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Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Stanley Tam formally and legally made God the owner of his business. This testimony of God's faithfulness is one of our time's most significant corporate and soul-winning autobiographies. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Stanley Tam formally and legally made God the owner of his business. This testimony of God's faithfulness is one of our time's most significant corporate and soul-winning autobiographies. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Softcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. x, 308 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated card covers. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Appendices. Notes. Index. Inscription on front end-page. Underlining in a few pages. Else a bright, crisp book.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. There are long tears to the spine ends, with some paper loss. Rear cover is missing a long piece of paper, approx. 3/4" wide, from the outer margin. Outer corners have vary small creases. ; Approx. 5 3/4" wide by 8 3/4". Original paper covers. ; 50 pages.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. Ex-library. Library ink stamp on the upper margin of the front cover, no other related markings. Slight creasing to the upper outer corners. Spine has very small tears to the ends. Formerly folded in half vertically. ; Approx. 5 3/4" wide by 8 3/4". Original paper covers. ; 31 pages.…

First Edition, 1986. First English Language edition. Originally published in France under the title Samivel de Cimes ion 1985. A Fine hardcover bound in pale blue textured paper covered boards, in glossy illustrated dustwrapper, not price-clipped . 103pp. With a Foreword by Yvon Chouinard (the owner of the Patagonia Company). Interesting mountain landscape fantasy cartoons.…

Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine a bit dulled with minor wear to its top and bottom, minor soiling to the covers, otherwise a very nice cop of this very early yellow peril novel which appears to be the first treatment of this theme by an American writer - Chinese laborers combine to take over the United States! Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-64; (1981) 1-61; (1987) 1-30; and (1995) 1-30. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 596. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 256. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 40. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 66. Wu, The Yellow Peril (1892), pp. 34-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 62. Reginald 04465. Wright (III) 1583. Illustrated. (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Book is in good condition; pages are clean and binding is tight. Some wear to edges of board and spine with some staining to front board. Some separation from pastedown on back cover. 258 pages.

1st. Near Fine pp104. 100 pages of cold. illus. review copy with t.l.s. from the Editor. unpc dw.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. [Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco bay] Lacks wraps. Softcover. 48 (of 58) pages. Includes folded map of San Francisco Bay at rear. California Local History 11450. Cowan (II), p. 372. The appeal of the Committee which traveled to Washington to lobby against the Central Pacific's "Goat Island Grab.".…

Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5] 6-8 [9-11] 12-258, flyleaves at front and rear, five inserted plates with illustrations by G. F. Keller, original pictorial terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. The Chinese conquer the United States. A very early yellow peril novel which appears to be the first treatment of this theme by an American writer. "The tale of the future did not begin to develop in the United States before the 1880s. The first of the new American wars was the great disaster related in Pierton Dooner's LAST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC of 1880. It is an early example of the mortal blow dealt by the enemy from within, then a novel device that would become a universal stereotype before the end of the century. On this occasion Chinese laborers combine to take over the United States; the Imperial Dragon flag of China is raised over the Capitol; Washington falls to the merciless yellow men; and, in keeping with the unrelenting workings of these propaganda stories, the end comes for the United States." - Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (1992), pp. 42-3. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-64; (1981) 1-61; (1987) 1-30; and (1995) 1-30. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 596. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 256. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 40. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 66. Wu, The Yellow Peril (1892), pp. 34-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 62. Reginald 04465. Wright (III) 1583. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 679. Cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, small, faint water strike to front cover, some foxing to endpapers, a bright, very good plus copy. An attractive, superior copy of this book. (#90324). …

Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5] 6-8 [9-11] 12-258, flyleaves at front and rear, five inserted plates with illustrations by G. F. Keller, original pictorial terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. The Chinese conquer the United States. A very early yellow peril novel which appears to be the first treatment of this theme by an American writer. "The tale of the future did not begin to develop in the United States before the 1880s . The first of the new American wars was the great disaster related in Pierton Dooner's LAST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC of 1880. It is an early example of the mortal blow dealt by the enemy from within, then a novel device that would become a universal stereotype before the end of the century. On this occasion Chinese laborers combine to take over the United States; the Imperial Dragon flag of China is raised over the Capitol; Washington falls to the merciless yellow men; and, in keeping with the unrelenting workings of these propaganda stories, the end comes for the United States." - Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (1992), pp. 42-3. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-64; (1981) 1-61; (1987) 1-30; and (1995) 1-30. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 596. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 256. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 40. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 66. Wu, The Yellow Peril (1892), pp. 34-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 62. Reginald 04465. Wright (III) 1583. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 679. Cloth lightly rubbed at lower spine end and lower corner tips, small, faint, mild foxing to endpapers, a bright, nearly fine copy. An attractive, superior copy of this book. (#170072). …

24.2x16.4 cm, pp. [1-3] 4-30 [31] [32: blank] [1-2: ads printed in red], 7 inserted plates, one folded, 1 folded map, title page printed in red and green, original flexible pebbled brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, rear cover stamped in blind. First edition. An elaborate work promoting Calistoga Springs, "The Saratoga of the Pacific," and the surrounding region, a major California tourist destination, including a nearby vineyard (pictured) supplying guests with grapes for the "grape-cure." Additionally, there is a long anonymous article, "The Great Geysers and the Drive from Calistoga," reprinted from LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, December 1870, pages [17]-24, and a reprint of Professor O. C. Marsh's "Notice of a Fossil Forest in the Tertiary of California," a paper published in the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, volume 1, April 1871, pages [25]-27. Rocq (1970) 5876. Not in Cowan (1933) or the 1948 Norris catalogue. Scattered foxing throughout, but the fine lithographed plates are clean, a very good copy. (#167383).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. This Society was incorporated on December 30th, 1876. This is a 14 page pamphlet in printed wraps.