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Softcover. Condizione: As new. In times of Corona, children have many questions. This lovingly illustrated pixie story accompanies families through an extraordinary time. It was created with expert advice from the Beratung des Bernhard-Nocht Instituts für Tropenmedizin entstanden. Text in German. As new. First edition. Dorothea Tust (illustratore). book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Barbary Shore is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut The Naked and the Dead. Mass Market Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Signet 1019, first Signet printing with period cover art by Zuckerberg. Creasing to covers, clean pages. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. As the founder of MIT's Media Lab and a popular columnist for Wired, Nicholas Negroponte has amassed a following of dedicated readers. The book contains an edited version of the 18 articles he wrote for Wired about "being digital." Negroponte's text is mostly a history of media technology rather than a set of predictions for future technologies. In the beginning, he describes the evolution of CD-ROMs, multimedia, hypermedia, HDTV (high-definition television), and more. The section on interfaces is informative, offering an up-to-date history on visual interfaces, graphics, virtual reality (VR), holograms, teleconferencing hardware, the mouse and touch-sensitive interfaces, and speech recognition. In the last chapter and the epilogue, Negroponte offers visionary insight on what "being digital" means for our future. Transparent plastic dust-jacket with corner tears and creases. First printing. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. First Edition. Thoughts on mental health and psychology. Black boards With gild title on front panel an spine. Old inscription on ffep. Minor rubbing to the edges. . First Edition. 5¼" - 7¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. The Pig-Tale, taken from Sylvie and Bruno, describes in fourteen polished, mock-solemn stanzas, a fat pig's ultimately fatal campaign to learn how to jump, Illustrated by Leonard B. Lubin. Dust jacket has wear to the corners and a small closed tear to the back panel. First edition. Leonard B. Lubin (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First edition. The Prominente, a select group of high-value Allied prisoners of war segregated and held at the notorious Colditz Castle during World War II. Dust jacket with a few closed tears, not priced-clipped (7.95). First American edition. 6" - 8½". book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As new. Condizione sovraccoperta: As new. First Edition. This historical novel set during the eighteenth century recounts the tumultuous final years of famed English lexicographer and poet, Samuel Johnson. First edition, like new. 5¾" - 8½". book.

Softcover. Condizione: Like New. Red Cavalry or Konarmiya is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the PolishSoviet War and are based on Babel's diary, which he maintained when he was a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army. Like new. 5½" - 8¼". book.…

Softcover. Condizione: As new. First edition. One of four extraordinary graphic novels celebrating the Big Apple, from the master of American comics art and inventor of the graphic novel. Character sketches and timeless snapshots of the eccentric denizens of the American city that perfectly capture Eisner's genius and powers of observation. Like new. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Throughout her life, Mariel Hemingway encountered struggles that shaped who she is today. She presents in this memoir a testament to her own triumph over what some people see as "the curse of the Hemingway family." First printing with somemild rubbing to the top edge of the dust jacket only. Size: 5¾" - 9½" First printing First printing First printing. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. First printing, with tiny bit of wear to the dust-jacket only. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Michael Bell, formerly a curator at the Public Archives of Canada, has gathered a fascinating anthology of drawings and water-colours by pre-Victorian and early Victorian artists in Canada. Painters in a New Land really does give a vivid sense of what its title describesa land barely changed by man the hunter and as yet hardly spoilt by man the exploiter. Some closed tears and sunning to the spine, in very good condition. Size: 9.5" x 12¾" 0.0. Various (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. In 1947, Spillane introduced Mike Hammer in his first book, I the Jury. The Killing Man is the twelfth and the first since 1970. In fine condition, First trade edition. Size: 5.5" x 8.5" First printing 0.0 First printing First printing. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. 48 pages. 1ère et 4 ème de couverture illustrées en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs, dans le texte, sous la forme de bandes déssinées. Illustré par Uderzo. French Asterix comic book, illustrated by Albert Uderzo. (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2008, 33 comic books in the series have been released. This is a 1983 reprint with a tiny tear to the back cover, internally very clean. Uderzo (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. Red cloth over boards. Front endpaper is torn in half, spine is sunned and has wear at the edges including a small tear to the fold. Pages are clean. book.

