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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket is rubbed tanning and chipped. The cover is lightly rubbed. The pages are clean and tight to the spine. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing Stated. 338 Pages Indexed. Dust jacket price $25 is unclipped. Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. Yet many of us are barely aware that we're eating something that has been altered. Food labels do not inlude information on ingredients that have been genetically modified, and the subject has received surprisingly little media coverage. Even as genetically engineered foods spread throughout America, most consumers abroad have refused to eat them. Opposition to genetically engineered food is now beginning to surface in the United States, where biotechnology is becoming a major issue for the new century. Here is the story of how these new foods, most of which are engineered either to produce or to withstand heavy doses of pesticides, quietly entered America's food supply. The author explores the potential of this new technology to enhance nutrition and cut farmers' expenses. She also reveals the porcess by which regulatory agencies decided to allow the biotechnology industry to sell its products without first submitting them to thorough testing for possible long-term threats to consumer health and the environment. Hart has talked to scientists, farmers, industry memebers, and activists, and she has gained unprecedented access to the inner chambers of the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Food and Drug Administration, where the crucial decisions have been made to allow these foods into our stores. Combining a balanced perspective with a sense of urgency, this is a revelatory guide to a subject of paramount importance.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Pantheon Books/Harcourt,Brace, and World, Inc. New York. 1966. Hardcover. BOMC Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; small puncture on front bord at gutter; light wear to head, tail, and tips from shelving. DJ: Very Good; light chipping to cover at tips, head, and tail; bumping to rear panel top. Rust colored cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers. Coinciding with the release of the movie Born Free, Joy Adamson condensed into one volume the Story of Elsa, previously published in three volumes: Born Free, Living Free, Forever Free. A touching and moving story of a human being's association with an animal, but it gives a vivid and lovely picture of Africa. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. .

Cloth. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Minor cloth chipping with small loss to the spine, gilt faded on the spine title. Usual library markings, gift inscription on the first page. H.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Tan cloth binding with gold colored print on black spine. Yellow endpapers.Previous owner's name and stamp on corner of front endpaper. Page 165 has two diagonal creases running across the page. Otherwise tight, sound, and unmarked. 334 pages of text and 165 pages of black and white plates. Brown photographic dust jacket with black print on front cover and spine. DJ is very tattered. Spine and front DJ flap are missing. DJ in mylar. Oversized book so S&H may be adjusted.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Johannes Troyer (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This is a Review Copy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a beginning hint of toning to the edges of the endpapers. The dust jacket has some noticeable toning to the spine and spine joints of the dust jacket. "In this her latest magical evocation of the past, she takes the reader into sixth-century Britain, to Cornwall, the Scillys, Ireland, and Wales. Young Ruan, nephew of the Druid high priest, is destined and prepared for the priesthood. Turbulent, avid for adventure, and restless for fulfillment, he feels caged in the monotonous schooling of the Celtic priests, and longs for the high seas." "Bryher (2 September 1894 28 January 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor Annie Winifred Ellerman, of the Ellerman ship-owning family. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers. With her lesbian lover Hilda Doolittle (H. D. ) and Scottish writer Kenneth Macpherson, she launched the film magazine Close Up, which introduced Sergei Eisenstein's work to British viewers. From her home in Switzerland, she helped to evacuate Jews from Hitler's Germany, and then became a popular historical novelist." (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. No dust jacket. Ex-Library book with usual stamps and labels. Pictures available upon request.

Hard Cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First American. New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 1987. First American edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over black boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, 233 pp. Set in 1827 Australia, two men talk through the night: a convict waiting to be hanged at dawn and the officer in charge of the hanging. They reveal their pasts, discovering unlikely connections in their lives. These two dissimilar men go far beyond the details of their lives to express both the isolation of the individual and the experiences shared in silence that unites us all. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 310 pages. Front flyleaf has been cut out. Pencil erasure residue on half-title page. Scuff inside front cover. Some cover wear. Includes Chronological Table, Selective Bibliography, and Index. 22 black and white photographs follow page 152. Ludwig Reiners (born January 21, 1896 in Ratibor; ? August 10, 1957 in Munich) was a German businessman and writer. Reiners was the son of a cigar manufacturer. He passed his Abitur in 1914 at the high school in Ratibor. Then he took part in the First World War. He studied law and economics. In 1920 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the economic measures of the Munich Soviet Republic and was entitled Dr. jur. Dr. rer. pole. Then he began a career as a businessman in the position of stock exchange representative of Deutsche Bank, became an assistant director in heavy industry at Deutsche Werke AG, a timber trader in the Balkans as an authorized signatory of a Swiss timber company. Reiners was a member of the NSDAP during the Third Reich . During the Second World War and after the was a sales director of Richard Jung's yarn factory in Munich. In 1957 he died after a short, serious illness. Reiners grew up under the spell of Prussia as well as the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and its atmosphere, which he describes in his description of the prehistory and course of the First World War In The Lamps Went Out in Europe. The Lamps Went Out in Europe is a chronicle of the mistakes that led to the First World War and the defeat of the Central Powers and the dissolution of the German Empire. The annexation of Schlewsig-Holstein by Prussia was only the prelude to German unification, but even in taking this first step Bismarck had the entire world against him. England, France, Russia, and Austria opposed this action, but so did the German people, and so did King Wilhelm of Prussia. Bismarck first secured Russia's friendship by helping the Czar to suppress a Polish uprising. He then kept Napoleon III in check by dangling before him vague promises of territory in Belgium or the Rhineland, rightly calculated that he had nothing to fear from England because of Gladstone's indecisiveness, and lured Austria into the game on his own side. "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time", British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey remarked to a friend on the eve of the United Kingdom's entry into the First World War. First published in Grey's memoirs in 1925, the statement earned wide attention as an accurate perception of the First World War and its geopolitical and cultural consequences. In 1927, John Alfred Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette until 1922, identified himself as the friend to whom Grey had spoken: I had two short talks with Grey during the "twelve days." I ran into him on the stairs of the Foreign Office on Saturday, August 1st [.] I saw him again late in the evening at his room at the Foreign Office on Monday, August 3rd, and it was to me he used the words which he has repeated in his book, "The lamps are going out all over Europe, and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." We were standing together at the window looking out into the sunset across St. James's Park, and the appearance of the first lights along the Mall suggested the thought. Grey's quotation has been used as a summation of the war in numerous historical works. The German author Ludwig Reiners (1896-1957) published an account of World War I entitled The lamps went out in Europe. Therein Grey's comment is followed by the assertion attributed to Otto von Bismarck: "The mistakes that have been committed in foreign policy are not, as a rule, apparent to the public until a generation afterwards." Samuel Hynes began his 1990 A War Imagined with a paragraph covering the quotation, referring to it as the best-known and most often quoted response to the beginning of the war. In 2014 Grey's words were the inspiration for part of the British commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Between 10 and 11 p.m. on 4 August 2014, lights were dimmed at many public locations and in private homes, including progressively at a national memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Original rose-colored boards in good+ condition, spine slightly sunned, externally at least good+. Internally with very sliglht aging, else in like condition. Frontis., 274p. A critical study of the author and his work.

