The Bookworm

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: This explores and celebrates the bond between generations. Several b&w photo illustrations. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped. oblong format: about 9'' tall x 11'' wide. 175 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Includes numerous color photographs. This is Volume 10 in the Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with facsimile of Cousteau's signature in gilt on the front cover; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Blue endpapers. about 11 inches tall by 9 wide. 144 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by (Batou? Baton?) -- cannot quite read the name on the painting. BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth, top edge color is red; owner's name stamp on the front endpaper, the endpapers have some foxing at the spine edge, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 299 pages.

Trade size paperback. Condition: Very Good. 5th Printing. Description: Straight facts on medical school admissions process. Information on the MCAT; advice on selecting the right medical school; current medical trends and specialties. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; a Very Good book. index, references, appendices. 8vo (9 inches tall). 217 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by Barry Moser. Card catalog description: ''In 1899, ten year old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.'' BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Rust colored endpapers. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 168 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: BINDING/CONDITION: dark blue cloth with red and white text; two pages have highlighting, otherwise a Very Good+ book, no dust jacket. notes. 8vo (about 8'' to 9.5'' tall). 247 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Book of the Month Club Edition. Description: The jacket art is not credited (artist's initials ?ch); I might guess author/artist Erick Berry as the illustrator, as she was married to Herbert Best and did illustrate some of his books, but those initials don't work for her. A novel set in the Adirondack country just after the American Revolution. Three children are left on their own after their mother is killed, their house burned down, and their father disappeared into the forest. The two brothers shoulder the responsibility and the hard work, alongside their tomboy little sister called Young'un. This is a wartime edition, with the compliance statement on the copyright page. BINDING/CONDITION: green cloth burgundy spine decorations; a Very Good book with a Very Good- dust jacket; the jacket art is clean with very good color. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 271 pages.

Condition: Good. Description: Six pages of introductory text and notes are followed by 50 full page size black and white photographs of cards from the 1930s. The photos have just a brief caption identifying the make and year. All photographs are by the author, a commercial photographer. Mr Sweigert was also a contributing editor for the Antique Automobile Newspaper, Spoke Wheels. BINDING/CONDITION: a paperbound pamphlet; center-stapled format; Good condition. oblong format: about 5.5 inches tall by 8.5 wide. 50 pages. Paperbound: center-stapled format.

Hardbound. Condition: Fair. Description: Defines man in his relation to Christ, to his own physical and psychological nature, and to his need for forgiveness. This is part of the Layman's Theological Library -- a series under the editorship of Robert McAfee Brown. This series explores the Christian faith and what it means to every man. Each book is intended for personal or group study. This copy includes a laid-in Study Guide. BINDING/CONDITION: light khaki-gray cloth; this is strictly a working copy, some stains to the cloth, owner's name on the front endpaper, cellophane tape stains on the front endpaper, no markings in the text, the binding is sound, pages clean; graded Fair, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. small 8vo (about 7.5 inches tall). 93 pages.