Softcover. Condizione: very good. Second Edition. An educational training text about spaceflight and the future. Most likely written as a textbook to go along with classes held by the Civil Air Patrol for older students, as their mission at the time was aerospace education. The intention of this book was to orient students regarding the space age. Corner chip to the back panel. Second Edition. 5½" - 8½". book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. "All children grow up. All except one." That special child is Peter Pan, and since making his debut on the stage in 1904 as a play, this eternal youth has carried boys and girls off to magical, marvelous Neverland. It's a trip that all kids want to make, and with this easy-to-read version of the classic, everyone can fly "second to the right, and straight on till morning" with Peter. Along with Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, they'll meet the fairy Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys, and the menacing Captain Hook. Includes audiobook accompaniment narrated by Kay Lande. Adopted by Carol Joan Drexler. The vinyl record looks unplayed. First Edition. 7¼" - 9". Wolfgang, Otto (illustratore). Book.…

Softcover. Condizione: Near fine. Traces the career of the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., stressing the period from the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott to his death. Light darkening to the edges only. 8¼" - 11". Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. Includes material on William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, the Grimke sisters, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin, Charles Sumner, and Bleeding Kansas. Dust jacket with a small closed tear at the crown of the spine, price-clipped. Illustrated, pages are as new. First Edition. 5¾" - 8". Bob Ritter (illustratore). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. After experiencing military intelligence with the Army Intelligence Service at Miami Beach, Marcos Spinelli produced this true novel of character and atmosphere post Pearl Harbor. Dust jacket with ware and soiling, first edition protected in removable plastic transparency. book. …

Softcover. Condizione: very good. first edition. Vintage Paperback: Dell Mapback 178. A Romance novel. First paperback edition in very good condition, with just the price marked on the ffep. book.

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First Edition. For decades the long, snow-capped range of the Cordillera Blanca has challenged the climbers of the world. The last supreme challenge was Huantsan: 21,000 feet of deep crevasses, of soft, trencherous snow, of knife edges and vertical walls and tremendous cornices of ice. Accompanied by Lionel Terray, master French Alpinist, Dutch geologists, Egeler and de Booy, reached Peru only to find that the American expedition was in the field before them. The authors provide a scientific appendix giving a summary of their researches and Andean geology. Dust jacket has a few chips. Old owner inscription on ffep. First Edition. 5¾" - 8¼". Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Good book for a beginning preacher. For the Protestant minister who may be tempted to conclude that preaching is no longer of great importance, this book should be required reading. The author shows that preaching the Christian Gospel has always been and is now of major significance for Christian life and worship. Small closed tears to the edges of the dust-jacket. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. An account of the successful 1999 expedition to find George Mallory's and Andrew Irvine's bodies on Mount Everest, documenting the group's findings, the artifacts discovered and the expedition itself, offering new insight into what happened to Mallory and Irvine. First edition. Brown paper covered boards with black cloth spine. In unclipped jacket. 206 pp. Color photos throughout. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Richard Olsenius's elegantly composed black-and-white photographs of rural Minnesota capture the dignity of his subjects, the beauties of the landscape as well as the enduring values and eccentricities of the communities rooted there. First printing with only minimal edgewear to the dust jacket. Looks like new. Size: 10½" - 10" First printing. Richard Olsenius (illustratore). book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. First edition. Photography of dramatic poses expressing emotions in black and white accompanied by verses. As issued without a dustjacket, minor rubbing to the glossy back cover. First edition, inscribed by Mitchell: "For Mo with gratitude! Our work together is where all this begun." Size: 9½" - 11½" 0.0. Inscribed by author. book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. This book looks to Japan and the Reagan-Bush years for the surprising answers, providing a fast-paced and intriguing financial history of Japan's financial policy. In fine condition. Size: 8½" - 5¾" First printing. book.

Softcover. Condizione: New. Katalin Karikó is an acclaimed Hungarian-American biochemist whose perseverance in the face of setbacks paved the way for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines now being administered to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. For her achievements, Karikó has received many prestigious awards, including the Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences' Reichstein Medal, Spain's Princess Asturias Award, and the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (all in 2021), and the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Biotechnology, Germany's Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the Breakthrough Prize (all in 2022). In 2021 TIME magazine named her one of its 100 most influential people of the year. Last November she delivered the Hawking Fellowship lecture at the University of Cambridge. Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023. 6½" - 9½". book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. First edition. Suspenseful detective novel artfully done by an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon. First printing, in excellent condition protected in mylar. book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Although known to millions of readers as the illustrator of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, Richard Chopping, was relished by rather fewer as a novelist in his own right. The Fly though ingeniously structured, features some finely modulated cynicism and bad taste, including children whose shenanigans undermine Chopping's claim to deplore Bond's apparent snobbery and violence. Jacket artwork designed by Chopping. Some fading and a small diagonal corner crease to the cover. First printing of Signet. Size: 4½" - 7". Richard Chopping (illustratore). book.…