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 1981. First edition. Squared 4to. Tan quarter cloth over peach boards with copper-colored lettering embossed on spine and front board, decorated endpapers, lavishly illustrated in color throughout, 368 pp. Massive decorating sourcebook, 1,100 decorating samples, special design kit with 200 3-dimensional furniture cutouts and floor plans. Dust jacket has small tears (repaired). Near fine in good dustjacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Pantheon, 2001. Stated first edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 307 pp. A remarkable first novel that chronicles the emotional and psychological awakening of a tragically disaffected Chinese girl during the turbulent years that led up to the Tiananment Uprising. Fine in a near fine dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover.

Octavo; hardcover, with silver-gilt spine-titles and upper board titles; 340pp., top edge dyed yellow. Mild wear. Dustwrapper creased on the upper flap-turn, and with some small chips to the edges along with a small hole in the upper panel; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.

Landscape quarto; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles; 184pp., with many monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; some toning and light spotting to the text block edges. Dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with a few small tears; now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "To the Ends of the Earth" by John Perkins is more than a book, it is also a poem. Every page is lucid and concise. There is no pretension in the way this book is written. The sole purpose of the book is to inform and enlighten. The magic of this book lies in the complexity of human nature and the simplicity of what we all are searching for. "To the Ends of the Earth" is about life in the raw, as it was for all of our ancestors and still is for some. Mr. Perkins has collected the photographs, from the Archives of the Museum of Natural History in New York, taken by the explorers of the Arctic, Congo, Gobi, and Siberia. Therefore, each page of text is accompanied by a photograph that serves as a window into the heart of the jungle/desert/tundra of the most untamed areas of the world. When reading this book one is transported to a different time and place, and one feels part of something real. Although it is about simple people, this book questions the fundaments of the human struggle on a cosmic level, so frequently overlooked in the world we live in today.

1943. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xii, 496pp. 8vo. NOTE: Ulenspiegl, and not Ulenspiegel. First complete English translation; introduced by Camille Huysmans; 100 exquisite wood cut illustrations by Frans Masereel. Frontispiece; illustrated endpapers and bound in beige cloth, with black lettering to spine. Clean, tight, bright copy with mild staining to cover and a name penned delicately to back of frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 128 pages, 12mo. Jacket unclipped: at $2.75. Stated on copyright page: "First and Second Printing: February, 1955". Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many small tears and small missing pieces along edges, some light staining. DJ in mylar. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, light tanning along page edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Fair-plus condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 376 pages, 8vo. No DJ. Shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 173 pp. heavily illustrated. Dustjacket repaired, hinges strengthened. Protective mylar cover.

Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Condition: VG/VG. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). New York, NY: Pantheon Books Inc. VG/VG. (1951). . Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Inscribed copy. . 12mo., 158 pp., Dj faintly yellowing with small stain at the back; spine faded along top/bottom edges with light browning of boards .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 269 pages, 8vo. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. Bollingen Series XX. Shelfwear to DJ: price clipped, light scuffing along edges and covers, a few small closed tears along edges. DJ in mylar. Previous owner's name and address on inside front cover. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 342 pages, 8vo. Jacket price clipped. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many small tears and small missing pieces along edges and spine. DJ in mylar. Corners are lightly bumped, tanning along page edges. Tightly bound. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Good-plus condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 236 pages, 8vo. First Edition, First Printing, with no later printed indicated on copyright page. Jacket price unclipped: $4.75. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with gilt lettering along spine and front cover. Shelfwear to DJ: scuffing along edges and covers, many tears and missing pieces along edges and spine, some creasing and water damage, chipping. DJ in mylar. Spine is lightly cocked, corners and bumped, light tanning. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in Fair-plus condition.