Lulu Is Getting a Sister: (Who Wants Her? Who Needs Her?)
by Viorst, Judith; Kevin Cornell (illustrator)
New York: Atheneum, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. Kevin Cornell. 178pp. Octavo [23.5]; red paper boards; blind stamp on front board; gilt title on spine. Lulu is getting the sister she never asked for in this hilarious illustrated chapter book filled with hilarious hijinks and fiesty twists from Judith Viorst. Lulu has received the worst. News. EVER. She’s getting…a baby sister. No one ever asked HER opinion on this debacle. But she’ll tell you anyway, because she... Read More
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Lulu and the Brontosaurus
by Viorst, Judith; Lane Smith (illustrator)
New York: Atheneum, 2010. Later printing. Hardcover. New/new. Lane Smith. 113pp. Octavo [23.5cm]; green paper boards. Lulu is so accustomed to getting what she wants that when her parents deny her birthday request for a brontosaurus, she throws a four-day temper tantrum and then storms off into the forest in search of the dinosaur she clearly deserves. Lulu isn’t particularly impressed with the snake, tiger, and bear she encounters, but then she finds him—a beautiful, long-necked, graceful brontosaurus.... Read More
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Lulu's Mysterious Mission
by Viorst, Judith; Kevin Cornell (illustrator)
New York: Atheneum, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. New/New. 182pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Black boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine.
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The Anti-12 Steps: An Updated Approach to Reaching Both the Resistant and the Adolescent Addict
by Visger, Michael D.; Chris O'Byrne (Editor)
Tacoma, WA: IQ Press, 2011. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 173pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. Rubbing to wraps and creasing to corners. "Since their creation, the 12-Steps of A.A. have given millions a path to recovery from addiction. The impact of the 12-steps on our culture and people worldwide has been huge. Dozens of versions and conditions have been created based on the original 12-Steps. Yet the 12-Steps are also flawed in the eyes of many, and... Read More
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Aristotelis Stagiritae, Philosophorum omnium facile principis, opera, quai in hunc usque diem extant omnia, Latinitate partim antea, partim nunc primum á uiris doctissimis donata, & Græcum ad exemplar diligenter recognita. Omnia in Tres Tomos Digesta. Accesserunt in singulos libros argumenta, nunc primum ex optimus Græcorum Commentariis in Latinam linguam conversa & suis quæq; locis apposita (Operum Aristotelis Tomus Secundus Physiologiam Eius Totam Complectens, una cum argumentis in libros singulos quae, ex nunc primum conversa optimistic Graecorum commentariis, & adiecta fuere)
by [Greek Philosophy] [Latin] [Treatises] Aristotle; Philipp Melanchton and Juan Luis Vives
Basileæ (Basel): Ex Officina Joan. Oporini (Joannes Oporinus), 1548. Good. Second volume of a work in three volumes. 667pp. Quarto [33 cm] Mid-17th-century vellum binding (likely Spanish, but possibly Italian). Bold manuscript title on the spine. Gauffered edges. With tanned skin sewing supports. Initial letters. Text block hanging on to wraps by a single leather cord. ***Missing title page and prefatory pages to Aristotle's work on auscultation. Text block cracked a couple of times at the rear. Light... Read More
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The Everlasting Sky:; New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa
by Vizenor, Gerald
New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. 140pp. Octavo [22 cm] Sky blue cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Light sunning along the extreme upper and lower edges. Previous owner's gift inscription on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Dust Jacket - has light rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. 1" rub at the upper edge of... Read More
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The Heirs of Columbus
by Vizenor, Gerald
Hanover: Wesleyan University Press with the University Press of New England, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Octavo. Blue cloth spine and boards. Very slight bump at the head and tail of the spine and a trace of rubbing at the tips of the corners. Publisher's black remainder mark on the lower edge of the textblock. 189 pages. Dust Jacket - has very light rubbing at the head of the spine. Spine sunned from orange to yellow, but lettering... Read More
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Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases
by Voelkel, Norbert F.; William MacNee
Hamilton, Ontario: BC Decker Inc, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 428pp. Quarto [28 cm] Black cloth over boards lettered in gilt. With compact disc. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. Short pen mark to first page, else Internally clean and bright. A book on chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases presenting the authors' collective knowledge of the process by which the lung is destroyed. The book pays tribute to the early pioneers of chronic obstructive lung disease research... Read More
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American Apocrypha; Essays on the Book of Mormon
by Vogel, Dan and Brent Lee Metcalfe (eds.)
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2002. First edition. Softcover. As NEW. Trade paperback, 368 pp. Nine essays by prominent Mormon scholars explore the historical claims of the Book of Mormon.
