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Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing, 1986. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 158 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations, index. A practical guide for the surface collector and the amateur archaeologist.

New York: Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 337 pgs, sections of b&w photos, mapped endsheets. "On December 14, 1986, Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan took off from Edwards Air Force Base, in California's Mojave Desert, on their history-making flight - the first to circle the globe nonstop without refueling. The flight required almost superhuman physical and psychological effort."

New York: Dial Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 256 pgs. A quest for power leads a penniless Civil War veteran to a life of wealth, position and luxury.

New York: Dial Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good in Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8, 408 pgs. Intrigue in Costa Verde with a new dictator and caribbean heat for foreign correspondent Peter Reynolds. Ex-library with usual markings.

New York: Dial Press, 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Good+ DJ. 5 1/2 x 8, 437 pgs. Old West fiction, homesteading on the Great Plalns.

New York: Dial Press, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good- DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 288 pgs. Novel set in the 18th century about a guy who arrives in Savannah determined to carve out of the wilderness a plantation and build a great Southern dynasty.

New York: J.J. Little & Ives Co., 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2, 150 pgs, b&w illustrations. A tourist's impressions of southern California and in particular Los Angeles. Limited edition, #1929, signed.

Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2, 182 pgs, b&w illustrations. The (Mennonite-born) author details life in the west in the early years of the 20th century. Many good insights about the settlers of Saddleback Mountains region and the Columbia River areas of Oregon and Washington.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2009. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good+. 7 x 10, 290 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos and maps. Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "forgotten" battles of World War II. This book provides a complete history of the conflict by looking at the events which led up to the battle, with an overview of the American, Philippine and Japanese forces that fought on Bataan.

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968. First edition, third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 297 pgs, index. Front fly paper neatly cut back to one inch. Not an ex-library copy. Written "to help increase the understanding of a limited yet unmistakably major American writer'.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1978. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 5 1/2 x 8, 411 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Covers the coyote's natural history, life habits, economic status and control, as well as field studies of nearly a century. Slight damp staining at bottom of pages near front of book.

Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 2003. First, thus. Hardcover. Fine. 7 x 10, 359 pgs, b&w photos. From Safari Press's "Hunting in High Altitude" series, hunting stories from all over the world. Limited edition, signed and numbered 692/1000.