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Pictorial Encyclopedia of Japanese Culture: The Soul and Heritage of Japan. .
Tokyo:
Gakken
1989.
Hard Cover.
500 color photos and illustrations. Reference on traditions, religion, festivals, education, architecture and art. Glossary. 9th printing of first edition.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #8956]
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Allen, John. .
Assault with a Deadly Weapon: The Autobiography of a Street Criminal. .
NY:
Pantheon
1977.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Small rubs at corners of dj. Edited by Dianne Hall Kelly & Philip Heymann. Author's earliest memories up to shoot out with police in which he was injured and paralyzed. 249 pp. .
Fine in Near Fine DJ
[Book #3703]
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Allen, Paula Gunn. .
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook. .
Boston:
Beacon
1991.
Hard Cover.
First Edition.
DJ has a 1" closed tear and some light edgewear. Collection of 21 stories from Native American oral tradition which guided female shamans. 246 pages, bibliography.
Fine in VG+ DJ
[Book #11562]
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Andrews, William. .
Old Time Punishments. .
NY:
Dorset
1991.
Hard Cover.
Dust jacket has rubs on fold. History of punishments given to offenders. Index. Illustrated by drawings. reprint edition.
Near Fine in Near Fine DJ
[Book #10994]
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Anonymous. .
Streetwalker. .
First American edition.
NY:
Viking
1960.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
VG with 1" chip at bottom of 1 pg, in VG- dj with edgewear. Story of woman who worked the streets as a prostitute in London. The writing has been attributed to Jonathan Gash, but he has gone on record as denying authorship. . DJ has rubs, edgewear, and tiny corner chips, still very good condition. .
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #7823]
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Arieti, Silvano. .
On Schizophrenia, Phobias, Depression, Psychotherapy, and the Farther Shores of Psychiatry. .
NY:
Brunner/Mazel
1978.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Jacket has slight sunning of spine & light edgewear. Selected papers of the author from three decades. Index, bibliography. .
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #10144]
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Balaskas, Janet & Yehudi Gordon. .
The Encyclopedia of Pregnancy and Birth. .
London:
Macdonald Orbis
1989.
Hard Cover.
Guide to the first year of life, from conception to age of three months. Photos by Anthea Sieveking. 352 pages.
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[Book #15046]
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Bard, Floyd C. as told to Agnes Wright Spring. .
Horse Wrangler: Sixty Years in the Saddle in Wyoming and Montana. .
Signed by authors.
Norman:
University of Oklahoma
1960.
Hard Cover.
First Edition.
Book is very nice and clean except for a small rub and a small brown dot on the front free endpaper. Price-clipped dust jacket has 1/2" tear on back panel and light edgewear. Signed by both Bard and Spring on the front free endpaper. 296 pages with index and photos. Bard was born in Wyoming in 1879.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #11694]
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Battaglia, Debbora. .
On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society. .
Chicago:
Univ. of
1990.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Cultural & metaphysical life of the people of New Guinea island. 253 pp, index, bibliography, photos. .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #8165]
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Beard, Rick and Leslie Berlowitz, editors. .
Greenwich village: Culture and Counterculture. .
New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press
1993.
Hard Cover.
Published for The Museum of the City of New York. 420 pages, index, b/w photos.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #14968]
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Bergman, Charles. .
Orion's Legacy: A Cultural History of Man as Hunter. .
NY:
Dutton
1996.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
"The way man perceives and defines himself". Notes, index. Review copy with PR sheet laid in.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #5662]
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Bernstein, Morey. .
The Search for Bridey Murphy. .
NY:
Doubleday
1956.
Hard Cover.
Small board corner bump. Dust jacket has 1" tear, edgewear. Famous hypnosis sessions which took Colorado woman back to a previous life. Copyright date 1956 also on title page. No statement of printing but within first year.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #10360]
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Bird, Caroline. .
The Invisible Scar. .
NY:
McKay
1966.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
"The Great Depression and what it did to American life". 364 pages, index. Dust jacket in mylar cover has some light rubbing and a 2" tear. Original price intact. .
Very Good in Very Good DJ
[Book #12888]
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Birmingham, Stephen. .
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address. .
NY:
Random House
1979.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Story of the New York City apartment house. 241 pages, index, photos.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #12749]
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Black, Kathryn. .
In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History. .
Signed.
Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley
1996.
Hard Cover.
First edition, First printing.
Tiny board corner bump. "Account of the epidemic that shaped a generation," by woman who lost her mother to polio. Index, photos. Signed by author on title page "To a friend of the Denver Public Library. Kathryn Black, May 20, 1996".
Near Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #10043]
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Blye, Irwin & Ardy Friedberg. .
Secrets of a Private Eye or, How to be Your Own Private Investigator. .
NY:
Henry Holt
1987.
Hard Cover.
First edition, First printing.
Where to find informatiion and how to talk to people.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #15037]
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Boswell, John. .
The Kindness of Strangers. .
NY:
Pantheon
1988.
Hard Cover.
The abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance. 488 pp, index. Bump along bottom edge of front board.
VG+ in Near Fine DJ
[Book #9114]
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Botha, Ted. .
Mongo: Adventures in Trash. .
First U.S. edition.
NY:
Bloomsbury
2004.
Hard Cover.
First edition thus.
Good uses for items discarded in trash. Collectors, sellers, users of jewelry, books, etc, .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #13808]
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Bowden, Charles. .
Red Line. .
NY:
Norton
1989.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Rambling but cohesive memoir of changes in the American Southwest, the desert, the border problems, development, drugs and crime. .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #293]
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Brandon, Ruth. .
The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex and the Woman Question. .
London:
Secker & Warburg
1990.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Examination of the gulf between principal and practice in the marriage and sexual relationships of G.B. Shaw's circle: Havelock Ellis, H. G. Wells, Margaret Sanger, Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Rebecca West, etc. .
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #10210]
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Brown, Claude. .
Manchild in the Promised Land. .
NY:
Macmillan
1965.
Hard Cover.
Third printing.
Dust jacket has 1/4" chip & tear, some stains inside not visible on outside. Red cloth boards have slight rubbing at edge of spine and corners. Classic autobiography of African American & his people in 1940s to 1960's Harlem. Published in first year with original dust jacket.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #11290]
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Brown, John Hull. .
Early American Beverages. .
Rutland:
Charles E. Tuttle Co.
1966.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
The drinking habits of the colonists, early inns and taverns, old recipes, etc. Fun, interesting reference book. Lower corner of dust jacket flap is clipped, but original price is at top. Dust jacket has couple of 1-1/2 inch tears on rear panel, light edgewear.
Near Fine in Very Good DJ
[Book #14339]
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Bruchac, Joseph. .
Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred. .
Signed.
Golden:
Fulcrum
1996.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Analysis of the power of Native American stories by a noted Abenaki storyteller. Signed by author on title page.
Fine in Fine DJ
[Book #13029]
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Burlingame, Roger. .
The American Conscience. .
NY:
Knopf
1957.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Three centuries of American behavior seen through the shifting moral judgments of the people upon themselves: witchcraft, slavery, prohibition, corruption, race hatred, religious freedom, etc. 435 pp. Blue cloth boards with gold titles & decoration on spine. Light edgewear at bottom of dust jacket. Clean and unmarked.
Fine in Near Fine DJ
[Book #2996]
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Butterfield, Fox. .
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence. .
NY:
Knopf
1995.
Hard Cover.
First edition.
Examination of how America became so violent, with a study of one black family from slavery to the 1990s. 389 pages, photos. Light bump on board edge.
Near Fine in Near Fine DJ
[Book #12500]
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