Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

What happened in Kirven, Texas, [Freestone County] in May 1922, had been forgotten by the outside world until Monte Akers was transferred there. It was a co-worker's whispered words, "Kirven is where they burned the [Negroes]," that set the author to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's brutal murder and the burning alive of three black men who were almost certainly innocent of it. This was followed by a month-long reign of terror as white men killed blacks while local authorities concealed the real identity of the white probable murderers and allowed them to go free...
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Jackie After Jack Portrait of the Lady

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: $10.99

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : 1998

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 22325

ISBN-13: 9780688153120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Traces how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became a cultural icon after her husband's assassination, explaining how she gracefully dealt with remarriage, money, romance, children, stepchildren, illness, aging, and at last her own mortality ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 472 pages; 22325
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American Flower Painting

By: Anderson, Dennis R.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Watson- Guptill Publishing : 1980

Seller ID: 13465

ISBN-13: 9780823002115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

DJ has edgewear, small chips. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 13465
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64th Art Directors Annual

By: Art Director's Club

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Adc : 1985

Seller ID: 16157

ISBN-13: 9780937414057

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Very heavy. Highly illustrated. (ink smudge at top edge, slight hinging in index. ) ; 4to - 11" to 13" tall; Unpaginated pages; 16157
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As Your Acknowledged Leader The Best of Lynn Ashby

By: Ashby, Lynn

Price: $16.51

Publisher: Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press : 1983

Edition: 1st Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28451

ISBN-13: 9780932012647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Inscribed by Lynn Ashby, columnist for Houston Post newspaper. Previous owner's name. Tiny chips to DJ. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 280 pages; 28451; Signed by Author
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Ghost Towns Of Texas

By: Baker, T. Lindsay

Price: $50.50

Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press : 1986

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 27627

ISBN-13: 9780806119977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Includes 88 of the "best" ghost towns in Texas. Mild overall wear; previous owner's name. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 196 pages; 27627
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Last Man Standing

By: Baldacci, David

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing : 2001

Seller ID: 30501

ISBN-13: 9780446525800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

When Web London's FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed in a dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates, suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from an unlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of his friends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishing the job that began in the alley. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 548 pages; 30501
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Ironclaw: A Navy Carrier Pilot's Gulf War Experience

By: Baldwin, Sherman

Price: $16.50

Publisher: William Morrow & Company : 1996

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 29350

ISBN-13: 9780688143039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Baldwin gives a compelling, tension-filled account of modern carrier warfare. From the tactical mission planning room belowdecks to the cockpit of his Prowler launching from zero to 150 knots in two seconds, the reader is there. Midair refuelings, day and night landings on the pitching deck of the Midway (at the time, our country's smallest carrier) , and Desert Storm combat missions are all here just as he lived them. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pages; 29350
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Baughman's Handbook of Humor in Education

By: Baughman, Millard Dale

Price: $14.51

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1974

Seller ID: 29142

ISBN: Compiled for instan

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 29142
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New England in Color

By: Beach, Stewart

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Thornton Cox : 1979

Edition: 1st English Edition

Seller ID: 29045

ISBN: Ten years after the

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Minimal edgewear. ; Profiles of America Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 94 pages; 29045
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Return From The River Kwai

By: Blair, Jr, Clay, and Joan Blair

Price: $23.00

Publisher: NY, Simon and Schuster : 1979

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 28182

ISBN-13: 9780671242787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

The true account of what happened to the Allied prisoners of war who were forced to build the bridge that inspired a novel and movie about the bridge. ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 338 pages; 28182
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A Woman's Book Of Life

By: Borysenko, Joan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NY, Riverhead Books : 1996

Seller ID: 21544

ISBN: Using recent hormon

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 304 pages; 21544
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Britain's Weather

By: Bowen, David

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles PLC : 1969

Seller ID: 28544

ISBN-13: 9780715347171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; 28544Jw
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Say...do You Know A Good Place To Eat? Restaurants, Barbecue Joints, Catfish Houses, Truck Stops and Other East Texas Eatin' Places

By: Bowman, Bob

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Lufkin, TX, Lufkin Printing Co : 1984

Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 30385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

A delightful collection of some of the best and most unusual eating places in East Texas. Includes a number of excellent, top-rated restaurants, but mostly you will find inside its pages a lot of good country cafes and diners whose cooks boast they will never let you leave hungry. Edgewear, mostly to DJ, and light foxing to page edges. SIGNED BY BOB BOWMAN. ; Drawings; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 132 pages; 30385; Signed by Author
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The Age Of The Biplane

By: Bowyer, Chaz

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1981

Edition: 1st US Edition

Seller ID: 11081

ISBN-13: 9780130187130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Minor edgewear, bottom edge; B/w and color photos; ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 191 pages; 11081
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Flyboys A True Story of Courage

By: Bradley, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : 2003

Seller ID: 27956

ISBN-13: 9780316105842

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers--Navy and Marine airmen sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there--were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U. S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers in Chich Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; 27956
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Joys and Challenges of Middle Ages

By: Brammer, Lawrence M. , and Patricia A. Nolen, Margaret F. Pratt

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall : 1982

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 20366

ISBN-13: 9780882297033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Offers a realistic and reassuring approach to midlife and examines myths about aging. Bibliography, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages; 20366
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Sharks Killers of the Deep

By: Bright, Michael

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Gallery Books : 1985

Edition: 1st Revised Edition

Seller ID: 29020

ISBN-13: 9780831777623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Advice to bathers and swimmers in rear of book. Previous owner's label on spine of DJ. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 61 pages; 29020
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Big Girls Don't Cry

By: Briscoe, Connie

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper : 1996

Edition: Stated 1st Edition

Seller ID: 30535

ISBN-13: 9780060172770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket

Naomi Jefferson was born into a comfortable world only occasionally marred by racism--even when she is called a nigger after wandering into the wrong neighborhood, she learns not to let it touch her too deeply. As a teenager in the 1960s, her biggest concerns are when she'll give up her virginity and if you really can't get pregnant the first time, like her friends tell her. But... Previous owner's name, very light foxing on page edges. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 384 pages; 30535
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket