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	YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY ALEKSANDROVICH; BOUIS, ANTONINA W. (TRANSLATED BY) Don't Die Before Your Dead Toronto, ON, Key Porter Books. 1995, First edition thus. (ISBN: 1550136585) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, 415 pp.; 25 cm. First published under title: Ne umirai prezhde smerti. Translated from the Russian. Tight, clean copy. Boards lightly rubbed. Remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "Infused with a passionate lyricism and vision, this stunning, extraordinarily insightful, autobiographical novel about life, love, and politics in contemporary Russia, written by renowned poet and political activist Yevtushenko, presages all too accurately the strife that grips Russia today." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 023242 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALEXANDER, BEVIN How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat New York, Three Rivers Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0609808443) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 337 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. "Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality and his military strategy was critical in causing Germany to lose the war. With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual 'What if?' history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war. Using beautifully detailed, newly designed maps, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II exquisitely illustrates the important battles and how certain key movements and mistakes by Germany were crucial in determining the war's outcome. Alexander's harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler's military approach could have changed the world we live in today. How Hitler Could Have Won World War II untangles some of the war's most confounding strategic questions, such as: Why didn't the Nazis concentrate their enormous military power on the only three beaches upon which the Allies could launch their attack into Europe? Why did the terrifying German panzers, on the brink of driving the British army into the sea in May 1940, halt their advance and allow the British to regroup and evacuate at Dunkirk? With the chance to cut off the Soviet lifeline of oil, and therefore any hope of Allied victory from the east, why did Hitler insist on dividing and weakening his army, which ultimately led to the horrible battle of Stalingrad? Ultimately, Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler's psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the most terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory? Why did Hitler insist on terror bombing London in the late summer of 1940, when the German air force was on the verge of destroying all of the RAF sector stations, England's last defense? With the opportunity to drive the British out of Egypt and the Suez Canal and occupy all of the Middle East, therefore opening a Nazi door to the vast oil resources of the region, why did Hitler fail to move in just a few panzer divisions to handle such an easy but crucial maneuver? On the verge of a last monumental effort and concentration of German power to seize Moscow and end Stalin's grip over the Eastern front, why did the Nazis divert their strength to bring about the far less important surrender of Kiev, thereby destroying any chance of ever conquering the Soviets? / Bevin Alexander is the author of five books of military history, including Lost Victories, which was named by the Civil War Book Review as one of the seventeen books that has most transformed Civil War scholarship. His battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia." - Publisher. Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 043999 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NEUMEYER, ALFRED; READ, HERBERT (FOREWORD BY); ANGRESS, RUTH (TRANSLATED BY) The Search for Meaning in Modern Art Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1964, 3rd printing. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, xv, 144 pp. illus.; 21 cm. Translation of "Die Kunst in unserer Zeit: Versuch einer Deutung." Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. Some highlighting, chiefly clean. Good/No DJ. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 012245 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALLEYNE, WARREN Caribbean Pirates London, Macmillan Caribbean. 1986, Reprint, 1989. (ISBN: 0333405846) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 113 pp. illus. 1 map, ports.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 014222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALMOND, STEVE Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underworld of America Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2004. (ISBN: 1565124219) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 266 pp.; 18 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "Driven by his obsession, stubborn idealism, and the promise of free candy, self-confessed candyfreak Steve Almond takes off on a quest to discover candy's origins in America, to explore the little companies that continue to get by on pluck and perseverance, and to witness the glorious excess of candy manufacturing. From the Twin Bing to the Idaho Spud, the Valomilk to the Abba-Zaba, Almond uncovers a small legion of singular handcrafted candy bars made by unsung heroes, working in old-fashioned factories for tiny profits to produce something that they love. Fascinated by the emotional power of these confectionary delights, the primal and persuasive experience of the world in our mouths, Almond describes our candy cravings in sensuous and titillating detail. Though the road is laden with free samples, he discovers that the world of candy making is not the sweet world of childhood reveries but one beleaguered by stiff competition, closely guarded secrets, and increasingly limited markets. But no matter. As he also finds, every candy maker, even when poised on the edge of failure, is happy, indulgent, and childlike. For finally, even the darkest market forces, even the clout of the Big Three candy companies that threaten to wipe out all others, cannot lessen our desire to lose ourselves in chocolate. Candyfreak is the bittersweet story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy--and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too. Almond gives us a hilarious, sugar-high tour of those old-fashioned candy companies." