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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rare Autographed 2014 First edition of "Emerson's Place", by C. C. Pruitt, Sticks and Stones Publishing, 2014, Stated First printing. Inscribed by the author, "For Helen, My Good friend. C. C. Pruitt" on front free endpaper. Published by Sticks and Stones Publishing, 2014, First edition, 343 pages in dust jacket. Slight agewear - overall a very good copy in a very good jacket. "Set in the quaint college town of Athens, Georgia, in the year 2000, social recluse, Ann Fitzgerald, develops a crush on her favorite professor, Dr. Fagan. Weeks away from graduating, she fears she'll never get the opportunity to test the boundaries of their affectionate student/teacher relationship. Meanwhile, the only thing that stands between her and a diploma, is the dark and troubled Professor Schwartz, who wants nothing more than to see Ann fail. He issues a final class assignment that forces her to address her detachment within her nuclear family as well as delve into the mass dysfunction that exists in her large extended circle. As Annie researches for the paper, unexpected tragedy befalls her family and the most unlikely love enters her life. To find her center, she retreats to Emerson's Place, an abandoned hotel in the foothills of Alabama where she spent summers as a child. There, she finds the strength to begin her life anew as she learns to let go.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Eighth printing, November 1966, 119 pages in worn jacket. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, "To Mary Malcolm Boyd". Old newspaper clipping included. Good copy in worn jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "Open hearts, open doors", Autographed by the author on front free endpaper.Text in German. Book and jacket show wear but are overall nice representations. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, 68 pages, measures 6" X 9". with illustrations in original wraps with a small amount of blemishing. Overall a very good copy.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Unusual vintage 1955 8 X 10 black and white photograph of a group of ten kids on a stage with their accordions. On the back is a stamp from Fleming's Photo Center, 5807 Sunset Drive, South Miami, Florida Dial MO 7-5523. And some handwritten notes with kids names. The picture shows wear at extremities and patina, small piece at bottom left corner torn off, but image itself is still vibrant.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Very good copy in very good jacket. Small original price sticker to front cover - "An Cafe Litheartha Dangen Ui Chuis".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 134 pages in original cloth. Spine gone, but binding holding well. Inscribed by the author, "Best Wishes from Henry J. Johnston" on front free endpaper. Some foxing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1922. 105 pages, 5 1/4 X 7 1/2. Incorrectly inscribed by Maximillian Toch, "To the Free Arts Club with the Compliments of Maximilian Toch" to the now-defunct Three Arts Club, 340 West 85th Street, New York and with actual Three Arts Club small bookplate on inner front board. Still has some library markings - remnants of date due slip at rear and some dewey decimal numbers. Shows wear and damage to spine and at extremities, but an extraordinary association copy. Maximilian Toch (July 17, 1864 May 28, 1946) was an American paint manufacturer and industrial chemist who developed a concrete filler method that was used in the construction of the Panama Canal. He was the co-owner of the New York firms Toch Brothers and the Standard Varnish Works, where he was head of research and production. Before and during World War I, he was a major contributor to the development of ship camouflage in the United States, as well as an early practitioner of the use of chemistry in the authentication of works of. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Rare Autographed copy of "Breaking and Holding", by Judy Fogarty, Lake Union Publishing, 2016. Inscribed by the author, "To Helen Enjoy Judy Fogarty" on title page. Published by Lake Union Publishing, 2016, 368 pages in original wraps. Some agewear - front cover bottom right corner bent - overall a good to very good copy. "For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone on beautiful Kiawah Island. But when she meets Terry Sloan, a collegiate tennis player trying to go pro, their physical attraction sparks a slow burn toward obsession. Once Patricia and Terry share closely guarded secrets from their pasts, they want more than a summer together. But their love soon fractures, as a potential sponsor takes an unusually keen interest in Terryboth on court and off. And when single, career-driven Lynn Hewitt arrives, other secrets must surface, including the one Patricia has kept from Terry all summer. An intimate portrait of the folly of the human heart, Breaking and Holding explores buried truths that are startlingly unveiled. What's left in their wake has the power not only to shatter lives.but to redeem them.