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Petoskey, Michigan: The Social Contract Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume autobiography of an Austro-Slovenian-American doctor. Fine. Hardcovers in blue and beige cloth, respectively. Clean and unmarked. Illustrated with many b/w photographs. 153 [&] 221 pages. Published in 1994 and 1999. Autobiographical memoirs of Dr. Gustav Adolf Uhlich (b. 1929, Schladming, Austria) of Petoskey, Michigan. His parents joined his grandfather Rimske Toplice, Slovenia in 1931. The first volume documents growing up and his education in Slovenia and Austria (Graz, Admont, Cilli, Rimske Toplice), describes his family and relatives (including family trees), and narrates the impact and experiences of World War II and conditions of life in Graz in the post-war years. The second volume records his life in America in the medical profession as an gastroenterologist, including internship and work at the Henry Ford Hospital (1960-1963) and then thirty years of practice at the Burns Clinic (1963-1992) in… Read More

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Signed and numbered [113/300] on the limitation page, first edition. Boards in maroon cloth with papered sides (fleur-de-lys pattern). Very faint wear to the bottom corners of the top board. xii, 63, [1] pages. 9.2 x 6 inches. Placed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. Twenty pieces written for Updike's ''Talk of the Town'' column in The New Yorker between 1955 and 1959, including the very first.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1935. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good-. Black cloth boards stamped in red. Red topstain. Spot of light wear along right side of spine. Rubber stamps on front and rear free end papers (for a department store circulating library); previous owner's name on ffep; label residue on front paste-down. Pages a bit toned. Dust jacket has some chipping at head and tail of spine and corners; a few edge nicks and rubbed areas; not price clipped ($1.50). DJ in clear archival sleeve. 245 pp. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Early western novel by John Upton Terrell (1900-1988) about a renegade Confederate cavalryman who embarks on a career and adventure as an outlaw cattleman in old New Mexico.

Los Altos, CA: Peninsula Publishing, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Revised and Edited from the 1984 edition published by Undersea Warfare Technology Office, Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Gray cloth boards. Interior is crisp and clean. Dust jacket has a small closed tear; light edge wear; rubbing. DJ is in an archival mylar sleeve. Includes bibliography and index. About 179 pages total. 11 x 8.5 inches.

Plymouth, England: Underhill Ltd., Printers, 1945. Soft cover. Very Good. Staple-bound in printed card covers. Extensively illustrated; three leaves with die-cut windows. [36] pages. 9 x 7 inches. Foreword by Capt. W. F. [William Freeman] Royall. Rare. Three copies noted on OCLC (US Naval Academy, San Francisco Maritime Research Center Archives, Plymouth Libraries (UK)). A short history and pictorial presentation of the United States Naval Advanced Amphibious Base in Plymouth, Devon, England, 1944-1945. Includes identified portraits of top officers and department heads, pictures of the Queen Anne Battery, Cattedown Quarry storage, the Plymouth Hoe, Manadon Naval Field Hospital, Martin's Wharf, Shapter's Field, Saltash, the chaplain corps, many depictions of the sailor's life and recreation at and near the base, and more.