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 030222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AMBROSE, STEPHEN E. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 1995, Reprint. (ISBN: 068480137X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 655 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Cocked spine/lean. Another copy available. "They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought. They were soldiers of democracy. They were the men of D-Day. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight the youngsters brought up in the Boy Scouts. Now, in this magnificent retelling of the war's most climactic battle, acclaimed Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose tells how wrong Hitler was. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories as well as never-before-available information from around the world, Ambrose tells the true story of how the Allies broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall, revealing that the intricate plan for the invasion had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. Focusing on the 24 hours of June 6, 1944, D-Day brings to life the stories of the men and women who made history -- from top Allied and Axis strategic commanders to the citizen soldiers whose heroic initiative saved the day. From high-level politics to hand-to-hand combat, from winner-take-all strategy to survival under fire, here is history more gripping than any thriller -- the epic story of democracy's victory over totalitarianism. " - Publisher. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 025012 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AMBROSE, STEPHEN E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 2001, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0684846098) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 431 pp. [32] pp. of plates, illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times, age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Another copy available. "In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its importance the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life. The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains. At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas 'Doc' Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's 'Big Four': Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. / Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of Citizen Soldiers, Undaunted Courage, and D-Day, as well as biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He lived in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana." - Publisher. Very Good/Very Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 044022 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NIN, ANAIS; STUHLMANN, GUNTHER (EDITED BY) The Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955 New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; A Harvest Book. 1975, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0156260301) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 275 pp; 21 cm. Volume Five. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 024522 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ANDERSON, ROBERT MAILER Boonville Berkeley, CA, Creative Arts Book Company; A Zyzzyva First Book. 2001. (ISBN: 0887394795) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 258 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Debut novel, praised by Norman Mailer, Naomi Wolf, Martin Cruz Smith, others. Fine/Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 004528 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ARNHEIM, RUDOLF Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. 1974, Revised and Expanded Edition. (ISBN: 0520026136) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 508 pp. [2] leaves of plates, illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. First published, 1954. Good+. Scattered underlining in one chapter only, chiefly clean. Another copy available. Gestalt psychologist. "Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology. / Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Visual Thinking (1969), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996)." - Publisher. Good. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 008419 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AVI Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel New York, HarperTrophy. 2003, First edition thus. (ISBN: 038071907X) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 212 pp.; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 043873 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAILEY, PAUL An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond New York, E. P. Dutton; A William Abrahams Book. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0525934111) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 164 pp.; 23 cm. First printing, March 1992. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 006860 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAINBRIDGE, BERYL Master Georgie New York, Carroll and Graf Publishers. 1998, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0786705639) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 190 pp. maps; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 001590 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALDWIN, JAMES Giovanni's Room New York, Laurel; Dell. 1988. (ISBN: 0440328810) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 224 pp.; 18 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning. Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 043876 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALYOZ, HAROLD Three Remarkable Women Flagstaff, AZ, Altai Publishers. 1986. (ISBN: 0960971017) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. iii, 285 pp. ports. bib. notes; 22 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 030394 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	YOSHIMOTO, BANANA; BACKUS, MEGAN (TRANSLATED BY) Kitchen New York, Grove Press. 