, Hollywood, California) on rear pastedown]. The second novel by the future New Yorker drama critic and even-more future Hollywood screenwriter and producer. It's a satire about a group of people who gather at the country home of a bishop(!) for a weekend getaway from the city; the action begins at 6:10 p.m. Friday and ends at 10:40 a.m. the following Monday. The New York Times praised the book as ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23188
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
(price-clipped) [slight bumping to all corners, but otherwise a good sound clean book; jacket a little edgeworn, with a few small nicks at both ends of spine, a couple of small closed tears]. The 33rd annual collection of the year's best short stories by American authors, selected from American magazines; in most instances, this volume represents the first hardcover or anthologized appearances of these stories. Each story is prefaced by a brief (half-page) biographical sketch of its author. This year's bumper crop included stories by: Eudora Welty ("The Burning," this year's second-... View more info
By: Brooks, Richard
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: (c.1945)
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 23086
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[minor shelfwear, very slight bumping to top corners; jacket has minor paper loss at top of spine (no text affected), small closed tear at bottom rear hinge]. The screenwriter/director's first novel, about a psychotic, anti-Semitic ex-GI; basis for the noted film noir CROSSFIRE, starring Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, and Gloria Grahame. View more info
