Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

Fan's Guide to Collecting the Top 100 Sports Cards of All Time 

Got 'em, Got 'em, Need 'em

Jim Carpenter

Scott & Nix, Inc, New York, 2017

Trade paperback. Heavy stock. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of color photos of180 feeder birds.

Excellent condition excepting significant crease impacting rear cover.

The Essential Guide to Attracting and Feeding Our Backyard Birds

The Joy of Bird Feeding is the ultimate reference for backyard bird watchers and bird feeders. It offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds, offering the best foods for the birds you want to see, and how to deter those unwanted guests to feeding stations. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of the hobby and guides readers to the essential steps of bird feeding mastery: Founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, Jim Carpenter brings a lifelong passion for birds and bird feeding along with real solutions to make anyone's backyard a paradise for the birds and for bird watchers.

The Joy of Bird Feeding

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Hardcover with felt-like exterior and gold text.

Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, KS  2022.  First edition.  Issued without dj?

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

POETS.ORG

100 Poems that Matter 

Scott Leeds

TOR Publishing, New York, 2023.
First edition.  Hardcover with dust jacket.

Lightly bumped at extremities.  Slight wrinkle on dj front.

A Novel

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord, Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead. I told you they were real. After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead. When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror. As the darkness descends, they are stalked by a relentless, malevolent force and see the dead everywhere they turn. With time running out, the only person who can help them is Charlie’s resurrected father, who knows firsthand the awesome power the records have unleashed. But can they close the gate and silence Schrader’s Chord before it’s too late?

Schrader's Chord

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Jimmy Carter

Copy is inscribed/signed.  Inscription reads: " To S**** W***,  with love and admiration, Jimmy Carter 9/5/08'

Very good condition with bumping along top edge and extremities of boards and dj.

Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008. First edition.  Hardcover with dust jacket.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Remarkable Motheris President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president.A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer, public speaker, and renowned raconteur, Miss Lillian ignored the mores and prejudices of the racially segregated South of the Great Depression years. She was an avid supporter of the Brooklyn Dodgers (because she happened to attend the first major league baseball game in which Jackie Robinson, from Cairo, Georgia, played), was a favored guest on television talk shows (usually able to "steal the microphone" from hosts such as Johnny Carson and Walter Cronkite), and an important role model for the nation. Jimmy Carter's mother emerges from this portrait as redoubtable, generous, and forward-looking. He ascribes to her the inspiration for his own life's work of commitment and faith.

A Remarkable Mother [signed/inscribed]

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Terry Brighton

Trade paperback.  Three Rivers Press, New York, 2008

Masters of War

In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and European theaters, as well as their chief commanders—three men who also happened to be the most compelling dramatis personae of World War II. Beyond spellbinding depictions of pivotal confrontations at El Alamein, Monte Cassino, and the Ardennes forest, author-scholar Terry Brighton illuminates the personal motivations and historical events that propelled the three men's careers: how Patton's, Montgomery's, and Rommel's Great War experiences helped to mold their style of command—and how, exactly, they managed to apply their arguably megalomaniacal personalities (and hitherto unrecognized political acumen and tact) to advance their careers and strategic vision. Opening new avenues of inquiry into the lives and careers of three men widely profiled by scholars and popular historians alike, Brighton definitively answers numerous lingering and controversial questions: Was Patton really as vainglorious in real life as he was portrayed to be on the silver screen?—and how did his tireless advocacy of "mechanized cavalry" forever change the face of war? Was Monty's dogged publicity-seeking driven by his own need for recognition or by his desire to claim for Britain a leadership role in postwar global order?—and how did this prickly "commoner" manage to earn affection and esteem from enlisted men and nobility alike? How might the war have ended if Rommel had had more tanks?—and what fundamental philosophical difference between him and Hitler made such an outcome virtually impossible? Abetted by new primary source material and animated by Terry Brighton's incomparable storytelling gifts, Patton, Montgomery, Rommel offers critical new interpretations of the Second World War as it was experienced by its three most flamboyant, controversial, and influential commanders—and augments our understanding of each of their perceptions of war and leadership.

