Search Results: Titles starting with V from High-Lonesome Books

Tucson, AZ: Home Planners Inc., 1990. Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2 x 11, 256 pgs, house plans and color and b&w illustrations. 258 designes for recreation, retirement and leisure living; 440 to 4,400 square feet.

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 7 x 10, 122 pgs, b&w and color photos. Celebrates the prairie and parkland resource in the Red River region connecting threads between ecology, economy and community.

Silver City, NM: High-Lonesome Books, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 150 pgs, photos & range maps, index & bib. Fascinating study of a fascinating critter. Gathers the natural history of all the Vampire Bat species and relates the animal to the mythical vampyre of legend and lore. Warning! Vampire Bats are moving north!

New York: Vintage Books, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5 x 8, 531 pgs. The latest 'bitch's brew' of essays: audacious, transgressor-spirited, fearlessly provocative in a cant-free common sense. Herein, her seemingly omniscient commentary ranges over the Bill and Hillary show to NYC's downtown drag queen, Glennda Orgasm, from Frankenstein to Lauren Hutton and Howard Stern.

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. Second edition. Paperback. Good+. 6 x 9, 363 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, maps. In 1861 Earl Van Dorn entered the Confederate Army, heralded as one of its most promising young officers. Few men of his age had more military experience and prestige. A -West Point graduate, Van Dorn distinguished himself in the Mexican War under Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, and had fought the Indians in Texas as a member of the famous Second Cavalry. His early service in the Civil War further embellished his record. In late 1861 he was transferred to the critical Virginia theater of operations, where Jefferson Davis, his personal friend and commander-in-chief, expected great things of him. This new edition includes an afterword with more historical information about the general.

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 307 pgs, b&w historical photos, mapped endsheets. First hand account of Army life in Arizona just after the Civil War.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 x 8, 308 pgs. A nice reprint of Grey's thrilling story of the Old West. Still has protective wrapper.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 8, 308 pgs. An early edition of this Grey classic.

New York: Facts on File, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pgs, color photos, index. Beautiful detailed examination of the Arctic and it's people, Inuit, Lapps, Russians, etc.

New York: Washington Square Press, 1968. First printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good+. 4 x 7, 308 pgs. Edited and with Introductions by Walter Harding. "Civil Disobedience" was first published in 1849; "Walden" in 1854, by Henry David Thoreau, b.1817- d.1862.

Phoenix: Golden West, 1993. Paperback. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 175 pgs, index, photos/drawings/maps. A good guide to boating, camping, fishing & outdoor adventure on Arizona's Verde River.

New York: Knopf, 1939. Hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 500 pgs. Volume 8 of the "Men of Good Will" series. The introduction emphasizes that this can be read and understood as a separate novel. Includes a Dramatis Personae at the beginning of the book, to introduce the reader to the characters who appeared in previous volumes plus an index of characters at the end of the volume.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 226 pgs, references. "Ppaints an unforgettable portrait of a strange land and reveals the poetry in a scientist's view of the world."

Washington DC: National Park Service, 1961. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good+. 6 x 9, 60 pgs, b&w historical photos, maps. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 9. A souvenir and description of what to see and do at Vicksburg.

New York: Dutton, 1948. Hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 317 pgs. Paul Kent was a new young pastor. When someone who had confessed to him is found dead under circumstances pointing to murder he feels its his civic duty to see that justice is done.

London: Windrow & Greene, 1991. Paperback. Good. 8 x 10 1/2, 130 pgs, color photos throughout. Records the whole extraordinary story of the invasion of Kuwait, from the first U.S. deployments to the final surrender of Saddam's legions. Some pages loose but all present.

New York: Newsweek, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Good DJ. 9 x 11, 172 pgs index, bibliography, b&w and color photos throughout. History of Vienna.

Las Cruces, NM: Yucca Tree Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. New. 6 x 9, 116 pgs, index, b&w photos. A historic look at the men who fought with Pancho Villa during the raid on Columbus, their capture and what happened to them.

Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1936. Hardcover. Good+. 5 x 7 1/2, 143 pgs. Factual biographical sketches and deeds of this western lawman with an amazing career.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good+. 5 1/2 x 8, 255 pgs. "The little-known episode in American History on which this novel is based is a matter of record. I have taken no liberties with the facts of the arrest, imprisonment, banishment, and return of the twenty Philadelphians." "During the Revolution, a group of Pennsylvanians, most of them members of the Society of Friends, were banished to Virginia because they refused to subscribe to a loyalty oath. A story of moral courage which has deep significance today." [This book was written during the frenzy of the communist hunts of the McCarthy era in the United States.].