Hard hitting narrative about the impact on the life of a Japanese-American family after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. 


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

When the Emperor was Divine

Part 2 of The Hollow Reed two part story. Set in Japan during the Heike Wars. Follows the life of samurai and his family. 

Two bent cover corners, otherwise in excellent condition. 



Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Hollow Reed 2

Dust Before The Wind

I. Parker

Historical fiction centered on the Seven Years War of the 1700s in Central Europe. 

A Novel

Siblings Franz and Augusta face dire futures. Franz must overcome the serious physical and mental wounds suffered in battle, and his younger sister struggles against the constraints of society and a foolish mother. Add a ruthless villain and his helpers to the tale, stir in assassination plots, and dangerous temptations, and only an eccentric lawyer and an unlikely gallant can forestall disaster.

The Left-Handed God

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Saira Shah

A touching and insightful memoir of an Afghan journalist who grew up in England. Chronicles her search for her identity as the daughter of Afghan expats. 

One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland

Imagine that a jewel-like garden overlooking Kabul is your ancestral home. Imagine a kitchen made fragrant with saffron strands and cardamom pods simmering in an authentic pilau. Now remember that you were born in London, your family in exile, and that you have never seen Afghanistan in peacetime. These are but the starting points of Saira Shah’s memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her family’s history in and out of Afghanistan. As an accomplished journalist and documentarian–her film Beneath the Veil unflinchingly depicted for CNN viewers the humiliations forced on women under Taliban rule–Shah returned to her family’s homeland cloaked in the burqa to witness the pungent and shocking realities of Afghan life. As the daughter of the Sufi fabulist Idries Shah, primed by a lifetime of listening to her father’s stories, she eagerly sought out, from the mouths of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the rich and living myths that still sustain this battered culture of warriors. And she discovered that in Afghanistan all the storytellers have been men–until now.

The Storyteller's Daughter

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Wallace Stegner

Shelf wear and creased cover and a few creased pages. Good readable condition. Former owners name in ink on inside cover.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Traces the fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West

Angle of Repose

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 This book was apparently privately published in 1963 by Alexander and then taken over four years later by publisher Bobbs-Merrill. An unusual find and signed by the author! 

It contains eighteen stories in a variety of styles including them is the Aesopic, etiologies, and clever solutions. 

The excellent scissor-cuts were done by grade school children in Cheefu, China, about 1920.

The book is in good condition with  few exceptions: small separation at bottom cover, what appears to be a tape mark on front cover and heavy wear on corners. No dust jacket. Previous owner gift inscription in ink on title page. 

It’s a lovely and unusual book! 


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Fables and Hero Stories from Old China

Pebbles From An Open Jar-Signed

Published in 1961 by Thomas Nelson & Sons of New York. Pages unnumbered. 

Author signed, first edition. Oblong shape. Multi-colored illustrated cloth boards with dust jacket.

This is the third of the author's books. It tells a story using Native American pictographs exclusively with English explanations below. Pictographs include some in color. A note at the rear of the book talks about buffalo hunters, uses made of the buffalo and the hunt. 

This is a very good copy with price clipped dust jacket in fair condition. Jacket is price clipped with minimal wear and three small tears at edges. See photos for condition. 


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

As Little Elk Tells it in Indian Picture Writing

Little Elk Hunts Buffalo-Signed

Published by Brookhaven Press/Suttonhouse of Los Angeles in 1938. Printed by Kellaway-Ide Company. The book is inscribed to the author’s granddaughter with a poem and signature. 88 numbered pages. Rare, first edition. 

The book is a memoir of the author’s daughter Patricia Ann, or Muggity Ann of the Nancy Brown Experience Column. 

The front cover is stained. Corners and edges have heavy wear. Spine is straight and tight. No dust jacket. Heavily toned pages and covers. No internal marks.



Stories, Monologues and Poems

Muggity Ann’s Friends

A Junior Books first edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc  of Garden City, New York. 

The book is in fair condition as the spine is separated from the front cover. Some of the activities have been completed in pencil or in a couple of pages in red pencil, which might be erased. There are three torn, but intact pages. 

It’s a lovely book with wonderful graphics!

The Busy Book

This is a volume one of the Works of Plato entitled Dialogues. Translated by J. Wright, M. A. This Edition De Luxe published by The Nottingham Society of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Rough cut edges. 269 numbered pages. 

Printed in the early 1900s the sets were for subscribers only and limited to 1,000 sets. Set number 438 indicated in the volume. 
Includes: Phaedrus, Lysis, Protagoras, Charmides, Laches.

The book is in fair, but readable condition with the spine covering mostly gone. Small section with title is unattached. Heavy wear and fading on entire cover. Spine separation at top but intact. See photos for condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Works of Plato

Dialogues

First published by Viking Press in Nov. 1944. Second printing in Dec. 1944. 150 pages including index. 

“A book of home cooking for America -based on the food of the Near East. Delicious and unusual meals at low cost and easily prepared.”

Blue cloth cover is toned on the spine with frayed spine caps but clean, bright, and in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned but clean and near pristine. Dust jacket in poor condition and  is heavily tattered, torn, and chipped.

Dinner at Omar Khayyam’s-Author Signed

Published by US Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission of Washington, DC in 1937. First edition. 
No dust jacket. 192 pages including index. 

Spine and edges show heavy wear and mild chipping. Inside covers and some pages have heavy tanning. 

The front illustrates the official poster of the US Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission. 

The book was commissioned by a Joint Resolution of the congress of the United States, Approved August 23, 1935. 