1993, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0802115160) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collectible, 152 pp.; 19 cm. First published, 1988, under title: Kitchin. Translated from the Japanese. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First English-Language Edition." Fine DJ. "Banana Yoshimoto's novels have created a sensation in Japan and all over the world. With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of 'Kitchen,' is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikaga is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart. In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, 'Kitchen' and its companion story, 'Moonlight Shadow,' are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. / BANANA YOSHIMOTO was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P. Lizard, Amrita, Asleep, and, most recently, Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 019817 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BARROW, JOHN D. Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 1992. (ISBN: 0198539568) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, ix, 317 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket with a small corner crease/front flap. "Whether one studies the farthest reaches of outer space or the inner space of elementary particles of matter, our understanding of the physical world is built on mathematics. But what exactly is mathematics? A game played on pieces of paper? A human invention? An austere religion? Part of the mind of God? And equally important, why do we believe it can reveal to us the nature of the universe? John D. Barrow explores these tantalizing questions in Pi in the Sky, a lively and illuminating study of the origins and nature of mathematics. His tour takes us from primitive counting to the latest scientific ideas about the physical world, from the notched animal bones of the hunter-gatherers to the visions of Galileo and Descartes, and from the intricate mathematical systems of Egypt, Sumeria, and other early civilizations, to the work of such modern giants as Einstein, Kurt Godel, Alfred Tarski, and Bertrand Russell. We meet Pythagoras and his mystical 'cult of numbers' as well as an eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician who proved to his colleagues--through an algebraic formula--the existence of God. Barrow examines ancient Chinese counting rods colored black and red for negative and positive numbers; the Botocoudo Indians of Brazil, who indicate any number over four by pointing to the hairs on their head; and the dethroning of Euclidian geometry in the nineteenth century with the rise of Darwin and cultural relativism. And in an eye-opening last chapter, Barrow discusses how the traditional picture of the universe as a vast mechanism is currently being replaced by a new paradigm--one that sees the universe, in essence, as a cosmic computer program. Bristling with riddles and paradoxes, and quoting everyone from Lao-Tse and Robert Pirsig, to Charles Darwin and G.K. Chesterton, to Roger Bacon, Baron de Montesquieu, and Umberto Eco, Pi in the Sky is a profound--and profoundly edifying--journey into the world of mathematics. It illuminates the way that numbers shape how we see the world and how we see ourselves. / John D. Barrow is Professor in the Astronomy Centre of the University of Sussex. His is the author of several highly acclaimed volumes on the philosophy of science, including most recently Theories of Everything, which Publishers Weekly hailed as 'a mind-boggling intellectual adventure.'" - Publisher. Fine/Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 028928 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STERCHI, BEAT; HOFMANN, MICHAEL (TRANSLATED BY) Cow: A Novel New York, Pantheon Books. 1990, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0394584511) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 353 pp.; 24 cm. Translation of: Blösch. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 012301 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BEER, EDITH HAHN, AND DWORKIN, SUSAN The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust New York, Rob Weibach Books; William Morrow. 1999, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 068816689X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus.; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket scuffed on front cover. "Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Soviet army, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document and set of papers issued to her, as well as photographs she managed to take inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust -- complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant. / Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn Beep, currently resides in Netanya, Israel. She and Werner Vetter divorced in 1947. Her daughter, Angela, lives in London and is believed to be the only Jew born in a Reich hospital in 1944." - Publisher. Very Good/Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 028180 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BEILENSON, PETER, AND BEHN, HARRY (JOINT TRANSLATORS) Haiku Harvest: Japanese Haiku, Series IV Mount Vernon, NY, Peter Pauper Press. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Hill, Jeff. [62] pp. illus.; 19 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with a small closed tear/bottom edge, front cover. Translated from the masters of the seventeen-syllable poetic form : Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Sokan, Kikaku, Chiyo-ni, Joso, Yaha, Boncho, and others. Very Good/Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 028067 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BELFRAGE, SALLY Freedom Summer Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Crest. 1966. Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 256 pp.; 18 cm. An acceptable reading copy. Worn wraps with taped spine. Previous owner's name & label/flyleaf. Clean text, browning. Fair. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 043891 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BELLOW, SAUL Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories New York, Harper & Row, Publishers. 