The Bookworm

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. Although Sandra Dallas had written several nonfiction books, this was her first novel. BINDING/CONDITION: lilac boards with dark navy cloth at the spine; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the…

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition. Description: Dust jacket art by James E Barry. Author Alan Dipper served in World War II as an air gunner and gunnery and explosives expert. This, his third novel, is a story of suspense and adventure centered around a brilliant physicist who has managed to transmute metal into g…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by (Batou? Baton?) -- cannot quite read the name on the painting. BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth, top edge color is red; owner's name stamp on the front endpaper, the endpapers have some foxing at the spine edge, otherwise a Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Takes a look at how animals interact with each other and their environments. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; remainder mark on the top edge, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dj is not price c…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Includes numerous color photographs. This is Volume 10 in the Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards with facsimile of Cousteau's signature in gilt on the front cover; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. Description: Includes two sections of b&w plates, a map and several tables. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; the spine is slightly skewed, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. appendices, chronology, bibliography, notes, index. 8…

Paperbound. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Description: Includes a few black and white photo illustrations, plus card layouts. A celebration of three decades of World Series of Poker champions, featuring the most interesting highlights of every tournament and an inside look at the strategies the champions used to win poker's most…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Many black and white photo illustrations. Photojournalist Bernard Wolf lived for three months in one of the hundreds of tiny villages that dot the area of rich farmland in China's Yang Shuo country where the golden River Li and its tributaries meander through the fields…

Hardbound. Condition: Fair. Description: Defines man in his relation to Christ, to his own physical and psychological nature, and to his need for forgiveness. This is part of the Layman's Theological Library -- a series under the editorship of Robert McAfee Brown. This series explores the Christian faith and what it means to eve…

Condition: Good. Description: Six pages of introductory text and notes are followed by 50 full page size black and white photographs of cards from the 1930s. The photos have just a brief caption identifying the make and year. All photographs are by the author, a commercial photographer. Mr Sweigert was also a contributing editor…

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket art by Barry Moser. Card catalog description: ''In 1899, ten year old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Book of the Month Club Edition. Description: The jacket art is not credited (artist's initials ?ch); I might guess author/artist Erick Berry as the illustrator, as she was married to Herbert Best and did illustrate some of his books, but those initials don't work for her. A novel set in the Adiro…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Description: Originally published in 1935, this edition is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged. Illustrations by Mick Ellison; afterword by Robert M Brown. Includes the publisher's insert. BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy binding, darker burgundy a…

Mass market paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Cover art by Jack Gaughan. This is an original publication; this mass market paperback is the first edition. ''A world at stake in a deadly game of galactic strategy'' (from the front cover). Pyramid book number F-840; cover price is forty cents. BINDING/CON…

Trade size paperback. Condition: Very Good. 5th Printing. Description: Straight facts on medical school admissions process. Information on the MCAT; advice on selecting the right medical school; current medical trends and specialties. BINDING/CONDITION: a trade-size paperback; a Very Good book. index, references, appendices. 8vo…

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Dust jacket design and illustration by Barbara de Wilde. This is a sequel to the author's first novel, Anywhere But Here. BINDING/CONDITION: tan boards with green cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket fl…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Description: This is part of the Real Book series. Illustrated with drawings by Albert Orbaan. Discusses several different sports, largely by focusing on several major athletes such as Don Larson, Mickey Mantle, Jim Thorpe, Knute Rockne, Harold Grange, brief mention of many old time…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket design by Rick Farley. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Bandora, Colorado is a little town, just on the wrong side of everywhere. Addie Devore, who took over the Bandora Bulletin, the weekly paper her grandfather founded, would like to make it work, and would…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Well illustrated with color photographs. An introductory section covers techniques, equipment and tips, followed by a section of basic recipes for various types of cakes and topping materials. The rest of the book is devoted to the construction of various specific cakes…

Hardbound. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket design by John Volk. The publisher's blurb reads: ''A seventeen-year-old model alleges she was sexually attacked in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by three men - a drug dealer, a film star, and a wealthy player in the international fashion industry. They…

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. Description: Cover art by Alex Schomburg. Ace book number F-356; cover price of forty cents. ''First Book Publication'' on cover. The only printed date is the original copyright from the serial publication in 1948; this circa 1965. ''Called to the end of time by a being they knew only as T…

Hardbound. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, so stated. Description: Includes a section of black and white photo plates. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Few international celebrities of the first magnitude have been so baffling to the outside world as Charles Lindbergh, who won the adulation of the world with his epochal flight. In t…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: Illustrated with over 100 black and white photographs. This book examines the tools and innovations of man in coping with nature: from herbicides to injecting starfish with formalin to cloudbusters. Remember this presents the technology and techniques as of 1970, and is…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Description: Endpaper illustrations and brilliant color illustrations throughout done by the author. From the Miss Spider series, many of the letters here are represented by insects, from fanciful to mostly-realistic. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; a Near Fine book, with a Nea…

Paperbound. Condition: Fair. Description: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 119, Article 3; pagination for this article runs from page 133 to 204. 32 figure illustrations. From the author's introduction: ''The Acrodont Amphisbaenids or Trogonophinae, form a small group of highly modified species apparent…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Book of the Month Club Edition. Description: Profusely illustrated in black and white, and with some in color. Cecile Curtis is one of the world's foremost animal artists'. After a varied early career in illustration, Cecile became absorbed with the possibilities of scraperboard engraving techniq…