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California: Hay House, 1996. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Barbara Lambase DJ art. CONDITION: INSCRIBED by Author. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1996 Hay House small hardcover (blue boards with gold foil title on spine) & dust jacket, first edition, 4th printing. Being inscribed makes this book automatically "like new." However, there are a few pale fox flecks on the fore edges. Pale but there. Interior perfect. Barbara Lambase dust jacket art. CONTENT: This little parable, a kind of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) for angels, traces the exploits of George, an angel in disguise, from his days in the Heavenly Court to his "birth" and life in the body of a prematurely born infant to his "death" and return to full angelhood. For the short time George occupies the infant's suffering body, he delivers his message of God's great and all-embracing love to everyone he encounters in the neonatal nursery.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. A few B&W photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 1991 Johns Hopkins Univ. Press trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. A few B&W photos illustrate throughout. CONTENT: First let me recommend something, if you have not read it. It's online. White lost his daughter Mary in a horseback riding accident. His essay/obit for her is one of the most moving pieces of American literature ever published. It is simply styled as "Mary White." Do yourself a favor - read it. (It is also included in this book.) In 1895, as a 27-year-old journalist, White bought the Emporia, Kansas newspaper and moved home. During his long tenure, White gained nationwide fame as the "Sage of Emporia" - the embodiment of the small-town newspaperman and all the treasured virtues that small towns represented in the minds of Americans. White carefully shaped his paper's vision of its community to promote local economic… Read More

FlatIron Books, 2021. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Dermot Conlan DJ photo; B&W genealogy chart. CONDITION: WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK "AS NEW?" - Small black remainder dot top edges at spine. UNREAD 2021 FlatIron Books hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Beautiful DJ photo by Dermot Conlan. CONTENT: Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith's boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble together, salvage, or grab. At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants of town founders, along with the ne'er-do-well Moody clan, the… Read More