1984, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 006015179X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, 294 pp.; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark (ink star)/tail edge, else fine. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 027426 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BENTON, MICHAEL J. Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Factfinder New York, Kingfisher Books; Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Inc. 1992, 9th printing. (ISBN: 1856978028) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pp. illus. (some col.), index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated, factual guide appeals to adults as well as children. "The answer to the young dinosaur lover's prayers, this full-color reference covers the spectrum of dinosaurs from A to Z and shows each dinosaur's height relative to a prehistoric human. Children will spend hours poring over this authoritative guide to over 200 fantastic creatures that once roamed the Earth." - Publisher. Fine. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 023888 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BLEW, MARY CLEARMAN All but the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family New York, Viking; Penguin. 1991, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0670831085) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 223 pp. illus. map; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 026806 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	TIME-LIFE BOOKS, EDITORS OF This Fabulous Century, Volume III: 1920-1930 New York, Time-Life Books. 1969. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, gilt, 288 pp. illus. (some col.), index; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Very Good/Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 038942 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY ALEKSANDROVICH; BOUIS, ANTONINA W. (TRANSLATED BY) Don't Die Before Your Dead Toronto, ON, Key Porter Books. 1995, First edition thus. (ISBN: 1550136585) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, 415 pp.; 25 cm. First published under title: Ne umirai prezhde smerti. Translated from the Russian. Tight, clean copy. Boards lightly rubbed. Remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "Infused with a passionate lyricism and vision, this stunning, extraordinarily insightful, autobiographical novel about life, love, and politics in contemporary Russia, written by renowned poet and political activist Yevtushenko, presages all too accurately the strife that grips Russia today." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 023242 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALEXANDER, BEVIN How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat New York, Three Rivers Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0609808443) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 337 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. "Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's influential personality and his military strategy was critical in causing Germany to lose the war. With an acute eye for detail and his use of clear prose, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander goes beyond counterfactual 'What if?' history and explores for the first time just how close the Allies were to losing the war. Using beautifully detailed, newly designed maps, How Hitler Could Have Won World War II exquisitely illustrates the important battles and how certain key movements and mistakes by Germany were crucial in determining the war's outcome. Alexander's harrowing study shows how only minor tactical changes in Hitler's military approach could have changed the world we live in today. How Hitler Could Have Won World War II untangles some of the war's most confounding strategic questions, such as: Why didn't the Nazis concentrate their enormous military power on the only three beaches upon which the Allies could launch their attack into Europe? Why did the terrifying German panzers, on the brink of driving the British army into the sea in May 1940, halt their advance and allow the British to regroup and evacuate at Dunkirk? With the chance to cut off the Soviet lifeline of oil, and therefore any hope of Allied victory from the east, why did Hitler insist on dividing and weakening his army, which ultimately led to the horrible battle of Stalingrad? Ultimately, Alexander probes deeply into the crucial intersection between Hitler's psyche and military strategy and how his paranoia fatally overwhelmed his acute political shrewdness to answer the most terrifying question: Just how close were the Nazis to victory? Why did Hitler insist on terror bombing London in the late summer of 1940, when the German air force was on the verge of destroying all of the RAF sector stations, England's last defense? With the opportunity to drive the British out of Egypt and the Suez Canal and occupy all of the Middle East, therefore opening a Nazi door to the vast oil resources of the region, why did Hitler fail to move in just a few panzer divisions to handle such an easy but crucial maneuver? On the verge of a last monumental effort and concentration of German power to seize Moscow and end Stalin's grip over the Eastern front, why did the Nazis divert their strength to bring about the far less important surrender of Kiev, thereby destroying any chance of ever conquering the Soviets? / Bevin Alexander is the author of five books of military history, including Lost Victories, which was named by the Civil War Book Review as one of the seventeen books that has most transformed Civil War scholarship. His battle studies of the Korean War, written during his decorated service as a combat historian, are stored at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia." - Publisher. Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 043999 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NEUMEYER, ALFRED; READ, HERBERT (FOREWORD BY); ANGRESS, RUTH (TRANSLATED BY) The Search for Meaning in Modern Art Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1964, 3rd printing. Hard Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, xv, 144 pp. illus.; 21 cm. Translation of "Die Kunst in unserer Zeit: Versuch einer Deutung." Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. Some highlighting, chiefly clean. Good/No DJ. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 012245 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALLEYNE, WARREN Caribbean Pirates London, Macmillan Caribbean. 1986, Reprint, 1989. (ISBN: 0333405846) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 113 pp. illus. 1 map, ports.; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 014222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ALMOND, STEVE Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underworld of America Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2004. (ISBN: 1565124219) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 266 pp.; 18 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "Driven by his obsession, stubborn idealism, and the promise of free candy, self-confessed candyfreak Steve Almond takes off on a quest to discover candy's origins in America, to explore the little companies that continue to get by on pluck and perseverance, and to witness the glorious excess of candy manufacturing. From the Twin Bing to the Idaho Spud, the Valomilk to the Abba-Zaba, Almond uncovers a small legion of singular handcrafted candy bars made by unsung heroes, working in old-fashioned factories for tiny profits to produce something that they love. Fascinated by the emotional power of these confectionary delights, the primal and persuasive experience of the world in our mouths, Almond describes our candy cravings in sensuous and titillating detail. Though the road is laden with free samples, he discovers that the world of candy making is not the sweet world of childhood reveries but one beleaguered by stiff competition, closely guarded secrets, and increasingly limited markets. But no matter. As he also finds, every candy maker, even when poised on the edge of failure, is happy, indulgent, and childlike. For finally, even the darkest market forces, even the clout of the Big Three candy companies that threaten to wipe out all others, cannot lessen our desire to lose ourselves in chocolate. Candyfreak is the bittersweet story of how Steve Almond grew up on candy--and how, for better and worse, candy has grown up, too. Almond gives us a hilarious, sugar-high tour of those old-fashioned candy companies." - Publisher. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 030222 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AMBROSE, STEPHEN E. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 1995, Reprint. (ISBN: 068480137X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 655 pp. illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Cocked spine/lean. Another copy available. "They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not hand grenades, shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought. They were soldiers of democracy. They were the men of D-Day. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he bet that the young men brought up in the Hitler Youth would outfight the youngsters brought up in the Boy Scouts. Now, in this magnificent retelling of the war's most climactic battle, acclaimed Eisenhower biographer and World War II historian Stephen E. Ambrose tells how wrong Hitler was. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories as well as never-before-available information from around the world, Ambrose tells the true story of how the Allies broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall, revealing that the intricate plan for the invasion had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. Focusing on the 24 hours of June 6, 1944, D-Day brings to life the stories of the men and women who made history -- from top Allied and Axis strategic commanders to the citizen soldiers whose heroic initiative saved the day. From high-level politics to hand-to-hand combat, from winner-take-all strategy to survival under fire, here is history more gripping than any thriller -- the epic story of democracy's victory over totalitarianism. " - Publisher. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 025012 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AMBROSE, STEPHEN E. Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 2001, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0684846098) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 431 pp. [32] pp. of plates, illus. maps, biblio. index; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dogeared a couple of times, age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. Another copy available. "In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money the enlightened politicians who understood its importance the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks. The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished, but Abraham Lincoln, who was an early and constant champion of railroads, would not live to see the great achievement. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise, with its huge expenditure of brainpower, muscle, and sweat, comes to life. The U.S. government pitted two companies -- the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads -- against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. Locomotives, rails, and spikes were shipped from the East through Panama or around South America to the West or lugged across the country to the Plains. This was the last great building project to be done mostly by hand: excavating dirt, cutting through ridges, filling gorges, blasting tunnels through mountains. At its peak, the workforce -- primarily Chinese on the Central Pacific, Irish on the Union Pacific -- approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as fifteen thousand workers on each line. The Union Pacific was led by Thomas 'Doc' Durant, Oakes Ames, and Oliver Ames, with Grenville Dodge -- America's greatest railroad builder -- as chief engineer. The Central Pacific was led by California's 'Big Four': Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, were latter-day Lewis and Clark types who led the way through the wilderness, living off buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope. In building a railroad, there is only one decisive spot -- the end of the track. Nothing like this great work had been seen in the world when the last spike, a golden one, was driven in at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific tracks were joined. Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation. / Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of Citizen Soldiers, Undaunted Courage, and D-Day, as well as biographies of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. He lived in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana." - Publisher. Very Good/Very Good. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 044022 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NIN, ANAIS; STUHLMANN, GUNTHER (EDITED BY) The Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955 New York and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; A Harvest Book. 1975, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0156260301) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 275 pp; 21 cm. Volume Five. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 024522 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ANDERSON, ROBERT MAILER Boonville Berkeley, CA, Creative Arts Book Company; A Zyzzyva First Book. 2001. (ISBN: 0887394795) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 258 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Debut novel, praised by Norman Mailer, Naomi Wolf, Martin Cruz Smith, others. Fine/Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 004528 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	ARNHEIM, RUDOLF Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Berkeley, CA, University of California Press. 1974, Revised and Expanded Edition. (ISBN: 0520026136) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, 508 pp. [2] leaves of plates, illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. First published, 1954. Good+. Scattered underlining in one chapter only, chiefly clean. Another copy available. Gestalt psychologist. "Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology. / Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Visual Thinking (1969), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996)." - Publisher. Good. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 008419 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	AVI Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel New York, HarperTrophy. 2003, First edition thus. (ISBN: 038071907X) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 212 pp.; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 043873 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAILEY, PAUL An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond New York, E. P. Dutton; A William Abrahams Book. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0525934111) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 164 pp.; 23 cm. First printing, March 1992. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 006860 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BAINBRIDGE, BERYL Master Georgie New York, Carroll and Graf Publishers. 1998, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0786705639) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 190 pp. maps; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 001590 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALDWIN, JAMES Giovanni's Room New York, Laurel; Dell. 1988. (ISBN: 0440328810) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 224 pp.; 18 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning. Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 043876 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BALYOZ, HAROLD Three Remarkable Women Flagstaff, AZ, Altai Publishers. 1986. (ISBN: 0960971017) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. iii, 285 pp. ports. bib. notes; 22 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 030394 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	YOSHIMOTO, BANANA; BACKUS, MEGAN (TRANSLATED BY) Kitchen New York, Grove Press. 1993, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0802115160) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Collectible, 152 pp.; 19 cm. First published, 1988, under title: Kitchin. Translated from the Japanese. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First English-Language Edition." Fine DJ. "Banana Yoshimoto's novels have created a sensation in Japan and all over the world. With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of 'Kitchen,' is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikaga is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart. In a whimsical style that recalls the early Marguerite Duras, 'Kitchen' and its companion story, 'Moonlight Shadow,' are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a very special writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul. / BANANA YOSHIMOTO was born in 1964. She is the author of Kitchen, N.P. Lizard, Amrita, Asleep, and, most recently, Goodbye Tsugumi. Her writing has won numerous prizes around the world." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 019817 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BARROW, JOHN D. Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. 1992. (ISBN: 0198539568) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, ix, 317 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket with a small corner crease/front flap. "Whether one studies the farthest reaches of outer space or the inner space of elementary particles of matter, our understanding of the physical world is built on mathematics. But what exactly is mathematics? A game played on pieces of paper? A human invention? An austere religion? Part of the mind of God? And equally important, why do we believe it can reveal to us the nature of the universe? John D. Barrow explores these tantalizing questions in Pi in the Sky, a lively and illuminating study of the origins and nature of mathematics. His tour takes us from primitive counting to the latest scientific ideas about the physical world, from the notched animal bones of the hunter-gatherers to the visions of Galileo and Descartes, and from the intricate mathematical systems of Egypt, Sumeria, and other early civilizations, to the work of such modern giants as