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Vintage 1988 copy of "Ethics And The Practice Of Law", by David E. Schrader, Prentice-Hall, 1988, Measures 6 1/8" X 9 1/4", 360 pages. No mention of edition - number line reads 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Slight wear and highlighting on 15 pages - overall a superb copy that appears unread.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Vintage 1983 11 X 17 promotional poster for "Rainbows Are Made" AUTOGRAPHED by noted poet and author Lee Bennett Hopkins (1938-2019) "4/84 For Jean - A rainbow-maker, too! Lee Bennett Hopkins" Has been folded to 8 1/2" X 11" and will be shipped that way. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Vintage 1978 copy of the Western Art "Persimmon Hill" magazine with notations by the owner about artist Bettina Steinke (1913-1999) that they apparently knew personally: "Persimmon Hill", a publication of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, 1978. 91 pages in original stapled wraps. Measures 8 1/2" X 11". Western art issue with articles about famous Western artists of the time including Bettina Steinke, who the owner has neatly written under her picture, "This is the winning artist that we know" "Bettina Steinke (1913-1999) , an award-winning American painter and muralist, was born in Biddeford, Maine. Her parents moved to New York City when she was young. After graduating from high school she enrolled in the Fawcett Art School in Newark, New Jersey and then in Cooper Union and the Phoenix Art School where she concentrated on portraiture. In 1937 she received her first major commission, to create murals for the Children's Studio in the National Broadcasting Corporation. They were so successful that NBC then hired her as a resident artist to draw portraits of such stars as Fred Allen, Kate Smith and Rudy Vallee. This was followed by her drawing illustrations for a souvenir book of the NBC Symphony Orchestra that included over 100 of her sketches, including Arturo Toscanini. In 1939 Steinke left NBC and was commissioned by ASCAP to draw portraits of some of its members including Jerome Kern. During World War II she painted portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower. in 1946 she married photo-journalist Don Blair and they spent the next decade traveling the world during with time she produced work for Standard Oil and the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1956 the couple settled in Taos, New Mexico, moving to Santa Fe fifteen years later. In 1995, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame hosted a major retrospective of Steinke s career and she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1996, Steinke was awarded the John Singer Sargent Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Society of Portrait Artists." Her work can be found in the collections of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, and the Fort Worth Art Museum.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered here is an original vintage 1952 copy of "The 1952 Warrior" - a high school annual of Readlyn High School, Readlyn, Iowa. Measures 8 1/2" X 11", 70 pages plus ads with signatures of students and faculty throughout. Shows wear to covers, which are still bright, internally very good - overall a nice representation. Great '50's time capsule.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Original 1883 printing of "Snug Harbor of The Champlain Mechanics", by Oliver Optic, The Boat-Builders Series, Boston: Lea And Shepard, 334 pages in original cloth binding. Measures 5" X 7". A worn copy but still presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition, 1958 in original dust jacket. Inscribed twice - "For Jean Ricketts - To introduce her to my once-upon-time boss and to help keep my memory green-with fond regards Ora Peaker August 25, 1976" AND "For the descendants of Vada Downie Cook-Happy Reading!!" Ora Peaker June 15, 1986", Book shows old moisture Marks at gutters and jacket is torn but mostly complete. Overall a good to good plus copy in jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Scarce original vintage 1980 history of the city of Orange, New South Wales, Australia: "Orange Sketchbook", Text by Leo White, drawings by David Guiney, Rigby Limited, 1980, First edition, in original dust jacket. Measures 5 3/8" X 8 7/8". 