Patton, Montgomery, Rommel

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Andrew Mango

Trade paperback. See photos for publishing info .

The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He imposed coherence, order and mordernity and in the process, created his own legend and his own cult.

Ataturk

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Gabriel García Márquez

Trade paperback.

See photo of publisher's page for printing info 

Una edición conmemorativa de El amor en los tiempos del cólera, un gran clásico de Gabriel García Márquez y una novela imprescindible de la literatura contemporánea. Tras la espectacular edición conmemorativa de Cien años de soledad, la artista chilena Luisa Rivera vuelve a rendir homenaje a García Márquez con una serie de ilustraciones inéditas que recrean el extraordinario universo del autor. "Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados." Así empieza una de las historias de amor más maravillosas de la literatura universal. Un amor no correspondido durante medio siglo con un pueblecito portuario del Caribe como escenario. El Nobel colombiano nos presenta la mágica relación entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcilla que el maestro moldea y con las que fantasea a su placer entre los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los jugos, olores y sabores del trópico alimentan una prosa única y original que se ha ganado el favor de millones de lectores en todo el mundo.

El Amor en Los Tiempos Del Cólera (Edición Ilustrada) / Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

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Diana L. Eck

Hardcover with dust jacket.  Excellent condition.

Harmony Books, New York, 2012, first edition 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Sacred Geography

A spiritual history of India provides coverage of its sacred places, its core tenets, and the historical events of specific regions while sharing a basic introduction to Hindu religious ideas and how they have influenced modern India.

India

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Paul Beyerl

Phoenix Publishing, Custer WA, 1998, Trade paperback 

Crease on rear cover from bottom to side edges.  Small pieces missing at ffep

Every plant has its own distinct spiritual energy or its own deva. Devas are the radiant light of the Universal Divine that permeates all things. Since the earliest times, people were aware that all of Nature is divine. Great and wondrous myths were told that explained the presence of divine energy as it exists in thunder, in trees, and in sunlight. Some of this lore was the foundation of religions. But the simpler stories, such as those of a plant's energy, explored day-to-day matters like health and love. This understanding of the world has been preserved in folklore through poems, chants, ditties, and spells. From researching the history of folklore from cultures around the world, patterns emerge that enable us to approach the true nature of plants' devas. This compendium presents the lore and the corresponding usage for 330 magickal herbes. Great care was taken only to include folklore that was documented as authentic. You will meet many new herbes in this text and explore fascinating magickal and religi uses, but most of all, you will come to respect the divine that surrounds your everyday life.

A Compendium of Herbal Magick

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Wendy Toliver

Kingswell (Disney), Glendale CA, 2015, first edition 

Red's Untold Tale

Red is 16 and lives with Granny in a cottage in the village, where boarding up the house and hiding during Wolfstime is a means of survival. Red help's Granny with Granny's baked good business, catering as well as door-to-door sales. Red has a constant internal battle between her wild side and her strict, overprotective upbringing, and the issue of "control" as she discovers she has a hot temper when the "mean girls" push her too far. ("When we learn to control it, we needn't fear it," Rumpelstiltskin says in the series.) She has flashbacks to her 13th year when she received her cloak and the nickname "Red." She is plagued by nightmares that she doesn't understand, but the Once Upon a Time fans will recognize them as her wolf side coming out. Red balances the difficult times with Granny at home and the girls at school with an emerging and satisfying romance with Peter.

Once upon a Time

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Louis Zamperini

David Rensin

Harper, New York, 2011, trade paperback. Very light shelf wear including corner crease, light bumping, fanning and small inkstain (see photos)

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival As a Japanese POW in World War II

The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken.

A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW survivor Louis Zamperini. His inspiring story of courage, resilience, and faith has captivated readers and audiences of Unbroken, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. In Devil at My Heels, his official autobiography (co-written with longtime collaborator David Rensin), Zamperini shares his own first-hand account of extraordinary journey--hailed as "one of the most incredible American lives of the past century" (People).