Paperbound. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Description: Includes a few black and white photo illustrations, plus card layouts. A celebration of three decades of World Series of Poker champions, featuring the most interesting highlights of every tournament and an inside look at the strategies the champions used to win poker's most coveted title. Learn how the champs and their final opponents played their cards and made their winning moves, and use these insights to improve your own game. BINDING/CONDITION: paperback; Fine condition. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 208 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing, so stated. Description: Charmingly illustrated in color; here are three wordless stories. The artist grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. In 2006 she was the illustrator of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book written by Jean Van Leeuwen, Amanda Pig and the Really Hot Day. Ms Schweninger had previously collaborated with Kay Chorao on a book called The Hunt for Rabbit's Galosh (1976). This book was her first ''solo'' effort. Card catalog description: ''In three wordless stories, three friends try to make the moon appear, a bewildered gentleman has difficulties wooing a young lady, and a musician proves he has more than musical talent.'' BINDING/CONDITION: reinforced binding, pictorial boards; a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is price clipped. Lavender endpapers. about 7.5 inches square. unpaginated; a thin book.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Includes two sections of b&w plates, a map and several tables. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; the spine is slightly skewed, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. appendices, chronology, bibliography, notes, index. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall). 241 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition. Description: Dust jacket art by James E Barry. Author Alan Dipper served in World War II as an air gunner and gunnery and explosives expert. This, his third novel, is a story of suspense and adventure centered around a brilliant physicist who has managed to transmute metal into gold. BINDING/CONDITION: off-white boards; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 223 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by John Howard. A Samantha Adams mystery. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. 8vo (8.75 inches tall). 275 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Takes a look at how animals interact with each other and their environments. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; remainder mark on the top edge, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dj is not price clipped. index. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall). 96 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Description: Dust jacket art by Ken Spencer. This copy is Signed by the author. BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket. Small 8vo (about 7.5'' to 8'' tall). 186 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Many black and white photo illustrations. Photojournalist Bernard Wolf lived for three months in one of the hundreds of tiny villages that dot the area of rich farmland in China's Yang Shuo country where the golden River Li and its tributaries meander through the fields. He shared the lives of the people of this thousand year old village. While the revolution brought about great change, much of the life Wolf recorded had been unchanged for hundreds of years. BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Patterned endpapers. oblong format: about 8.25 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide. 124 pages. oblong format: about 8.25 inches tall by 10.25 inches wide.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Description: Originally published in 1935, this edition is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged. Illustrations by Mick Ellison; afterword by Robert M Brown. Includes the publisher's insert. BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy binding, darker burgundy at the spine; green and gilt text and vignette; Very Good condition. Dark teal green endpapers. 8vo (9.25 inches tall). 196 pages.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Cover art by Jack Gaughan. This is an original publication; this mass market paperback is the first edition. ''A world at stake in a deadly game of galactic strategy'' (from the front cover). Pyramid book number F-840; cover price is forty cents. BINDING/CONDITION: a mass market paperback, all edges light orange; Very Good condition. 12mo (about 7 inches tall). 142 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. Although Sandra Dallas had written several nonfiction books, this was her first novel. BINDING/CONDITION: lilac boards with dark navy cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 277 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket design by Rick Farley. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Bandora, Colorado is a little town, just on the wrong side of everywhere. Addie Devore, who took over the Bandora Bulletin, the weekly paper her grandfather founded, would like to make it work, and would like to make her Saint Bernard, Bacchus, stop drinking beer at Mike's Watering Hole. But most important, right now she'd like to know who killed Shorty Banks and left him propped up against the mannequin of Wyatt Earp in the Rattlesnake Saloon.'' BINDING/CONDITION: black binding; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 170 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Includes a section of black and white photo plates. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Few international celebrities of the first magnitude have been so baffling to the outside world as Charles Lindbergh, who won the adulation of the world with his epochal flight. In this perceptive full-length biography, Lindbergh emerges as a man who always had his own clear idea of who he was and what he wanted to do, and used every means in his power to keep his fame from engulfing his life. After his flight to Paris he turned down millions of dollars in commercial offers. He resisted intrusion into his personal life, but the kidnapping of his son was turned into a circus by press and public. Then idolatry turned to virulent condemnation when Lindbergh spoke out against aid to the Allies and against US. involvement in the war. What the author reveals here are the qualities which enabled Lindbergh to go on with his life and to make significant contributions in a number of widely separate fields.'' The copyright date is 1968; Harper's code 'M-R' indicates a printing date of December, 1967. BINDING/CONDITION: light red cloth; the cloth has a number of very small light stains, otherwise a Very Good book with a Very Good dust jacket; the jacket is price clipped. sources, notes, index. Facsimile shown on endpapers. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 402 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: Illustrated with over 100 black and white photographs. This book examines the tools and innovations of man in coping with nature: from herbicides to injecting starfish with formalin to cloudbusters. Remember this presents the technology and techniques as of 1970, and is now perhaps more of interest as historical perspective. BINDING/CONDITION: red cloth with black text; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is Fine but for fading at the spine. bibliography, index. small 4to (about 10 inches tall). 144 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket design by John Volk. The publisher's blurb reads: ''A seventeen-year-old model alleges she was sexually attacked in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by three men - a drug dealer, a film star, and a wealthy player in the international fashion industry. They say she's lying. It's up to Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, to decide if they should be put on trial. Hagen's ambition to become the next state attorney outweighs his reluctance to be drawn back into the moral twilight of South Beach, where his son died the year before in a tragic accident.'' This was the author's third novel. BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- dark blue with black at the spine; a Fine book, with a Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Red endpapers. 8vo (9.25 inches tall). 374 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Description: This is part of the Real Book series. Illustrated with drawings by Albert Orbaan. Discusses several different sports, largely by focusing on several major athletes such as Don Larson, Mickey Mantle, Jim Thorpe, Knute Rockne, Harold Grange, brief mention of many old time baseball Hall-of-Famers, Bob Cousy, mentions watching with interest the game of a college player, Wilton Chamberlain, Eddie Shore, and more. Has a chapter on the Harlem Globetrotters. BINDING/CONDITION: decorated boards; the front hinge is weak and is reinforced with clear hinge tape, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket. index. Orange illustrated endpapers. 8vo (8.5 inches tall). 216 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Endpaper illustrations and brilliant color illustrations throughout done by the author. From the Miss Spider series, many of the letters here are represented by insects, from fanciful to mostly-realistic. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Color illustrated endpapers. oblong format: 9.25 inches tall by 12 inches wide. about 32 pages (unpaginated).

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Well illustrated with color photographs. An introductory section covers techniques, equipment and tips, followed by a section of basic recipes for various types of cakes and topping materials. The rest of the book is devoted to the construction of various specific cakes, with instructions on one page, facing a full page color photo of the finished cake. Various birthday cakes are shown, plus theme cakes such as lady bug, bee, Hello Kitty, princess, baseball cap, handbag, flower pot, gift with a bow, and more. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; one corner is bumped, otherwise a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Red endpapers. about 10.25 inches tall by 8 inches wide. 110 pages.

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. Description: Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Ace book number F-356; cover price of forty cents. ''First Book Publication'' on cover. The only printed date is the original copyright from the serial publication in 1948; this circa 1965. ''Called to the end of time by a being they knew only as The Face of Ea, four adventurers from the twentieth century faced a power that not even the super-science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate destruction of everything it touched. It seemed hopeless, but between them they had a power they themselves could not suspect.'' BINDING/CONDITION: mass market paperback; the insides of the covers are browning, owner's name, otherwise in Very Good condition. about 6.5 inches tall. 142 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design and illustration by Barbara de Wilde. This is a sequel to the author's first novel, Anywhere But Here. BINDING/CONDITION: tan boards with green cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall). 505 pages.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition. Description: Dust jacket art by Peter Knock. A mystery novel featuring Scotland Yard's Nick Attwell. BINDING/CONDITION: green boards: the front facing endpaper is clipped at the corner, otherwise the book is Very Good, with a Very Good- dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. 8vo (about 8 inches tall). 190 pages.