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	The 1960s (the Decade Series) Hal Leonard Corporation, 1969. Large Softcover. Very Good. Small stain on top page ridge (does not affect text). 181 pages. "30 groovy tunes that shaped the '60s, including: Badge; Fun, Fun, Fun; Gloria; Happy Together; Hey Joe; I Can See for Miles; In the Midnight Hour; Louie, Louie; My Girl; Oh, Pretty Woman; Soul Man; (So) Tired of Waiting for You; Train Kept A-Rollin'; Wild Thing; and more.". USD 10.75 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 956] Book number: 1505531 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Bunker Hill Songster. Containing National and Patriotic Songs As Sung by the Principal Vocalists Murphy, Printer and Publisher, Franklin Book Store, 384 Pearl Street, New York. Small Softcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear. Binding tight, text clean & unmarked. 34 pages, comprising 32 songs. Original yellow wraps with pipe-smoking soldier pictured on front cover. Frontispiece depicting gentleman in top hat and Native American. USD 35.95 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 \| £UK 21.75 \| JP¥ 3197] Book number: 1504651 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	New Ez Method for Mandolin -- Self Instruction and Teachers Use Wm. J. Smith Music Co. Inc. 1959. Soft Cover. Good. Moderate shelf wear. "A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) that are plucked with a plectrum. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes that are open and not latticed. The most common tuning for the mandolin is in fifths, the same as for the violin (G-D-A-E, lowest to highest). Guitarists may occasionally tune a mandolin to mimic a portion of the intervals on a standard guitar tuning to achieve familiar fretting patterns." -- Wikipedia. USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 040642 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Salzburg Marionette Theatre Program 1966 Program Publishing Company, 1966. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Nice copy with minor corner edge wear. 11.9 x 9. "Salzburg Marionette Theatre was established in 1913 and is one of the oldest continuing marionette theatres in the world. It is based in the city of Salzburg, Austria. Original productions featured live actors and musicians. Today soundtracks are recorded. The Salzburg Marionette Theatre performs a large repertoire of operas, ballets and productions for children, using marionettes.". USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 1515473 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Taylor Quality Guitars 1998 Catalog Taylor Guitars, 1998. Large Softcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. Color photographs throughout. "Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon California-based luthier, widely known for their quality acoustic guitars. In 1973, at age 18, Bob Taylor began working at American Dream, a small guitar-making shop owned by Sam Radding, where Kurt Listug was already an employee. In 1974 Sam Radding decided to sell the business. Taylor and Listug became partners along with Steve Schemmer and bought American Dream which they renamed Westland Music Company hoping to conjure the image of a larger company in the minds of the public. Needing a more compact logo suitable for the guitars' headstock, the founders decided to change the name to Taylor as it sounded more American than Listug and because as Kurt Listug put it, 'Bob was the real guitar-maker.' Listug became the businessman of the partnership for which he was to prove well suited while Taylor concentrated on design and production. Taylor and Listug expanded their small shop into a major guitar manufacturing company while maintaining creative control and ownership. As of 2008 Taylor Guitars has more than 550 employees. The factory is located in El Cajon, California with worldwide distribution. A second plant has been opened 40 miles away in Tecate, Mexico where the smallest guitars of the Taylor line, the Baby and Big Baby, are made along with the Taylor guitar cases. All other Taylor guitars are made in El Cajon, California. Taylor's corporate office is located in El Cajon, California. Taylor guitars are made with a patented bolt-on neck; the NT neck (new technology). It differs from other necks, whether bolt-on or glued, by supporting the fretboard all the way to the 19th fret with a continuous piece of wood. The standard practice is to support the fretboard up to the fourteenth fret with the unsupported portion being glued to the constantly moving soundboard. The NT neck fits into a pocket on the top of the guitar body with the desired angle being achieved by small, accurately milled neck spacers (shims). After time, some guitars require the neck angle to be realigned (referred to as a neck reset). This process is greatly simplified by allowing the replacement of different sized neck spacers to return the neck to the required angle. Taylor's proprietary pickup system, the Expression System consists of a patented humbucking induction pickup mounted in the neck and a pair of dynamic soundboard transducers wired to an on board preamplifier designed by Rupert Neve. The first generation system was powered by a pair of AA batteries." -- Wikipedia. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 356] Book number: 1500340 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AARONSON, CHARLES S. (EDITOR) 1956 International Motion Picture Almanac Quigley Publications, 1955. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages slightly toned, foxing on page ridges, small stains on front cover. CONTENTS: Who's Who; Pictures; Corporations; Theatre Circuits; Drive-In Theatres; Awards and Polls; Services; Organizations; Equipment and Supplies; Codes and Censorship; World Market; Industry in Great Britain; Press; Non-theatrical Motion Pictures. USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 066662 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ABRAHAM, DOC & KATHY; MILLER, LUKE A Bathtub Built for Two George Abraham, 2005. Trade Paperback. Ill.: Abraham, Darryl. Very Good. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Single spine crease, minimal shelf wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. "A Bathtub Built for Two is a fun look at the lives of George 'Doc' Abraham and his wife, Katy, with stories dating from childhood through 60-plus years of marriage. In it you'll meet a whole cast of characters as endearing as they are entertaining, from the funeral director erroneously suspected of poisoning his friends to the sidewalk-licking boys out for a taste of homemeade dandelion wine during the Roaring Twenties. Of course, the most endearing characters in the book are Doc and Katy themselves. You'll come to know the incomparable, inseparable pair through many 'snapshots' of small-town life presented throughout. And you'll end up marveling, as I have, that any two people could lead such interest, fulfilling lives. Doc and Katy literally finished this book days before Doc's sudden passing in January 2005. He sent me the final story about a week earlier and said, 'Luke, there will never be another Doc and Katy, so it's important that we tell our story.' I've had the pleasure of knowing this wonderful couple - and learning from them - for 18 years. I invite you to come to know them, too - through the stories they've so wonderfully related inside.". USD 37.45 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.5 \| JP¥ 3330] Book number: 063496 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BRIDGES-ADAMS, W. Irresistible Theatre: A History of the English Stage from the Conquest of the Commonwealth [Irresistable Theater] World Publishing Company, 1957. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/Good. EX-LIBRARY. Usual library markings, some shelf wear, dust jacket edge wear, pages slightly toned, minimal foxing. CONTENTS: FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE TUDORS: Family Tree; Mystery, Miracle, Morality, Interlude; Ourselves and the Middle Ages; Dramatic Art at the time of the Conquest; First of the Mysteries; Medieval Staging; Drama Comes to England; Great Cycles; Plays and the Acting; Moralities and Interludes; FROM THE TUDORS TO THE COMMONWEALTH: Renaissance and Reformation; Elizabeth and her London; Toward the Globe; Chronicle Plays; Broadsheet Drama; Tragedy of Blood; Scholar Dramatists; In Triumph through Persepolis; A Motley to the View; Maste of the Revels; A Place of One's Own; A Roof of One's Own; Little Eyases; Copper-Lace Gentlemen. Some Portraits; Acting and Style; Sharing and Management; Stage; Two Hours' Traffic; Masque; Ben Jonson; Chapman; Dekker, Haywood, Middleton; Marston; Beaumont and Fletcher; Tourneur, Webster, Ford; Massinger; Shirley; Adversary; Retrospect; Primus inter Pares. USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 396] Book number: 066955 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADAMS, NOAH Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures Delacorte Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor dust jacket edge wear, light page toning, some general shelf wear. "The award-winning host of NPR's All Things Considered describes his midlife decision to learn to play the piano, a lifelong dream that made him reevaluate his life achievements and that was bolstered by his admiration for accomplished pianists.". USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 307] Book number: 1511808 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADDAMS, CHAS [CHARLES] Nightcrawlers Simon and Schuster, 1957. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light foxing on spine & endpapers. Binding tight. "Charles Samuel Addams (7 January 1912 - 29 September 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures. His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered (1942) and Dear Dead Days (1959). Typical of his work, one cartoon shows two men standing in a room labeled "Patent Attorney.' One is pointing a bizarre gun out the window toward the street and saying, 'Death ray, fiddlesticks! It doesn't even slow them up!' He drew more than 1,300 cartoons over the course of his life. Those that didn't appear in The New Yorker were often in Collier's and TV Guide. In 1961, Addams received, from the Mystery Writers of America, a Special Edgar Award for his body of work. His cartoons appeared in books, calendars and other merchandising. Singer-guitarist Dean Gitter's 1957 recording, Ghost Ballads (Riverside, RLP 12-636), folk songs with supernatural themes, was packaged with album art by Addams showing a haunted house. The 'Family' beloved of New Yorker readers was originally created in collaboration with Addams' close friend Ray Bradbury. The two had planned to create a book of the Family's complete history with Addams illustrations, but it never materialized. Bradbury's stories about the 'Elliott Family' were finally anthologized in From The Dust Returned in October 2001, with a connecting narrative and an explanation of his work with Addams, and an intricately drawn Addams wraparound cover. Addams collected crossbows and used a little girl's tombstone for a coffee table, but Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, 'Addams persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers.. was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye', noting that one outrÃ© publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, 'but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.' Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Grace M. (nÃ©e Spears) and Charles Huy Addams. He had a happy, sociable, perhaps somewhat bland childhood there, providing few clues as to the macabre character of his humor. He was 'known as something of a rascal around the neighborhood' and 'there was always a little group of boys at his house, doing things,' as childhood friends recalled. There were a few, but not many, forebodings of dark oddity to come during his childhood: His nickname was 'Chill', and a chalk drawing of a skeleton in the garage behind one of the homes his family lived in at the time is said to have been drawn by him. That house at 552 Elm Street (now a local landmark), and another on Dudley Avenue in which police once caught him breaking into, are said to be the inspiration for the Addams family mansion in his cartoons (though scholars have pointed to a three-way resemblance among the Addams Family mansion, the house in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Victorian building depicted in Edward Hopper's 'House by the Railroad'). He was fond of visiting the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue. One friend said of him, 'His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's'. He was also artistically inclined, 'drawing with a happy vengeance' according to a biographer. Before graduating from Westfield High School in 1929, he drew many cartoons for the Weathervane student newspaper. Addams studied at Colgate University and at the University of Pennsylvania where a fine-arts building on campus is named for him. In front of the building is a sculpture of the silhouettes of Addams family characters. He also studied at Grand Central School of Art in New York City. His first drawing in The New Yorker ran on February 6, 1932 (a sketch of a window washer), and his cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from 1938 until his death. He was a freelancer throughout that time. During World War II, Addams served at the Signal Corps Photographic Center in New York, where he made animated training films for the Army. In late 1942, he met his first wife, Barbara Jean Day, who looked like the cartoon Morticia Addams. The marriage ended eight years later, after Addams, who hated small children, refused to adopt one. He married his second wife, Barbara Barb (Estelle B. Barb), in 1954. A practicing lawyer, she 'combined Morticia-like looks with diabolical legal scheming' in which she wound up controlling the 'Addams Family' television and movie franchises and persuaded her husband to give away other legal rights. At one point, she got her husband to take out a $100,000 insurance policy. Addams consulted a lawyer on the sly, who later humorously wrote, 'I told him the last time I had word of such a move was in a picture called Double Indemnity starring Barbara Stanwyck, which I called to his attention.' In the movie, Stanwyck's character plotted her husband's murder. No one has accused Barbara Barb Addams of attempting the same. They divorced in 1956. The Addams Family television series began after David Levy, a television