Special Books

These are just a few of the special books we have in stock today.


Effective Security Officers Training Manual
Ralph Brislin
1995. ISBN: 9780750696104 - Paperback - VG - Covers everything from private security to alcohol and drug training, with tests within the chapters.
$15.00
 

The Gentleman from Indianapolis: A Treasury of Booth Tarkington
John Beechcroft
1957 HC VG - Compilation of nine short stories, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, Alice Adams, The Magnificent Ambersons.
SOLD
 

A Little Girl in Old Detroit
Amanda Douglas
1902 First edition - Good
$8.50
 

Under Cover: My Four Years in the Nazi Underworld of America
John Roy Carlson
1943. Unusual fly leaf with Nazi insignias, note from Wartime Economy Board about paper used. Fine. Hardcover.
$15.00
 

Complete French Grammar
W.H. Fraser and J. Squair
1921 Revised edition from 1901 edition, map of France on flyleaf. Good. Hardcover. Notes in margins, neat pictures of French travel sites.
$7.50
 

Health Lessons, Book 2
Alvin Davison
1909. Beautiful front cover of children playing tennis, some scuff on spine. Good. Board_book.
$10.00
 

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with the Circus
James Otis
1923. Library copy. Front cover printed with drawing of elephant head. VeryGood. Hardcover. Popular fiction for young boys of the period.
SOLD
 

Strange Bedfellows:Sex and Science Fiction
Thomas N Scortia
1972 First edition. ISBN: 9780394481555. Good clean binding, pages excellent. Collection of sexy stories by 19 authors. Fine.
$15.00
 

Girl Scout Handbook-Intermediate Program
Girl Scouts of America
1958. Nice green leather binding with gold scout emblem on front, 510 pages, Girl Scout record filled in on front and back flyleaf. VG HC
$8.50
 

Watson's the Play of the Hand at Bridge
Louis H Watson
1958. ISBN: 0-06-463209-1. Revised textbook from original book written in 1934. Very Good. Soft cover.
$10.00
 

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology
Michael Stapleton
1978. ISBN: 9780517262818. Ancient beliefs and fascinating stories, cross referencing different stories of Mythology. As New in as new dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$15.00
 

Mission to Moscow
Joseph E. Davies
1943 The inside story of Russian treason trials of the Nazi/Soviet War. Good in worn dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$12.00
 

Report of the President's Commission on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission/Associated Press
1968 The AP version from the arrival of JFK in Dallas thru the assassination, arrest of Oswald, then Ruby. Good. Hardcover.
$8.00
 

Pearson Custom Library of American Literature
Pearson Custom Publishing
2008. ISBN: 10-05369-9580-x. from Indiana Wesleyan University Workshops on Poe, Hawthorne, Faulkner, and many others. As New.
$10.00
 

Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys
Associated Press-Various
1968. History of the Kennedy family from 1940 to Arlington Cemetery. Many photos. Oversize book. Good. Hardcover.
$15.00
 

Red Pepper Burns
Grace S. Richmond
1910. Turn of the century story about a lovable country doctor. A story of a simpler time. Good in Worn dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$20.00
 

The Official Rules of Card Games-Hoyle
Milton C. Work
1934. First printing. Card games from Contract bridge to Old Maid. Fair. Soft cover.
$10.00
 

Random Harvest
James Hilton
1941. Pre WW2 story by the author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Good in good dust-jacket.
$7.00
 

No Love Lost
Helen Van Slyke
1980. First edition. ISBN: 0385085680. This is Helen Van Slyke at her best. Good in fair dust-jacket. Ex-library copy,Hardcover.
$8.50
 

Women in White
Frank G. Slaughter
1974. First edition. ISBN: 0385085680. An engrossing novel about a large metropolitan hospital. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$7.50
 

The Torch is Passed: The Associated Press story of the Death of a President
Saul Pett
1968. Many pictures not made public before. Good. Hardcover.
$18.00
 

Sampler of American Songs
Maymie R. Kerythe
1969 First edition. Background and lore connected with some of America's most loved songs. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$15.00
 

Paradise Alley
Kevin Baker
2002. First edition. ISBN: 9780060195823. At the height of the Civil War, thousands of poor Irish smoulder with resentment of a war not of their making. As New in as new dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$25.00
 

William Shakespeare: A Biography
A.L. Rowse
Book of the Month Club. First Edition by one of the leading historians of the Elizabethan age. Good clean pages, broken corners at bottom of the book in Fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. Priced low because of condition of book corners.
$6.00
 

All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1929. Fair. Hardcover.
$5.00
 

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
1937. The Poet Laureate of Indiana. Good. Hardcover.
$20.00
 

Fifty Two Years as a Newsman
William J. Hooten
1974. First printing. ISBN: 874040477. Good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. Signed by author on fly leaf.
$10.00
 

Blood and Orchids
Norman Katkov
1983. First edition. ISBN: 03120883955. An exciting read. Very Good + in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover. Ex-Library.
$18.00
 

Harvest of Yesterdays
Gladys Taber
1976. First edition. ISBN: 0397011334T. The author tells of her childhood in the Southwest and Mexico. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$15.00
 

Poems That Touch the Heart
A.L. Alexander
1956. First printing. 403pp of best loved poems of the early 1940s.
$10.00
 

Everyone But Thee and Me
Ogden Nash
1963. First edition. Nash's perfectly imperfect verse will entertain everyone. Fair in Fair dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$5.00
 

Home Again
Margaret Scott
1943. First printing. Home again is a story of a young girl who dreams of escapingfrom her parents Florida farm. Good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$12.00
 

The Way of all Flesh
Samuel Butler
Nice gold design on spine, embossed front of book. Good. Hardcover. Possibly a library edition.
$8.00
 

The Candle of the Wicked
Edwin Balmer
1956. First edition. Good in fair dust-jacket. A Christian Herald selection, library copy, priced low, fly leaf torn.
$6.00
 

Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction
Alan Gardiner
1966. ISBN: 9780195002676. The mysteries of ancient Egyptare explored. As New. Paperback. Fascinating pictures plus plates of artifacts, etc.
$12.50
 

Crowned Heads
Thomas Tryon
1976. First edition. ISBN: 9780394404684. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.
$10.00
 

Police Officer Exam Midwest

1997. First edition. ISBN: 9781576850978. The only cutomized guide to becoming a police officer in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, & Wisconsin. As New. Paperback. Excellent condition, Indianapolis, Marion Co. library copy, a bargain at this price.
$45.00
 

The Raker
Andrew Sinclair
1964. First edition. Good in fair dust-jacket.
$6.50
 

Oswald's Game
Jean Davison
1983. First edition.Forward by Norman Mailer. Very Good in very good dust-jacket. 343 pp with many never before printed photos of Oswald and the time period.
$25.00
 

This is The Hour
Lion Feuchtwanger
1951. Book of the Month Club. First printing novel about Don Francisco de Goya, famous painter from Spain set at the end of the 18th century. Good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover. Some wear to dust jacket.
$10.00
 

Standardized Textbook of Barbering
Associated Master Barbers of America
1966. Good clean copy, sixth edition, in 3 parts, fundamentals, barber science, and business principles., lots of illustrations. Fine. Hardcover.
$12.00
 





 

 

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