A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it all changed in an instant when his B-24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Louis and two other survivors drifting on a raft for forty-seven days and two thousand miles, waiting in vain to be rescued. And the worst was yet to come when they finally reached land, only to be captured by the Japanese. Louis spent the next two years as a prisoner of war--tortured and humiliated, routinely beaten, starved and forced into slave labor--while the Army Air Corps declared him dead and sent official condolences to his family. On his return home, memories of the war haunted him nearly destroyed his marriage until a spiritual rebirth transformed him and led him to dedicate the rest of his long and happy life to helping at-risk youth. 

Told in Zamperini's own voice, Devil at My Heels is an unforgettable memoir from one of the greatest of the "Greatest Generation," a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of faith.

Devil at My Heels

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Ha Moore

Joseph Galloway

Signed on ffep by both authors.

Random House, New York, 1992, First edition. Signed

Bumping at extremities.  Light fading of ffep inked inscription/signatures.

Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Vietnam. November 1965. 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, are dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley and immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion is chopped to pieces in a similarly brutal manner. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constitute one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War and set the tone of the conflict to come.Now a major motion picture starring Mel Gibson

[Inscribed] We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

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Kenichi Sonoda

Dark Horse Comics, 2001. Trade paperback.  Cover bending, curling and fanning.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kidnapped

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Ophelia Was Murdered 

Marc Spitz

Gotham Books, New York, 2011, first edition ).  Hardcover with dust jacket.

Minimal shelfwear.  Remainder mark along bottom page edge

Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue

Drawing on recollections from artists who have been inspired by Mick Jagger's work, an examination of the life of the Rolling Stones' enigmatic front man is presented in an episodic format that combines biographical information with cultural history.

Jagger

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Arlene Krieger

Mascot Books, Herndon VA, 2014, first edition.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Excellent condition 

My Journey, My Destiny

Jerome Anthony Gourdine, known as Little Anthony, began singing songs in his crib. His mind buzzed of melodies which, when he could later talk, he put to words. A true prodigy, his voice has become one of the most recognizable on earth. Anthony s parents, also performing artists, passed on their talent and passion to Anthony. But it was more than genetic inheritance that spurred the prodigy to greatness; it was his innate talent and his spiritual belief that he was destined to become this special performer. Anthony never learned how to play an instrument nor read music, yet his acutely tuned ear tells him when there is a sour note played by a violist in a full philharmonic orchestra. The streets of Brooklyn became his first stage as he gathered under the street lamps to harmonize with friends, who later on became known as The Imperials. A teenage heart throb, he set the radio on fire with his smooth, savvy voice that could sing three octaves and a falsetto. From the Friday afternoon sock hops, to touring Europe, Anthony s music has endured five decades. After fifty years of producing hit songs, Reviver Records is releasing a series of albums for a new generation of listeners. Duets will incorporate Anthony's angelic voice with well-known singers of other genres, ages, and backgrounds. A one-man show will highlight Anthony's classic hits along with fresh new tunes as he tours around the country. Cousin Brucie, now broadcasting around the globe with Sirius XM Radio, provides an intimate look inside Little Anthony's life through the town hall style show. Surviving, flourishing, and injecting fresh new sounds into a legendary voice that has been on the radio and stage for over five decades, is a feat only a handful of performers can do. Famed singers have bowed at Anthony's feet, radio DJs have thanked him for allowing the airwaves to be filled with his precious music, and world-acclaimed producer, David Gest, brought Anthony's music to England. Anthony's music is played around the world, and the best is yet to come.

Little Anthony

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William L. Smallwood

Brasseys, McLean VA, 1994, first edition.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Dh has ery light bumping at extremities.

Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War

William L. Smallwood puts you inside the cockpit of one of the world's most advanced fighters during the most decisive air assault in history. You share the pilots' thoughts as they prepare for war, their excitement as they engage the enemy, and their pride as they celebrate victory. Strike Eagle is a human-scale story of men in battle that conveys the tension and triumph of the Gulf War.

Strike Eagle

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Jonathan Parshall

Anthony Tully

John B. Lundstrom

Potomac Books, Washington DC, 2007, trade paperback.