55 pages. Very good copy in jacket faded at extremities with slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original 1955 First printing of Dr. Hans Shadewaldt's (1923-2009) concise history of nursing vessels throughout history still in original box: "Gefasse Zur Kindernahrung Im Wandel Der Zeit" ("Nursing Vessels Through Time"), Frankfurt: Schirmer & Mahlau, 1955, Probable First printing, 53 pages copiously illustrated in original box. Measures 6 1/4" X 8 1/2", in original box. Text in German. Book shows some smudging but is overall a nice representation in original box that shows wear, but has protected the book well. Overseas shipping through eBay's Global Shipping program only please. "Schadewaldt studied medicine and history at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg and the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the meantime, he served with the Navy in World War II . From 1945 to 1948 he was an assistant doctor in French prisoners of war. In 1949 he became Dr. in Tübingen med. doctorate. From 1950 to 1954, he worked at the University Children's Hospital in Tübingen. He then took over the management of the scientific department of Ciba AG in Wehr (Baden) and became a research assistant at the Medical History Institute of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg . His specialization is not unaffected by his renowned uncle, the historian and classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewaldt . He habilitated in Freiburg in 1961 for medical history . Since 1963 he has been teaching the history of medicine at the Medical Academy in Düsseldorf . From 1965 to 1991 he was a professor at the Heinrich Heine University that emerged from it. [3] Schadewaldt's specialties included art and medicine, marine and tropical medicine, hospital care and epidemics, but also ancient Greek music therapy . Some of his books became standard works. Schadewaldt appeared regularly on Jürgen Fliege's talk shows and in popular science programs. In such productions he also acted as a historical consultant. He drove twice as a ship's doctor on the Gorch Fock (ship, 1958) and became a reserve doctor at the Federal Navy . In 1971 he founded the German Society for Shipping and Naval History . For many years he was president of the Rheinisch-Westphalian Academy of Sciences.".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Vintage 1949 sheet music variant. The character on the cover is a mustachioed Caucasion man as opposed to other copies with a Black man on cover. Measures 9" X 12". Shows wear and rippling to cover with crease and tearing at upper right corner. Overall clean and brighty and would look fabulous framed in your home, office, pub, restaurant or bar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Antique 1947 First edition of "Charleston: A Gracious Heritage", by Robert Molloy, 1947, First edition, D. Appleton-Century, New York, 311 pages in original cloth with dust wrapper. Measures 7" X 9 1/4". Jacket shows some wear and patina but is whole and clear. Book is clean and bright with some slight agewear. Jacket has protected it well and it shows and is now in a Brodart archival sleeve. Outstanding illustrations of the city's homes and attractions by E. H. Suydam. The book also features a fair amount of Black dialect of the times. An Exceptional vintage slice of Charleston history.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Vintage September 1970 First edition, second impression of "The Seventh Day: Soldiers Talk About the Six-Day War", published by Andre Deutsch. This copy was purchased at the Afikim kibbutz in Israel and is inscribed, "For our dear cousins Rose & Nat a souvenir from your visit in Afikim Aliza & Itschaak Afikim, June, 1971" Slight agewear - overall a very nice representation. A truly superb association copy of this book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rare 1969 Village of Chateaugay New York 100 year celebration souvenir program. 25 pages in original stapled wraps. Measures 6" X 9". Shows wear and some blemishes but is overall a nice representation.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Antique 1950s 5 X 7 black and white photograph of a football player in the uniform of the day holding a football. The photo shows wear and tearing but is overall clear and an original - will look sensational framed in your collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Well-used vintage ex library copy form the University of Vermont and Agricultural College. Sticker to spine and marked out bookplate, pocket removed - internally overall a nice copy. Unusual book. 557 pages with photos. Measures 6 1/2" X 9 1/2". Shipping to Continental U. S. only due to shipping rates - Thanks!