The book is signed by Wright Patman. John William Wright Patman was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1976. He was a member of the Democratic Party. 

The Story of the Constitution

Starling Lawrence

Terence Aselford

Set of 8 CD. Box and jackets heavily worn but CDs play ok. 

Epic story about the advent of electric power in the USA. Technology, romance, and business, this story has it all! 



The Lightning Keeper CD

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Susan Linn

A wake-up call for parents, physicians, and educators about the pervading onslaught of marketing and advertising and it’s effect on the minds of children. 

Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising

Looks at the way corporations and advertisers target children as a profitable demographic, as well as their methods for getting past parental safeguards to make products of all kinds appeal directly to even the youngest children.

Consuming Kids

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A bundle of paperbacks written by Pearl S. Buck. Published by Pocket Books from 1961-1975. 

Titles are Peony, The Exile, Letter from Peking and My Several Words. 

All in fair condition, but readable copies. 

Bundle

Peony, Letter from Peking, Exile, My Several Worlds 


Published by Random House New York, NY in 1961. 

Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885–1962) was a Danish author who wrote under a number of pseudonyms, namely: Isak Dinesen, Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrezel. “Out of Africa” (1937) is perhaps Blixen-Finecke’s most well known work (a memoir that recounts the seventeen years Blixen lived on her coffee-plantation in Kenya) and was widely acclaimed.  

Shadows on the Grass” (1960) is considered a sequel to “Out of Africa”; it is a short compendium of further recollections about her days in Africa. Many of the people and the events from “Out of Africa” appear again on these pages. Due to its brevity and its closely related content. 

These four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s. “Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. 

First American Book Club Edition, identifiable by the tiny square indent to blue cloth area at lower right back cover; copyright 1960, "First published in the United States, 1961," as stated as copyright page, presumed first printing though unstated. 

Good condition except tape marks on front and back covers. See photos. 

Shadows On The Grass

Sheila Zubrod

David Stern

The Definitive Guide to Hunting, Gathering, and Flaunting Superior Vintage Wares

Flea

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Published in 1987 by Crown Publishers Inc. of New York. This book was copyrighted by the author in 1995. 

Excellent condition, including dust jacket. 420 numbered pages including index. 

The book chronicles the stories of a group of Vietnam era heroes known as the Ravens. They were skilled pilots who waged a secret CIA war in Laos, the small nation next to Vietnam, which borders the Ho Chi Minh Trail, China, and Thailand. 

Inscribed by Ed Gunter, Raven 72, who served in 1969-1970 and was the Raven President from 2003-2012. 

The Men Who Flew in America’s Secret War in Laos

The Ravens

Kerry Greenwood

Interesting characters and plot twists in this mystery featuring, what else, a spotted dog! 

A Corinna Chapman Mystery

Another mystery book from Kerry Greenwood, internationally bestselling author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries! Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow...

Rising at four o'clock every morning isn't Corinna Chapman's favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn feels even harsher when a man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog is missing, Corinna and her longtime companion, Daniel, feel compelled to help. It soon becomes clear, though, that they have gotten involved in something much bigger and more complicated than they had bargained for... especially when threatening notes begin to appear in Corinna's apartment. And with recreational drugs rising in popularity, the sleuths suspect that a dangerous smuggling ring might be behind everything.

Along with searching for thesoldier's dog, dodging suspicious neighbors, and putting a stop to a string of local burglaries, Corinna has to keep her bakery running! It'll take everything she's got to crack the case and make sure delicious breads, muffins, and treats are still fresh and ready for her eager customers. Can she take the heat?

Part culinary cozy mystery, part small town mystery, and full of twists and turns, this latest addition to the Corinna Chapman Mysteries has it all!

The Spotted Dog

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Published in 1944 by Harcourt, Brace and Company of New York. The book has original blue cloth boards and is in near fine condition with minimal toning and wear. Gift inscription in ink on inside loose end paper. The original dust jacket is in fair condition with chips and tears and paper barcode affixed at spine. 

First edition of this aviation-themed adventure novel written at the height of the Second World War.

This fictional account of an actual incident… is the story of a dangerous flight over the Alps made by a young couple. The literature of flight has no more gifted contributor than Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She has that rare quality of spiritual insight and the ability to translate it into words. 

The Steep Ascent

“A book to delight and reward all lovers of romantic swashbuckling fiction.”  Set in Ireland in 1398. 

Published in 1946 by the Bobbs-Merril Company of Indianapolis and New York. 302 numbered pages. Mylar-covered dust jacket affixed.

Library discard. 

The Gallant Years

Published in 1962 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. of Garden City, NY. 286 numbered pages, including index. Includes dust jacket. Great condition, see photos. 

The author writes about the care, repair and refinishing of furniture in a humorous way. 

Really great read and reference for anyone interested in furniture. 

The Furniture Doctor 

A pocket book filled with inspirational writings. 



Prayers, Poems, and Prose for Everyday Thankfulness 

Gratitude Prayers

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Published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York. Unspecified date. 352 numbered pages, including index. 

Book in very good condition. Some pages underlined in red/blue colored pencil and previous owners name/notation in ink on inside front cover. Age-related toning on inside covers and pages. Dust jacket intact but in poor condition. 

"Find the path to following Christ in this treasured and timeless devotional book. Encouraging the renunciation of worldly vanities and vices, Thomas á Kempis shows us how to lead a disciplined and simple spiritual life modeled on the teachings of Jesus. This beautifully bound edition contains the unabridged text of the original four books, prayers and reflections to apply the readings to everyday life, and a helpful appendix."

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Angle of Repose

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