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Doctor at Nagasaki - "My First Assignment Was Mercy Killing".

Shiotsuki, Masao, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Tokyo, Kosei Pub. Co., (1987). 1st Eng Prtg. VG PB. In war time Japan, an idealistic young intern fresh from medical school is assigned to the very hospital in which many. of the victims of the atomic bombing Nagasaki are patients. He relates the deeplyl moving account of of the…

Death to the Death of Poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews.

Hall, Donald, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Ann Arbor, MI, University of Mich Press, (1997). 1st prntg. VG PB. Hall believes that poetry at the present moment thrives both in quality and in leadership. He counters the increasingly publicized view that poetry has an ever diminishing important in contemporary culture. He re…

Peace Power Righteousness an indigenous manifesto.

Taiaiake, Alfred, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Ontario, Canada, Oxford Univ. Press, (1999). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Author is Director of the Indigenous Covernance Program of he University of Victoria. Born and raised in the Kahnawake Mohawk. Territory he is widely known for his scholarly work on Native nationalism, Iroquois history…

Secrets and Wives: the hidden world of Mormon polygamy.

Bhattacharya, Sanjiv, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Berkeley, CA, Soft Scull Press, (2011). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB ex-library. Polygamy is a diaspora, a hidden sprawl, With unprecedented access to these communities, he reveals a shadow country of. of small town messiahs, dark secrets, and no end of strange and surprising stories wi…

Falling into Greatness.

Ogilvie, Lloyd John, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Nashville, Thomas Nelson, (1984). VG in VG DJ. Ogilvie believes that greatness can be attained only by falling into it by the grace of God. He explains how through reading. studying, and praying the Psalms we can fall into the arms of the Greatness of God. He chooses 19 that mos…

Thirty Years.

Marquand, John P., introduction by Clifton Fadiman, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Boston, Little Brown, (1954). 1st ed. VG. A collection of stories, essays and articles that have not previously appeared in book form. Owner name front endpaper. Marquand once spent several weeks living with an Ojibway tribe and even joined in its tribal dances. Once he tried to…

Father Juniper and the General.

Norman, James, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, 1957. VG in G DJ. Juniper was a gentle man otherwordly who bewildered his enemies & aggravated his friends. Briefly he was a troubleshooter. The previous priestly had practically been bombed out of town because he had refused to bless the local home brew and charged …

Don't Eat This Book: fast food and the supersizing of America.

Spurlock, Morgan, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Putnam, (2005). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Can a man life on fast food alone? The author tried to do that for 30 days he ate nothing but McDonald's as part of an. investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. But there is more to this than McSickness. He examine…

Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Atheneum for Young Readers, (1992). 10th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Beautiful copy. Cover shows Balfour on river bank. How he was kidnapped and cast away, his sufferings in a desertisle, his. journey in the wild highlands, his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious …

Where to Go, What to Do, When You Are Bern Potter: a personal biography.

Schevill, James, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House, (1992). 1st ptg. G. In 1945 when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Bern learned what he and his fellow scientists had been building. It turned him away from military applications of science toward art and culture. In the late 1960s he retur…

Leonard Bernstein: the man, his work, and his world.

Briggs, John, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, World, (1961). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Bernstein's meteoric rise at the age of 25 to the conductorship of the NY Philarmonic is a musical Horatio Alger story. He made musical history in almost every phase of serious and popular music, including as a pianist and composer. He wro…

A Place for Penny.

Anderson, Phoebe M., · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, United Church Press, (1960). VG PB. Penny Poppit could hardly wait for Sunday to come. She was big enough to go to church school but where would her place be?. Joining the nursery class of the church is for many 3-yr old a giant step. This book prepared your child for ch…

The Future of an Illusion.

Freud, Sigmund, translated by W. D. Robson-Scott, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Anchor, nd. VG PB. One of several less technical books in which Freud wrote less technically in which he applied the psychoanalytic approach to. the study of culture. One question he answers is: what are religious ideas in the light of psychology, what is their rea…

I Thee Wed.

Dittami, Mario L., O. Carm., · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Chicago, Lumen Books/Paluch Pubs, (1955). 5th ed. G PB ex-library. Signed by author. Boston born Dittami is now Prior of the Infant of Prague Villa at Akron, Ohio, was physics teacher at. the Chicago Carmelite. He often preached missions, retreats, and his Marriage Clinics for y…

Ravelstein.

Bellow, Saul, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, (2000). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a trainer of the movers & shakers of the. political world. A friend suggests he write a book of his convictions. He does and becomes a millionaire. But later on…

The Elect Lady.

MacDonald, George, edited by Dan Hamilton, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Wheaton, IL, Victor, (1988). VG PB. First published in England in 1888. MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish clergyman, novelist, poet and writer of fantasy for. children and adults, author of more than 50 books. When George Crawford is injured ina train wreck in the Scottish Hi…

Poemscapes.

Patchen, Kenneth, · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Highland, NC, Jonathan Williams, 1958. G ex-library PB. "He represents all that a poet should.he has given courage, direction, and inspiration to more poets." Henry Miller. Investigation into what might be termed the techniques of controlled freedom which Patchen has carried out…

Clout: Mayor Daley and his city.

O'Connor, Len, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Regnery, (1975). VG in G DJ. Mayor Daley has defied encapsulation but leading Chicago political analyst O'Connor explains how Daley came to power,. how he eliminated or brought his opponents under control, how the way was paved for him by allies he later turned out. The…

In the Stillness Dancing: the journey of John Main.

McKenty, Neil, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, Darton, Longman and Todd, (1987). Reprint. VG PB. Journalist, soldier, barrister and Benedictine monk, Main's spiritual odyssey was a quest for an authentic life of prayer. He met a swami who taught him to meditate using a mantra, then he entered the Benedictine noviciat…

King of the Cats: the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..

Haygood, Wil, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1993. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most brilliant, charismatic & controversial politicians of his time, grandson of a slave, son of a minister,. he used his father's pulpit to raise up the poor & disadvantaged during the Great Depression, married a …