Recent Arrivals from The Hard-to-Find Book Store

New York, New York: World Syndicte Publishing Company, 1931 Hinges intact, front end paper splitting at the hinge, age tan pages, 172 pp., binding edges worn and bottom of spine is torn. Book condition inside is good while the binding is fair. Original dust jacket missing, replaced by a dust jacket issued by Austin Lions Club promoting school crossing safety.… Read more about this item

London, England: Viking, 2005 A history of the winter of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts that began when thousands of workers stormed out of the massive textile mills that lined the Merrimack River north of Boston. After receiving their paychecks that morning, "they were protesting a pay cut, but were really on strike for their lives. Black and white photographs.… Read more about this item

Boston, Massacgysetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955 A compilation of a pocket book of mineral identification, includes physical properties of minerals and chemical classification of minerals, uranium ores, and more. Book is filled with sketches color and black and white photos. Very good condition inside and out. Clean and tight. 349 pp, Cloth hard cover has a black illustration of… Read more about this item

wid: Chartwell Books Inc., 2000 A book of ships of war from an image of an Egyptian saling boat, the sailing warships, battleships, cruisers destroyers, aircraft carriers, fast attack craft, and submarines. Color and black and white photos on almost every page as well as some etchings. Glossy pictorial hardcover in as new condition in an near fine pictorial dust… Read more about this item

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc./W. Clement Stone, Publisher, 1972 Three-Volume set in a hard cardboard slipcase. Volume titles are: You Can Become The Person You Want To Be; Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking: and Self-Love: The Dynamic Force Of Success.568 pages total. Books are in near fine condition, a small lark mark near the top of the fore edge of… Read more about this item

United States: The Henneberry Company, 1901 Each chapter is a letter written by a young Jewish girl, Adina, who is staying in Jerusalem with a Rabbi Amos, to her father in Egypt. Her accounts take place at the time of John the Baptizer and the new prophet Jesus, and her sights, and sounds as she experienced her life there. The… Read more about this item

Dallas, Texas: Chest Digest, Inc., 1987 Andrew Soltis is International Grandmaster of Chess. The book examines "an essentially simple set of variations, linked organically together, which leads to at least a small advantage for White (chess pieces are black or white)." Book is in near fine condition with no markings or creases. Soft cover, 146 pages, illustrated throughout, 0875681700.… Read more about this item

Chicago, Ill.: M. A. Donohue & Company Reprint. Noted author of young boy's adventures, no date listed, early 1900s, 314 pages. Book, hinges tight, no markings pages are age-tanned, title page is loose but attached. binding is blue cloth hard cover with red and black illustration of a boy of about 15 years of age at a train station on… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Collier Books/Macmillan Publishing Company, 1985 Chapters in this book includes: How Skill Develops; Typical Mistakes By Young Players; and Developing a Repertoire. The 199 pages are age-tanned on the edges. Book is in very good condition with no markings and tight hinges. 0020290802 - spine blue with white title and pink author's name and stripe at… Read more about this item

New York: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 2003 0375404619, 343 pp. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Book is as new with no markings or blemishes.

Wickliffe, Ohio: Process Controls and Optimization Publishing Company, 1990 Signed by M.A. Keyes and L.S Rice on the title page. Photos and illustrations throughout. The book has near fine hardbound cover with blue and gilt title, and the dust jacket has shelf wear but otherwise very good to near find condition. There is a picture of an offshore platform on… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Harper's Magazine Press, 1973 This is a massive volume, 545 pages, of all things cheese, from the many types, textures, and flavors of cheeses, types of milk (goat, sheet, cow), and climate conditions in making cheese. First published in France under the title "Guide de Fromage," this book is a First American Edition and translated… Read more about this item

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Cosmos Press, 1933 Photograph of Gifford facing the title page. Text block has no markings, but has faint moisture stain on top corner of pages 53-91 but no signs of mildew. Hard back cover hinges are tight and front has large moisture stain. Cover is green and has paper title label and spine is green with… Read more about this item

Dallas, Texas: Chest Digest, Inc., 1987 Chess strategies for playing black against white in competition. Book is in Very good plus condition with no markings or blemishes. 186 pages of instructions and analyses of various ways to attack the opponent. Illustration on front cover of three chess pieces. 0875681689. Spine lower 3/4 taupe color with yellow title and top 1/4… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Chess Review, 1946 The author presents 300 opening traps, "...how to set them and how to avoid falling into them --- a vital element of chess tactics." Diagrams with moves. Book is overall very good with no markings or blemishes on the inside pages. End papers are age tanned. Hard cover cloth binding, bumped on the… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1946 This is the final book of Ernie Pyle's war reporting. Pyle was in Africa, Italy, D-Day on the European continent, The Mariana islands, on an aircraft carrier on the invasion of Okinawa, seeing Okinawa secured. Then he was killed by a Japanese bullet on April 17, 1945. Sixteen black and white photos.… Read more about this item

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1941 The author presents, with diagrams and discussion, to help the student "who wishes to perfect his knowledge of any branch of the endgame" of chess. Small 12mo - over 6-3/4" to 7-3/4" tall. Hard cover blue cloth worn at corners and spine ends and hinges, and hinges are tight. End pages are… Read more about this item

Longmans Green and Co., Ltd., 1962 [From the inside cover, in part: "The very high poetic reputation of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1819) has been entirely posthumous. Educated at Highgate and at Balliol College, Oxford, he was a pupil of Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater...Hopkins entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1868, and in 1884 he was appointed to the Chair of… Read more about this item

Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1927 Contains plates of fossils and a composite paleographic map of Rio Grande drainage basin and Gulf Coast region, Mexico adhered to the back cover. An ex-library book from the Standard Oil Company library with pocket and stamps. 357 pages. Inside, the pages are tight and clean execpt for minimal markings in… Read more about this item

Berne, Indiana: The Berne Witness Company, 1948 The Berne Witness Company, Cloth covered boards, 348 pp, 8vo. Book appears to have been only gently opened. Age tan on endpapers and faint wear to spine ends prevent it from being termed Near Fine, thus I have classified it as Very Good condition. No dust jacket. - Cover is red with gilt… Read more about this item