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Charisma Under Pressure: Joseph Smith - American Prophet - 1831-1839
by Vogel, Dan
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2023. Later Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 985pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Black cloth over boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. "When Joseph Smith entered Kirtland, Ohio, for the first time, he had only the year before established a church and brought forth a new book of scripture, the Book of Mormon. After moving the church and most of its members from western New York and establishing its headquarters at Kirtland-while simultaneously... Read More
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Peter and the Wolf
by Voigt, Erna; Sergei Prokofiev
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Erna Voigt. SIGNED. Oblong quarto (26.5 cm x 24.5 cm) in boards over cloth spine. Light shelfwear to jacket; light rubbing to extremities, else boards are crisp and unworn; interior is clean and crisp. Signed and inscribed by Voigt, on the each free endpaper: "With best wishes! Erna Voigt, West Germany/Munich Jan 12, 1982". Illustrator Erna Voigt's clever realizations of Prokofiev's characters move through idyllic... Read More
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Reineke Fuchs
by Voigt, Erna; Hans Baumann
Vienna and Munich: Annette Betz Verlag, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED. Oblong quarto [26 cm x 24.5 cm] in glossy pictorial boards, no jacket (presumably as issued). Text in German. Signed and inscribed by Voigt on front free endpaper verso: "For P--- with best wishes. Erna Voigt, Munich/ West Germany Jan. 12, 1982." Illustrator Erna Voigt is best known for her interpretation of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". This lesser-known work, as told by Hans Baumann,... Read More
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Land und Leute: 8 Blätter Nach Holzschnitten von Konrad Volkert
by Volkert, Konrad
Nürnberg: Verlag Jacob Mendelsohn, 1948. Original Verlag Jacob Mendelsohn edition. Good +. Very slim quarto [31 cm] Eight loose prints housed in an orange and black illustrated portfolio folder. Complete, with all eight prints. The top edge of the folder's front wrap has a blue moisture stain measuring 1 1/2" deep, and the borders of the prints are have large and small, light damp stains, not affecting the illustrations. Inhalt: Sonninger Morgen; Ziegenmelkerin; Der Plug; Der Tümple; Streuhauende... Read More
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Kern County's Courier 1866-1876: A Newspaper in a Period of Economic and Political Transition
by Voltmer, Barbara Boyd
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society and The County of Kern Through Its Museum, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED. 52pp. Slim octavo [23.5 cm] Light brown cloth over boards. Endpapers very subtly darkened along the hinges. In the dust jacket, with periodic small and shallow closed and open tears to the edges. From the foreword- "Of the many established cultural institutions transferred to the western frontier none made a greater appeal to the frontiersman... Read More
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![The Deseret News. Truth and Liberty. Volume VII, Number 1 [through] Number 52. Salt Lake City. March 11, 1857 through March 3, 1858](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/032/596/1332596032.0.l.jpg)
The Deseret News. Truth and Liberty. Volume VII, Number 1 [through] Number 52. Salt Lake City. March 11, 1857 through March 3, 1858
by [Mormons] [The Utah War Volume]
Very Good. [417-423]; 416pp. 52 numbers, averaging 8pp. each. Folio [39 cm] Contemporary 1/4 leather binding with limp boards which maintain some of the original marbled paper. Professionally recased. Restoration work to spine ends. Formerly exposed boards skillfully restored with handmade paper at the extremities. Hinges reinforced with Japanese tissue. Missing front front free endpaper. Periodic minor markings to the pages, else internally very good. Flake 2822. A complete run of this volume, of particular significance due to... Read More
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Copper Crown
by Von Herzen, Lane
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Maroon boards quarterbound in light tan cloth spine. Faint bump at head and tail of the spine. Signed and dated (November 1, 1994) by the author on the title page in blue pen. Dust Jacket.
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Voyage of Discovery in the South Sea, and to Bering's Straits, in Search of a North-east Passage; Untertaken in the Years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick (Parts I and II bound in one volume)
by von Kotzebue, Otto
London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1821. Leather bound. Very good. 220pp. Octavo [23 cm] in twentieth century quarter red leather over dark blue boards, with gilt spine title. Recased. Lacks the color frontis. Light rubbing to spine, small perforation to front joint at top; ink name dated 1932 on front pastedown, hinges cracked (but holding). With four fold-out maps. An abridged English version of Kotzebue's "Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse," published in the same... Read More
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Cat's Cradle
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Later Printing. Paperback. New. 287pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; illustrated wraps. "Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an... Read More
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Bluebeard
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 318pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Illustrated throughout by Vonnegut. Bluebeard ranks with Vonnegut's most imaginative works. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo... Read More
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Slapstick
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 274pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a... Read More
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The Sirens of Titan
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2009. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. NEW. 326pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps . "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963.
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Breakfast of Champions: or Goodbye Blue Monday!
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. Kurt Vonnegut. 302pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Printed wraps. In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. Includes drawings by... Read More
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Deadeye Dick
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2006. Later Printing. Paperback. As NEW. 271 pp. Octavo. Red spine, gold, red and green covers. "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true... Read More
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Inside Africa: South and West
by Von Schaewen, Deidi (Photos); Frederic Couderc, Laurence Dougier, Angelika Taschen
Kõln: Taschen, 2003. Multilingual edition. No other printings listed. Hardcover. Very Good. 463pp. Quarto [32 cm] Bright pictorial cloth over boards. The cloth features a design of the Ivorian Wax Fabrics for Uniwax, Ivory Coast, 1989. Colorful illustrated endpapers. With very subtle fading to the backstrip, and light rubbing to the titles. Text in English, German, and French. May require extra postage due to size and weight. The companion volume to North and East. A lavish volume featuring... Read More
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Der Trompeter von Säkkingen: Ein Sang vom Oberrhein
by Von Scheffel, Joseph Victor
Stuttgart: Verlag von Adolf Bonz & Comp, 1896. Vierte Auflage. Hardcover. Anton von Werner. 504pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards, with elaborate ornamentation in gilt, black, and blind. All edges gilt. The pages are printed with red linear borders. Good plus. There are small splits in the cloth at the spine ends. The text block is cracked at the title page, and the last page is adhered to the rear pastedown. There are very tiny stains in... Read More
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