Einstein, Kurt Godel, Alfred Tarski, and Bertrand Russell. We meet Pythagoras and his mystical 'cult of numbers' as well as an eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician who proved to his colleagues--through an algebraic formula--the existence of God. Barrow examines ancient Chinese counting rods colored black and red for negative and positive numbers; the Botocoudo Indians of Brazil, who indicate any number over four by pointing to the hairs on their head; and the dethroning of Euclidian geometry in the nineteenth century with the rise of Darwin and cultural relativism. And in an eye-opening last chapter, Barrow discusses how the traditional picture of the universe as a vast mechanism is currently being replaced by a new paradigm--one that sees the universe, in essence, as a cosmic computer program. Bristling with riddles and paradoxes, and quoting everyone from Lao-Tse and Robert Pirsig, to Charles Darwin and G.K. Chesterton, to Roger Bacon, Baron de Montesquieu, and Umberto Eco, Pi in the Sky is a profound--and profoundly edifying--journey into the world of mathematics. It illuminates the way that numbers shape how we see the world and how we see ourselves. / John D. Barrow is Professor in the Astronomy Centre of the University of Sussex. His is the author of several highly acclaimed volumes on the philosophy of science, including most recently Theories of Everything, which Publishers Weekly hailed as 'a mind-boggling intellectual adventure.'" - Publisher. Fine/Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 028928 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STERCHI, BEAT; HOFMANN, MICHAEL (TRANSLATED BY) Cow: A Novel New York, Pantheon Books. 1990, First U.S. Edition. (ISBN: 0394584511) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 353 pp.; 24 cm. Translation of: Blösch. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 012301 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BEER, EDITH HAHN, AND DWORKIN, SUSAN The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust New York, Rob Weibach Books; William Morrow. 1999, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 068816689X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus.; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket scuffed on front cover. "Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Soviet army, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street. Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document and set of papers issued to her, as well as photographs she managed to take inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust -- complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant. / Born in Vienna in 1914, Edith Hahn Beep, currently resides in Netanya, Israel. She and Werner Vetter divorced in 1947. Her daughter, Angela, lives in London and is believed to be the only Jew born in a Reich hospital in 1944." - Publisher. Very Good/Very Good. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 028180 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BEILENSON, PETER, AND BEHN, HARRY (JOINT TRANSLATORS) Haiku Harvest: Japanese Haiku, Series IV Mount Vernon, NY, Peter Pauper Press. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Hill, Jeff. [62] pp. illus.; 19 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with a small closed tear/bottom edge, front cover. Translated from the masters of the seventeen-syllable poetic form : Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Sokan, Kikaku, Chiyo-ni, Joso, Yaha, Boncho, and others. Very Good/Very Good. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 028067 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BELFRAGE, SALLY Freedom Summer Greenwich, CT, Fawcett Crest. 1966. Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 256 pp.; 18 cm. An acceptable reading copy. Worn wraps with taped spine. Previous owner's name & label/flyleaf. Clean text, browning. Fair. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 430] Book number: 043891 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BELLOW, SAUL Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories New York, Harper & Row, Publishers. 1984, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 006015179X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, 294 pp.; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark (ink star)/tail edge, else fine. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. Very Good/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 027426 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BENTON, MICHAEL J. Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Factfinder New York, Kingfisher Books; Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Inc. 1992, 9th printing. (ISBN: 1856978028) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256 pp. illus. (some col.), index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated, factual guide appeals to adults as well as children. "The answer to the young dinosaur lover's prayers, this full-color reference covers the spectrum of dinosaurs from A to Z and shows each dinosaur's height relative to a prehistoric human. Children will spend hours poring over this authoritative guide to over 200 fantastic creatures that once roamed the Earth." - Publisher. Fine. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 258] Book number: 023888 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	BLEW, MARY CLEARMAN All but the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family New York, Viking; Penguin. 1991, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0670831085) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 223 pp. illus. map; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Fine/Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 344] Book number: 026806 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	TIME-LIFE BOOKS, EDITORS OF This Fabulous Century, Volume III: 1920-1930 New York, Time-Life Books. 1969. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Cloth, gilt, 288 pp. illus. (some col.), index; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Very Good/Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 860] Book number: 038942 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.