producer, approached Addams with an offer to create it with a little help from the humorist. All Addams had to do was give his characters names and more characteristics for the actors to use in portrayals. The series ran on ABC for two seasons, from 1964 to 1966. Addams was 'sociable and debonair', and described by a biographer as 'A well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend.' Figuratively a ladykiller, Addams squired celebrities such as Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine and Jacqueline Kennedy on social occasions. Later, he married his third and last wife, Marilyn Matthews Miller, best known as 'Tee' (1926-2002), in a pet cemetery; he wore sunglasses during the ceremony. In 1985, the Addamses moved to Sagaponack, New York, where they named their estate 'The Swamp'. On September 29, 1988, Addams, a sports car enthusiast, had just driven back to his apartment in Manhattan from a visit to friends in Connecticut when he parked his Audi 4000 in front of the apartment building. He was struck by a fatal heart attack while still behind the wheel. USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 070248 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADKINS, TRACE A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck Villard Books, 2007. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very minimal shelf wear, light page toning, some general shelf wear. "Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things oughta be. In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Trace gives us the state of the union as he sees it, from the lessons of his boyhood in small-town Louisiana to what he's learned headlining concerts around the world. Trace has worked oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, been shot in the heart, been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and braved perhaps the greatest challenge of all: being the father of five daughters. And shaped by these experiences, he's sounding off.". USD 7.55 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 671] Book number: 1507474 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Hyperion, 2003. Small Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Pages unmarked, binding tight, no shelf wear, beautiful condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 3.95 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 351] Book number: 1512416 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Hyperion, 2003. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages slightly toned, no page markings, very nice condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 5.65 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.5 \| JP¥ 502] Book number: 1510702 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Doubleday, 2003. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Large print. Pages unmarked, binding tight, no shelf wear, beautiful condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 307] Book number: 1511957 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, TIM I'm Not Really Here: First Edition Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. 1996 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with full number line (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) and a $21.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Sticker on front cover, pages lightly toned, otherwise in beautiful condition. "Tim Allen, star of the hit sitcom Home Improvement, takes on quantum philosophy, intergender relationships, and the male midlife crisis in a joke-filled (but ultimately serious) "weekend in the life" narrative. It's an odd combination, shifting from enthusiastic gushing over restored sports cars to earnest elaborations upon Deepak Chopra and Fritjof Capra, but Allen manages to pull it off.". USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 058865 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, WOODY Without Feathers; Getting Even; Side Effects Quality Paperback Book Club, 1989. Trade Paperback. Like New. USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 556] Book number: 1502097 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, WOODY Woody Allen Three Volume Boxed Set: Without Feathers; Side Effects; Getting Even Random House. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Three very good paperback sin very good slipcase. Light shelf wear, one side of slipcase discolored. Bindings tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked. 510 pages (210 + 149 + 151). Three paperbacks in slipcase. "Woody Allen's Without Feathers is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death and God. The name is essentially a play on Emily Dickinson's words 'Hope is the thing with feathers', reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The Dickinson poem is mentioned in one of the stories in the collection. Side Effects is an anthology of 17 comical short stories written by Woody Allen between 1975 and 1980, all but one of which were previously published in, variously, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Kenyon Review. The first story, Remembering Needleman, is a one-liner and non-sequitur filled obituary, four weeks after the fact, of Professor Sandor Needleman. The fifth story, My Apology, is Allen's tale of a recurring fantasy/dream of his where he imagines himself in the sandals of Socrates during the philosopher's final days in prison. The dialogue proceeds in a manner reminiscent of Terry Pratchett, and the ending contains two unexpected twists. The sixth story, The Kugelmass Episode, is about a CCNY professor named Sidney Kugelmass who, thanks to the powers of an obscure magician, is projected into Madame Bovary to carry on an affair beyond the scrutiny of his overbearing wife. The seventh story, My Speech to the Graduates, is a parody of platitude-laden commencement speeches. The eleventh tale, Nefarious Times We Live In, is the most off-the-wall of them all, and concerns the events that lead to its protagonist, Willard Pogrebin, to fire a Luger at President Gerald Ford. They involve at least five kinds of drugs and three cults." -- Wikipedia Getting Even is a collection of 17 short stories. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from intense dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life. Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and a rare European tour in 1996 featuring Allen was the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues." -- Wikipedia. USD 7.15 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 636] Book number: 1501247 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AMORY, CLEVELAND (EDITOR); BLACKWELL, EARL (PUBLISHER); COHEN, SYDNEY WOLFE (EDITOR) International Celebrity Register U.S. Edition Celebrity Register Ltd. 1959. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Cover wear along front spine edge. Binding tight. An alphabetically arranged collection of brief bios of famous figures in world history, entertainment, and life in general -- includes small black & white photo of each. USD 9.33 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 830] Book number: 062211 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AMTHOR, TERRY K. A Spy in Isengard: A Gamebook (Middle-Earth Quest Series Book 1) Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) / Berkley Books, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Single light spine crease, light cover edge wear, pages slightly toned. Text unmarked. "Since your apprenticeship began, you have worked for the powerful and revered wizard, Saruman the White. But of late, you have grown troubled by what you see and hear within his mighty fortress of Isengard. Orcs and wild men gather inside. You have seen Saruman poised over the great seeing-stone exulting over scenes of battle. Has Saruman surrendered his will to the evil Sauron, Lord of the Rings? Can you warn the White Council before all is lost? You control your destiny in this intriguing first gamebook of the Middle-Earth Quest series! In the Middle-Earth Quest series you can play a ready-to-run character; create your own character using the QuestGame system; or generate your own Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP) character.". USD 3.33 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 070557 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANGELL, ROGER Let Me Finish Harcourt, Inc. 2006. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Binding tight, pages unmarked, beautiful condition. "Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London . having fallen not just in love but into a family. -from LET ME FINISH Roger Angell has developed a broad and devoted following through his writings in the New Yorker and as the leading baseball writer of our time. Turning to more personal matters, he has produced a fresh form of auto-biography in this unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katherine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his eccentric relatives, his childhood love of baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during his long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with both pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes a sensuous attachment to life's better moments.". USD 3.28 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 292] Book number: 1510422 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANNAN, DAVID Robot: The Mechanical Monster Bounty Books, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 796] Book number: 1502845 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANNAUD, JEAN-JACQUES; BENABENT-LOISEAU, JOSEE; ACIMAN, ANDRE (TRANSLATOR) Odyssey of the Bear: The Making of the Film: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Triumphant $22 Million Production from the Director of Quest for Fire and the Name of the Rose Newmarket Press, 1989. Large Softcover. Ill.: Rosenstiehl, Marianne (Photographer). Very Good. Cover edge wear, sticker remnant on front cover, spine creased, light pencil on front free endpaper, remainder mark on page base. "The Bear, known as L'Ours in its original French release, is a film directed by acclaimed French director Jean-Jacques Annaud released theatrically in 1988. The screenplay is by GÃ©rard Brach and it was adapted from the novel The Grizzly King by American author and conservationist James Oliver Curwood. Fittingly, the movie carries this spirit by voicing conservationist themes. The film is set in late 19th century British Columbia, Canada. The main character is an orphaned bear cub who ends up befriending an older grizzly. The main action of the plot is driven by two hunters who are after the adult bear and the young bear cub gets caught in the middle. The film is unique in the sense that the main characters are animals and the two human actors are for the most part merely supporting features in the film; dialogue is extremely limited. The strong points of the film are its outstanding cinematography and moving depiction of nature and animal interactions. It did not achieve much commercial success upon its North American release but it was a success in France. The film was shot in the Dolomites.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 396] Book number: 1500159 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ASHLEY, MIKE; CLEESE, JOHN; BOOTH, CONNIE; HOLT, TOM; KILWORTH, GARRY; FRIESNER, ESTHER; TODD, MARILYN; GARDNER, CRAIG SHAW; SHARKEY, JACK; BIBBY, JAMES; GOULART, RON; BROWNE, PORTER EMERSON; BOND, NELSON; BROWN, FREDRIC; MORRESSY, JOHN; CONEY, MICHAEL Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 2001. Trade Paperback. Good. Single spine crease, remainder mark on page base. "With the hilarious "Happy Valley," a story originally written by John Cleese and Connie Booth for Monty Python's Flying Circus, this third volume in an extraordinarily popular Mammoth Book series gets off to a suitably silly start. It continues merrily apace with "Attack of the Charlie Chaplins" by Garry Kilworth, visits "The Strawhouse Pavilion" by Ron Goulart, and takes in "A Bad Day on Mount Olympus" with Marilyn Todd. Along the way it introduces Esther Eisner's "Gunsel and Gretel" and Cherith Baldry's "Broadway Barbarian" and renews acquaintance with F. Anstey's "Ferdie." It bemuses as well as amuses with "A Case of Four Fingers" concocted by John Grant, not to mention "The Absolute and Utter Impossibility of the Facts in the Case of the Vanishing of Henning Vok" from Jack Adrian. And before this wildly comic romp ends, it discovers "Math Takes a Holiday" (Paul Di Filippo) and "Mother Duck Strikes Again" (Craig Shaw Gardner). Fantasy finds broad definition in this wackily comic tour. While some of the stories approach the domain of science fiction, others are lodged in an everyday reality. None of them, though, fails to entertain. Together, the more than thirty selections -- thirteen of them brand-new and the balance of them often rare finds or forgotten gems -- provide a fresh sampling of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction and a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humor.". USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 070442 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BACHARACH, A.L. & PEARCE, J.R. (EDITORS) Musical Companion: A Modern Guide to Classical Music Designed for Reading Enjoyment, Easy Reference, and Listening Enrichment Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Hard Cover. Like New/Good. Minimal dust jacket edge wear, dust jacket flaps bent, small tear to back of dust jacket. Book in beautiful condition, binding tight, pages clean & bright. CONTENTS: ABC of Music; Instruments of the Orchestra; Orchestral Music; Opera; Human Voice; Chamber Music; Solo Instrument; Listening and Performance. USD 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 262] Book number: 067242 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BAGAR, ROBERT; BIANCOLLI, LOUIS Concert Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Symphonic Music McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1947. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Minor shelf wear, pages toned. Includes a variety of instrumentals from famous composers. USD 5.20 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 462] Book number: 054184 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.

