Bodie Thoene

Brock Thoene

Slight wear on inside page - maybe sticker removed - book is in excellent shape 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Gates of Zion

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Delaware

First Published in THE NOVEL LIBRARY, 1947

THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ESQUIRE

Shirley Hazzard

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

The year is 1947. The great fire of the Second World War has convulsed Europe and Asia. In its wake, Aldred Leith, an acclaimed hero of the conflict, has spent two years in China at work on an account of world-transforming change there. Son of a famed and sexually ruthless novelist, Leith begins to resist his own self-sufficiency nurtured by war. Peter Exley, another veteran and an art historian by training, is prosecuting war crimes committed by the Japanese. Both men have narrowly escaped death in battle, and Leith saved Exley's life. The men have maintained long-distance friendship in a postwar loneliness that haunts them both, and which has swallowed Exley whole. Now in their thirties, with their youth behind them and their world in ruins, both must invent the future and retrieve a private humanity. Arriving in Occupied Japan to record the effects of the bomb in Hiroshima, Leith meets Benedict and Helen Driscoll, the Australian son and daughter of a tyrannical medical administrator. Benedict, at twenty, is doomed by a rare degenerative disease. Helen, still younger, is inseparable from her brother. Precocious, brilliant, sensitive, at home in the books they read together, these two have been, in Leith's words, delivered by literature. The young people capture Leith's sympathy; indeed, he finds himself struggling with his attraction to this girl whose feelings are as intense as his own and from whom he will soon be fatefully parted. A deeply observe

The Great Fire

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Oklahoma

Home Country

First Published in THB NOVEL LIBRARY, 1947

THE HISTORY AND REMARKABLE LIFE OF THE TRULY HONOURABLE COLONEL JACK

A beautiful story about growing up before, during and after the Rural Electrification Act in northeast Georgia.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Year The Lights Came On 

1947 

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Excellent Considering It’s Age 
Decorative Cover 
 

1947 Vintage Book Hardcover Novel Library

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Black mark on top page edges. See photos.

Virginia

A Novel

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women--one Jewish, one a WASP--and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting.

One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia's difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor.

Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys' rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl's mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name "Moss" to enter the Bellamys' restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia's husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish.

Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys' country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia's unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women's friendship grows--until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions--choices that will reverberate through their lives.

Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change--and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.

Not Our Kind

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Third Edition 

Child Psychology 

Magic Tree House book about Jackie Robinson with the classic Jack and Annie Magic Tree House characters experiencing what Jackie experienced. Would be a great purchase for a school classroom/library or to read with your children. Enjoy. 

Ohio

Morgan the librarian gives Jack and Annie magical baseball caps to wear at a special ball game in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947 where they meet pioneering player Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery.

A Big Day for Baseball

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Kentucky

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Washington

Complete and unabridged

Spacehounds Of IPC

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Film Title : Broken Arrow

Blood Brother

1947 Random House

149 pages, color illustrations by Mahmoud Sayah, all pages decorated with small tinted pictures. 6" x 9 3/8" tall. A complete reprint of the First Edition and the combined Third, Fourth and Fifth Edition, with an appendix containing Fitzgerald's Prefaces and Notes. Square, solid copy. Box is a little worn, see pics.

California

Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám (Translated into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer)

Red Barber

Trade paperback size. Pages are clean and tight with no spine creasing. There is sticker residue on first page

Wisconsin

When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball

When Jackie Robinson was penciled into the lineup for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, America's national pastime and America's future changed forever. How much is reflected in a remark Martin Luther King Jr. made to Don Newcombe: “You'll never know what you and Jackie and Roy did to make it possible to do my job.” Red Barber was perfectly situated to observe this drama. Broadcaster for the Dodgers, friend of Branch Rickey—who confided in him before and during the year of decision—and keen student of the game and the behavior of its players, Red held the microphone as the story unfolded with a cast of characters that included baseball immortals Duke Snyder, Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese, Peter Reiser, Larry McPhail, and Joe DiMaggio. Towering above them all are Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey—who together made baseball and American history and whose courage and toughness Red Barber captures so beautifully in this book.

1947 the year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier

Breakfast with the Nikolides

Michigan

Vintage Illustrated 

Back Home

Slight corner damage and scuffed bent book. It’s new otherwise. 

The truth can be dangerous

A Beautiful Lie

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Elisabeth Åsbrink

Fiona Graham

Where Now Begins

An NPR Best Book of the Year 2018 “One of the best books, certainly the best nonfiction book, that I've read recently.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition “An extraordinary achievement.” —New York Times Book Review An award-winning writer captures a year that defined the modern world, intertwining historical events around the globe with key moments from her personal history. The year 1947 marks a turning point in the twentieth century. Peace with Germany becomes a tool to fortify the West against the threats of the Cold War. The CIA is created, Israel is about to be born, Simone de Beauvoir experiences the love of her life, an ill George Orwell is writing his last book, and Christian Dior creates the hyper-feminine New Look as women are forced out of jobs and back into the home. In the midst of it all, a ten-year-old Hungarian-Jewish boy resides in a refugee camp for children of parents murdered by the Nazis. This year he has to make the decision of a lifetime, one that will determine his own fate and that of his daughter yet to be born, Elisabeth.

1947

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Maryland

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Craig Shirley

Book an excellent readable condition. Staining on the bottom of the outside of the pages. Tanning on the outside of pages. Name written inside cover on first page.

Pennsylvania

31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World

Chronicles the decisive month in American history, where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor facilitated the entrance of the United States into World War II, and details the economic, social, and political climate of the country during that time.

December 1941

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The Lincoln Reader

Little Brown 1947 First Edition, dust cover torn in half (see photo) tiny tear at top of spine, otherwise clean with no highlighting or notations recipes from the the Asian Pacific countries 

FAR EASTERN COOKING 

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The Gates of Zion

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THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ESQUIRE

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The Great Fire

Ernie Pyle

Home Country

DANIEL DEFOB

THE HISTORY AND REMARKABLE LIFE OF THE TRULY HONOURABLE COLONEL JACK

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The Year The Lights Came On

JONATHAN SWIFT

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

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Not Our Kind

Arthur T. Jersild

Child Psychology

Mary Pope Osborne; A. G. Ford (Illustrator)

A Big Day for Baseball

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edward E Smith

Spacehounds Of IPC

Elliot Arnold

Blood Brother

Edward Fitzgerald

Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyám (Translated into English Quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer)

Red Barber

1947 the year Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier

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Breakfast with the Nikolides

Bill Mauldin

Back Home

Irfan Master

A Beautiful Lie

Elisabeth Åsbrink; Fiona Graham

1947

Edward A. Wilson

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Craig Shirley

December 1941

Paul Angle

The Lincoln Reader

Elinor Burt

FAR EASTERN COOKING