Clean internally.  No writing, underlining, highlighting or other markings.  Front cardboard cover has several inches of delamination along the top edge.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully offer a new interpretation of this great naval engagement. Unlike previous accounts, Shattered Sword makes extensive use of Japanese primary sources. It also corrects the many errors of Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, an uncritical reliance upon which has tainted every previous Western account. It thus forces a major, potentially controversial reevaluation of the great battle.



Parshall and Tully examine the battle in detail and effortlessly place it within the context of the Imperial Navy's doctrine and technology. With a foreword by leading World War II naval historian John Lundstrom, Shattered Sword is an indispensable part of any military buff's library.



Shattered Sword is the winner of the 2005 John Lyman Book Award for the "Best Book in U.S. Naval History" and was cited by Proceedings as one of its "Notable Naval Books" for 2005.

Shattered Sword

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Archibald Rutledge

Sandlapper Publishing, Orangeburg SC, 1999, 4th printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket.

This is the story of Rutledge's return after 44 years to Hampton Plantation, his boyhood home. Built in 1730 the stately mansion and its extensive grounds and woodlands are now one of South Carolina's state parks, located 40 miles northeast of Charleston. The restoration of the house, and reminiscences of Rutledge's early years there captures the true spirit of Hampton.

Home by the River

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Terry Golway

Basic Books, New York, 2002, hardcover with dust jacket, first edition.  Minimal shelf wear.  Clean internally. Gift inscription in marker at top corner of ffep.

A History of New York's Bravest - The FDNY from 1700 to the Present

A history of the FDNY, from the volunteers of the early 1700s to the rescue teams of September 11, 2001, offers stories of heroic firefighters and significant events.

So Others Might Live

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Alan F. Crouchman

Schoffer Military, Atglen PA, 2022, Hardcover with dust jacet.  Like new condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Only American Aircraft to Survive 200 Bombing Missions During the Second World War

The definitive history of Flak-Bait, the most accomplished American bomber of the Second World War.

B-26 Flak-Bait

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Emeril Lagasse

More TV Dinners from America's Favorite Chef

With more than 1,000 shows on the food television network, weekly appearances on Good Morning America, and guest spots with Rosie O'Donnell and Jay Leno, it seems that people can't get enough of Emeril Lagasse. Happily, here's Prime Time Emeril: More TV Dinners from America's Favorite Chef. It's another big helping of the food, the fun, and the man America has fallen in love with. Now Emeril's fans can cook more of the dishes they've seen him prepare on prime time television -- more than 150 of them. They're easy to understand and simple to follow, and the results are foolproof and pure Emeril. Each chapter of Prime Time Emeril is filled with recipes, techniques, and tips to help you re-create Emeril's unique New American style of cooking right in your own home. These recipes feature his kicked-up favorites, including Chicken Drumettes with Blue Cheese Sauce and Emerilized Barbecued Oysters with Rosemary Biscuits. There are new twists on Louisiana classics, including gumbo, jambalaya, and beignets. From his hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts, Emeril shares the food he loved best as a kid -- recipes such as Hilda's Stewed Chicken, Madeira-Braised Short Ribs, and Lobster Portuguese-Style. Re-create Emeril's amazing appetizers, including Spicy Duck Empanadas with Cilantro Cream or Singing Shrimp. How about a big bowl of steaming Monkfish Chowder or Rabbit, Andouille, and Wild Mushroom Gumbo? Kick it up more than a few notches with Mardi Gras Jambalaya, Tuna of Love, or Bamburgers. And Emeril has never been shy about dessert. Whip up one of his creations, such as Pumpkin Cheesecake, Cherry and White Chocolate Bread Pudding, or Mr. Lou's Chocolate Praline Pie. So pick up this book and pick up a pan. You're ready for some prime time cooking with Prime Time Emeril.

Prime Time Emeril (signed)

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S. J. Cole

L. P. Lovell

Trade paperback.  Self published. 2010 printed in Orlando FL.

Very light bumping and fanning of cardboard cover

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