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	The 1960s (the Decade Series) Hal Leonard Corporation, 1969. Large Softcover. Very Good. Small stain on top page ridge (does not affect text). 181 pages. "30 groovy tunes that shaped the '60s, including: Badge; Fun, Fun, Fun; Gloria; Happy Together; Hey Joe; I Can See for Miles; In the Midnight Hour; Louie, Louie; My Girl; Oh, Pretty Woman; Soul Man; (So) Tired of Waiting for You; Train Kept A-Rollin'; Wild Thing; and more.". USD 10.75 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 956] Book number: 1505531 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Bunker Hill Songster. Containing National and Patriotic Songs As Sung by the Principal Vocalists Murphy, Printer and Publisher, Franklin Book Store, 384 Pearl Street, New York. Small Softcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear. Binding tight, text clean & unmarked. 34 pages, comprising 32 songs. Original yellow wraps with pipe-smoking soldier pictured on front cover. Frontispiece depicting gentleman in top hat and Native American. USD 35.95 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 \| £UK 21.75 \| JP¥ 3197] Book number: 1504651 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	New Ez Method for Mandolin -- Self Instruction and Teachers Use Wm. J. Smith Music Co. Inc. 1959. Soft Cover. Good. Moderate shelf wear. "A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) that are plucked with a plectrum. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes that are open and not latticed. The most common tuning for the mandolin is in fifths, the same as for the violin (G-D-A-E, lowest to highest). Guitarists may occasionally tune a mandolin to mimic a portion of the intervals on a standard guitar tuning to achieve familiar fretting patterns." -- Wikipedia. USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 040642 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Salzburg Marionette Theatre Program 1966 Program Publishing Company, 1966. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Nice copy with minor corner edge wear. 11.9 x 9. "Salzburg Marionette Theatre was established in 1913 and is one of the oldest continuing marionette theatres in the world. It is based in the city of Salzburg, Austria. Original productions featured live actors and musicians. Today soundtracks are recorded. The Salzburg Marionette Theatre performs a large repertoire of operas, ballets and productions for children, using marionettes.". USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 1515473 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	Taylor Quality Guitars 1998 Catalog Taylor Guitars, 1998. Large Softcover. Very Good. Light shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. Color photographs throughout. "Taylor Guitars is an El Cajon California-based luthier, widely known for their quality acoustic guitars. In 1973, at age 18, Bob Taylor began working at American Dream, a small guitar-making shop owned by Sam Radding, where Kurt Listug was already an employee. In 1974 Sam Radding decided to sell the business. Taylor and Listug became partners along with Steve Schemmer and bought American Dream which they renamed Westland Music Company hoping to conjure the image of a larger company in the minds of the public. Needing a more compact logo suitable for the guitars' headstock, the founders decided to change the name to Taylor as it sounded more American than Listug and because as Kurt Listug put it, 'Bob was the real guitar-maker.' Listug became the businessman of the partnership for which he was to prove well suited while Taylor concentrated on design and production. Taylor and Listug expanded their small shop into a major guitar manufacturing company while maintaining creative control and ownership. As of 2008 Taylor Guitars has more than 550 employees. The factory is located in El Cajon, California with worldwide distribution. A second plant has been opened 40 miles away in Tecate, Mexico where the smallest guitars of the Taylor line, the Baby and Big Baby, are made along with the Taylor guitar cases. All other Taylor guitars are made in El Cajon, California. Taylor's corporate office is located in El Cajon, California. Taylor guitars are made with a patented bolt-on neck; the NT neck (new technology). It differs from other necks, whether bolt-on or glued, by supporting the fretboard all the way to the 19th fret with a continuous piece of wood. The standard practice is to support the fretboard up to the fourteenth fret with the unsupported portion being glued to the constantly moving soundboard. The NT neck fits into a pocket on the top of the guitar body with the desired angle being achieved by small, accurately milled neck spacers (shims). After time, some guitars require the neck angle to be realigned (referred to as a neck reset). This process is greatly simplified by allowing the replacement of different sized neck spacers to return the neck to the required angle. Taylor's proprietary pickup system, the Expression System consists of a patented humbucking induction pickup mounted in the neck and a pair of dynamic soundboard transducers wired to an on board preamplifier designed by Rupert Neve. The first generation system was powered by a pair of AA batteries." -- Wikipedia. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 356] Book number: 1500340 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AARONSON, CHARLES S. (EDITOR) 1956 International Motion Picture Almanac Quigley Publications, 1955. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages slightly toned, foxing on page ridges, small stains on front cover. CONTENTS: Who's Who; Pictures; Corporations; Theatre Circuits; Drive-In Theatres; Awards and Polls; Services; Organizations; Equipment and Supplies; Codes and Censorship; World Market; Industry in Great Britain; Press; Non-theatrical Motion Pictures. USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 066662 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ABRAHAM, DOC & KATHY; MILLER, LUKE A Bathtub Built for Two George Abraham, 2005. Trade Paperback. Ill.: Abraham, Darryl. Very Good. SIGNED BY CO-AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Single spine crease, minimal shelf wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. "A Bathtub Built for Two is a fun look at the lives of George 'Doc' Abraham and his wife, Katy, with stories dating from childhood through 60-plus years of marriage. In it you'll meet a whole cast of characters as endearing as they are entertaining, from the funeral director erroneously suspected of poisoning his friends to the sidewalk-licking boys out for a taste of homemeade dandelion wine during the Roaring Twenties. Of course, the most endearing characters in the book are Doc and Katy themselves. You'll come to know the incomparable, inseparable pair through many 'snapshots' of small-town life presented throughout. And you'll end up marveling, as I have, that any two people could lead such interest, fulfilling lives. Doc and Katy literally finished this book days before Doc's sudden passing in January 2005. He sent me the final story about a week earlier and said, 'Luke, there will never be another Doc and Katy, so it's important that we tell our story.' I've had the pleasure of knowing this wonderful couple - and learning from them - for 18 years. I invite you to come to know them, too - through the stories they've so wonderfully related inside.". USD 37.45 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 \| £UK 22.5 \| JP¥ 3330] Book number: 063496 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BRIDGES-ADAMS, W. Irresistible Theatre: A History of the English Stage from the Conquest of the Commonwealth [Irresistable Theater] World Publishing Company, 1957. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/Good. EX-LIBRARY. Usual library markings, some shelf wear, dust jacket edge wear, pages slightly toned, minimal foxing. CONTENTS: FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE TUDORS: Family Tree; Mystery, Miracle, Morality, Interlude; Ourselves and the Middle Ages; Dramatic Art at the time of the Conquest; First of the Mysteries; Medieval Staging; Drama Comes to England; Great Cycles; Plays and the Acting; Moralities and Interludes; FROM THE TUDORS TO THE COMMONWEALTH: Renaissance and Reformation; Elizabeth and her London; Toward the Globe; Chronicle Plays; Broadsheet Drama; Tragedy of Blood; Scholar Dramatists; In Triumph through Persepolis; A Motley to the View; Maste of the Revels; A Place of One's Own; A Roof of One's Own; Little Eyases; Copper-Lace Gentlemen. Some Portraits; Acting and Style; Sharing and Management; Stage; Two Hours' Traffic; Masque; Ben Jonson; Chapman; Dekker, Haywood, Middleton; Marston; Beaumont and Fletcher; Tourneur, Webster, Ford; Massinger; Shirley; Adversary; Retrospect; Primus inter Pares. USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 396] Book number: 066955 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADAMS, NOAH Piano Lessons: Music, Love & True Adventures Delacorte Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor dust jacket edge wear, light page toning, some general shelf wear. "The award-winning host of NPR's All Things Considered describes his midlife decision to learn to play the piano, a lifelong dream that made him reevaluate his life achievements and that was bolstered by his admiration for accomplished pianists.". USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 307] Book number: 1511808 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADDAMS, CHAS [CHARLES] Nightcrawlers Simon and Schuster, 1957. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light foxing on spine & endpapers. Binding tight. "Charles Samuel Addams (7 January 1912 - 29 September 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures. His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, and he also created a syndicated comic strip, Out of This World, which ran in 1956. There are many collections of his work, including Drawn and Quartered (1942) and Dear Dead Days (1959). Typical of his work, one cartoon shows two men standing in a room labeled "Patent Attorney.' One is pointing a bizarre gun out the window toward the street and saying, 'Death ray, fiddlesticks! It doesn't even slow them up!' He drew more than 1,300 cartoons over the course of his life. Those that didn't appear in The New Yorker were often in Collier's and TV Guide. In 1961, Addams received, from the Mystery Writers of America, a Special Edgar Award for his body of work. His cartoons appeared in books, calendars and other merchandising. Singer-guitarist Dean Gitter's 1957 recording, Ghost Ballads (Riverside, RLP 12-636), folk songs with supernatural themes, was packaged with album art by Addams showing a haunted house. The 'Family' beloved of New Yorker readers was originally created in collaboration with Addams' close friend Ray Bradbury. The two had planned to create a book of the Family's complete history with Addams illustrations, but it never materialized. Bradbury's stories about the 'Elliott Family' were finally anthologized in From The Dust Returned in October 2001, with a connecting narrative and an explanation of his work with Addams, and an intricately drawn Addams wraparound cover. Addams collected crossbows and used a little girl's tombstone for a coffee table, but Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, 'Addams persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers.. was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye', noting that one outrÃ© publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, 'but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.' Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the son of Grace M. (nÃ©e Spears) and Charles Huy Addams. He had a happy, sociable, perhaps somewhat bland childhood there, providing few clues as to the macabre character of his humor. He was 'known as something of a rascal around the neighborhood' and 'there was always a little group of boys at his house, doing things,' as childhood friends recalled. There were a few, but not many, forebodings of dark oddity to come during his childhood: His nickname was 'Chill', and a chalk drawing of a skeleton in the garage behind one of the homes his family lived in at the time is said to have been drawn by him. That house at 552 Elm Street (now a local landmark), and another on Dudley Avenue in which police once caught him breaking into, are said to be the inspiration for the Addams family mansion in his cartoons (though scholars have pointed to a three-way resemblance among the Addams Family mansion, the house in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and the Victorian building depicted in Edward Hopper's 'House by the Railroad'). He was fond of visiting the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue. One friend said of him, 'His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's'. He was also artistically inclined, 'drawing with a happy vengeance' according to a biographer. Before graduating from Westfield High School in 1929, he drew many cartoons for the Weathervane student newspaper. Addams studied at Colgate University and at the University of Pennsylvania where a fine-arts building on campus is named for him. In front of the building is a sculpture of the silhouettes of Addams family characters. He also studied at Grand Central School of Art in New York City. His first drawing in The New Yorker ran on February 6, 1932 (a sketch of a window washer), and his cartoons ran regularly in the magazine from 1938 until his death. He was a freelancer throughout that time. During World War II, Addams served at the Signal Corps Photographic Center in New York, where he made animated training films for the Army. In late 1942, he met his first wife, Barbara Jean Day, who looked like the cartoon Morticia Addams. The marriage ended eight years later, after Addams, who hated small children, refused to adopt one. He married his second wife, Barbara Barb (Estelle B. Barb), in 1954. A practicing lawyer, she 'combined Morticia-like looks with diabolical legal scheming' in which she wound up controlling the 'Addams Family' television and movie franchises and persuaded her husband to give away other legal rights. At one point, she got her husband to take out a $100,000 insurance policy. Addams consulted a lawyer on the sly, who later humorously wrote, 'I told him the last time I had word of such a move was in a picture called Double Indemnity starring Barbara Stanwyck, which I called to his attention.' In the movie, Stanwyck's character plotted her husband's murder. No one has accused Barbara Barb Addams of attempting the same. They divorced in 1956. The Addams Family television series began after David Levy, a television producer, approached Addams with an offer to create it with a little help from the