A Few Good Men

Robotti, Frances Diane. WHALING AND OLD SALEM A Chronicle of the Sea. NY: Fountainhead Publishers, c. 1962.
Ex-library with call label on DJ's spine. Libray stamp on half-title, title page, bottom edge and bfep. The dust jacket, which is protected by clear plastic, is taped to the covers. Otherwise minokr wear and soil on the sound binding. Ffep is missing. Contents are clean and unmarkedminor wear and soil on dust jacket. ; Dark blue cloth spine, gold lettering. Bibliography. Indices. 32p b/w photos. ADVENTURE. Accurately and vividly describes in stirring narrative early America's most romantic and picturesque industry, the terror of unchartered seas, the perils of rounding the Cape of Good Hope into the Pacific Ocean - favorite of whaling theaters - the conflict of a few men in open whaleboats with the colossal sea monster, the danger of the chase, hunger, mutiny, shipwreck, storms, boredom and triumph; how they whaled, the rules of the game, the weapons, the heroism in victory and defeat, the conversion of blubber into oil, and interminable four-year whaling voyages. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 292 pages.

First Edition Thus, Hardcover, Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket.

[KW: WHALING Capt. William Bligh Capt. Joseph Dexter Essex Institute Ship Bengal Ship Catherine Charles W. Morgan Emerald Izette,]

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Shukman, Harold, editor. STALIN'S GENERALS. NY: Grove Press, c. 1993.
Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Name on ffep. A few of the last pages' top fore corners are bent, else contents are almost like new. Very minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; Red boards, bright gold lettering. Index. 26 b/w full-page photo portraits. 7p maps. WAR. "Shukman has assembled an international group of distinguished scholars and historians...to examine twenty-six Soviet military commanders who strategies defeated Nazi Germany's potent fighting machine despite both the continual threat of purge and Stalin's often disastrous interventions...Complete with the latest information gleanded from the new opened archives, this authoritative study casts an all-important light on a hertofore unknown group of men who whlped create the modern Soviet military, one of the defining elements of the cold war Soviet state. Antonov, Bagramyan, Batov, Boldin, Budenny, Chuikov, Golikov, Konev, Kuznetsov, Malinovsky, Meretskov, Moskalenko, Novikov, Rokossovsky, Rudekok, Rybalko, Shaposhnikov, Shtemenko, Timoshenko, Tukhachevsky, Vasilevsky, Vatutin, Vlasov, Voroshilov, Zakharov, Zhukov. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 394 pages. 0802114873.

First Edition; First Printing, Hardcover, Very Good in Good+ dust jacket.

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Gardner, Joel R.. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF GOOD TASTE A History of the Tasty Baking Company 1914-1989. Philadelphia: Tasty Baking Co., c. 1990.
1" shallow scratch on back cover, else very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; . BUSINESS HISTORY. "This book derives its substance principally from oral histories of the men and women who worked at the Tasty Baking Company during its lifetime...The eldest in both age and service to the company...is ninety-four and joined Tasty in 1916...In addition, I read through the complete run of KRUMBS, the employee magazine, started in January 1917; the collection of press clippings maintained by the company's public relations department...; and annual reports and other documents provided to me by the company...". Photo-illustrated cover is about the weight of posterboard. PAPER COVERS. Scores of b/w photos, a few color photos.; 9-5/8 x 11"; 160 pages.

Large Paperback, Very Good-.

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Highwater,Jamake: Journey to the Sky:A Novel about the True Adventures of Two Men...Maya.. Crowell
light edgewear laminated dust jacket. light yellowing edges. a few small stains footedge. Very Good/Very Good hard cover

1st printing,1978 8vo,boards,242pp,illus.

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