Search Results: Vintage PB's - NonFiction from Riverwood's Books

Toronto: Popular Library. Good. 1955. Third Printing. Paperback. Popular Library 1955, 3rd printing . Pages are intact and clean, previous owner's name written on endpage, one paper split at spine but no loose pages. Cover has moderate edge/corner wear and scuffing, small tears spine bottom. Spine has a slight bend to it, causing some waviness to front cover and creasing along spine. The intimate story of Lillian Roth and her fight against alcoholism and mental illness. (125os4-24) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 224 pages .

Dell Books. Very Good+. 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to edges, interior clean & tight, slight age yellowing. First book for John Steinbeck's son. " ...This is the story of one year in the life of a young man. In that year , he learned about the beauty of seductions of Vietnam, the horror of the war there, the hypocrisy awaiting him at home, and the price of challenging it....He speaks with the authentic voice of a generation. " (*shipping will be reduced on this light book ) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Toronto: Totem Books. Good. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0002168553 . Totem Books, 1983, paperback edition. Very good interior, with good-minus cover. Pages are clean and intact, with no markings. Age tanning to pages and inside covers. B/w photos. Cover has scuffing, several creases, small amount of price sticker residue, and moderate edge and corner wear. In 1919 young Peggy Holmes arrived in Canada with one of the first contingents of World War I brides, bound for Northern Alberta to homestead in the bush country near St. Lima. Pioneering in the Canadian wilderness was far removed from the comfortable existence Peggy had known growing up in Kingston-upon-Hull, England, but she brought to it all the joy of living that still characterizes her today at 82 (when the book was written)..... (125os,0415) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 190 pages .

U. K.: Penguin Books. Very Good. 1952. Third Edition. Softcover. light edge & corner wear, tanning & spotting to spine, old price on front. Internal pages clean and tight - age tanning to pages. 379 pages. Description: The author wrote this book with the intention of explaining the workings of the law to the common man. Still valuable information on Legal Rights and Obligations, Contracts, Employer/Employee relations, Principal and Agent, Sale of Goods, Firms and Partnerships, Moneylenders, Gaming and Wagering, Fraud, Tresspassers, Libel and Slander etc. Described by the New Statesman as "The best popular account of everyday law that has ever appeared at the price. " (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

New York: Berkley Books. Very Good. 1947. Softcover. Cover has light edgewear, light creasing and soiling. Pages clean and intact, age tanning to pages, tiny upper edge tear last few pages. Late in 1945, Trevor-Roper was appointed by British Intelligence in Germany to investigate conflicting evidence surrounding Hitler's final days and to produce a definitive report on his death. The author, who had access to American counterintelligence files and to German prisoners, focuses on the last ten days of Hitler's life, April 20-29, 1945, in the underground bunker in Berlin--a bizarre and gripping episode punctuated by power play and competition among Hitler's potential successors. (120) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Pocket Books. Very Good. 1971. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 0671780557 . Pocket Books 1971 printing. Paperback 12mo (7" tall). Light wear to edges and corners, scuffing of cover. Interior clean and unmarked other than date written on 1st page. An internationally recognized expert on drug-abuse analyzes the medical and social evidence on America's third and most widely used "drug" and discusses the case for its legalization....; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 402 pages; Is marijuana all that harmful? Even assuming that the drug is dangerous, do the current punishments fit the crime? .... (140-noto) .

Triumph Fact Book. Very Good-. 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Cover has light edge/corner wear, minor soiling. Yellowish mark and small peel where price sticker was removed on front, age tanning to outside and inside covers, light tanning to pages, some cover discoloration and ink rubbing along spine. Pages are clean and all intact. Jonathan Smith is the credited author on the cover and Lance Boyle is the credited author on the title page. The book that shatters age-old myths about drugs and their abilities as sexual stimulants. Learn the answers to these and other startling questions: "Will marijuana turn frigid virgins into nymphs? Can LSD change quiet afternoon teas into wild orgies? The Mind benders explores the murky lower depths of the drug user, opening a strange world of sex and fantasy to the reader. "The cases related in "The Mind Benders" are shocking . Many of them will send a frightful shudder up the spines of the unaware. " Neil Frank. (130osl) ;… Read More

Scholastic. Very Good. 1970. Second Printing. Paperback. 2nd printing 1970. Paperback feels tight and unread, no markings, age tanning to pages and inside covers. Cover has light scuffing and light wear to edges. Original title: The Electrical Genius of Liberty Hall. (85os-3-24) ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 160 pages .