humorist. All Addams had to do was give his characters names and more characteristics for the actors to use in portrayals. The series ran on ABC for two seasons, from 1964 to 1966. Addams was 'sociable and debonair', and described by a biographer as 'A well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend.' Figuratively a ladykiller, Addams squired celebrities such as Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine and Jacqueline Kennedy on social occasions. Later, he married his third and last wife, Marilyn Matthews Miller, best known as 'Tee' (1926-2002), in a pet cemetery; he wore sunglasses during the ceremony. In 1985, the Addamses moved to Sagaponack, New York, where they named their estate 'The Swamp'. On September 29, 1988, Addams, a sports car enthusiast, had just driven back to his apartment in Manhattan from a visit to friends in Connecticut when he parked his Audi 4000 in front of the apartment building. He was struck by a fatal heart attack while still behind the wheel. USD 14.95 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1329] Book number: 070248 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ADKINS, TRACE A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck Villard Books, 2007. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very minimal shelf wear, light page toning, some general shelf wear. "Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work, and the way things oughta be. In his inimitable pull-no-punches style, Trace gives us the state of the union as he sees it, from the lessons of his boyhood in small-town Louisiana to what he's learned headlining concerts around the world. Trace has worked oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, been shot in the heart, been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and braved perhaps the greatest challenge of all: being the father of five daughters. And shaped by these experiences, he's sounding off.". USD 7.55 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 671] Book number: 1507474 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Hyperion, 2003. Small Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Pages unmarked, binding tight, no shelf wear, beautiful condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 3.95 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 351] Book number: 1512416 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Hyperion, 2003. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages slightly toned, no page markings, very nice condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 5.65 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.5 \| JP¥ 502] Book number: 1510702 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALBOM, MITCH The Five People You Meet in Heaven Doubleday, 2003. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Large print. Pages unmarked, binding tight, no shelf wear, beautiful condition. "Plot Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?". USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 307] Book number: 1511957 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, TIM I'm Not Really Here: First Edition Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. 1996 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with full number line (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) and a $21.95 list price on front dust jacket flap. Sticker on front cover, pages lightly toned, otherwise in beautiful condition. "Tim Allen, star of the hit sitcom Home Improvement, takes on quantum philosophy, intergender relationships, and the male midlife crisis in a joke-filled (but ultimately serious) "weekend in the life" narrative. It's an odd combination, shifting from enthusiastic gushing over restored sports cars to earnest elaborations upon Deepak Chopra and Fritjof Capra, but Allen manages to pull it off.". USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 058865 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, WOODY Without Feathers; Getting Even; Side Effects Quality Paperback Book Club, 1989. Trade Paperback. Like New. USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 556] Book number: 1502097 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ALLEN, WOODY Woody Allen Three Volume Boxed Set: Without Feathers; Side Effects; Getting Even Random House. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Three very good paperback sin very good slipcase. Light shelf wear, one side of slipcase discolored. Bindings tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked. 510 pages (210 + 149 + 151). Three paperbacks in slipcase. "Woody Allen's Without Feathers is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death and God. The name is essentially a play on Emily Dickinson's words 'Hope is the thing with feathers', reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The Dickinson poem is mentioned in one of the stories in the collection. Side Effects is an anthology of 17 comical short stories written by Woody Allen between 1975 and 1980, all but one of which were previously published in, variously, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Kenyon Review. The first story, Remembering Needleman, is a one-liner and non-sequitur filled obituary, four weeks after the fact, of Professor Sandor Needleman. The fifth story, My Apology, is Allen's tale of a recurring fantasy/dream of his where he imagines himself in the sandals of Socrates during the philosopher's final days in prison. The dialogue proceeds in a manner reminiscent of Terry Pratchett, and the ending contains two unexpected twists. The sixth story, The Kugelmass Episode, is about a CCNY professor named Sidney Kugelmass who, thanks to the powers of an obscure magician, is projected into Madame Bovary to carry on an affair beyond the scrutiny of his overbearing wife. The seventh story, My Speech to the Graduates, is a parody of platitude-laden commencement speeches. The eleventh tale, Nefarious Times We Live In, is the most off-the-wall of them all, and concerns the events that lead to its protagonist, Willard Pogrebin, to fire a Luger at President Gerald Ford. They involve at least five kinds of drugs and three cults." -- Wikipedia Getting Even is a collection of 17 short stories. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from intense dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life. Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and a rare European tour in 1996 featuring Allen was the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues." -- Wikipedia. USD 7.15 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 636] Book number: 1501247 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AMORY, CLEVELAND (EDITOR); BLACKWELL, EARL (PUBLISHER); COHEN, SYDNEY WOLFE (EDITOR) International Celebrity Register U.S. Edition Celebrity Register Ltd. 1959. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Cover wear along front spine edge. Binding tight. An alphabetically arranged collection of brief bios of famous figures in world history, entertainment, and life in general -- includes small black & white photo of each. USD 9.33 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 830] Book number: 062211 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	AMTHOR, TERRY K. A Spy in Isengard: A Gamebook (Middle-Earth Quest Series Book 1) Iron Crown Enterprises (I.C.E.) / Berkley Books, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Single light spine crease, light cover edge wear, pages slightly toned. Text unmarked. "Since your apprenticeship began, you have worked for the powerful and revered wizard, Saruman the White. But of late, you have grown troubled by what you see and hear within his mighty fortress of Isengard. Orcs and wild men gather inside. You have seen Saruman poised over the great seeing-stone exulting over scenes of battle. Has Saruman surrendered his will to the evil Sauron, Lord of the Rings? Can you warn the White Council before all is lost? You control your destiny in this intriguing first gamebook of the Middle-Earth Quest series! In the Middle-Earth Quest series you can play a ready-to-run character; create your own character using the QuestGame system; or generate your own Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP) character.". USD 3.33 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 070557 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANGELL, ROGER Let Me Finish Harcourt, Inc. 2006. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Binding tight, pages unmarked, beautiful condition. "Here, at home inside a Jane Austen novel, I passed my college weekends, carving Sunday roasts and getting the station wagon serviced, explaining the double finesse in bridge, lacing up ice skates, sharing by radio the fall of Paris and the night bombings of London . having fallen not just in love but into a family. -from LET ME FINISH Roger Angell has developed a broad and devoted following through his writings in the New Yorker and as the leading baseball writer of our time. Turning to more personal matters, he has produced a fresh form of auto-biography in this unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katherine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his eccentric relatives, his childhood love of baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during his long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with both pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes a sensuous attachment to life's better moments.". USD 3.28 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 292] Book number: 1510422 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANNAN, DAVID Robot: The Mechanical Monster Bounty Books, 1976. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 796] Book number: 1502845 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ANNAUD, JEAN-JACQUES; BENABENT-LOISEAU, JOSEE; ACIMAN, ANDRE (TRANSLATOR) Odyssey of the Bear: The Making of the Film: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Triumphant $22 Million Production from the Director of Quest for Fire and the Name of the Rose Newmarket Press, 1989. Large Softcover. Ill.: Rosenstiehl, Marianne (Photographer). Very Good. Cover edge wear, sticker remnant on front cover, spine creased, light pencil on front free endpaper, remainder mark on page base. "The Bear, known as L'Ours in its original French release, is a film directed by acclaimed French director Jean-Jacques Annaud released theatrically in 1988. The screenplay is by GÃ©rard Brach and it was adapted from the novel The Grizzly King by American author and conservationist James Oliver Curwood. Fittingly, the movie carries this spirit by voicing conservationist themes. The film is set in late 19th century British Columbia, Canada. The main character is an orphaned bear cub who ends up befriending an older grizzly. The main action of the plot is driven by two hunters who are after the adult bear and the young bear cub gets caught in the middle. The film is unique in the sense that the main characters are animals and the two human actors are for the most part merely supporting features in the film; dialogue is extremely limited. The strong points of the film are its outstanding cinematography and moving depiction of nature and animal interactions. It did not achieve much commercial success upon its North American release but it was a success in France. The film was shot in the Dolomites.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 396] Book number: 1500159 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	ASHLEY, MIKE; CLEESE, JOHN; BOOTH, CONNIE; HOLT, TOM; KILWORTH, GARRY; FRIESNER, ESTHER; TODD, MARILYN; GARDNER, CRAIG SHAW; SHARKEY, JACK; BIBBY, JAMES; GOULART, RON; BROWNE, PORTER EMERSON; BOND, NELSON; BROWN, FREDRIC; MORRESSY, JOHN; CONEY, MICHAEL Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 2001. Trade Paperback. Good. Single spine crease, remainder mark on page base. "With the hilarious "Happy Valley," a story originally written by John Cleese and Connie Booth for Monty Python's Flying Circus, this third volume in an extraordinarily popular Mammoth Book series gets off to a suitably silly start. It continues merrily apace with "Attack of the Charlie Chaplins" by Garry Kilworth, visits "The Strawhouse Pavilion" by Ron Goulart, and takes in "A Bad Day on Mount Olympus" with Marilyn Todd. Along the way it introduces Esther Eisner's "Gunsel and Gretel" and Cherith Baldry's "Broadway Barbarian" and renews acquaintance with F. Anstey's "Ferdie." It bemuses as well as amuses with "A Case of Four Fingers" concocted by John Grant, not to mention "The Absolute and Utter Impossibility of the Facts in the Case of the Vanishing of Henning Vok" from Jack Adrian. And before this wildly comic romp ends, it discovers "Math Takes a Holiday" (Paul Di Filippo) and "Mother Duck Strikes Again" (Craig Shaw Gardner). Fantasy finds broad definition in this wackily comic tour. While some of the stories approach the domain of science fiction, others are lodged in an everyday reality. None of them, though, fails to entertain. Together, the more than thirty selections -- thirteen of them brand-new and the balance of them often rare finds or forgotten gems -- provide a fresh sampling of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction and a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humor.". USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 89] Book number: 070442 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BACHARACH, A.L. & PEARCE, J.R. (EDITORS) Musical Companion: A Modern Guide to Classical Music Designed for Reading Enjoyment, Easy Reference, and Listening Enrichment Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Hard Cover. Like New/Good. Minimal dust jacket edge wear, dust jacket flaps bent, small tear to back of dust jacket. Book in beautiful condition, binding tight, pages clean & bright. CONTENTS: ABC of Music; Instruments of the Orchestra; Orchestral Music; Opera; Human Voice; Chamber Music; Solo Instrument; Listening and Performance. USD 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 262] Book number: 067242 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BAGAR, ROBERT; BIANCOLLI, LOUIS Concert Companion: A Comprehensive Guide to Symphonic Music McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1947. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Minor shelf wear, pages toned. Includes a variety of instrumentals from famous composers. USD 5.20 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 462] Book number: 054184 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.