Recent Arrivals from Book Happy Booksellers

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1956. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 64pp; Front cover clean & bright, back cover age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage 1950s era Christian treatise on American teenagers and the problem of juvenile delinquency with attractive Atomic Era cover design. Foreword by then Vice President Richard Nixon. Illustrated with photos.

New York: Schocken Books, 1969. First Schocken Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good+. 208pp; Covers slightly age-toned with slight handling wear, previous owner's sticker to flyleaf, scattered marginal vertical lines to text, binding is sound, Good+ condition. Study of Snake-Handling cults of the southern U.S. "graphically described in its complex historical, ethnographic, and psychosexual background." Illustrated with photos.

New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Hardcover in DJ; 346pp; DJ edgeworn with chip to rear panel & protected by mylar sleeve, previous owner's name to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Vintage memoir by woman who killed her upper-class husband, after ten years of following him into a life… Read more about this item

Privately Printed. Softcover. Very Good-. 169pp; Covers clean & bright with slight edgewear, slight forward slant, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Scarce, vintage collection of humorous pieces about bowling. Cartoons by Tom Davie. Published circa 1960s.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1961. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 127pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, age-toned, & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Radical left military handbook and manual for left-wing insurgency by Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-1967). It became a reference for thousands of… Read more about this item

New York: Manor Books Inc., 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Good+. 220pp; Covers lightly rubbed & age-toned, small X to back cover & spine, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Scarce, vintage paperback original, containing an investigative report on the disappearance of the Teamsters leader & mobster. Illustrated with photos.

New York: Quill, 1983. Paperback. Very Good-. 188pp; Covers clean & bright with slight edgewear, pages age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Novel first published in 1952, regarded as Jim Thompson's masterpiece. First-person narrative darkly & realistically portrays psychopathic killer.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 105pp; No DJ, red cloth boards with black titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, previous owner's name to FFEP, endpapers age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage guide to trick and fancy rope spinning. Illustrated with photos & line drawings.

New York: The Modern Library, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 357pp; DJ clean & bright with edgewear, 95 cent cover price & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright with slight bumping to base of spine, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Vintage Modern Library edition of the classic Gothic tale; the volume also… Read more about this item

Hollywood, CA: Thor Publishing Co., 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 143pp; Covers age-toned, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Scarce, vintage martial arts manual on the Bruce Tegner Method of Self-Defense. Illustrated with photos.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 217pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Study of the late Precambrian and early Cambrian fossil record, in search of clues that may explain the Cambrian phenomenon. Illustrated with photos & diagrams.

Berkeley, CA: Black Lizard Books, 1986. Reprint Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 127pp; Slight discoloration to back cover, else covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. From front cover: "Murder wouldn't matter now, not after his brain was already dead. He'd be better off in the ground, anywhere but where he was, strapped to a table--a mute,… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 274pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Entertaining polemic in defense of rednecks, hillbillies & white trash in America.

Toronto, ON, Canada: House of Anansi Press, Inc., 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/None. 303pp; No DJ, red cloth boards with silver titling to spine, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Argues against the idea that mental disorders are rooted in biology.

Ashburton, New Zealand: Robert Frederick Lynn, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 142pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Letter & photos from Author laid in. Scarce, vintage genealogy and history of Robert Frederick Lynn's family, who emigrated from Ireland to New Zealand. Illustrated with photos.

Long Beach, CA: Bob Pierce, 1965. Softcover. Good+. 320pp; Handling wear & age-toning to covers & some pages, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Vintage reference to 7498 piano names, serial numbers, dates of manufacture, factory locations and other information. Known as the "Bible of the Piano Business." Photos & ads in rear.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover in DJ; First Edition; 358pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine/Near Fine condition. Novel about a small town in upstate New York experiencing tensions between locals and newcomers.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 221pp; DJ price-clipped & slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, small pen mark to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. From DJ: "Personal and political odyssey of a highly praised 30-year-old novelist in search of his country.

Novato, CA: New World Library, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in DJ; 165pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. Signed by Author. Story of two friends living with AIDS who made a pact that whoever died first would try to contact the other, and chronicling a series… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, inc., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 514pp; Tan boards with red titling to front & spine, boards slightly age-toned with bent corners, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Papers presented at a 1978 symposium held by the AAAS in Washington, DC. Illustrated with diagrams and tables.