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Still in original plastic wrap - both book and jacket appear fine. "Walter Royal Davis (1920-2008) was a Texas oil tycoon and philanthropist originally from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He was also an influential figure in state politics and higher education. Davis Library, the main library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since it opened in 1984, is named for him, he having been a trustee at the university for 16 years. He died at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the age of 88. He also had a home in Midland, Texas. Davis was also a major donor to the Dean Smith Center, which opened in 1986 and is still the home court of the UNC-Chapel Hill men's basketball team, and a scholarship program for students who agreed to teach in poor counties in northeastern North Carolina. In 1999 during a trustee meeting, then UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Nic Heinke asked his fellow board members to give a donation to Hurricane Floyd relief efforts. Heinke passed around his baseball cap and came up with $400 in donations from trustees. When the hat got to Davis, he dropped in a check for $100,000. Then at age 79, Davis had to ask a fellow trustee to fill out the check because his eyesight was poor. He asked that the money go to displaced students at hard-hit East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. In the spring of 1999, Reyna Walters, student body president at UNC-Chapel Hill, chatted with Davis about her plan to earn money over the summer for a trip to Europe. He said he would make the trip happen, and soon after, a $10,000 check for Walters arrived from Davis. He was also known to leave five-thousand-dollar tips for struggling clerks and waitresses.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Special Edition. Offered here is the 1933 facsimile reprint of "DE VENARUM OSTIOLIS" from 1603 written by Hieronymus Fabricius. Published in 1933 Baillière, Tindall and Cox (London), totalling roughly 98 pages. This copy shows wear at spine but is internally quite nice and overall a good clean copy. It provides the first detailed, illustrated description of venous valves, influencing the discovery of blood circulation by Fabricius' pupil, William Harvey. It was the first, and historically significant, systematic study of the structure and function of venous valves. While Fabricius was the first to properly describe them, he misunderstood their primary purpose, believing they were designed to slow blood flow to prevent vein damage, rather than for circulation regulation. "Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente was the Latin name for Girolamo Fabritio, an anatomist and surgeon who taught for many years in Padua. He had been the pupil of Gabriele Falloppio, who, in turn, had been the pupil of Vesalius. And Fabricius was tutor to William Harvey, who elaborated on the work of his teacher in at least two important instances. Arguably, the greatest contribution of Fabricius was the discovery of what he called "valves" in the veins of the arms and legs. This concept enabled Harvey to postulate the circulation of the blood. Fabricius published his De venarum ostiolis in 1603 as an unbound folio pamphlet accompanied by eight engraved plates, which has been described as one of the most beautiful works in the history of anatomy. One plate, showing the valves in the veins of an arm, was adapted by William Harvey for his work on blood circulation. The writings of Fabricius contain important treatises on the structure of the eye and in the field of embryology. Harvey also used Fabricius's work on the formation of the chick as the basis for his own book on embryology." This copy shows wear at spine but is internally quite nice and overall a good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy with Dr. Saul W. Rosen's little sticker from his home in Bethesda, Maryland to front free endpaper. One stamp from Surplus Library of Congress and some age fading - overall about very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Very good copy of the October 1944 Fifth edition revised printing.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Vintage 8 X 10 black and white photo of a bullfighter with the bull in the ring. Measures 8 X 10" with image itself measuring roughly 7" X 9". Printed on matte paper of the times. Some age waviness to the photo but overall a nice representation. From a collecton of vintage professional black and white photos we recently acquired.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Vintage 8 X 10 black and white matte photo of two elderly ladies interacting with a soldier holding a rifle looking impassive behind them. Shows some wear and age riffling but should look sensational framed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered here is a rare vintage cardiology text: "Vasodilator Therapy For Cardiac Disorders", edited by Lawrence Gould and C. V. R. Reddy, Mount Kisco: Futura Publishing Co., 1979, 352 pages in original cloth, measures 6 1/4" X 9 1/4". Overall nice condition for an ex-library copy (National Institute of Health copy with stamps, pocket removed, etc but as stated, a nice representation. "Vasodilator therapy relaxes vascular smooth muscle to widen blood vessels, reducing arterial resistance (afterload) and venous return (preload) to improve cardiac output, decrease myocardial oxygen demand, and alleviate heart failure symptoms. Key treatments include ACE inhibitors, ARBs, nitrates, and hydralazine, often used for hypertension, angina, and acute/chronic heart failure.".