Bantam Books. Very Good. 1978. First Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. Light edge & corner wear, light creasing. Internal pages are tight and unmarked. There is a small tear by spine on rear cover. 1979 pages plus book preview. This true story recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a supernatural presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, they investigate, unearthing the mansion's tragic past and changing their beliefs about the supernatural world. Winner of the 1977 National Writers Club Award for Nonfiction. (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Ballantine Books. Very Good+. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear edges/corners, interior clean & tight, age tanning to page edges. B/w photos. 145 pages. Including: Mattie Silks, China Polly, Elizabeth Taylor, Pearl Starr, Baby Doe Tabor & Diamond Lil..Some of them were scarlet ladies, some were adventuresses, some gamblers, and some were women whose views were too strong for their time, who found in the West the open spaces and the challenges they needed. (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Warner Books. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to edges, crease along spine edge and bottom corner, light soiling, interior pages clean & tight. 270 pages. "Here's the unzipped zonked-out story of a play they nearly banned in New York. A zany love story. The funny, sexy expose of a nude stage extravaganza-uninhibited and unbelievable!" (*shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

London: Arrow Books. Good+. 1969. Softcover. Moderate edge & corner wear, edge rubbing & light creasing, some discoloration to rear. Internal pages are clean & unmarked, age tanning to pages & a few tiny corner creases. "Mr Wheatley is a master at evoking atmosphere - in these pages we meet the King attending to the affairs of state, 'wenching' with his courtiers, travelling the country in disguise, hiding in the famous oak tree and conversing with his artless and scheming mistress, Nell Gwynn..." 192 pages (*Shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

England: Penguin. Good+. 1969. Softcover. Cover has light edge and corner wear, small tear to back cover has left a tiny tear to the last few pages. Age tanning to cover and pages. Pages are clean and intact other than mentioned. B/w photos. "Throughout the years of greatest East-West tension every British intelligence effort was jeopardized, because the head of anti-Soviet operations in the Secret Intelligence Service was himself a Soviet agent. In this book three Sunday Times journalists piece together the scarcely credible story of Kim Philby...." (noto) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Middlesex: Penguin Books. Very Good+. 1952. Seventh Printing. Softcover. Very light edge/corner wear, slight soiling to cover. Pages clean & unmarked. From the Introduction: "The author provides a clear, straightforward statement of the facts of sex and its problems in the life of the individual and the community. He writes strictly as a scientist and he refrains from passing judgment, but he confesses his own belief that the questions raised cannot be satisfactorily answered in a world that is empty of spiritual values..." (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations). ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Columbia University Press. Good. 1962. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. 9780231085144 . Light wear to cover edges and corners, some creasing, light soiling to cover and outer page edges. Age tanning to pages. Interior clean other than name crossed out on first page. B/w illus. 238 pages. An original analysis of everyday life in a typical rural American community presented in non-scientific language by an anthropologist. The author spent time in a small town using a pseudonym collecting material that is more descriptive than statistical, more informal than academic. Rural economics, folklore, psychology, education, and behavior problems of a community are examined. (300? Osl) ; 8vo .

Bantam Books. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Light edge & corner wear, a little edge rubbing, tiny tears to spine top & one tiny edge tear. Internal pages are clean and tight. 164 pages. "...Mao, like few good poets in our century, seems immediately accessible, indeed an easy poet - if deceptively so. In this apparent simplicity, he has, like Robert Frost, that rare ability to speak to us on several levels at once...."--Willis Barnstone (*Shipping will be reduced to all locations) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Bantam Books. Good. 1971. Softcover. Internal pages are clean & tight, however cover does have considerable wear, creasing, fading, reading copy only. The author has created an appallingly funny, cool, small, deflative two-scene social drama about America's biggest, hottest and most perplexing problem. (*shipping will be reduced after checkout on this lighter book) [osl]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Futura Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good+. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0708825869 . Slight wear to edges and corners, a little scuffing and sticker residue on rear. 190 pages. Astounding real-life cases of possession and exorcism investigated by Leslie Watkins for this controversial book. The author explores the phenomenon of demonic possession and those who seek to exorcise the perceived victims.... (*lower shipping avail to all locations) [120-osl]; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall .

Pinnacle. Very Good+. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 155817169x . Pages are clean and intact, light age tanning. Cover has light edgewear and a small amount of creasing. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 1 pages; When is right wrong . . . And vice versa? Find out in this collection of chemical conundrums, galactic puzzles, and astronomical anomalies. From the center of the human brain to the outer reaches of the universe, Asimov delights readers with his wit and charm. [155-noto] .

Ace Books. Very Good+. 1964. First Edition. Paperback. Pages clean and intact, no markings. Fairly heavy age tanning inside covers, lighter to page edges. Cover has light edge and corner wear. 118 new incidents from every corner of the earth - and beyond - which prove again that we live in circumstances frequently beyond rational understanding or scientific explanation. (140os424) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 251 pages .