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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

How they changed our lives

Reader's Digest Great Events of the 20th Century

Robertson Davies

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters.

The Cornish Trilogy

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Natalie Jenner

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Rhode Island

A Novel

The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future.

Every Time We Say Goodbye

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Alan Brennert

Pre-owned in Excellent, Like New Condition. No flaws noted. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park

Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey--especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers.

But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her own--and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn back to each other--and to Palisades Park--until the park closes forever in 1971.

Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made Alan Brennert'sMoloka'iandHonolulu into reading group favorites,Palisades Parktakes us back to a time when life seemed simpler--except, of course, it wasn't.

Palisades Park

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Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Conflict, Technology & Rock 'N Roll

A History of the 20th Century

William H. Gerdts

Patricia Trenton

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

California Light, 1900-1930

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This collectible antique contains a wealth of knowledge from some of the top physicians and researchers in the 1930s, including George R Minot who was a Nobel Prize winner in the same year that this volume was published. It is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Any collector, physician, or historian would be proud to display this artifact on their shelf, and preserve the wisdom and history inside.


General Medicine is the first of ten volumes of The Practical Medicine Year Books.


It includes the following chapters

Infectious Diseases by George F Dick, a pioneer in scarlet fever research

Diseases of the Chest by Lawranson Brown

Diseases of the Blood and Blood-Forming Organs; Diseases of the Kidney by George R Minot and William B Castle

Diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels by William D Stroud

Diseases of the Digestive System and Metabolism by George B Eusterman


George Frederick Dick (born July 21, 1881, Fort Wayne, Ind., U.S.—died Oct. 10, 1967, Palo Alto, Calif.) was an American physician and pathologist who, with his wife, Gladys Henry Dick, discovered the cause of, and devised means of preventing, scarlet fever.


George Richards Minot (born Dec. 2, 1885, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Feb. 25, 1950, Brookline, Mass.) was an American physician who received (with George Whipple and William Murphy) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for the introduction of a raw-liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia, which was previously an invariably fatal disease.


William Bosworth Castle was one of the founding fathers of experimental hematology. His pioneering work on the pathogenesis of pernicious anemia and other red cell disorders was matched by his leadership and mentoring of two generations of academic hematologists.


California

Science

Yearbook Of General Medicine 1934 - Vintage Hardcover - Intact Pages - Textbook

Is one of the greatest incongruities of modern literature, a moral tract which was also a sensational best seller.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Screwtape Letters 

Virginia

Volume 5: the Impact of Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Futurism, Art-Deco, the International Style, non-objective art, and other European-originated art forms radically changed the direction of American architecture in the twentieth century. Beginning with Rockefeller Center, the culmination of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Jordy examines in Volume 5the influence of modern art on the architecture of George Howe, William Lescaze, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis I. Kahn.

American Buildings and Their Architects

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Iris Murdoch

Book is in excellent condition. Pages are very crisp. You will be the first person to open this book all the way. First Edition copy

Vermont

First Edition

Explores the relationship of an honored philosophy professor, John Robert Rozanov, and one of his students, George McCaffrey, revealing the intensities and nuances of their various personal attachments.

The Philosopher's Pupil

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Chuck Klosterman

Oregon

A Book

In The Nineties, cult author Chuck Klosterman makes a home in every element of 90s culture: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written could the sentence, 'The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany' make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis that's equal parts smart and delightful.

The Nineties

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Edward Ross Dickinson

Good condition slight water damage but pages are in good condition to read

An Interpretive History

The biological transformation of modern times -- The foundations of the modern global economy -- Reorganizing the global economy -- Localization and globalization -- The great explosion -- New world (dis)order -- High modernity -- Revolt and refusal -- Transformative modernity -- Democracy and capitalism triumphant

The World in the Long Twentieth Century

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Old and rustic 113 year old books, both dating back to 1911 (2-3 years after publishing).

These books have the signature of someone, looks like C.C. or L.L. but I'm not sure who it would be as our family aren't the original holders. 

I'm willing to negotiate on prices, however these are pretty hard to come by.

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea

Discover the charm and beauty of Pennsylvania with Wallace Nutting's "Pennsylvania Beautiful". This vintage book is filled with historical photos and pictorial descriptions from the 1920s, providing a fascinating glimpse into the past.


The book, a hardcover edition from 1924, is in great condition for its age. It is perfect for history enthusiasts and collectors of vintage pictorial books.



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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Great Events of the 20th Century

Robertson Davies

The Cornish Trilogy

Natalie Jenner

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Alan Brennert

Palisades Park

Jeremy Black and Alex Woolf

A History of the 20th Century

William H. Gerdts; Patricia Trenton

California Light, 1900-1930

George Frederick Dick MD

Yearbook Of General Medicine 1934 - Vintage Hardcover - Intact Pages - Textbook

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

William H. Jordy

American Buildings and Their Architects

Iris Murdoch

The Philosopher's Pupil

Chuck Klosterman

The Nineties

Edward Ross Dickinson

The World in the Long Twentieth Century

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea

Wallace Nutting

Pennsylvania Beautiful

Jonathan Glover

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Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest Great Events of the 20th Century

Robertson Davies

The Cornish Trilogy

Natalie Jenner

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Alan Brennert

Palisades Park

Jeremy Black and Alex Woolf

A History of the 20th Century

William H. Gerdts; Patricia Trenton

California Light, 1900-1930

George Frederick Dick MD

Yearbook Of General Medicine 1934 - Vintage Hardcover - Intact Pages - Textbook

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

William H. Jordy

American Buildings and Their Architects

Iris Murdoch

The Philosopher's Pupil

Chuck Klosterman

The Nineties

Edward Ross Dickinson

The World in the Long Twentieth Century

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea

Wallace Nutting

Pennsylvania Beautiful

Jonathan Glover

Humanity