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Arlington, VA: Volunteer the National Center, 1986. Foreword by George Romney 8vo size trade paperback; 263 pages including index Contents include: Creating a New Competitive Edge: the Rationale Formalized Volunteer Programs Corporations in Partnership Volunteering: Organized Labor's Best Kept Secret Small Business Volunteer Programs Edgewear and average wear to covers. Five pages in chapter one have bright pink highlighting. .… Read more about this item

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8th printing (of the 1925 first edition) 8vo size dark maroon clothbound hardcover with black title band on spine and gilt titles and decoration on spine; 399 deckle edge pages Tolerance tells the story of religious intolerance. Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882 - 1944) was a historian, author and illustrator. … Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2023. Stated First Printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 398 pages including index plus a section of color photographs on glossy stock. From dust jacket: "As one of the last in a long line of powerful media moguls, Sumner (Redstone) had been a relentlessly demanding boss, and an even more demanding father. … Read more about this item

Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors Club, 1992. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 279 pages of heavy, glossy stock. Includes index and many black and white illustrations, some full page. From dust jacket: "This is a book to fascinate not only newcomers to the world of books and their collection, but also the cognoscenti, for the work… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 347 pages including index From page 3: "If you cultivate the sense of wonder, you can find beauty in every living thing - not only in the obviously handsome animals like tigers and their domestic cousins, not only in the most admired fish like salmon and in the most… Read more about this item

New York: Summit Books, 1985. Flat Signed on Title Page First Edition with Full Numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket with dark green endpapers; 313 pages From dust jacket: "(This book) brilliantly charts the course of the first half of the 1980s. With insight, wit and intelligence (the author) makes sense of the chaotic… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1991. Signed and inscribed on title page Stated First Edition, 5th printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 378 pages including index From dust jacket: "A Bold Call for a New Attitude by and toward American Jews Chutzpah, says (prominent law professor Alan Dershowitz) is 'boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what… Read more about this item

Ebook Bakery, 2023. Private Press; March 2023 The book is copyright 2017; this is likely a print-on-demand copy. 8vo size trade paperback; 222 pages From back cover: "Life in our 70s presents unique challenges as anyone already in or nearing that decade well knows. That's why readers of (this book) frequently find themselves nodding in recognition.… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1964. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 281 pages From dust jacket: "Even though she is one of the most popular writes of light verse in America, and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Phyllis McGinley considers keeping the hearth her true vocation. In this warm, wise and witty book, she shares with readers… Read more about this item

Toronto: House of Anansi, 2006. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 270 pages Fep contains an overview of the CBC Massey Lectures and a biography of the author. From back cover: "In the 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, (the author) asks: What does it mean to be human today, when science fiction has… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 2014. with Harry Jaffe includes "Enough" bookmark signed by both authors and inscribed with "Thanks for your support.) First Edition with full numberline From jacket: "In the aftermath of the Tucson shooting, basic questions consumed Gabrielle Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through her brain? Would she walk… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1992. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 305 pages. From jacket: "(The author) takes a serious look at three centuries of a social and cultural movement much maligned by academics and men of action. Defining a New Ager as one who sees "the possibility of a radically new… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO: Waterview Press Signed and inscribed on fep by co-author Paul Grogan. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 285 pages From jacket: (This book) shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nations urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1963. Stated First Printing 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine and black and gilt decorations on spine and front cover; 552 deckle edge pages Contents include: The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy The Challenge of Modernity The Public and Its Role Men and Citizens The Public Philosophy The Tension of… Read more about this item

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. 382 pages From back: "Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal organization, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies... and service organizations of all sorts. Social scientists are engaged in a lively argument about whether a decreasing proportion of Americans over… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970. Signed in green ink by author on title pages 8vo size trade paperback; 160 pages From back: "Peopled by such dubitable heroes as Pocus Snarple, Spoffie Pendelton, and the Flying Farquhars of Eastham, these yarns are about mermaids on the other fishwives, fisherman catching woodchucks from rowboats, fogs strong enough to alter the architecture,… Read more about this item

London: Arnold, 1997. 234 bright, white pages. Bumped corners and head and heel of spine. Edgewear to top corners. We note a red stripe on outside pages. From back: "A study of the changing face of TV news, this book examines both the transmitted screen product and the newsgathering process." Quotes are for illustrative purposes… Read more about this item

New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001. 273 pages with a section of glossy stock black and white photographs, many vintage. We note significant creasing to spine and creased top back corner. From back: "McLean Hospital is one of the most famous, most elite, and was once among the most luxurious mental institutions in America. Its famed… Read more about this item

London: King Penguin Books, 1943. One in a series of King Penguin books we have available. Text by John Summerson. 32 pages followed by a section of 16 color (colour) plates. Illustrations are suitable for framing. Top half of backstrap missing. Edgewear, bumped and worn corners and tanning to cover margins and spine. Pages have… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 437 bright, white pages to this heavy volume. Jacket has edgewear, minor chipping on bottom of jacket and a one inch tear on back; pencilled price and owner's stamp on fep. Owner's stamp to top of book. From jacket: "This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children,… Read more about this item